An article in the respected Cyprus Mail sent shock waves running throughout the island of Cyprus with tremors that extended all the way to investors in Britain and the USA as the Cyprus Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis yesterday unveiled tax changes.
The values of land in 2010 are 20 times higher than those of 2008 and this means that the Cypriot citizen that currently pays a tax on real estate of €1 thousand, next year he will be called to pay €20 thousand”, said Mr. Averof Neophytou, the Vice President of DISY according to Stockwatch, Cyprus. [We think he meant 1980 rather than 2008 and even then the figures look wrong, Ed.]
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Places where smoking is banned as of January 1, 2010.
These include: cinemas; theatres; hospitals – including rural sanitary centres – open-air infirmaries and old peoples’ homes; pharmacies, clinics, doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries; museums; galleries, concert halls and cultural centres; public libraries; factories; training and educational centres such as universities, colleges, schools; lifts, stairwells and ‘common areas’ of public buildings; covered athletic centres; governmental or semi-governmental service buildings; banks; ports and airports; event areas for adults; shopping centres, kiosks; reception rooms; recreational areas including hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, coffee shops, clubhouses, cafés, internet cafés, pool halls, gaming arcades, betting shops, cabarets, discos, nightclubs and dance centres.
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23 December 2009
Hundreds of thousands of robins from the UK are being killed illegally in Cyprus after migrating south for the winter.
The birds are a delicacy on the island and are trapped and killed by locals to provide ambelopoulia, pickled or boiled songbirds, for restaurants.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and its partner organisation BirdLife Cyprus, said one of the trapping hotspots was on the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekalia.
The RSPB said it was ‘unacceptable’ that the illegal slaughter of the birds was taking place on an area controlled by the British authorities.
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