By Martin Hellicar EMBATTLED Interior Minister Dinos Michaelides has been cleared by cabinet- appointed investigators of possible criminal misdemeanours relating to alleged corruption. “There is
By Hamza Hendawi FINANCE Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou may leave the cabinet early next year to take up a job offer as director of the island’s
Staff reporters INCREASES in the defence levy for the first six months of 1999 were narrowly passed by the House plenum yesterday, while deputies also
By Martin Hellicar TWO ISRAELI nationals yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of spying against military positions in Cyprus in October and November this year.
By Andrew Adamides THE GOVERNMENT is playing its cards close to its chest at this “critical” juncture, Government Spokesman Christos Stylianides said yesterday. Addressing his
By Jean Christou ALLEGATIONS of immorality against Limassol Bishopric candidate Abbot Athanasios of Machairas are unfounded, the Holy Synod concluded yesterday. However, the supreme Church
By Andrea Petranyi THE NEW year is to see the creation of Cyprus’ first think-tank, under the presidency of academic Ioannis Koutsakos, one of its
By Anthony O. Miller SHOUTING “Down with Clinton,” 15 people, claiming to be from seven Muslim countries and the Palestinian Territory, gathered yesterday outside the
THIEVES armed with what was believed to be a fake gun staged a midday robbery at the Polemidhia Co-op yesterday, getting away with the grand
A 17-YEAR-OLD girl and a British tourist were killed in separate car accidents over the weekend. Ioanna Georgiou, a schoolgirl from Frenaros, died on Sunday
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
