HUNDREDS of Turkish Cypriots, including Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash’s son Serdar and opposition CTP leader Mehmet Ali Talat, yesterday gave blood in the search for a suitable bone-marrow donor to save a Greek Cypriot child.
The Turkish Cypriots made their donations at the Ledra Palace in Nicosia.
AN ENGLISH woman murdered in Paphos on Sunday had told police a month ago that her ex-lover had poisoned her coffee.
Police sent samples to the state laboratory, but tests that could have proved the woman’s life was in danger have still not been completed.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday denied reports that a $25 billion property compensation plan had been drawn up in the event of a solution to the Cyprus problem.
Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou said there had been no discussion of the issue of compensation or exchange of property on the Greek Cypriot side.
HEART problems are forcing veteran Diko leader Spyros Kyprianou to ponder his future as party leader.
Acting Diko chairman Nicos Cleanthous yesterday said 68-year-old Kyprianou would announce his decision about his political future at next month’s party electoral conference.
THE NEW Socio-Democratic party appears threatened with disintegration barely weeks after its formation.
Prominent party member Efstathios Efstathiou has rocked the boat by announcing that he and other former Edek members are preparing to set up their own socialist party, to be called the Union of Democratic Socialists.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday announced preliminary group pre-tax profits for 1999 of £8.8 million compared to a record £10 million in 1998.
However the group’s operating profit totalled only £2.3 million compared to £12.7 million in 1998, while income in 1999 totalled £147 million, slightly up on 1998’s £146.2 million.
SHARE prices trimmed an early rally to end 0.3 per cent lower yesterday on mixed trading with losses in small to medium cap stocks outstripping marginal declines in
heavier-capitalised sectors.
TRAVELLERS to and from Cyprus should be enjoying modern airports by 2006, the Communications Minister said yesterday.
THE CHAIRMAN of the Securities Exchange Commission quit suddenly yesterday amid rumours of dissent in the body over its role as a regulatory body in the stock exchange.
POLICE are searching for a fourth man suspected of involvement in a massive share scam that netted some £143,000 earlier this year.
Larnaca club owner Antonis Fanieros and his suspected accomplices, Georgios Stylianou and Christos Hartoumbalos, are already in custody in connection with the alleged scam.
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.
