A MAN thought to be a 41-year-old British tourist was found battered to death yesterday morning near the old port of Limassol.
Two soldiers came across the body at 2am yesterday, close to the seafront, and face down in the mud.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash was officially proclaimed ‘president’ for the sixth consecutive term yesterday, after rival ‘Prime Minister’ Dervis Eroglu pulled out of the second round of elections on Wednesday night.
Jean Christou
CYPRUS Airways (CY) is prepared to violate a binding labour agreement with its charter firm to satisfy its own troublesome pilots, Eurocypria sources have revealed.
SHARE prices sank back down yesterday, with a weakness in banking stocks dragging an otherwise stable market 1.5 per cent lower.
Profit taking hit the blue-chip sector which had more than two per cent snipped off its value, depressed almost entirely by Bank of Cyprus, which registered a turnover of more than 600,000 shares.
THE MISS Universe set design for the Eleftheria Stadium was unveiled yesterday morning at a news conference in Nicosia.
The set was designed in Los Angeles by husband and wife team and veteran Miss Universe designers Gerry Hariton and Vicki Baral.
THE HOUSE Plenum yesterday postponed its decision on the government’s VAT tax package.
The delay means the issue will not come before the Plenum for another fortnight because of next week’s Easter break.
It was requested by the main opposition party, Akel, through its parliamentary spokesman Andreas Christou.
A POSSIBLE bone marrow donor for 10-year-old Turkish Cypriot leukaemia sufferer Kemal Saracoglu has been found in Greece, an official of the Bone Marrow Registry in Athens confirmed yesterday.
ONLY 42 per cent of European Union citizens interviewed in a survey want Cyprus to join the bloc.
The EU poll, carried out last autumn, drew up a popularity table for 13 prospective EU countries. Cyprus was ranked a meagre fourth.
DISGRUNTLED cab drivers are to go on strike on Monday in protest at a government decision to make them paint their taxis ivory.
The announcement comes in a climate of increasing tension over the issue, with a taxi union leader who favours the colour change allegedly receiving anonymous death threats.
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.
