WORLD-FAMOUS heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yiacoub will be using computer-age tools to examine heart patients at Makarios Hospital in Nicosia on June 12, a senior hospital staff member told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
NEW National Guard Commander Evangelos Florakis officially assumed his duties yesterday at army headquarters.
Speaking during the ceremony, 58-year-old Lieutenant-General Florakis said he was assuming a difficult task with many responsibilities, but he would try to continue the work of outgoing Commander General Demetrios Demou.
TURKEY’S non-compliance with the European Court of Human Rights ruling to pay compensation in the Titina Loizidou case will be discussed at a two-day European Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights symposium in Limassol next week.
THE CYPRUS bourse bared its teeth at bears yesterday to recoup most of Thursday’s losses in a see-saw session focused on periphery firms and Louis in particular.
Laiki, hammered in Thursday’s session, bounced back into form after some initial pressure while other
large caps like Globalsoft also dominated the market for its net gains.
SPIDERNET Services Ltd yesterday announced its Internet subscribers have only until May 30 to express interest in purchasing shares during the company’s initial public offering.
Spidernet said the decision for an early cut-off date followed the huge public interest in purchasing shares in the company.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday denounced Turkey’s disapproval of recent joint Cyprus-Greece military manoeuvres in Paphos as totally unjustified.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry had called the three-day exercise, code-named ‘Toxotis-Vergina’, an "activity which might escalate tension and disturb stability in the region," the Athens News Agency reported.
A BRITISH tourist was sentenced yesterday to three months in jail for possession of seven Ecstasy tablets.
Kieran Dennis Hambly, a 23-year-old builder from Cornwall, had pleaded guilty to having the drugs.
THE CYPRUS Dentists’ Association is holding an emergency meeting today to review its decision to attend an international dental conference later this month in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.
The call for the emergency meeting followed a vocal protest by Bishop Pavlos of Kyrenia against any attendance at the conference by dentists from the Republic.
A BULGARIAN House of Representatives Committee wants a taxation agreement with Cyprus to be terminated, it was reported yesterday.
The convention, signed in 1985, prevents double taxation for one country’s companies operating in the other.
REPRESENTATIVES of the island’s speech therapists yesterday said they were still fighting an uphill battle for professional recognition and better pay, while trying to enlighten the government and the public about correcting speech handicaps.
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.
