ONE OF the owners of a foundry near Ergates village, suspected of damaging the health of the villagers with lead, cadmium and dioxin in its smoke emissions, yesterday agreed to close it for five months, following violent protests on Monday night against its continued operation.
URGENT measures must be taken quickly to reduce the island’s deficit, its national debt and its inflation rate, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official warned yesterday.
GLOBALSOFT.COM shook the bourse yesterday with its surprise takeover of software developer and provider Cycom in a cash deal worth £16.5 million.
Globalsoft signed a deal with owners PriceWaterhouseCoopers yesterday morning. Earlier this month the company also took over the operations of the Word Processing Centre, Infostar and Copystar in Nicosia.
OUTGOING Diko Chairman Spyros Kyprianou yesterday pledged his unconditional support for the party he founded in 1976 and has chaired since, but insisted his departure as its leader was final.
THREE Swiss tourists were arrested in Larnaca yesterday and remanded in custody for seven days for allegedly possessing 48 grams of cannabis, police said.
They said they intercepted the suspects’ car at the port roundabout after following the trio from Larnaca Airport, where they had arrived earlier in the day.
THE OWNER of the opposition Turkish Cypriot newspaper Avrupa and four journalists of the Press Union were arrested yesterday by ‘police’ in the north when they began a campaign to raise money to buy computers for the paper.
BRITISH Sovereign Bases Area (SBA) police yesterday, acting on a tipoff, said they found 32 potted cannabis plants in the Ouzoum Laxia area of the Bases.
SBA police in Dhekelia said they found the plants hidden in a copse of Acacia trees in the Dhekelia area.
OUTSPOKEN Diko Deputy and House Communications Committee Chairman Nikos Pittokopitis yesterday disputed a government decision to use private companies to provide security for the island’s two airports.
EUROCYPRIA has won the distinction of being one of the top three performing charter airlines in Europe, the company announced yesterday.
According to a statement from Eurocypria, a subsidiary of national flag carrier Cyprus Airways, the honour followed another last year.
TEACHERS at Pallouriotissa Middle School went on strike yesterday in protest against the Ministry of Education’s suspension of a teacher for slapping a female student on the face last week.
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.
