DESPITE a government plea for calm, the fur flew yesterday afternoon as the House Defence committee discussed Akel allegations that Disy was harbouring a ‘paramilitary’ secretariat.
The head-on clash between the left-wing opposition and right-wing governing party continued outside the House of Representatives too.
THE METEORIC rise in the cost of electricity is the latest burden to hit the consumer, spurred forward by increasing oil prices and a rising dollar.
Fixed since 1983 on the basis of £50 per metric tonne, but fluctuating according to the price of oil, Electricity Authority oil tariffs had enjoyed a record low in recent years.
ANGRY parents of children attending a Limassol kindergarten yesterday closed the school indefinitely because they say an electrical sub-station has caused leukaemia in four pupils.
Two of the children died, while a third is fighting for his life in London.
The fourth child is understood to be clear of leukaemia.
A LARGE percentage of diabetics – maybe half – do not know they are suffering from the disease until five years after they get it, endocrinologist Dr Krinos Trokkoudis told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
CYPRUS is to build six new yachting marinas by 2002 at a cost of £100 million in a drive to boost a top-class tourist niche market.
The new marinas will house a total of 4,000 vessels in an effort to tap growing demand for berth space in the eastern Mediterranean.
THE third round of UN-led proximity talks in Geneva is likely to last most of July with a break in August and a fourth round starting in September.
According to Greece’s ambassador to Cyprus, Kyriacos Rodousakis, the third round of talks, set to kick off on July 5 in Geneva, will last approximately three weeks, with small breaks in between meetings.
VISITORS to the International State Fair will have to do battle with huge crowds as record numbers this year have surpassed all expectations.
According to an announcement from the State Fair Authority yesterday, "the number of visitors to the 25th International State Fair has since risen significantly since its opening."
SHARE prices were flat yesterday as early gains, especially among blue chips, were quickly absorbed by investors impatient for profits.
PAPHOS lawyer Marios Georgiou, 26, was killed yesterday when his car plunged down a 600-foot ravine in the Paphos area the early hours.
His critically injured father, Andreas, 50, lay in the wreckage of his dead son’s car at the bottom of the crevasse for some 10 hours before his desperate cries for help were heard.
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.
