THE government has outlined further steps it intends to take to improve women’s rights in line with the 1995 ‘Beijing Platform for Action’, which created worldwide standards and suggestions for governments to reduce gender discrimination.
FOUR Swedish tourists staying in Ayia Napa were yesterday remanded in custody for six days in connection with the alleged possession of 28 tablets of Ecstasy.
A TURKISH Cypriot boy whose leukaemia sparked a worldwide search for a suitable bone marrow donor has lost a race against time, and his heartbroken father is taking him back home from Britain to Nicosia.
THE IMMIGRATION Service has denied claims by the Immigrant Support Action Group (ISAG) that the death of a 35-year-old Sri Lankan man was the result of racist and inhuman treatment by department officers.
Mahalil Silva arrived at Larnaca airport on July 6 from Dubai where he used to work.
A 30-year-old man was killed in an accident yesterday at Zopigi village in the Limassol district when his car plunged from a height of four metres into the yard of a house.
HIGH-PRICED drugs charges in Cyprus could be cut by up to 50 per cent if Health Minister Frixos Savvides gets a bill through the House to break the legal ‘stranglehold’ drug importers have had for years.
He aims to introduce the law change this autumn, opening up the market to help drive down prices.
POLICE said yesterday they have detained a 21-year-old Nicosia man thought to be connected with the case of a 19-year-old woman arrested in Egypt last week for allegedly possessing 3.5 kilos of drugs.
The man was up in court yesterday but the judge adjourned the hearing after his defence lawyer claimed his client had been abused by police while in custody.
THE family of a Buddhist woman who died in Cyprus seven days ago have not been able to lay her to rest as they cannot afford to send her body back to Thailand and the Church will not allow her burial in an Orthodox cemetery.
Jean Christou
THE Central Bank yesterday lifted all restrictions on lending for investment, ten months after they were brought in to curb an uncontrolled flood of borrowing to play the stock market.
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.
