IF READERS of this column have that ‘here we go again’ feeling, please remember that our editorial writers also have to tread the same road time and again, because one of the continuing difficulties in Cyprus is, it seems, endemic. We are talking of enforcement of the law – or rather, the lack of it.
GREEK air-force planes yesterday hit targets on the ground with live fire, playing out a scenario in the Nikiforos military exercise.
Two A-7 Corsair bombers flew over the exercise area at an undisclosed location in the Nicosia district, attacking ground targets while artillery and mortars were used to support a tank attack.
A MAN who robbed a Limassol bank on Wednesday probably bought the knife used in the raid from a neighbouring shop two days earlier, police said yesterday.
The robber, who wore a wig and fake beard, entered the Amathus Avenue branch of Alpha Bank just before 9am, wielding a diver’s knife with a serrated blade.
A LICE epidemic in schools across Cyprus is running out of control because it is not being dealt with properly, a top dermatologist said yesterday.
MIGRATION chief Kyriacos Triantafyllides yesterday insisted his department was free from racism, despite claims from deputies that Eastern European women faced discrimination when they married Cypriots.
Triantafyllides told the Cyprus Mail that criteria used to root out marriages of convenience were days away from becoming law for the first time.
THE HEALTH Ministry is to introduce free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 25 and 65 by the end of the year.
CYPRUS spends less than a quarter of the average EU proportion of GDP on research and development, and even less than Russia and former eastern bloc countries, statistics revealed yesterday.
And from any money that is given to research on the island, 70 per cent goes on the labour costs of the research.
CYPRUS is the second biggest global direct investor in Moscow, and the fourth biggest in the Russian Federation as a whole.
Georgi Muratov, Director of the International Relations Department of the
A EUROCYPRIA pilot was critically injured in a three-car pile-up yesterday morning.
The accident happened when 31-year-old pilot Michalis Moussas collided with a car driven by Anastasis Anastasiou, 33, from Makedonitissa.
The crash happened at 8.15am on the Anthoupolis to Makedonitissa road near Saint Pandeleimonas church.
THE ONGOING scandal in the Church of Cyprus has dented the popularity of Archbishop Chrysostomos, according to an opinion poll carried out on behalf of Politis.
The survey found that around 55 per cent of those asked did not agree with the way he was handling Church matters.
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.
