REALITY or hoax? Visitors who have seen the Virgin Mary’s ‘tear tracks’ running down the 1,500-year-old icon in the church of Arakapas in the Limassol district are undecided.
But Father Demetrios, caretaker of the small but impressive 19th century church in the remote village, did not try to offer any explanation of the phenomenon yesterday.
FRIENDS and family of abducted Greek Cypriot contractor Panicos Tsiakourmas yesterday staged a peaceful sit-down protest at the Sovereign Bases Area (SBA) police station at Dhekelia.
MOUNTAIN resorts are doing a roaring trade over the New Year weekend but coastal resorts are having a hit-and-miss holiday season, hotels said yesterday.
THE BOURSE ended the year with overall losses of 64 per cent as the index fell a further 2.18 per cent yesterday to close at 244.5 points, a far cry from the 700 points with which it began the year.
DOCTORS AT state hospitals and emergency departments will walk out for 24 hours on January 12, if their demands for higher salaries are not met.
This was the warning issued yesterday by the State Doctors’ Union (PASIKY).
FINANCE MINISTER Takis Klerides yesterday signed two financial memoranda, under which the government will receive 9 million euros (£5.1 million) from the EU as part of the pre-accession aid allocated to Cyprus for the year 2000.
THE HEALTH service was yesterday given a shot in the arm with the unveiling of four state-of-the-art ambulances bringing the government-operated fleet to 60 vehicles.
Health Minister Frixos Savvides received the £100,000 vehicles during a special ceremony outside the casualty department of Nicosia general hospital.
IRISH PRIME Minister Bertie Aherne has announced a visit to Cyprus.
Arriving on January 9, Aherne will spend two days meeting with President Glafcos Clerides, Foreign Minister Takis Klerides and Commerce Minister Nicos Rolandis.
WHILE AN eighth century icon continues to shed `tears’ in a small Limassol district church, the Bishop of Paphos has dismissed any possibility of a miracle and directed an attack against his Limassol counterpart.
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.
