A DOUBLE murder rocked a Nicosia suburb in the early hours yesterday.
Andros Savvas Emiliou, 29, was killed instantly in a hail of at least 20 shots while Christos Tziakouris, 27, died in hospital shortly after the 5.25am shooting.
A CAR was set alight and a bomb destroyed a Mercedes over the course of 30 hours in Nicosia yesterday.
The bomb explosion destroyed the Mercedes of a car expert while it was parked outside his home in central Nicosia at about 1.30am on Boxing Day.
The bomb had been planted underneath the car of George Jirkallis, 46, from Lykavitos.
ONE PERSON was killed and 20 seriously injured in car accidents around Cyprus in the four-day Christmas holiday period despite Police’s reinforced road safety measures.
A 75-year-old man died in a hit and run accident Tuesday evening on Salaminos Avenue in Nicosia.
THE ALL-SHARE index clocked up minor gains of 0.94 per cent yesterday after the four-day Christmas break.
Trading opened five points up on Friday’s close but slid gradually to close at 252.8 with no major surprises. Blue chip stocks were ignored for the most part with the FTSE/CySE top 20 gaining only 0.03 per cent.
COSTLY crude oil and the low value of the Cyprus pound are hiking the price for desalinated water from the Dhekelia plant, but the state insists things will “even out” in the end.
By Martin Hellicar
A SPATE of thefts of army-issue G3 automatics from the homes of National Guard reservists has the government worried.
FOURTEEN ILLEGAL immigrants from Iraq have requested political asylum from the Republic and the United Nations after being apprehended wandering in Xylotymbou, Dhekelia and Oroklini on Christmas Day.
A 32-YEAR-OLD currency dealer and a 47-year-old housewife have been charged with running an illegal currency dealership which allegedly handled hundreds of thousands of pounds a day between July and December this year.
THE GOVERNMENT said yesterday it would not heed calls to exchange Turkish Cypriot drug suspect Omer Tekoglu for kidnapped Greek Cypriot Panicos Tsiakourmas.
A KURD and a Turk are being held in custody for illegally entering the Republic after jumping off the Roccas Bastion at Paphos Gate in Nicosia.
The two men were remanded for three days on Tuesday after being spotted outside the Kurdish Worker Party building in Nicosia on Christmas Day.
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.
