CYPRUS can boast lower levels of teenage drug abuse than any other European country, but there are indications that heroin use is growing on the island.
Education Minister Ourannios Ioannides yesterday presented the Cyprus findings of the 30-country ESPAD probe into the drinking, smoking and drug use habits of 16-year-old students.
POLICE are failing to stop minors getting into nightclubs and drinking alcohol, the House Interior Committee charged yesterday, calling on the state to take the necessary measures to enforce the law.
Overall narcotics abuse
· Cyprus is bottom of European league of illicit drug use, 3.5 per cent of Cypriot 16-year-olds having tried drugs, compared to the European average of 18 per cent.
PEOPLE were yesterday warned to brace themselves for further storms, with forecasters predicting that high winds and heavy rains would strike again tonight.
In Larnaca this week, speeds reached in excess of 47 knots and temperatures across the island were on average 4 degrees lower than normal.
THE OMBUDSWOMAN has blasted the government for not acting fast enough to test for pollution around Limassol’s Nemitsas foundry.
And the Green Party said yesterday the House and the public had been misled on the matter for 15 years.
A 32-YEAR-old Lebanese man was yesterday sentenced to four months in jail for forging documents in an attempt to swindle $69,000.
From the dock, Antonio Ibrahim, dressed in smart clothes, just stared at the judge as the decision was read out.
He looked eager to get it over with and appeared unconcerned by the sentence.
THE trial of a Romanian man accused of stabbing his compatriot to death began at the Assize court sitting in Larnaca yesterday, with police investigators submitting evidence.
Nineteen-year-old Ionut Vraniceanu was charged with the premeditated murder of Marius Isac, 30, at a cow farm in November last year.
THE BRITISH Council’s ‘Education UK – the best you can be’ campaign was launched in Nicosia last night. The aim of the event, which was attended by prospective students, their families, lecturers and employers, was to promote new improved conditions for overseas students.
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.
