A STONE-throwing student cracked the windscreen of a police patrol car called to a school playground in the early hours yesterday to put out a bonfire lit by teenagers.
FOREIGN Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides met US Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday in the last major port of call during his seven-day visit to Washington DC.
THE government is the review criteria for allowing foreigners to work on the island, Labour Minister Andreas Moushiouttas said after a top-level meeting on the issue yesterday.
EXPANSION to Cyprus is in the works for easyEverything, the world’s largest chain of Internet cafés, London-based Cypriot tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou is to announce at a press conference in Athens today.
ONE of the gypsies who crossed to the free areas in the latest influx from the north has been arrested and will be deported, after police confirmed his identity as a Turkish national, Interior Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou said yesterday.
INFORMATION technology has been the winner of the latest licensing battle to dog the IMC building, despite media reports that the matter was still unresolved, the building’s owner insisted yesterday.
THE MARKET managed to retain its new-found optimism for a third day yesterday entering the week with gains of 1.83 per cent.
Although trading opened under Friday’s 173-point close and sank rapidly to 172 in the first 20 minutes, a buying spree throughout the remainder of the 90-minute session clocked up a close of 176.5 points.
FORMER auditor general Spyros Christou yesterday resigned from the committee appointed by the government to investigate allegations about suspect dealings on the Cyprus Stock Exchange.
CYPRUS’ chief EU negotiator George Vassiliou will request an extraordinary session of the House Plenum to clear a backlog of EU harmonisation bills before the House dissolves on April 19.
Vassiliou said yesterday that Cyprus had already been reprimanded by several EU services for falling behind on certain bills.
GOVERNMENT spokesman Michalis Papapetrou announced yesterday that the Anti-Fraud Unit had uncovered two suspicious cases in which Yugoslav funds were channelled through Cyprus banks and transferred abroad.
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.
