AN IRANIAN woman was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days accused of trying to smuggle heroin through customs at Larnaca airport.
Passport officers got suspicious of 33-year-old Farite Sakki after they saw that she had come to Cyprus three times in the recent past.
She arrived on the 9.30am Iranair flight.
LAST year almost 600,000 Cypriots travelled abroad, nearly 500,000 on holiday, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) said yesterday.
Speaking at a news conference to launch the ‘Taxidi 2001’ Travel Fair, ACTA general-secretary Tassos Katsourides said that of the total number who had travelled abroad, 235,300 had gone to Greece.
THERE were tears of relief and sorrow amid overwhelming scenes of emotion as Panicos Tsiakourmas was set free by a ‘court’ in occupied Famagusta yesterday, just hours after his mother died from a stroke her doctors said was brought on by her son’s detention.
CYPRUS WILL have to promise to steer developers’ bulldozers away from Akamas before the European Commission will allow the island to join the EU, British MEP Chris Davies warned yesterday.
THE PAPHOS co-op scandal rumbled on yesterday, with the government suggesting the man at the heart of the affair, DIKO vice-chairman Nicos Pittokopitis, should resign his post as chairman of the bank.
CHAOS caused by a general strike in Greece yesterday affected Cyprus Airways (CY) flights to Athens.
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.
