HUNDREDS of friends and former comrades in arms gathered in a Nicosia church yesterday for the funeral service of one of the most controversial figures in Cyprus’ recent history.
Newspaper publisher and EOKA veteran Nicos Sampson died on Wednesday at the age of 66 in a Nicosia clinic.
TWO 15-year-old pupils were yesterday being questioned by police in connection with a bomb explosion and other damage caused at a Nicosia school.
The headmaster of the Anthoupolis gymnasium reported to police that a homemade explosive device had gone off, causing damage to an aluminium door in the school’s office building.
THE COUNTRY’S massive expenditure on bottled water could be a complete waste of money, after a series of studies have shown there is no added nutritional benefit from drinking mineral rather than tap water.
A new report published by the World Wide Fund (WWF) has concluded that bottled water is no safer or healthier than tap water in many countries.
TWO Limassol men were yesterday remanded in custody for six days suspected with possession and trafficking of 360 grams of cannabis.
Police said the two were arrested after a stake-out in the town on Friday afternoon.
One suspect, together with a friend, had parked his car in an empty plot on Edessis Street at around 4.45pm.
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.
