FOLLOWING public outcry over the punitive use of speed traps, police chief Andreas Angelides has ordered warning signs to tell motorists they are approaching a radar, Politis reported yesterday.
Chief of traffic police George Voutounos has confirmed that his department intends to tip off motorists to upcoming speed traps with permanent signs reading ‘radar’.
SPYROS Kyprianou was yesterday facing treatment for bone-cancer in his pelvis with a smile on his face, making his doctors more hopeful of an eventual full recovery.
A BRIC-a-brac sale at Saint Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in Nicosia tomorrow will benefit the newly formed Cyprus Racehorse Rescue Centre (CRRC), raising funds to treat and care for horses that can no longer compete on the track.
EVERYTHING looks set for the newly elected Parliament to get down to work, with the second plenum of the new House yesterday approving a proposal on the composition and chairmanships of 17 House Committees.
IT WAS KIND of ironic; there I was flying Emirates to Dubai to attend the regional launch of Microsoft’s new OfficeXP, when I suddenly switched channels to find the movie Antitrust was a possible option. The cabin crew must have wondered why I suddenly burst out into hysterical laughter.
FORMER DIKO deputy Nicos Moushiouttas was recovering in intensive care at London’s St.Mary’s hospital yesterday after undergoing heart surgery on Tuesday.
The chain-smoking ex deputy, 70, was in a slightly more stable condition than on Wednesday, when doctors described his condition as critical following the development of complications during the surgical procedure.
DEVELOPMENT Bank employees yesterday vowed to stage an indefinite strike starting next Monday in protest at a government decision to sell off a chunk of their bank.
The employees, members of bank workers union ETYK, had already stayed away from work yesterday and on Wednesday. In a meeting yesterday, they decided to take further industrial action.
LARNACA and Paphos airports were forced to a standstill yesterday evening by a two hour work stoppage by airport employees protesting government privatisation plans.
A total of 24 flights, many of them carrying holidaymakers, were cancelled.
Airport workers ignored last minute appeals from the government to drop their industrial action which started at 6pm.
THE ATTORNEY-general’s office yesterday said it could be at least another week before any decision was taken over potential criminal or administrative responsibilities in the operating theatre death of a 14-year-old boy in late April.
AN INDEPENDENT American report has cited economic growth, better employment opportunities and Turkish Cypriot prosperity in a post-solution Cyprus as powerful incentives to concluding a settlement.
It predicts rapid private sector growth in tourism, finance and construction, accompanied by a shrinking public administration, manufacturing and agriculture, all over Cyprus.
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.
