Police reject bomb suspect’s alibi

2001-07-27

A SUSPECT held in connection with an explosion outside a Limassol bar used his girlfriend’s car to drop off the bomb, a court heard yesterday.

Bones of 1974 dead stored in Tymbos cannot be identified

2001-07-27

BONES of people killed during the invasion of 1974 that have been stored at the Tymbos Makedonitissa ossuary in Nicosia cannot be identified by DNA fingerprinting because they were preserved with the wrong chemicals, it was revealed yesterday.

Cyprus under siege from latest virus

2001-07-27

COMPANIES across Cyprus are being bombarded with the latest e-mail virus sweeping across the globe, but most say anti virus systems are keeping the lethal worm at bay.

‘Get out and walk,’ Cypriots told

2001-07-27

GET out of your car and walk, was the message from both Communications Minister Averoff Neophytou and Nicosia Mayor Lellos Demetriades yesterday.

Neophytou and Demetriades were plugging a new drive to relieve traffic congestion in Nicosia by boosting public transport while creating disincentives for in-town private car use.

Last hours before doctor’s disappearance

2001-07-27

POLICE yesterday cast light on what they believe had happened in the last few hours before the mysterious disappearance of a Limassol doctor not seen for over two months.

Big power cuts ‘a thing of the past’

2001-07-27

PROLONGED power cuts like those that crippled Nicosia last year are almost a thing of the past, the Electricity Authority insisted yesterday

EAC spokesman Tassos Roussos told the Cyprus Mail that a back-up system would save the day if any power-cut occurred – a distinct possibility with the increased use of power hungry air-conditioners to combat the heat.

Now’s the time to buy an air-conditioner

2001-07-27

DESPITE scorching temperatures, air-conditioning sales have dropped by up to a third this summer, industry experts said yesterday.

“Sales this year have dropped to 25,000 compared with 40,000 last year,” said Domestica Ltd spokesman Marios Hadjioannou.

Transvestite pardoned

2001-07-27

A TRANSVESTITE sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud has been pardoned after officials could not decide where to house the convict.

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.