SEVEN months ago, the Public Works Department (PWD) embarked on a campaign to rid the island of the growing eyesore and potential hazard of mushrooming advertising billboards.
Yesterday, the Chief District Public Engineer Lefteris Stylianides said the situation was out of control.
“We are at war but for the time being we are alone,” he said.
THE RELEASE of important US State Department documents on Cyprus, Greece and Turkey for the period 1964 to 1968 is being halted by the CIA, the Washington Post has revealed.
TWO TOURISTS were seriously injured and another six people slightly injured yesterday as a tourist bus collided with a car in the Larnaca district.
The accident occurred at 10.45am when a hired minibus containing French tourists collided with a car at an intersection in Mosfiloti. The driver of the car had not seen a stop sign because it was hidden by bushes.
INTERIOR minister Christodoulos Christodoulou yesterday revealed that 89 former Turkish Cypriot properties in the government-controlled areas had been sold by their owners to Greek Cypriots living in the south.
HIS doctors may be saying little about the state of his health, but ex-President Spyros Kyprianou – diagnosed as suffering from malignant cancer in June – was well enough to turn up for a National Council session yesterday.
THE MYSTERY donors offering 160,000 free computers for local schools yesterday hit out at widespread scepticism over their £400 million generosity, saying they would give the PCs to students at home if the government decided to spurn their offer.
A CYPRIOT team began emissions tests for a controversial British bases (SBA) antenna at Akrotiri yesterday afternoon after a disagreement over access to aerial specifications was apparently ironed out.
UNMOVED by the banished archimandrite’s threats to “expose” fellow clergymen, the Holy Synod yesterday declined to discuss further Andreas Constantinides’ indefinite suspension for slandering Limassol Bishop Athanasios.
A PERUVIAN electrician has been indicted in the United States on four counts of drugs trafficking after 515 pounds of cocaine were found hidden on board the Cypriot-flagged ship on which he was working.
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.
