SEVEN sheep infected with scrapie were slaughtered yesterday and their carcasses burnt in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease from a Paphos farm where the disease was diagnosed earlier this week.
HELIOS Airways are organising new type of package holiday from Cyprus – hunting trips to Bulgaria.
LOGOS company has terminated its three-year co-operation with Mega television and claimed the channel back, throwing it into turmoil.
Three years ago, Mega bought Logos Television. The two companies signed a co-operation agreement which gave Mega the right to run the channel.
THE NUMBER of viral meningitis cases is on the decrease, but health officials yesterday warned the public to remain vigilant.
This month showed only two new cases in the Famagusta district and two new cases in Limassol.
According to Chief Medical Officer Chrystalla Hadjianastassiou, this proves that the public has been taking precautionary measures.
TWO well-known musicians were yesterday formally charged with sexually assaulting underage girls.
Musician Georgos Serdaris, 65, and 52-year-old composer Doros Georgiades, both from Larnaca were arrested last month after two women testified that they had been sexually assaulted by the two men nine years ago, when they were aged12 and 13.
POLICE were yesterday optimistic that the arrest of a National Guard lieutenant colonel suspected of supplying explosives to the underworld would shed light on many crimes carried out in the past.
ANYONE keen to indulge in a spot of local culture should spend this weekend at the first South Marathasa cultural festival – a charming mission to recapture the past and promote an economically forgotten part of the country.
A BRITISH property developer who owns a 50 per cent stake in a Cyprus-based company faces immediate deportation on suspicion of buying Greek Cypriot property in occupied northern Cyprus.
THE UN Committee for the elimination of racial discrimination is concerned over the lack of legal provisions outlawing racial discrimination in Cyprus and said those that were in place were not being implemented.
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.
