FIVE siblings between the ages of four months and six years old were yesterday being treated at Nicosia’s Makarios Hospital for the effects of negligence.
The two boys and three girls were taken to hospital by the Social Welfare Department on Tuesday night, after they discovered the children had been left without care or food for three days.
FINANCE Minister Takis Klerides yesterday pre-empted attacks from deputies over the stock exchange (CSE) fiasco with a well-prepared three-hour speech made before the House Finance and Watchdog Committees.
INCOME from tourism rose seven per cent to £1.27 billion in 2001, the Tourism Ministry said yesterday.
A 23-YEAR-old supermarket employee held on suspicion of stealing arms from a military depot in Evrychou yesterday told the Nicosia court he was sorry for his treacherous act and was ready to bear the punishment.
A BOREHOLE is thought to have contaminated drinking water in the Makedonitissa area in Nicosia, resident Olga Salangos – a civil engineer at the Dhekelia desalination plant – said yesterday.
THE ALL-SHARE index hit a year-low for the third consecutive day this week yesterday, dipping 1.70 per cent to close at 120.89 with volume a meagre £2.34 million.
CYPRIOTS enjoy greater spending power than the Spanish, Greeks and Portuguese as well as a higher standard of living than several regions in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Former Melkonian principal Sossie Bedikian has died at the age of 72.
PSYCHIATRIST Yiangos Mikellides yesterday accused local pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies of being “faceless, profit-making organisations” no longer concerned with peoples’ medical welfare.
COMPUTER technicians in Cyprus are not sure what to expect from the latest virus to hit internet users.
The Marketing Manager of Spidernet, Thois Themistocleous, told the Cyprus Mail yesterday they had had a few cases of the virus, but that customers had been informed about it though an e-mail and been given instructions on how to delete it.
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.
