DEATH threats have been sent to the Electricity Authority (EAC) General Manger Costas Ioannou and Financial Manager Moissis Stavrou, EAC spokesman Tassos Roussos said yesterday.
He said the threats, particularly in Stavrou’s case, had come in the wake of electricity bills being sent out to companies linked to the recent EAC scandal.
DEFECTIVE grenades were yesterday blamed for Thursday’s accident during a National Guard exercise, which caused minor injuries to 18 men.
Defence Minister Socratis Hasikos yesterday called a news conference to clear the air about the incident, which he said had been blown out of proportion by the media.
GREEK and Turkish Cypriots yesterday unveiled a new booklet, Cyprus after a Solution: economic and social activity – the product of two workshops to analyse a post-settlement, united island.
THE Laiki Group said yesterday its pre-tax profit fell to £2.09 million in 2001 from £69.13 million in 2000, hit by poorly performing Cypriot and Greek stock markets.
THE HOLY Synod this week reaffirmed its ban on burying suicide victims, in an effort to reinforce the drill to errant parish priests who turn a blind eye on the issue.
Bishop Pavlos of Kyrenia raised the matter with the Holy Synod, which duly proclaimed the ban at the end of its session on Thursday.
CONTROVERSY over the new location of the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) building raged on yesterday, with allegations that vested interests had prompted town-planning authorities to rush the project through the back door.
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.
