THE GOVERNMENT expects Europe to finalise the departure of the 13 Palestinians on Tuesday, after the EU’s Spanish presidency yesterday denied it was dragging its feet on the issue.
FOREIGN Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides said yesterday that UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan had conveyed four messages to the leaders of the two sides during his visit earlier in the week.
BOTH British Airways (BA) and national carrier Cyprus Airways (CY) said yesterday that flights to and from the UK had returned to normal, and that no further disruptions are expected this weekend following backlogs created by an air traffic control computer glitch in Britain.
PHOTOGRAPHS of Miss Star Cyprus 2000 and Miss Turkey together are likely to cause quite a stir when a Greek magazine goes on sale this week, Politis reported yesterday.
EGYPTIAN Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher arrives in Cyprus today on a brief visit to discuss a joint economic zone between Cyprus and Egypt. He will meet President Glafcos Clerides and Cypriot Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides at the residence of Egyptian Ambassador Omar Metwally. Maher will leave Cyprus later this afternoon for Athens.
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos, who was flown by air ambulance to a specialised hospital in Athens for treatment a week ago, is showing signs of improvement, doctors in Greece said yesterday.
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy was killed in a freak accident in Paphos yesterday afternoon.
At around 3pm, Nicholas Ignatiou, from Amargeti, and two other men were attempting to change the fuel tank on a tractor.
They removed a rear tyre and placed it alongside the vehicle, police said. Ignatiou’s grandson, Stavros Panayi, approached the tyre and it slipped and crushed him.
I REGRET to report that despite our many preparations, the UN Secretary-general avoided visiting the Kofishop during his two-day stay on the plantation, because of official protests by lawyers claiming that this would be tantamount to recognition of our establishment as a legal entity (which it is not, according to UN resolutions).
A 21-year-old British tourist has reported to police that she was raped on Friday night, police said yesterday.
The young woman said she was on Ayios Antonios Street in Kato Paphos, when an unknown man approached and invited her to go to a nightclub with him.
But instead of taking her to a nightclub, he led her to an open area nearby and raped her, she told police.
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.
