IT LOOKS like a tree house stuck on a bamboo banana. In reality it’s the incarnation of a pre-Pharaonic reed boat, designed and built to unravel the mysteries of prehistoric navigation.
The Abora II drifted in to Larnaca marina yesterday. Weighing in at six-tonnes, the vessel is a totra-reed boat. It is 11.5 metres long, 3.5 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep.
THE CABINET yesterday appointed a special committee to study the House report on the stock market (CSE) fiasco and present a report within two weeks.
The CSE report, which was released last week, blamed the cabinet and the finance minister, among many others, for maintaining a passive and indifferent stance while thousands of people were losing their life savings.
TUESDAY’S big fire, which at one stage threatened the disused Nicosia airport, started in the Turkish occupied areas, the fire service said yesterday.
Fire Service Chief Giorgos Hadjigeorgiou told the Cyprus Mail that according to his information the blaze started in the occupied areas near the villages of Skylloura and Ayios Vassilios north west of Nicosia.
THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found admissible an application by Greek Cypriot hotel owners against Turkey for denying them access to their property in the north, which is being used by the Turkish army.
Yiousef Mehmet Ali Siqaf, a 45-year old Lebanese national, is fighting for his life at Larnaca General Hospital after a pellet, allegedly containing cocaine, burst in his stomach according to a report from the Cyprus news agency (CNA).
ATTORNEY-general Alecos Markides said yesterday a charge of obstructing justice was being brought against Pantelitsa Alexandrou, Head of Anaesthesia at Nicosia General Hospital, relating to the investigation following the death during surgery of 14-year old Yiorgos Hadjidemitris.
THE SITUATION in Limassol’s Turkish Cypriot quarter, which houses a concentration of Gypsies, is volatile and could lead to “mutual annihilation”, the Chairman of the House Refugee Committee Aristofanis Georgiou said yesterday.
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.
