THE UNITED Nations Security Council said in New York yesterday that the Turkish Cypriot side has been “less constructive” than the Greek Cypriots in efforts to solve the Cyprus problem, and expressed its disappointment that progress has been slow and the June target date for an agreement had not been met.
FOUR people — two soldiers and two women — died in separate incidents around the island yesterday.
Greek soldier Georgios Papalexopoulos, 19, died in mysterious circumstances. His unit said that Papalexopoulos had not been feeling well during morning exercises. He was treated at his unit, and then rushed to the Nicosia general hospital at 11.30. He died at 2pm.
WHAT BEGAN as an internal investigation by auditors over payments made to a housemaid at the Cyprus embassy in Moscow has become a fraud inquiry by the Foreign Ministry, led by Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides and Director-general Christodoulos Pashardis.
CYPRUS’ Chief European Union Negotiator George Vassiliou left yesterday for Brussels to take part in a three-day conference on the status of the British Bases after the island’s accession.
THE HOUSE Legal Affairs Committee has reached a compromise on the age of consent for heterosexuals and homosexuals, which is expected to be put before the plenum tomorrow.
DURING the summer months, the Commerce Ministry receives dozens of complaints from Limassol residents reporting extortionate prices on goods, particularly in tourist areas, it was reported yesterday. But because of insufficient staffing the Ministry’s consumer service is incapable of dealing with each individual case effectively.
OLD NICOSIA inside the city walls is to be declared an ancient monument to protect the rich cultural heritage buried under its surface, the Head of the Antiquities Department said yesterday.
A LARNACA court yesterday sentenced a 66-year-old music teacher to four years and three months’ imprisonment for indecent assault.
George Serdaris was found guilty last week on eight counts of indecent assault against underage female students at his Larnaca Odeon between 1992 and 1995, but he was only sentenced yesterday.
A BRITISH girl whose father is a Greek Cypriot living in London has confessed on national TV that she had sex with 20 men in one night at a rowdy Rhodes holiday resort.
THE CABINET will decide today whether the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) will be allowed to compete when the telecommunications market is liberalised later this year.
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.
