The five victims of yesterday’s crash

2002-07-11

LIEUTENANT General Evangelos Florakis, 59, was appointed Commander of the National Guard in May 2000 after retiring from military service in Greece. He was born

Envoy recalled as expenses probe begins

2002-07-11

CHARALAMBOS Ioannides, the Cyprus ambassador in Moscow, has been recalled from his position by the Foreign Ministry pending an investigation into alleged irregular expense claims made at the embassy.

Christodoulos Pashardis, the ministry’s Director-general, is leading the investigation, and confirmed that the ambassador had arrived in Cyprus yesterday morning.

Age of consent compromise ‘had to be done’

2002-07-11

A MEMBER of the House Legal Affairs Committee yesterday defended its decision to raise the age of consent for heterosexuals to 17 as a way of not having to reduce the age for homosexuals to 16.

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.