ACCORDING to the US-based National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Bell helicopters have been involved in 185 accidents with 75 fatalities in the past five years.
The Bell 206L-3, the model involved in Wednesday’s crash which killed National Guard Commander Evangelos Florakis and four others, has clocked up 18 accidents and five fatalities in the same period.
FOREIGN Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides said yesterday the United Nations was losing patience over the lack of progress on the Cyprus problem.
THE PROSPECT of unauthorised anti-drugs campaigners being locked up in prison for operating without a licence led to the postponement by the House yesterday of new legislation.
A FILIPINA who sustained horrific injuries in a mini-bus crash at Moniatis in January 2000 had been awarded £370,000 in damages, her lawyers said yesterday.
Telia Marquilencia, 43, who before the accident was a domestic worker in Larnaca, has been left bed-ridden and needing 24-hour medical care for the rest of her life.
THE HOUSE yesterday approved more than 50 bills, including the controversial law raising the age of consent for heterosexuals to 17, while a further 31 were withdrawn by the government.
The age of consent for heterosexuals was raised to 17 in an effort to abolish any discrimination between homosexuals and heterosexuals.
TWO 25-year-old men and a pupil, 17, were yesterday charged and released by Limassol police in connection with putting up posters illegally.
STOCK prices hit another new low yesterday as the all-share index dropped to 90 points, a 1.24 per cent fall. Volume for the day was only £573,000, while the blue chips FTSE fell 0.99 per cent to 385 points.
LIMASSOL police are investigating the theft of jewellery and watches worth £100,000 from a jewellery shop in the town’s tourist area.
AUGUST is burglary month in Cyprus, and police yesterday issued advice to help avoid becoming a victim of casual theft during the traditional holiday period.
Although Cyprus still boasts low rates of burglary and theft, police warn that such crimes always increase when people are away on their summer holidays.
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.
