TRACES of the banned antibiotic chloramphenicol have been found in a specific brand of imported royal jelly, the head of the State lab, Dina Akkelidou, said yesterday.
U.S. AMBASSADOR Donald Bandler said yesterday that a political settlement in Cyprus would require compromise and hard decisions but was optimistic that a solution could be reached.
AROUND £800 million will be spent by the Electricity Authority (EAC) in the next 10 years for the transfer and distribution of power as well as the completion of the new power station at Vasiliko near Limassol, EAC Chairman George Georgiades said yesterday.
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ruled that a Briton convicted of killing his Cypriot wife in 1997 was given a fair trial, the Attorney-general’s office said yesterday.
THE DEFENCE Ministry said yesterday that several Turkish military planes had flown over the UN-controlled buffer zone and violated the Nicosia Flight Information Region (FIR).
A NICOSIA court yesterday remanded three men in custody for seven days on suspicion of setting up a telecommunications network that allowed them to bill over £200,000 worth of international calls to a Bank of Cyprus branch, police said.
QUESTIONS are being asked about the status of the English School in Nicosia, with deputies saying it’s time to reform an “outdated and inadequate” structure.
The questions arose as the school’s board of governors faced a barrage of questions on the state of the school’s finances, development and accountability during a meeting of the House Education Committee.
FOR the third week running, the Cabinet yesterday postponed a decision on whether to allow the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) to compete in the soon to be liberalised telecommunications sector.
MYRTLE, the loggerhead turtle found three months ago at Curium beach suffering severe injuries, was pronounced dead yesterday, just days after being returned to seawater for rehabilitation.
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.
