D.I.K.O. chief and presidential candidate Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday reiterated his commitment to a settlement of the Cyprus problem through negotiations aimed at turning a United Nations blueprint into a fair and viable solution.
NO MATTER how many election chat shows there are on TV and radio, no matter how many pages are devoted to the elections by the newspapers, no matter how many public meetings are addressed by the candidates every day, the more intelligent voters — those who do not follow party directives — are still in a quandary over who to vote for on February 16.
AROUND 150 members of the ‘Stop the War Alliance’ protested yesterday outside the United States embassy in Nicosia against a potential war in Iraq.
The protesters, including Iraqis, Palestinians and Cypriots, gathered in Nicosia’s Eleftherias Square at around 11am and marched to the heavily fortified embassy.
THE GREEN Party celebrated a second victory yesterday, announcing that the Antiquities Department head had announced plans to abandon construction work at the ancient Curium amphitheatre on the south coast.
A 51-year-old British woman drowned in the Paphos area yesterday after the sailing boat she was in capsized in rough seas.
Police said a helicopter was dispatched to the Toxeftra area of the Akamas peninsula after a call was received at 11.15am from a British permanent resident that the victim and her husband, 61, had gone sailing earlier in the morning and failed to return.
POLICE have detained a 26-year-old Famagusta man in connection with the attempted murder of his brother yesterday.
The incident happened at 10am while Demetris Kourtsioumpis was standing on his veranda in the village of Frenaros.
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.
