By Sofia Kannas
THE U.N. competition launched at the end of January for a new Cyprus flag and national anthem has received entries from countries as far a field as New Zealand and Japan, the UN said yesterday.
By a Staff Reporter
WITH just four days to go the elections, political parties yesterday continued trading blows, the keyword being “credibility”.
By a Staff Reporter
SOME 21,000 Cypriots living abroad will be flying back to the island to vote in Sunday’s elections. That is, unless the national air carrier stages a strike.
By Sofia Kannas
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) is today expected to make public a report advising Cyprus against any move to freeze investor debts, a source at the Central Bank confirmed yesterday.
By Alex Mita
THE VETERINARY Services were yesterday unsure as to what caused the death of 10 flamingos at the Larnaca salt lake in the last two days.
The flamingos, among hundreds that migrate to the island’s salt lakes each winter, were found dead by passers-by on the shores of the lake.
By Tania Khadder
LAST Friday at 4pm, Maria (not her real name) was about to board a Cyprus Airways flight on the first leg of her 16-hour journey to the Philippines. Seven months pregnant by a Cypriot man and suffering complications, she was being deported for not having a visa to stay in the country.
By a Staff Reporter
A 16-YEAR-old boy arrested on Monday in connection with a suspected arson attack on a Limassol school has been remanded in custody after appearing before magistrates, police confirmed yesterday.
According to police reports, the fire, which gutted a storage room at Limassol’s Lanitio Lyceum ‘A’ last Friday, was started by the suspect using petrol.
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.
