By a Staff Reporter
TWO Pakistani men and a Sri Lankan woman have been detained in connection with the premeditated murder of a 48-year-old Pakistani man, police said yesterday.
The man, a political refugee living on the island for the past two years, was found dead in his hotel room at around 11.20pm on Sunday.
By a Staff Reporter
THREE people were killed when a speeding car careered through a safety barrier and hit an oncoming vehicle in downtown Nicosia early on Sunday morning.
By Alexia Saoulli
A 26-YEAR-old man was critically injured when he plunged down an elevator shaft at a Nicosia nightclub, police said yesterday.
By Jean Christou
FIVE of the eight helicopters used by the Iraq-based UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) arrived yesterday at Larnaca Airport as the UN operation geared up for a complete pullout in the face of a US-led attack on Baghdad.
By a Staff Reporter
CYPRUS’ economy would suffer a major impact from a possible war in Iraq, Finance Minister Marcos Kyprianou told the House Finance Committee yesterday.
The committee convened to discuss the current state of the economy and its outlook in the event of another war in the Persian Gulf.
By Stefanos Evripidou
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Kikis Kazamias was at pains to stress yesterday that Cyprus was not a high-risk zone on the eve of war in Iraq, despite intensified military activity in the island’s air space.
By George Psyllides
THE government said yesterday that attempts to ridicule the publication of ministers’ assets were “bad and negative”, suggesting the gesture should have been appreciated as it was the first time in the history of Cyprus that ministers’ finances were made public.
By Alexia Saoulli
NEARLY 14,000 blood samples were collected in the search to find a bone marrow match for five-year-old Turkish Cypriot leukaemia sufferer Jale Sakaoglu.
By a Staff Reporter
LIMASSOL police yesterday arrested a man believed to be the provider of 750 ecstasy tablets allegedly found in the possession of two youths in Yermasoyia on Saturday night.
The two youths, 20-year-old Spyros Paphitis and Syrian Jup Muhammad, 19, have been remanded in custody for eight days.
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.
