A 56-YEAR-OLD man and his spouse from Limassol are wanted for resisting arrest and threatening a police officer. According to the police, an arrest warrant had been issued for the couple for repeatedly failing to pay fines. When a police officer visited their home on Sunday, the couple resisted arrest and threatened to turn their rottweiler on the officer.
CLOSED CIRCUIT cameras have been installed inside a cage at the Limassol zoo to monitor the growth and behaviour of a Griffon vulture chick, officials said yesterday. With the CCTV system, visitors would have the opportunity to get a closer look at the newcomer through a large colour TV.
A TURKISH Cypriot man died of a from internal bleeding in Nicosia General Hospital yesterday, less than 24 hours after he was found injured by police in Ayios Pavlos. According to reports, 41-year-old Suleyman Aziz, from Ayios Pavlos, died about 10am, having undergone surgery at the hospital on Sunday night.
A 27-YEAR-OLD Romanian man, Liev Tejesku, was arrested in Haidari, Greece, yesterday in connection with the alleged murder of a Greek Cypriot man, Greek police confirmed. According to a police bulletin, the suspect admitted to stabbing 33-year-old Heracles Neophytou after an argument regarding the deceased’s affair with his sister.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD man was killed in a road accident in the early hours of Sunday, after his van collided with an oncoming vehicle, police confirmed yesterday.
GREEK police arrested a Cypriot man on Saturday in connection with violence at an anti-EU march near Salonica, Cyprus Consul General Antonios Theocharous said in Greece yesterday.
POLICE YESTERDAY arrested three Iranian protesters who were threatening to set themselves alight outside the French embassy in Nicosia. The activists – two men and a woman holding her seven-year-old child – were expressing their opposition to last week’s crackdown in Paris which saw the arrest of arrest of 160 members of an Iranian opposition group.
A HOTEL strike scheduled for today was called off by hotel workers’ unions yesterday afternoon, amid hopes of a breakthrough in the long running dispute over the renewal of a worker-employer collective agreement.
HELLAS JET will take to the skies today, only 24-hours later than planned, after Cyprus Airways (CY) was finally given the green light by the Greek government last night. “We have just received the news officially that we obtained the commercial licence signed by the Greek Transport Minister,” Cyprus Airways spokesman Tassos Angelis told the Cyprus Mail.
TURKISH Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said yesterday that if changes could be made to the Annan plan, Ankara would have no objection to it being the basis of a Cyprus settlement. Gul’s comments were made to Turkish channel NTV on his return from the World Economic Forum meetings in Jordan, where he met briefly with UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan.
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.
