PHILELEFTHEROS “Bloodshed for hunters” The first day of hunting resulted in two deaths and 37 injuries. Sotiris Neophytou from Episkopi was killed in a ravine when his own rifle accidentally went off. He was taken by helicopter to the Paphos hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Stelios Avraam from Avgorou apparently suffered a heart attack and fell to the ground hitting his head.
NICOSIA Mayor Michalakis Zampelas yesterday came under fire from former Communications and Works Minister Leontios Ierodiakonou for comments he made during the renaming of Santa Rosa Avenue in Nicosia into Spyros Kyprianou Avenue. Zampelas said the street had been chosen because nobody knew who Santa Rosa was and why the street had been named after him in the first place.
THE HUNTING season began on shaky grounds with two hunters dying and 37 injured on Sunday. Sotiris Neophytou, 55, from Episkopi, was out hunting with his brother and friends in the area of Orites north of Archimadrita village. The party were hunting in a deep ravine and Neophytou was trying to perch himself on a rock when his gun accidentally went off, shooting him in the back.
JUSTICE Minister Doros Theodorou yesterday accused DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades of interfering with police business after he intervened to ensure the release of a football trainer arrested by police on charges of causing a disturbance during Sunday’s Omonia vs. Apollon game at the GSP stadium in Nicosia.
A REPORT in the last issue of the Sunday Mail highlighted the desperate dilemma faced by foreign students struggling to survive in Cyprus. The students – most of whom have come from developing countries – live on shoestring budgets that force them into squalid and cramped accommodation. “Most of us are forced to work illegally in order to survive,” one Indian student admitted.
THERE is a general tendency whenever hooligans go on the rampage at football matches to blame the police rather than the troublemakers. Sometime they are blamed for using excessive violence, while other times they are accused of not intervening promptly enough to stop the fighting.
GREEN Party leader George Perdikis yesterday warned that environmentalists would start tearing down illegal billboards if their owners failed to comply with a law to take down or push back their hoardings.
THE TRAFFIC police department has outlined radical plans to lessen traffic congestion in Nicosia, which it has presented to the Communications Ministry for approval. The study is the result of a efforts to discover the main causes of congestions and what measures can be taken to find a solution.
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.
