THE occupation regime in the north has added two more Turkish Cypriot journalists to its purge list, making it five pro-solution journalists accused of “libelling the Turkish military and state” just six weeks before the general elections there.
UNFICYP said yesterday it had no information that the Turkish side was planting landmines at a time when the UN was discussing demining with both sides.
THE SON of a British archaeologist has returned two ancient golden earrings found by his father in Kouklia to the Department of Antiquities in Cyprus.
THIS year’s Radiomarathon charity for children with special needs raised just over £1.3 million after a number of events and two days of volunteers collecting money on the roads all over Cyprus, just short of last year’s total of £1,326,576, the most ever collected for the Radiomarathon.
GREEN Party leader George Perdikis took matters into his own hands yesterday morning, tearing down three billboards on the way into Nicosia, just past the Kalispera traffic lights. Perdikis told the Cyprus Mail that he was only helping the government in implementing the law abolishing illegal billboards.
THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday unanimously expressed its concern over the construction of the powerful new PLUTO antenna by the British Bases (SBA) at Akrotiri and called on the government to adopt the necessary measures to stop it being tested until a medical study on its effects had been completed.
PAPHOS is running out of burial space, with the town’s only cemetery built in the 1930s no longer able to sustain the booming local population, district officer Dr Andreas Christodoulides warned yesterday.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “International criminals hiding in the north”. Ten criminals wanted by Interpol are hiding in the north with the government helpless to do anything about it except putting their names on a stop list at the checkpoints, the paper reports. Police chief Tassos Panayiotou said the north had become a haven for wanted criminals because of the lack of control.
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.
