Limassol searches for answers in the aftermath of Salih’s brutal murder
THE 11-YEAR-OLD boy who was stabbed to death in Limassol by a mentally disturbed man on Tuesday had received eight fatal blows to his body and head, his autopsy yesterday revealed.
NEGOTIATIONS for the building and operation of the island’s new airport at Larnaca and the upgrading of the one at Paphos have run into trouble after preferred bidder Alterra Consortium failed to renew its £1 million guarantee when it expired on July 5.
OLD peoples’ homes are in need of serious upgrades and renovations in order to meet EU standards and Cypriot law, according to a group of deputies who recently visited four of the 147 institutions scattered across the island.
THE Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) in the last few days recorded its highest ever demand for electricity by consumers attempting to escape the heat by keeping on their air conditioning units.
MOST of the papers in the north yesterday sought to avoid turning the murder of an 11-year-old boy in Limassol on Tuesday into a political issue and chose to run the story as brief news items, devoid of political or emotive comment.
Two papers, however – Afrika and Volkan – ran the story on their front pages.
MARKET traders selling their produce on the pavement outside the Ochi Square market in Nicosia were fined yesterday in police raids launched as part of a new municipality drive.
“I EXPECTED more,” was the mutter that trailed out of the Skali Amphitheatre on Tuesday night as the capacity audience filed up the stairs after Cesaria Evora’s concert. It makes me wonder about the expectation levels among Nicosia’s dilettante arty-set.
THE head of the Turkish Cypriot Educational Planning and Programme Development department, Dr Hasan Alicik, is making history with a project that aims to bring sweeping changes to the way history is taught in Turkish Cypriot schools.
ALITHIA: ‘A tombstone for the Cyprus problem’ Tuesday’s National Council meeting could very well in the future be characterised as the day the tombstone was cast upon the Cyprus problem and any chances of any solution.
THE SHOCKING murder of a young boy in Limassol on Tuesday has stunned us all into disbelief and anger. Over the past month, we have watched with growing concern our society facing a gathering wave of criminality – often random – fuelled by a terrifying rise in drug abuse.
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.
