THE Health Ministry yesterday confirmed increased levels of cadmium had been found in one public water cooler following the completion of the first phase of a national investigation testing for the highly toxic metal.
BANKS could be forced to fork out millions of pounds in compensation if lawsuits brought against them by their clients prove successful.
The issue came to a head on Wednesday following a Nicosia district court’s decision to allow a defendant to file a defence, and subsequent counterclaim, against Laiki Bank.
THE Limassol Assizes Court yesterday sentenced a 43-year-old man to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of an elderly guard at the Lanitis estate in Fassouri.
Savvas Vasiliou, 63, was found murdered on July 7, last year, on the steps leading to his home on the Fassouri estate.
He had been shot twice – in the head and back – with a hunting shotgun.
RESIDENTS of the village of Mammari just outside Nicosia were up in arms yesterday protesting against a slaughterhouse just outside the community, which is leaking a foul stench throughout the village.
CYPRIOT-born pop sensation Peter Andre has apparently been given a “big fat Greek NO!” from his parents after taking his fiancée, British supermodel Jordan, to meet his mum and dad in Cyprus.
Hopes of getting a blessing from Andre’s parents were dashed when Savvas, 60, and Thea, 62, gave the thumbs down to busty Jordan, who reacted angrily, sparking a full-blown row.
HARAVGI: “One-on-one between Tassos and Annan” The AKEL mouthpiece reported yesterday on how the Cyprus problem fell under the microscope in New York following a meeting between President of Republic Tassos Papadopoulos and UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan. President Papadopoulos later stated that no new ideas have been introduced just yet but that they would in due time.
IT’S September, and once again time for the world to be shown the latest fashion trends: once again we welcome the New York, Paris, Milan and London Fashion Weeks. This season, however, I’m going to view the shows as a spectator, as I am not styling or involved in the production side of things.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw this week used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to highlight the plight of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, held by militants in Iraq. The incident, he said, proved the “urgent need to combat global terrorism”, a “menace directed at us all”, which violated all the values held dear by the United Nations.
IN A landmark decision, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled in favour of a Turkish Cypriot man who filed an appeal demanding the return of his property in Episkopi, which he had abandoned during the 1974 invasion.
The bombshell decision has immediate effect, forcing the family of refugees living in the house for the past 30 years to move out.
IF YOU hear the words, “Just maybe I’m crazy,” followed by “shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na” you might think to yourself, “well, ask a silly question, get a silly answer”.
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.
