OXFAM in Hong Kong has informed police and warned people to beware of fake fund-raising e-mails for tsunami victims, which direct donors to a bank account in Cyprus.
“An e-mail was sent to a friend of Oxfam yesterday and forwarded to us,” Albert Chan Ka-ming, fund-raising director of Oxfam Hong Kong told Reuters.
A SECOND mission of the Cypriot branch of the Doctors of the World arrived yesterday at the tsunami hit area of Galle in Sri Lanka, carrying 2.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid and medicines.
THE DAYS when even the poorest of Turks could claim to be multi-millionaires drew to a close over the New Year as Turkey ushered in a new currency that effectively knocked six zeros of its inflation-ridden lira.
VETERINARY Service Phidias Loukaides said yesterday a batch of chickens from a farm in Cyprus had been found to have a mild case of salmonella and had been destroyed.
POLICE were yesterday searching for two armed robbers who raided a co-op bank in Arediou village south of Nicosia at 8.10am yesterday, and shot man as they made their getaway.
Two hooded men stormed into the bank holding shotguns and threatened bank staff. They managed to escape with around £25.000.
EXTENSIVE meetings between the Labour Ministry and two semi-government unions yesterday failed to strike agreement, with the two strongest unions, SEK and PEO, threatening to strike if new collective agreements were not agreed before January 10.
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a new and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945
PHILELEFTHEROS: “Tassos furious over state of National Health Plan” In its lead story, the paper cited sources saying that President Papadopoulos was “extremely concerned” about the lack of progress in the development of a National Health Plan.
OUT of the blue, motorists were yesterday served an extra charge on the price of fuel, as the government denied accusations of back-door tactics.
The news broke around midday, when Pambinos Charalambous, president of the gas stations’ association, told a live radio show that they were charging .33 cents per litre more for all fuel types, effective immediately.
NICOSIA’S new general hospital should be ready by this time next year, if conventional wisdom is anything to go by. But even by that conservative estimate, that’s a three-year delay and a budget inflated by some £50 million pounds.
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.
