Package tours to the north ‘only a matter of time’
UK-BASED Greek Cypriot tour operators said yesterday it was only a matter of time before one of Britain’s four tour giants began putting on the pressure to sell holidays in the north.
Paralympians are still Olympians, says gold medallist
CYPRUS’ gold medalist in last summer’s Athens Paralympics Karolina Pelentridou launched a scathing attack against the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) along with fellow athlete Andreas Potamitis in a press conference yesterday.
THE NICOSIA municipality is baffled over the theft of the bust of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, located in the park next to parliament.
Nicosia municipality official Christos Karydas said the bust was stolen around three months ago and the case was reported to the police.
Victim had his hearing aid removed
A BRITISH tourist yesterday described seeing her boyfriend killed on Thursday by a British bases (SBA) patrol boat as he snorkelled near Lady’s Mile beach.
Carl Wood, 40, had been swimming off a catamaran leisure cruise near the Akrotiri military base in the Limassol area when the incident happened at around 1pm.
CYPRUS’ harmonised EU inflation reached 2.4 per cent month on month in March, unchanged from February, the statistics department said yesterday.
March’s HICP stood at 124.5 points compared to 124.3 points the previous month.
THE CENTRAL Bank of Cyprus angrily denied a newspaper report yesterday that said it was concerned that the Cyprus pound would lose value after going into ERM2.
“I can categorically state that this is unsubstantiated,” said Central Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou in response to the report in the daily Simerini.
RAUF Denktash, the pugnacious nationalist who has led Turkish Cypriots for three decades, says he will miss nothing about the job when he retires next week.
Denktash, 81, bows out of office after polls tomorrow that are expected to elect pro-reunification leader Mehmet Ali Talat as the new president of the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state.
A 54-YEAR-OLD Nicosia man who indecently assaulted an underage girl after luring her to his house through an internet chat room was yesterday sentenced to 16 months in prison.
The first contact between them took place online in the summer of 2003.
In a phone conversation, which followed soon afterwards, the defendant posed as a 21-year-old.
POLICE and CID officers in Nicosia officers arrested two Asian men in the early hours of Wednesday morning on suspicion of being part of a terrorist organisation.
According to reports from Phileleftheros newspaper, the two men, believed to be from Pakistan, are said by police officials to be affiliated to terrorist organisations connected to Osama Bin Laden’s al Qaeda network.
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.
