FIVE Greek Cypriots, including Machi editor-in-chief Pambos Mitides, his 80-year-old mother Froso Mitides and wife Androulla, were arrested and held overnight in a Turkish Cypriot police cell for picking flowers from their garden in Karmi, it emerged yesterday.
Sir,
I must congratulate you for publishing the article about the UFO sighting by British tourists over Cyprus last week. This subject is often not discussed in the media. It seems there is a large number of such sightings occurring all over the world.
U.S. STATE Department Undersecretary Laura Kennedy will round off her series of meetings on the Cyprus problem today with meetings in Nicosia with President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, after visits to Athens and Ankara earlier in the week. The move is seen as preparatory work by the US before initiating a new round of peace talks.
JUSTICE Minister Doros Theodorou yesterday lashed out at allegations he was pulling his weight to promote cronies inside the prisons department, even as a DISY deputy produced handwritten notes that appeared to prove the minister wrong.
A TURKISH Cypriot man sued for trespassing on Greek Cypriot property in occupied Famagusta is expected to appear in court and defend himself, it emerged yesterday.
Husseyin Caginer is being sued by businessman Panos Ioannides for illegally holding his family house on the coast of Famagusta, which is being used as a restaurant.
ANGRY residents of the Akamas have warned they will hold hunger strikes outside the Presidential Palace in protest at the government’s failure to establish a management plan for the area.
THE director of a South Wales firm of architects “doesn’t foresee any legal problems at all” after his company won a contract to design 250 holiday apartments for a new £15 million scheme in the occupied areas.
THE owner of a dog which attacked a woman has been acquitted after the Supreme Court decided there was no evidence that he had any knowledge of his dog’s tendencies in order to take preventive measures.
The man filed an appeal after a Nicosia district court found him guilty six years ago of civil negligence and ordered him to pay compensation.
PROFESSIONAL fishermen are complaining they are being driven out of the business because of an EU directive aimed at curbing overexploitation of fish reserves, yet no one seems to have a clue how to satisfy the insatiable demand for fish once local trawlers are put out of service.
HARAVGHI: “Scrutinising tenders”. Ministers went through tenders for the installation of electronic equipment at the new Nicosia General Hospital on Tuesday. The missing equipment is seen as the main obstacle to opening the new hospital.
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.
