A PAKISTANI youth and his Chinese roommate were yesterday jailed for life for the murder of a 38-year-old contractor, while his wife was found guilty of manslaughter and faces a long stretch behind bars.
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HEALTH Minister Andreas Gavrielides yesterday confirmed a new batch of needles used in thalassaemia patients’ treatment would be withdrawn if an investigation into allegations that the needles were faulty proved accurate.
THE OVERWHELMING demand for electricity across the island reached record levels yesterday, measuring in at 856 MW at 12.45pm.
The rising demand for electricity during this week’s heat wave resulted in an interruption in the electricity supply in the Limassol area of Ayia Phyla. According to EAC Spokesman Costas Gavrielides, the main power cut occurred at 2.20 pm.
THE lobby leading to the Assizes courtroom was filled with black-clad relatives from early on.
More were waiting downstairs to catch a glimpse of Magda and her two co-defendants, who arrived shortly before 9am amid heightened police measures.
THE Sovereign Base Area (SBA) Police have said they are doing everything in their power to catch the perpetrators of a series of arson attacks in the Xylotombou farming area over the past 18 months.
THE Supreme Court has moved to new premises, a stone’s throw from the old building in Nicosia.
The architect in charge of the project, Androulla Floridou, yesterday told the Cyprus Mail the change was needed “as the old building had outdated facilities. We needed a more modern and larger building, due to the court’s increased needs.”
THIRTY clinics around the island face the spectre of closure if the government decides to implement a law regulating the minimum number of nurses employed in private health care institutions.
LIMASSOL CID as well as members of the Immigration Services yesterday arrested 13 foreign men hiding in a container destined for Piraeus in Greece. Police officers working at the Limassol port discovered the men hiding in the refrigerated container during a routine check and immediately arrested the men. Six of the men are from Pakistan and the other seven are from India.
SECURITY measures are tightening ahead of the much-anticipated meeting between Cypriot football team Anorthosis Famagusta and Turkish outfit Trabzonspor on Tuesday at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia.
Club and security officials are calling on spectators planning to attend the Champions League clash between the two sides to arrive early and buy tickets beforehand.
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.
