A BILL being drafted by parliament seeks at long last to arm property buyers with an arsenal of weapons against unscrupulous property developers, though it remains to be seen how effective its application will be.
MEP Marios Matsakis’ first taste of life on the other side of the law has been a bitter pill to swallow.
Around 110 chests, of different sizes and ages, were seized by police on Sunday from Matsakis’ home in Pyrga. The shattered MEP could only look on as police investigators searched his home from top to bottom, seizing various artifacts, most of which were chests.
A 50-YEAR-old man suffering from throat cancer was rushed to hospital on Saturday night after he stopped breathing and had to be treated in the hospital’s corridors, as there were no beds available.
The case is the latest in a string of incidents involving cancer patients, and highlights the shortcomings in cancer care in the capital, campaigners say.
THREE men escaped from the open prison on Sunday night and are still at large.
Brothers Kasim Topaloglou, 28, Sadik Topaloglou, 31 and their cousin 33-year-old Aziz Topaloglou, were serving a two-year sentence for animal theft.
The three, from Stavrokonou in Paphos, were sentenced in February this year and were due to be freed in September 2006.
BELEAGUERED private airline Helios Airways has denied claims from Irish holidaymakers that the quality and the service to Dublin has declined.
In a recent letter to the Cyprus Mail, Brian Whelan of Dublin described Helios’ links to Cyprus as a “fiasco” claiming the airline had considerably dropped in service.
THE ‘Nikiforos’ war games ended on Sunday after six days of land, water and air combat drills. Unlike in past years, the Greek military neither participated in nor observed the exercises, leaving many to question whether the Unified Defence Dogma between Greece and Cyprus is as strong as officials claim.
IMMIGRATION authorities have been slammed over the two-month detention of a Serbian man, pending his deportation.
Neboja Micovic, has been held in a detention centre in Limassol since August 27, leaving his wife and two daughters afraid for the family’s future.
The family arrived in Cyprus seven years ago from Yugoslavia, fleeing the war in their homeland.
THE lawyer for Vodafone Cyprus Ltd has said that he expects legal action taken against the company by Vodafone Group PLC “to be thrown out of court.”
Rikkos Erotokritou, who represents the company, yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that, “everything we do is perfectly legal so we hope to have a good outcome tomorrow in court.”
THE Radiomarathon fundraising event for children with special needs was kick-started yesterday with a series of marches and events and will continue throughout today.
The fundraiser is taking place in all the towns of non-occupied Cyprus as well as Greece, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New York and South Africa.
NO MAN’S Land in Nicosia was yesterday filled with music, as school kids and musicians on both sides of the divide took it in turns to sing songs, beat on drums and play their trumpets.
The brainchild of Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven, the unusual event brought hundreds of people to the end of Ledra Street next to a military outpost, the buffer zone lying just beyond.
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.
