LIMASSOL District Court has awarded a 36-year-old motorcyclist £253,000 in compensation following a crash that left his leg severely injured.
Panayiotis Agapiou, who has been walking with a limp since, was riding his motorcycle on the Limassol-Paphos highway in August 1998 when the defendant drove his car into the then 29-year-old’s rear.
THE GOVERNMENT has not yet taken any decision to legalise and set up casinos in Cyprus. This, at the moment, is the official policy. What has been decided is that the Cyprus Tourist Organisation (CTO) will be authorised to carry on with their studies on the financial, social and tourist aspects.
THE government is not permitted to offer a guarantee or funding to the debt-ridden state carrier Cyprus Airways, which will not be able to meet its November wage bills if it does not secure financial aid.
MAVERICK MEP Marios Matsakis yesterday insisted nothing he had done warranted his expulsion from the ranks of DIKO, attributing the party’s move to an orchestrated campaign at assassinating his political career.
PUPILS’ Union PSEM will meet with the Education Ministry today for discussions concerning appearance and uniform.
Pupils had threatened a two-hour boycott of class scheduled for yesterday, but following a meeting on Thursday afternoon, decided to suspend the action due to the Ministry’s willingness to discuss their demands.
GOVERNMENT Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides accused Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat of “negligence and political audacity” yesterday, adding that Rauf Denktash was an “angel compared to today’s leadership”.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided on an extensive reshuffle of its top management posts this week, in what it has described as an effort to ensure mobility, strengthen its teams in certain areas and move foreword with recruitment from new member states to achieve a better geographical balance.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday hit back at claims by DISY Leader Nicos Anastassiades that the government cheated the people out of their votes in the last Presidential elections.
The President also brushed aside suggestions that CyBC was biased in favour of his government.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Potato Growers Association yesterday met with political figures in an attempt to gain support for their demands.
But the potato growers received a set back when President Tassos Papadopoulos snubbed a requested meeting.
THE President of Junior Chamber International (JCI) has been in Cyprus this week to attend the third Mediterranean Leadership Academy at The Golden Bay Hotel in Larnaca.
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.
