GREEK and Turkish Cypriot mayors of Nicosia Michalakis Zambelas and Kutlay Erk both insisted yesterday there were no obstacles – military, political or otherwise – to the opening of the Ledra Street crossing in central Nicosia.
A CONFERENCE on Nicosia’s past, present and future will be taking place on both side’s of the city’s divide tomorrow and on Saturday.
QUESTIONS and criticism have come in the wake of a House Communications Committee announcement that construction on the Paphos-Polis highway will begin in eight to ten months at a total cost of £240 million.
AKRIVOS Tsolakis, head of the Greek air-accident investigating team for the August 14 crash of a Helios Airways Boeing, was back on the island yesterday.
It is the expert’s third visit to Cyprus, where his team have interviewed dozens of individuals related to the accident, including civil aviation personnel and staff from the concerned airline.
THERE was nothing innocent behind the controversial comments by the Director of the President’s Diplomatic Office Tasos Tzionis, opposition leader Nicos Anastassiades claimed yesterday.
THE FATE of Garabet Jean Jikerjian, the Cypriot businessman kidnapped by Iraqi militants back in August, is still unknown.
Jikerjian’s aunt Rita Metzadourian yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that it has been a while since the kidnappers last made contact with anyone and that his family were now just waiting in hope.
THE government has decided to transfer the oncological centre currently located in the old Nicosia General hospital to the new one, a decision that has pleased the cancer patients and relatives union (ELAZO), which has been fighting for years for an oncological ward in the new Nicosia General Hospital.
A SYRIAN mother and her two-month-old baby remain in Nicosia’s Central Prisons, awaiting the outcome of their asylum application.
Mitia Halef was jailed on October 19 for residing in Cyprus without following legal procedures in seeking asylum. She chose to take her infant with her too.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday pledged urgent action to ensure airport safety, after a report that the Larnaca and Paphos airports were seriously lacking in fire exits and relevant signalling and therefore in breach of the law.
A SHARK weighing 300kg and 4.5m in length was caught 30 nautical miles off the coast of Apostle Andreas in the north. The professional fisherman who captured this beast was Petros Kyprou from Soleas, a fisherman for 22 years, and his crew from the Queen Eleni fishing boat.
He took the shark to Larnaca harbour where it became the main event for many passers-by.
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.
