LARNACA airport is expected to come to a standstill at 4pm today when tennis hero Marcos Baghdatis returns home for a short visit following his extraordinary run in the Australian Open last week, where he stunned the world to reach the final, before bowing to world number one Roger Federer.
THIRTY-five children under the age of 18 are diagnosed with cancer and leukaemia in Cyprus each year, Health Minister Andreas Gavrielides said yesterday.
FORMER Limassol Bishop Chrysanthos died from a heart attack late on Thursday night, state pathologist Sophoclis Sophocleous confirmed yesterday. He was 76.
CHRISTIES Dairies yesterday said that their decision to terminate their contract with the Cyprus Football Association (KOP) “was over a difference in opinion over commercial matters.”
THERE will be no meetings, social or otherwise between President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat at this point in time, the government said yesterday.
A YOUNG mother appeared in court yesterday charged with 54 counts of fraud and theft from the company that she used to work for.
HEALTH Minister Andreas Gavrielides yesterday confirmed the process to start moving Nicosia’s general hospital to its new premises in Latsia would begin at the end of the month.
Gavrielides said the move to the new Nicosia general hospital would begin on February 28.
A TURKISH Cypriot ‘court’ yesterday postponed MEP Marios Matsakis’ trial until March 3, after he failed to turn up for his hearing on charges of stealing a Turkish flag last year.
The prosecutor told the court he had decided to inform Matsakis of the trial’s adjournment at the checkpoint, but that the MEP had not made an appearance, despite saying in the past that he would.
CYPRUS is not concerned about any possible local implications to the phone-tapping revelations in Greece, Government Spokesman George Lillikas said yesterday.
He said there were no plans to conduct a special investigation into the situation in Cyprus, beyond what was already done on a routine basis.
CYPRUS is scrambling to find ways to salvage tourism from Russia, under threat following a warning by from Russian President Vladimir Putin that his citizens would turn to the north of the island if Cyprus failed to ease visa requirements.
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.
