RELATIVES OF the Helios crash victims will be meeting with officials from two of the world’s leading aviation law firms next Wednesday in what looks to be another class action launched against the major companies involved in the crash.
TRIAL LAWYERS from two American law firms representing the families of Helios Airways victims in last summer’s tragic crash, yesterday confirmed they had instigated litigation proceedings against Boeing.
TWO MEN, accused of conspiring to murder two other men, were in court yesterday in the first hearing of the trial.
Greek nationals, Apostolos Kyrkos, 32, and 30-year-old Nikos Nikolopoulos, were remanded in custody on December 4, 2004 on suspicion of conspiring to murder Larnaca club owner Fanieros and a friend of his from Nicosia.
THE LIMASSOL Municipality has announced that it will renovate a granite-flagstone coastal road in front of the public zoo after residents and motorists complained that the roughness of the surface and the gaps between the slates make for noisy and dangerous driving. The projected cost of the project was not revealed.
A SRI LANKAN woman told a court yesterday that she was beaten by CID officers into confessing that she had stolen from her employer in November last year.
A NICOSIA man appeared in court yesterday, claiming that he was attacked by two police officers then unjustly arrested in October last year.
The man was in court charged with assaulting an officer of the law and resisting arrest.
80-YEAR-OLD Swedish national Ivan Roland died in an Ayia Napa clinic last Saturday night. He had reportedly disappeared from his hotel in Ayia Napa last Saturday and was found unconscious and badly hurt at Cape Greco on the same night. He was rushed to an Ayia Napa clinic but later succumbed to his wounds. Roland, who was on vacation in Cyprus, was known for various chronic heart problems.
THIS YEAR’S Limassol carnival kicks off on Friday as the Carnival King and Queen make their appearance outside the town hall.
The royal pair will appear in a chariot filled with lights and will be accompanied by majorettes, minstrels, the town train and various groups in fancy dress.
A 24-YEAR-OLD man was arrested for questioning in connection with a bomb explosion in Limassol during the early hours of yesterday morning, said police.
Refugee angered over government’s refusal to issue him a medical card
BEING BORN in Cyprus into a Greek Cypriot family, Andreas Gregory always considered himself a citizen of the Republic. But he has recently come to realise that his homeland does not recognise him as one of its own.
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.
