THE GOVERNMENT yesterday welcomed a decision by COREPER (Committee of Permanent Representatives) to release 139 million euros of EU aid to the Turkish Cypriot community, in what came as a surprise development.
POLICE were yesterday investigating the circumstances under which 14 tonnes of expired butter were dumped at a Nicosia district rubbish site.
A FRENZY of activity erupted yesterday with all the big players in the telecom business scrambling to block or push through a controversial deal between the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and subscriber channel LTV.
PHARMACEUTICAL Services yesterday strongly denied DISY deputy Eleni Theocharous’ accusations that the government has been distributing expired medications after it was revealed a four-and-a-half year old haemophiliac boy was taking medication which had a sticker with a new expiry date stuck over the old one.
A HOUSEMAID was yesterday found guilty by on two counts of theft from two different families she used to work for.
Pushpa Ranjani from Sri Lanka stood impassively in the dock as Judge Lemonia Kaoutzani ruled she was guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the theft of jewellery and other items from two different families, amounting to a total value of around £1,500.
THE COST of this year’s ‘Tsiknopempti’, the last Thursday before Lent when people traditionally eat grilled meat, has gone up, with lamb having increased in price by 46 per cent over the past 12 months.
In the past week alone, the price of a kilo of lamb has gone up by 50 cents to £6.
LARNACA CID are on the lookout for two large urns, seized from the home of MEP Marios Matsakis in October 2005, which were stolen from the Larnaca Museum on Thursday.
The two traditional urns (pitharia) have been identified as being among those recently confiscated from Matsakis’ home.
A BRUTAL child rape case that rocked the north last week took a further disturbing turn this week when a group of vigilantes attacked and tortured the father of one of the two men accused of the rape.
THE EDUCATION Ministry has vowed to investigate two mass brawls that took place earlier this week in Paphos and Limassol schools, vowing to bring the guilty parties to justice.
RETURNING to Larnaca from London yesterday after a heavy night light on sleep, I was looking forward to snuggling up by the window and having the proverbial forty winks. The flight was half full and I hoped the seat next to me would remain empty. It was not to be.
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.
