FORMER Cyprus Airways (CY) vice chairman Achilleas Kyprianou yesterday expressed his concern over news that the ailing carrier was studying the possibility of replacing its fleet of Airbus A320s.
WITH just weeks to go to the legislative elections, the government yesterday announced a housing scheme aimed at helping low-income groups gain easier access to land.
THE NICOSIA Race Club said yesterday the racing industry in Cyprus was in danger of dying out if the government went ahead with a plan to amend the gambling law.
Marketing Manager George Hadjiminas told the Cyprus Mail that, “we have sent the government a letter expressing our concerns and very much hope that they will take our views into consideration.”
A NICOSIA man was yesterday found guilty of pimping one of the women working at his cabaret in Strovolos.
COLUMBIA Shipmanagement is financing a Chair in Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus’ Department of Public and Business Administration, it has been announced.
The Campaign Manager of the University’s Development Office wouldn’t reveal the exact amount of the donation but said it was enough to finance a full professor’s chair for five years.
TWO men yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting two police officers in Nicosia.
A TRIAL in Nicosia suffered a bizarre interruption yesterday as the catchy tune of ‘Dancing Queen’ by Swedish band Abba began blaring from the phone of a defence lawyer.
A woman was on trial accused of stealing money from a cash till at a supermarket she used to work for, when the tune suddenly started blaring out.
VETERINARY authorities said yesterday they would cull sheep in one herd after an outbreak of scrapie now being investigated for links with the brain-wasting mad cow disease.
The European Commission has ordered further tests on sheep in Cyprus and France after scrapie diagnosed in three samples carried an unusual molecular profile.
BRITAIN’S Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) yesterday issued a press release on the brutal killing of a stray dog by soldiers in Cyprus.
“The RSPCA is shocked and appalled by the reports of this barbaric act of cruelty,” the statement said.
OMBUDSWOMAN Iliana Nicolaou has lashed the government for giving the runaround to Turkish Cypriots inquiring about the status and value of their land in the free areas.
Nicolaou’s office was alerted to several cases where Turkish Cypriots owning land in the south areas before 1974 wrote to the Guardian of Turkish Cypriot Properties only to receive vague answers and generalities.
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.
