CYPRIOTS were yesterday in a state of shock after watching a video of the brutal beating of two men by plainclothes police officers last year.
The video, which shows the beating of 27-year-old Marcos Papageorgiou and his friend, Yiannis Nicolaou, in Nicosia on December 20, was posted on Politis’ website after the newspaper secured a copy of the tape.
DIKO parliamentary candidate Nicholas Papadopoulos’ promotion campaign has been unfair, critics say.
The criticism against 33-year old Papadopoulos, the son of President Tassos Papadopoulos, was made by United Democrats (EDI) general-secretary and parliamentary candidate Mikis Sianis during discussion on Sigma television channel on Thursday night.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday blasted opposition DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides for supporting a proposal to censure Russia in the Council of Europe (CoE) over its failure to fall in line on human rights issues.
AN OBSCURE US-based religious group believes Cyprus was the first of two Gardens of Eden and is collecting donations to help fund an expedition under the title “Mission to Eden”.
A NICOSIA judge said yesterday that in no case could a shop claim street parking outside as its own exclusive parking.
His ruling came as he fined a 44-year-old shop owner £315 for assaulting a 36-year-old accountant who had parked on the street in front of his premises last April.
THE Cyprus Poultry Association has accused the government of “indifference” towards the plight of chicken farmers after the Agriculture Minister again rejected their request for a temporary suspension of the social security payments and income tax payments of chicken farmers.
A YOUNGSTER was yesterday handed £85,000 in compensation after a Nicosia District Court ruled that the doctor and hospital had failed properly to treat his eye injury back in 1997.
TRUEFITT & Hill may hold the record as the Oldest Barbershop in the World, but it appears that a Cypriot living in New York may hold a grand title of his own after being in the business for 85 years.
According to an article in the New York Times yesterday, Aristides Demetriou from Karavas has been a barber since the age of 10. He is now 95 and due to retire today.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has come under fire for allegedly failing properly to notify a man about work to be done on his Limassol property and then refusing to discuss any alternatives with him.
Fifty-three-year-old company director Paul Denham yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that he became aware of a problem while away on a foreign boating trip.
LAPTOP users can now access the internet from a craggy beach on the Akamas peninsula with the introduction of Vodfaone Mobile Connect service.
Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC), which begins service on Monday, provides Internet connection for one’s laptop using the mobile phone network.
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.
