SOME months ago, the Cypriot ambassador to the United States came to Sacramento, California, to present a lecture about Cyprus. As one of the very few Cypriots residing in Sacramento, and also one of the oldest, I was invited to attend.
OMBUDSWOMAN Eliana Nicolaou said yesterday the treatment of two young men mercilessly beaten by plain clothes officers last year was tantamount to torture.
She said: “Beyond any doubt the two plaintiffs experienced inhuman, degrading and humiliating treatment to such a degree and intensity that it could be considered equivalent to torture.”
THE CYPRUS Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) is to pay a whopping £165,000 fine for the refusal of its general manager to allow the competition watchdog access to his workstation.
THE active participation of Greece in Cyprus’ security is a goal of Greek national defence policy and part of Greece’s strategic dogma, the Chief of the Greek National Defence General Staff, Admiral Panayiotis Hinofotis, said yesterday while on an official visit to Cyprus.
It even links Cyprus to the sale of conventional arms to Saddam Hussein.
According to reports from New York, the Presidents of the Cyprus Federation of America and PSEKA Peter Papanicolaou and Philip Christopher are to send a letter to the editor of Forbes to protest about the lengthy article that characterises Cyprus as a “good place to make things disappear”.
AKROTIRI residents complaining about noise levels of military aircraft are unlikely to be able to pressure the British bases, either into giving them compensation or putting an end to the noise, according to an aircraft expert who was once an RAF pilot stationed in Cyprus.
CAREER prospects and the perks of the job are the stakes in the mudslinging debacle in the diplomatic corps, replete with allegations of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, abuse of power and extravagant lifestyles at the taxpayers’ expense.
TOP officials from Nicosia’s two main football clubs, whose fans were involved in violent scenes around a crunch derby match on Saturday night, yesterday condemned the incidents but said there was little more they could have done to prevent them.
AN ORGANISATION made up of young volunteers has raised £250,000 over the past five years to help those in need.
Young Volunteers Cyprus (YV) yesterday held a news conference in Nicosia to thank everybody involved in helping the organisation since its foundation.
THE COMMITTEE for Missing Persons (CMP) is not doing the most important part of its job, the investigation into the fate of all those who went missing during 1974, a spokesman for relatives said yesterday.
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.
