MANIFESTA 6, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art, may not, after all, take place in Nicosia this year, as there is a major disagreement between the biennale’s curatorial team and the non-profit local organisation, Nicosia for Art, created by Nicosia Municipality for the sole purpose of overseeing the project.
Sir,
I feel I must write in to respond to the many animal lovers writing in recently complaining about dogs being poisoned by lanate.
I couldn’t agree more with the gentleman who wrote in a few days ago asking what drives normally law-abiding people to act in such a manner.
THE UN is cranking up the pressure for a quick resumption of Cyprus talks now that the parliamentary elections are over.
Hot on the heels of the publication of a statement by UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan on Tuesday that it was time the two sides resumed contact, his Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari said he would be visiting Cyprus soon.
POLICE are looking for Panayiotis Charalambos Kitsio, 33, alias ‘Paparitsas’ from Paphos, for whom there are several arrest warrants outstanding connected with conspiracy to commit a crime, counterfeiting and taking money under false pretences. All of the alleged crimes were committed in Limassol throughout 2005 and also in January 2006, police said.
A PUBLIC servant man accused of beating unconscious an Anorthosis fan, right in front of his eight-year-old son, was yesterday remanded in custody for five days by a Larnaca court.
Yiannis Pipis, 27, has confessed to being one of the men who attacked 56-year-old Angelos Minas on April 29 outside Anorthosis’ home ground, the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium.
A MAN from Frenaros was jailed for eight years yesterday for the kidnap and rape of a Latvian woman last August.
Michalis Philippou, 30, was sentenced by the Larnaca district court for the attack on the 40-year old woman.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday played down media speculation that the cabinet reshuffle was being delayed because party leaders were quarrelling over who would get what jobs.
Opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades has claimed the only reason the reshuffle has still not been announced is because some governing parties are squabbling over the positions where nepotism is most rife.
THE ASSOCIATION of petrol station owners yesterday vehemently denied suggestions that water was being added to petrol, after a mechanic claimed he had seen over 30 cars damaged by adulterated fuel.
Association chairman Pambinos Charalambous told the Cyprus Mail: “There is absolutely no truth in this whatsoever. Where is the proof?”
THE HEALTH and Veterinary services yesterday thoroughly examined and sprayed the area of Makounta, near Polis, where two incidents of visceral leishmaniasis, a rare parasitic disease, have been spotted.
MAYORS on both sides of the Green Line should take the initiative to make contact and not leave it all up to politicians, the President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Coucil of Europe, Giovanni di Stasi, 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.
