GREEK FRIGATE Psara arrived in Larnaca in the small hours of yesterday morning, transporting from Lebanon 190 Greeks, 68 Cypriots – among them 17 children, four Americans, one Canadian and two Australians.
A 24-YEAR-OLD Israeli-German woman was fired from her Ayia Napa job after her employer said he was unable to put an end to the racial abuse she was forced to endure from her colleagues.
TELECOM providers PrimeTel have announced that television channels LTV and Alfa are now available through their broadband platform.
LTV and Alfa are being offered as additional channels for the PrimeHome package (Telephony + Internet + Television) and as part of the new PrimeTVplus package (Telephony + Television).
THE EUROPEAN Commission was yesterday looking at ways of improving legislation so that European consumers are not duped into signing away thousands of pounds to buy into timeshare holidays that are not what they appear.
PAPHOS CID are looking for 26-year-old Nectarios Troumpas from Greece, who has been missing from his home in Paphos since July 11.
Neighbours reported Troumpas missing on July 15, after last seeing him at 10.30am on the day he went missing.
TAKEN AT face value, Nicosia and Washington are on the same page when it comes to how best to tackle the solution of the island’s division.
At least that was the conclusion gleaned from yesterday’s meeting between Foreign Minister George Lillikas and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matt Bryza.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos travelled to the Troodos mountain village of Phini on Tuesday to wish its oldest resident a happy birthday.
Marina Michael turned 105 this week and to celebrate invited the president and village residents to tea at 6.30pm.
Although the 105-year-old has trouble walking she was in great form on the day, onlookers said.
THE Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus (BoC) unanimously decided to submit an application to the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission for the revocation of its public tender offer for the shares of Emporiki Bank of Greece S.A.
The announcement was made in a statement released late last night.
TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Cyprus yesterday ahead of events to mark today’s 32nd anniversary of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the northern part of the island.
New drug hopes to offset effects of bone disease
ONE IN two Western women over the age of 50 suffer some sort of osteoporotic fracture in their lifetime, putting them at greater risk of fracture and permanent disability, reduced independence, and even death.
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.
