Immigration sends Ethiopian back to warzone because she didn’t have ticket
AN ETHIOPIAN woman was deported back to Lebanon upon her arrival at Larnaca port after immigration authorities found she lacked an onwards airline ticket out of Cyprus.
The incident was reported to the Cyprus Mail by immigrant support group, KISA, yesterday.
Sir,
I read with interest your comment on Saturday July 29 (Why it pays to park legally) regarding the issue of parking fines.
I am in complete agreement and would like to tell you my experiences as a resident of Larnaca.
LEADERS OF the coalition parties held a powwow yesterday at the Presidential Palace in a last-ditch bid to carve out their respective turf in the upcoming municipal elections.
However no agreement was reached and another meeting was set for August 11.
COALITION leaders AKEL went head-to-head with opposition DISY yesterday over Monday’s appointments to semi-governmental organisations, with AKEL maintaining that things were no different when DISY were in power.
ENVIRONMENT Minister Photis Photiou and scientists from the Oceanographic Centre, yesterday said it was “unlikely for the time” that the oil spill caused by the Israeli bombing of Lebanon would reach Cyprus’ shores, noting that the Cypriot state services are on alert.
ONE TOURIST was hospitalised and one arrested while police were seeking a third man yesterday after a drunken brawl in front of an Ayia Napa hotel in the early hours.
According to police reports, a 22-year-old man set upon a 27-year-old woman, repeatedly punching her outside the hotel.
FRANCISCO MODESTO from Brazil has been sentenced to 14 years in jail being found guilty of possessing and intending to sell five kilos of cocaine.
Modesto, 50, and a female compatriot were apprehended on their arrival at Larnaca Airport in June 2005.
RESIDENTS IN the Nicosia areas are incensed at a recent decision to raise by one-third fees payable for the construction of sewerage pipes
The works are necessary because of the re-asphalting of several main roads across the capital.
The affected suburbs are Makedonitissa, Acropolis, Aglandjia, Lakatamia and Archangelos.
THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Cyprus Christodoulos Christodoulou, acting under the authority vested in the Central Bank of Cyprus by the Banking Law (Law 66(I) of 1997), has granted a banking business licence to “Lloyds TSB Offshore Limited” of Jersey, to carry on banking business in Cyprus through a branch.
A DONATION centre to offer aid to victims of the Israeli air strikes in Lebanon opened in Nicosia yesterday under a joint effort of the Kykkos monastery and the Armenian Church.
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.
