THE GOVERNMENT yesterday expressed outrage after Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat unexpectedly made an appearance during the podium ceremony of Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul.
IN A LETTER sent to the Helios crash investigators, the legal team representing ajet – the company formerly known as Helios airways – has claimed that new evidence has surfaced demonstrating Helios Airline followed all safety requirements before the crash.
AN HELIOS Airways technician, who was the last person to have contact with the pilot of the doomed Helios Airway plane that crashed last year, yesterday told an investigative committee that he could not help the pilot because “the proper official to handle the situation had been on night-shift duty”.
THE GOVERNMENT said yesterday it saw no reason to make sacrifices to smooth Turkey’s path to the EU, when the obligation was on Ankara to fulfil its obligation to the bloc.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) may have been able to offer a slightly improved loss forecast for 2005, but the airline warned yesterday that it was operating in an uncertain environment.
THE death of a 10-month-old girl who died of gastroenteritis at the Makarios Hospital earlier this month was not down to lack of care by doctors or the hospital, Health Minister Charis Charalambous said yesterday.
A CYPRUS Airways (CY) flight from Larnaca to Salonica was forced to turn back to base on Sunday night shortly into the flight, after a problem was found with a decompression switch, the airline said yesterday.
A spokesman for the airline said the pilot had noticed a problem with the valve shortly after take off and had descended to 10,000 feet to check out the aircraft’s system.
THE AUTHORITIES yesterday denied press reports that insurance companies were not following the correct procedure regarding write-offs, resulting in unroadworthy vehicles circulating on the roads.
THREE men were yesterday remanded for two days on suspicion of creating pirate CDs and music tapes and selling them at a Sunday market.
The three men, a 44-year-old Moni resident and two Sri Lankan men, aged 38 and 39, were arrested by officers at the Tripoli car park, opposite the Holiday Inn Hotel in Nicosia.
FOUR British tourists facing possible murder charges were attacked by a group of friends and relatives of the 17-year-old victim as they arrived in court for a remand hearing on Sunday.
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.
