POLICE said yesterday that forensic evidence taken from the white van believed to have been used to abduct 20-year-old Janka Kovacova from outside an Ayia Napa hotel over two weeks ago confirmed that the young woman had been inside the vehicle.
A 24-YEAR-old man from Dhekelia has been fined £1,056 over a series of traffic offences.
According to British Bases spokesman, Captain Crispin Coates, “the Cypriot male was convicted following an operation by Sovereign Base Area (SBA) police officers to arrest him. The operation took place on Waterloo Road in the Dhekelia Garrison Area.”
A 43-YEAR-OLD Greek man has been arrested in Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square after his mother called police from Greece to warn them that he was an AIDS carrier and that his trip to Cyprus could be dangerous.
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Harris Thrassou yesterday dismissed relentless accusations of favouritism and malpractice regarding the Helios Airways crash and flaws in the Civil Aviation Department (CA).
TURKISH authorities at the heart of the controversy surrounding last Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul have been summoned to a meeting by motor sport’s world governing body to explain their actions.
THE HEALTH Ministry has fined 59 companies over the first six months of 2006 at a total sum of £22,630 for selling food that did not conform to food safety regulations.
The fines, ranging from £20 to £2,000, are the result of inspections that the Health Ministry conducted between March 2003 and April 2006.
A POLICE Constable has been suspended after deciding to celebrate his name day by firing his police-issued pistol into the air in celebration.
The announcement was made by police officials, adding the constable in question was a 29-year-old man who worked at the Limassol Immigration Department.
ONE OF the island’s most famous art schools is reopening tomorrow, two months after being destroyed in a fire.
THE CYPRUS national cricket team failed to qualify for the European 3rd division after beating Luxembourg by 4 wickets and claiming second place in the 4th division championship on Wednesday in Antwerp.
AT LAST, a football hooligan has been sent to jail, convicted of hurling rocks into the rival stands at a recent derby match in Nicosia.
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.
