ABOUT 300 residents from the Larnaca village of Lymbia staged a strike outside Parliament yesterday morning protesting government plans to open a waste disposal plant several kilometres from their village in nearby Koshi.
IMMIGRATION police said yesterday two Iraqi brothers who had been detained since their evacuation from Lebanon six weeks ago had been released.
THE DEFENCE lawyer of a former ambassador, accused of sexually harassing two of his secretaries, yesterday accused one of the plaintiffs of making up lies against his client because he had ended the affair he was having with her.
THE TRUSTEES of bankrupt Nasdaq-listed AremiSoft Corporation in the United States are suing the Bank of Cyprus for allegedly laundering the ill-gotten gains of a financier under investigation for stock fraud.
TWENTY-two-year-old James Goodwin and his parents yesterday broke down into tears after hearing the young man had escaped a possible three-year prison sentence and instead received a six-month suspended sentence after he admitted to aiding the suspects accused in the killing of a teenager in the Famagusta district last month.
INVESTIGATIONS are ongoing to determine whether a number of pipes that were discovered on a vessel docked at the Limassol harbour are illegal military supplies or merely meteorological equipment as the captain claims.
FINANCE Minister Michalis Sarris yesterday produced improved deficit and debt reduction forecasts in his 2007 budget as preparations for adoption of the euro by January 2008 entered their final stage.
THE TWO men flying the Olympia shoulder a great deal of the blame for last August’s crash that killed 121 people, a pilot told the Helios committee of inquiry yesterday.
SIXTEEN-year-old Irena Voitovichi yesterday went into hiding after immigration police deported her mother during the early hours of the morning.
“I didn’t get to say goodbye to my mum. She called me from the airport and told me to watch out and said to me they’re looking for me,” the schoolgirl told the Cyprus Mail.
THE TURKISH Cypriot man who, according to the police, confessed to the abduction, rape and murder of 20-year-old Slovakian woman, Janka Kovacova, was due to stand trial in October for the rape of a Russian woman. So why was he not in prison awaiting trial?
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.
