TURKEY may have engineered the collapse of the north’s ‘government’ so that it could replace it with one more accepting of a rumoured new initiative on Cyprus, it was alleged yesterday.
THE successor airline to Helios, ajet yesterday hit back at reports that it ran the risk of being placed on the EU’s list of banned air carriers.
Last week Politis leaked a document indicating that EASA (the European Aviation Safety Agency) voiced grave concerns with Cyprus’ progress in air safety matters.
LIMASSOL’S criminal court yesterday handed down a 16-year prison sentence to a 43-year-old man found guilty of drug possession with intent to supply and sell.
SIX MEN standing trial for the illegal transfer of ownership and sale of Turkish Cypriot land in the Ayios Theodoros Tyllirias were yesterday found guilty on all 59 charges.
THE GOVERNMENT has been told it has three more months in which to implement an EU directive that allows long-term resident third-country nationals to apply for European resident status.
This is the second time since the directive was enforced in January that the government has had to receive an extension. The first extension ended on September 4.
GOVERNMENT allies yesterday continued trading barbs for the failure to reach commonly acceptable candidates for the upcoming municipal elections.
Even party chiefs entered the fray, as AKEL leader Demetris Christofias accused his EDEK counterpart Yiannakis Omirou of lying.
THE JOURNALISTS’ Union has strongly protested the “unacceptable behaviour of a customs official” who submitted a Turkish Cypriot journalist to a humiliating search at the Ledra Palace checkpoint.
Turkish Cypriot journalist Murat Kanatli likened the way he was treated by customs officials last Monday to “Nazi Germany”.
STONEWALLED Cyprus News Agency (CNA) director Christophoros Christophorou has challenged the Cabinet and the President to answer why the law has not been applied in his case.
Last December, Christophorou applied for the post of CNA director, and won. Following standard procedure, the agency’s board decided his appointment, forwarding its decision to the Cabinet for final approval.
TWO BURLGARS were yesterday jailed for 15 months each by a Nicosia Court after breaking into an apartment while a 16-year-old girl was sleeping in her bed.
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.
