THE Laiki Group yesterday launched a bid for Greece’s Marfin Financial Services and Egnatia Bank in a move designed to create a financial heavyweight focused on fast-growing Balkan and Middle Eastern markets.
LIKE budding popstars, the heirs apparent to the Archbishopric’s throne have been parading on television networks all week, subjected to the probing questions of journalists.
The bishops’ omnipresence on flickering scenes has helped the public build a profile
FINDINGS that raised security concerns for the downed Helios jet were not addressed until after it was too late, the committee of inquiry into the air disaster heard yesterday.
Most of these findings were established by Jim Taylor, a British flight operations advisor for local Civil Aviation.
CIVIL Registry and Migration Director Anny Shakalli yesterday defended her decision to go ahead with the deportation of a 40-year-old Russian woman and her three children, despite a strong public outcry that the judgment had been too harsh and the handling of the case inhumane.
WE SHOULD all be grateful to President Tassos Papadopoulos for his contribution to freedom of the press in Cyprus, his son and DIKO deputy Nicolas Papadopoulos said yesterday, weighing in to the debate about the President’s scathing remarks about journalists.
A 33-YEAR-OLD man from Limassol was remanded for six days yesterday after being arrested for sexual exploitation, maintaining a brothel, pimping and making profits through pornography.
The suspect, an owner of a Limassol beauty salon, was arrested on September 13 by Larnaca CID for similar offences.
THERE are dangerous levels of particulate matter in the atmosphere over Cyprus and little is being done to reduce them, especially in Nicosia, according to a survey recently conducted by a mayoral candidate.
A SENSE of anticipation was building inside the Eleftheria indoor arena, the chattering crowd biding their time until the main event. Then, amid whispers of “there he is,” the star of the night appeared.
Suddenly, as one, the crowd rose to its feet, a rapturous applause greeting the celebrity. This was no WWF wrestler: it was the bishop of Kykkos, Nikiforos.
A CYPRIOT company has made what it believes is the world’s biggest key and the island is now waiting to see whether the monstrous creation secures a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records, alongside the enormous keyhole that was created in 2004 by the same artist.
PARIS Eleftheriou was in for a shock while scuba diving in Larnaca.
The professional diver came face-to-face with an injured tope (small shark or dogfish) while diving between the Alexandria and Zinovia shipwrecks yesterday morning.
The tope had been injured by a hook from a fishing net, with Eleftheriou removing it before releasing the animal.
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.
