MORE than one in five children entering Internet chatrooms in the UK are approached by paedophiles, the House Crime Committee heard yesterday, as deputies were told there had been 18 separate child pornography cases in Cyprus so far this year.
THE European Parliament yesterday warned Turkey it must speed up far-reaching reforms if it wants to join the European Union.
EU lawmakers adopted a highly critical, non-binding report which accused Ankara of failing to live up to promises it made to win the green light from EU leaders to start talks last October on joining the bloc.
PAPHOS Bishop Chrysostomos was yesterday coy about the prospect of banding together with another candidate as the Church vote goes into a runoff.
Sunday’s free-for-all elections failed to produce a clear winner from the four bishops competing for the coveted throne.
THE TRIAL of two high ranking officials, accused of embezzling funds from the Archbishopric, continued yesterday with one of the chief accountants called in to testify.
A MECHANIC from Nicosia was remanded in custody yesterday on suspicion of stealing car parts from a bonded warehouse.
Mechanic and Nicosia garage owner Costas Zinonas, 58, is under investigation by Nicosia CID on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime and theft.
A DEFENCE lawyer representing a Sri Lankan housemaid yesterday accused police investigators of showing racial bias in their remand request for his client.
The lawyer, Pavlos Erotokritou, told Judge Angelos David that he not only found police’s request for an eight-day remand for his client “exaggerated” but also “absurd”.
THE GOVERNMENT has launched a criminal investigation into the practices of a waste-management plant in Limassol, suspected of trading in illegal petroleum end-products.
The case came to light last week during a police sting operation at the factory’s premises.
CYPRUS has released to Syria a shipment of North Korean aircraft defence systems intercepted on an Interpol alert earlier this month, a government source said yesterday.
THE CYPRUS Football Association (CFA) has raised eyebrows by stating they have only allocated 2,000 seats to travelling Irish fans who will arrive in Cyprus to play the national team next month.
The Republic of Ireland will be playing on familiar territory when they face Angelos Anastasiades’ underperforming Cyprus on October 7.
THE government has launched its renewed Government Internet Portal, which the Finance Minister has said will contribute significantly to promoting the information society in Cyprus.
At the same time, however, said Minister Michalis Sarris, much more needs to be done in this direction, such as the use of electronic information in schools.
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.
