A TURKISH Cypriot child was slightly injured yesterday after a gang of hooded pupils from surrounding state schools burst into the English School in Nicosia, unleashing an attack against five Turkish Cypriot pupils.
Sir,
I read with interest your undoubtedly sarcastic news item on the “unexpectedly high number of people snapped by traffic cameras”, and the resultant problem for the police.
SEVENTY-THOUSAND Cypriots can’t afford to go on holiday every year due to money lost gambling.
That was the verdict of Nicos Rossos, President of the Association Confronting Social Problems (SAKOP), who yesterday spoke about the dangers of the vice.
THE remaining two mines in the Nicosia buffer zone were detonated yesterday morning by remote control in a ceremony declarating that the Nicosia buffer zone is officially mine-free.
AIMING to banish the taboos surrounding the HIV/AIDS virus and wanting to force the public to take responsibility for its part in the social isolation and prejudice faced by HIV/AIDS carriers, the Red Cross Youth branch yesterday announced the start of its awareness campaign in the run up to World AIDS Day on December 1.
EMBATTLED ajet and the government have reached a deal allowing the airline’s grounded plane to leave the island.
The development eased a standoff that began two weeks ago, when the Transport Ministry had secured an interim order to keep ajet’s fleet on the ground.
A MAN from Nicosia was yesterday fined £391 by a Nicosia District Court for threatening three taxi drivers.
Andreas Constantinou pleaded guilty to three counts of public unrest and swearing in public on May 27 last year.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has hit back at the Turkish Foreign Minister’s claim that the deadline set for implementation of the Ankara Agreement is tantamount to blackmail, calling it “rather outdated talk”.
OPPOSITION head Nicos Anastassiades has claimed that he too possesses a document that lists high-ranking politicians who intervened in the transfers of military officials.
A WITNESS in the Predrag Djordjevic trial yesterday told the court how he came up against a brick wall with authorities in Cyprus when trying to investigate the case.
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.
