CHILDREN AS young as 11 are getting drunk every Saturday night, while others openly smoke marijuana just as regularly, a distressed parent said yesterday.
“It happens every week. Kids aged 13, 14 and 15 are getting drunk, doing drugs and staying out till 5am or 6am and everyone is turning a blind eye,” said a 41-year-old mother who wanted her name withheld.
CYPRIOTS top the list of EU citizens who think justice is too lenient, too much importance is placed on religion in society and spare time is more important than work.
PORTS PARALYSIS was on the cards yesterday after port employees threatened to strike if the trade unions fail to reach an agreement with the Port Authorities.
A NICOSIA man has been found not guilty by a Nicosia Court of raping his ex-wife in November 2004.
According to arresting officers, the alleged incident happened at around 8pm after the 53-year-old defendant and his former wife had dinner with their children at his son’s flat.
THE FIRST female mayor of the capital was elected on Sunday when Eleni Mavrou edged out DISY’s Anna Marangou and ousted former mayor Michalakis Zampelas in a hotly contested Nicosia municipal election.
Former Interior Minister Andreas Christou was elected mayor of Limassol, while former House Speaker Alexis Galanos knocked out Yiannakis Skordi to become the new Famagusta mayor.
SUNDAY’S MUNICIPAL elections noted a number of close calls among mayoral candidates, with some securing the top job with as little as three votes difference.
Specifically in Athienou Spyros Papouis secured 1,386 votes beating his rival Costas Siakkalo by just three votes.
ABSTENTIONS were at an all-time high in Sunday’s municipal elections, despite Chief Returning Officer Lazaros Savvides’ warnings that there could be prosecutions.
The overall participation percentage was 86 per cent, compared to the previous municipal elections when it stood at 92 per cent.
A FORMER policeman was yesterday jailed for 14 months after pleading guilty to seven charges of prostitution, running a brothel out of his apartment and pimping.
Another man, Christos Lambrianos, also faced similar charges and was jailed for eight months.
LOUIS CRUISE Lines announced yesterday that it would be starting cruises in the Red Sea as of this month until next April aboard the Sapphire.
Operating from Safaga port in Egypt, the cruise includes visits to Aquaba in Jordan, Sharm El Sheik, Suez and Hurghada in Egypt.
Turkish-language media leaps on Blair’s weekend statements on flights to the north
TURKISH AND Turkish Cypriot media and politicians have been playing up statements by British Prime Minster Tony Blair on Saturday that he favoured direct flights from the UK to the north of the island.
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.
