WHAT BEGAN as a report into teenage delinquency rapidly turned into a child prostitution investigation as police yesterday misread a story that appeared in the Cyprus Mail.
In a scathing press release yesterday, the police attacked this newspaper, describing a story on underage drinking in the Limassol area as “completely unsubstantiated and not reflective of reality”.
We like the Church and government, but not the internet and definitely not the UN
GREEK CYPRIOTS trust the Church more than the state, parliament or political parties, and trust the United Nations less than any other EU member state, the latest Eurobarometer reveals.
TWO OUT of ten Greek Cypriots favour Turkey’s EU accession, according to the Eurobarometer report.
Although Greek Cypriots favour a further EU enlargement, only 19 per cent sees Turkey’s accession to the EU as positive.
Greek Cypriots rank fourth in Europe with a negative stance on Turkey’s EU accession.
U.N. SECRETARY-general Kofi Annan said the Cyprus problem had become a problem for Europe and must be dealt with as quickly as possible.
Annan was speaking during his farewell press conference in New York late on Tuesday.
CYPRUS IS in need of a specific policy to fight obesity among adults and children, which has taken on serious dimensions according to a European programme aimed at setting a pan-European precautionary policy.
POLICE have extended the remand of a 60-year-old man believed to have committed a string of burglaries around Nicosia.
THE CABINET yesterday gave the go-ahead for the separation of the Civil Aviation Department from the state with the aim of improving its operations.
THE SEVEN mobile traffic cameras will be up and running in no time, the government said yesterday.
The cameras had been temporarily shut down after a software glitch, as suppliers’ technicians yesterday went to work figuring out the problem.
SIX 13TH century Byzantine icons stolen from a church in the Morphou area after 1974 have been recovered in the US and will be returned to the island next month, Church lawyer Giorgios Hadjipieris said yesterday.
AWARD-winning budget airline Monarch is to launch scheduled flights from London Luton to Cyprus next year, as the airline expands its network to the Eastern Mediterranean, the first real low-cost carrier do to so.
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.
