SIXTEEN-year-old Irena Voitovichi, who went into hiding after she was separated from her mother when Svetlana was deported back to Moldova in September, has finally been granted permission to stay in Cyprus.
Her 34-year-old mother is expected to join her some time in the early New Year.
PEOPLE were taken by surprise yesterday, waking up to an usually crisp post Boxing Day morning, with temperatures plummeting below zero in many areas.
“Temperatures are seven to eight degrees lower than normal, and because of the chilling effect it seems a lot colder than it is,” senior meteorology officer Loizos Stephanou told the Cyprus Mail.
THE EMERGENCY units in the island’s hospitals have been inundated with sick people over the last few days, as a gastroenteritis outbreak has spread across the island.
The situation remains most acute at the emergency ward of the Limassol General Hospital, where the queues and delays were so long that first aid medics were treating people in the waiting room.
THE CHRISTMAS break was marred by one fatality and one serious injury to a girl, both on roads in the Nicosia district.
On Sunday, 19-year-old Christianos Nicolaou died in a car crash on 28 October Street, Makedonitissa. The accident occurred shortly after 4am.
STUDENT AND youth organisations yesterday demonstrated outside the Presidential Palace in protest against the government’s plans to up retirement age from 63 to 65.
A brief meeting with Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis provided little satisfaction to the students’ demands.
MAKING GOOD on their promise to clamp down on underage drinking, authorities stepped up inspections at clubs across the island and arrested two club owners over the Christmas weekend.
A 46-YEAR-OLD man from Paphos has claimed that he has made the longest wedding dress in the world, with the train measuring well over a kilometre in length.
Andreas Efstratiou told the Cyprus Mail yesterday that his 1,222 metre-long garment, which he says cost him £12,000 in materials, has broken the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest dress train.
THE CYPRUS stock market was second last year worldwide after Peru, with returns of 157 per cent, according to an annual review by Thomson Financial, published in the Sunday Times.
The analysis by the financial-information firm underlines the growing importance of these emerging economic powerhouses to investors as well as to trading partners.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos has said that he is not at present concerned with the prospect of seeking re-election in next year’s presidential elections, CNA reported yesterday.
POLICE yesterday warned holiday shoppers to be on full alert for pickpockets who come out of the woodwork during the year’s busiest commercial season.
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.
