Court condemns diplomat’s ‘reprehensible actions’
CYPRUS’ former Ambassador to Sweden, Costas Papadimas, was yesterday jailed for seven months for sexually harassing and indecently assaulting two of his secretaries in Stockholm between 2002 and 2005.
A CONTROVERSIAL bridge that has come close to causing a major rift between the Turkish Cypriot authority and the Turkish military will be removed today from the proposed Ledra Street crossing in central Nicosia, according to statements released by the Turkish Cypriot leader’s office yesterday.
A MAN of 28, suspected of causing the death of 17-year-old pupil Georgios Mavrikios, yesterday appeared before a Nicosia traffic court.
Tseri resident Savvas Savva was yesterday taken before a Nicosia District Court where he told Judge Alexia Lycourgou that he understood the three charges against him.
A 75-YEAR-OLD man is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering 90 per cent burns to his body as he tried to light a barbecue.
Andreas Artemiou from Pallouriotissa in Nicosia was engulfed in flames after mistakenly throwing petrol instead of kerosene onto charcoals that had failed to light properly.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos has expressed the conviction that Cyprus will be able to join the Eurozone on January 1, 2008, according to CNA.
A 23-YEAR-OLD man yesterday fell to his death in a tragic accident after losing his balance on a balcony.
CYPRUS EXCEEDED the allowed percentage of atmospheric dust on 179 occasions in 2006. According to EU regulations, each member state is allowed to exceed the levels on a maximum of 35 times per year.
CYPRIOT SINGER-songwriter Evridiki has been unofficially announced as the island’s representative in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Helsinki, Finland this coming May.
A MEETING between the Archbishop and the Turkish Cypriot Mufti was cancelled yesterday, after the Turkish Cypriot spiritual leader, Ahmet Yonluer, expressed fears that the agenda would be largely political.
The Turkish Cypriot cleric said he cancelled the meeting after Sunday’s comments made by the Archbishop regarding churches under occupation.
A 30-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in Limassol after he was found guilty of possession of a kilo of cocaine and almost six kilos of cannabis with intent to sell.
Anastasis Antoniou was arrested in March 2006 following a drug squad sting operation.
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.
