CYPRIOT teenagers smoke more than their peers in most of the countries in the region. The first-ever study on the island has revealed ten per cent of Gymnasium pupils and 29.3 per cent of Lyceum students describe themselves as smokers.
CYPRUS’ MARFIN Popular Bank agreed to pay $137.4 million to buy a 99 per cent stake in small Ukrainian lender Marine Transport Bank (MTB), the lender said in a filing to the Athens bourse yesterday.
Marfin will also purchase three of MTB’s leasing units for a total of $700,000 according to the agreement, the company said.
A FATHER who lost his baby during the 1974 hostilities is claiming he has evidence that his son is alive somewhere.
According to daily Simerini, refugee Kyriacos Kyriacou received the information from a Maronite lady who used to visit the north. She told him that, shortly after the invasion, she saw a Turkish Cypriot woman cradling an infant.
FINANCE Minister Michalis Sarris said yesterday that the government would honour its commitment not to expand on an agreed moratorium on hiring in the civil service.
THE BRITISH bases were still reeling yesterday after the death RAF Corporal and his two young children, who were killed when their Akrotiri home burned to the ground at the weekend.
Spokesman Captain Crispin Coates said there was as yet no indication as to the cause of the fire.
“There is a major effort to find out but people are still shocked,” he said.
PAPHOS Airport’s Cyprus Airways staff yesterday held a demonstration outside the House of Representatives as deputies inside began discussions on Eurocypria’s decision to offer its land services to a private company.
Two more road deaths lead Justice Minister to despair
JUSTICE MINISTER Sophocles Sophocleous yesterday expressed his despair after two more young people were killed on the weekend roads. The deaths take 2007 road toll to 14.
“It is unfair that lives are lost this way. This is suicide.
BRITISH ARCHITECTURAL firm Hopkins Architects has won the competition to design the new Cyprus Cultural Centre in Nicosia.
Hopkins Architects is known throughout the world for works such as the Glyndebourne Opera House and the new buildings for the British Parliament. Head of the company Sir Michael Hopkins received the 1994 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture along with his wife.
THE “SHAMEFUL” state of repair of UK Service accommodation in Cyprus was highlighted in the Lords yesterday. The condemnation came in the wake of an RAF serviceman and his two young children’s death in a fire at the Akrotiri base at the weekend,
POLICE yesterday arrested a 20-year-old man from Limassol after finding a large amount of fireworks in his possession.
Officers are also looking for a second person, who together with the 20-year-old, are believed to be part of an underground gang in charge of bringing over fireworks from the occupied north.
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.
