CYPRIOT drivers, and not bad roads, are the main cause of the island’s high traffic accident rate, a road safety expert said yesterday.
“The road network might have some failures and sign posting might need improving, but over and above all the imperfections, drivers are mainly responsible for traffic accidents,” Andreas Papas said.
THE NICOSIA Criminal Court yesterday heard testimony from a scientist of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics in the trial of a man accused of killing his wife and her lover.
THE FILES on a police probe into a complaint made by a private individual have gone missing, a witness told the court in the case of Predrag Djordjevic vs the Popular Bank yesterday.
Djordjevic, a Serbian businessman based in Nicosia, is suing the bank for compensation and damages in a 900,000 Deutschmark transaction that was never completed.
POLICE are on the lookout for two British men who attacked a taxi driver in the Limassol resort of Yermasoyia in the early hours of yesterday.
According to taxi driver Demetris Panayi, 58, the two British men, suspected to be soldiers not permanently based on the island, were picked in Yermasoyia and asked Panayi to drive them back to Paramali, where they were staying.
A 40-YEAR-old refugee almost lost his Nicosia home for the second time yesterday after a roaring blaze broke out in his back yard.
Christakis Vourkos, originally from Kyrenia, was at the bank when his wife called him around midday and told him their house was on fire.
LITTERBUGS beware. Big Brother is watching you, with anybody caught littering the streets liable to a £20 fine.
And it doesn’t even have to be the police who catch you in the act, but can be any member of the public who can report you.
A MOTHER of two has won her right to stay in the house bought for her and her ex-husband while they were married.
The complaint was filed at the Nicosia District Court by the former father-in-law of the woman, who wanted back the house, which he had bought for the married couple as a wedding present.
FORMER Foreign Minister and DISY MEP Ioannis Kasoulides said yesterday he would decide in May whether he would contest the presidency in next year’s elections.
In a statement yesterday, Cassoulides said Cyprus needed to turn in a different direction than what was being offered today by the current government, and that his own presidential aspirations were well known.
PUPILS have been warned they could face expulsion if caught using their mobile phones in school grounds.
Education Minister Akis Cleanthous has reached a final decision on the relevant bill, which will be submitted to Parliament for evaluation soon.
THE SUSPECTS in the murder of a 58-year-old Turkish Cypriot businessman from Pergamos have reportedly confessed to the crime.
Ahmed Mesut Mendesie had gone missing on February 22. Last Sunday, police, acting on a tip-off, discovered the corpse of Mendesie in a valley on the left side of the Vouno main road.
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.
