FOR 16-YEAR-old Irena Voitovichi Easter Sunday is going to be extra special, as she will be spending it with her mother, finally reunited following seven months apart.
“I still can’t believe she’s here. She can’t believe she’s here,” Irena said of her 33-year-old mother, Svetlana, who had been deported to Moldova last September and only returned this week.
DRUG SQUAD (YKAN) officers were forced to pull out their guns on Thursday night after a mob of ten people holding batons and rocks attempted to stop them from arresting a suspected drug dealer.
TWO FRENCH tourists have been reported missing after the evacuation of some 1,600 people from the Greek cruise ship that ran aground and eventually sank off the coast of the island of Santorini on Thursday.
A MAN accused of gunning down a rival in a suspected Limassol gangland shooting will face a Criminal Court on July 3.
Marios Paphitis, 42, is under investigation for the premeditated murder of Savvas Nikiforou, a.k.a. Nikoulis, and the attempted murder of his wife Georgia Hadjicharalambous.
He is also facing several counts for illegal possession of firearms.
A COMMITTEE set up to investigate air travel safety has started work, and is monitoring the Civil Aviation Department, airlines and the two airports.
The three-member committee will report its findings to the Communication and Works Ministry at the beginning of next month.
A BUSINESSMAN claiming his Ayia Napa shop was illegally razed to the ground “under cover of darkness” has left the country saying he no longer feels safe in Cyprus.
A COUPLE forced to endure five months without sleep due to barking dogs outside their home have been forced to sell up, slamming the authorities for failing to take action against the dogs’ owner, claiming his contacts in high places have granted his immunity from prosecution.
THERE are increasing indications that the July 8 agreement is in serious trouble with a frantic effort apparently underway to save the process.
Senior advisers to the two leaders met on Thursday after an attempt by UN Chief of Mission Michael Moller to get the talks back on track, but the indications were that the meeting took place in a negative climate.
ALITHIA: “Arriving through Romania to Cyprus in plastic bags.” The daily writes that billions of the Serbian public’s money was exported in bags and trucks through Cyprus during the Milosevic regime. This was revealed in an interview by the former Managing Director of the Serbian Central Bank in the Serbian media, which continues to publish details of the financial scandal.
MARCOS BAGHDATIS gave Cyprus the start they were looking for in their Davis Cup clash with Finland defeating Juho Paukku in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 7-6.
In front of a packed arena at the National Cyprus Tennis Centre in Nicosia Baghdatis made a shaky start. His served seemed to suffer the most, while the left-handed Paukka enjoyed plenty of early success.
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.
