CARS were hurled off a motorway bridge and police used tear gas to quell protestors as the row over the proposed creation of a waste disposal plant in Lymbia turned violent yesterday, as works finally got under way after a delay of more than two months.
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Further to the letter of a visitor from the USA regarding child safety in cars (Sunday Mail, April 15), I fully agree that stronger punishments should be administered by the authorities when a child is found not to be a securely seated in a rear child seat.
MARFIN POPULAR Bank’s shareholders yesterday gave the thumbs-up to the board to make a friendly strategic cooperation approach to the Bank of Cyprus.
The motion was presented by MPB’s CEO Andreas Vgenopoulos at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of shareholders, taking place immediately after a scheduled Annual General Meeting.
A NUMBER of seaside hotels are being converted into apartments without the necessary permits being obtained, it has been claimed.
GPS TECHNOLOGY has arrived in Cyprus with the launch of Track and Talk, a company specialising in bespoke mobile telephony, vehicle tracking and satellite navigation integration.
Also on offer are real-time cartography solutions, street level map making and industrial devices for navigation and tracking applications.
EOKA and IRA prisoners who first met behind bars over 50 years ago were yesterday reunited in an emotional gathering between old comrades.
DRINK driving is to blame for almost one in four road deaths in Cyprus, the seventh highest rate in the European Union, according to the latest report by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), released yesterday.
The new study under the ETSC’s Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) showed that improvements in drink driving contribute significantly to enhancing road safety.
A 23-YEAR-old Limassol man who was seriously injured in a road accident just over two weeks ago died yesterday, police said.
Kyriakos Antoniou succumbed to his injuries in Nicosia General Hospital’s intensive care unit at around 9.30am.
ACCUSATIONS flew back and forth between the Commerce Minister, the EAC and trade unions during yesterday’s parliamentary discussion on the introduction of natural gas to Cyprus.
The point of dispute between Minister Antonis Michaelides and EAC Managing Director Charilaos Stavrakis was whether to create a floating unit for the storage of natural gas or a land unit.
A BRITISH woman, arrested on suspicion of being part of fraud ring, has been charged with 138 counts of theft and credit card fraud.
On Monday, Kate Louise Boud, 24 from Islington in London, was charged at the Nicosia District Court with the theft of around £4,000 from various bank accounts around Nicosia earlier this month.
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.
