Single mother faces deportation to warzone
A 29-YEAR-OLD Iraqi single mother’s political asylum application was rejected despite police confirming the authenticity of her passport yesterday.
“Her application was denied without even waiting to determine whether her passport was genuine,” KISA president Doros Polycarpou said.
CIVIL REGISTRY and Migration Director Anny Shakalli has been stripped of her authority to order deportations, Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said yesterday.
The minister said Shakalli’s duties would continue as normal with the only difference that any deportations first had to be approved by either Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides or himself.
WHAT DO you call a dunk tank with a young woman at a Larnaca funfair? An instant hit, that’s what.
Except in this case, where certain upstanding citizens of Larnaca took umbrage when the target game made its debut at the weekend’s Flood Festival.
PARLIAMENT HAS instructed the Education Ministry to collaborate with the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and other internet providers to filter all computers used by students to stop them from accessing pornographic content.
Leaders tight-lipped after power lunch
PUNDITS WERE left scratching their heads yesterday when both President Papadopoulos and communist leader Demetris Christofias kept their mouths hermetically sealed about what went on during their meeting.
“I won’t say anything,” said Christofias, as news crews swarmed around him.
THE STATE Lab said yesterday it would await directions from the EU and world food bodies before taking any action over a new study that says a common preservative in soft drinks can alter DNA.
A NICOSIA serial stalker who has terrorised hundreds of women for at least 10 years now will face criminal prosecution, police chief Iacovos Papacostas said yesterday.
THIRTY defibrillators are set to be installed across the island’s public places in an effort to cut the number of deaths from sudden heart attacks.
According to Health Minister Charis Charalambous, the devices will be on site in various places where crowds gather, such as airports, ports and sports stadiums, within the month.
IN AN APPARENT act of reprisal, the bankers union ETYK has expelled three employees at the National Bank of Greece on charges of “anti-trade union activity.”
Meanwhile seven more employees have been asked to appear before a panel of union delegates to answer similar charges.
CYPRUS MAY open tenders by the end of this year for the storage of natural gas as it attempts to switch to cleaner forms of energy, Commerce and Industry Minister Antonis Michaelides said yesterday.
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.
