THE HEALTH MINISTER yesterday promised to launch an immediate investigation following the discovery of hundreds of blood-stained medical microscope slides in a Limassol recycling bin.
A resident of the town yesterday told the Mail that he went to deposit some wine bottles in the recycling bin placed in the market area of Lelas Karayianni Street on Friday afternoon.
THE CRIMINAL Court presiding over the double-murder trial of a woman and her lover yesterday visited one of the crime scenes, along with the defendant who was under heavy protection from police.
Christoforos Charalambous, 27, denies two charges of premeditated murder against his wife Anna Vasileva, 30 from Kyrgyzstan, and her 45-year-old lover Yiannos Demosthenous.
THE RECOGNITION rate for refugees in Cyprus is very low, even though the island receives a very large number of asylum applications compared to other European countries.
Based on statistics from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the recognition rate in Cyprus is only 3.41 per cent.
AS we enter the summer season, doctors are warning the public of the dangers of skin cancer caused by excessive exposure to the sun.
Many will be going to the beach every weekend for the next few months, but do we ever pause to wonder about the long-term damage we may be causing to our bodies?
TWO people died in car separate accidents over the weekend.
On Sunday morning, a man of 63 is believed to have died of a heart attack while he was driving on Yiannis Kranidiotis Avenue in Limassol.
According to police, Evripidis Nicolaides’ car crashed through the side railings and came to a halt in the opposite lane.
GREEK Archbishop Christodoulos yesterday called his visit to Cyprus a “long overdue pilgrimage to the island of saints and martyrs.”
Christodoulos, whose full title is Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, is the first head of the Greek Church to visit the island in 40 years.
POLICE have launched an investigation against a prison guard who allegedly placed the telephone number of a female colleague in the pink pages of a newspaper.
The matter is now being looked at by CID after the complaint by the female prison guard, who has told investigators that she suspects a colleague who works in the same office as her.
TRANSPORT Minister Harris Thrassou yesterday dismissed claims by airlines and travel agents that charges at the island’s two airports would be higher than those of competitors.
Thrassou was speaking during a visit to the site of the new Larnaca Airport by Parliament’s Communications and Works Committee.
NO MILK would be dumped if dairy farmers did a better job with planning, Agriculture Minister Fotis Fotiou said yesterday.
He was speaking a day after farmers of the Paphos district spilled some 15 tons of unsold milk onto the streets.
A LORRY driver from the village of Kato Pyrgos in Tylliria was yesterday jailed for three years after being found guilty of taking sexual advantage of a girl of 13.
The 54-year-old man, who yesterday appeared in court accompanied by an older relative believed to be his mother, was arrested on February 13 last year having been previously beaten up by relatives of the young girl.
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.
