OFFICIALS last night warned members of the public of the dangers of tackling violent criminals, after the murder of a man chasing a bank robber in Larnaca yesterday.
Police Chief Iacovos Papacostas paid tribute to Iacovos Kyriacou, expressing his sadness at the “unfair loss of such a heroic man”.
THE NATIONAL Bank of Greece in Cyprus warned yesterday that refusal from bank employees’ union ETYK to put an end to the strike that has paralysed the bank since last week would prompt them to take the matter to a European Court.
A GREEK investigation into the Helios air disaster that claimed 121 lives may be coming to the island by the end of the month, as Cypriot detectives head abroad to gather more depositions.
According to daily Phileleftheros, the Cypriot investigative team is currently in London to interview Boeing mechanic Alan Irwin, considered a key figure in the events of August 14, 2005.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) will today sign a loan agreement with Hellenic Bank for 78 million euros that the airline hopes will return it to profitability after several years of losses.
THE Cyprus economy remains strong and set for further growth in 2007 and 2008, boosting the island’s chances for euro zone approval from EU finance ministers next week.
The forecast shows that Cyprus and Malta, who both hope to adopt the euro on January 1 next year, meet the key euro entry criteria now, according to the EU’s Spring Economic forecast, released yesterday.
TURKISH oil company TPAO has opened a tender for oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean, it said on its website late on Sunday, a move likely to increase tensions over Cyprus.
The proposal covers the same parts of the eastern Mediterranean as a tender launched by Cyprus in February.
A 19-YEAR-old man was yesterday killed on the Athienou-Avdellerou road near Larnaca, when the bicycle he was riding was hit by a car.
The incident happened at approximately 8.40pm, as the Moldovan was attempting to turn around before being hit by a car driven by a local man.
Larnaca police said that his bicycle was not equipped with any lights.
A FORMER business partner of President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday admitted to personally signing credit orders worth millions of dollars for the benefit of Yugoslav nationals at the height of the UN embargo against that country in the 1990s.
Pambos Ioannides was testifying in court in the case of Tassos Papadopoulos and Co vs the Financial Times.
TWO hundred Armenians on Sunday returned to the abandoned mediaeval monastery of Saint Magar in the north, where prayers were said for the first time in 33 years.
“It was a great success and a very moving experience, which brought back many, pleasant, old memories,” said Vartkes Mahdessian, the Armenian deputy in the House of Representatives.
FOURTEEN prisoners serving life sentences for murder hope to be given a second chance when the Attorney-general finally creates parole procedures in line with EU human rights norms.
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.
