THE GOVERNMENT has pledged to help the Syrian mother who lost her husband and two of her children after they drowned in a canal in Paphos on Friday.
The response to support the family has been overwhelming since the tragedy, both from the government and from the people that knew them.
A NEW benefits package should offset any price hikes in consumer goods resulting from an imminent increase on VAT, Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said yesterday.
THE role of a contemporary police force is not only to uphold the law but also to stand by and support its citizens in their common fight against crime, Justice Minister Sophoclis Sophocleous said yesterday.
The minister was speaking at a seminar on ‘The Role of the Police in a Modern Democracy’ organised by the Justice Ministry and Ombudswoman’s office.
THE 2008 election campaign suddenly warmed up over the weekend, with socialists EDEK announcing they would back incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos if he decided to run for re-election.
EDEK are the junior coalition partners in the government. The decision is to be ratified by the party’s central committee, but that is seen as a mere formality.
NEW Government Spokesman Vassilis Palmas yesterday said it was an honour to take over the office from Christodoulos Pashiardis, who “enjoyed special appreciation for his ethos, abilities and character in general”.
PARAPLEGIC and quadriplegic people in Cyprus are sick of being ignored by the state and have threatened ‘drastic measures’ if their basic human rights aren’t respected.
The Cyprus Paraplegic Organisation (OPAK) has gone public with a damning list of problems preventing them from living the basic life that other human beings take for granted.
DEPUTIES yesterday warned the public of future increases in car insurance premiums, after a harmonising bill was submitted to Parliament to alter existing laws.
At the moment, insurance companies are expected to cover a minimum of £60,000 for material damages in the event of an accident.
COACHING STAFF of Scottish football champions Celtic FC will be on the island next month for the second Celtic Cyprus Summer School of Football.
The coaching team will train, interact and share their experiences of top-flight football and will select two young talents for trials in Scotland.
A MAN was attacked and beaten while painting a wall outside his restaurant in Limassol on Sunday afternoon by a passer-by who got paint on his clothes.
The 35-year-old man, told police that he had been painting the exterior wall of his restaurant with his wife, when a pedestrian walked past and without realising the paint was wet, touched the wall and got dirty.
AROUND 200 Kurdish people yesterday marched onto the Interior Ministry in Nicosia in an effort to raise awareness for their plight on the island.
Organised by the United Kurdish Association (UKA), the demonstration, which began from Eleftheria Square at 11am, passed off without incident.
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.
