AS MORE fires threatened the island’s primary national park yesterday, opposing parties were quick to point the finger at each other.
Swift action by fire services and increased security measures in the area meant that only 10 square metres of the Akamas park were affected but the Forestry Department has warned any further blazes could be much worse.
Sir,
I’ve been reading recent correspondence about the decline in tourist industry standards with interest. I agree that hotel development has been too much for too long and that standards in some places have fallen.
Sir,
We visit Cyprus two or three times a year staying in apartments or villas. I find the letters that have been printed over the last few weeks very one-sided… against holidays in Cyprus.
A NICOSIA Court is set to decide today whether there is a case against a man accused of killing his wife and her lover in August last year.
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.
POLICE have detained a man from the Nicosia village of Geri on suspicion of possessing cannabis with intent to sell.
Yesterday a Nicosia Court remanded the man in police custody for two days in light of the preliminary investigation against him.
Police were acting on a tip off in which they were informed that the suspect had recently bought 56 grams of cannabis.
A SUPREME Court has overturned a Paphos District Court decision against a man found guilty of being in possession of stolen goods.
JUSTICE Minister Sophocles Sophocleous on Wednesday urged the public not to draw conclusions from the fact that two foreign nationals had been arrested in connection with the murder of a Cypriot stabbed to death on Tuesday, condemning any xenophobic interpretation of the tragedy.
SINGE PARENT families are at high risk of finding themselves below the poverty line, the Cyprus Association for Single Parent Families and Friends said yesterday.
“We believe single parent families are at high risk because automatically they have a lower income than a two parent family,” Elena Soteriou, the association’s president said.
A MAN and a woman have been remanded in police custody for the murder of a 53-year-old man from the Nicosia village of Meniko.
Constantin Solomon, 45, and his lover Mihaela Foltic, 28, both from Romania, are under investigation for conspiracy to commit murder and the premeditated murder of 53-year-old Giorgos Diomedous.
CYPRUS IS poised to break with centuries of religious tradition by allowing islanders to be cremated, after an apparent yielding on former stiff opposition from the Greek Orthodox Church.
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.
