HUNGRY mosquitoes have driven dozens of Nicosia residents to doctors and pharmacists over the holiday weekend, with a surge in the numbers and virulence of the blood-sucking parasites.
The recent downpours have caused a surge in mosquito activity across the Nicosia district.
THE UN is expected to decide this week whether it will set up an international court to try the suspects in the murder of Lebanon’s ex-premier Rafiq Hariri and whether it will be in Cyprus or the Netherlands.
The US, Britain and France have drawn up a draft resolution to create the court in line with a deal between the Lebanese government and the UN.
A MAN of 26 has been arrested on suspicion of trying to bomb the house of a drug client who failed to pay him.
Police believe the 26-year-old got the address wrong and placed the bomb on the doorstep of the target’s neighbour.
DRUG Squad (YKAN) officers have arrested and detained in custody a 35-year-old on suspicion of being in possession of around 110grams of cannabis with intent to sell. Police and YKAN officers raided the man’s house in Larnaca where they found 18 grams of cannabis. During the search officers also found one gram of heroin.
A LARGE majority of government officials are deliberately ignoring a law under which they are obliged to make an asset declaration.
The revelation was made in Politis newspaper yesterday, with the daily claiming that around 1,500 government officials were refusing to make the declaration, which has been compulsory practice for civil servants since 2004.
MYSTERY surrounding a stolen Black and Tan Coonhound deepened yesterday when an animal rights activist said a young male dog of the same breed turned up out of the blue at her home outside Limassol on Sunday.
CYPRUS may not be able to get into the Eurovision Song Contest of late, but CyBC has won the bid to host the Junior Eurovision next year, it emerged yesterday.
The Steering Group of the Junior Eurovision announced yesterday that it had accepted the Cypriot offer to host the 2008 song contest, choosing Cyprus from four countries that had put in an offer.
A MAN who died while dancing at his own engagement party in Aradhippou on Friday night had a heat attack, the state pathologist said yesterday.
Welder Zacharias Kkantis, 22, collapsed on the floor while dancing the zembekiko, a traditional folk dance, at his engagement party to 20-year-old Maria Panteli.
TURKISH Cypriots are the biggest satellite television junkies in the EU and have more wide-screen televisions than their wealthier Greek Cypriot compatriots, according to a new Eurobarometer survey
“As far as satellite television is concerned, it seems to be a particularly common way for providing households with television in the Turkish Cypriot Community, with
ELECTRICITY Authority of Cyprus (EAC) workers will stage a two-hour work stoppage today to show their opposition to the government’s plans to build an offshore terminal for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
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.
