AN investigation was launched in the north yesterday after information about Greek Cypriots who had applied to the Turkish Cypriot property commission for reinstatement or compensation for properties lost in 1974 appeared in the Greek Cypriot press.
TWO female students were critically injured in a car accident in Nicosia in the early hours of Monday morning.
Shortly after midnight, a car driven by 20-year-old Constantina Shacola from Astromeritis collided with another vehicle on the corner of Kritis and Stasandrou streets. The force of the impact was so strong, it sent Shacola’s car careering into a tree.
REPORTS that the National Guard’s assault choppers are not airworthy are entirely false, the Embassy of the Russian Federation said yesterday.
The embassy issued a rebuttal after press reports last week that the 10 Russian-made gunships sat idly in hangars because of problems with service and parts.
A MAN suspected of having thrown his estranged wife off a first floor balcony is to face a charge of attempted murder at the Nicosia Criminal Court.
Self-employed Nicos Hartounian, 37, from Geri village, yesterday told a Nicosia District Court that he understood the single charge against him.
A EUROCYPRIA-leased aircraft flying from Crete to the United Kingdom last week did not have the go-ahead from Civil Aviation, the department revealed yesterday.
The news came as the airline, formerly a charter subsidiary of Cyprus Airways (CY), is facing an investigation to determine how it left itself short-staffed coming up to the summer period.
ALMOST two dozen refugees, mainly from the Famagusta district, are preparing to file a class action suit against the Republic of Cyprus demanding the equal division of burden of the 1974 invasion.
A NICOSIA Court yesterday heard witness accounts from fellow pupils in the fatal hit-and-run accident that killed a 17-year-old schoolboy on New Year’s Day.
DESPITE repeated police efforts to increase awareness on the dangers of drink driving, motorists do not seem to be getting the message, with 81 caught at the weekend.
Twenty-seven drivers were charged in the Limassol district, 18 in the Paphos district, 17 in the Nicosia district, 17 in the Famagusta district and two in the Larnaca district.
THE 2008 race shifted a gear last weekend, after the socialist allies in the government revealed President Tassos Papadopoulos had personally reassured them he would running for a second term in office.
On Sunday, EDEK’s Central Committee overwhelmingly voted in favour of the Papadopoulos option, even though the President himself has yet to officially announce his candidacy.
TWO YOUNG men were yesterday found dead at the bottom of a ditch in Paliometocho after their car veered off the road.
Yiangos Aristodemou, 21, along with 22-year-old Andreas Michail, were spotted by a passing lorry driver at 6.30am yesterday after being reported missing on Sunday night.
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.
