A 13-YEAR-old girl was picked up in Limassol during the early hours of yesterday after police caught her at the wheel of a car, speeding through a red light with no headlights on.
The child was caught at around 1am when a patrol car on Ellados Street spotted a vehicle being driven “dangerously, recklessly and with no headlights on”, police said.
GREEK CYPRIOT refugee Meletis Apostolides yesterday recorded a major victory in the Orams vs Apostolides court case, after the top judge in the UK announced the case would be referred to the Court of European Communities.
THE HOUSE Finance Committee yesterday decided to submit to the Plenum on Thursday amendments to the law regulating Cyprus’ entry into the eurozone.
All parties will vote in favour of the amendments, although opposition DISY expressed its reservations at whether the bill was ready to be passed into law.
POLICE ARE on the hunt for the person responsible for shooting 39-year-old American Cypriot Michael Joseph in the neck, in the early hours of yesterday morning outside his house in Paphos.
Joseph’s condition is said to be extremely serious.
GET ready to roast. The Weather Services have announced a steady increase in temperatures this week, with the thermometer set to hit 40 degrees Celsius by next Monday.
GREEN Party leader George Perdikis yesterday claimed his party had received telephone threats warning them to stop drawing attention to harmful additives in foods.
Speaking at the House of Representatives, Perdikis said his offices had received a number of anonymous phone calls, urging his party to stop fighting against food additives.
HOUSE President Demetris Christofias yesterday opened an exhibition of works of art by prison inmates.
The exhibition, which will be on display at the Parliament building this week, includes paintings of all genres and copper engravings, along with a number of religious icons.
THE 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands was commemorated in a service at Happy Valley in the Western Sovereign Base Area of Episkopi on Sunday.
CYPRIOT DAIRY Company Charalambides has accused the Cypriot Association of Cattle Breeders of distorting the truth in the ongoing row over the import of milk from Greece.
According to a statement released from Charalambides Dairies, the Cattle Breeders wrongly implicated their company in the dispute.
THE administration was yesterday caught in the middle of crossfire, on the one hand fending off salvos from presidential hopeful Ioannis Kasoulides while on the other answering jibes from their main coalition partners AKEL.
Kasoulides, an MEP and former Foreign Minister, turned up the heat after announcing last week he would be standing for the top job.
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.
