TEMPERATURES are expected to soar in inland areas over the next few days, as the island comes under the influence of a regional high-pressure system.
The current heat wave will see maximum temperatures in the island’s central plain range between 39 and 42C, with high humidity also likely playing a factor in Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta.
AKEL yesterday slammed President Tassos Papadopoulos for appealing to its voters during the speech announcing his candidacy for the presidential elections next year.
Nicos Katsourides, AKEL’s parliamentary spokesman, called Papadopoulos` move to boost his own support from members of the party as “unfortunate and unethical”.
RELATIVES of the victims killed in the 2005 Helios air disaster have filed a €76 million lawsuit with Greek courts against aircraft manufacturer Boeing and defunct airline Helios, claiming emotional distress.
THE ATTACK on a Nicosia woman indecently assaulted in her apartment block car park in the early hours of Monday was totally unrelated to a spate of similar unsolved attacks two years ago, police said yesterday.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority has appealed to the public save on energy during the current heat wave.
Because of the high temperatures, the EAC says electricity demand has reached extremely high levels, and is warning the public against any unnecessary use to decrease the risk of blackouts.
FIFTY MILLION euros were not laundered from Serbia through the island in the 1990s, the Cypriot Financial Crime Unit (MOKAS) insisted yesterday.
The Unit was responding to claims made on the B92 radio station in Belgrade last week that the trial for a money laundering operation, which moved the money, will begin in September.
ROAD TAX renewal forms will no longer be sent out through the post, with the public informed of 1,000 locations where the tax can now be paid for.
According to the Director of the Road Transport Department, Soteris Kolettas, the public can visit any bank or co-op as well as log onto the internet.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos last night formally announced his bid for re-election in a 20 minute speech broadcast live across the nation on all television channels.
Predictably the monologue predominantly focused on the Cyprus problem and set the scene for his presidential campaign.
THREE underage riders were arrested in a co-ordinated police operation on Monday.
Members of the Kalo Chorio Police Station in the Nicosia district patrolled the area between 6pm and 11pm as part of a police campaign to stop underage driving.
A TURKISH Cypriot man was arrested yesterday after attempting to cross over to the free areas with an illegal immigrant in his car boot.
Police stopped the 25-year-old man for a routine check as he was passing through the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint.
It was then that they became aware of a Jordanian in the boot, who after seeing the police attempted to flee.
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.
