OVER a third of this year’s road fatalities are made up of tourists or foreign workers, police said yesterday.
The alarming statistic has prompted authorities to discuss ways on how to reduce this figure, including creating more awareness among foreign nationals on the island’s Highway Code.
TWO men described as “dangerous and unpredictable” are still at large after seriously injuring two policemen on Friday.
The incident was followed by a further two attacks on police members that took place in Nicosia and Paphos over the weekend.
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos II has dismissed as an outright lie the notion he is rooting for incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos in the upcoming presidential elections.
The outspoken Prelate has once again taken centre stage, after recently commenting that he preferred the status quo on Cyprus as the “second best solution”.
NICOSIA yesterday reiterated that it would not be intimidated into scrapping bids for oil drilling after Ankara stepped up its campaign to halt the process with a direct appeal to United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon.
AYIA Napa Municipality yesterday launched ayianapatv, going down in history as the first Cypriot town with its own internet television channel.
The new internet channel offers advice on how to plan your holiday in Ayia Napa, on accommodation, guides you how to enjoy the town’s nightlife and offers various other pointers on how to make the most out of your stay on the island.
EMERGENCY measures are being taken at the island’s airports and ports in order to ensure foot and mouth disease (FMD) is not brought to the island by British visitors, after an outbreak in the UK over the weekend
POLICE were yesterday still looking for a man who pulled out a sword on a taxi driver when he was asked for the fare.
The incident occurred on Saturday night when a Larnaca taxi driver drove a foreign worker to an address in Nicosia’s Kaimakli suburb.
A SPECIAL police unit will be set up next month in order to try and combat an increase in electronic crime on the island.
The unit will be based at police headquarters in Nicosia, with two senior officers who have received specialist training from the FBI in the United States, specifically in anti-child pornography and electronic fraud measures.
I HAVE Dr Daugman of Cambridge University to thank for being able to bypass queues at Heathrow last week and keep my passport in my bag. It seems he holds the patent for iris recognition, that biometric way of identifying us that means all we have to do is to stare into a mirror and open sesame.
One night in Napa
Ayia Napa was once Europe’s party town. The crowds have now largely moved on though and the resort is a shadow of its former self
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.
