POLICE were yesterday hunting the killer of a Limassol pensioner found half-naked and strangled to death at his home on Sunday night.
Lakis Ioannides, a retired pharmacist who lives alone at his home on Zinonos Street close to Heroes’ Square, was found by a relative at around 6.20pm on Sunday.
RELATIVES of the 121 people who died in the Helios air crash two years ago today left the island for Greece yesterday to attend a memorial service at Grammatiko, the area outside Athens where the plane went down.
THE Transport Ministry yesterday called on the two sides in the airport fees dispute to be less public about the row and try to resolve it during a meeting scheduled for the end of this month.
CHILDREN living within 200 metres of an electricity pylon are 70 per cent more likely to develop leukaemia, a British study has shown.
The study, carried out by British magazine Professional Engineering, also shows that children living between 200m and 600m from a pylon have 20 per cent greater chance of developing the condition.
A TECHNICAL problem at the Kofinou incinerator has resulted in the accumulation of hundreds of tons of meat waste.
The head of the Veterinary Services, Charalambos Kakoyiannis, yesterday described the development as a “time bomb ready to explode”.
THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) yesterday expressed surprise at British tabloid claims that a Great White Shark was causing panic and chaos on the beaches of Larnaca.
The article in the Daily Star was titled “Great White Shark is terrorising Jordan’s holiday hideaway” – referring to the wife of Cypriot pop singer Peter Andre.
THE AUTHORITIES yesterday issued a long list of items dangerous to consumers, including toothpaste and body creams.
The items were listed in the latest bulletin by RAPEX, the European rapid alert system for dangerous non-food consumer products, which has issued multiple alerts about Chinese toothpaste in particular.
THE Church does not intend to keep quiet about politics, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said yesterday following new criticisms over his alleged support for President Tassos Papadopoulos.
THE STATE’S Music School in Limassol will officially begin operations next month.
The Education Ministry decided to open the island’s second music school following the success of the first in Nicosia, which opened last February.
ALMORT 100 drivers from around the island were caught drink driving over the weekend, despite a previous warning from police of their heightened presence on the roads.
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.
