ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos came under sustained attack yesterday after describing daily Politis as a “Turkish newspaper”.
Chrysostomos made the remark over the weekend after the paper suggested he was meddling in the 2008 presidential campaign by rooting for the incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos.
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos has pledged to raise clerics’ pay so that they are not forced to work second jobs.
The reform-minded Prelate aims to increase wages across the board and create a fairer system inside the Church.
To make ends meet, some men of the cloth are forced to work as carpenters, blacksmiths or even construction workers.
THE DEFENCE Ministry has played down an incident in which on-duty soldiers on the Green Line were robbed of their assault rifles and ammunition at knife point.
Yesterday, a 42-year-old man, who managed to steal two guns and ammo from soldiers at a guard post after threatening them with a knife, was arrested and remanded in custody for four days.
DNA tests have proved that Hakan Kutevu from Adana in Turkey is not missing Christakis Georgiou who was taken to Turkey in 1974 at the age of five after being wounded in the knee with a bullet, Politis said yesterday.
THE CYPRUS Football Association has come on the end of a scathing attack from an official of FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe).
The CFA is the only football association recognised by the world governing body for football FIFA, despite calls from the Turkish Cypriot football association also to be recognised.
THE Brussels-based think tank the International Crisis Group (ICG), which caused a stir last year over its pro-Turkish stance on Cyprus, has slammed President Tassos Papadopoulos as an obstacle to a solution.
THE Turkish Cypriot side has defended security at Tymbou (Ercan) airport after Saturday’s hijacking of an Atlas Jet plane flying from the north to Turkey.
‘Prime Minister’ Ferdi Sabit Soyer said all security units at the airport had acted correctly and the fact that the alleged bomb on board the plane turned out to be play dough, confirmed that, he said.
INTERIOR Minister Christos Patsalides yesterday ordered an investigation into allegations made on a youtube video by a British home buyer that a Cypriot developer had sold his off-plan house to someone else and kept his money.
A BULGARIAN couple were seriously injured in a hit and run accident on Limassol’s coastal road on Sunday evening.
The accident took place at 7pm on 28 October Street when a 74-year-old male driver ran over the 29-year-old man and 27-year-old woman as they were crossing the road on a pedestrian crossing.
TEMPERATURES are expected to hit the forties again with weather forecasts predicting a new heat wave starting tomorrow.
Yesterday, the Head of the Meteorological Service Kyriacos Theophilou warned of an increase in temperature, but added that the heat wave would not be as bad as the two heat waves that claimed the lives of several elderly people around the island in June and July.
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.
