THE CYPRIOT firemen, who joined forces with Greek firefighters to combat the huge blazes in Greece, have been honoured in a special ceremony by the Greek government, before their return to Cyprus.
According to Cyprus News Agency, on Sunday the firemen laid a wreath at a monument for those killed on duty.
THE ARCHBISHOP yesterday promised to help a Lebanese family find a solution to their 18-year immigration ordeal.
Talat lays down the rules for tomorrow’s meeting
THE NEW Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf, Rt Revd Michael Lewis, aims to play a part in encouraging Greek and Turkish Cypriots to resolve their differences when he takes up his post in November.
DAVID BECKHAM, George Clooney and Danny DeVito are moving to Cyprus.
But before you get too excited, the move won’t be made by the real-life stars themselves but by their wax models.
A MAN is in a critical condition after jumping off the third floor of a hotel room during a police raid.
The unidentified man, who is simply known to investigators as ‘Bobo’, was yesterday said to be in a critical condition at Nicosia General Hospital after plunging some 14 metres from the third floor of the hotel room.
AN IRANIAN man was in hospital yesterday after being repeatedly stabbed for telling a relative of his to end her relationship with her boyfriend.
The 25-year-old disgruntled boyfriend, who is also Iranian, went to visit the 35-year-old to seek an explanation, a furious fight ensued and then the knife came out.
The incident took place on Sunday evening in Limassol.
A TREATMENT centre for heroin addicts will next month begin operating out of Nicosia’s old general hospital in an effort to help users who have repeatedly failed to the kick the habit in the past.
THE NATIONAL Council was yesterday unanimous in its support of pushing the July 8 agreement at tomorrow’s talks between President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.
The National Council convened 48 hours ahead of the scheduled meeting between Papadopoulos and Talat at the residence of UN special envoy Michael Moller at 4pm.
REFORESTATION of forest and farmland destroyed in a huge fire in the Troodos mountain range in June will begin by the middle of October, the Agriculture Minister announced yesterday.
Fotis Fotiou added that the cost for private landowners will be completely covered by the government, under the Agricultural Plan for 2007-2013.
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.
