AS MANY as 116,000 sheep and goats on the island – almost one in four – are to be culled after the Court of Justice of the European Communities decided measures needed to be taken following the appearance of scrapie.
The decision was reached following an appeal by France, with all Member States required to destroy all animals within an infected herd.
SCRAPIE IS a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats. It is one of several transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or “mad cow disease”) and chronic wasting disease of deer. Like other spongiform encephalopathies, scrapie is believed to be caused by a prion.
OMBUDSWOMAN Eliana Nicolaou is carrying out a second investigation into the proceedings followed to develop the area near Nicosia General Hospital.
RECKLESS shooters have targeted a supermarket in Paphos in a second night which saw shots fired in the area.
On Monday night, unknown occupants of a saloon car took pot shots with a hunting rifle at a Papantoniou supermarket in the village of Chloraka, causing £300 worth of damage.
PRISONERS due for release could soon find they are given an alternative measure to imprisonment if Parliament approves the introduction of electronic tagging.
Central prison authorities hope to see the bill implemented by the end of the year and no later than early 2008.
GOVERNMENT spokesman Vasilis Palmas yesterday took “full responsibility” for misinforming the public about the involvement of the President’s law firm in a state tender for a floating LNG terminal worth billions.
In early 2003, the previous government took the decision to build a land terminal for LNG, a decision endorsed by the Papadopoulos administration a year later.
THIS week is the sixth anniversary of the start of US air strikes against al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts in Afghanistan. It was a very clever politico-military operation, and by December of 2001 all of Afghanistan was under the control of the United States and its local allies for a total cost of 12 American dead. Then, for no good reason, it fell apart, and now the war is lost.
THE 40-YEAR-old Briton who was left in a comatose state following a violent stag night brawl in Ayia Napa was yesterday taken off the ventilator, police said.
Larnaca general hospital doctors yesterday removed Anthony Stephenson from the ventilator although his condition is still serious.
THE PRESIDENT of Action for Equality, Support and Anti-Racism (KISA) will appear in court tomorrow on charges of receiving stolen goods.
According to KISA Press Officer Doros Michael, President Doros Polycarpou will appear before the Nicosia Criminal Court following complaints by the Nicosia Police Department that he illegally raised £573 for a woman’s life-saving operation.
GRAFFITI artist Achilleas Michaelides was asked to cover up parts of his artwork by the municipal council, while participating in the Street Life festival events at the weekend.
The Nicosia-based artist, whose creative name is ‘Paparazzi’, painted an impressive graffiti on the wall of a house at Saripolou street in Limassol’s historic centre.
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.
