TWO DAYS after he escaped from the Nicosia central prison, a convicted killer was yesterday being held in the custody of the Turkish Cypriot authorities.
Turkish Cypriot Panayiotis Netzadi, 33, had managed to escape from a high-security wing along with 28-year-old Odysseas Kalanides, a Pontian Greek from Georgia on Sunday afternoon.
BANK of Cyprus (BoC) yesterday dismissed a civil suit for $162 million filed against it by the US government for allegedly helping to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in the AremisSoft securities fraud.
The US government filed two suits on Monday. The second was filed against Lloyds TSB Bank Plc for $130 million.
PRICE increases in excess of inflation will be investigated by inspectors to be appointed during the transition to the euro, the Consumers’ Association said yesterday.
OVER the next few days, eight police officers will undertake the role of tax collector with the sole purpose of collecting £30 million in unpaid social insurance.
According to Phileleftheros £10 million is owed by employers and the rest is owed by individuals registered as self-employed.
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos has come down hard on a subordinate who suggested that the policies of the Papadopoulos administration are cementing partition.
WITH THE government scrambling to put a stop to the ferry service between Syria and the breakaway Turkish Cypriot regime, reports yesterday suggested Nicosia was on its own and could not expect any help from the EU.
A VIETNAMESE student who completed an eight-month prison sentence for theft has been detained in police custody for the last 10 weeks because no one can find his passport to send him home.
EUROCYPRIA chairman Lazaros Savvides yesterday sought to assure the airline’s pilots that a deal to lease two planes to a Canadian company during winter would not affect their jobs.
The pilots staged a strike on Sunday to protest against the agreement that Eurocypria says it needs to stay afloat. Four flights to the UK were affected by the strike.
A 28-YEAR-old Iranian was attacked by four of his compatriots on the Limassol seafront, police said yesterday.
EIGTHY per cent of the population experience problems with their spine at some point in their life.
That was the verdict of Dr Efstathios Papadopoulos, President of the Cyprus Chiropractic Association and Vice-President of the World Federation of Chiropractors yesterday, on the occasion of World Spine Day.
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.
