POLICE bullied employees of three telecommunications companies to hand over personal conversation details, the House Legal Affairs Committee was told yesterday.
The accusations were made during discussions on a bill to alter personal data laws.
Sir,
The recent articles by Jacqueline Theodoulou regarding Hannah and her mother Maria will astound all your readers, both those in Cyprus and abroad, and are a terrible indictment on those who administer justice on the island, in particular the Justice Department and the Attorney-general, Mr Petros Clerides.
Sir,
Is it just Kouklia that is affected by a laissez faire attitude to postal delivery?
We are part of some new developments, extending the older village area, and we are told that for the local postal employee it is “too difficult” to deliver the mail, so it is locked in an office for weeks, or even forever unless we complain to Paphos District Office.
THE FUTURE of the Cyprus banking system has once again come under the microscope as the Dubai Financial Group (DFG) increased its stake in Marfin Popular Bank (MPB) to 19.9 per cent on Wednesday while announcing its intention to take its share capital up to 30 per cent in MPB and 20 per cent in Marfin Investment Group (MIG).
CONSUMERS have been hit with a new spike in fuel prices of two cents a litre, in response to the soaring price of oil on the international markets.
One of the island’s biggest petrol companies, Petrolina, on Wednesday announced that it was increasing its prices, with effect from yesterday.
TEN to 12 infants are being born on the island every year with a form of hearing impairment, with around one out of 1,000 people affected.
The statistics were provided by the School for the Deaf in Nicosia, just before the start of Deaf Week tomorrow, which hopes to raise awareness of the phenomenon.
FINANCE Minister Michalis Sarris said yesterday he hoped people would not associate recent price hikes caused by external factors to the adoption of the euro on January 1.
THE FORESTRY Department is treating the reforestation and rejuvenation of burned forest land from the summer fires as matters of high priority. The arrival of winter and the prospect of rainfall have highlighted the urgency of dealing with issues such as land erosion, flooding and the possibility of burned matter finding its way to water dams.
A TWENTY-four-year-old engaged father of one was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday for trying to smuggle almost 14 kilos of cannabis through Larnaca Airport.
Dutchman Sabri Aharar, otherwise known as the “flying Dutchman”, was caught back in May after returning from Holland via Brussels with his suspected accomplice Maurizio Di Pari.
Robredo next for Baghdatis in quarter-final as Russian is warned again for not trying
By Leo Leonidou
MARCOS Baghdatis yesterday knocked out defending champion Nikolay Davydenko with an impressive 6-2 6-2 win in the third round of the Paris Masters Series.
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.
