A GROUP of eight asylum seekers yesterday threatened to throw themselves off a tower in the British base of Episkopi if the UK failed to grant them British passports by today.
The asylum seekers, seven Iraqis and one Iranian, yesterday morning scaled the disused Defence Fire Service training building to make their protest.
PATIENTS at Limassol hospital are being forced to bring in their own blankets to keep warm, after one of the main laundry machines broke down before Christmas, with patients also complaining of inadequate heating on the wards.
BRITONS occupying Greek Cypriot properties in the north may again experience a twinge of discomfort as Greek Cypriot lawyer Contantis Candounas launches a fresh legal assault on a couple from Canterbury in Kent.
FRUSTRATED over ongoing problems with the Customs and Excises computerisation system, Limassol and Larnaca port customs officials yesterday called a 24-hour work stoppage.
Designed to consolidate and enhance the performance of Customs, the Theseas’ computerisation project has been a bone of contention between staff and the government since its implementation almost five years ago.
A MAN who stabbed an eye doctor turned himself into the police on Tuesday night.
According to his statement, the 24-year-old Lebanese man claimed that he had lost the sight in his right eye after a surgical procedure carried out a year ago by a Cypriot ophthalmologist in Paphos.
DOCTORS of the World Cyprus yesterday announced the start of a pilot programme named, ‘Adopting from Afar.’
At a news conference, the volunteer group explained that it was a sponsorship programme aimed at providing children in Zimbabwe with food, clothing, footwear, medicine and education.
POLITICIANS yesterday continued to use the implications of a pending European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision on a land swap between a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot to take swipes at each other in the run-up to next month’s presidential elections.
“WE RISK losing all seriousness,” Demetris Christofias proclaimed yesterday, dismissing Ioannis Kasoulides’ invitation for a televised, three-way debate on January 16, focusing exclusively on the Cyprus problem.
Kasoulides yesterday sent the invitation to both the AKEL Chairman and President Tassos Papadopoulos.
KRUNOSLAV Simon netted 17 points to help KK Zagreb see off Proteas EKA AEL 82-77 in the third game of the FIBA EuroCup Qualifying Round Group C on Tuesday night in Croatia.
THE CAMPAIGN for the presidential elections officially started yesterday. It unofficially began in September, when candidates started holding regular new conferences, touring the country, advertising their promises and conducting debates, through their campaign officials.
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.
