THE REFUSAL of presidential candidate Ioannis Kasoulides to repent for his ‘yes’ vote on the Annan plan cost him the backing of centre-right party DIKO, said its leader Marios Karoyan yesterday.
Influence groups gather to guide voters ahead of Sunday’s run-off
THE CHURCH joined a number of parties, groups, movements, football associations and individuals yesterday in announcing support for one of the two presidential candidates in this Sunday’s election run-off.
RUSSIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has said that his country supports negotiations aiming at the unification of Cyprus.
THE Nicosia district home of a family of six suffered €50,000 worth of damage after a blanket caught fire in the living room, police said.
The blaze broke out at around 3.30pm when the blanket, which was placed next to a liquid gas heater, went up in flames.
The Fire Services were immediately dispatched to the scene to put out the blaze.
A FAKE euro note has been discovered in Limassol, police said yesterday.
The forged €200 note was found by a commercial bank clerk while counting money given by a customer for a deposit.
Police confiscated the note, while investigations continue in an effort to trace its origin.
THE European Commission yesterday announced the appointment of Commission official Androulla Kaminara as Head of Representation in Cyprus.
Kaminara, whose appointment will officially come into effect on April 16, currently serves as the EC’s Director for Quality of Operations in “Europe Aid”.
Satellite viewers will get to see even more live matches after rivals come to an agreement over broadcasting
PAY-TV viewers are set to benefit after Multichoice Cyprus and LTV buried the hatchet, ending a lengthy financial dispute that effectively left Nova Cyprus subscribers out in the cold.
A SERIES of bogus SMS messages that claim recipients have won huge sums of money are part of a fresh wave of scams on the Cyprus market, police said yesterday.
Police said the text messages informed people that they had received large amounts of cash and appealed for them to respond to collect their alleged prize.
Parties may be falling in behind Christofias but party members may not follow directives
DESPITE the fact that the major political parties appear to be converging behind AKEL candidate Demetris Christofias, political analysts claim it’s all to play for in the run-off Presidential Elections on Sunday.
OVER 4,000 motorists were fined for committing a series of traffic violations in just a single week, police said yesterday.
From February 11 to 17 police stopped and charged 4,409 drivers.
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.
