A SERIOUS shortage of hospital supplies almost saw a cancellation of all operations at Nicosia General Hospital today.
Surgeons yesterday warned they wouldn’t be able to operate due to the lack of supplies, including stents – wire mesh tubes used during catheterisations – to carry out operations.
PRIVATE yachts have carried at least 250 people from Lebanon since Saturday as concern grows over an escalation of the unrest in Beirut.
Larnaca Marina Chief Michalis Philis said yesterday that three private yachts, each carrying on average a dozen people, arrived on Saturday, ten on Sunday, and ten more by yesterday afternoon.
TONS OF WATER went to waste on the streets of Nicosia on Sunday evening due to a power cut and everything is pointing to human negligence.
Two hundred tons of water flooded Athalassa Avenue on Sunday afternoon due to a power cut in the area, because of works carried out by the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC).
THE Turkish Cypriot authorities are co-operating with British police in the hunt for fugitive Sean Lupton, who is wanted in connection with the £32 million sterling Securitas robbery in the UK in February 2006.
TAYE-Brook Zerihoun, the UN Secretary-General’s new Special Representative in Cyprus, arrives today, UNFICYP confirmed yesterday.
Zerihoun will arrive in the afternoon on a flight from Vienna.
THE FIRE Service yesterday launched its annual Fire Safety Week, running from May 12 to 18, to raise awareness on the disastrous consequences of fire, as well as inform the public on ways to eliminate fire risks.
The campaign has been running for 12 consecutive years, while this year the launch ceremony took place at Saittas, one of the sites of last summer’s catastrophic fire.
CYPRIOT deputies have repeatedly failed to respond to law proposals submitted by the European Commission, resulting in Cyprus having very little say in the formation of European legislation.
THE EDUCATION Ministry is looking behind the veil into who hired the belly dancer that turned up the heat at a school beach trip last Thursday.
Final year pupils of Larnaca’s Technical School were enjoying an organised school trip to MacKenzie beach when a belly dancer showed up, and launched into a sensual dance.
SOONER or later Cyprus, as an EU member state, will at least have to recognise same-sex marriages and civil partnerships, gay rights activist Alecos Modinos said yesterday.
Modinos, who spent years fighting for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Cyprus, was commenting on a new report by Ombudswoman Iliana Nicolaou, which highlighted discrimination against same-sex partners.
A BRITISH man from Tala was killed when his motor glider crashed near Paphos on Sunday morning.
Permanent resident, David Armstrong, was aged 73.
His body was found at around 10.30am. Apparently, his motor glider crashed after encountering turbulence.
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.
