NICOSIA mayor Eleni Mavrou yesterday vowed to get to the bottom of how the roof of Nicosia Municipal Theatre collapsed, as the extent of the tragedy that was avoided on Wednesday night began to sink in.
THE AGRICULTURE Ministry yesterday announced they would destroy the contaminated animal feed within 60 days, just as a new batch of milk with aflatoxin levels higher than permitted was located in a livestock farm.
DISY Deputy Stella Kyriakidou yesterday strongly condemned a Supreme Court decision to overturn the conviction of a man accused of sexually abusing an underage girl.
THE ISLAND’S legal service was yesterday looking into ways of annulling a tender procedure to build a desalination unit after it transpired that the frontrunner was apparently an Israeli company, which is building a similar unit in the Turkish-occupied north.
ENVIRONMENT Commissioner Charalambos Theopemptou yesterday revealed his new mission to reduce household organic waste by turning it into compost.
Theopemptou said he had already contacted the Chambers of Commerce and the Employers and Industrialists Federation about importing composters that households could use..
AIR traffic controllers at the island’s two airports yesterday staged an impromptu two-hour strike to protest against the criminal prosecution of a colleague accused of not complying with security personnel instructions.
Air traffic personnel undergo strict security checks at the airports before entering their workplace.
THE WORLD’s fastest diesel-powered car is in Cyprus, where it is on display for the public to see.
On August 23, 2006, the JCB Dieselmax broke the land speed record for a diesel-engined vehicle when it averaged 350.092mph (563.4 km/h), over two runs on the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA.
A 47-YEAR-old man from Kritou Marotou village has been arrested, on suspicion of setting a fire in his field that burned out of control into a major shrub fire.
The blaze ended up destroying more than 40 hectares of land between Kritou Marotou and Anathiou, close to Panayia.
INTERIOR Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis yesterday pledged increased housing benefits from next month, based on the new housing policy which was approved by the Cabinet
The new policy includes the revision of the grants and loans agreed under the National Housing Plan, as well as rent subsidies for the displaced and others eligible.
THE BODIES of three men are lying, unclaimed, in the morgue of Paphos General Hospital. Two of them have been there for six months.
The director of the Hospital, Filaktis Constantinides, appealed to the Cyprus Mail for help.
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.
