Sir,
As a passenger of the disastrous CY flight 939 from Dubai last week, I read your article (CY looks into Dubai debacle, Cyprus Mail July 9) with interest, as it would appear that the Cyprus Mail does not have all the facts of the Cyprus Airways fiasco.
1. Firstly, the delay was 24 hours, not eight or nine as mentioned in the newspaper report.
HIGH-PROFILE stockbroker Yiannos Andronikou, jailed for seven years for stealing almost £5 million, had his appeal rejected by the Supreme Court yesterday.
A YOUNG diver was killed in the Paphos district on Sunday afternoon when he received a blow to the head from the propeller of a powerboat, police said.
A 55-year-old Briton has been remanded in three-day custody in connection with the case. He is facing the charge of causing death due to a thoughtless, dangerous and reckless deed.
SIX HECTARES of forest land were burnt down yesterday after a fire broke out in the Troodos area, police said.
The blaze was first spotted by Forestry Department personnel at around 4.30pm in the Karoudes area, which lies between Platres and Trooditissa.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Berlin yesterday, ahead of his meeting with President Demetris Christofias next week.
Christofias met Ban in Paris on Sunday.
Following yesterday’s meeting in Berlin, Talat aide Asim Akansoy told Turkish Cypriot television BRT the meeting lasted for nearly an hour.
TWENTY-EIGHT goat kids were attacked by a pit-bull at a Nicosia district farm yesterday morning, police said.
Twelve of the animals were slaughtered and the remaining 16 sustained serious injuries. The attack took place at a goat farm in Ayious Trimithias belonging to a 70-year-old Lakatamia woman.
Pontian man sets sights on career in police force
APPOLLONAS Nefindidis has dreamt of being a policeman since he was a child. It seems his dreams may become a reality, if the Cyprus government allows Pontians to enter the police force.
Nefindidis is 24 and moved with his family from Georgia to Cyprus eight years ago.
‘No water and no electricity, what is this country coming to?’
PAPHOS RESIDENTS were left sweltering without power for more than six hours yesterday, as a high-voltage electricity cable supplying the town shorted out.
THE 2.5 billion text messages sent every year by roaming customers in the EU cost over ten times more than domestic short messages, according to figures released yesterday by the European Commission.
THE FIRST shipment of water from Greece is to be dumped on land as it is not suitable for consumption, the Agriculture Minister said yesterday.
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.
