A HUNDRED and sixty one easyJet passengers stranded in Paphos since Wednesday evening were last night finally set to leave for their destination in Manchester, ending a 24-hour ordeal that started when their original flight turned back when the plane began to shake, half an hour after take off.
TWO brothers will run 300 miles around the island next month in an effort to raise money for AIDS research.
Sridhar Reddy, a computer scientist in the United States, will run 19 miles a day with his brother Jayanth, beginning on September 15 in Larnaca.
They plan to end the charity event in Nicosia on October 1.
THE WOMAN who drowned in Limassol on Wednesday was yesterday identified as 57-year-old Alexandra Vasiliki Mavromati from Zaire, now a permanent resident of Nicosia.
Her body was found floating in the sea area of Epichosis in Limassol. Initial reports had suggested the woman was Egyptian.
TWENTY-nine-year-old murder suspect Eftychia Zari yesterday tried to hang herself in her police holding cell.
Zari, who is being held for the murder of her 25-year-old sister Eleni, used the bed sheets from her Lakatamia police holding cell to try and end her life at around 8.30am.
POLICE are looking for a 39-year-old suspect who has disappeared after a Nicosia district court released him on the grounds that there was not enough evidence to remand him in custody.
The suspect, who was arrested on Wednesday for the illegal possession of weapons, has disappeared into thin air since he was released.
FARMERS ARE ready to do what it takes to get out of the “tragic” situation the island’s drought-stricken agriculture is in, after months of “neglect” by the government.
After three years of drought, farmers are struggling to keep up with spiralling costs and are fast losing patience with perceived inaction on the part of the government.
OFFICIALS yesterday sought to play down an incident in the mixed buffer zone village of Pyla, which saw Turkish Cypriot properties vandalised and a bust of Ataturk daubed in paint.
Yesterday, Turkish Cypriot papers splashed the incident across their front pages, accusing the Greek Cypriots of “provocation” on the eve of reunification talks
CYPRUS is participating in cultural events organised by France during its six month rotating EU Presidency.
According to an official press release, Cyprus is represented at the events with theatre, music, fashion and the arts.
THE TWO boats set to challenge Israel’s tight control over the Gaza Strip are finally due to leave Cyprus this morning.
After days of waiting, the 40-plus international peace activists gathered their things and loaded the 21-metre SS Free Gaza and 18-metre SS Liberty docked at Larnaca port in preparation for today’s voyage.
THE GAME Fund has begun preparations for its annual clampdown on the illegal bird trapping, earlier than usual this year, according to press reports. This is because the ambelopoulia, a protected species, have reportedly started reaching Cyprus’ shores, and the trappers, according to the Fund’s information, have already set up their mist nets and lime-sticks.
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.
