SECURITAS robber Sean Lupton continues to “live it up” in Kyrenia, despite British and Turkish Cypriot police attempts to find him, Lupton’s wife Therese has said.
Speaking to Britain’s Daily Mail over the weekend, Lupton’s embittered wife said she had been shown evidence by the British police that proved “beyond any doubt” that Lupton was alive and well and living in the north.
STATE LAB samples from water in tankers arriving from Greece are questionably representative at best, with Ocean Tankers accused of tampering with the water and inhibiting the work of the health services.
PRESIDENT of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Jean Paul Costa arrived on the island on Sunday for an official visit at the invitation of the Supreme Court President.
Costa said he was happy to be in Cyprus for two reasons.
THE MINISTER for Communications and Works yesterday paid a visit to the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) in Limassol, following an invitation by the CSC to meet and discuss the problems facing the Cypriot shipping industry.
Police consider stricter alcohol limits
A DRUNK driver almost killed a Paphos toddler on Sunday night when he swerved off course and mounted the pavement, police said yesterday.
The incident took place at around 8.40pm on Ayios Antoniou Street in Kato Paphos.
A 55-YEAR-OLD Nicosia cabaret owner and two of his waiters were yesterday remanded in five-day custody in connection with prostitution charges, police said.
The suspects were arrested during the early hours of Sunday on pimping, prostitution, and sexual exploitation charges. Police had received a tip-off the cabaret, located in old Nicosia, was prostituting its staff.
A 90-YEAR-OLD pedestrian was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning after being hit by a drunk driver.
The incident took place at 5.30am in the Nicosia district village of Peristerona as Christos Siarmatta was attempting to cross Nicosia Avenue.
He was rushed by ambulance to Nicosia General Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
FINANCE Minister Charilaos Stavrakis yesterday sought to assure the public about the economy after the US banking crisis sank global stock markets, including Cyprus.
The main Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) index fell 5.67 per cent – its lowest point in two years – in line with a 5.0 per cent fall in the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European shares.
THE E.U. has changed the procedure for approving food additives on sale, following a formal agreement between the European Parliament and the Council. The reform, which creates a more transparent, uniform and centralised procedure aims to uphold the protection of human health and consumer rights.
THE BRITISH High Commission in Nicosia said yesterday it was too early to say who might replace sacked Labour Vice Chairman Joan Ryan as Britain’s special representative to Cyprus.
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.
