Search underway for woman overboard

2008-11-01

A SEARCH and rescue was launched off the west coast of the island yesterday after authorities received reports that a woman may have fallen overboard from a passing cruise ship.

If you’re so opposed to smoking, ban the sale of cigarettes

2008-11-01

ACCUSATIONS by the Green Party that certain parliamentarians have personal interests in trying to prevent a full smoking ban have been blasted by EDEK’S Marinos Sizopoulos.

The MP challenged Green Party leader George Perdikis to submit any evidence he may have on the allegations he was making.

British designers commissioned with TEPAK masterplan

2008-11-01

LIMASSOL’S Technological University, TEPAK, yesterday signed a five-year contract with Manchester-based British Design Partnership (BDP) to design the university’s masterplan.

The €750,000-worth contract also stipulates that BDP, in partnership with P.Papadopoulos and Associates Ltd, will prepare an environmental and traffic study by 2009.

CY calls for action on bird risk

2008-11-01

CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday called for immediate steps to be taken to remove the risk associated with bird strikes on aircraft flying in and out of Larnaca airport.

The call came from the national carrier after an incident on Wednesday, when a CY flight to London was hit by a flock of birds.

Meat shipment seized over false certificates

2008-11-01

A CONTAINER of slaughtered lambs that arrived on the island from Greece was yesterday confiscated by the Veterinary Services after it emerged a big scam was hiding behind it.

According to the head of the Services, Charalambos Kakoyiannis, the container was accompanied by tampered documents, issued for the exportation of 80 lambs and then altered to 780 lambs.

Meet Cypriot Aphrodite

2008-11-01

THE ORIGIN of the goddess Aphrodite is an unsettling tale. As the myth goes, Kronos castrated his father Uranus and threw his genitals into the sea. The immortal appendages were carried by the waves and in the foam that gathered around them, a girl was born. Fully-grown, she emerged from the ocean on the western shore of Cyprus.

The silver lining behind the mistrust

2008-11-01

RESEARCH conducted by the Centre for European Policy Studies has found that Greek and Turkish Cypriots are remarkably similar in their attitudes, values and aspirations.

From the sublime to the ridiculous

2008-11-01

OBAMA FEVER – has reached way beyond the shores of the USA. Ironically, while the McCain camp entrenches itself further into a series of Obama hating blunders, various people around the world are doing the complete opposite by making songs in tribute to the candidate who is most likely to become the next President of the USA.

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.