PROPERTY sales in coastal areas have dropped up to 40 per cent as a result of flagging demand from foreign buyers, though prices are generally stable, estate agents said yesterday.
“There is a big decrease in demand, especially from outside and especially from the British market, who are our traditional customers,” said Solon Kourouklides, chairman of real estate agents.
CYPRUS will not renounce its sovereign rights, and international relations are within those rights, President Demetris Christofias said yesterday.
He was responding to Turkish Cypriot criticism of his Moscow visit and of a joint declaration signed between Christofias and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the Cyprus issue.
A MAN who admitted to raping his teenage daughter was shocked when DNA tests showed that she wasn’t his biological child.
The 35-year-old man pled guilty to raping his 15-year-old daughter a few days ago, and the Criminal Court is expected to convict him on Friday.
A 42-YEAR-old man from Limassol was yesterday remand in custody after shooting at his ex-wife in a Limassol street. The intervention of onlookers, who grabbed the man while he was aiming at the 36-year-old woman with his hunting shotgun possibly averted tragedy.
AN ARMED hooded robber hit a Limassol office yesterday morning, taking a total of €900 in cash and then disappearing, police said.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday confirmed that options were being considered for bringing liquid natural gas (LNG) from Russia as well as Egypt.
But he was keen to add that no agreements had yet been signed. Discussions did, however, take place on the matter during his visit to Russia.
THE 6th Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place at Spyros Kyprianou Stadium, also known as Palais des Sports, in Polemidia tonight. The event will be broadcast live on CyBC1 at 9.15pm as well as throughout Europe and Australia.
AYIA NAPA Police sealed off one of the town’s main roads yesterday after a restaurant owner stumbled upon a live hand grenade that had been thrown onto his premises.
The discovery of the grenade at 10.30am, caused minor panic among residents, worried that there might be an explosion.
THE SOCIAL Europe exhibition is underway as part of a campaign aimed to raise public awareness about Europe’s social face
The exhibition was launched along the Ledra Street crossing point in Nicosia on Thursday by the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission, Vladimir Špidla.
FORMER President Tassos Papadopoulos will be going to the US for further tests after being hospitalised earlier in the week with lower back pains.
Papadopoulos will be going to the Mayo Clinic in Florida within the next few days.
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.
