THE SMALL boat carrying doctors, human rights activists and three tonnes of medical supplies from Cyprus to Gaza was rammed by the Israeli navy in international waters yesterday, forcing the damaged boat to dock in southern Lebanon instead.
A BRITISH resident of Cyprus has challenged the government over their voting registration policy for EU nationals.
COMMERCE Minister Antonis Paschalides said yesterday he would not issue a decree setting a ceiling to fuel prices after the compliance of oil companies in making reductions in prices
Paschalides said two companies had already announced price reductions, and announcements were soon expected from two more companies for “substantial reductions”.
THE CABINET yesterday approved €150,000 in emergency financial assistance to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Government Spokesman Stephanos Stephanou once again emphasised the need to end Israeli attacks in the region, causing “carnage and removing the prospect for peace in the region”.
BANK of Cyprus employees were left laughing when a would-be bank robber actually knocked on the bank’s locked door expecting to be allowed in to rob them.
The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at the bank’s Astromeritis village branch in the Nicosia district.
FOR four weeks a burst water pipe has been left exposed in the middle of a Nicosia road, with local residents complaining that no one has bothered to fix it.
Earlier this month, technicians of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) dug up several ditches on Glafcou Street, off Nikis Avenue, for the purpose of laying power cables.
POLICE were yesterday no closer to catching escaped convict Antonis Prokopiou Kitas.
Despite police assurances that the 42-year-old double rapist and murderer, more commonly known as Al Capone, was most likely in the free areas and would be caught, an associate has placed the high profile criminal in the occupied areas, it emerged yesterday.
AN ARMED robbery occurred yesterday morning in the Kalavasos Co-op when a masked man with a small firearm got away with €10,930 in cash and €3,391 in cheques.
IT’S MUCH too soon to jump to conclusions regarding the tragic outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease at a maternity ward in one of Nicosia’s top private clinics, which has claimed the life of one baby and left another ten newborns fighting for their lives in intensive care at the capital’s specialist paediatric Makarios Hospital.
IT TAKES a lot to shock me, but leaving a café in Ayia Napa last night, I was staggered to be confronted by a man openly begging.
I stood staring at him unable to speak – primarily because nothing like this has ever happened to me before in Cyprus. I was not shaken, but had a problem digesting what was actually going on.
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.
