OUR DISREPUTABLE establishment had been in a quandary since Friday. How should it have treated the passing of our Ethnarch, given that it was never a great fan of the man?
Should it have ignored his death, mentioning nothing, even though it was the biggest news story of the week? That would have been a cop-out and we would have been letting our loyal customers down.
CHRISTMAS decorations invariably range from the classy to the outrageously tacky, and this year’s offerings from our municipalities fit the pattern perfectly. For every elegantly lit sphere adorning Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue, there’s a kid-friendly, if garish, Santa’s grotto in Ayia Napa.
CONVICTED murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, known as ‘Al Capone’, remains at large despite a massive police manhunt to recapture him.
Kitas, 42, escaped from Nicosia’s Apollonion hospital in the early hours of Friday. He is serving a life sentence for murder and rape.
TRIBUTES CONTINUED to pour in from around the world yesterday following the death of former President Tassos Papadopoulos on Friday.
Papadopoulos lost his long battle with lung cancer at 74, after being hospitalised on November 22.
MORE THAN a week after an exploded mine almost blew up a family of Iraqis in the buffer zone area, the authorities are no closer to establishing where the device went off and whether it was even a mine.
Former president Tassos Papadopoulos presided over a historic era for Cyprus, a time of great changes. But how was he viewed as a person? )
HIS CLOSEST aides will tell you that former president Tassos Papadopoulos, who died of cancer on Friday, was a man who did not suffer fools gladly but who answered every correspondence personally, even when in the country’s highest office.
POLICE ARE not ruling out foul play concerning a fire that broke out in the house of deputy Attorney-general Akis Papasavvas.
The flames, which began from a wooden shack behind the residence, spread to the kitchen and upper flour, causing extensive damage.
BRUISED AND battered, the towering statue of Archbishop Makarios has finally found a home, after its eviction from outside the Archbishopric in Nicosia, amid pine trees the same height in the Troodos mountain range
MUNICIPALITIES refusing to disclose information about planned development projects to interested citizens are breaking the law, ombudswoman Iliana Nicolaou has said.
Nicolaou looked into the matter after a number of residents of Peyia complained that local authorities were not forthcoming with such information.
THE IMMIGRATION authorities yesterday held 14 people for questioning under suspicion that they entered the country illegally.
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.
