THOUSANDS of mourners attended a funeral service yesterday for former President Tassos Papadopoulos, laid to rest amid full state honours.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyianni were among politicians, friends and admirers who paid their last respects to Papadopoulos.
THOSE WHO thought the funeral of former President Tassos Papadopoulos would honour the man’s more than half a century contribution to Cypriot politics would be wrong.
The entire service was marked by one specific moment in Papadopoulos’ political life: his 2004 rejection of the Annan plan.
THE GOVERNMENT aims to ban the sale of any GPS receivers that use maps featuring Turkish place names for the occupied areas.
The bizarre story, broken by Politis, first came to light more than two years ago. The ministries of Foreign Affairs, the Interior and of Education are all involved, as is the Attorney-general.
BY THE end of this year, the population of Cyprus is expected to be close to 802,000, following a 15 per cent increase in 2008, nearly 12 per cent of which was due to migration, and only 3.8 per cent to natural cycles.
Cyprus had a crude birth rate of 10.4 per cent in 2008 and a death rate of 6.6 per cent, which means the population grew 3.8 per cent.
A BOMB that failed to detonate was placed outside a Limassol pub yesterday.
Police said it was pure luck that there were no victims or damages, as the fuse to the device went out at the last minute.
The bomb was found in the early hours of the morning after police received a tip-off that there were suspicious goings-on outside the pub in Amathus.
THE SEARCH continues to find the three missing crew members from the Farouk M, the Moldavian-flagged ship that sunk off the coast of Limassol on Sunday morning. A police helicopter, as well as navy and Port Police vessels, have joined the rescue mission, which successfully tracked down a rescue raft carrying seven shipwreck survivors.
AN EMAIL to help a vulnerable family whose young son was badly burnt in a house fire has ended up helping several Cypriot families in the wake of overwhelming public response, its original sender said yesterday.
A 47-YEAR-old accountant from Anarita village in Paphos was stabbed in a toilet in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The attack took place at around 4am in the rest room of Fengaria Bouzouki club in Kato Paphos.
The victim was rushed to Paphos general hospital with a stab wound to his chest, and was able to give a decription of this attacker to police.
TWO weeks ago, the British government announced it was supplying 10,000 Taser stun guns to police across England and Wales. The British bobby on the beat has long been unarmed, which, compared to some of their intimidating and heavy-handed European counterparts, has made them seem more approachable, more popular and more respected.
AT LEAST 30 staff at the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) will lose their jobs as part of a series of dramatic cuts in the networks operation.
The axe will fall exclusively on employees from the radio division and rumour is rife that the popular Radio 2 network will also be shut down as part of the streamlining.
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.
