THE HEAVENS opened over Cyprus yesterday providing much-needed water to the parched land and empty reservoirs, while also flooding roads, houses and highways, and leaving some drivers trapped in their cars.
ESCAPED convict Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, more commonly known as Al Capone, was yesterday still at large, with police no closer to arresting him.
Investigators yesterday continued to comb Stasicratous Street in the heart of Nicosia searching for clues regarding the December 12 incident.
EMERGENCY services were called to the American embassy yesterday in an anthrax scare after a suspect package believed to contain a powder was received at the compound.
Six fire engines with fire brigade personnel in protective gear rushed to the Embassy at around 9am.
The package roused the suspicions of the embassy staff, and police were called in.
ELECTRICITY prices could drop by a further 20 per cent over the coming months, Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis optimistically predicted yesterday.
He was speaking after seeing the leaders of semi-governmental organisations, including the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and the Cyprus Ports Authority.
THE Commerce Minister has urged consumers to keep from purchasing liquid gas today as his ministry is expected to issue an order by the end of the day, specifying prices.
CYPRUS HAS joined forces with three other EU Mediterranean countries to bring the issue of immigration and burden-sharing to the forefront of the EU agenda.
High ranking officials from Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta gathered in Nicosia yesterday to draft a common paper regarding the challenges they face in the area of migration and asylum.
JUSTICE Minister Loucas Louca was yesterday sworn in at the Presidential Palace.
He takes over from Kypros Chrysostomides who resigned last week in the wake of convicted rapist and murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas’ December 12 escape from hospital.
PEOPLE who have been complaining that it ‘doesn’t feel like Christmas this year’ obviously do not live in Kiti.
For the fifth year running, residents of the Larnaca district village have been privileged to have their very own magical display of Christmas lights courtesy of 66-year-old Peter Holman, leaving no doubt as to the season.
DESCENDANTS of persons insured with New York Life Insurance Company during the years 1882-1914 may submit claims for benefits.
RACISM and xenophobia are on the rise, Immigrant Support Group KISA warned yesterday, citing more incidents reported through the weekend.
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.
