TWENTY-two-year-old Rodosthenis Christodolou was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days in connection with aiding and abetting escaped convict Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, alias Al Capone.
The Nicosia district court heard that Christodoulou had allegedly helped Kitas escape from the Appollonion private hospital on December 12 and that he had been the driver of the getaway car.
SIX NEWBORN babies who contracted Legionnaires’ disease were yesterday discharged from the Makarios Hospital.
The infants have been allowed to leave the hospital under instructions to their parents that they return to hospital for a period of time for further tests, Makarios Hospital Paediatric Head Dr Andreas Hadjidemetriou said.
CYPRUS is the only member of the European Union that is not a member of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI).
Moreover the island is not a signatory of the European Guidelines for responding to cases of travel associated Legionnaires’ disease in all the participant countries.
But the Health Ministry does not see this as a problem.
FRANCE could help Cyprus to battle the current outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday.
“Yes, certainly, we can help other European countries, such as Cyprus, overcome such health crises and human tragedies,” Sarkozy told the Cyprus Mail during a hospital visit in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
A MARGINAL increase in unemployment in Cyprus can be expected, but not to the extent of opposition DISY’s estimations, the Labour Minister said yesterday.
BAD EATING habits and modern-day lifestyle have led to an increase in nutrition-related diseases such as obesity, Health Minister Christos Patsalides said yesterday.
THE GLOBAL financial crisis has prompted a new revision of the island’s 2009 economic growth rate, down from 3.0 per cent to 2.1 per cent, Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis said yesterday.
Stavrakis cited the deteriorating European, UK and Russian economies, the most important partners for Cyprus when it comes to tourism, real estate and financial services.
AN AMERICAN doctor who fled to Cyprus after he was accused of killing his wife with cyanide was yesterday extradited to the United States to stand trial.
MUCH as it was encouraging to see the joint statement issued by Demetris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat condemning the Israeli onslaught on Gaza this week, so it was deeply depressing to hear the shrill criticism of the initiative from government partners DIKO and from the smaller Evroko.
‘IT WON’T be easy,’ warns Gordon Brown of 2009. On New Year’s Day, the newsreader told us that one in ten Brits are predicted to be unemployed in 2009, so it’s not surprising that the woman opposite tells me that her resolution for this year is to learn to ride a horse. ‘What?’ ‘Yes,’ she says, ‘never know when I might have to give up the car.’
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.
