THE TURKISH side is seeking to weaken the powers of the proposed central government as much as possible in the current Cyprus negotiations, President Demetris Christofias said yesterday.
TWO ROMANIAN men, a 33-year-old and a 17-year-old are in remand for assaulting a 48-year-old compatriot of theirs, and abandoning him in the middle of a busy street, where he was hit by an oncoming vehicle.
The victim is in a critical condition at Limassol General Hospital.
COMMERCE Minister Antonis Paschalides expressed enthusiasm for Cyprus’ business prospects, saying various big companies abroad are very interested in investing here.
LOCAL credit card spending increased 16 per cent to €1.9 billion in 2008 but tourist credit-card spending fell 3.0 per cent to €491 million, clearing agency JCC statistics showed yesterday.
AN ESCAPED convict, was overpowered and arrested in a Paphos kebab house as he attempted a shoot-out with police officers on Sunday.
Razia Demlos, 22, had escaped from custody on January 6 while visiting his sick mother at her home, where he managed to give the police officers guarding him the slip. He escaped through the toilet window and has been on the run ever since.
THE COUNCIL of Minister approved the establishment of a committee to oversee the construction of desalination units in Cyprus, following the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture Michalis Polynikis.
The committee, comprising several state departments, will act as a guarantee for the transparency of all work related to these projects.
PAFIAKOS and CCP animal welfare charity based in Paphos have put out an urgent call for blankets, sheets and towels.
Christine Panayiotou, who founded the organisation in 1980, told the Cyprus Mail, “We desperately need them; it doesn’t matter if they’re old and have holes. We use them for bedding, to cover the cages at nighttimes and in our rescues.”
THE LATEST effort by human rights activists to breach the blockade of Gaza by sea got off to a faulty start yesterday when the boat suffered mechanical failure at sea.
IMPLEMENTING the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Cancer Screening must be made a public health priority, experts said yesterday.
Papacostas on back foot after reports of police closing ranks
POLICE CHIEF Iacovos Papacostas yesterday denied officers had tried to thwart the criminal investigation into the escape of convicted killer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas.
“It was a misunderstanding,” Papacostas explained.
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.
