THE GOVERNMENT and political parties yesterday denounced the harassment of Turkish Cypriots by hooded thugs in separate incidents in Nicosia on Saturday.
No arrests have been made, but the attacks are believed to have been perpetrated by football supporters on their way to the Omonia versus Apoel football match.
AKEL members vying for the party leadership were yesterday allowed to start submitting their candidacy.
Interested parties have to submit their candidacy to AKEL general-secretary Demetris Christofias directly.
A TEARY Archbishop Chrysostomides lashed out at the Cypriot people on Sunday over their “ingratitude” towards former President Tassos Papadopoulos for saving them from the Annan plan.
THE LAST of 11 newborns diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease still has a long way to go before it’s discharged from hospital, the baby’s doctor said yesterday.
Makarios Hospital paediatric department head Dr Andreas Hadjidemetriou said the infant was currently undergoing a combined treatment of mechanical ventilation and nasal CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure).
FORMER British Cabinet Minister and veteran Labour peace activist Tony Benn has told the Cyprus Mail that British forces based on the island should be helping in the effort to ferry in humanitarian aid to the beleaguered Gaza Strip.
His comments came a day after 3,500 people gathered in London to hear the peace campaigner address a rally in Trafalgar Square.
WAYS IN which to improve police performance and how best to go about reinstating public faith in the force following the blow it has taken over the escape of convicted double rapist and murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas were yesterday addressed at the Presidential Palace.
ANOTHER life prisoner is expected to talk to criminal investigators regarding the escape of Antonis Prokopiou Kitas.
Criminal investigator Onisiforos Ioannou yesterday showed up at the Central Prisons to meet with Andreas Aristodemou, alias Giouroukki.
AN Australian Cypriot was yesterday jailed for three years in Thailand for offending the country’s monarchy.
Harris Nicolaides, 41, was originally sentenced to six years imprisonment but this was reduced after he pleaded guilty to lèse-majesté charges.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has predicted that economic growth in Cyprus will slump to 1.1 per cent this year, significantly lower than the government’s projection of 2.1 per cent.
The bleak projections were made in the Commission’s intermediate report on the state of the economy in member states, presented by the Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Joaquín Almunia.
THE THREE tonnes of medical aid collected by the Volunteer Doctors of Cyprus and intended for the battered people of Gaza arrived in Limassol port yesterday.
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.
