A 28-YEAR-old Sri Lankan farmhand died after he was left untreated for two days after sustaining severe head injuries from a fall.
Immigrant support group KISA is holding his employer and a private Nicosia clinic responsible.
State pathologist Nicholas Charalambous said yesterday he had launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man’s death.
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It is with sadness that I read how some Greek Cypriot parents are causing friction because, according to them, the school is losing its Hellenic and Greek Cypriot character.
The School was not meant to be as such. It was set up by an Englishman for the benefit of all communities on the island.
BRITAIN threw a financial lifeline yesterday to the United Nations mine clearing programme in Cyprus at risk of closure from a lack of funds.
The €50,000 donation from Britain to the United Nations Mine Action Centre (MAC) in Cyprus will allow the programme to keep operating in February and March, a statement
by the British Foreign Office said.
TWO senior Drug Squad officers yesterday spent hours giving statements to criminal investigators regarding the events surrounding the escape of convicted rapist and murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, alias Al Capone.
THREE men, including two customs officials, have been accused of scamming the government out of €1 million in taxes from illegal cigarette trafficking.
The trio was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days.
JUSTICE Minister Loucas Louca and Police Chief Iacovos Papacostas were yesterday forced to defend the police for the umpteenth time after yet another drug squad officer was suspended
An officer from the Larnaca squad was suspended on Wednesday on suspicion that he had embezzled €140,000, which had been confiscated in connection with a drugs bust.
THE GLOBAL financial crisis is the main concern of both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and three out of four people on both sides say they find it hard to pay their bills every month.
The news was revealed yesterday in the latest Eurobarometer survey, which was carried out in the Autumn of 2008.
IF ANYONE had any doubt that Barack Obama would fail to follow up words with action, the new President of the United States put those fears to rest as he hit the ground running in a whirlwind first day at the White House.
THE JUSTICE Minister and the Police Chief yesterday agreed that the police force was in need of radical reform and that experts would be brought in from abroad to help.
Minister Loucas Louca and the head of the police force, Iacovos Papacostas, discussed their plans to reform the force with the House Legal Affairs Committee, in a meeting that took place behind closed doors.
Water Board warns full tenders’ procedure will mean lengthy delays
THE opposition yesterday welcomed President Demetris Christofias’ decision to veto a Cabinet plan to bypass full procedure to fast-track plans for a new desalination plant in Limassol, saying the move would have given preferential treatment to certain companies.
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.
