THE TWO Cypriot female students who witnessed the horror of Monday’s devastating earthquake in Italy, including the loss of a close friend, broke down last night when they were finally reunited with their families.
FROM NOW on, all conscripts will be released a month earlier, as the length of military service is cut to exactly two years.
The bad news is that it spells the end of plans to reform the National Guard, which among other things would have reduced the army stint from 25 months presently to 19 months.
PARLIAMENT yesterday called on the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) to take immediate measures to help the communities surrounding its electricity production station in Dhekelia.
Residents, especially those in the Dhekelia refugee estate, have had enough of the noise and pollution produced by the station.
THE MAYOR of Kato Polemidia George Georgiou yesterday defended the decision to grant a construction license to a petrol station at Spyros Kyprianou Avenue, despite the strong objections of residents and the Green Party.
According to Georgiou the municipality was legally obliged to grant the permit, as Town Planning had already provided a licence to the petrol station.
ENVIRONMENT Commissioner Charalmbos Theopemptou is proposing that everyone gets a day off work every year and join forces to clean up the island.
SIR STELIOS Haji-Ioannou, the serial entrepreneur and founder of easyGroup, is putting up €1 million of his own money to promote island-wide, bi-communal business co-operation between entrepreneurs.
FOOTBALL hooligans set fire to rolls of paper outside a recycling factory on Monday night, following the APOEL-Omonia match.
Following the game, fans leaving the GSP stadium in Nicosia started throwing firecrackers at the factory, setting the rolls of paper on fire.
Fire fighters arrived at the scene just in time to save the factory.
Cyprus competing with Grand Canyon for new Natural Wonder of the World spot
THE BIRTHPLACE of Aphrodite has been ranked 77 in a list of sites from around the world competing for a spot in a new campaign to elect the seven natural wonders of the world.
DIKO having a hard time finding high-profile Euro-candidates
“WHO WANTS to spend the next five years in Brussels?” is the biggest question currently facing the Democratic Party (DIKO) which will decide today on the six candidates to run in the upcoming Euro-elections.
CYPRUS and Egypt yesterday gave pledges of mutual support, reaffirming their will to work with one another to resolve regional issues.
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.
