A 57-YEAR-OLD man was arrested yesterday after he knifed a 19-year-old woman in the face, minutes after the pair crashed into a truck just off the Nicosia-Limassol highway, police said.
The attempted murder occurred at around 9am when the Syrian suspect was driving on the highway and turned off for Latsia.
AG announces strict measures for coming court proceedings
THE HELIOS trial will take place under strict security measures to avoid a repeat of February’s violence when relatives of the air crash victims attacked the four men accused of being responsible for the tragedy.
THERE IS now a unique window of opportunity for settling the Cyprus issue, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said yesterday. The visiting politician added that Turkey’s failure to meet certain criteria will be taken into consideration during its EU assessment at the end of the year.
NICOSIA is set to take over the rotating Presidency of the Union of Capitals of the European Union (UCEU) for 2009 after Dublin.
The theme of the Presidency will be “Inclusive and Sustainable Capital Cities”. It plans to focus on the development and integration of marginalised neighbourhoods and socially vulnerable groups.
WITH SUMMER fast approaching, the Health Services have already started programmes to increase spraying against mosquitoes, especially in the areas around rivers, tanks and stagnant water which pose a risk of mass hatchings.
Head of the Health Services, George Giorgallas called on the public to take their own preventative measures against the spread of mosquito larvae.
THE GROWTH RATE in Cyprus for the first quarter of 2009 is expected to be the highest and only positive growth rate in Europe this year, Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis said yesterday.
The announcement was the latest in a series of conflicting forecasts; just weeks ago the minister had revised 2009 growth down to one per cent.
CYPRUS has a higher than average incidence rate of inherited genetic diseases.
While the reasons are not quite clear, experts believe inherited diseases could have been maintained in the population due to the different influences Cyprus had over the years as well as the fact that the island is made up of a small, segregated and homogenous population.
THE COUNCIL of Ministers has decided to include a provision allowing Cypriot citizens to be cremated on the island, in a proposed bill rights currently being prepared by Law Commissioner Leda Koursoumba.
POLICE are planning extensive measures to stop hooliganism ahead of tonight’s big match between Anorthosis Famagusta and APOEL.
Taking place at Larnaca’s Antonis Papadopoulos stadium and kicking off at 7pm, the hotly contested game could lead to APOEL taking the Cypriot championship.
‘This will be a multi-faceted campaign based on solid measures’
THE POLICE yesterday announced sweeping measures in the face of a dramatic spike in robberies over the last year.
The announcement was made yesterday by police media officer Michalis Katsounotos after a meeting between Police Chief Iacovos Papacostas and district police directors.
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.
