No cause for ‘excessive worrying and overreaction’
THE HEALTH Minister Christos Patsalides made a renewed call for calm among the public and the media yesterday, after a frenzied 24 hours that saw accusations fly and people lining up to be tested for the H1N1 flu virus.
Re: Greek and history a must for immigrants under proposed law (Cyprus Mail, June 20).
It’s all very well to require people wishing permanent residency on Cyprus but business friends from Athens (ethnic Greeks) were recently on the island visiting us.
Re: Deputies call for ban on ‘youth deterring device’ (Cyprus Mail, July 1)
I read with interest your story mentioned above.
As the manufacturers of the Mosquito, I feel I should point out that a call for a ban on the Mosquito has already been made to the EU commission.
House Health Committee working on smoking ban proposal
DEPUTIES yesterday pledged to bring an anti-smoking bill to the vote next week before parliament closes for the summer recess.
The House Health Committee is putting the final touches to the legislative proposal for a total ban on smoking from public places and nightspots.
TWO Poles were arrested last night in Limassol in connection with the murder of Sergei Nalivanski, whose battered body was found on a cliff-ledge near Aphrodite’s Rock on Wednesday.
CHIEF OF Paphos traffic police Zinon Psathitis has warned drivers that extensive measures will be put in place to ensure illegal parking is stopped and bad driving is eradicated during the summer months.
Psathitis said police, with the co-operation of traffic wardens, would attempt to halt illegal parking in allocated bus stops, which is a particular problem in Kato Paphos.
THE University of Cyprus will not be accepting applications from students with international qualifications the next academic year, following an amended law passed by parliament yesterday.
Last week UCY decided to open up three per cent of positions to applicants with international accreditations, such as GCEs, for the 2009-2010 academic year.
THREE teenaged Nicosia football fans were yesterday remanded in six-day custody in connection with trying to set fire to an opposition team’s clubhouse.
Police are still looking for two other youths in connection with the same incident.
A 37-YEAR-OLD woman was yesterday quizzed as to why she hadn’t thought to pick up a glass and send it for fingerprint analysis when her ex-boyfriend was attacked at a Nicosia nightclub.
‘They kidnapped the passengers and tore the Greek flag off the boat’
A BRITISH woman living in Episkopi spoke of her anguish last night as her partner remained locked up in an Israeli prison.
Ruth Baker told the Cyprus Mail that her long-term partner Denis Healey was being detained after captaining the latest Free Gaza Movement voyage to Gaza.
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.
