I would love to eat low fat meals – if only I could afford them

2009-08-21

Regarding your article in the Cyprus Mail (‘It’s going to get hotter’, July 24) the advice given by Eleni Andreou Registered Clinical Dietician that “meals should be low fat such as fish, vegetables, boiled pasta, chicken, salads and fruits” makes me wonder if the lady in question has been shopping recently.

‘Only the police can enforce law and order’

2009-08-21

AN INTERNAL police memo regarding officers of the law referring members of the public to a private Larnaca security company to settle their problems was based on vague rumours and nothing more, the Justice Minister said yesterday.

Murder mastermind paid €30,000 to assassin

2009-08-21

THE 35-YEAR-OLD man from Limassol wanted by police in relation to the murder of ex cabaret boss Michalakis Kakathymis was yesterday remanded for eight days after willingly returning from abroad.

Turkish Cypriot remanded in arms bust

2009-08-21

IN A CASE that authorities confirmed may be related to the investigation of Michalis Kakathymis’ murder, 40-year-old Turkish Cypriot Murat Ziya is on remand in relation to the arms found in the possession of a 29-year-old man from Nicosia on Wednesday evening.

Refugee Kurdish toddler will be sent for treatment abroad

2009-08-21

A TWO-YEAR-OLD Kurdish boy initially denied state funded medical treatment overseas because of his refugee status will be allowed to travel following the Health Minister’s intervention.

If Raj Temel “needs to go abroad, the Cyprus Republic will cover all the expenses,” said Stella Michaelidou, the Health Ministry’s acting permanent secretary.

Panayiota Demetriou’s killer pleads guilty

2009-08-21

A DRUNK driver has pleaded guilty to the vehicular manslaughter of a Greek Cypriot woman in New York.

Daryush Omar, 25, is expected to spend ten and a half years in prison after crashing into a taxi in his SUV, killing both occupants; driver Bessy Velasqez and Panayiota Demetriou, 30, a graduate in psychology student from Cyprus on November 16, 2008.

‘We enforce the rule of law at the behest of our clients’

2009-08-21

A PRIVATE security company in Larnaca yesterday denied some of its clients were police referrals, stipulating instead that anyone who used ‘A Team Security Services’ did so of his or her own accord.

The company also said its goal was to make Larnaca the safest town on the island and that it often helped police apprehend criminals.

Green Dot hails restrictions on Kotsiatis dumping

2009-08-21

GREEN DOT General Director Kyirakos Parpounas yesterday expressed his satisfaction over the move by Nicosia Municipality to ban the dumping of a long list of materials at Kotsiatis refuse dump.

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.