PERSONAL differences are said to be the motive behind 53-year-old businessman Kyriacos Andreou’s murder on Monday.
Andreou was gunned down outside a café in Limassol’s Turkish Cypriot quarter while talking on his mobile phone.
Police yesterday combed the murder scene for evidence, though there are still no clear indications as to the identity of the culprit.
THE MAYOR of Paralimni has lashed out in a furious outburst at a government plan to raise the wreck of a boat he ordered to be scuttled off the coast of Protaras.
Mayor Andreas Evangelou threatened to ‘cut the hands’ of anyone who touches the Liberty ship after the Fisheries Department issued a tender to have the wreck, a former Russian cargo ship, raised.
ONLY 34 percent of Cypriots believe that poverty is widespread on the island, compared to the European average of 73 percent, according to a Eurobarometer poll on member states’ attitudes to poverty.
The poll also showed that 9 out of 10 Europeans want action on poverty.
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights yesterday charged Turkey with violating the right to life in two separate cases brought by Greek Cypriots against Turkey.
DESPITE announcing that public consultations would be held to hear the views of organisations and other groups concerning the hikes, no one, apart from one citizen, requested information about it.
The intent to have public consultations was announced through paid advertisements in the newspapers while officials said it repeatedly in public statements.
THE CYPRUS Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) has approved an incremental 4.5 per cent increase over the next three years on the base rate of electricity bills, parliament heard yesterday.
The chairman of CERA said a 1.5 per cent increase will be introduced at the beginning of each year through to 2012.
NEWS of three murders in less than a week have produced dramatic headlines and coverage, but “stereotypical” media treatment often conceals the real factors behind the events, Andreas Kapardis, criminologist and law professor at the University of Cyprus, said yesterday.
WAITING in traffic jams costs Cyprus some €100 million a year in man-hours lost, a cost that is reflected in lost productivity, Minister of Communications and Works Nicos Nicolaides said yesterday announcing a number of upgrades to the island’s bus system.
Hospital visitors take disabled parking spaces
HOSPITAL examination tables are not adjustable for the physically disabled, parliament heard yesterday.
It was no surprise that the police’s latest road safety campaign was less than a huge success. They managed to get 505 young people on a night out to agree to be tested for alcohol on emerging from nightclubs… that was on the way in. It was part of the ‘European Night Without Accidents’ and each of the young people taking part was the ‘designated driver’ for the evening.
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.
