Christmas time in Nicosia

2014-12-01

MUCH of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue was closed to traffic from Monday to accommodate the ‘Christmas Street’ organised for the second year in a row by

Important mosque preserved

2014-12-01

THE TECHNICAL Committee on Cultural Heritage on Monday announced the near completion of conservation works to the mosque of Evretou/Evretu. The mosque – built at

AIDS ‘still an open wound’

2014-12-01

By Jean Christou FIFTY ONE new HIV positive cases were diagnosed in Cyprus between January and October 2014, up five cases over the same period

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.