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Cannabis arrest in Paphos
POLICE in Paphos arrested a 41-year-old man on Wednesday evening after they found 13 grammes of cannabis when searching his home. Officers from the drugs squad used a search warrant to raid the man’s...
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Kurdish protest at French embassy
KURDISH protestors marched on the French embassy yesterday to mark the first anniversary when three women activists had been killed in a Kurdish information centre in Paris. Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan...
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Van set on fire
A VAN valued at around €15,000 was destroyed by a fire late on Wednesday in Kokkinotrimithia. According to police reports the van, which was in a parking lot within the village, was set ablaze at...
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Wanted for fast-food shooting
POLICE are searching for Kyro-Stavro Georgiou, 29, from Limassol in connection with shots fired at a fast food restaurant last Saturday. Limassol district court remanded a 23-year-old man for seven...
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Fake passports
TWO Iraqi nationals were remanded for five days yesterday after being arrested at Larnaca airport the previous evening as they were attempting to travel to Austria using false documents. One man tried...
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Virgin Galactic spaceship makes third powered test flight
By Irene Klotz VIRGIN Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spacecraft aiming to make the world’s first commercial suborbital spaceflights later this year, conducted its third...
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Pedestrian killed
A 71-year-old woman was killed yesterday morning in Limassol after she was hit by a car as she was trying to cross the road, police said. Ioanna Hasiotou Christodoulou was at a pedestrian crossing in...
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Ex-Defence Minister Papacostas seeks pardon on medical grounds
FORMER defence minister Costas Papacostas who was hospitalised at Nicosia General on July 9, less than a month before being sentenced for his involvement in the Mari naval base explosion, has asked for...
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Garoyian’s double trouble over secretary allowance
By Constantinos Psillides FORMER DIKO leader and MP Marios Garoyian came under scrutiny on Friday, after it was revealed that he receives two secretarial allowances, one as an MP and one as a former...
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CY to sell Heathrow timeslot despite pilots’ protest
By Constantinos Psillides CYPRUS Airways chairman Tony Antoniou confirmed on Friday that the national carrier has reached an agreement to sell one of the two timeslots at Heathrow airport to Qatar...
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Let’s Go hosts cruise fair
LET’S Go Cruises by Amathus is organising its third annual Cruise Fair this weekend taking place at the International State Fair grounds in collaboration with the Wedding Exhibition 2014. This event...
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Police searching for dead baby girl’s mother
POLICE were searching private clinics and hospitals yesterday in a bid to track down the mother of a dead baby girl found at a waste disposal unit near Larnaca after it was apparently dumped in the...
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Police injured during arrest
LARNACA District Court remanded a 28-year-old Romanian man for four days yesterday in connection with injuring a police officer. Shortly after midnight on Thursday, police received a report that there...
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Cabinet gives OK for Russian use of Paphos base
By Stefanos Evripidou THE COUNCIL of Ministers has approved a draft proposal by the Defence Ministry to offer certain facilities to the Russian air force at the Andreas Papandreou military airbase in...
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Adam Johnson treble downs Fulham
Adam Johnson fired Sunderland off the bottom of the Barclays Premier League table with a priceless hat-trick to drag Fulham back into relegation trouble. The 26-year-old England international followed...
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Mountain dream come true
By Bejay Browne WHEN 48-year-old Stavros Zenonos took the momentous decision ten years ago to change career he did it in style. He gave up his safe job as area manager for an insurance company in...
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Diplomats behaving badly
By Ian Buruma Diplomats, normally discreet figures who rarely court publicity, have been in the news a lot lately, for all the wrong reasons. Two recent arrests of diplomats by their host countries...
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Supervolcanoes: another thing to worry about
By Gwynne Dyer THE GOOD thing about volcanoes is that you know where they are. If you don’t want to get hurt, just stay away from them. The bad thing about supervolcanoes is that you may know where...
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Where has the good god of Cyprus gone?
By Nicos Rolandis I was 19 years old in 1954 and had gone to London to study. I was thinking a lot about my country and I wrote: Tell me, my brother, is it still springtime in Cyprus, like in the...
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How was it possible to honour the fighters of 63?
By Loucas Charalambous WHEN I was writing my comment about the events of 1963 which was published in this space on December 22, I was not aware that the previous evening there was a ceremony in Nicosia...
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