THE MAJOR question for the third round of negotiations in New York next month is "whether or not the Turkish Cypriot side is willing to negotiate," President Clerides said yesterday.
A SUPERMARKET butcher who knifed a kitten in full view of his customers could appear in court charged with cruelty.
Police say the 27-year-old man from Astromeritis admitted his guilt under questioning.
The incident happened in the recently opened Nicosia branch of Orphanides supermarket.
CYPRUS must introduce stricter anti-corruption laws and actually implement those that already exist, House Watchdog Committee chairman Christos Pourgourides said yesterday.
A NEW row erupted yesterday between New Horizons leader Nicos Koutsou and Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou.
The two men sparred only two weeks ago over alleged ‘superpowers’ granted by the Cabinet to the island’s chief EU negotiator, George Vassiliou.
THE TECHNICAL Chamber (Etek) said yesterday that the decision to move the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) to the International Merchandising Centre (IMC) was illegal.
Etek president Nicos Mesaritis said allowing the CSE to move to the massive building on the way out of Nicosia would be equivalent to condoning the illegality.
SACKED Miss Universe Pageant committee chairman Nicos Mastorakis of Athens will receive no more than £110,000 in compensation for his dismissal from the pageant, not £500,000 as reported on Tuesday, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Nicos Rolandis said yesterday.
PLANNED government probes into suspicions that residents of Ergates and Omonia have been poisoned by smoke from two foundries near their villages took centre-stage yesterday at a House Environment Committee hearing.
TEN CHARGES were yesterday filed against a man suspected of involvement in a massive share scam earlier this year.
TWO MEN are being held on suspicion of setting fire to a car belonging to a Turkish Cypriot in the mixed Nicosia district village of Potamia.
Police told a court yesterday that the Greek Cypriot suspects, one aged 24 and the other 27, had admitted to burning the car of Turkish Cypriot Mehmet Sami Ousta as it was parked in Potamia.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides yesterday inaugurated four new galleries devoted to Cypriot art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the most important Cypriot collection outside the island.
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