U.F.O. ENTHUSIASTS and X-Files fans are in for a double treat this week with separate lectures on extraterrestrial life being held in both Nicosia and Limassol.
The first lecture is by well-known Greek Cypriot UFOlogist Andreas Achillides and will take place at the Higher Technical Institute in Nicosia.
POLICE yesterday arrested a 29-year-old Limassol man on suspicion of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.
The arrest came after a complaint from the girl’s mother who said the alleged paedophile was a family friend. The suspect is expected to appear in court today.
PUBLIC corruption can be stamped out through the privatisation of state services, the leader of governing Disy party, Nicos Anastassiades, suggested yesterday.
He said the state had to stop being active in sectors “which should naturally belong to the private sector”.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides arrived in London in the early hours of yesterday and is set for meetings tomorrow with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and special envoy Sir David Hannay.
FINANCE Minister Takis Klerides yesterday accepted the conditions set by opposition party Diko for backing his bill to raise VAT from eight to 10 per cent, paving the way for swift approval of the amendment.
The support of Diko’s nine deputies would guarantee the bill’s passage through the House of Representatives plenum on Thursday.
A PRICELESS sarcophagus, at least two thousand years old, was found in the back of a van stopped by Paphos police on the Coral Bay to Peyia road late on Friday night.
A government archaeologist yesterday said the confiscated stone coffin was of the Hellenistic period (325-30 BC) and was a “unique” find for the Paphos area.
GREEK Cypriots are willing to live with Turkish Cypriots but only at a distance, a new poll has revealed.
REPATRIATED Cypriots are being asked to attend a special meeting in Nicosia tomorrow to highlight their problems and help work out ways of solving them.
HOSPITALS face serious disruption from Tuesday onwards as laboratory technicians enforce a work-to-rule to demand restructuring of their service.
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