TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash yesterday called upon the Greek Cypriots to accept his breakaway state and reiterated that the Turkish people will never surrender their ‘republic’.
THE GREEK authorities gave the green light yesterday for the Bank of Cyprus’s listing on the Athens Stock Exchange, ending months of speculation that the blue-chip’s application had run into trouble.
"It is a giant step towards internationalising the Bank of Cyprus. New sources of capital will be tapped,
GOVERNMENT Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou said yesterday said that President Glafcos Clerides will raise the issue of recent Turkish provocations when the UN-led proximity talks resume in Switzerland next week.
A RETIRED headmaster and part-time member of the secret service is asking for a job from former pupils because he hasn’t been paid by his current employer — the Presidential Palace.
Presidential adviser Christos Artemiou says he has worked for the past five months without pay.
RIGHT-WING union Sek yesterday offered to help replant areas devastated by the recent forest fires, in an initiative welcomed by Agriculture Minister Costas Themistocleous.
Representatives of the union met the minister yesterday morning and presented him with a letter pledging their support.
TWO Famagusta men were yesterday remanded in custody for two days suspected of possessing cannabis.
Lucas Siderenios, 25, and 27-year-old Elias Elia, both from Frenaros, were arrested for alleged drug possession and use after police stopped their car for a routine breathalyser test.
THE 24-hour ‘cool down’ centre Nicosia Municipality equipped with air-conditioners and generators to provide a safe heaven during the recent heatwave has now been closed because of the drop in temperature.
But if the heat returns with a vengeance the centre will open its doors once again.
THE second pregnant woman to be killed on Cyprus roads this week was buried yesterday evening in her home village of Alassa, Limassol.
State pathologist Eleni Antoniou carried out an autopsy earlier on 26-year-old Giorgoulla Tofali, and said that saving her unborn baby would have been impossible because she was only four months pregnant.
THE Electricity Authority has called in its lawyers after reports that ice cream suppliers may be on the brink of filing for compensation after the power cuts that hit Nicosia two weeks ago today.
POLICE want to question a Syrian man in connection with a stabbing incident in Limassol on Wednesday night.
They say the 33-year-old suspect visited his brother’s house on Icarias Street in the Ayios Ioannis area at 8.10pm to discuss a financial difference. Also present were two other men, 25-year-old Bassem Chreban, and Ferras Ebdegul, 24.
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