SCHOOL was out yesterday as the island’s 4,500 primary and nursery school teachers came out on strike to demand pay rises.
About 1,000 of the striking teachers braved the rain to march to the Presidential Palace in Nicosia to urge President Clerides to intervene on their behalf.
HUNDREDS of investors entitled to have their money returned from companies awaiting listing on the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) may have to resort to lengthy legal battles to recover their funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said yesterday.
SELLING WAS the order of the day on the CSE again yesterday with the all-share index losing another 2.01 per cent on top of Monday’s disastrous 4.5 per cent drop.
Trading opened at 236 points, eight points down on the previous day’s close, dropped as far as 234 before rebounding to close at 238.6, a new year low.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides said yesterday that Turkish Cypriot participation in the next round of UN peace talks was not a matter of concern to him.
He said the Cyprus government was working quietly to achieve its goals and stressed that it has already been decided that the Cyprus solution would take UN resolutions fully into consideration.
MORE than a hundred university and college students protested outside the Presidential Palace yesterday morning, calling on the government to respect a unanimous parliamentary decision to subsidise all students.
“Sponsor us, not the stockbrokers,” students chanted, demonstrating in the rain for more than an hour.
THE JOURNALISTS’ Union yesterday condemned a suspected arson attack on Turkish Cypriot opposition newspaper Avrupa, accusing the regime in the north of attempting to eradicate the freedom of expression.
According to Turkish Cypriot papers, a fire started at the newspaper in the early hours of Monday morning. The cause is reported to be “not officially known”.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday announced details of the new criteria for securing free or half-price state medical care.
The new criteria, which come into effect on January 1, classify people as either class `A’ or class `B’ claimants.
THE RAIN continued to fall yesterday, but without the flooding and destruction experienced the day before.
On Monday, torrential rains and strong wind wreaked havoc in Paphos.
Yesterday, there were a few reports of flooded houses and shops, while some roads were made dangerous because of wet tarmac and falling rocks.
THE ATTORNEY-general is investigating cases of tenants who have not been paying rent for as long as 10 years on land leased from the government in Ayia Napa, the Land and Surveys Department said yesterday.
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