THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Yugoslavia yesterday gave Cyprus specific details relating to the alleged transfer of money to the island by the country’s former president Slobodan Milosevic.
Mladjen Dinkic, who arrived in Cyprus on Monday, met yesterday with his Cypriot counterpart Afxentis Afxentiou and with Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday took a first step towards solving the island’s massive rubbish problem, by officially launching a pilot recycling scheme in five municipalities.
IN A half empty room, the House Environmental Committee held a meeting with three deputies and other officials to discuss the problem of sporadic development plans threatening national heritage and the environment in areas of cultural importance.
The Town Planning Department was asked to come up with a plan to monitor and co-ordinate development.
THE Commerce, Industry and Tourism Ministry is considering erecting a huge statue of Aphrodite in the Paphos area, government sources said yesterday.
“We were presented with an idea and we are looking into it. It’s a very good idea,” the sources said. “But if we are going to have something effective we need something large, larger than life.”
CYPRIOTS have become increasingly disillusioned with the benefits of the island’s accession to the EU, if a survey published yesterday is to be believed, with more than three quarters of respondents also complaining about not being properly informed of developments.
POLICE yesterday confirmed that they were investigating complaints that a Nicosia district high school teacher deliberately failed students and then offered to give them private lessons costing £300-400 so they could pass his class.
THE Journalists’ Union said yesterday it would be approaching the authorities to suggest changes to the recently passed law forbidding journalists, photographers and cameramen from approaching individuals appearing in court.
DIKO deputy Marios Matsakis said yesterday he was “honoured to be considered a threat by Denktash” after reports that his name was on a Turkish secret service hit list.
Former National Guard chief Demetrios Demou told the Athens’ daily Eleftheros Typos that the had UN told him of a plot against Matsakis during his service on the island.
STATE coffers were not dented by a demand for a change of official limousine from House President Spyros Kyprianou, Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou vowed yesterday.
But the spokesman also rubbished Kyprianou’s claims that the luxury car originally granted him by the state was “problematic”.
TOMATOES ending up in landfills were just the sad end result of market forces and the problem could not be blamed on poor government planning, Agriculture Minister Costas Themistocleous said yesterday.
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