A BITTER quarrel between Central Bank Governor Afxentis Afxentiou and House Watchdog Committee chairman Christos Pourgourides over Afxentiou’s Governor’s alleged responsibilities concerning the Cyprus Stock Exchange fiasco yesterday turned into a parliamentary row.
SEVERAL private practitioners are considering taking legal action against a group of insurance firms, saying they have been blacklisted for refusing to agree to the companies’ terms.
A RISE in telecommunications fraud abroad has prompted CyTA (the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority) to initiate a public awareness campaign, advising customers to guard against theft and fraud at home.
A leaflet issued with the latest monthly phone bills outlines some dos and don’ts so customers avoid being scammed.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash yesterday met in Nicosia to continue talks under the UN aegis on the Cyprus problem.
The meeting, the third this week, which lasted for about 80 minutes, took place at premises near Nicosia airport in the UN-controlled buffer zone. No statements were made after the talks.
CONSUMERS could be eating unhealthy eggs without realising, the Cyprus Consumers Association warned yesterday.
The General Manager of the Association, Dinos Ioannou, confirmed he had received “reliable insider information” that incubated eggs were being illegally sold at very cheap prices to a number of industries in the market.
A 34-YEAR-old Nicosia man was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days on suspicion of illegally adjusting electricity meters to indicate lower readings.
THE head of a Nicosia post office is facing suspension after he allegedly asked a customer who had left his wallet at the branch for money in order to return it to him, reports said yesterday.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority (EAC) began work yesterday to reroute electricity from the controversial pylons suspected of causing cancer in the Polemidhia suburb of Limassol.
“We will be taking down the pylons and laying the cables underground. It is a big undertaking which involves tearing up some pavements,” EAC Spokesman Tassos Roussos told the Cyprus Mail.
SMALL shops around the island will close their doors and stop work at 11am on February 7.
THE GOVERNMENT has offered to destroy a cache of police weapons stored inside the UN-controlled Nicosia Airport since before 1974.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
