THREE hooded men – one of them armed – were waiting outside the Paphos home of DIKO deputy Nicos Pittokopitis when he returned from his office late last night, CyBC reported.

PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides yesterday denied being pressured by foreign diplomats to remove high-tech National Guard weapon systems from the island.

In a written statement read by Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou, Clerides said that no foreign ambassador – including the US ambassador – had ever suggested or raised the issue of removing any weapons from Cyprus.

AFTER the Stock Exchange, land scams, electricity theft, and other scandals, it’s the turn of football, with a club chairman on Saturday charging that a match official was routinely ‘fixing’ games.

The accusations were made at the end of the cup fixture between Olympiakos of Nicosia and Anorthosis of Famagusta, which Anorthosis won
2-0.

ACADEMICS yesterday branded criticism of conflict resolution workshops as blatant political manoeuvring at a time when face-to-face talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders heighten the immediacy of a solution to the Cyprus problem.

SOME customs officers take home more than double their annual salaries by working overtime, the Auditor-general’s report for 2000 has revealed.

FORMER President George Vassiliou yesterday categorically denied reports of involvement in the electricity theft scandal.

AN OFFICIAL at the Water Development Department yesterday admitted that chemical levels in the drinking water supplied to Makedonitissa were way above the allowed EU maximum, but insisted it posed no risk to human health.