THE NATIONAL Council will convene on July 12 to evaluate the fourth round of UN-led direct talks between President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, which ended on Tuesday.
THE GOVERNMENT will decide next week whether to allow the semi-government Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) to compete in the telecommunications bidding war following a rift between two cabinet ministers at Wednesday’s session over the issue.
MINISTERS AND deputies would have to submit a capital statement within two months of assuming their position and two months after leaving, according to a proposed bill submitted by the Chairman of the House Legal Affairs Committee, Panayiotis Demetriou, yesterday.
GREENS were yesterday cautiously optimistic over the cabinet’s decision on Wednesday to protect specific areas of the environmentally sensitive Akamas peninsula from development.
FINANCE Minister Takis Klerides said yesterday that the Cabinet had approved a subsidy on diesel for agricultural purposes, the setting up of a technical committee for farming debts, and a £500,000 cash injection into the farmers’ social insurance fund.
THE HOUSE is expected next week to discuss the reduction in the age of consent of homosexual males from 18 down to 16 in line with European Union human rights provisions.
FOURTEEN Syrian immigrants suspected of trying to enter the country illegally were intercepted off the coast of Protaras yesterday morning by Famagusta police.
Their boat was seen on radar two and a half nautical miles off the coast.
They were picked up and taken to the local police station.
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