A SENIOR police officer was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days in connection with a tax evading car assembly scam, but a Transport Department official arrested at the same time was released due to lack of evidence.
LARNACA police were yesterday investigating the circumstances in which a 15-year-old motorcyclist was killed after crashing into a car.
THE NEW Nicosia general hospital will be ready by July 2004, Health Minister Frixos Savvides told the House Health Committee yesterday.
Construction of the new hospital started in 1996, and it was due to be complete by February this year.
In April, however, the deadline was pushed back to June 2003. Then the contractor requested a further extension and more money.
BRITAIN believes that talks regarding the implementation of the acquis communautaire on the British Sovereign Bases after Cyprus’ accession to the European Union “can be taken to a satisfactory close before the Copenhagen Summit”.
GREECE said yesterday it was ready to support UN talks on Cyprus continuing after the possible acceptance of the island’s candidacy to the European Union in December.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority of Cyprus (EAC) yesterday decided to submit close to 150 cases of fraud to the Attorney-General’s office following extensive research after a scam was discovered in which electricity meters were being tampered with to produce lower readings, resulting in up to £1.5 million in lost revenue.
NEGOTIATIONS on the Cyprus problem continued yesterday between President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, focusing on the executive and legal authority of a central state.
TAXATION: at best it provokes whispered grumbles and at worst. well you can imagine. EU accession legislation has filled many column inches in the last year, so keeping track is difficult. Recent changes to the taxation system come into force at the beginning of the New Year, and these changes will affect the income of the island’s large expatriate community.
CAMPAIGNERS fighting construction of a new antenna by the British at their base at Akrotiri Salt Lake have won the formal backing of the British Green Party at their party conference.
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.
