A NEW TENANCY bill being examined by the legislature would, if approved, make a complete mockery of the right to property. This is a bill that protects the rights of a tenant to such an extreme degree (his tenancy agreement is inherited by his offspring or spouse after he dies) that it penalises the owner, depriving him of the right to use his property as he chooses.
ALITHIA: “Rehabilitation Centre opposite school” The authorities are considering plans to open a Drugs Rehabilitation Centre opposite a private school that provides primary and secondary education. One house in the area has already been expropriated for this purpose and work on the new centre has begun.
FORMER APOEL player Varnavas Stipanovic yesterday denied any link with the neo-nazi ‘Pirates’ group, admitting he had worn the group’s t-shirt at a game but insisting he had no idea of the pirates’ ideology.
RIVAL Nicosia volleyball clubs Omonia and APOEL face exclusion from the championship after clashes between fans during a game at the Lefkotheo stadium in Nicosia on Wednesday night. Three police officers and two fans were wounded after fans started stoning each other outside the grounds while the game was going on. Sources said the fight was started by Omonia fans who were losing the game.
AN ANCIENT cemetery has been dug up during road works on the final stretch of the Limassol coast road. An excavator working on the road on Wednesday found human remains, and initially thought it to be a missing body from one of the mysterious disappearances of the past years. Police were immediately alerted to the scene and closed off the area to the public.
HOUSE Watchdog Committee Chairman, Christos Pourgourides, yesterday advised investors who borrowed and lost money during the 1999 Stock Exchange fiasco to halt loan repayments, even if they were being taken to court for arrears. Speaking to the CyBC, Pourgourides said “investors should hold back any payments at the moment and I make this suggestion with full knowledge of the consequences”.
A MEETING was held in parliament yesterday to discuss the bill sent back to the House by President Tassos Papadopoulos after it was found to be in breach of EU directives. The bill would have allowed the licensing of individuals to audit companies, even though they do not have the accounting and professional qualification required by the EU.
LEGISLATION sent back by President Tassos Papadopoulos to parliament to be modified in line with EU laws was passed yesterday without any changes being made. Apart from United Democrats deputy, Androula Vasiliou, who abstained, the remaining deputies rejected the president’s call to change the law on licensing for accountants and voted to implement it as it was.
THE NEW Nicosia general hospital will finally be ready for operation in January 2005, nine full years since the project first began. It will cost taxpayers a final estimate of £63 million. But cynics remain unconvinced the hospital will be delivered on time following years of repeated extensions and calls for more money. Construction of the new hospital started in 1996.
NICOSIA Central Prison director Panicos Kyriacou yesterday called for an emergency psychological evaluation report on one of his inmates. Thirty-two-year-old Christos Hadjimarkou from Nicosia is mildly mentally retarded and has physical disabilities. Until his arrest, he spent his time helping out at his local church and up until two years ago he was under the care of a government psychologist.
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.
