MURDER suspect Magda Eleftheriou broke into tears as she was told by a Nicosia Court yesterday that she would not be allowed to be with her children until her trial in December.
THE grief-stricken father of a14-year-old boy who died in the hands of state doctors yesterday recounted to reporters how his son was taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) when doctors knew he was already dead.
Two doctors were found guilty of medical negligence on Tuesday over the death in 2001 of Giorgos Hadjidemetris from Geri.
ACCUSATIONS flew yesterday that the Turkish Cypriot administration had broken its election pledge of transparency as calls mounted for the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Serdar Denktash to explain why he removed his ‘economy and tourism minister’ from office.
THE Cyprus government has got its hands full over the next two months with core issues related to the Cyprus problem coming up for review in the European Union, United Nations, Council of Europe and European Court of Human Rights.
THE Turkish Cypriot side has accepted the government’s proposals for the re-opening of the Rizokarpasso Gymnasium in the occupied Karpass, an official statement said yesterday.
The statement said that the UN had informed the government that the gymnasium would operate under the same conditions as the Greek Cypriot elementary school in the area.
CONFUSION created by Turkish Cypriot warnings to stay away from Varosha yesterday prompted the Famagusta mayor to say that demonstrators in his municipality’s planned march would only go as far as the checkpoint.
THE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday released €2.5 million in funding to help de-mine the 180km-long buffer zone that divides Cyprus, a statement issued in Nicosia said.
The funding is part of a package comprising €5 million to be paid out by the Commission over the next two years to remove land mines littering the UN-patrolled buffer zone since 1974.
THE government yesterday stopped short of pledging further assistance to grape growers, despite the prospect of industrial action.
Farming organisations met with President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday to discuss problems facing the agriculture sector after EU accession, but failed to extract any pledges on the problem of surplus grapes.
U.N. SECRETARY-general Kofi Annan is to send a letter to the leaders of both sides urging them to press on with exhumations that may uncover the remains of both Greek and Turkish Cypriot missing persons, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) said yesterday.
Quoting unnamed sources, CNA said the letter would be in the spirit of earlier correspondence with the two sides in December 2003.
A 35-YEAR-OLD man was arrested on Tuesday for questioning regarding the illegal possession of cigarettes.
The police stopped a car driven by the man, who is a foreigner, on the old Limassol-Paphos road. In a search of his vehicle, police found 61 cartons of cigarettes as well £258, $45 and 45 Syrian pounds in cash.
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