PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos’ secret meetings with Turkish Cypriot ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ Serdar Denktash before and after April’s referendum, raise a serious point or order, a furious DISY leader Nicos Anastassaides said yesterday.
AROUND one kilo of beige powder, believed to be heroin, was discovered by Drugs Squad Officials (IKAN) in a car which included two foreigners aged 31 and 28 and a 27-year-old Turkish-Cypriot residing in Paphos.
CANCER patients, relatives and friends yesterday completed the seventh day of their indefinite strike outside the Presidential Palace.
The protesters reiterated their determination to remain there until the government reversed its decision to close down the Nicosia general hospital oncology unit.
PRESIDENT Papadopoulos was initially reluctant to allow the Rizokarpasso Gymnasium to be reopened, believing the cost would be too high for just four pupils, DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades said yesterday.
Anastassiades made his comments in an interview with a private radio station and repeated them later at a news conference he gave on the Cyprus issue.
CONCERNS over the death toll on the roads have stirred government officials up to the highest level, with President Tassos Papadopoulos instructing a special meeting with top representatives today on how to tackle the problem.
Some 75 people have been killed in traffic accidents so far this year, with a spate of deaths in the past week.
Parents of children attending the remote Pomos Primary School yesterday attacked the Education Ministry for cutting the number of teachers at the school, adding to the teething problems at the start of the new school year.
On Monday, parents in Lakatamia and Zakaki kept their children at home in protest at construction delays at their schools.
THE BLUNDER-PRONE health minister Dina Akkelidou has landed herself in a big mess yet again but this time she cannot shift the blame to her subordinates. Her latest gaffe, which some lawyers have described as a possible criminal offence, came with her signature, on government stationery, marked ‘confidential’.
Dina Akkelidou charged with meddling in the course of justicein latest faux pas
A BIZARRE road accident in Mesa Geitonia, Limassol yesterday claimed the life of 90-year-old Athanasia Christodoulou, who was struck down while sitting on a chair on the pavement.
POLITIS: “Tassos admits secret meetings”. Four months after the April 24 referendum and after numerous media reports, the government admitted that President Tassos Papadopoulos had secret meetings with Serdar Denktash and ‘communications minister’ Omer Kalionzou in early April. The delayed confession raises a number of important questions and also raises the issue of political order.
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