TEACHERS’ union OELMEK yesterday backed the existing ‘waiting list’ for employment in state education, rejecting claims that state schools were plagued with gerontocracy.

POTATO growers have threatened to stop producing potatoes if the government does a not agree to their demands for £6 million in compensation next week.

Andreas Karios, President of the Pancyprian Potato Growers Association said: “The growers will withdraw their seed and stop producing potatoes if our demands are ignored.”

IT WAS Health Minister Dina Akkelidou’s turn yesterday to deny she had invested substantial sums of money into the stock market while press reports spoke of transactions worth £170,000.

And she used the same excuse all politicians have used since their names started parading in the headlines.

“I invested £25,000; I am among the small investors who lost,” Akkelidou said.

VIOLENCE at Cypriot football games could be reduced if British-style stewards were introduced in stadiums, police said yesterday.

PHARMACEUTICAL companies have called on the government to make public a study on medicine prices, following claims the document showed Cypriot medicine buyers were being ripped off.

TWO men were yesterday remanded in custody for eight days in connection with the burglary of company offices in the Nicosia building where they lived, as well as possession of half a gram of heroin.

REPUBLICAN Turkish Party (CTP) leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday roundly rejected a call from the National Unity Party’s (UBP) Dervish Eroglu to form a coalition ‘government’ boosting the prospects for an early election in the north.

HARAVGHI: ‘They funded others as well’ President Papadopoulos has information detailing funding, apart from the United Nations, for various organisations and individuals to promote the ‘yes’ vote in the April 24 referendum, according to an interview the President had with the Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos.

THE OUTGOING chairman of the Education Service Commission, Christos Theofilides, was scathing about the teaching standards at state schools, in presenting an evaluation of the six years he spent in the job.