TURKISH Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has invited opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades to Istanbul next month. The invitation will be discussed by the party’s central committee today, party spokesman Tassos Mitsopoulos said yesterday.
DIKO deputy Nicos Pittokopitis plans to propose in parliament this week a controversial annual £10 surcharge on vehicle owners as part of measures aimed at curbing the increasing rate of road deaths in Cyprus.
THE government is working on a comprehensive housing plan aimed at helping primarily large families and persons with special needs acquire their own home.
VARIOUS theories about the murder of 52-year-old Elmas “Guzelyurtlu” Ali, his 50-year-old wife Zerrin and 16-year-old daughter Ayul, who were shot at close range on Saturday morning, are circulating in the Turkish Cypriot press.
THE Cyprus Police Association (CPA) has given the government until January 31 to come up with a way to pay the backlog of overtime pay, which hasn’t been paid since 1993, reaching over £5 million.
The CPA claims that successive governments have ignored the issue for 12 years, leading to unpaid overtime figures reaching £5.3 million.
CYPRIOT representatives of the Doctors of the World mission yesterday announced further plans to help the victims of the tsunami in south-east Asia.
DEPUTIES on the Human Rights Committee warned yesterday more needed to be done to ensure pensioners were properly treated at old people’s homes on the island.
They said they had received complaints of poor conditions and even beating of old people at certain homes.
TWO MATHS teachers have been arrested on suspicion of giving illegal private lessons, the Education Ministry said yesterday.
In an ongoing police crackdown against unlicensed private lessons, police in Limassol and Larnaca arrested the teachers. This follows the arrest of another teacher in Limassol last Thursday afternoon, in the first sting operation of its kind.
THE VETERINARY Services of the Ministry of Agriculture have located a strand of Salmonella at a chicken farm in Latsia and have called on consumers not to eat the eggs from the farm.
The strand, which is clinically known as Salmonella enteritidis, was discovered in chickens at the Apalos Farm Ltd in Latsia. The services have called on consumers not to eat the eggs.
CyBC officials have played down claims that the station was thinking of altering the names of towns in the north of the island after the point was raised at meeting of politicians yesterday.
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