EIGHT men suspected of involvement in the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Elmas Guzelyurtlu, his wife and teenage daughter yesterday walked free after authorities in the north ruled they had insufficient evidence to bring them to trial or justify their continued detention.
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It seems that Cyprus Tourism Offices abroad do not shy away from using the cheapest tricks in order to prevent visitors from spending money in the North.
AROUND 1,500 cases pending in court will be affected by the Supreme Court decision, which declared unconstitutional a law that was supposed to force companies that had not been listed on the stock market (CSE) to return millions of pounds to investors. Only £12 million from a total £300 million was returned to investors since the law was passed three years ago.
THE GREEN Party has called on the government to take the asbestos problem in Cyprus more seriously, accusing the government of failing to live up to its own proposal, drawn up three years ago to tackle the problem.
BUTCHERS yesterday defended recent increases in the price of meat, saying they were due to slaughterhouses increasing their fees and were not as steep as claimed.
CANCER patients’ campaigners announced yesterday that another sufferer had died while being treated in the orthopaedic ward of the Nicosia General Hospital because the cancer ward has been closed down.
THE VALUE of counterfeit products traded in Europe is estimated at over 400 billion euros, according to the EU Taxation and Customs Commissioner, Laszlo Kovacs, who warned illegal trade is serious and growing.
WHEAT growers will hit the streets on February 21 in protest at government indifference towards their plight. The decision to take decisive action was reached yesterday, while the details on where and how will be decided at a later date, they said.
THE BANK of Cyprus Oncology Centre in Nicosia boasts everything that is essential and more for any advanced cancer clinic in the world.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday described the decision by the authorities in the north to release eight men suspected of being involved with the murder of a Turkish Cypriot businessman, his wife and daughter as “a very unpleasant development”.
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