STOCKBROKERS Suphire Securities and Financial Services Ltd. are under criminal investigation in connection with the £9.5 million missing from the Pension Fund of employees of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC).
Sir,
Your last Friday’s front-page article (‘Unspeakable acts of cruelty’) and photograph appalled me and I am sure, many others. The nightmare picture can only be described as something from the Holocaust: somewhere among that detritus, barely alive animals, young and old, are suffering in silence as they are mown to death: just so much rubbish!
Sir,
I am writing to you in response to a letter you published by Nicos Margolis on his comments about Armenian Cypriots hindering reunification of the island.
THE DOCTOR of a paralysed man who got up and walked for the first time in a year in what is being claimed as a miracle said yesterday he had no other explanation for what had happened to Marios Stylianou on Saturday.
The miracle happened on the feast day of the Apostle Barnabas, when Stylianou visited the grave of the saint in the grounds of the monastery near occupied Famagusta.
A TEENAGE mother of two died from a suspected drug overdose in a Larnaca hotel apartment yesterday, in a mirror-image of the fate of her ex-husband who was found dead in a hotel room last month.
THE NICOSIA Assizes Court yesterday ruled for another trial-within-a-trial in the Magda murder trial, this time to examine the manner in which the crime scene location report was conducted.
Zeeshan Asghar Muhamad, 22, his Chinese roommate Yu Hong Bo, 28, and Magda Eleftheriou stand accused of murdering 38-year-old Pavlos Christodoulou, Magda’s husband.
IT WOULD be “inconceivable” for Turkey not to recognise an EU member state at the same time as it is negotiating to become a member of the bloc, Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said yesterday.
He was responding to statements by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that Ankara’s recognition of Cyprus would be resolved in the context of Turkey’s full membership of the EU.
THE Cyprus Red Cross plans to use the donations made by Cypriots for the tsunami victims in south-eastern Asia, to build an institution for children in one of the countries hit by the giant tidal wave.
The Chairwoman of the Cyprus Red Cross, First Lady Fotini Papadopoulou, said yesterday that the amount collected in Cyprus so far for the tsunami victims had reached £920,000.
A BRITISH man is offering his body as a human billboard in an online auction. The man, identified only as Tommy, is offering businesses the chance to advertise themselves on a billboard that he will wear for a week and walk around Paphos come rain or shine.
DEPUTIES from five parties have joined forces in a bid to push through two bills that would at long last establish sign language as an officially recognised form of communication in Cyprus.
The first bill, tabled in Parliament last Thursday, would facilitate communication with the deaf in the public service, while also opening up the possibility of hiring deaf people.
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