POLICE yesterday seized computers and documents from the offices of Suphire, the company suspected of stealing around £9 million from the Electricity Authority (EAC) pension fund.
The investigations were stepped up, a day after the company’s CEO, Yiannis Andronikou, was arrested and remanded in custody for eight days in connection with the case.
Sir,
I refer to a recent news item in which Cyprus was portrayed as having among the highest cost of living locations in Europe.
While it is true that food costs fluctuate wildly and have increased since 2003, when we retired here from England, it is quite misleading to omit non-food costs which in some cases are dramatically lower than elsewhere in the EU.
Sir,
I read with some considerable surprise Mr Marios Polycarpou’s letter (Turks must accept minority status’ March 24), stating that, “It is ludicrous for a minority outnumbered 7 to 1 to expect power sharing… the Turkish Cypriot community is entitled to a representation equivalent to the number of legitimate people it contains…”
YIANNOS Andronikou was on Sunday remanded in custody for eight days on suspicion of conspiracy to commit felony, theft, falsifying accounts and concealment offences.
In a court procedure that lasted around four hours, the judge ruled there were no grounds to detain his wife, Rea, who was also arrested for her involvement as the director of companies involved in the case.
DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides yesterday insisted that the investigation into the Suphire affair was not being conducted properly.
He said such investigations should be meticulous and carried out with determination, confidentiality and without warning.
“When suspects are warned it is almost certain that evidence will be destroyed or tampered with.
THE government said yesterday there was nothing negative for the Greek Cypriot side in the text of the customs union protocol due to be signed by Turkey before October 3.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) stewards yesterday backed down on their threat to go on a one-day strike after accepting to enter a dialogue on outstanding issues relating to the airline’s controversial rescue package.
THE World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship will this year be held at The English School in Nicosia between today, March 29, and April 4.
The event began back in 1998 and has been growing ever since. In 1999, the International Public Speaking Association, the umbrella association for the event, was founded, with the English School a co-founder.
ALMOST half of Cyprus’ primary school pupils have been referred to psychologists, a report has found.
According to an annual report conducted by the Ministry of Education for 2003-2004, 3,381 primary school pupils were referred to child psychologists, with 2,158 being referred for the first time. The figure is down on the previous academic year.
CHILDREN taking part in a school project on healthy eating “have now realised that junk food such as hamburgers and pizzas are bad for your health”.
Maria Papamichael, headmistress of the B Primary School of Yermasoyia, in the Limassol area, said the school took part in a programme run in co-operation between the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
