Government plays down fact Turkey’s ports and airports still closed to Cyprus
THE government yesterday sought to play down concerns that Turkey’s readiness to sign the EU customs union protocol – confirmed yesterday – did not entail any form of recognition of Cyprus by Ankara.
MORE job cuts are on the cards for ailing national carrier Cyprus Airways (CY) if it is to secure £60 million (over 100 million euro) in loans which is targeted at putting the airline in a stable position, a CY official said yesterday.
The airline will hear by April 20 whether it will get an urgently needed cash injection guaranteed by the government.
A 25-YEAR-OLD Chinese asylum seeker was yesterday sentenced to a year in jail for running a brothel and exploiting prostitutes.
But what stood out in the court’s decision was a special tribute to the two officers who took part in a sting operation and subsequently testified in court.
THAT the Cyprus problem could be solved at closed-door discussions between the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) and AKEL was the message AKEL party spokesman Andros Kyprianou and CTP general secretary Ferdi Sabit Soyer sought to convey at a seminar on Monday night at Nicosia’s Intercollege.
THE Supreme Court has upheld a stiff prison sentence imposed by the Nicosia district court on a drug dealer for the supply of 0.452 grams of heroin, thus paving the way for other district judges to follow suit on similar situations.
CULT cartoon character Homer Simpson has weighed in to the debate on the Cyprus problem, blasting a band of Turks who had kidnapped his children as “Cyprus-splitting jerks!”
The outburst came in the latest ‘Mobile Homer’ episode of the US series, The Simpsons.
THE assistant Attorney-general yesterday defended the authorities over accusations of delays in acting against a brokerage implicated in the disappearance of over £9 million from the Electricity Authority (EAC) pension fund which it was handling.
OPPOSITION leader Nicos Anastassiades and Turkish Cypriot ‘Prime Minister’ Mehmet Ali Talat both reiterated their commitment to the resumption of talks, following a meeting yesterday in the occupied part of Nicosia.
A 77-year-old yesterday died after being crushed by his tractor in a field near the village of Paralimni.
Relatives went out looking for the elderly man in the afternoon and found him unconscious, trapped under the tractor.
LENGTHY delays in obtaining town planning and building permits for new buildings can squarely be blamed on the antiquated practices of the Town Planning Department and local municipalities, the President of the Architects Association, Costantinos Costandi, said yesterday.
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