26 arrested in occupied areas for smuggling illegals south
THE lawyer representing three of the 26 people – ten of them police officers – arrested in the north over the past few days for people trafficking said yesterday he had reason to believe the smuggling ring’s line of command “included some very high ranking officers”.
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Your opinion regarding the reaction of the government following Mr Talat’s comments on marriage between Greek and Turkish Cypriots (‘Surely they can do better than this’, April 7) once again reflects the Cyprus Mail’s obvious partiality that prevents objective consideration of many issues in this paper.
THE power of attorney signed by the electricity authority (EAC) pension fund authorised a top financier to sell the EAC buildings and electricity poles, his lawyer said yesterday.
THE KARAISKAKIO Foundation yesterday pledged to do all they could to help a Turkish leukaemia patient have a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Dr Pavlos Costeas, the director of the foundation, said, “we are working in collaboration with Turkish bone marrow donor registries but cannot comment on individual cases due to doctor-patient confidentiality.”
TWO men on trial for murder drove to a Nicosia park where they gagged the victim who was still alive after the beating he suffered on the head, the Nicosia Assizes Court heard yesterday.
DISY boss Nicos Anastassiades yesterday launched a full-scale retaliation on the government, denying charges that he possessed a document outlining the “political extermination” of the President.
Employees’ contributions have not been lost, we just don’t have the £18 million’
NICOSIA’S municipality will need more than a decade to compensate for a £18 million shortfall in what should have been its contributions to employees’ pension fund.
SEVEN years after the Planning Department of Nicosia Municipality planned a road network that encroached into a private garden, the owners of the property concerned have successfully petitioned in the Supreme Court against the decision, which in effect required them to cede part of their property.
IN THE wake of DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides’ claims that the secret service monitored communications during the Clerides administration, media reports said yesterday that phone tapping was still going on with the same equipment procured back in 2001.
CYPRIOT women are among the group of Europeans with the highest employment rates after having children, while they are also in line with the general EU trend according to which the more children women have the lower the employment percentage rates.
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