A THAW in Cyprus-Turkey relations during an impromptu meeting of the main protagonists in Moscow yesterday appears to have opened the way for a new round of talks, Ankara and Nicosia said last night.
CYPRUS’ admission into the ERM-2 euro waiting room in April creates conditions for cheaper borrowing, the finance minister said yesterday, implying a cut in domestic interest rates.
“Admission creates the right conditions for the convergence of interest rates… which would benefit consumers,” Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said.
CONSTRUCTION of the new Nicosia general hospital, which has been plagued by delays and problems, will be finished by the end of this year or the beginning of 2006, Communications and Works Minister Haris Thrasou said yesterday.
AROUND £500,000 will initially be allocated for the creation of a legal aid fund for investors, the House Finance Committee heard yesterday.
Finance Minister Makis Keravnos presented the bill before the committee and urged its members to back it.
A BLOODSTAIN on a Pakistani defendant’s left boot matched a murder victim’s DNA, the Nicosia Assizes Court said yesterday.
The trial over the murder last July of 38-year-old contractor Pavlos Christodoulou, resumed yesterday with testimony from the genetics expert who tested all the evidence collected by police.
NICOSIA will be in the spotlight of world culture in the autumn of next year, as it hosts Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, considered to be one of the most important artistic events worldwide.
First staged in Rotterdam almost a decade ago, Manifesta has now grown into an acclaimed event, which offers a platform for emerging artists.
REPORTS that the Turkish Cypriot municipality of Kythrea had given permission for the demolition of a Greek Cypriot school in the village were strongly denied yesterday.
TURKISH Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ferdi Soyer is threatening to sue President Tassos Papadopoulos for war crimes in an international court. Soyer made the comments in an interview published by Politis yesterday.
The Republican Turkish Party member continued his criticism of Papadopoulos yesterday in comments made to mark Europe Day.
CYPRIOT war veterans held a sombre gathering yesterday to pay tribute to the millions of people killed during WWII.
Some 30,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots joined the British regiment to fight against fascism. Two-and-a-half-thousand were captured and around 600 killed. They are buried in 49 cemeteries in 18 countries.
CYPRIOTS, with the exception of civil servants, have some of the longest working hours in the EU and are among those with the fewest holidays, a report reveals.
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