IT’S been estimated that around 50 Cypriots and foreigners living on the island have been compromised by a huge credit card security breach in the United States.
A 32-YEAR-old Limassol man was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days in connection with the possession of seven kilos of cannabis and a small quantity of cocaine and ecstasy.
The drugs were hidden in an old house in Limnatis, which was being rented by the 32-year-old painter.
WITH drug use on the increase on the island, the use of drugs among pupils remains thankfully low, the government said yesterday.
Ahead of International Anti-drug Day tomorrow, the various Ministries and organisations of the island have been alerting the public on the dangers of drugs.
THE Luxembourg presidency of the EU is trying to secure the consent of all interested parties for the decoupling of the two EU regulations on financial assistance to Turkish Cypriots; the aim is to push through at least one of the regulations, that of direct financial aid amounting to 259 million euros.
HUNDREDS of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria who settled in the occupied areas in the 1980s will today attempt to cross the checkpoints in order to vote at the Bulgarian embassy, despite government insistence that they would not let them through.
Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said the Bulgarians were being treated as settlers and would not be allowed through.
A 78-year-old man was yesterday arrested on suspicion of starting a large fire in an area near the village of Kyvides near Limassol.
The fire started at 10.45am and spread quickly with the wind’s assistance, destroying 15 hectares of trees, shrubs and vineyards.
WATCHING the juvenile glee with which mainstream Greek Cypriot hacks and spin doctors greeted Sir Kieran Prendergast’s briefing on the Secretary-general’s good offices mission to Cyprus before the UN Security Council this week one would have thought that he had announced the re-unification of Cyprus.
CYPRUS Airways has signed an agreement with Air Miles of Greece for the commercial exploitation of Hellas Jet, its loss-making Greek subsidiary.
The memorandum of understanding includes a call option on Air Miles to acquire 51 per cent of Hellas Jet shares from Cyprus Airways, and for the Cypriot carrier to sell Air Miles its remaining 49 per cent, Cyprus Airways said in a statement.
THE Turkish Cypriot authorities said yesterday its ‘council of ministers’ was yet to decide on how to deal with a Greek Cypriot seeking political asylum in the north.
Themistocles Georgiou crossed the UN-controlled buffer zone on Thursday claiming he wanted to live in the north because of repeated injustices at the hands of the Cypriot government.
MORE waves have been created for the BOT deal between the government and an international consortium for the upgrade and running of the two airports, as a second rejected bidder has complained to the European Union.
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