SCUFFLES BROKE out yesterday between the police and taxi drivers protesting outside the Larnaca airport.
Airport taxi drivers were staging a 24-hour warning strike over insurance and diesel prices.
Passengers without any means of transport were forced to carry their luggage to the airport roundabout in search of taxis.
Delegation of Chinese travel agents detained because Cypriot-issued visas were ‘not good enough’
THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) is seeking a meeting with the Interior Ministry after 25 travel agents from China, invited to Cyprus to promote the island at home, were detained for four hours by immigration at Larnaca airport on Tuesday.
ATTITUDES in the north in respect of trafficking in women are changing, US ambassador Michael Klosson said yesterday during an address on the issue in the north.
Following a conference on the issue in the south earlier this week, a similar event and workshops were held in the north over the past two days at the Arabahmet Cultural Centre.
A FINANCIAL fraudster selling dud shares to unsuspecting pensioners in Kyrenia may be about to move onto larger and more lucrative markets in the south, a source in the north revealed yesterday.
DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades will travel to Washington on July 18 to take part in the International Democratic Unions (IDU), which will also be attended by US President George Bush. DISY spokesman Tassos Mitsopoulos said Anastassiades was going to the US at the invitation of the Republican Party and would be attending a lunch hosted by Bush.
THE COMMITTEE for Missing Persons (CMP) yesterday agreed on the principles to be put in place in connection with DNA identification of the remains of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot missing persons, which would be set up without delay.
BRITISH American Tobacco Cyprus (BAT) has warned that fake brand-cigarettes are circulating in the Cypriot marketplace, most of which are copies of well-known international brands. In a statement published in yesterday’s Politis newspaper, BAT said the products are being made illegally abroad and they do not have the quality that consumers are accustomed to.
Historic vote interrupted by bomb hoax
THE HOUSE last night ratified the European Constitution, becoming the first country to approve the Treaty following its rejection by founder nations France and the Netherlands.
The Treaty was approved by majority vote as government partners AKEL, the only party to do so, voted against.
THE BRITISH bases should not be used for military offensives and Britain should fulfil its financial obligations to Cyprus, the House of Representatives said yesterday.
MACHI: “Meeting: Anastassiades – Bush”. The far right wing paper states that a crucial and important meeting will take place between DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades and US President George W. Bush in the middle of July.
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