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THE RUMORED meeting between President Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday seemed banished to the realm of fiction, as it became increasingly difficult to fathom where the administration stood on the matter.

POLICE DISPLAYED a lack of serious and detailed planning during the truckers’ strike outside the Moni cement factory last month, Ombudswoman Iliana Nicolaou said yesterday. The strike was marked by scenes of violent scuffles between police and journalists covering the event, which lead to the arrest of a CyBC cameraman and a fallout between the media and police force.

FROM TONIGHT and for the next few days, the sky turns into a firework display of shooting stars, as the Earth enters an area of space debris, most of it formed from remains of the Tuttle comet.

AN increase in the number of costly illegal after-school tutors has prompted members of the Parents’ Association to meet the Education Minister to hash out plans for a better public school system.

THE BRITISH bases said yesterday that combined efforts of Cypriot authorities, NGOs and their own police had reduced the number of bird trappers by between 80 and 90 per cent.

Dhekelia base police chief Jim Guy told reporters yesterday that as migration season was approaching, authorities were anticipating an increase in activity by trappers.

A BULGARIAN student was the latest person to lose his life on the roads late on Monday after losing control of his motorcycle on the Kellaki-Parekklisia road in Limassol.

Ivan Petrov, 23, was riding without a helmet, police said, when he lost control of the bike and headed into oncoming traffic near the village of Prastio.

The accident happened at around 8pm