A CASH windfall from a tax amnesty kept Cyprus’ public finances in a rare surplus in the first half of the year, state accounts published yesterday showed.
There was a £37.1 million surplus in the first half, or 0.5 per cent of GDP, the statistics department said.
WITH Saturday’s deadline for the payment of a ransom for the release of a Cypriot held in Iraq looming, the man’s aunt is anxiously waiting for developments.
FIGURES on the earnings of the self-employed given to the House last Monday by the head of the Inland Revenue Department, Giorgos Poufos, made for fascinating reading.
A CAR used by the British to transport Greek Cypriot prisoners during the EOKA armed struggle of 1955-1959 was formally donated to the Police Museum yesterday morning by its Larnaca owner.
Attending the ceremony was the Minister of Justice, representatives from EOKA (the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters), heads of police, and other officials.
SOY AND corn will soon be cultivated in Cyprus specifically for biodiesel use, according to a Commerce Ministry announcement yesterday, although members of the Green Party are concerned that such cultivation will lead to a dangerous proliferation of genetically modified crops throughout Cyprus.
E.U. MEMBER states yesterday approved their response to Turkey’s declaration not recognising the Republic of Cyprus, after Nicosia finally agreed to a compromise draft drawn up by the EU’s British presidency.
IBRAHIM Gambari, UN Under-Secretary-general for Political Affairs, may visit Cyprus next month as part of continuing UN efforts to help launch a fresh initiative on Cyprus, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday.
AN ELDERLY British man was killed yesterday in a car crash in Epsikopi near Limassol.
The man, identified by local media as 85-year-old Charlie Wayne Clarke, did not stop the saloon car he was driving at a stop sign, connecting Episkopi with the Paphos-Limassol motorway.
A truck coming in from the side slammed into the side of his car.
POLICE said yesterday their investigations into Monday night’s murder of 37-year-old Polis Potamitis are bringing up new evidence now in the hands of Limassol CID.
Police are now in possession of the car they suspect was used in the killing of Potamitis, who was shot 11 times from close range outside his parent’s house as he was getting out of his jeep.
STUDENTS AT a Larnaca lyceum have had to lug chairs from their houses to school because the school could not seat all of its students, according to reports by CyBC radio.
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