THE MANAGER of the Greek national football team has snubbed Cyprus, demanding that Greece and Cyprus be kept apart in the upcoming Cyprus Football Association (CFA) International tournament.

A ‘TORNADO’ reported in the Larnaca area was yesterday dismissed as a “strong gust of wind” by the British Bases.

State radio reported that a tornado had hit Pyla village at 10.30am. Bases spokesman Dennis Barnes told the Cyprus Mail that the bases had received initial reports of a tornado and troops were sent to the scene.

THE LIST of 385 people to be made redundant from Cyprus Airways (CY) should be ready today at the latest, Transport Minister Haris Thrasou said yesterday.

Thrasou said that by the beginning of next week the CY board would have the redundancy letters ready to send out.

A RIFT has emerged in the higher echelons of CyTA (Cyprus Telecommunications Authority), with the general manager and the board of directors bickering over who has power to transfer executives.

Committee stresses need for mediators to be appointed

ALMOST 25 per cent of marriages in Cyprus end in divorce and it is the children who bear the biggest emotional and social strain, the House Human Rights Committee heard yesterday.

U.S. DEPUTY Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, will visit Nicosia, Athens and Ankara in the next two weeks to investigate the intentions of the parties involved on Cyprus and the issues that are pending at a community level, involving Turkey’s customs union with the EU and regulations concerning Turkish Cypriots.

A NICOSIA court yesterday ruled that a Sri Lankan woman, suspected of murdering her elderly husband, be kept in remand.

Vergin Rupika Pereira, 40, was arrested on January 31 after police discovered the half-burnt body of her spouse, 75-year-old Kypros Michael, in a bathtub at his home. She was charged with premeditated murder and arson and kept held in remand for eight days.

DO YOU any old eyeglasses sitting around the house? The Cyprus Lions Club would like to relieve you of them and ship them off to third-world nations in Africa and Asia to make the world a better – and crisper – place for someone who cannot afford a pair of glasses.

A SERGEANT of the Anti-Drug Squad Unit (YKAN) was yesterday sentenced to six months’ jail by the Nicosia Assizes after being found guilty of interfering in a police investigation.

TWO MEN, an Education Ministry official and a sales manager of a private information technology company, were in court yesterday on corruption charges.