IN AN ironic move that does not particularly underscore the ‘good relations’ between Serbia and Cyprus that were pronounced during yesterday’s meeting between the presidents of the two countries, a Serbian mother was yesterday taken away from her two children and held in custody at the Paphos police station to await deportation on the next flight to Serbia.
Sir,
I wish to point out a couple of things about what smoke is like to the non-smoker.
When in Cyprus, I found that smokers don’t care about the person next to them or close to them, especially in restaurants, They light up a cigarette while other people in their group haven’t yet finished eating, that makes the food they are eating taste like smoke.
Sir,
Road Tax Discount? Yes! 0.46 per cent!
I am 73 and my car is seven years old. I queued for two hours at the RTD in Paphos, hoping for the ceiling of £195 pounds your article of February 15 seemed to promise. I was told – very politely – that I was ineligible as I had had my discount in 2004. It was the usual £459. Why?
Sir,
Sunday’s front-page article (March 5), exposed the disgusting and sickening act of soldiers burning a dog to death.
TWO Iranian men in their mid-to-early thirties were found dead yesterday on their beds in a state of decomposition in Limassol’s Mesa Yitonia, apparently having asphyxiated several days ago from a gas leak or oxygen-depletion.
The Iranian men were found after a compatriot tried unsuccessfully to reach one of the two men on his mobile.
A COUPLE from Limassol have been released after being charged with abandoning their five-month-old infant in their car while they were partying in a nightclub in the early morning hours of Monday.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos flew to Athens last night for a round of contacts with the Greek government in the wake of his meeting last week in Paris with UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Speaking on his departure from Larnaca Airport, Papadopoulos said he hoped that a resumption of the Cyprus talks would take place as soon as possible.
ALONG with a damning report on the anachronistic and inadequate condition of the outpatient state clinics, Ombudswoman Iliana Nicolaou has given the government two months to come up with a plan to bring them up to acceptable standards.
PHOTOGRAPHERS who intend to publish photographs from weddings and other events should ensure they have the approval of the people involved or they could face a fine of £1,000, as one learned to his detriment.
THE CYPRUS Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) has come under fresh fire after new allegations it is abusing its dominant position to squeeze competitors out of the market.
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