Turkish Cypriots back Ankara’s stance of keeping their distance
FERDI Sabit Soyer, the ‘Prime Minister’ in the north said yesterday the Turkish Cypriot side shared Ankara’s concerns about talking to the UN Secretary–general’s Special Representative Michael Moller.
A PUBLIC servant was yesterday given a three-year suspended sentence by a Nicosia Court after pleading guilty to charges of forging army documents.
The 55-year-old man, who works at the state laboratory and who is a reservist of the National Guard, had pleaded guilty to 24 charges of forging military documents so he could skip work days between 2000 and 2003.
New group forms plan to fall in line with EU law
RUSTY refrigerators and other old bulky domestic appliances that owners discard in backyards, roadsides, and in fields will soon be either trucked away to designated dump spots or shipped abroad to comply with a new European directive on dealing with waste electrical and electronic equipment.
TURKEY is blocking Cyprus’ efforts to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an essential pre-requisite for the state’s planned accession to the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) reported yesterday.
POLICE WERE yesterday investigating the theft and vandalism of two cars in a Nicosia district village, which is believed to be the work of delinquents.
The incident took place in Geri sometime between Wednesday night and the early hours of Thursday morning, they said.
“We are very concerned about this incident,” said police spokesman Demetris Demetriou.
SHARES IN Cypriot Coca-Cola bottler Lanitis Bros will be suspended from March 20 pending its de-listing from the Cyprus bourse after its takeover by Greece’s CCHBC , the stock exchange said yesterday. Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. (CCHBC) mounted the bid for Lanitis through Cypriot subsidiary 3E (Cyprus). It owned 95.53 percent of Lanitis, the exchange said in a statement.
Health Minister reticent over revealing suspended operators’ names in expired food scandal
HEALTH MINISTER Andreas Gavrielides said yesterday he was still waiting for the Legal Services’ expert opinion on the legalities of the Ministry publicising the names of owners whose businesses had been suspended due to hygiene irregularities.
THE MEDITERRANEAN Institute of Gender Studies [MIGS] has been appointed the Cyprus National Contact Point for Euro Mediterranean Network for Youth Trafficking Prevention EMNYTP.
AN ELDERLY man was yesterday fined £320 for cutting down his neighbour’s olive tree then giving it to a friend for firewood.
A PUB OWNER from Nicosia yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing electricity by tampering the electricity meter in his pub.
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