WITH the election campaign officially closing at midnight, politicians yesterday conveyed their final messages to the electorate ahead of Election Day tomorrow.
And while some chose to tone down their rhetoric, others went for the jugular, reminding people why they should not vote for their rivals.
THE GOVERNMENT is likely to make representations to the UN in New York over a raid by plainclothes Turkish Cypriot police in the mixed village of Pyla on Friday afternoon, it said yesterday.
Turkish Cypriot officers entered the UN-controlled village in the Larnaca district and arrested Yusef Kisa and an unknown number of other people that reports put at up to 14.
A FATHER, his daughter and his daughter’s friend were in court yesterday charged with assaulting two women in a frenzied attack last year.
The two victims, Loukia and Irini, took the stand yesterday and told the court the events which led up to the two separate attacks that they had sustained on April 8 last year.
TWENTY tons of vegetable fat, used to feed pigs and other farm animals, have been confiscated by the authorities after it emerged they were ridden with dioxins.
The product came from Malaysia and was imported to Limassol port via the UK.
CANCER patients and relatives yesterday called an indefinite strike in Eleftheria Square to protest about what they say is the Health Ministry’s refusal to provide them with a state oncology centre.
The Ministry’s ulterior motive, they claim, is to create a monopoly for the services of the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) Oncology Centre.
Headline inflation was running at 2.96 per cent in April, easing from a March reading of 3.23 per cent, while bank credit had also expanded, Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou said.
“Inflationary pressures are still lurking and being fuelled by high prices of oil, from the considerable expansion of money supply, and credits to the private sector,” said Christodoulou.
A 25-YEAR-OLD man from Nicosia was yesterday jailed for two months by a Nicosia Court for assaulting his girlfriend at a nightclub back in 2003.
The man, who had in the past been convicted by a criminal court for similar charges, was reportedly drunk when a heated argument broke out during a night out with his girlfriend and other friends.
THE World Rally Championship, and its annual visit to Cyprus, is hailed as one of the biggest sporting events to come to the island. But there is another rally, which takes place every year that is important on the international motor sport calendar.
A NICOSIA man was yesterday detained for six days by a Nicosia Court on suspicion of being involved in a ring arranging marriages of convenience for foreigners seeking Cypriot residency.
The man is believed to be part of an operation paying Cypriot women to marry foreigners.
POLICE confiscated a total of 15,918 illegal firecrackers that caused 11 injuries and 17 incidents of damage to property during a seven-week period leading up to and including Easter.
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