Nicosia residents lash out at ‘cancer’ destroying the walled city
WITH more pubs and nightspots cropping up throughout the walled city of Nicosia, many residents are accusing the municipality of lax regulation for commercial centres like pubs and nightspots, which they say leads to a noisy environment that discourages new families from moving in.
THE GREEK and Turkish Cypriot leaderships have agreed to meet today in the presence of UN Undersecretary-General for political affairs Ibrahim Gambari in what is seen as a crucial meeting towards the next step on the Cyprus issue.
JUST 10 months before the worst air disaster in Cypriot history the ministry in charge of aviation affairs had been warned of inadequate flight safety procedures.
On August 14 of last year, a Helios airliner smashed into a mountainside just north of Athens, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. Most of the victims were Cypriot families going on holiday.
THE MERGER of Marfin Bank, Laiki Hellas and Egnatia Bank will get under way following the decision of the three banks’ board of directors, Marfin Financial Group, reports from Athens said yesterday.
Egnatia Bank will absorb Marfin and Laiki, subsidiaries of Marfin Financial Group and Cyprus’ Laiki Bank respectively.
CONSUMERS’ pockets will be feeling the strain yet again, as fuel companies and state funds reap the benefits of the recent increase in petrol prices by two cents.
Fuel company Lefkaritis Group (Petrolina, Lina and Agip) were the first to increase prices on Thursday, after receiving a new shipment at higher prices. Yesterday, Greek company EKO also increased their prices.
A GROUP of beleaguered ethnic Kurdish asylum seekers from Iraq were facing a new crisis last night, with the threat of being turned out of their hotel after the government ceased to pay for their rooms.
Andreas Papasozomenos, the Cypriot officer killed in Wednesday’s Mi-35 helicopter crash in a field off the Limassol-Paphos highway, was buried yesterday at a full military funeral at the new Astromeritis cemetery after a 4pm funeral service at the church of Agios Afxiviou.
A PUB owner from Paphos was arrested yesterday on suspicion of pimping, owning a brothel, profiting from prostitution, sexually abusing women and covering up profits from illegal activities.
Specifically, a man testified that he had gone to the pub in question and paid the suspect £60 with the intent of having sex with a woman who worked at the establishment.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “Proposal for dialogue”. According to the daily, President Papadopoulos has submitted to UN Undersecretary-general for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari a comprehensive proposal for discussion of “technical issues” that touch upon core aspects of the Cyprus problem. The proposal was relayed by Gambari to Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.
BRITAIN yesterday paused for two minutes’ silence to remember the dead of July 7, 2005, the 52 people killed in four simultaneous attacks on London’s public transport system.
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