WOMEN’S information and support centre APANEMI said yesterday it had filed a complaint with the Attorney-general over what it called the mishandling of an Eastern European woman’s rape claim.
A NICOSIA man, arrested last week and held in custody on child porn related charges, has been given a new remand after CID officers discovered a further 200,000 pictures and explicit videos involving minors.
A FORMER Civil Aviation official yesterday offered an apology to the victims’ relatives for not coming out sooner with his concerns about air safety.
PARKING rates at the Larnaca airport are set to change as of Monday, September 11, according to an announcement yesterday by Hermes Airports, the airport’s owner.
The first 20 minutes of parking will become free and the long-term parking rates will be reduced, though there will be an increase in the short-term rates.
THE TRIAL of MEP Marios Matsakis was postponed again yesterday after the State Prosecutor requested time to review the facts of the case.
The prosecutor said the facts of the case, related to illegal possession of antiquities, needed to be reviewed once more after a disagreement on the facts arose with defence lawyer Christos Klerides.
EFFORTS to construct a controversial new 31km Paphos-Polis highway have again stalled after the tenders for the construction of the highway were cancelled, reportedly due to a mistake that was discovered in the tender documents as well as due to the high costs involved.
IN LIGHT OF the government’s summer dismissal of dozens of temporary workers, the Co-ordinating Committee of Temporary Workers has unanimously decided to stage an indefinite strike in the middle of October
The roughly 2,500 temporary workers are requesting a freeze on dismissals and the beginning of an intensive dialogue to change their terms of employment.
THE Bank of Cyprus said yesterday its chairman Vassilis Rologis had tendered his resignation.
Reasons for the resignation were not immediately clear. The bank said its board of directors would discuss Rologis’s resignation at their next meeting scheduled for September 7.
DRIVE in a two-mile circuit from our house and you will count 39 betting shops. True, we live near the racecourse, but in the past year it seems every empty retail space reopens as Eurogoal or some such establishment. They are almost all invariably empty, so what’s going on? What’s going on is – internet gambling.
REPRESENTATIVES of Kenthea, the Centre for Drug Education and Treatment of Drug Addicts, yesterday met with Labour Minister Antonis Vassiliou, with the aim of increasing co-operation between the two organisations.
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