PAPHOS police yesterday arrested and remanded in custody a developer on suspicion of obtaining money from four British families with intent to defraud.
Costas Papaioannou, owner of Costas Papaioannou Developers Ltd, was remanded in custody for five days by a Paphos Court after a complaint was filed by lawyer Chrysa Christofi, who is representing the four families.
BISHOP Chrysostomos of Paphos sparked outrage from his rivals yesterday as he refused to name the ex-officio clerics who will have a key role in the election of a new Archbishop on November 4.
THE HUNT for those “bought” by American money to promote the Annan plan continued yesterday, despite explanations on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the US embassy on where the funding had actually gone.
The EAC Nicosia complaints offices are being swamped with grievances, struggling to deal with the shear number of cases.
Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, an aggrieved EAC customer told of the situation she encountered when she was forced to go to the offices to chase up a complaint.
HEART failure was to blame for the death of a 12-month-old boy from Limassol, who fell down a flight of stairs outside his home on Thursday after escaping the attention of his grandmother.
ATTORNEY-general Petros Klerides has confirmed he has received the police report into the investigation regarding allegations of irregularities within the Health Ministry’s pharmaceutical services.
Among those allegedly implicated in the report is former pharmaceutical services head Louis Panayis, as well as other senior ministry officials.
SECONDARY school teachers’ union OELMEK said yesterday it would not return to talks with the Education Ministry on the pressing issue of educational reform if certain conditions were not met.
“If our conditions are not met, we will not continue with the talks,” OELMEK president Iacovos Iacovou told the Cyprus Mail.
THE CENTRAL Bank yesterday decided to adopt a wait-and-see approach to interest rates, based on current economic conditions but still wary of lurking inflationary influences.
JUSTICE Minister Sophoclis Sophocleous yesterday backed calls for an amendment of the Law for the Protection of Personal Data that would enable police to access telephone records and internet logs to help in their inquiries.
AN IRISH resident of Cyprus yesterday drowned after falling out of his boat in strong winds just half a nautical mile off the shore of the Xira area in the Famagusta district.
Thomas Terence Roberts, 72, was declared dead on arrival at hospital yesterday.
The other man in the boat, who had also fallen into the water, Briton David Parnell, 54, escaped unharmed.
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