A MOTHER from Paphos whose two young children were abducted by their father last month will, in the end, spend Christmas with her children who were returned to her in a dramatic reunion late yesterday afternoon.
Sir,
As I write, news is breaking that eight chapters out of 35 will be suspended following Turkey’s failure to meet its obligations.
The BBC is reporting that many Turks already believe that the EU is stringing them along! What a joke.
Sir,
We write to express our dismay at the anonymous paid advert in the Sunday Mail on December 10, purporting to have come from “Concerned Residents of Peyia” and which raises potential language difficulties as an issue in the forthcoming elections.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday dismissed reports in European media that the Greek Cypriot side was ready to back down on direct trade to the north as of January.
Reports in two German newspapers said the government would lift the blockade on Famagusta port and Tymbou airport in the north next month.
‘This is a very big campaign and a lot of companies are upset’
AD AGENCIES are challenging the granting of a £1 million contract for promoting the euro to a company they say does not fulfil the necessary criteria.
Now the Advertising Agencies Association (AAA) has stepped in to back several of the losing companies in the euro campaign bidding war.
A LARNACA Criminal Court will next week decide the fate of two British tourists accused of involvement in the death of a local teenager last July.
What a load of gobbledygook
THE BUTCHERS Association yesterday denied reports that Turkeys from the north are being sold here at discounted prices in the run-up to Christmas.
Local press reports had suggested that the meat, which in some cases was not fresh, was retailing for as little as one pound per kilo.
THE DEATH of a woman in a car accident five years ago has again entered the public limelight, as the cabinet yesterday assigned an official to investigate possible medical negligence that resulted in her death.
On December 5, 2001 Marinas Karageorgi of Potamia died at Nicosia General Hospital of a cardiac episode after being held for 32 days after a car crash.
THE cabinet yesterday decided to allow the opening of the island’s labour market to Bulgarians and Romanians from January 1, 2007.
The move is in direct contrast to the policies of several other EU member states, that will be restricting numbers from the two countries due to join the bloc at the end of this year.
Legal experts slam sentencing laws
CALLS FOR the review of the current law regarding life imprisonment were made by both the Attorney-general and lawyer Achilleas Demetriades yesterday.
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