THE Turkish Cypriot authorities could move to prevent the movement of all goods across the Green Line if the Cypriot government continues to block the implementation of a direct trade agreement between the north and the EU, a high level official told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday ordered a criminal investigation into claims that insiders at the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) were handing out data on private telephone conversations at a price.
The decision came as Finance Minister Michalis Sarris turned down CyTA chairman Stavros Kremmos’ offer to resign.
WIFE batterers can and do unlearn their violent expression of anger when shown compassion and non-judgement for their behaviour, experts said yesterday.
“US studies have illustrated a very high success rate where treatment programmes are concerned,” marriage and family therapist Andreas Orphanides said.
THE CYPRUS government is in frequent communication with the German Presidency of the EU concerning the issue of direct trade between the Union and the Turkish Cypriot community, Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis said yesterday.
A MAN who stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend and assaulting her new boyfriend was yesterday jailed for two years by a Nicosia District Court.
The defendant had been charged with six counts of assault, harassment and causing grievous bodily harm.
A BULGARIAN man has been arrested on suspicion of defrauding two compatriots by allegedly getting them work permits for a fee.
Two Bulgarian women had arrived in Cyprus in 2005 and met the 32-year-old suspect who promised to get them work permits for £800.
Neither woman knew each other.
FOUR MEN have been arrested and remanded in police custody on suspicion of pimping two Paraguayan women at a popular cabaret in central Nicosia.
A fifth man – who was arrested in connection with the same offences – was freed just before the hearing due to wrong identification after the police got declared his surname wrong in the arrest warrant.
TWO MEN accused of stealing around £300,000 from the Archbishopric were yesterday acquitted by a Nicosia Criminal Court.
A 19-YEAR-OLD National Guardsman was yesterday killed on his way back to his unit after a night out.
At 4.40am, Nicholas Skoufaris from Orounta was driving on Makarios Avenue in the Nicosia suburb village of Kokkinotrimithia when, for as yet unknown reasons, he lost control of his vehicle and strayed into the opposite lane of traffic before crashing into a cement bridge.
POLICE in Limassol have arrested a second division footballer and his wife for possession of cocaine and cannabis.
The 30-year-old man and his wife were arrested on Tuesday night after Drug Squad (YKAN) officers raided his home in Limassol. According to investigators, officers found 117 grams of cocaine and 10 grams of cannabis in his house as well as a weighing scale.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
