Ban Ki-Moon highlights UN concerns over unpunished violations
UN SECRETARY-general Ban Ki-Moon is concerned over the human rights situation on the island, citing a number of incidents involving Turkish Cypriots that show the Cyprus government in a bad light.
THE Turkish Cypriot side yesterday called off a meeting to discuss the technical committees after Mehmet Ali Talat said he wanted to review the entire procedure.
Tasos Tzonis and Rasit Pertev, senior aides to the two leaders, who met on Tuesday, were due to meet again under UN auspices yesterday.
POLICE have announced that gun used in Wednesday night’s killing of an Ayia Napa cabaret owner is believed to have come from the north.
Pieris Christofi, 50, was killed when a masked gunman fired eight shots at him outside his cabaret Moulin Rouge on Nissi Avenue in the popular holiday resort of Ayia Napa.
THE UNIONS of the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) have reacted angrily over what they claim are government attempts to marginalise the organisation from natural gas production.
A statement released by the four unions representing EAC employees yesterday criticised both their employer as well as the government, accusing them of mismanagement.
DAM CAPACITY across the island is only 26 per cent, with the Agriculture Minister yesterday warning that wasting water will no longer be tolerated.
A NICOSIA Criminal Court yesterday heard how a man had fought frantically before succumbing to his injuries during a harrowing double-murder trial.
Christoforos Charalambous, 27, from Askas village in the Nicosia district, has denied two charges of premeditated murder against his wife Anna Vasileva, 30 from Kyrgyzstan, and her 45-year-old lover Yiannos Demosthenous.
‘They told me she’d be allowed back into the country in December and every
week they keep telling us it’ll be next week’
SIXTEEN-year-old Irena Voitovichi, whose Moldavian mother was deported over six months ago, has still not been reunited with her parent despite government assurances that the 34-year-old would be removed from the island’s stop list over Christmas.
AROUND 60 per cent of private clinics in Cyprus are involved in medical tourism with some even taking in as much as 50 per cent of their business from abroad, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday.
SEVERE weather warnings across Europe will be available to the public from today following the launch of a new meteorology website.
The site, www.meteoalarm.eu, was developed by more than 20 European countries, including Cyprus, the UK and Switzerland, for the Network of European Meteorological Services (Eumetnet) and is available in 17 languages including Greek and English.
CYPRIOTS gambled more than £28 million over the internet in 2006, Parliament heard yesterday.
The figures were presented to the House Institutions Committee by credit card company JCC.
But EDEK’s Marinos Sizopoulos, who suggested the matter be discussed by the committee, said the exact amounts lost online were much higher.
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