Justice Minister favours lock-up after weekend of shame
THE JUSTICE Minister yesterday said he agreed to the idea of locking up drink drivers, after one in ten drivers stopped over the weekend were found to be over the limit.
“If you were to ask me where I stood on the matter, I would have to say that I am in favour of locking up people arrested for drink driving.
THE TURKISH Cypriot side yesterday denied media reports in the north that an agreement had been reached for demilitarisation in the area of Ledra Street and that the crossing point would be ready to open in July.
THE REGULATION for direct trade between the EU and the occupied north is a political action without any financial basis, as exports from the north reach a mere eight million euro annually, President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday.
A KURDISH political asylum seeker was yesterday jailed by a Nicosia Court after threatening to commit suicide inside Nicosia’s Faneromeni Church on Saturday afternoon.
A WELL-KNOWN businessman from Nicosia was released from police custody yesterday, after being arrested on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms.
The 64-year-old is the chairman of the Association of Commando Reservists.
NEXT SUNDAY’S increase in airport charges will be discussed today at a special sitting of the House Commerce Committee following uproar yesterday from all factions in the tourist industry.
Hoteliers, travel agents, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO), deputies and even the Consumers’ Association were up in arms over the £6 levy, which represents a 47 per cent increase.
A MINIBUS was bombed yesterday in what police suspect was due to business differences between the owners of two travel taxi companies.
Yesterday’s powerful explosion destroyed the minibus and damaged neighbouring vehicles also belonging to the same taxi company.
PARLIAMENT was yesterday asked by EU representatives to explain why there were no female members in the Cabinet.
Dr Anna Zaborska, the Chairman of the European Commission’s Committee for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, is currently in Cyprus with fellow committee members for a two-day visit, following an invitation by the Divorcees’ Association.
FOUR SRI Lankans are to spend at least four days behind bars while police look into whether boxes they found were loading onto a trailer were stolen.
Yesterday, a Nicosia Court remanded the three men and one woman in police custody on suspicion of being in illegal possession of goods.
A YUGOSLAV offshore company used for sanctions-busting by the Milosevic regime could not even be liquidated because all its directors and staff had abandoned the island, an auditor told a Nicosia civil court yesterday.
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