Cyprus House President Demetris Christofias yesterday sent letters to British MPs calling them to exert pressure to stop their government upgrading the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the north.
On Monday Britain and Turkey signed a partnership deal to enhance relations that included several provisions to end the so-called isolation of the Turkish Cypriots.
A MAN who was barred from Cyprus despite being married to Cypriot has won a court battle to stay in Cyprus.
Armenian Spartak Petrosian and his wife Siranush had launched an appeal at the Supreme Court after the immigration services ordered him to be leave the country.
TIGHTER security in the island’s state hospitals is among the Health Ministry’s six goals for an improved health system in 2008.
PARLIAMENTARY discussions to prevent Greek Cypriots from spending money in casinos in the north seem to be hitting a brick wall.
Yesterday’s discussion during the House Institutions Committee, which was a repetition of the multiple previous ones, yet again proved it was near impossible to control the number of Cypriots who choose to gamble in the north.
AROUND 500 students staged a protest at the Presidential Palace yesterday calling on the government not to increase the retirement age.
According to student union POFEN, an increase in the public sector retirement age from 60 to 63 will result in massive employment for today’s youth. The students are especially concerned about jobs that will fail to open up in the teaching sector.
AIRLINE passengers who travelled from last January 1 onwards have the right to seek compensation for flight cancellations or delays they suffered, according to a European directive.
CYPRUS has the lowest number of people in the EU who say they have acquired goods or services from the black market economy.
According to the EU’s first-ever survey on undeclared work in member states, the share of those who acquired goods produced on an undeclared basis is on average 6 per cent in the EU27.
GREECE summoned the British ambassador to Athens yesterday to protest about the wording in a British document concerning Turkish-held northern Cyprus.
The Greek Foreign Ministry said it called in ambassador Simon Gass after London and Ankara signed a co-operation agreement that included a reference to the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”.
A FLAT on 28th October Street on Limassol’s seaside road was burgled and then set on fire, police said yesterday.
A WOMAN of 69 was in court yesterday charged with using sorcery to con a Nicosia man out of money.
According to police, Hariye Rezvanoglu, who lives in the north, had pleaded not guilty to conning a 34-year-old man from Acropolis in Nicosia by telling him that he had been cursed and she could cure him for £5,000.
She was arrested in October last year.
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