PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos officially launched his re-election campaign yesterday by pledging tax cuts and social benefits worth hundreds of millions of euros.
He said the set of commitments aimed at reinforcing the social state and the economy, as well as securing continued economic growth.
TURKISH Cypriots spend around £8.7 million per month in supermarkets in the south, according to a survey carried out by the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce and KADEM, the north’s leading market research body.
TURKEY is guilty of violating the human rights of nine people missing since the 1974 invasion, and those of their relatives, according to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A SRI Lankan housemaid has told police that she was raped by her 87-year-old employer just before Christmas.
The 37-year-old, who looks after the Larnaca district widower, said the alleged incident took place on December 18. The 87-year-old has denied his employee’s claims, police said.
FOLLOWING the intervention of Limassol City Council and presidential candidate Marios Matsakis, the demolition of the historic building that housed the Marios Tritoftides clinic on Makarios Avenue in Limassol was yesterday temporarily halted.
FOLLOWING the reports of forged euro note circulation on Monday, two more fake euro banknotes were traced on separate occasions in Limassol.
ARMENIANS, Maronites and Latins are for the first time being mandatorily conscripted into the army this week, under an amendment to the law adopted last year.
The reaction by the House Representatives of the communities, however, has been varied.
THE GOVERNMENT’S plans to build a floating desalination plant instead of a fixed plant will cost the taxpayer millions of euros, presidential candidate Costas Themistocleous said.
M.E.P. and presidential candidate Marios Matsakis yesterday laid out his options for a solution to the Cyprus problem, saying bold action and brave decisions were needed by all concerned.
AN international think tank yesterday called for more EU involvement in any new Cyprus push, saying the bloc had a responsibility to foster real dialogue between the sides.
The report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) said all sides should recognise that this may be a last chance to act on a UN-mediated basis.
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