Small traders raise prices

Watchdog releases new name and shame list

ROUNDING up in the price of everyday items such as coffee, water, bread and milk could cost the consumer an additional €85 (£50) a month even before supermarket shopping, figures released yesterday reveal.

Labour minister’s pledge to Limassol charities

THE MINISTER of Labour Antonis Vassiliou yesterday visited Ayios Stefanos, Apostolos Loucas and Theotokos foundations in Limassol, pledging government support and aid to the foundations supporting people with special needs.

Limassol couple charged with abandonment

THE LIMASSOL couple who disappeared for 48 hours without telling their underage child where they’d gone, have been charged with abandonment of a minor, police said.

Loizos Ioannides, 47, and Marianna Ivan Ioannides, 38, were tracked down on Tuesday morning at a local hotel “sorting out their marital differences”.

OPEC boss: we’ll lift output if needed

THE SECRETARY-General of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) yesterday refused to rule out an increase in oil production but only if market conditions justified such a move.

Tassos sticks to coefficient promise in 13 pledges on housing

PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos stuck to his guns on allowing refugees to sell their occupied building coefficient in 13 pledges on his housing policy plans, which he made at a news conference yesterday.

The incumbent emphasised that the new commitments would not render the current housing policy invalid, but constituted an advancement of the strategy.

Polls pour in but it’s still a tight call

THE INUNDATION of public opinion polls ahead of the election continued into this week, with Antenna TV publishing its own poll last night.

The poll was conducted by Evresis via telephone and surveyed a total of 2,130 people between mid-December and mid-January.

‘It was no accident’

A BRITISH property buyer who was allegedly assaulted by developers with whom he is engaged in a legal wrangle was yesterday still in hospital, his lawyer said.

No one has yet been arrested for the alleged assault, according to Yiannos Georgiades, the lawyer for Briton Conor O’Dwyer who has been in Larnaca hospital since Monday.

Parties condemn EU draft report on Famagusta

A DRAFT report by the European Parliament Petition Committee has caused an uproar among Cypriot politicians after apparently shifting blame for the abandoned city of Famagusta from the Turkish army to the Greek Cypriots.

Posthumous bravery award for Helios steward

AN AIR steward who desperately tried to save an Helios aircraft from crashing in August 2005, will receive a posthumous award, following a decision by the US-based Flight Safety Foundation (FSF).

Tackling illegal immigration on both sides

‘If people turn up with visas and money, there is no way we can turn them away’

THE NORTH sees itself as one of the “gatekeepers of Europe” and is doing all it can to reduce illegal immigration to the EU, Hasan Ercakica, spokesman for Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, said yesterday.