ALL MEASURES are being taken to ensure the secrecy of voting in the upcoming presidential elections, the Chief Returning Officer insisted yesterday.

Lazaros Savvides highlighted that everything was being done in order to carry out objective elections, with administrative and legislative arrangements set up to guarantee total secrecy.

WHAT can we conclude from the polls we have seen in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential elections?

It is hard to find many points of agreement among the myriad of polls published, but there are a few sound conclusions that we can deduce.

First, DIKO candidate President Tassos Papadopoulos is in the lead in almost every poll.

A TOTAL of 27 poachers have been arrested in the last three weeks by a special anti-poaching unit of Akrotiri SBA, working in co-operation with the Republic’s Game Fund.

A 38-YEAR-old man from Limassol has admitted to shooting a 16-year-old motorist while he was riding his racing motorbike on the Louvaras-Kakomallis road, police said yesterday.

TWELVE MORE missing persons have been identified by the bicommunal team of scientists working on the exhumation, identification and return of missing persons across Cyprus.

THE BRITISH toddler who suffered severe internal burns after ingesting orange juice containing highly corrosive acid was yesterday eating normally after her tests came back clear.

WATER CUTS may be implemented if there is not enough rainfall over the next few weeks, the Agriculture Minister warned yesterday.

“We need an extra ten million cubic metres of water and we only received two million in January,” Fotis Fotiou explained.

He added that dam capacity would be examined before a decision was made.

AN EMPLOYEE was almost burned alive when a huge fire broke out at 5:15am yesterday at the Kallipoleos 4 music venue on October 28 Avenue in Makedonitissa.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate Demetris Christofias yesterday announced a series of proposals on social policy.

The measures include an increase in low pensions, the permanent allocation of Easter benefit, changes to benefits for the disabled and to families with more than three children.

Presenting Christofias’ 10+1 proposals was his campaign representative