JUSTICE Minister Kypros Chrysostomides yesterday resigned over last week’s escape of convicted double rapist and murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, better known as Al Capone, from a private Nicosia hospital.
OPPOSITION party DISY has given the thumbs-down to the 2009 budget, which comes up for vote at the plenum today.
During the second day of debate yesterday, DISY deputy Christos Stylianides said his party would vote against the budget on principle.
ARMED robbers yesterday attacked the Pissouri co-operative bank, but were scared off and ran away after the bank’s only employee made noise when she threw coins on the floor.
CYPRUS Airways announced yesterday that due to a three-hour air-traffic controllers’ strike in Greece today, which will take place between 11.30am and 2.30pm, four CY flights will be affected, to and from Athens, to Thessaloniki and from Thessaloniki to Paris.
New arrangements have been made so that passengers on the affected flights can travel to their destinations earlier.
EasyJet is to start flights to Larnaca next year with fares starting from as little as £30 sterling one-way, the low-cost airline has announced.
The airline, founded by Cypriot tycoon Stelios Hadjiioanou, announced that four new routes would be added in 2009 from London Gatwick.
With Larnaca, the other routes are Dubrovnik, Naples and Santorini.
ANDREAS Kyprianou Panovic will walk free after spending seven years behind bars for the manslaughter of a 14-year-old British tourist, after the European Court of Human Rights acquitted him on the grounds that he did not get a fair trial in Cyprus.
In 2001, Panovic was sentenced to 14 years in jail for the killing of Graham Mills from Tring in Hertfordshire.
MEP considers pictures of gay couples with children ‘offensive’
THE ROW between Euro MP Marios Matsakis and the European Parliament’s “homosexual lobby” reached the plenary at Strasbourg yesterday.
Matsakis raised the issue of the right of homosexuals to adopt children at the plenary, while being heckled by British MEP Michael Cashman, who shouted “Shame! Shame!”
EUROPEAN financial circles are abuzz over Central Bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides after he appeared to take on the German Bundesbank members on the board of the European Central Bank (ECB).
The ECB board in recent days appears to be split on whether further interest rate cuts would be possible in 2009.
TWO 14-YEAR-old boys are in remand after admitting they committed a total of 11 burglaries of schools and shops in Limassol, police said yesterday.
The two boys were arrested after police, acting on a tip-off, searched their houses and found large quantities of stolen computers, electronic equipment and sports shoes. The exact value of stolen items has not been estimated yet.
BUSINESSES need open encouragement from both political and business leaders in order to have the courage to do business across the divide, according to new research.
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