A LAW regulating the framework under which young offenders should be treated will soon be submitted to the plenum for approval after spending nearly seven years on the shelf.
PARLIAMENT yesterday wrapped up discussions on a legal amendment to improve laws relating to private security firms.
The actual law, which calls for stricter criteria when security guards are employed, was passed 18 months ago.
But according to the Chairman of the House Legal Affairs Committee, Ionas Nicolaou of DISY, it has not yet been implemented.
THE NEGATIVITY with which the majority of the media has been covering the Christofias-Talat talks is quite astonishing. It is as if newspapers and television stations are willing them to fail. There have been 20 meetings so far and it would be no exaggeration to say that not a single one inspired a positive news report in the majority of the Greek Cypriot media.
LEAVING YOUR country by force is undoubtedly a severely traumatising experience, especially when the loss of close family members or friends is involved. Added to this, however, are the anxieties of facing the unknown, especially when you have to flee without documents, entrusting your hopes for a future to someone you don’t know, the smuggler, and the risk of being injured or even killed.
SEVERE weather swept across the island yesterday claiming the lives of two people, one of whom was hit by lightning in Nicosia and the second when his car plunged down a four-metre precipice near Paphos.
A DEADLOCKED parliament yesterday postponed voting on a contentious bill aimed at keeping the Social Security Fund afloat through raising employees’ contributions.
ALL POLITICAL parties, with the exception of AKEL and the Green Party, have rejected the bill proposing a reduction of military service to 19 months.
According to the Chairman of the House Defence Committee, Yiannakis Omirou of EDEK, the committee has expressed its reservations over the government’s proposal.
A PAPHOS court yesterday sentenced the 64-year-old who mowed down and killed a man and his dog in Latchi last summer to six years in prison.
Zacharias Christodoulou, 64, from Neo Chorio, ran over Constantinos Anakatos, 50, and his dog last June after a row erupted over the presence of the victim’s dog on the beach in Latchi.
AN ANIMAL rights organisation has called on witnesses of a brutal crime against a dog last Sunday to come forward and give details of the perpetrator.
The Cyprus Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported yesterday on the brutal beating of a hunting dog by its owner.
IN THE latest major drug bust, police have uncovered 113 kilos of cannabis and hashish imported from Egypt, which were hidden in charcoal storage facilities in Sotira and Kiti villages in Larnaca.
Eight people were remanded in custody yesterday in connection with the drugs bust.
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