A 31-YEAR-OLD Filipino woman who was promised $5,000 to carry a child for a Cypriot couple has been sent back to her country with only $1,000.
The woman, whose visa documents showed she came to Cyprus to work as a housemaid, claimed she was forced into agreeing to bear the couple’s child and that she was threatened and made to leave the island fearing for her life.
Union puts an end to altruistic endeavour
DOCTORS at the x-ray department in Nicosia General Hospital have announced that they will stop working overtime in the afternoon from June 1, in a move that is expected to significantly increase waiting lists.
Women honoured for 40 holidays over 20 years
TWO BRITISH women, who have unwaveringly holidayed in Paphos for more than two decades, were honoured by Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas at the town hall yesterday.
A CHINESE man was arrested in Limassol yesterday after he tried to steal cash from a bank teller using a conjuring trick, police said.
The man was arrested after another Chinese man robbed €1,000 from a Limassol Co-op earlier in the day using the same trick. Police are looking for the second suspect who is thought to be staying at a local hotel, police said.
RURAL BUS drivers yesterday received a copy of the Communications Ministry’s controversial proposal for overhauling the public transport system.
Beginning 1 September, civil servants will work on Wednesday afternoons instead of Thursdays, according to a memorandum prepared by the Communications Ministry.
The only exception to the new rule will be civil servants who work at Parliament on a Thursday afternoon, when plenary sessions of the House of Representatives take place.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL yesterday vehemently denied efforts of a cover-up were behind his decision not to make public the criminal investigation report into the escape of convicted murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas last year.
His denial follows press reports that by not going public the AG was effectively trying to keep the lid on the contents of the potentially explosive reports.
FORMER President of the Republic Glafcos Clerides is doing well after the emergency catheterisation he underwent on Monday.
Clerides was yesterday transported back to Evangelistria Clinic from the Heart Institute in Nicosia, to recuperate over the next few days.
THE GOVERNMENT has lodged a strong demarche with the United Nations in connection with alleged moves by Britain and the US to link UNFICYP’s presence with progress in the ongoing direct negotiations, under UN auspices.
A STEADY stream of French troops may soon begin arriving in Cyprus as a stop-off to help them adjust to normal life after the stress of frontline fighting.
French troops, who are active in several combat zones, have never been offered such a scheme, which is now being touted at the highest levels of the Defence Ministry in Paris.
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