THE GOVERNMENT is aware of the existence of testimonies referring to a mass grave of Greek Cypriot missing persons in occupied Lapithos, said government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou yesterday.

PARENTS OF pupils at the Ayia Marina Xyliatou primary school have called on their children to bunk classes indefinitely after the Education Ministry reduced the number of teachers at the rural school.

THE GOVERNMENT has reached a “final and irrevocable” agreement to move various government departments and Ministries to new premises to be built in the grounds of the State Fair in Nicosia, Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said yesterday.

PORT AUTHORITY officials and the mayor of Paphos have highlighted the urgent need to specify who is ultimately responsible for Paphos port and also to create a new timetable of permitted shopping hours.

Negotiations are continuing between the Cyprus Port Authority (CPA) and Energy 8 over the British company’s application to use Larnaca port as a container transhipment and reshipment hub, which may generate up to 450 new jobs and as much as €13 million per year in port fees.

THREATS voiced by Mammari community leader Nikos Kodjiapashis that the village would take dynamic action including cutting off water supply to Nicosia has lead to renewed promises by authorities to provide clean water to the community, as well as free medical tests to all residents.

THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has chastised Cyprus over the length of legal proceedings.

The July 16 judgment in the case of ‘Christodoulou vs Cyprus’ found that the length of legal proceedings in Cyprus’ Civil Courts were excessive.

Road rage beating in Limassol

FIVE MEN from Limassol, aged between 19 and 20 are on remand in relation to a gang assault against a 35-yer-old man from Limassol, who was violently beaten for tooting the horn of his car, police said yesterday.

CYPRUS’ national side may not have played as well as we know it could, in the 2-1 defeat by Ireland on Saturday night. National team coach, Angelos Anastassiades described the performance as the “worst of the World Cup qualifying campaign”, even though he felt that a draw would have been a fairer result.