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TWO SHOCKING cases of sexual predation surfaced yesterday, one involving a 42-year old man remanded on suspicion of molesting at least eight underage girls and a second involving a 38-year-old army staffer who allegedly abused an 11-year old girl he met on Facebook.
The 42-year-old Nicosia suspect who denies the charges, allegedly lured the eight girls, aged six to 12, to his house by telling them they could play with his pet dog.
The complaint was lodged after a local resident claimed to have seen the man indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl outdoors, in a field near the suspect’s house.
THE GOVERNMENT’S efforts to cut state spending turned into farce some time ago, but the issue is that it does not look like ending. We witnessed the latest episode on Wednesday – the day an all-party meeting was to discuss money-saving proposals with finance minister Charilaos Stavrakis. There had been another such meeting, several months ago, at which Stavrakis asked the parties to come back with proposals with a few weeks; they did not.
FINANCE Minister Charilaos Stavrakis’ letter to senior state officials three days ago, in which he asked them to voluntarily commit to a 10 per cent cut in gross salary for two years, has fallen on deaf ears at four out of the 11 ministries, the Mail confirmed yesterday.
Contrary to press reports suggesting that some permanent secretaries have answered positively to the letter, Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides said that he had not taken up the Finance Minister’s invitation, adding that “the group of Permanent Secretaries have referred the matter to our union PASYDY”.
THE OPPOSITION yesterday accused the government of dealing a blow to the country’s reliability abroad as recriminations over Wednesday’s botched meeting on the economy continued.
Meanwhile Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis invited political parties to a new meeting in two weeks time, given that they either failed to show or left Wednesday’s meeting before it even started.
Government coalition partners AKEL and DIKO were left talking among themselves as DISY and the European Party chose to boycott the meeting while EDEK and the Greens walked out after receiving the government proposals submitted to the European Commission earlier this month as its convergence program for 2009-2013.
ORDINARY civil servants do not think much of Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis’ cost-cutting measures, they said yesterday.
The general consensus which emerged from interviews with a number of the island’s middle and lower ranking civil servants is that they believe the position of Finance Minister is a responsible one, whose incumbent should be held accountable for the effectiveness – or lack of effectiveness – of his own economic policies and management.
“I do agree with the highest-paid people getting a wage cut, but with those lower down the salary scale I don’t think it is just or fair to ask this of them,” said Eleni Papaefstathiou, a civil servant working at the lower end of the salary scale were she takes home just €1,150 a month.
THE EUROPEAN socialists’ call for direct trade between the EU and the north invited a torrent of internal bickering yesterday, just a day after the government’s call for unity on the domestic front.
The government accused socialist EDEK of making “arbitrary” statements and being obsessed with blaming its handling of the Cyprus problem.
The latest incident began when the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the second largest group in the European Parliament (EP), released a statement on Tuesday supporting implementation of the direct trade regulation proposed by the European Commission in 2004.
THE GOVERNMENT will intensify its efforts migration management programme by offering free Greek lessons to refugees and asylum seekers with a temporary residence permit, Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said yesterday.
The lessons, which are being offered by the Cyprus Labour Institute (INEK-PEO) and the School of Modern Greek at the University of Cyprus, will be held in urban and rural areas all over the country, a deviation from previous free lessons offered by the University in the capital only.
THE HEALTH Minister yesterday assured that any cuts in the health budget as part of the general effort to reduce state expenses will not cause negative consequences on patients’ health.
“It is no the intention of this government and the health ministry to leave patients without medicine or to allow the emergence of adverse effects to their health,” Christos Patsalides said.
The minister stressed that Cyprus was going through a recession where measures were needed to improve the economy but he assured that there was no intention to deprive the public of what is necessary for their health.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
