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Archbishop: we own monastery, and we restore it

2010-11-02

ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos II would rather see Apostolos Andreas collapse than let restoration of the hugely important monastery left in the hands of the Muslim religious endowment Evkaf.

Speaking to the state broadcaster CyBC yesterday, the Archbishop said the US Ambassador had personally taken on board the issue of the dilapidated monastery’s restoration in the occupied area of Rizokarpazo.

“The whole matter is in the hands of the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). We had a meeting the other day and are ready to invite tenders,” he said.

Tragic start to hunting season

2010-11-02

 

THE hunting season got off to a tragic start on Sunday with one man killed, 23 others injured and dozens of dogs poisoned, the latter apparently a result of a territorial dispute between groups of hunters.

The human tragedy was the sudden death of 43-year-old hunter Adamos Papantoniou from Ayia Napa. Papantoniou had gone to Paphos to hunt in the area of Santa Barbara when he lost consciousness and fell. Pathologist Eleni Antoniou who conducted the post-mortem examination said Papantoniou had had a heart attack. The hunter was a travel agent by profession and leaves behind a wife and two young children aged 12 and 8.

UN nudges government over leaked documents

2010-11-02

THE UN has sent the government a letter informing them that the theft of UN documents violates international conventions and requires investigation.

The letter was sent last week by the Chief of Mission of the UN Good Offices in Cyprus, Yasser Sabra. According to Sunday’s Politis, the letter effectively reminded the government that it had a legal obligation to investigate the theft and publication of UN documents.

Numerous press reports in Cyprus and Turkey have attributed last year’s theft of 6,500 pages of UN documents and personal emails to Cyprus’ Central Intelligence Service (KYP)

Papasavvas returns tooth implant money

2010-11-02

DEPUTY Attorney-general Akis Papasavvas yesterday returned, as promised, the money he had controversially received from the state to cover his expenses for teeth implants obtained at a private practice.

The deputy AG found himself at the centre of a maelstrom after daily Politis revealed he had applied for and swiftly received taxpayer money – €17,000 – to cover expenses for ten new teeth implants.

The story set off a debate on the extent of health care coverage to which state officials are entitled to. The paper said the law on state and public officials provides that they, their spouses and children are entitled to free dental care, but it is restricted to extractions and fillings carried out by government dentists.

Leaders ponder more crossing points

2010-11-02

GREEK Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders yesterday decided to establish a committee that would look into opening more crossings between the island’s divided communities as the United Nations are pushing for more momentum in the Cyprus problem negotiations.

“That joint committee will no doubt be put together fairly soon,” UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer said after a meeting between President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu.

There are currently seven crossing points between north and south, the latest one, Limnitis, opened in October.

Council of Europe head plays down Turkish ‘existence’ jibes

2010-11-02

THE COUNCIL of Europe’s parliamentary president Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday met with Cypriot leaders as part of a three-day official visit, putting a shiny gloss over recent flare-ups between Turkish and Cypriot officials over the existence of the Cyprus Republic.

The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) met with President Demetris Christofias, House President Marios Garoyian and Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou.

Two men electrocuted

2010-11-02

TWO Egyptian workers died yesterday after they were electrocuted while working on the construction of a greenhouse in the Dhekelia sovereign base area (SBA).

The two men, aged 22 and 23 years old were killed at around 11 am while trying to move the metal frame of the greenhouse with a forklift truck in the area of Vrysoules.

The frame came to contact with the high-voltage overhead power lines, resulting in the two youths being hit with 11,000 volts.

“Bases police went to the area and found two individuals – one was already dead while the second one still had a pulse,” Dhekelia SBA spokesman Andreas Pitsillides said.

Unions protest over airline merger

2010-11-02

SEVERAL hundred members of Cyprus Airways’ (CY) largest union CYNIKA and the PASYPY pilots union went ahead with a planned strike at Larnaca airport yesterday to protest against the Finance Minister’s proposed merger with Eurocypria.

Two protests took place. The first involved 250 CY workers striking from 6am to 8am at Larnaca airport, causing delays of up to an hour to three Cyprus Airways flights, to Jeddah, Athens and Sofia.

The second took place around 8.45 am, when 350 union members marched from CY’s head office in Nicosia to the House of Representatives, where they passed a resolution to House President Marios Garoyian.

Eight years for attempted murder

2010-11-02

A 33-year-old man was yesterday jailed for eight years in connection with the attempted murder of two brothers on Christmas Day in Nicosia last year.

Giorgos Zavrantonas had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit felony charges for the attempt against brothers Andreas and Harris Gregoriou who survived a car bomb explosion in Tseri.

Zavrantonas has named two other people as his accomplices one of whom has escaped abroad.

The other will face trial on November 11.

Andreas Gregoriou is one of four defendants in the murder trial of media owner Andis Hadjicostis.

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.