Good condition 6ft bed/…

2011-10-21

Good condition 6ft bed/matress and 2 matching bedside tables for sale. Black metal frame and cherry wood trimmings. Must go due to relocation. EUR600.00 ono

S.JOB

2011-10-21

Part time work opportunity. Market a new online discount scheme internet platform to businesses in your area. Basic internet knowledge required. Owning a smart phone/ipad/laptop is preferred. Expected income from 1000 euros monthly, performance based. Contact Chris 99531808. Paphos & Limassol.

 

Gaddafi killed in hometown

2011-10-21

 

Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as “rats”, cornered and shot in the head after they overran his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte.

His body, bloodied, half naked, Gaddafi’s trademark long curls hanging limp around a rarely seen bald spot, was delivered, a prize of war, to Misrata, the city west of Sirte whose siege and months of suffering at the hands of Gaddafi’s artillery and snipers made it a symbol of the rebel cause.

A quick and secret burial was due later on Friday.

“It’s time to start a new Libya, a united Libya,” Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril declared. “One people, one future.”

Sarris freed on €47,000 bail

2011-10-21

 

FORMER FINANCE minister Michalis Sarris was released on bail, paying €47,000 to a court in the north yesterday after spending seven days in detention in connection with alleged sexual offences. 

The remand hearing which was due to start at 9.30am eventually got going at 4pm. Turkish Cypriot police, expediting the procedure with uncommon swiftness, produced a charge sheet for Sarris listing four charges: conspiracy to commit a felony, committing an act against the order of nature, and two incidents of indecent assault. 

Someone committing an ‘unnatural act’ can be served with a maximum five-year sentence. 

Our View: Sarris should not be tempted to return to justice of kangaroo court

2011-10-21

 

FORMER Finance Minister Michalis Sarris was charged by the Turkish Cypriot ‘court’ and released yesterday afternoon, after being held for seven days in a police cell, without justification other than to give time to Turkish Cypriot police to come up with allegedly incriminating evidence against him. This included using youths, who had been beaten up while in police custody, as witnesses against him. 

Yesterday, the police said they had another witness who was being held in connection with a minor drug offence as a witness. Sarris was released on bail, with a trial set for November 16, facing charges of committing an unnatural act, conspiracy to commit a felony and indecent assault. 

‘Sovereign wealth fund to manage oil and gas riches’

2011-10-21

CYPRUS has not even confirmed the existence of natural gas off its shores, but it is already thinking about setting up a sovereign wealth fund to manage the riches it hopes will come its way.

Gas has the potential to transform the east Mediterranean island, but assuming the first results from exploratory drilling due in December are positive, it will be a long time before the euro zone’s third-smallest economy is able to export gas, Commerce Minister Praxoula Antoniadou told Reuters in an interview.

Israel: air exercises are just routine

2011-10-21

THE ISRAELI embassy yesterday downplayed reports in the press claiming that military exercises were being conducted in Cyprus’ airspace in order to send a message to Turkey. 

“Air force exercises over our allies’ air space are routine for the Israeli military and there is no political agenda behind this,” an Israeli source said. 

Daily Phileleftheros said yesterday that Israel and Cyprus wanted to send a strong message to Turkey and were collaborating on military exercises. 

Reports have talked of increased military activity in the vicinity of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as the Republic is continuing its hydrocarbon exploration within its EEZ with Turkey’s Piri Reis vessel deployed to assert its own interests in the region. 

Salmonella-tainted feed confiscated

2011-10-21

AROUND 15,000 tonnes of soybean animal feed originating in Argentina has been confiscated by the Agriculture Ministry after salmonella was detected on Wednesday.

Fears have emerged that some farmers may have given it to their animals as the feed was already distributed to farms and mills.

“Yesterday [Wednesday] as soon as the results of the first tests came back and we saw that there was a problem the Agriculture Department contacted all of those involved; farmers, mills etc that had taken from this load and we’re also sending written letters today [yesterday] telling them not to use it,” said ministry official Egli Pantelaki.

Residential Property Price Index down in second quarter

2011-10-21

CYPRUS’ Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) dropped 0.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2011, marking its sixth consecutive decrease since the first quarter of 2010.

The RPPI, prepared by the Central Bank of Cyprus, declined to 94.2 units down by 0.9 per cent from 95.0 units in Q1 of 2011.

On a year to year basis, the RPPI declined by 4.9 per cent, a drop attributed to the reduction in the apartment price index.

The biggest drop was recorded in the prices of house property in the coastal cities, with Paphos showing the biggest drop of 2.3 per cent, followed by Larnaca with 1.8 per cent. Prices of houses in Nicosia recorded a marginal decrease of 0.2 per cent.

Man killed in crash

2011-10-21

DEMETRIS Camperis, 61, was killed yesterday morning in Nicosia when a car crashed onto his van, throwing him on to the road.

Camperis was attempting to turn right when a car driven by a 23-year-old, coming from the opposite direction, collided with his van. 

An eye-witness told the Mail that the 23-year-old was being chased by a police car because he was not wearing his seat belt and did not stop at the lights. 

Camperis, who was also not wearing a seat belt, hit his head on the road. He died on the way to Nicosia General Hospital. 

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.