On Friday morning the Cyprus Public Transport organised a demonstration outside the Kapnos Airport Shuttle headquarters in Aglandjia in an attempt to prove that buses
A DAMNING report on the state of Tseri Avenue in Nicosia was presented on Thursday detailing the number of road accidents, parking problems, the lack
Ireland was the winner of this year’s European Transport Safety Council Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) award, while Cyprus and Greece ranked 20th and 25th
Police on Sunday appealed to motorcyclists and moped drivers to take measures to protect themselves in case of an accident. After three accidents overnight between
SEVEN people were remanded for eight days by Limassol District Court on Monday in connection with usury and extortion among other offences.
The suspects, including a 31-year-old special constable within the Larnaca police division, were arrested on Saturday, following a complaint from a 44-year-old Limassol resident. Four of the suspects were from Limassol and two were from Paphos.
According to the resident, between 2009 and February 2012 he borrowed various sums of money from the suspects amounting to around €64,000, at an interest rate of 25 to 30 per cent.
However, he said that they had begun threatening him and members of his family to dish out €63,500 along with other assets, despite having already paid out around €167,000 to them.
“Christmas can be a blessing and a curse,” says Sally. When they had little money they just stayed at home playing Trivial Pursuit, watching the Christmas movie, letting Granddad snore off his pudding and, if the weather was good, having a brisk walk in new hats and gloves. Now it’s different. “We’ve decided to run away.”
Christmas makes her sad, nostalgic for a time past when she was the hub of the family in her Father Christmas hat, cooking the turkey.
OVER €45,000 worth of jewellery and other valuables were reported stolen from a house in Limassol yesterday.
The Limassol resident claimed that the burglary must have occurred between 1pm and 8.15pm last Sunday.
According to the complaint, a collection of collectors’ coins and other jewellery went missing, as did a laptop and a video camera.
A security box containing 2,000 euros was also reported stolen.
Police are investigating the complaint.
POLICE arrested six women in Limassol in the early hours of yesterday on suspicion of running a brothel.
The women’s ages range from 18 to 45 years.
The arrests followed a tip-off and police confiscated a total of €1,800, five mobile phones and notebooks, among others.
TWO foreign nationals were yesterday remanded in custody for eight days in connection what appears to be a string of burglaries and theft of electrical and electronic equipment, cash and jewellery.
Police arrested the two – a man from Pakistan, 31, and his 32-year-old Romanian wife – after a pensioner reported seeing someone coming out of his home holding a blanket.
The 68-year-old told police that a safe containing cash and valuable had not been broken into but a large number of jewellery had been stolen from the bedroom.
Police managed to locate a car they believed had been used by the suspect who was found living in Nicosia with his wife.
IOANNIS Piripitsis, 40 years old, who was wanted by police for a series of crimes relating to the death of a Romanian arsonist, was arrested yesterday afternoon at the Ayios Dhometios crossing as he was coming from the north, according to police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos.
The Romanian’s charred body was found in the Larnaca district earlier this month.
Katsounotos confirmed that Piripitsis was wanted by police in connection with conspiracy to commit a felony, manslaughter, arson and being an accomplice after a crime, committed between October 8 and 12 in Nicosia and Larnaca districts.
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