Arrest for bike theft
A 19-YEAR-OLD man pushing a motorbike with no registration plate tried to run from the police on Monday night. He was arrested after he could not say how he got the bike.The police’s rapid reaction...
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A LARNACA village resident told the police that last weekend his storehouse got broken into. The man lost nine hydraulic drill motors and a compressor, collectively worth about €18,000.
View ArticleAttempted robbery
TWO MEN tried to rob a bakery in Limassol in the early hours of yesterday but left after their efforts to open the till were frustrated. The pair aged around 20, with their faces covered with tights,...
View ArticleRoad campaign
POLICE have launched a seatbelt campaign, which will last until July 1. It is compulsory for passengers in both front and back seats to wear seat belts, police said. Police reports conclude that out...
View ArticleSMS for parcel post
POSTAL services will send SMS text messages to people when their items arrive so that they can be picked up at any time from automatic post office boxes, Communications Minister Efthymios Flourentzos...
View ArticlePlea to save energy
CYPRUS continues to experience an energy crisis as the Vassilikos units that were destroyed in the Mari naval base blast last year are still not ready, said Transmissions System Operator Christos...
View ArticleMalas feels honoured
HEALTH Minister Stavros Malas said yesterday that he was honoured that ruling party AKEL was considering him as a presidential candidate for the upcoming February elections.He was responding to an...
View ArticleTax revenues up
INLAND Revenue collections during the first five months of 2012 increased by €56.5m or nine per cent to reach €688.7m, compared to €632.2m in the corresponding period of 2011.However, based on data...
View ArticleChristofias: don’t knock Cyprus-Russia ties
Author: Jacqueline Agathocleous PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday called on anyone attempting to rock the boat in relations between Cyprus and Russia to “think twice” about the impact their...
View ArticleMunicipalities will fight for their money
Author: Poly Pantelides MUNICIPALITIES said yesterday they would fight to regain their budgets - shrunk by €18 million because of austerity measures.“What we have to make clear is that we will have...
View ArticleCar arson
IT WAS a bad day for cars in Limassol yesterday as five were damaged in two separate incidents in the early hours. At around 2am, one parked car owned by a 50-year-old sustained extensive damage after...
View ArticleCard fraud
FRAUDSTERS spent nearly €5,000 on ‘copy’ credit credits over an eight-day period, it was reported yesterday. An employee of JCC Payment Ltd informed Famagusta CID that between July 12 and 20,...
View ArticleThree lanes confusion target of police clampdown
POLICE will be reporting and fining all drivers who use the three-lane Nicosia-Limassol highway incorrectly, said traffic police head Demetris Demetriou yesterday.Demetriou said that though the highway...
View ArticleEnraged motorist attacks police officer
A 28-YEAR old motorist was arrested on Friday night in Nicosia after allegedly hitting a police officer who had moments earlier booked him for not wearing a seatbelt. He is now being investigated in...
View ArticleEDEK give its backing to Lillikas
Author: Stefanos Evripidou PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES for next year’s elections are firmly in the starting blocks waiting for the pistol to fire after EDEK put its support behind independent Giorgos...
View ArticleAKEL: there are ways other than ‘painful measures’
Author: Stefanos Evripidou THE GOVERNMENT will stress alternative ways than imposing “painful” measures against workers to get out of the current fiscal crisis to the troika, said AKEL leader Andros...
View ArticleSecurity beefed up at ports and airports over Israeli fears
POLICE ARE taking heightened measures against potential terrorist attacks on Israeli interests at ports, airports and any other place deemed necessary, said police spokesman Andreas Angelides...
View ArticleTales from the Coffeeshop: It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it
Author: Patroclos ILLUSIONS were shattered and false hopes dashed during the second visit of the troublesome Troikans, with many members of our ruling elite finally realising that we will not set...
View ArticleOur View: ‘Social cohesion’ is code for obeying union diktats.
THE SAME script we witnessed during the first visit of the troika unfolded during its second coming in the past week. Once again the troika’s representatives met the government negotiating team,...
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Chinese buyers offer hope to a dormant housing market
Author: Bejay Browne CHINESE buyers are helping to rejuvenate the stagnant property market in Paphos where sales have risen by 25 per cent in recent months, industry professionals say.The once...
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