NICOSIA Mayor Lellos Demetriades plans to initiate legislation to put an end to the massive problem of illegally parked cars that routinely obstruct roads all over the island.
His plans would see offending parked cars clamped and towed away, with drivers facing hefty fines in order to claim them back.
Read MoreFORTY-FIVE forest fires broke out in four districts within the space of just four hours last Tuesday.
Interior Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou yesterday suggested this pattern pointed to at least some of these fires having been started deliberately.
Read MoreWait and see for Unficyp as Denktash ponders retaliation
Read MoreANDRAS Barsony, the Council of Europe’s special rapporteur on Cyprus, has sparked a furious row after he addressed Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash as ‘president’ and spent the night in the occupied areas.
Read MoreDEPUTY Marios Matsakis yesterday joined 400-500 Omonia parents and children, who say they are being poisoned by Nemitsas foundry smoke, and declared the foundry "will go, whether (owner Takis Nemitsas) likes it or not because the people are fed up with it."
Read MoreMARKET prices hovered lower yesterday, moving 0.4 per cent down in spite of an early rally revolving around banks.
Read MoreCOMMUNICATIONS Minister Averoff Neophytou said yesterday his Ministry was willing to move forward boldly into the new millennium.
The Minister announced it had been decided to approve a private Cypriot air company to run flights to and from Greek destinations other than Athens and Salonica.
Read MoreNICOSIA police yesterday confirmed that they had charged a well-known Nicosia doctor for allegedly soliciting a bribe.
Police said they had charged the head of Nicosia general hospital’s Nephrology Department Dr Alkis Pierides in connection with the erythropoetine case, in which the hospital ran out of supplies of the life-enhancing kidney drug.
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