Festival Full of Surprises – The mayor of Girne is promising more ‘surprises’ and big name performances after landing UB40 for the municipality’s first International Culture and Arts Festival. Girne Municipality is still working on the line up for its festival.
Founding president making good recovery – Rauf Denktaş is making a good recovery from the stroke that almost claimed his life eight days ago. He is still seriously ill at the Near East University Hospital but doctors say they are happy with the progress he is making. He remains on an artificial respiration machine.
Kıb-Tek : Cratos hasn’t paid bill – Cratos Premium Hotel had its electricity cut off twice last month because of an unpaid bill. It could be cut off again if it fails to pay the 1.7 million TL it owes to Kıb-Tek.
Anger over U-turn on working hours – The government is set to reintroduce summer working hours months after scrapping them. Details of the new summer hours would be discussed in Parliament but they would run from June 15 to September 15.
Restaurant car bomb was ‘politically motivated’ – A man has been arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a car belonging to Turkish Cypriot businessman Çetin Atalay. Mr Atalay is a former chairman of the right wing National Justice Party and chairman of the Cyprus Turkish-Russia Business Council. He said he believed the incident was politically motivated. This was the second time in 40 days that there had been an attempted bomb attack aimed at him. He added “I do not receive any threats from anyone and I do not have any problems with anyone”.
Time to put peace before past – There was standing room only at a seminar in London that posed the question of whether the past should stand in the way of the future in Cyprus. Organised by Turkish Cypriot human rights group Embargoed! the seminar saw Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots come together to discuss the island’s difficult past. It included an exhibition by Ismail Veli depicting the Turkish Cypriot suffering in 1963 and 1964 – a period Embargoed! claims has been “airbrushed” out of the island’s history by the Greek Cypriots.
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