THE COUNCIL of Ministers yesterday let stand a House of Representatives vote killing a desalination plant planned for the Limassol suburb of Zakaki, opting instead to build a plant in Paralimni on the east coast. Limassol will not benefit from any of the fresh water produced by the new facility, which it is estimated will take two years to complete.
THE COUNCIL of Ministers yesterday acquiesced in the five parliamentary parties’ refusal to raise the pump price of petroleum products, and instead to use government funds to subsidise the soaring price of crude oil imports to the island.
DEFENCE Minister Socratis Hasikos yesterday dismissed as exaggerations statements by House Health Committee members that conditions at the military hospital in Nicosia were appalling
THE ELECTRICITY Authority (EAC) yesterday denied it had wasted £11 million on a coal-fired boiler for its Vassiliko power station, saying it had been purchased in an effort to protect electricity production.
The denial came after Commerce Minister Nicos Rolandis told yesterday’s Politis the boiler was "useless".
GOVERNMENT doctors yesterday called off their overtime ban and began three-day negotiations with the Health and Finance Ministries on the introduction of an on-call system.
Government doctors belonging to the Pasiky union began the ban on February 14 over delays in implementing the on-call system to resolve disputes about overtime.
THE STOCK market managed to reverse three straight sessions of decline yesterday, climbing 2.08 per cent,
but there tense undercurrents remained over allegations of fraud involving stock exchange transactions.
THE GOVERNMENT is failing the enclaved of the Karpas peninsula, and their children in particular, the House refugee committee heard yesterday.
Such accusations are nothing new, but yesterday’s virulent attack by the Association of children of the enclaved was made more biting by its timing.
NEWSPAPERS in the occupied north are fast running out of paper to print on and the occupation army is reportedly blocking the arrival of relief supplies from the government-controlled areas.
According to Turkish Cypriot papers yesterday, the situation is desperate.
A DELEGATION of the Turkish Cypriot Patriotic Unity Movement will on Friday visit the offices of Disy in Nicosia, it was announced yesterday.
The Chairman and three members of the party’s political office will visit Disy at 11.30am.
IT IS possible to achieve economic growth while preserving Cyprus’ natural qualities, participants attending a conference on EU environmental policy yesterday agreed.
Yesterday’s session marked the final day of the two-day seminar, entitled ‘European Union environmental policy and implications for Cyprus’.
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