THE BOURSE ended the year with overall losses of 64 per cent as the index fell a further 2.18 per cent yesterday to close at 244.5 points, a far cry from the 700 points with which it began the year.
DOCTORS AT state hospitals and emergency departments will walk out for 24 hours on January 12, if their demands for higher salaries are not met.
This was the warning issued yesterday by the State Doctors’ Union (PASIKY).
FINANCE MINISTER Takis Klerides yesterday signed two financial memoranda, under which the government will receive 9 million euros (£5.1 million) from the EU as part of the pre-accession aid allocated to Cyprus for the year 2000.
THE HEALTH service was yesterday given a shot in the arm with the unveiling of four state-of-the-art ambulances bringing the government-operated fleet to 60 vehicles.
Health Minister Frixos Savvides received the £100,000 vehicles during a special ceremony outside the casualty department of Nicosia general hospital.
IRISH PRIME Minister Bertie Aherne has announced a visit to Cyprus.
Arriving on January 9, Aherne will spend two days meeting with President Glafcos Clerides, Foreign Minister Takis Klerides and Commerce Minister Nicos Rolandis.
WHILE AN eighth century icon continues to shed `tears’ in a small Limassol district church, the Bishop of Paphos has dismissed any possibility of a miracle and directed an attack against his Limassol counterpart.
NEW YEAR’S Eve sees Nicosia’s seven municipalities banding together to provide a cherry alternative to expensive nightclubs and hotels with dancing in the streets, live music from various artists alternating with a DJ, a Russian dance troupe and a magnificent fire works display.
TWO CARS were destroyed in separate Limassol fires in the early hours yesterday.
The first broke out at approximately 2.15am causing extensive damage to a saloon car owned by 23-year-old Chrysoulla Theodoulou.
The second fire began two hours later destroying a pick-up truck belonging to Sotiris Andreou.
TWO PAKISTANI students headed for Hamburg, Germany, were detained by police at Larnaca airport after an officer suspected something amiss with the visas on their passports.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
