POLICE yesterday warned hotel managers they could be put behind bars if caught employing illegal foreign workers, at the start of a nationwide clampdown ahead of the summer boom season.
The maximum sentence for employers found guilty of hiring foreigners without a work permit is three years in jail, and/or a £5,000 fine.
THE CABINET yesterday announced that a modern state hospital in the Famagusta district, which would include maternity and intensive care units, would be up and running in three years’ time.
SCANDAL-hit British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Keith Vaz, yesterday found himself hounded by British journalists at a bi-communal news conference at the UN-controlled Ledra Palace hotel in Nicosia.
THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday admitted it had covered the expenses of a controversial visit to Moscow by House President Spyros Kyprianou, but insisted he had conducted official business while he was there.
During the trip, Kyprianou received an award for his contribution to Orthodox unity.
PILOTS in Cyprus Airways’ (CY) charter firm Eurocypria will hold an extraordinary general meeting on Monday to decide whether or not to go ahead with strike action.
THE GOVERNMENT has fallen into line with a two-week EU ban on imports of French cloven-hoofed livestock, in light of a confirmed outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in France.
Agriculture Minister Costas Themistocleous made the announcement, despite the fact that Cyprus has not imported any French livestock since August 2000.
THE TRAGIC death of a mother less than 24 hours after the birth of her fourth child was yesterday put down to a rare syndrome called eclampsy.
THERE will be no opinion polls allowed in the last week before the elections to the House of Representatives on May 27, the House Interior Committee decided unanimously yesterday, bringing Cyprus into line with European Union practices.
THE EDUCATION Ministry has launched an investigation into allegations that a high-school teacher deliberately failed students and then offered to give them private lessons.
Teachers union OELMEK said yesterday it would wait for the findings of the police probe before commenting on the issue.
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