AROUND 50 people die every year because of the inadequate staff and equipment on ambulances, the House Health Committee heard yesterday.
The committee yesterday discussed the treatment, or lack thereof, of people severely injured in accidents, giving deputies the chance to slam the government for indifference concerning the state of the island’s ambulance service.
THE government will today issue its consultation paper for the licensing of additional mobile and fixed line providers, a major step in ending the island’s decades-long telecommunications monopoly.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday showed off its new colours, having repainted one of the three Airbus A320s it had leased to its charter arm Eurocypria and now reclaimed.
THE 30th Cyprus Rally, fifth round of the 2002 World Rally Championship, was officially launched at a news conference in Nicosia yesterday.
THE well-known ‘Nigerian scam’ has spread to both e-mail and mobile phone users, but the Central Bank said yesterday very few people on the island were being taken in and no further warnings would be issued.
FARMERS yesterday defied torrential rain and hail and converged on Larnaca where they used their tractors and trucks to block the Rizoelia junction.
The Larnaca and Famagusta farmers were protesting about long standing problems but especially about the government’s insistence that they pay social insurance for seasonal foreign workers.
CHILDREN’S author and Scottish Arts Council Award winner, Margaret Ryan, is in Cyprus this week for a series of lectures for ‘Book Week’, organised by the Highgate Primary School in Nicosia.
Ryan, the author of the successful series The Littlest Dragon, recounted how she came to write stories for children.
DEFENCE Minister Socratis Hasikos had to scramble to the House yesterday after deputies on the House Defence Committee, raised their eyebrows at the prospect of having to testify to police in connection with leaks of classified information concerning arms procurement.
THE GOVERNMENT said yesterday it agreed with the UN assessment of June as a target date and not a deadline for the Cyprus talks, but still wished to see the negotiations intensified in the weeks ahead.
AN 18-year-old soldier was killed yesterday after he was struck by lightning while taking part in exercises at a firing range on the Troodos mountain range.
A Defence Ministry statement said sergeant Andreas Makloklas from Nicosia was killed at around 11.45am when he was struck by lightning during a brief storm at the Xintou firing range.
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