FUEL increases were put on hold yesterday after the government bowed to pressure from farmers’ unions who vehemently oppose any increases unless some sort of arrangement is made to compensate them.
THE VETERINARY Department said yesterday it was clamping down on import licences for exotic pets following an increasing demand for monkeys, snakes and other reptiles.
THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday Paphos had failed to learn the lessons of Limassol, repeating road planning mistakes and causing misery to tourists.
THE HOUSE yesterday put £15 million included in the budget for the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) on hold after deputies raised objections about the nature of the investments for which the money is earmarked.
VELIMIR Ilic, the Serbian Mayor introduced to President Glafcos Clerides in February as Deputy Prime Minister, also managed to convince Cyprus’ ambassador to Belgrade to lay the first stone at a tobacco factory being built in his town.
FINANCE Minister Takis Klerides said yesterday he favoured the eventual privatisation of the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE), adding he had already requested a study on the issue.
SEVENTY-five per cent of handicapped adults are unemployed but willing to work, the chairman of the Organisation for the Support of Disabled People, Christos Michaelides, said yesterday.
Michaelides was addressing the House Labour Committee, which convened yesterday to discuss the social and financial problems faced by the handicapped.
DISY deputy Nicos Tornaritis said yesterday he was planning to propose a bill that would force all Cypriots to donate their organs for transplant purposes, unless they specifically requested to be exempted.
A 47-YEAR-OLD Larnaca man was yesterday remanded in custody for two days in connection with possession of 360 firecrackers he had allegedly bought from a Turkish Cypriot man in the mixed village of Pyla.
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