U.N. SPECIAL envoy Alvaro de Soto is taking a “more intense and more active” part in the direct talks to solve the Cyprus problem since the recent visit of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou said after yesterday’s meeting of the National Council.
THE GOVERNMENT has decided to delay new fuel hikes after a fall in the price of crude oil, Trade, Industry and Tourism Minister Nicos Rolandis said yesterday.
EXASPERATED parents of a Limassol primary school have decided to take matters into their own hands and will not be sending their children to school tomorrow, a parents’ association spokesman said yesterday.
Kyriacos Valanides was referring to the Chiflikoudia primary school in Limassol that has been plagued by the presence of the Nemitsas foundry for several years now.
AFTER over 20 years in the offing, construction of the grandiose new Finance Ministry in Nicosia will be completed early next month. But no one will move in until at least the end of the year because someone has forgotten to order furniture and other equipment for the £16 million building.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday called on Turkey to make up its mind about its European aspirations and its position on the Cyprus problem.
Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou was commenting ahead of yesterday’s meeting of the National Security Council in Ankara, Turkey’s key decision-making forum.
THE AGRICULTURE Minister and high-ranking officials from 43 European member countries of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) met in Nicosia yesterday for three days of deliberations on the state of agriculture and food security in the region.
OMBUDSWOMAN Eliana Nicolaou has given Health Minister Frixos Savvides 10 days to explain why a new operating theatre in the Nicosia General Hospital has not been put to use.
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