THE CONSUMERS’ Association yesterday warned that fuel rises approved by Parliament on Thursday could spark a chain reaction of price increases in other products and provide unscrupulous individuals with new opportunities for profiteering.
TURKEY’S powerful military said yesterday that it was in favour of a settlement on Cyprus before the divided island joins the European Union in May, but it warned of difficulties ahead.
KYPEROUNTA residents in Troodos were yesterday furious with a government decision to increase heating fuel prices, saying that the decision was practically an eviction notice. The angry villagers said yesterday that they had no other option but to turn to more conventional methods of heating such as wood-burning furnaces and fireplaces because heating fuel had simply become too expensive.
SHOPPING for groceries can be a very dull affair and I have never been very good at doing a weekly shop – especially when there are so many fab restaurants and take-aways to choose from – but in an attempt to embrace the ‘domestic goddess’ within (which I am assured we all have) I am on my way to Tesco on Portobello Road.
PHILELEFTHEROS “Fire burnt to cinders eight apartments” A fire broke out at 6.00pm at the Faros Village hotel complex on Thursday and burnt eight apartments. The night guard on duty saw the fire and called the fire brigade and it took four fire trucks to put the fire out. Nobody was harmed as the complex was closed for the winter. According to police the fire was not set deliberately.
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a legal aid fund to help investors who had lost money in the Cyprus Stock Exchange bubble take public companies to court is the latest idea the government has been toying with. Finance minister Marcos Kyprianou informed the Attorney-general about this idea and how it would work in a letter that was also sent to the House of Representatives.
A MAN was injured by police gunfire during a drug squad stake out on Thursday night at an Industrial area in Nicosia. The police saw a man get into a car at 7.30pm and they tried to get his attention by switching on the police car lights. When the man failed to respond, one police officer then stepped out of the vehicle wearing his police jacket and signalled to the driver to get out.
FORMER Commerce and Industry Minister Nicos Rolandis yesterday slammed the government’s decision to slap an extra three cents per litre onto the price of petrol following increases in the international price of oil. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, Rolandis said the government’s tactics were wrong and would condemn consumers to pay an extra £23 million a year.
PAPHOS municipality will become the first in Cyprus to construct a full network of cycle lanes in and around the town. The project to create cycle lanes was agreed five years ago under the EU’s ‘Life Programme’, which was adopted by the Ministry of Interior. The Life Programme concentrates on environmental and quality of life projects.
CYTA’s multi media messaging (MMS) service that was started in December 2003 and quickly suspended due to problems of heavy usage has been reintroduced to mobile phone users since January 12, but CyTA chose not to tell anyone about it for fear the system would again be overloaded.
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.
