A 22-YEAR-old man who was critically injured in a motorcycle accident last week died yesterday in Nicosia General Hospital.
Avgoustinos Kinas had sustained heavy injuries to the head last Thursday when the motorcycle on which he was a passenger slammed into a lorry parked on the side of the road. The motorcycle driver, Christodoulos Lantides, 21, died on the same day.
WORK TO turn a Nicosia building located in the middle of a residential zone into a police station has been going on for three weeks – despite the owner of the building not having secured the relevant permits.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) unions said yesterday they would wait to see a new strategic plan drawn up to help pull the ailing national carrier out of the red, and which may involve redundancies, before making any comment.
Both the pilots union PALPU and the cabin crew union CYNIKA, the airline’s biggest, said they would be handed copies of the plan at a meeting later today.
THE BRITISH Bases said yesterday that both antennae at Akrotiri have been operating simultaneously and insisted that electromagnetic radiation emissions were well within safety levels.
FISHERMEN in Paphos yesterday gathered at the coastal town’s harbour to protest work being done near the castle, at a time when the protective wall at the harbour remained damaged.
The fisherman blocked the entrance to the harbour from 6am and prevented workers from completing a new floor outside the castle for the opera festival early in September.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “Papandreou in hospital”. Doctors at the Thriassio hospital in Athens have said that Greek opposition leader George Papandreou’s condition was stable.
HOTEL WORKERS have threatened to walk off the job during the peak tourist month of August if their collective agreement with their employers is not renewed.
This could mean trouble for hotel owners, who hope to reap as much as they can over the holiday season.
FOR the first time ever 500 Cypriot hunters will this week take exams to qualify for a hunting licence, the Game Services said yesterday.
Under new regulations hunters must now take lessons and pass an exam to qualify for a licence to ensure compliance with EU norms with regard to hunting.
MAGDA Eleftheriou, 32, accused of having masterminded her husband Pavlos Christodoulou’s murder last month, is said to have admitted telling her Pakistani lover to strike the victim. She is also said to have admitted calling her husband from a SoEasy mobile phone asking him to meet her at the place where he would be murdered.
TWO STATE doctors were yesterday found guilty of medical negligence over the 2001 death of a 14-year-old boy.
The boy died from complications after doctors failed to remove a piece of fabric lodged in a wound caused by rusty metal.
It was later established that the death of Giorgos Hadjidemetris from Geri had been caused by a shocked lung.
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