COLLEGE owners yesterday called on President Tassos Papadopoulos to ease the government’s entry requirements for foreign students, after the number of students enrolling at local colleges fell by as much as 90 per cent.
THE OPPOSITION yesterday accused the government of transforming social measures to reduce heating fuel prices into an excuse for tax collection, and warned that it would vote against proposals to cut the cost of heating fuel, while simultaneously raising petrol duties.
A SECOND, larger swarm of red locusts yesterday appeared in the Paphos district and started to attack crops; only hours after the government said it hoped to have the locust infestation under control by the end of the day.
The locusts were first sighted in the Akamas region of the island on Sunday, before spreading east towards Limassol.
DISY deputy Lefteris Christoforou has called on the government to implement proposals so Cypriot drivers can buy newer cars.
Speaking to reporters outside the House of Representatives yesterday, Christoforou said it was about time the government took the initiative to solve the current problem.
OFFICIAL representations have been made by the government to the US embassy and the British High Commission over their attendance at a reception at the Turkish embassy in the north last Friday.
PILOTS union PASIPY said yesterday it would respond tomorrow to a set of proposals by Cyprus Airways (CY) management aimed at reaching agreement on the issue of 14 redundancies.
AN AYIA Napa woman who claimed to have found a plague of poisonous brown widow spiders in her garden says the eight-legged creatures have now spread to the local playground.
Angelika Chrysostomou says around 15 of the spiders and hundreds of egg sacs can be found on wooden benches in the children’s park opposite the Senator Hotel in the centre of Ayia Napa.
THE European Union has issued warnings to the Turkish Cypriot side not to provoke the Cyprus Republic into vetoing the start of Turkey’s accession negotiations, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said yesterday.
Turkey, whose application to join the EU dates back to 1963, is desperate to get a date for the start of accession negotiations at the EU summit on December 17.
THE Fire Service gave a clear warning to the public yesterday to switch their televisions off after use. Fire Service spokesman Stelios Stylianou highlighted that the TV ‘standby’ function was one of the biggest causes of household fires and extremely dangerous.
A 38-YEAR-old woman was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing around £51,000 in the space of three years from the Nicosia company she worked for.
Miranda Gavril was arrested in June 2002 after the owner of the company reported that she had stolen £51,383 between 1999 and 2002.
The defendant admitted to stealing the money, the court heard.
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.
