EFFORTS ARE still being made across the island to raise money, clothes and food supplies for the survivors of the tsunami that truck south-east Asia last week. Anti-racism organisations, the church and commercial companies have all held out a helping hand over the last few days.
Is a new monitoring station in Coral Bay really able to read the global consciousness?
CYPRUS has recently become part of a global scientific experiment operating out of Princeton University in the US, which monitors people’s reaction to major events – including the tsunami that hit south Asia two weeks ago.
TWO youths were killed yesterday in two separate road accidents raising the number of fatalities in the first week of the new year to three.
In the first accident, a 17-year-old boy was killed while a passenger in a car driven by another minor, reports said.
Police said the accident happened at around 2.50pm.
THE UNIONS of semi-government organisations (SGOs) have agreed to go ahead with a 24-hour warning strike on Monday followed by an indefinite strike on January 20.
LIMASSOL police have managed to retrieve part of a large quantity of cigarettes stolen from a warehouse on Wednesday night, it was reported yesterday.
Around £45,000 worth of cigarettes – 59 boxes – were stolen from a warehouse belonging to Argosy in the Ayios Athanasios industrial estate.
The theft was noticed by employees the next morning.
A 48-YEAR-OLD man from a Limassol village has been detained in connection with shooting his nephew with an army-issue assault rifle after an argument.
Michalis Stavrou surrendered to police shortly after firing two shots at his nephew, 32-year-old Christos Polydorou outside a coffee shop at the village of Dierona.
A KIOSK owner beaten over the head during an attempted robbery was yesterday reported clinically dead.
Fivos Michaelides, 56, was locking up his kiosk on Limassol’s Makarios Avenue last Sunday when he was attacked by an unknown individual who hit him on the head with what is believed to be a crowbar in a bid to steal the day’s earnings.
EXPERTS from the INFORCE Foundation, in agreement with the Committee of Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) to locate Cypriots missing since 1974, have began digging suspected mass graves in the Trachonas area located in north Nicosia.
Digging began in the area yesterday under strict security from the Turkish Cypriot authorities. So far no discoveries have been reported.
THE telecommunications authority (CyTA) announced changes to the numbers of
five services.
To make the transition as smooth as possible both the new numbers would be operating in conjunction with the old ones until January 31.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) biggest union, CYNIKA, representing 1,300 staff members, voted in favour of the controversial action plan designed to save the ailing carrier on Wednesday.
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