THE SUPREME Court has ruled against the state in an appeal by cancer patients against the decision to downsize the Cancer Ward at the Nicosia General Hospital and remove four nurses from the state oncology ward.

PEOPLE living in villages in the Limassol area are suffering from severe water shortages, which are making their lives a misery.

EVEN if you’re one of those who aren’t affected by the searing heat that’s setting in, as an inhabitant of Cyprus you have no choice but to go into summer mode: the time-honored siesta is here.

THE owner of a Nicosia cabaret forced a Russian woman to have sex with clients in the private rooms for £30 as well as group sex with other women in which he participated, a Nicosia district court heard yesterday.

THE ARMENIAN Patriarch of Constantinople and Turkey, Mesrob Mutafyan, has filed a court injunction against the AGBU to overturn the decision to close the Melkonian Educational Institute in Nicosia.

The interim order, issued on June 7, also forbids the AGBU or its agents in Cyprus from selling or developing any part of the school’s estate on the busy Limassol Avenue.

THREE conscripts serving at a post next to the Nicosia racetrack were injured on Tuesday evening after they got into a fight with jockeys.

The fight reportedly started after the soldiers made fun of a jockey who had been passing outside their post, next to the racetrack near the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint.

THE government yesterday denied that it was seeking to open an embassy in Ankara following the approval of the protocol extending Turkey’s EU customs union agreement with the 10 new member states, including Cyprus.

Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides told the Cyprus Mail yesterday that no such request had been made.

DIKO and the Turkish Cypriot Democrat Party (DP) yesterday agreed to disagree on core issues of the Cyprus problem.

The meeting was held at the offices of the DP in the north.
It was the first time a DIKO delegation crossed the checkpoint and it was made possible after the Turkish Cypriot authorities agreed that identity cards or passports would not be necessary.