ASYLUM seekers are being left to sleep in parks and mosques, because of a chronic shortage of facilities on the island.
While families are offered housing at the Asylum Seekers Reception Centre in Kofinou, single men are being turned away and as a result are sleeping rough, according to the president of immigrant support group KISA.
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Popular local motorcycle enthusiast and sales manger at V Twins motorcycles Norla Peters died in a tragic and avoidable road accident recently. Norla was a very experienced and proficient motorcyclist who had been riding all her adult life and knew the roads on which she was traveling very well.
THE NIKIFOROS military exercises will take place as scheduled for the first time since 2001, Defence Minister Koullis Mavronikolas has confirmed.
The official announcement came after the visit of Greek Defence Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos last weekend.
UNEMPLOYMENT levels in Cyprus reached 5.5 per cent in August, up from July’s 5.3 per cent. In the same period, unemployment in the EU was at an average of 8.7 per cent.
DESPITE knowing of the growing problems at Larnaca airport, ministry and airport officials are powerless to do anything about it because of budgetary constraints, reports said yesterday.
AREEBA have come under fire over the erection of two mobile phone masts, being accused of putting up the masts without permission.
In the first incident, the company is accused of installing an antenna on the veranda of a top floor flat in Larnaca, without the permission of the majority of the building’s residents.
CYPRUS lambasted Turkey’s negotiating tactics to win the right to start EU entry talks, accusing Ankara yesterday of staging an Anatolian bazaar.
Monday’s ceremony was delayed by nearly two days of fierce wrangling over Turkey and Austria’s objections to the EU’s proposed negotiating mandate.
AS LONG as Archbishop Chrysostomos is alive, no elections will be held to ordain a new Primate, Church leaders decided yesterday.
The verdict of the Holy Synod is said to be in line with Greek Orthodox law and long-held tradition.
MAIN opposition party DISY yesterday cast grave doubts on how the government is handling the restructuring of the civil aviation department in the wake of Cyprus’ worst air tragedy last August.
STATE hospitals are to go on strike if their petitions aren’t taken into consideration soon.
The strike, along with other proposals of milder industrial action, seems to be supported by the majority of government doctors.
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