CYPRIOTS eat an average of 110 kilos of meat per year, far exceeding recommended allowances and increasing the risk of developing potentially life-threatening conditions, experts warned yesterday.
In addition to large quantities of meat, Cypriots on average also consume 105 litres of pasteurised milk and 17 kilos of cheese per year.
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I am amazed once again that the United Nations have approved the renewal of UNFICYP’s mandate for another six months, while apparently urging both sides to move forward towards the resumption of Cyprus negotiations.
OPPOSITION leader Nicos Anastassiades said yesterday he had received a letter from President Tassos Papadopoulos on DISY’s withdrawal from the National Council.
Anastassiades said his party’s pullout from the Council, the advisory body to the President on the Cyprus issue, had been for good reasons, and that those reasons still stood.
OPPONENTS of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union are exploiting the Cyprus issue and divisions within the bloc to obstruct Ankara’s progress towards membership, a senior Turkish diplomat said.
THE European Commission yesterday called for a root-and-branch reform of the Common Market Organisation for wine.
THE PAPHOS Municipality has decided to abolish a pilot programme introduced in 2005 which involved the construction of a 2,500 metre long bicycle path.
Savvas Savva, an engineer for the Municipality, confirmed yesterday that the “paths will be demolished, or they will stop being used”.
U.N. SECRETARY-general Kofi Annan will decide whether to proceed with a new Cyprus initiative after he sees the report to be compiled by UN Undersecretary-general for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari.
THE threat of vetoing Turkey’s accession course is more effective than the actual exercise of a veto, Foreign Minster George Lillikas said yesterday.
Lillikas made the comment during a joint news conference in Athens with his Greek counterpart Dora Bakoyanni, when asked by reporters if Cyprus might use its veto against Turkey in the next stage of Ankara’s accession course.
THE House Health Committee was yesterday adamant that Limassol’s municipal pool stay closed after recent water sample tests showed elevated levels of bacteria.
“They resolutely must close,” committee chairwoman Eleni Theocharous said.
HAVE you thought about refugees yet? On the week of World Refugee Day, many are the initiatives that induce us to think about the lives and stories of these less fortunate people whose lives have been changed, and who hope that one day everything will be as it used to.
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