Minister pledges action as all sides shift the blame
THE LABOUR Minister yesterday pledged action to tackle the appalling conditions prevailing at Cyprus’ children’s shelters.
Antonis Vassiliou told members of the House Human Rights Committee that a study was being carried out to ensure the modernisation and improvement of the shelters.
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I found the article headed “Saint Ttooulis the moral avenger” published in the Sunday Mail on June 11, 2006 disturbingly biased and full of ironies which do not reflect responsible journalism.
JUST 24 hours after the first meeting in two years between President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on Monday it became clear neither side was any closer to bridging the gap on what issues were up for discussion on a technical level.
THERE were slightly differing interpretations in Nicosia yesterday of EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn’s suggestion that the leaders of the two communities should meet in a Finnish sauna to resolve their differences.
STUDENTS from Cyprus, Greece and Turkey are this week participating in a bi-communal project aimed at promoting diversity, trust and co-operation.
Named, ‘Coexistence and Diversity Matter,” the week-long project (July 2-9) has brought together 40 students aged between 16 and 18 in Larnaca.
NORTH Cyprus-based British fugitive Gary Robb says he will leave around 500 property investors in the lurch if the Turkish Cypriot authorities do not stick to a deal that secured his return to the island in May.
IN A MEMO directed to Civil Aviation on December 10, 2003, the Cyprus Regional Manager for the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority P.A. Varley warned that unless six gaps in aviation safety were addressed, there would be an “increased risk of a serious accident” involving a Cypriot plane.
SWIMMERS have been warned to be on the lookout after large concentrations of jellyfish or medusas, were detected in the southern Aegean, near Rhodes, by the Greek Marine Research Centre.
A SPECIAL CEREMONY celebrating the restoration of the Ali Dede Ottoman Mausoleum yesterday took place in Limassol.
CONTRACTORS and trade unions yesterday signed a two-year collective agreement, putting an end to months’ of dispute and fears of further strikes that ground the construction industry to a halt last month.
The agreement was signed at the Labour Ministry and among other things agreed to salary increases, additional benefits, and contributions to labourers’ medical fund.
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