FORMER Agriculture Minister Costas Themistocleous has heavily criticised the work of the current government in dealing with the water shortage, claiming they have undone the good work of the previous administration.
THE KALLIS report on the Helios tragedy has named nine people it considers amid those responsible for the airline disaster, according to Phileleftheros.
A GROUP calling itself the Committee for the Opening of Ledra Street yesterday called for an emergency demonstration at the end of Ledra Street tomorrow morning to protest against the games being play by politicians over the opening of the crossing.
POLICE yesterday refused to comment on whether they planned to launch an investigation into who was behind the circulation of a graphic pornographic mobile phone video clip aired on state television this week.
HUNDREDS of olive and carob tress, and even a grade 1 archeological site, have been systematically destroyed to make way for a highway into the Karpas district, environmentalists in the north claimed yesterday.
GREEN Party leader George Perdikis has written letters to all deputies calling on them to ensure Cyprus resists everything to do with genetically modified (GM) foods.
CONFUSION has emerged over reports implicating one of Cyprus’ greatest athletes in a steroids case.
A local newspaper alleges that former sprint star Anninos Marcoullides offered anabolic steroids to Belgian athlete Eric Wijmeersch, who is now being trained by the Cypriot.
A LATVIAN man was arrested on Wednesday on the very same day he was released from prison.
Jundas Udohimovs, 22, had been serving time at the Nicosia central prison, having been convicted of committing various thefts on the island.
A TEACHER has been accused of harassing one of his students during an illegal private lesson which took place in his home, with his only punishment being a transfer.
The Ministry of Education came up with the so-called solution, thinking it best to transfer the teacher to another school on the grounds of, “educational motives” rather than tackle the problem head on.
SIX 13th century Byzantine icons stolen from churches in the Morphou area after 1974 have been returned to the Church of Cyprus during a ceremony in New York late on Wednesday.
They will arrive back in Cyprus tomorrow.
The priceless icons were located at the Sotheby’s auction house after Church investigators spotted them for sale in a catalogue.
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