EDUCATION Minister Pefkios Georgiades died suddenly yesterday afternoon after suffering a cardiac arrest.
His death left the public and political spectrum reeling, as only hours earlier he had been speaking on national radio, attended a cabinet meeting, and participated in an education seminar.
His death was announced by Health Minister Charis Charalambous at 5.30pm.
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It seems that even after so many needless deaths on our roads, the relevant parties still have no understanding of the real problems concerning driving in Cyprus.
EDUCATION Minister Pefkios Georgiades, who died yesterday aged 72, leaves behind a legacy of a man with unrelenting enthusiasm and vision to create a better tomorrow for today’s youth.
Opinionated, strong willed and sometimes downright shameless, he was hard not to like and admire for his forthrightness and desire to do the right thing.
DISCUSSIONS began in at parliamentary committee level yesterday to allow the children of Greek Cypriot mothers to gain refugee status if they were displaced from the north in 1974.
Currently the status of refugee can only be granted to the children of male Cypriots, which discriminates against the children of women who fled the north in 1974.
POLICE yesterday unveiled plans to slash road deaths by ten per cent in 2007.
The force is set to get tough on people not wearing their seatbelts, with 17 lives unnecessarily lost last year due to drivers or passengers not wearing them. The same applies to motorcyclists not donning crash helmets, with 14 dying last year because they were not wearing a helmet.
LAWYERS for Benon Sevan, the Cypriot former UN head of the Iraq oil-for-food-programme, indicted on Tuesday for bribery and corruption, have accused the US of digging up dirt to hide its own culpability in the scandal.
THREE people were injured at Limassol port yesterday as tensions escalated on the third day of a crippling truck drivers’ strike.
Strikers Socrates Ioannou and Evripides Evripidou and Phileleftheros photo journalist Andreas Lazarou were all injured after a motorist stormed the port gates with his new car.
THE state owes half a billion pounds to Turkish Cypriots whose properties have been expropriated to create refugee settlements, roads and other works to enhance the community.
CYPRUS AND Lebanon yesterday signed an agreement on exclusive economic zones to facilitate future undersea oil and gas exploration following a year of negotiations.
The agreement was signed between Foreign Minister George Lillikas and Lebanon’s Minister of Public Works and Transport Mohammed al-Safadi in Beirut.
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