A TOTAL of five people have lost their lives in work accidents in just over two weeks, according to official figures that were released yesterday.
According to the figures released for the period between 2004-2006, last year was the worst regarding deaths from work accidents. 2006 saw 18 deaths at work, while there were 54 deaths in the entire period.
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It looks like the taxi drivers are getting even more aggressive.
Despite a large sign by the airport taxi rank, numerous articles in the free press and also a CTO pamphlet, all stating that taxi-meters must be used, they still refuse to do so.
A SRI LANKAN student will tomorrow begin his attempt to break his own Guinness World Record for continuous running.
The 24-year-old, simply named Ashan, will be trying to run non-stop around the island for a period of nine days.
OUTGOING CENTRAL Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou yesterday laid into commercial banks for advancing as much as £600 million in unsecured loans for the purchase of shares during the 1999 stock market bubble.
WORKERS at the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation yesterday downed tools for three hours in protest over the sacking of sports writer Demetris Kritikos.
The strike, which took place between 7.30am and 10.30am, was staged by members of the SIDIDEK-PEO trade union.
SENIOR AIDES to President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met yesterday for the first time in over a month to discuss the stalled July 8 process.
Rasit Pertev and Tassos Tzonis were invited for a meeting by UNFICYP Chief of Mission Michael Moller who was recently in New York for consultations with the UN over the delayed process.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday began an official visit to Slovenia, holding talks with talks with his Slovenian counterpart Dr Janez Drnovsek.
TURKISH OIL company TPAO will issue a tender in May for a foreign partner for its exploration licence in the eastern Mediterranean, TPAO exploration director Ahmet Faruk Oner said yesterday.
He told Reuters the exploration licence covers regions off the coasts of Antalya, Mersin and the Iskenderun Gulf.
THE EDUCATION Ministry says it will know by Monday where the Aglandja Gymnasium, where two construction workers were killed last week, will be moved.
Education Minister Akis Cleanthous met with the House Education Committee yesterday in an urgent meeting to discuss the safety of the school’s building and the transferral of the school’s pupils to other establishments.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
