CYPRUS is set to face EU action after the government’s shock decision to allow shooting of the Turtle Dove this weekend provoked major reaction from conservationists across the continent.
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Flight CY392 Larnaca-Dubai, April 29, 2007 scheduled departure time 19.00 hrs, scheduled arrival time Dubai local time 23.15 hrs.
A study case in four Acts of how not to deal with your customers!
Act 1- Scene 1- Phone call from Cyprus Airways Dubai office on Thursday April 26 advising of new departure time of 21.10 hrs due to technical reasons.
EU Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammerberg said yesterday that he would be contacting the Cypriot government over the status of a group of Iraqi refugees that have been camped outside the UN Protected Area in Nicosia for the last 73 days.
Hammerberg met the refugees yesterday, calling the situation they found themselves in “very sad”.
POLICE yesterday had in custody the alleged accomplice in the murder of a 20-year-old Russian woman in Nicosia last month.
According to media reports, the suspect was apprehended by UNFICYP officers who then handed him over to Cypriot police.
THE HEALTH Ministry has decided to lower the salaries of two child neurologists, who are set to be signed on contracts by the government, following an outcry from state doctors.
The Health Ministry had initially planned to bring in doctors from abroad on wages amounting to around £55,000, a figure which dwarfed those of local public sector doctors.
A 51-YEAR-old man is under investigation for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl, Limassol police said.
The man, who is from Paralimni, has allegedly confessed to having had sex with the teenager over the past four months, but claims the intercourse was consensual.
A GIANT shark weighing 800 kilos and measuring nearly four metres in length has been caught by three fishermen around one mile offshore from Orka Village near Kyrenia.
THE administration of treatment within the first three hours after the onset of stroke symptoms is crucial in limiting the amount of brain damage suffered by the patient, a neurologist said yesterday.
“Time is brain,” Neurological Society president Dr Michalis Protopapas said.
THE UNIVERSITY of Cyprus yesterday announced that it is receiving applications from Turkish Cypriots wanting to take part in courses as of September 2007.
POLICE have threatened to boycott high-risk sports events after Larnaca’s Police Chief was injured and fires were set during a basketball match between AEL Limassol and APOEL Nicosia at the Kition Stadium in Larnaca on Thursday night.
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