THERE are currently 18,000 single-parent families in Cyprus, of which only 1,400 receive benefits from the state.
The problems faced by one-parent families were brought to the forefront during yesterday’s House Institutions Committee, where deputies heard that foreign single mothers-of-three receive just £500 in state benefits each month.
CYPRUS bathing waters are among the top six cleanest in Europe, meeting the strictest of EU standards, a European Commission report said yesterday.
From 100 beach areas tested only one, in the Paphos area, failed to meet EU standards. This caused Cyprus to slip from 100 per cent compliance in last year’s report.
MARFIN Popular Bank yesterday confirmed it was under investigation for a potential legal breach over acquiring a stake in Bank of Cyprus but said there was nothing wrong in the transaction.
List of names handed over in illegal Greek Cypriot property transactions
DISY deputies Giorgios Georgiou and Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis yesterday met Attorney-general Petros Clerides to hand over the list of names of people said to be involved in selling Greek Cypriot property in the north to foreign companies.
TEACHERS’ union OELMEK yesterday accused the Education Ministry of having “files and shadow-files” to keep tabs on teachers.
Union head Georgos Kallias called on the ministry to destroy the “shadow files” that had been created against certain teachers, ignoring legal procedures.
DOZENS of Nicosia residents patiently queued in Eleftheria Square yesterday morning to have their lung capacity tested.
POLICE have renewed the remand of two Romanian nationals suspected of having murdered a man from Meniko village in Nicosia.
Constantin Solomon, 45, and Mihaela Foltic, 28, are under investigation for conspiracy to commit murder and premeditated murder of 53-year-old Giorgos Diomedous.
A NICOSIA Criminal Court yesterday heard of mother of three’s desperate cry for pity at the hands of a man who stabbed her, punched her, stoned her and then burnt her body in a forest.
The chilling account emerged during the trial of Kyriacos Kakoullis, 37, from Nisou, who yesterday pleaded guilty to two charges of manslaughter and arson.
MEMBERS of Parliament should set an example and pay their traffic fines, deputies said yesterday.
ALMOST half of all school leavers want to become primary school teachers, despite the long waiting list to teach at state schools, reports said yesterday.
According to Phileleftheros, 42.2 per cent of this year’s students had applied to sit university exams to attend teacher training courses, undeterred by the fact that in 2005 there were 1,205 unemployed teachers.
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