A WOMAN was in critical condition in Nicosia general hospital yesterday suffering from heat stroke, as temperatures hit 42 degrees Celsius in the capital, with scant respite expected in the coming days.
The woman, aged 72, was brought by ambulance to hospital on Sunday in a comatose state. Her body temperature was 43 degrees.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority (EAC) was yesterday given a few days reprieve following government threats that it would seek to satisfy the island’s additional power needs from elsewhere, after it promised to increase its generation by 130 megawatts no later than May 1 next year.
THE Town Planning Relaxation Council has rejected plans to build a Lidl supermarket in a residential area of Limassol.
European discount hypermarket chain Lidl had sought town planning permission to erect the building in the Ayios Tychonas suburb of Limassol.
The Commerce Ministry had backed the plan, saying it would be beneficial to residents.
MORE PROGRESS is to be made in the move to demine the United Nations buffer zone, with a €4 million contract signed by European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme towards the project.
THE Cyprus Telecommunications Authority CyTA has begun sending out its new roaming rates in line with an EU regulation designed to streamline and reduce charges for EU citizens.
Private competitor Areeba also sent out a statement yesterday with its new roaming charges.
GREEK President Karolos Papoulias left Cyprus yesterday after a two-day visit to attend memorial services to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Archbishop President Makarios, and to meet the political leadership.
OVERALL PETROLEUM sales for June 2007, according to data released by the Statistical Services, fell by 1.1 per cent from the previous month.
The main causes of the small fall in sales were said to be a large reduction in the provisions to ships (15.3 per cent) as well as a 19.5 per cent drop in heavy crude oil supplies.
IT SEEMS old grudges die hard in Cyprus politics, as DIKO vice president Nicos Pittokopitis yesterday accused AKEL of collaborating with DISY to oust former President Spyros Kyprianou over 20 years ago.
THE OVERWHELMING majority of Greek Cypriots want to see a meeting between President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, a new poll published yesterday revealed.
According to the poll, commissioned and published in Politis newspaper and carried out mid-month by Noverna, showed 76.9 per cent in favour of a meeting between the two leaders.
EMPLOYEES of Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) plan to stage a 24-hour strike on August 29 after the Finance Ministry blocked funds for a shake-up of the semi-government body.
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.
