MUD MIGHT be all that remains in the island’s reservoirs by early next year if the public do not do more to economise water use, warned the Minister of Agriculture yesterday.
Minister Fotis Fotiou once again urged the public to economise use of water on the island as Cyprus moves closer and closer to severe drought conditions in the coming months.
LARGE premises including hotels, businesses and ministries were yesterday spared from further regulated power cuts as electricity demand remained below availability, the Transmission System Operator (TSO) said.
A NUMBER of hotels managed to bypass the Electricity Authority’s (EAC) signal receiver, which was why they were unaffected by this week’s regulated power cuts.
“This is completely illegal and we are looking into it,” EAC spokesman Costas Gavrielides told the Cyprus Mail.
“We don’t know what we will do, but we will definitely do something,” he added.
A NICOSIA man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of murdering his wife and her lover in August last year.
Two of the three Nicosia Criminal Court judges yesterday ruled that Christoforos Charalambous cold-bloodedly planned the murder of his wife and her lover after learning about their affair.
THE REMAINS of another 23 Greek Cypriots listed as missing since 1974 have been identified and are being returned to their families for a proper burial.
Elias Georgiades, the Greek Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) told the Cyprus News Agency that the process of exhumation and identification on both sides should be completed within three years.
PARLIAMENT yesterday adopted all five laws that had been referred back by President Tassos Papadopoulos.
With the exception of the fishing law, deputies almost unanimously accepted the referrals and approved the necessary amendments.
GOLF COURSES are struggling to meet their water demands as drought looms over the island as a result of the scorching summer.
Clubs are now searching for alternative irrigation methods after having been asked to do so by the Cyprus Water Board.
THE Foreign Ministry yesterday launched a new website depicting various aspects of Cyprus on film, from the political problem to culture, in Greek, English and French.
The films and trailers are divided into categories that include people, economy, environment, history and traditions. Inside each of the subsections are several films related to a topic.
THE Commerce Minister and the Electricity Authority (EAC) are at loggerheads over government proposals to license a private power operator to supply the Transmission System Operator (TSO) with reserve electricity when the EAC falls short.
The Commerce Minister has blamed the dispute on the EAC’s desire to retain its monopoly on the island’s electricity supply.
CYPRUS has registered one of the lowest rates of euro area unemployment in June 2007 at 3.9 per cent, according to figures published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
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.
