CYPRUS HAS sent the largest firefighting mission of firemen and volunteers to Greece, to combat the huge blazes that have reduced vast expanses of the country to ashes over the past few days, CNA reported yesterday.
CYPRUS CONTINUES to offer help to Greece, which has been victim to devastating fires for the past six days and has mourned the loss of 64 lives.
THE GO kart track in Paphos where a 12-year-old Belgian tourist was killed last week has been temporarily closed down.
The Yeroskippou Municipality managed to attain the order while investigations into the August 21 accident are still on-going.
THE PARAPLEGICS Association said yesterday it was frustrated with how the government had turned its back on a 33-year-old wheelchair bound Pakistani man, ultimately dumping him on the state health services at the expense of other paraplegic patients.
“We have to find a way to have this person discharged from hospital,” the association’s president Demetris Lambrianides said.
NO DAMAGE or injuries were been reported following Tuesday night’s earth tremor.
Measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, the tremor was recorded at 10.55pm.
According to the Geological Survey Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, chances of aftershocks are remote.
SHODDY SCAFFOLDING may have been the cause of Tuesday’s freak accident at a construction site at the new Larnaca airport building, when three workers were injured after a roof collapsed under their feet.
The three men, identified as being Filipino nationals, were laying a concrete slab on top of the ceiling of the second floor of the building.
THE FOREIGN Ministry said yesterday the British tabloid Daily Express was totally mistaken when it claimed Cyprus High Commission staff in London owed hundreds of thousands of pounds to the NHS in the UK.
A Ministry spokesman said yesterday they had investigated the claims reported in the newspaper on Tuesday.
WITH THE holiday period over, attention has turned once again to former Foreign Minister George Lillikas and His alliances ahead of next year’s presidential elections.
Lillikas said last month he would announce after the holiday period whether he would lend his support to incumbent President Tassos Papadopoulos or AKEL candidate Demetris Christofias.
OPPOSITION parties yesterday accused the government of sitting idly by while consumers were being ripped off on an unprecedented scale.
Former coalition partner AKEL, which took a told-you-so approach, said many businesses started increasing their prices from the end of May and had continued in June and July.
THE CONSUMERS Association has met with the Agriculture Minister in an effort to combat what it claims are unjustified rises in the price of bread and meat on the island.
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.
