LIMASSOL police have busted a gang of criminals who have stolen dozens of cars around the country with the aim of dismantling them and smuggling the parts abroad.
Police said yesterday they had arrested four men, two of them from Bangladesh, one from Jordan and the other a Palestinian.
CIVIL servants seconded to the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) are seeking compensation for the month of August, during which they were officially on strike.
Work at the CPC ground to a halt in early July, when employees walked out, complaining that their boss Giorgos Christofides was spying on them.
MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides has urged EU leaders to practice what they preach when it comes to carbon footprints, citing the fact that during his last month in office Tony Blair’s CO2 output would take 7,200 trees to counter.
THE FIVE-MEMBER team of Cypriot experts visiting Greece for the last week to evaluate the government’s plan to rebuild Artemida village after last month’s devastating fires yesterday returned to Cyprus.
Speaking to reporters on her return, team leader Athina Aristotelous said 75 per cent of homes in the village had been destroyed, as well as vast areas of lush forest plains.
TYCOON businessman Nicos Shacolas has sparked outrage from unions PEO and POVEK by saying he will be seeking special operating hours for his Mall of Cyprus and the new IKEA complex.
Shacolas said he had not officially made a request from the Labour Ministry, but added that the minister would “carefully” review the request once it was made.
THE Director of Civil Aviation yesterday said, “an ongoing process to improve security was taking place at the island’s airports.”
Leonidas Leonidou was responding to local press reports that an EU security audit taking place at Paphos airport this week had highlighted serious security concerns.
CIVIL Aviation yesterday rubbished reports that aviation inspectors with the department have threatened to resign, allegedly because their superiors frequently countermand their decisions on flight safety.
LABOUR Minister Antonis Vassiliou has pledged to make better conditions for autistic children after a meeting held with parents.
Yesterday, the minister met with the parents’ association for autistic children at the Athalassa Psychiatric Institute in Nicosia and said he was “alarmed” with what he had been told by some of the parents.
WITHIN two months, a new medicine will be available for Multiple Sclerosis patients for free, Health Minister Costas Kadis has announced, saying Cyprus would be one of the few countries in the EU to provide it on the state health budget.
THE ATTORNEY-general is looking into the legal ramifications of cancelling the government’s traffic camera contract, following several technical problems that have affected the system.
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.
