CONSUMERS are to be hit hard in the pocket in upcoming months with meat and dairy prices expected to go up.
A recent chain reaction – spurred by a surge in wheat prices – has seen food products, especially meat and milk products, around the world take a sharp increase.
IN A bid to reverse falling tourist numbers, the government aims to give incentives to foreign airlines to start flights to Cyprus, but will need EU backing for the project.
The Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) is putting the final touches to the plan, which will involve co-financing airlines’ travel costs.
ASYLUM seekers and refugees are consistently subject to discrimination and abuse from government authorities, while living in constant fear of deportation, according to a study by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
TWENTY-NINE-year-old Briton Joanna MacPherson was diagnosed yesterday as suffering from nitrogen narcosis following a scuba diving accident.
LIMASSOL Court yesterday remanded in custody a 33-year-old man suspected of arson, while rape charges brought forward by his estranged wife are also being investigated.
THE death of a 22-year-old man in Limassol from a heroine overdose is the latest addition to a rising drug-related death toll in the seaside town, raising serious questions on the causes and management of the situation.
BRITAIN’s Special Representative for Cyprus yesterday said that, “we must all seek to find this new opportunity” regarding the Cyprus problem, “that will arise throughout the coming year, to grasp it with both hands and I think the prospects are bleak if we do not do that.”
GEORGE Nicolaou, a Cyprus Supreme Court judge, was elected yesterday by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, as Cyprus’ new judge to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
THE TOTAL number of migrants in Cyprus is estimated to have topped the 150,000 mark.
According to statistics released by the Department of Migration yesterday, more than 80,000 are here legally from third countries, mainly Sri Lanka and the Philippines, while 40,000 Europeans are now living on the island.
IT SEEMS that the comments made by US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, after his meeting with President Papadopoulos last week, did not impress the latter.
The government spokesman, acting on the president’s instructions, was at pains to play down the importance of what Burns had said in case anyone started thinking that a new initiative was imminent.
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