A 30-YEAR-old Briton was yesterday forced to cancel his holiday wedding after he and three friends were seriously injured in a violent Ayia Napa brawl at the weekend.
One of the men, Anthony Stephenson, 40, is in a coma fighting for his life at Larnaca general hospital, police said.
THE CONSUMERS’ Association has spotted a number of unjustifiable price increases in the market.
Announcing the results of an investigation carried out into the prices of basic-need products, the Association pointed out that 70 per cent of the products and services checked showed no unnecessary increases.
THE MAYOR of Limassol’s Mesa Yitonia has taken legal action against Super Home Center for non-compliance with the terms of its Town Planning permit, which the mayor says is intensifying the area’s traffic congestion.
FOREIGN MINISTER Erato Kozakou-Markoulli has given Syria until Thursday to clarify its position on a planned ferry service between occupied Famagusta and Latakia, reports said yesterday.
Nicosia is worried the launch of a direct service to the north might upgrade the status of the breakaway regime.
THE LACK of security at state hospitals has been raised yet again after a man entered the hospital and attacked a nurse over the weekend.
In the incident, the man stabbed himself and a nurse with surgical scissors after being brought in for stitches.
THE Central Bank yesterday kept interest rates unchanged, even though an acceleration in inflation and record credit growth pointed to an overheating economy.
Less than three months before adoption of the euro on January 1, 2008, the key refinancing rate remained at 4.50 per cent, 50 basis points above the euro equivalent.
THE GOVERNMENT has scrambled the Public Works Department and police force to deal with the dangerous problem of increased traffic near and around the new Nicosia General Hospital as a result of the recent opening of IKEA and the new Mall of Cyprus.
ONE IN ten people have fallen prey to sexual harassment at the workplace, a study by the European University of Cyprus has shown.
The survey, which polled 650 men and women aged 18 to 65, touched upon a subject regarded until very recently as a taboo in Cypriot society.
THE HOUSE Finance Committee yesterday approved a four-cent reduction on heating fuel duty, which will come into force after approval by the Plenum.
The Chairman of the Committee, DIKO’s Antigoni Papadopoulou, said the reduction was deemed necessary, not just by Parliament but also by the government.
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos has given cadaver organ donation the church’s full backing.
His support was announced at a memorial service for organ donors on Sunday.
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