WITH only five to six months’ supply of water left in the reservoirs, the Agriculture Ministry will begin drilling for reserves in the Troodos region, Minister Photis Photiou said yesterday.
Speaking after a meeting with water officials, Photiou said there were only 28 million cubic metres of water left, compared with 68 million at the same time last year.
THE PRISON guards under whose watch two men broke out of the Central Prisons are to be named today, while a disciplinary inquiry has been launched against the responsible wardens, of whom there are believed to be at least four.
THREE prisoners at the central prison in north Nicosia suffered serious injuries on Tuesday night after guards failed to respond in time to a fire in their cell.
According to prison staff, the fire was started deliberately by at least one of three inmates who had been locked in a cell as punishment for allegedly attacking another inmate.
WAGE earners are receiving an ever-smaller share from the distribution of national income, SEK trade union said yesterday.
The union said that compared to a 45.8 per cent share of national income produced in 2003, wage earners last year only received 44.7 per cent of the total.
TOURISM was up 6.4 per cent year on year in September, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday.
The latest figures bring the total rise in the first nine months of the year to 1.1 per cent over the first nine months of 2006.
The figures mean that between January and September this year, 1,972,493 tourists visited Cyprus so far this year.
THE ASTRONOMICAL society of Cyprus has called for a change to the way summer time is implemented across the EU, arguing that a more balanced way of calculating the dates will lead to to an increase in productivity and energy saving.
NO SPECIFIC figure of what constitutes profiteering in the run-up to the introduction of the euro was yesterday given by organisations working closely on the transition.
On Monday, President Papadopoulos announced that 100 inspectors would be appointed to monitor prices on a daily basis, but he failed to state what an unjustified rise actually was.
THE PRESS and Information Office (PIO) has secured thousands of photos from the archives of Cyprus’ first-ever photo journalist, Felix Yiaxis, covering the period 1945 to 1965.
The deal was struck with Yiaxis’ widow Eleni to acquire the archive, which spans some of the most turbulent years of the island’s history but also documents numerous aspects of Cyprus life.
FIVE young Syrian children were orphaned yesterday after their father was killed at work, just a year after losing their mother.
According to police, the 35-year-old Syrian man had been working illegally on a construction site in Chloraka when a freak accident occurred.
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