THE ONLY item on a list of everyday goods and services that did not see a price increase in September was parking fees, the Finance Ministry said yesterday.
A detailed analysis of what the Ministry called ‘sensitive items’, which was released yesterday, showed that everything from bread, to a haircut went up during the month from 0.2 per cent to 8.6 per cent respectively.
THE DEFENCE Ministry said yesterday it had launched its own drugs hotline to help conscripts as well as their friends and family.
The number, 1404, will be connected as of next week, and is for emergency purposes on a 24-hour basis, National Guard medical chief Dr Christakis Kyprianou said.
POLICE ARE looking for a 40-year-old Limassol man suspected of issuing fake deeds to sell Turkish Cypriot properties worth £6.3 million.
Limassol CID yesterday received information that someone had prepared fake documents claiming to be signed by the Guardian of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south and attempted to lure businessmen.
CYPRUS’ productivity level is 85.6 per cent of the EU average, giving the island a ranking of 16 out of the 27-member bloc.
“We are not the worst but we are not satisfied being average or towards the bottom of the list,” Labour Minister Antonis Vassiliou said.
“We aim to get to the top of list like Luxemburg and Ireland: an aim we believe is possible.”
THE ELECTRICITY Authority of Cyprus (EAC) yesterday decided to get on board with government plans for bringing Liquefied Natural Gas to the island.
Following a marathon session of its board of directors, the semi-governmental organisation voted in favour of participating in a majority state-owned corporation, which initially at least will be the sole supplier of natural gas.
THREE 400-year-old dictionaries estimated to be worth around $6 million were recovered by authorities in the north this week.
Yesterday, Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper reported that the dictionaries were seized during an operation carried out in Kyrenia.
AFTER the signing of an agreement in Tergesty Italy yesterday, the government announced that Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly will officially be the tenth opera to be presented in the Paphos Aphrodite Festival on August 29, 30 and 31, 2008.
A TEN-YEAR old primary student was forced to smoke a cigarette in the toilets of his Lakatamia school by two students of a neighbouring Gymnasium.
The incident took place on Wednesday at the Ayios Mama ‘B’ Primary School in Lakatamia during a mid-morning break.
POLICE HAVE reported five burglaries in Limassol in the last couple of days, noting a rise in the occurrence of such crimes.
In an unusual case, an elderly couple from Limassol reported that on Thursday morning they found a stranger in their kitchen, who had most likely entered through the unlocked back door.
SERIOUS CRIME has fallen ten per cent in the past five years but drug offences and illegal employment are up significantly, Justice Minister Sophocles Sophocleous said yesterday.
Speaking at a news conference about the work of his ministry, Sophocleous said road accidents and deaths were also down, having fallen 35 per cent since 2003.
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.
