CYPRUS is at serious risk of being overrun by immigrants, if the Movement for the Salvation of Cyprus is to be believed; failure to clamp down on the influx of legal and illegal foreigners, they say, will culminate in an irreversible situation where the majority of the island is made up of non-Greek Cypriots.
HOUSE President and presidential candidate Demetris Christofias yesterday called Central Bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides a neo-liberal more interested in number crunching than hungry people.
THE Electromechanical Services of the Communications and Works Ministry yesterday began a sweep of retail outlets for faulty electrical goods in the run up to Christmas.
Inspectors found as many as 30 faulty items in one day on the job, according to one. He said a report and list would be compiled in the coming day so consumers could be warned about the appliances.
BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist George Paraskevaides, co-founder of the Joannou and Paraskevaides empire, was buried in Nicosia yesterday.
The funeral at the Church of Panayia Evangelistria in Pallouriotissa was presided over by Archbishop Chrysostomos and attended by the country’s political leadership, led by President Tassos Papadopoulos.
CYPRUS’ pensions system needs a major overhaul to prevent it from tilting into a deficit and then requiring a raft of new sources of revenue to fund it, say analysts.
The island, which joins the euro zone on January 1, is in a bind on how to increase revenues to its pensions system and ensure that a growing contingent of pensioners are on acceptable income levels.
IF THE previous government’s timeframes had been kept, a land-based liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal would have been up and running by the end of this month.
This was claim made by Nicos Rolandis – Commerce Minister during Glafcos Clerides’ government – during yesterday’s House Watchdog Committee.
A 30-YEAR-old woman from Limassol is wanted by police following reports from various shop-owners in the town that she has been issuing cheques from a stolen chequebook of a closed account.
A Limassol resident had reported to police that in November a number of blank cheques were stolen from her chequebook, while the account attached to the chequebook had been closed.
TWO people have been wounded and six cars damaged from a violent clash between supporters of Anorthosis and Omonoia, following a volleyball game at the Themistokleio stadium in Limassol.
AN EMPLOYEE of the Department of Road Transport in Limassol was arrested yesterday, following a complaint that he had asked for a bribe in order to speed up a licensing procedure, police said yesterday.
JOSE Luis Diaz, a United Nations official with extensive experience in media liaison with the world body, has been appointed as spokesman of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).
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