AN AUTOPSY on the body of a 48-year-old squatter found dead in an abandoned hotel in Limassol indicates that the man died of pneumonia.

The autopsy was performed by medical coroner Eleni Antoniou yesterday morning. The man, identified as Gania Gadieskov from Poland, was found lying in the corridor in the second floor of an abandoned seafront hotel in Limassol on Thursday evening.

AGRICULTURE Minister Fotis Fotiou yesterday joined a number of Cypriot animal lovers in adopting a puppy from the Cyprus Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (CSPCA).

BP Marine is to close its bunkering operation in Cyprus due to a dearth of shipping business at the island’s ports, the company said.
Bunkering is the use of a ship to refuel other vessels that anchor offshore on their way to other destinations, a form of mobile fuel station.

THE CYPRUS Red Cross (CRC) is appealing to the public to donate their old Cyprus coins when the dual circulation period for the Cyprus pound and the euro ends on January 31.
From February 1, the old Cyprus coinage will no longer acceptable in retail outlets. The Cyprus Red Cross Society (CRCS), in conjunction with the Central Bank, has developed the perfect solution, they say.

DRUG trafficking is being propped up higher and higher on the police’s agenda.
This can be surmised from the five-day seminar named ‘Combating Drug Trafficking’, which has been added to the ongoing drug crackdown which has seen more than 20kg of cannabis being confiscated by police and dozens of people arrested in 2008 alone.

FOLLOWING the announcement for the construction of a Limassol Marina, the Ministry of Commerce has pledged that three more marinas, in Paphos, Larnaca and in Ayia Napa are in the works. The creation of the three marinas aims to render Cyprus a major attraction for nautical tourism in the Mediterranean.

A 54-YEAR-old man from Limassol yesterday set fire to himself, started a fire in his flat and jumped off the balcony from the first floor of a Linopetra apartment complex.

A MINOR earthquake, of superficial depth, marking 3.5 on the Richter scale. was felt in the Limassol area yesterday.

The quake occurred at 12.53am. As confirmed by the Geological Survey Department, the earthquake’s epicentre was the city’s coastal area, 10km south of Yermasoyia bay. Its central depth was 11km.

IT’S 2003 I’m listening to a song on the car radio. “You should be stronger than me”. It’s ballsy and brazen and its sassiness is making me smile. Forget metrosexuals, wimpy men and women as victims; it’s telling the truth as seen by a particular 19-year-old from Camden. Berating her bloke for being weak.