NICOSIA residents face deeper water cuts as the summer temperatures kick in.
The bad news comes amid growing resentment that residents of Nicosia and Larnaca are second class citizens when it comes to water supply, compared to the more water privileged consumers of Limassol and Paphos.
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I am a foreigner living in Cyprus for the last three years, and I agree that the driver’s education that I received in my native United States has proved utterly inadequate for conditions here.
Thirty people, 25 of whom are illegal immigrants, were yesterday arrested during a large scale police operation involving three districts.
The immigrants, the majority of them Syrian, were arrested during an operation involving officers from the Limassol, Larnaca and Famagusta districts as well as the police headquarters, Assistant Police Chief Michalis Papageorgiou said.
THE THIRD annual Cypriot-Russian Festival will be taking place at the Limassol seafront (Molos) next weekend. The festival aims to bring Russian and Cypriot cultures closer together, in a town with a large and vibrant Russian community.
CYPRUS has its first Pontian priest, ordained by the Bishop of Paphos on Sunday.
The ceremony took place at the 12th century five-domed church of Ayia Pareskevi in Yeroskipou.
In front of the 16th century iconostasis, and beneath the high vaulted ceiling, Bishop Georgios of Paphos ordained 40-year-old Georgian plumber, George Hmalantzidies.
THE EATING habits of each population and each generation are directly responsible for the frequency of various illnesses and consecutively for the high or low rates of mortality, House President Marios Garoyian said yesterday.
He was addressing an event organised yesterday at the House of Representatives under the title “Mediterranean Diet – Returning to Tradition”.
THE CHURCH is to remove the giant bronze statue of Archbishop Makarios that has graced the grounds of the Archbishopric for the past 15 years by August at the latest.
It will be transferred to the famous Kykkos Monastery and will be replaced with a newer, life-sized marble statue of the Republic’s first President.
(Author: By Jacqueline Theodoulou )
(Date: 2008-05-30)
AN investigation into fuel prices will be ready in the next few months, the Competition Commissioner has announced.
A CONSORTIUM wanting to invest in an offshore floating unit to produce electricity is waiting for the government’s position regarding the importation, storage and distribution of gas.
PARLIAMENT has been called to explain why it included the Central Bank Governor on the Conflict of Interest list without consulting the European Central Bank.
The issue came to light after a letter was sent by ECB governor Jean-Claude Trichet to House President Marios Garoyian, asking to be informed on the matter.
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