Six villages evacuated before fire brought under control)
TWELVE firemen were injured in a huge fire that caused the evacuation of six mountain villages in the Larnaca and Limassol districts as well as damage to a number of houses in the area.
FIRST INDICATIONS that the fire was raging out of control could be seen from as far as 20 kilometres away from the village of Ora, where the blaze had started just after 3am yesterday morning.
ELEVATED levels of aflatoxins were found in a shipment of peanuts yesterday, the Health Services announced.
Nineteen thousand kilos were confiscated at Larnaca Port, which had come from China.
The shipment will either be destroyed or sent back.
THERE was a 23 per cent reduction in working permits issued for artistes during 2007.
The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) yesterday submitted the outcome of their survey on sex exploitation and trafficking in Cyprus to the House Gender Equality Committee.
LOCATED in the Naafi residential area of Limassol, Fysko Lotus Plaza, a building designed in the 90s aiming to create an innovative combination of residential and retail space, has for years been a site of dereliction, dumping and illegal activity, including drug trafficking.
Given the high hopes its owner had for the building in the beginning, one has to wonder what went wrong.
NICOSIA district municipality workers’ unions yesterday called off their 24-hour strike at the eleventh hour.
The strike, scheduled for today, would have involved around 1,000 workers – including rubbish collectors – employed in the district’s eight municipalities.
The decision to call off the strike was announced by unions SIDIKEK-PEO, OIO-SEK and DEEK-DEOK.
JOURNALISTS from state broadcaster CyBC refused to cover the meeting on Tuesday morning between UN Undersecretary General Lynn Pascoe and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.
Patriotism was cited as the reason, according to the information obtained by the Cyprus Mail.
TWO out of three Greek Cypriots have never had a close friendship with someone of a different religion, a new study on the religious views of Greek Cypriots revealed yesterday.
The survey, carried out by the European University of Cyprus (EUC) Research Centre on behalf of the Ombudswoman, revealed that Cyprus remains some way off from enjoying a multi-faith existence.
A THREE-DAY road show urging Cypriots to invest in land and property in Romania was yesterday launched in Nicosia.
Interested parties should visit the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia between 9am and 9pm, with the event organised by Empire Investments SRL.
AN INVESTIGATION is underway after an inflatable slide overturned on Monday night, throwing children playing on it to the ground.
The incident took place at Lemon Park in Latsia, which was hosting a school party for graduates of Aglandja’s fourth primary school.
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.
