WITH DAM capacity currently at a mere 7.7 per cent, the Water Development Department yesterday said it would be advising the relevant authorities not to use any more water from dams in the event of further fires.
CONTRACTORS have assured that road works on the approach to Paphos airport would be completed within days.
The work has been a major headache for coach drivers, prompting them to ask local deputy Costas Costantinou to enquire how long resurfacing would take.
TWO underage youths have been arrested after a complaint of sexual assault was made to Famagusta police.
The complaint centres on a six-year-old girl from one of the district’s villages, whose parents are separated.
A relative of the girl made the complaint three weeks ago, claiming the assault was perpetrated by a 16 and 17-year old, who know the girl’s mother.
WORK for the reconstruction of the derelict old Armenian cemetery near the Ledra Palace is to begin in earnest next week.
A contract has been granted complete the renovation and construction of the cemetery, the tombs, the exterior wall as well as the chapel in the cemetery.
THE FIRE Services yesterday denied that they could have done a better job in combating Wednesday’s massive blaze in the Larnaca and Limassol area.
In the aftermath of the catastrophic fire, local residents blamed the Fire Services for not being organised and lacking the expertise needed to combat such a major blaze.
THE MAYOR of Peyia is hopeful that his seven-year wait for a post office may at last be coming to an end.
At present deliveries must come from the central post office in Paphos, delaying mail to the nearly 10,000 residents.
But Mayor Neophytos Akourshiotis told the Cyprus Mail yesterday he hoped this may soon change.
SPEAKING on his return from Brussels last night, President Christofias said it would not be right to presume that Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat was against finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.
“We first need to complete the image on which we want to work,” he pointed out.
AIDES to the leaders yesterday announced the extent of progress at four of the seven technical committees, which have agreed on joint measures on road safety, health, culture and environment.
THE VENUE at the centre of an investigation into a children’s accident on Monday did not have a relevant licence to host the event, it emerged yesterday.
An inflatable slide at Lemon Park in Latsia overturned, throwing children playing on it to the ground.
DRUG related deaths in Cyprus are above the European average, according to research presented yesterday in the presence of the Health Minister.
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.
