‘You can’t tell people who are hungry or sick that you don’t know when they will receive their money’)
AROUND 250 immigrants and asylum seekers marched on the district welfare office in Kaimakli yesterday morning after being told they would not receive their monthly benefits until next week.
The Investigative Committee for examining the reasons behind the Municipal Theatre roof’s collapse was yesterday sworn in. In the presence of Culture and Education Minister Andreas Demetriou, the three-member committee appointed by the Cabinet was officially announced yesterday.
TWO MEN, a 45-year-old and a 21-year-old, both from Romania are in remand, suspected of stealing over €22,000 from ATMs in Limassol using fake credit cards.
The two men were arrested yesterday, after police received information from a bank clerk that someone was trying to withdraw money from an ATM using a fake credit card.
LIMASSOL is finally getting its own History Museum, which will be housed at the old building formerly used as the residence of the District Administrator. The building will undergo extensive renovation and refurbishment, and the museum is scheduled to open its doors to the public by April 2009.
Leaders’ aides meet on sidelines of Oslo gathering
AIDES TO the two leaders held a one-hour meeting with former Cyprus mediators during a conference this week held in Norway but little of substance emerged, the Cyprus Mail has learned.
THE HEALTH Ministry is close to finding a replacement for Makarios Hospital’s child neurologist Gula Stylianidou, who was recently killed in a car crash.
GREEN party deputy George Perdikis provoked general mayhem at Parliament on Thursday, when he announced his intentions to propose a public referendum for the Lisbon Treaty.
State and media put heads together on road issues
TRAFFIC CONGESTION is costing us €100m every year, it was claimed yesterday. The estimate was made by Director of the Public Transport Programme, Michalis Lambrinos, who said the costs are a result of the continuous construction of new roads and from fuel prices that have become “unbearable”.
ARMED ROBBERS made away with €40,000 yesterday, after a holding up cashiers in the Bank of Cyprus in Chlorakas village in Paphos.
Five men, two of them Palestinians with Jordanian passports, were later arrested. One of them had €8,000 on him that police believe came from the robbery.
A SPECIAL programme for children with mental illnesses will be presented in Cyprus next week.
The Vice-president of American non-profit organisation Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Douglas Doman, will hold a series of educational workshops this Wednesday and Thursday at the European University of Cyprus (former Cyprus College).
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.
