Capital to get 35% less water in face of holiday exodus
NICOSIA WILL be getting less water over the next few days in order to assist coastal towns and resorts over the holiday period. Protaras has already faced severe water shortages in the last few days due a surge in visitors ahead of the August 15 break.
THE SUPREME Court has annulled the town planning permit for the construction of the Super Home Centre following a residents’ appeal in Limassol.
The Supreme Court characterised the decision to allow the construction of the Super Home Centre in Mesa Yeitonia as “unacceptable”.
CYPRUS was one of only three European countries showing a stable property market for the last financial quarter, but experts have warned of tough times ahead for house prices on the island.
HOTELIERS IN Paphos are fully booked for the busiest period of the year. The main holiday period in Cyprus is during the month of August, where local tourism boosts occupancy numbers.
Themis Philipides of PASIXE, the hoteliers association said, “Most of the hotels in Paphos are full for August.
VILLAGERS in Panayia in the Paphos district are in uproar, after they were told their democratically elected community leader Ezekiel Ezekiel, could no longer hold this position as he doesn’t live in the village.
The Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said the law stated that all community leaders, or Mukhtars as they are know locally, must reside in the village they represent.
“THE GREEK half of Famagusta is empty,” was the first line of a report sent out by a US news agency correspondent 34 years ago today.
The bulletin was transmitted just hours after the Turkish invasion army swept across the Messaroia plain and entered Famagusta. Within a day, the town was deserted.
A HEAVILY pregnant woman has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling 1.6 kilos of hashish into the country.
The Romanian national, who is seven-months pregnant and married to a Cypriot, was followed by Drug Squad (YKAN) officers to a Larnaca Post Office, where she took receipt of a package sent from India.
THE LARGEST Cyprus Airways (CY) union CYNIKA yesterday approved by an overwhelming majority a mediation proposal by the Labour Ministry that will see wage increases reinstated after a four-year freeze.
The compromise proposal was approved by 90 per cent of CYNIKA’s members at a general assembly in Nicosia.
AN AVERAGE of 24 passengers passed through Larnaca airport every minute yesterday, in what was believed to be one of the busiest days of the year.
THE FIRST phase of unloading water from tankers from Greece, is expected to be completed today, with the arrival of the sixth ship in Cyprus.
District Director of the Water Development Department Nicodemos Nicodemou said that five ships have already made two or three trips from Elefsina, in Greece, to Limassol, on Cyprus’ southern coast.
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