THE COMMITTEE for Monitoring Petroleum Prices assembled in an urgent meeting, yesterday, following comments made by the head of the government’s Energy Department, Solon Kasinis, who is also a member of the Committee.
The meeting, which took place in the office of the Commerce Ministry’s Director yesterday morning, lasted over two hours.
FOLLOWING weeks of dramatic pleas to save the ecosystem at Yermasoyia Dam, the dam has dried out, taking with it the wealth of animal and plant life that inhabited it. Adding insult to injury, authorities are reportedly putting public health at risk by not following procedure on the disposal of the multitude of dead fish in the dam.
EIGHT-year-old Jasmitha Maharajasingh, who had surgery to remove an aggressive malignant brain tumour in Israel last year, yesterday flew home in an emotional reunion with friends and family.
HUMIDITY levels have been well above average for the time of year, the Meteorological Service said yesterday.
Director Kyriacos Theophilou said that, combined with the high temperatures, the humidity levels are causing several medical difficulties.
TWO men died in suspected drownings in two separate incidents yesterday, police said.
Soteris Antoniou, 63, from Limassol was found floating at the bottom of the sea in the Ayios Georgios Alamanos area near Pentakomo at around 11am by underwater fishermen. He was pulled to shore but efforts to resuscitate him proved fruitless.
INTERNATIONAL activists sailed out of Larnaca yesterday in an attempt to run an Israeli sea blockade on 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza.
The 44 activists sailed in two wooden boats at 9.50 a.m. Hailing from 14 countries, they said they expected to reach the shores of Gaza, patrolled by the Israeli navy, today.
THE MINISTRY of Education will be announcing a set of measures to promote a culture of understanding, peaceful coexistence and mutual respect between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.
This programme, to be applied from the coming school year, will form part of the educational reform program, which was announced last month by the Minister of Education, Andreas Demetriou.
CONSUMERS must be prepared for a four per cent increase in their next electricity bills.
The Chairman of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), Harris Thrassou, rubbished reports that there would be a 28 per cent increase in fees and added that the following bills would actually see a reduction in prices.
POLICE are trying to pin down the identity of a man arrested in connection with over 40 break-ins in hotel rooms in Ayia Napa.
The suspect, who claims to be 42 years old and from Lebanon, led police to his hide-out – a building site in Nicosia – where a large number of valuables were found.
THE CYPRUS Amateur Athletic Association (KOEAS) yesterday insisted that hammer throw Skevi Theodorou was indeed sick and seen by a doctor during the Olympics.
Theodorou herself on Thursday went back on claims that she had been sick and suffering from a fever during the competition and issued an apology to the Cyprus Olympic Committee for her “unfortunate comments”.
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.
