CATTLE farmers yesterday openly blamed the government for the latest aflatoxin find in fresh milk.
The farmers said that instead of seizing and confiscating all the infected animal feed imported from India in June, some of it was still being supplied to dairy farmers.
TWO elderly women were killed in separate road accidents over the past two days.
One pensioner succumbed to her injuries on Sunday night after being involved in a car crash in Paphos.
Angeliki Ieridou, 72, was passenger in a car driven by her husband when they collided with a taxi attempting to take a right turn ahead of them.
TWO JORDANIAN men have been arrested on suspicion of raping a Finnish tourist and attempting to rape another in the Famagusta district during the early hours of Sunday, police said yesterday.
A PRIEST was yesterday released from police custody after allegedly blackmailing his female business partner by SMS and sexually harassing her.
Famagusta CID arrested the 35-year-old cleric in the early hours of Saturday morning after receiving a complaint from a 30-year-old divorced woman that he was blackmailing her via text messaging.
HIS big doe-eyed expression will have all dog lovers captivated; and heartbroken after realising that he is soon to be put down if a decent home cannot be found for him.
This little feller, who can’t be more than a year old, was neglected by his owner over the holidays and eventually run over by a car, badly breaking his right back leg.
TWO foreigners are believed to be responsible for a robbery on a money transfer shop in old Nicosia on Sunday.
According to police yesterday, the shop’s Lithuanian employee said she had heard the two men speaking in Russian.
THE INTERNATIONAL peace activists that broke the Israeli blockade of Gaza on the weekend yesterday escorted five fishing boats beyond the Israeli-imposed six mile fishing limit.
“THE law covering football violence is stricter this year and so will be the enforcement of it,” the Justice Minister said yesterday.
Kypros Chrysostomides met with police and club representatives, where he urged everybody involved to work together in a friendly and non-violent environment.
BARACK Obama’s choice of Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate has sparked hopes among Greek lobbyists in the United States that the promotion of the Cyprus problem will take on a more substantial profile.
STRONG winds that broke out on Sunday evening in the Larnaca Paralimni coastal area wreaked havoc in the area.
The winds, with a speed of thirty knots, broke electricity cables in Larnaca causing a fire, which was put out by the Fire Department. Problems were caused in other areas, while in the areas affected visibility was extremely low.
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