Sir,
If ever a letter was designed to stir up hatred and anti-Israeli sentiment (‘The ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people’, Sunday Mail, January 4), your reader’s letter from Larnaca certainly tried very hard.
This type of propaganda was censored and eventually banned over 20 years ago when the BNP put out this sort of dangerous garbage.
THERE are undoubtedly responsibilities for the outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in the neonatal unit of a private Nicosia hospital, the Health Minister said yesterday.
“Instructions have been issued to everyone to assist both with their scientific expertise and in the accuracy of collecting and compiling the evidence so that this case moves forward,” said Christos Patsallides.
POLICE yesterday arrested the 22-year-old accomplice of escaped convict Antonis Prokopiou Kitas after he turned himself in.
Rodosthenis Christodoulou, who has been on the run since he allegedly helped Kitas escape from a private Nicosia hospital on December 12, handed himself over to authorities at around 11am yesterday. He was accompanied by a relative.
CONTRACTS signed between the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and German company Siemens yesterday came under the parliamentary microscope.
The House Institutions Committee decided to examine the agreements following the scandal that broke out in Greece concerning surveillance that took place on Greek diplomats’ mobile phones.
THE FINANCIAL crisis, energy and the EU’s role in the world are the three hot topics on the Czech agenda, outlined the Czech Ambassador to Cyprus Jan Bondy yesterday, after taking over the EU Presidency from France for the next six months.
Speaking from the EU Representation in Nicosia, Bondy listed the priorities of the Czech Presidency.
DEFIBRILLATORS will be installed in public places and will start operating in March in an effort to save people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest.
The automated external defibrillators (AED) will be handled by specially trained volunteers.
THE MINISTRY of Agriculture plans to build a second floating desalination unit using the infrastructure constructed to receive the water from Greece on the Yermasoyia coast.
The plan, expected to avoid the time-consuming objections period as it will be located on pre-existing infrastructure, will be presented to Parliament today.
A CAMPAIGN to save electricity in the capital is to be launched shortly, Commerce Minister Antonis Paschalides announced yesterday.
Paschalides was speaking after a meeting with the municipalities of Nicosia and the Electricity Authority of Cyprus to discuss ways in which cutbacks could be made.
HIGH-rise buildings could soon redraw the skyline in Paphos.
A Paphos councillor yesterday confirmed that the mayor, Savvas Vergas, was looking at ways of saving space in the ever-growing town, and had put together a group of local architects who are examining the possibilities of creating high-rise buildings.
THE DEFENCE Minister yesterday opened a round of contacts with political and state officials to discuss National Guard reform.
Minister Costas Papacostas started by meeting House President Marios Garoyian yesterday. He said afterwards that the NG was of vast significance, as was a further reduction of obligatory military service from 24 to 19 months, as promised by AKEL.
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