THE ROOF of the Nicosia Municipal Theatre was so close to caving in that a fall of snow would have been enough, according to the fact-finding report on the collapse, which was released yesterday.
Whilst browsing through last week’s papers I nearly fell off my chair when reading that Nicosia were going to introduce a priority lane system.
The problems facing the tourism industry in Cyprus will not go away until the government and the industry itself face up to the reality of the situation.
European destinations as a whole are suffering because of the weakness of the pound but some are fighting against this problem. Sadly Cyprus isn’t.
A FREAK twister and hailstorm swept through Larnaca yesterday, uprooting trees, tearing off rooftops and snapping power cables.
All it took was five minutes for the storm and whirlwind, which broke at the same time, to wreak havoc on the town and its outskirts, as walnut-sized hail stones struck homes and the fierce wind shook cars.
DUE TO the increased rainfall over the past few months, there is a strong possibility that water cuts will be reduced in the summer, Agriculture Minister Michalis Polynikis said yesterday
The issue will be discussed at a general meeting scheduled for today and any decisions that emerge will have to gain the approval of the Council of Ministers, he said.
REAL-ESTATE advertiser BuySell has slashed the asking price on 217 selected properties across the island, after receiving “requests from thousands of customers asking for bargains and opportunities”, according to a marketing email the company sent out this week.
THIRTY newly planted saplings have been torn out of the town hall garden in Paphos and thrown on the ground.
Green Party members planted the trees only two weeks ago. Member Andreas Evlavis said: This uprooting of the newly planted trees is scandalous vandalism, and we will try and ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
THERESA Villiers, UK Member of the Parliament for Chipping Barnet, following her attendance at the formal opening of the exhibition, “Lost Heritage Cyprus, 1974-2009”, has sent a letter to Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, urging him to visit the exhibition and “to throw the UK Government’s weight behind efforts to preserve the churches and other cultural heritage at risk in the occupied north of
THE HOUSE Health Committee yesterday called for Paphos General Hospital’s Accidents and Emergency Unit to be immediately reinforced, with staff as well as equipment because of the dire situation there.
A GROUP of Ormidia residents are battling the decision to construct a waste disposal site in their village.
The action group argues the project will put a further strain the area’s environment, the group said. It blamed the village council for the decision to place the rubbish disposal site in the town.
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