THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) is to dish out €45 per person per night, plus €23 per child or dependent per night for hotel rooms in a new €10 million scheme being launched from the beginning of next month, Director General Phoebe Katsouri said yesterday.
‘DREAMBOX’ subscribers with nightmares of SWAT teams storming into their bedroom at 2am and putting the cuffs on them are perhaps letting their imagination run wild. But don’t be shocked if a police officer knocks on your door with a search warrant in hand.
Is it illegal to own a ‘Dreambox?’ In short, yes.
THE GOVERNMENT is looking at new legislation to tackle the increasingly worrying trend of flashing deadly laser beams into the cockpits of low-flying commercial aircraft, said Communications Minister Nicos Nicolaides yesterday.
FOUR PEOPLE were seriously wounded after being stabbed in three separate incidents in Nicosia and Limassol at the weekend.
In Nicosia, a 43-year-old man was stabbed by a house party guest with a bayonet, while in Limassol a 28-year-old man attacked his 33-year-old flatmate with a kitchen knife.
The government will inject some €1.0 billion into the island’s commercial banking system next week in a bid to bring borrowing costs to consumers down, the Finance Ministry said yesterday.
The sum would be in the form of eight-month treasury bills, Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis said, and would be allocated to banks based on their market share.
A NEW scheme for recycling household batteries will start operating on May 1, with the first collections scheduled to start on 1 June, it was announced yesterday.
DRINKING and drug use in Cyprus is around the European average or even lower in some cases, according to The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) report that follows a 2007 survey on 15-16-year-olds in 35 European countries.
A GREEK Cypriot father and son have taken Britain’s Got Talent show by storm with a comedy act that had even the grumpiest of judges crying with laughter.
A 37-YEAR-OLD Romanian man has been remanded in connection with the murder of a 24-year-old man and the wounding of two women in Limassol over the weekend.
The suspect, Daniel Obresku, allegedly attacked his victims in their home. He turned himself in after a protracted police search and in response to the pleading of his friends.
DOMESTIC tourism bookings for Easter are holding up compared to last year, hoteliers said yesterday.
A programme of special hotel offers for domestic tourists from April 1 to October 30 was announced last week by the Cyprus Hotels Association (PASYXE), as part of an effort to soften the impact on Cyprus tourism of the international economic crisis.
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