With temperatures and humidity levels expected to surpass 40 degrees over the weekend, the Cyprus Red Cross Society (CRCS) has warned that it is not just those with vulnerable health who are at risk.
It therefore issued an announcement with a number of precautionary measures civilians need to take during the heat wave to avoid possible health complications.
CENTRAL BANK (CB) Governor Athanasios Orphanides took the gloves off yesterday, criticising Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis’ handling of the country’s finances and the “continuing attempt being made by certain circles to dispute the legal framework which governs our [banking] supervisory system”.
REGRET AND anger continued to pour out yesterday from the political leadership over comments made by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy working for a rickshaw business in Paphos says that he has been assaulted by a taxi driver for the second time in less than a week.
Now the rickshaw company Cypshaw, says its other riders have reportedly left the business out of fear, and say they won’t come back. Now only Alki Michael his son Daniel Laidlaw remain.
CYPRUS IS losing out in the internet bookings stakes, president of the Cyprus Hotel Managers Association, Polis Kallis said yesterday.
Kallis expressed his concern and disappointment over the inadequate online presence of Cyprus as a tourism destination.
THE NATIONAL Council (NC) will hold a two-day meeting in mid September to discuss the forthcoming evaluation of Turkey’s EU accession process, Government Spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said yesterday.
THE DEFENCE MINISTRY has launched disciplinary action against training officers at the KEN Larnaca and KEN Paphos’ boot camps for forcing new conscripts into chanting ‘unacceptable slogans’.
This contribution is part of a series of personal views invited by Cyprus Mail on the subject of consumer prices.
Manthos Mavromatis, President of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KEVE) on competition
YOUNG DRIVERS are to face a barrage of new measures aimed at reducing road accidents, Transport Minister Nicos Nicolaides said yesterday.
Following a meeting of the Road Safety Council Nicolaides announced six proposed measures including heavier fines, more education and a zero-alcohol rate in breathalyser tests.
FOUR RESIDENTS spotted a strange light zipping across the coast off Paphos on Thursday night in the latest in a series of incidents of unidentified objects in our skies.
The UFO was clearly seen by John Knowles, a research specialist with Mutual UFO Network, he told the Cyprus Mail the sighting took place near Coral Bay and is appealing for more witnesses.
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.
