A 68-YEAR-OLD wife and mother was shot and killed by her husband as he tried to protect her from a group of thugs outside their home late on Thursday night, police said yesterday.
The tragedy occurred when a misunderstanding over cars and a parking space at a nearby coffee shop escalated into a full blown physical and verbal assault.
THE CYPRUS Consumers Association (KEK) of has criticised the ministry of Agriculture’s management of water shortages in Nicosia during the August 15 holiday.
EXCESSIVE drinking and disorderly behaviour are problems normally associated with the more notorious tourist haunts such as Ayia Napa and Limassol.
However, the first signs that British binge-drinking culture has caught on locally are on the horizon.
A SEWAGE pipe in a Coral Bay village has been leaking for five years and nothing has been done about it, according to a local resident who said he had to move out because of the stink..
The residents of the Aristo village in the Peyia municipality are at their wits end about the problem, said Walter Alfrey.
PRIVATE SECURITY companies (PSCs) have been left unregulated by the government which has failed to implement a law regulating the issue passed in 2005, said Chairman of the House Legal Affairs Committee Ionas Nicolaou yesterday.
THE LAST of the Canadian troops, who were holidaying in Cyprus after tours in Afghanistan, have returned home.
Since spring this year, over 6000 Canadian peacekeepers have stayed in downtown Paphos, after operations as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
A KEY road artery in Nicosia, Athalassa Avenue, will open again to traffic from 6am tomorrow, in time for residents of the capital to make their way en masse to the beach, said Communications Minister Nicos Nicolaides yesterday.
LOCAL COUNCILS need to do their bit to ensure increased tourist arrivals next year by cleaning up their act and their municipality, said Minister of Commerce and Tourism Antonis Paschalides yesterday.
Paschalides accused municipalities of ignoring tourists’ main complaint, that tourist areas are dirtier than they should be, with litter and mess surrounding five star hotels.
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos said yesterday that next month, the Church of Cyprus would resort to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to report Turkey for violation of its rights and usurpation of its property in north.
Dr Nicos Peristianis Phd, Sociologist and Executive Dean of the University of Nicosia offers his views
“I think that there are four reasons why prices are so high in Cyprus.
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