THE OPPOSITION warned yesterday that consumers could ultimately be forced to pay a fine imposed on to petrol companies for price-fixing and cartel-like behaviour.
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LIMASSOL POLICE have garnered the most complaints from the public this year, according to the police complaints authority yesterday, which said 16 of 57 complaints involved officers from that district.

CYPRIOTS ARE among the most optimistic people in the world about the consequences of the worldwide economic crisis, according to a survey by global market research company Synovate and the University of Nicosia.

CYPRUS AIRWAYS (CY) unions yesterday threatened action if the state went ahead and pumped €35 million into the government-owned charter airline Eurocypria outside of an EU-approved framework.

HEALTH MINISTER Christos Patsalides yesterday underlined the need for more information on Alzheimer’s disease, which he described as “an epidemic of the 21st century”.

“These people suffer from social exclusion, as their close environment is not informed about the disease and therefore they try to protect the patient from what they feel is ridicule,” said Patsalides.

GREEN PARTY General Secretary Ioanna Panayiotou has urged the Ministry of Interior to take immediate action on the seeping of black water waste from Koilani village into the Koussis dam, causing water pollution and a foul smell.

TACKLING the shipping crisis, exacerbated by the international financial crisis is one of the main issues on the agenda at the Maritime Cyprus conference, which opened at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre in Limassol yesterday.

THERE WERE over 500 new reported cases of breast cancer in 2008, yet the state is still dragging its heels in preparing a complete policy, campaigners said yesterday.

CHELSEA have arrived in Nicosia ahead of tomorrow’s UEFA Champions League Group game against APOEL. The team is staying in the Hilton International in Nicosia, and will be warming up for the match at APOEL’s home ground, GSP, this evening.