THE STATE will launch a new scheme to help pensioners living below the poverty line this December, giving around €57 million to over 70,000 elderly people, the Finance Ministry yesterday.
Two monks from Stavrovouni monastery and four lay members of Orthodox Church unions were arrested yesterday during violent scuffles in Chlorakas (Paphos), as protests continued against a conference of the Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
THERE ARE no plans to close schools due to H1N1 even though half the children in a class in two Limassol schools have contracted the virus, the Health and Education Ministries said yesterday.
Both ministers confirmed there had been a small rise in cases, but assured the public that the situation was completely under control and there was at present no need to close schools down.
WITH TWO middle aged men being caught indecently exposing themselves outside Limassol schools in the past month, police have been pushed to step up patrols, a police spokesman confirmed yesterday.
CHILD Commissioner Leda Koursoumba yesterday condemned police behaviour towards a teenager, who was arrested and detained in connection with a property case involving his father.
A MAN from Kaimakli has entered a 10km half-marathon in Athens after having experiencing his third kidney transplant in May of this year.
Marios Markou, who is 45 years old and a father of three children, also had kidney transplants in 1984 and 1993.
HUNDREDS of mothers-to-be could be travelling to the north for illegal sex-selection procedures each year, it emerged yesterday.
DIKO hit back yesterday after a shock invite from a DISY deputy to riling AKEL to show the coalition partner the door.
While DIKO spokesman Fotis Fotiou said the invite by Socrates Hasikos “neither concerns nor interests us”, the party’s vice-president Nicolas Papadopoulos had more to say.
UNFICYP looking at contingency plans
UNITED Nations officials visited Cyprus recently to look into the contingency planning to be made as regards the force in case of a settlement of the Cyprus problem, a UN spokesman said yesterday.
NOBODY doubts the good intentions of Labour Minister Sotiroulla Charalambous, but her recently announced plans for combating unemployment betray an incredible degree of naivety.
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