THE MINISTER of Education Andreas Demetriou has given police a list of public school teachers suspected of giving illegal afternoon lessons and a list of unlicensed extra-lesson institutes, he said yesterday.
THE LATEST road fatality, 76-year-old pedestrian Rebecca Aristidou from Stroumbi in Paphos brought the accident death toll in October to 11.
‘It is an extremely clumsy historical analogy… everybody perceived it as inappropriate’
THE LATEST Rainbow Festival was the perfect answer to those who say migrants are a problem in society, said KISA President Doros Michail yesterday.
Speaking of the annual celebration of multiculturalism held in Nicosia on Sunday, the head of the migrant support group said the festival’s success reinforced its motto, that “migrants produce wealth, racists just fear”.
THE OPPOSITION yesterday said it would look closely into a ‘fishy’ decision by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) to fund a €6 million Russian talent show to be held in Cyprus.
UNEMPLOYMENT, unmanageable personal debt and environmental degradation are causing a drastic drop in the quality of life for Turkish Cypriots in the north, a report published yesterday claimed.
“Around sixty per cent of people say they are now eating into savings to pay debts and household bills,” Muharrem Faiz, head of market research company KADEM, said.
THE NEW ambassadors of five countries yesterday presented their credentials to President Demetris Christofias at the Presidential Palace.
A 34-YEAR-OLD man from Greece, a permanent resident of Limassol, was attacked by three armed masked robbers while jogging along the seafront Amathounda walkway in Limassol.
POLICE were yesterday in search of three men in connection with an armed robbery at the Psimolofou co-op.
The hooded thieves made away with around €56,000, police said.
At a little before noon, two hooded men barged into the Nicosia village shop with hunting rifles, demanding the cashier empties the tills.
RUSSIAN FM Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit to Cyprus tomorrow at the invitation of his Cypriot counterpart Marcos Kyprianou.
According to an official statement, during his visit, Lavrov will be received by President Demetris Christofias and he will attend a working lunch, at the Presidential Palace.
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