Daily Archives: November 1, 2008

THE government’s decision not to take its €10 million share from the Electricity Authority will offer relief to 165,000 households with their new electricity bills.

THE EDUCATION Ministry has come into conflict with the Church after deciding to move an Institution for children with special needs to a building belonging to the Kiti Bishopric.

ACCUSATIONS by the Green Party that certain parliamentarians have personal interests in trying to prevent a full smoking ban have been blasted by EDEK’S Marinos Sizopoulos.

The MP challenged Green Party leader George Perdikis to submit any evidence he may have on the allegations he was making.

OUTGOING Telecommunications regulator Vassos Pyrgos yesterday officially handed his resignation to President Demetris Christofias along with his final report on the sector for 2007.

Speaking after the meeting, Pyrgos said he was resigning for personal reasons.

LIMASSOL’S Technological University, TEPAK, yesterday signed a five-year contract with Manchester-based British Design Partnership (BDP) to design the university’s masterplan.

The €750,000-worth contract also stipulates that BDP, in partnership with P.Papadopoulos and Associates Ltd, will prepare an environmental and traffic study by 2009.

CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday called for immediate steps to be taken to remove the risk associated with bird strikes on aircraft flying in and out of Larnaca airport.

The call came from the national carrier after an incident on Wednesday, when a CY flight to London was hit by a flock of birds.

RUSSIA and Cyprus plan to strengthen ties between the two countries during a visit to Moscow later this month by President Demetris Christofias.

Government Spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said the President would begin a three-day official visit to Russia on November 18.

A CONTAINER of slaughtered lambs that arrived on the island from Greece was yesterday confiscated by the Veterinary Services after it emerged a big scam was hiding behind it.

According to the head of the Services, Charalambos Kakoyiannis, the container was accompanied by tampered documents, issued for the exportation of 80 lambs and then altered to 780 lambs.

THE ORIGIN of the goddess Aphrodite is an unsettling tale. As the myth goes, Kronos castrated his father Uranus and threw his genitals into the sea. The immortal appendages were carried by the waves and in the foam that gathered around them, a girl was born. Fully-grown, she emerged from the ocean on the western shore of Cyprus.