SPECIALISTS at Nicosia General Hospital have called off a strike planned for today after assurances from the Health Ministry that their demands would be realised.
Doctors initially announced the measure after the ministry announced plans to relocate three cardiologists to Limassol General to fill vacancies in the department.
Read MoreSuspect charged with murder after damning witness statement
A 47-YEAR-OLD Limassol man has been charged with the premeditated murder of Maria Petridou, who was killed on Tuesday morning when a hand grenade she found in her front garden exploded in her hand.
Read MorePOLITICIANS yesterday banded together to roundly condemn comments made by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt in a session of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Tuesday.
Read MoreTHE PRESIDENT of the Cyprus Consumer’s Union has pledged to take his organisation’s actions a step further in response to rising prices. His statements came in the wake of a survey measuring the effectiveness of a call by the union to boycott milk and break on July 11.
Read MoreUPGRADES to the capital’s sewerage system will blight thousands of motorists come October, with the Nicosia Sewerage Board set to undertake a massive project installing a central draining duct along a major segment of Limassol Avenue.
Read MoreTWO MORE people were questioned by police yesterday in connection with the inflammatory slogans hurled at President Demetris Christofias at an anti-occupation rally on Monday.
The two youths, aged 18 and 19, were questioned by Nicosia CID and released, bringing to six the total number questioned over the slogans which Christofias said had made him “ashamed” and “disgusted”.
Read MoreThis contribution is the first of a series of personal views invited by the Cyprus Mail on the subject of consumer prices.
Pambos Papageorgiou, Head of Socioeconomic Research at the European University of Cyprus
“THE FACT is that inflation is very low – almost zero – and Cyprus has had low inflation since 1960.
Read MoreTHE TRANSMISSION System Operator (TSO) yesterday recorded an all-time high in electricity supply demand.
According to news reports at 12.45pm the TSO recorded demand as high as 1,048 MW. The last highest record was in 1997 with a reading of 1,041MW.
Read MoreA YOUNG Cypriot’s hopes of representing Cyprus at the World Youth Chess Championships were dashed when he was issued a passport with a validity period of only four and a half months.
Read MoreTHE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday approved a series of special support measures to help Cyprus better deal with the problem of scrapie in its sheep and goat populations.
The amount allocated for 2009 is €5.4 million. For 2010 it is estimated that a further €8 to €9 million will be made available for this purpose.
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