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PARENTS are being urged to do more to monitor their children’s internet usage ahead of Internet Safety Day (SID) on February 9.
CYTA HAS over 100,000 internet users, yet fewer than 4000 of them are using their free filtering service leaving young users most vulnerable from the lack of protection.
With children often more computer-advanced than adults and with the internet awash with all sorts of dangerous and disturbing materials, the potential dangers are clear.
Around the world, February 9 ...
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Author:
Sebastian Heller
THE Orthodox Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, Leo Makkonen, is currently on the island for a one week visit. Archbishop Leo is scheduled to meet with President Christofias at the Presidential Palace at 9:30am on Monday.
Whilst the majority of the religious Finnish population comes ...
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1350 pigs were burnt to death in a fire which broke out at a pig farm yesterday. The pig farm, located in the area of Menikou, suffered extensive damage to its infrastructure and machinery.
The fire, which started at around 6:30am, resulted in the death of large numbers of the livestock before it was brought under control. From initial examinations carried out at the scene, authorities are provisionally excluding the possibility of arson. Further investigations are being undertaken into the matter by the ...
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Cyprus Internet Directory
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Demolition order handed over for ‘toxic’ Latsia factory
THE OWNER of the Astrasol shoe factory in Latsia, blamed for a spike in cancer cases and deaths in the area due to increased toxic emissions, was yesterday served a demolition order.
Latsia Mayor Panayiotis Kyprianou arrived on the scene with the bailiff yesterday. Accompanied by the police, the group entered the factory and informed the owner that the factory will be demolished on June 3.
The news was met with relief by surrounding residents, who yesterday continued to block access to the factory and prevent its operation.
Meanwhile, the Labour Inspection Department yesterday denied claims that the owner had been pre-warned about the various inspections that had been taking place since the factory started operating in 2005.
In an announcement yesterday, the Department claimed it had carried out 12 separate emissions inspections on Astrasol from June 2005 until May 2009, all of which had been executed without the owner being previously informed.
The Department said it had felt the need to set the record state after a spokesman for the area’s residents told the media that there was “an open line of communication” between the state officials and the factory owner. They claimed the owner had been informed before any inspections about when they would be taking place.
“In eight out of 12 inspections by the Department, it was found that the emissions were higher than the legally acceptable limit,” read the announcement.
“If these claims were true, these results wouldn’t have been announced.”
Furthermore, the Department said it was the one that had requested the factory owner’s prosecution from the Attorney-general, as it had found there were exceptionally high chloromethane emissions. It said it had asked the AG to at least temporarily issue an order to stop the factory’s operation until the problem was fixed.
“The Department is saddened by the aforementioned statements because it always operates objectively and seriously, with the only objective being the effective implementation of the law,” it concluded.
In order to set the record straight, Labour Minister Soteroulla Charalambous yesterday asked to be presented with any evidence backing the residents’ claims.
“The vague accusations that are being heard I feel do not help the situation,” said Charalambous, adding that it was the ministry’s department that had brought the matter to court.
“It is based on the Labour Inspection Department’s inspections that an investigation is being carried out that this prosecution is taking place,” she said. But she added that she had asked for the days and times the inspections had been carried out so she could look into the matter herself.
(Source: Cyprus Mail)
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