MANCHESTER United, Greek champions Olympiakos and last year’s Champions League runners up Bayer Leverkusen will all be coming to Cyprus in the coming months to play Maccabi Haifa, forced to play their Champions League ‘home’ ties at Nicosia’s GSP stadium.
THE BANK employees’ union ETYK yesterday accepted the Labour Minister’s proposal aimed at resolving the month-old dispute over the renewal of their collective agreements.
During a meeting yesterday morning, the union decided unanimously to propose the approval of the proposal to the general assembly.
THE CENTRAL Bank yesterday announced the adoption of new simplified arrangements for the payment of imports of goods and services as well as capital transfers.
The arrangements will come into effect on September 1, and are part of the Central Bank’s policy of harmonisation with the European acquis communautaire, a written statement said.
FOUR AEL Limassol players were injured last night when their car overturned on the way to their UEFA Cup match with Hungarian team Ferencvaros at Limassol’s Tsireon stadium.
The accident happened on Nicodimos Mylonas Street after the players’ car collided with another car with three women passengers.
DEFENCE Minister Socratis Hasikos yesterday confirmed a mobile phone had been found near the site of the helicopter crash which killed the Commander of the National Guard and four other officers near Paphos on July 10.
The phone was found by a shepherd near the ravine where the helicopter crashed just outside the village of Kouklia.
A MAN from Oroklini has become the first driver to have his driving licence suspended after accumulating more than the maximum 12 points for driving offences. Larnaca District Court fined the driver £50 and suspended his licence for two months after he amassed 14 points, two over the 12-point ceiling.
INSTALLATION work by the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) on Nicosia’s Santa Rosa Avenue should end soon, to the relief of frustrated residents and motorists.
Santa Rosa, which has been in a state of chaos since July 8 2002, should be in normal operation by September 3, according to EAC spokesman Tassos Roussos.
A SYRIAN man has been jailed for 12 years for the murder of Ukrainian cabaret artiste Ilona Li in June last year.
Jawad Mandour, 46, strangled Li to death in the bath of her apartment after she told him she was going to marry a Cypriot friend of his.
BRITISH Airways (BA) yesterday announced its final batch of cut-price European offers, making some flights from Larnaca to Heathrow up to £70 cheaper than the equivalent flight with Cyprus Airways, depending on date of departure.
AUDITOR GENERAL, Chrystalla Yiorkadji, told the Cyprus Mail yesterday that more than a year ago her office reported that CyTA has been making super profits for the last ten years, while the law states their charges should be set at a level to cover costs and plans for expansion.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
