B.P. EMPLOYEES yesterday agreed to call off an indefinite strike after an agreement was reached on renewal of a collective agreement between unions and the company.
The dispute arose during negotiations when demands for a rise in pensions and redundancy pay were denied.
EXHUMATIONS to identify the remains of 14 Turkish Cypriots killed during clashes with the National Guard at Alaminos village in 1974 were stopped yesterday after a refusal by the Turkish Cypriot side to allow the victims’ relatives to provide blood samples and information on their loved ones.
POLICE yesterday released the name of a 69-year-old British man who was found dead outside a block of apartments in Paphos on Friday morning.
According to a police bulletin, Peter Hall Broadbent was found lying half naked in a pool of blood outside the Paradise Gardens apartments. A bottle of whisky was found next to the body.
POLICE in Italy seized around 10,000 ancient coins, among them 150 from Cyprus, that were destined for sale on the Internet.
The Italian Embassy in Nicosia said the Italian authorities launched an investigation near San Marino after reports from Interpol in Rome that a company based there was selling coins over the Internet.
THE COUNTDOWN to the EU summit in Copenhagen, at which the future of our sun-drenched plantation of love and bananas will be determined, has begun. It kicks off on Thursday and by Friday night, or Saturday morning at the latest, we will know how our future has been charted.
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.
