CYPRUS Airways (CY) management yesterday stressed its determination to see through an action plan calling for hundreds of redundancies in a last-ditch bid to save the airline, setting the stage for industrial action as airline unions battle to save jobs.
THE SUPREME Court yesterday approved a request by the Attorney-general to prevent Turkish Cypriot Arif Mustafa from returning to his home in Episkopi until the appeal over the landmark decision is heard by the court.
THE COUNTDOWN to the nomination of the next Archbishop of Cyprus has begun, with the dauphins already trading tentative blows in what promises to be a fiercely contested election process.
Debate is currently raging over the “rules of engagement” that should prevail during the election campaign for the Archbishopric’s throne, slated to get under way sometime around March next year.
THE PARLIAMENTARY Assembly of the Council of Europe has taken steps to stem the international isolation of the Turkish Cypriots by inviting representatives from the community to sit in its Chamber as observers.
Health Minister Dina Akkelidou yesterday signed a donor card, calling on all Cypriots to do the same.
TURKEY’S historic agreement to a customs union with Cyprus last week is just another one of its “tricks”, according to Foreign Minister George Iacovou yesterday.
FOREIGN Minister George Iacovou yesterday denied press reports in Greece, according to which Cyprus has initiated moves to enter NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme, but conceded that discussion was under way in EU circles regarding the island’s status vis-à-vis the bloc’s security policy and the North Atlantic alliance.
CYPRIOT police have denied reports that officers from the British Crown Prosecution Service will fly to Cyprus to carry out further investigations into charges against a Cypriot man suspected of raping eight women in the London area.
IT WOULD be “very difficult” to link the European regulation on direct trade between the Turkish Cypriots and the EU with that on financial assistance, according to Foreign Minister George Iacovou.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “Turkey rejects financial aid to north” In its lead story, the paper said that Turkey and the northern breakaway regime have told the EU they will reject the 259-million euro aid package if this is not accompanied by a provision on direct trade with the occupied territories.
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.
