Sir,
Tuesday’s Cyprus Mail, page 5, tells us the new wing of the women’s prison in Nicosia is “regarded as on of the best prisons in Europe… and aims to get better”. Page 7 tells us Larnaca Airport has been voted “most disappointing airport” and “the services are just not up to standard”.
Sir,
I was very surprised to read the article in Tuesday’s edition in which Larnaca Airport was given the thumbs down by British tourists. My wife and I have entered and left Cyprus through this airport on many occasions and we have never felt it to be as bad as the survey your report suggests.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) pilots last night said they would not rule out strike action if the Labour Minister’s mediation failed to save the jobs of 12 pilots due to be made redundant on November 1.
After a six-hour meeting, Efthymios Liasis, chairman of the pilots union PASIPY told the Cyprus Mail last night that they have called in Labour Minister Christos Taliadoros to mediate.
JUSTICE Minister Doros Theodorou yesterday defended Deputy Police Chief Soteris Charalambous’ outspoken opposition of a decision to prosecute Health Minister Dina Akkelidou, but stopped short of supporting a similar opinion.
THE GOVERNMENT’S tax amnesty for undeclared accounts has raised three million pounds so far but time is running out and the sum collected remains far from the estimated £50 million of hidden capital that is hoped to flow back in the economy by 2005.
THE COUNTRY has been saved from another crippling truck drivers’ strike after the Cabinet agreed to disgruntled drivers’ demands on Tuesday night.
The dispute was threatening to spill over into public life this week as it did last October when truckers blocked off ports and brought the economy to a standstill.
DISY President Nicos Anastassiades yesterday hit back at accusations made against him,
calling them “slander’ and distractions aimed at turning the peoples’ attention away from real scandals.
APPLICATIONS from Cyprus to British universities have increased during the last year, especially since Cyprus’ recent accession into the European Union but some still predict tougher times ahead for Cypriot students.
POTATO growers have warned they could blockade the Presidential Palace and Larnaca Airport if their compensation demands are not met by the government.
Andreas Karios, President of the Pancyprian Potato Growers’ Association said: “We will decide on the exact measures next week, but they will be forceful – we could march on the palace again or blockade the airport.”
AUTHORITIES in the north yesterday denied tearing pages out of textbooks used by Greek Cypriot students at the Rizokarpaso gymnasium.
Kemal Gokeri at the Turkish Cypriot ‘Foreign Ministry’ said yesterday: “We did not tear any pages out.”
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.
