DISRUPTIONS caused by a two-hour strike by Cyprus Airways (CY) pilots were kept to a minimum yesterday, the airline said, but the possibility of a longer strike on Thursday is still hanging in the balance.
SEMI-government employees will hold a 24-hour warning strike on December 1 if the government fails to improve a proposal for the renewal of their collective agreements by the end of this month.
The decision was taken during an emergency union meeting yesterday afternoon and announced by OIO-SEK general-secretary, Nikos Tampas.
FALLING as they did this year on the second day of Ramazan Bayram, festivities to mark the 21st anniversary of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” (TRNC) yesterday were somewhat more subdued than of late.
But there are possibly other reasons why Turkish Cypriots did not turn up in droves to mark the day with flags and balloons.
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My first stay in Cyprus was before the invasion in 1973; I know the whole country from West to East and South to North. In those days on Cyprus Greek Cypriots with Greek roots and Turkish Cypriots with Turkish roots, each group with its own religion, churches and culture, were living in coexistence till 1974.
TWO men were killed less than 36 hours apart in the latest series of fatal weekend road accidents, police said yesterday. The men’s deaths have brought the total number of dead to 98, one more than the total number of dead for all of last year.
DISY deputy and chairman of the House Watchdog Committee Christos Pourgourides has urged the Defence Ministry to drop Belarus from its list of potential suppliers of weapons materiel.
LAWYERS for a Serbian businessman were yesterday considering filing lawsuits against the directors of the Popular Bank and the directors of a defunct company.
Businessman Predrag Djordjevic attempted to ship cotton into Yugoslavia at the height of the Bosnian war in 1994, with a United Nations permit.
Yugoslavia was subject to a strict UN embargo at the time.
CYPRUS and the European Union should reach agreement on the country’s admission into the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM2) by the end of next March, Central Bank of Cyprus Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou said yesterday.
“I agree with the government’s aim of joining as soon as possible,” he told Reuters after a meeting in parliament.
CONSUMERS will be getting – at least temporarily – a breather as the price of fuel drops, just as winter gets ready to kick in.
The break came on Saturday, when parliament approved a tax reduction of three cents on heating oil; that, coupled with a 2.5 to 3 cent fall in market prices due to a drop in crude oil prices, would alleviate people’s pockets by almost six cents per litre.
LIBRA Holidays Group (LHG) yesterday announced the acquisition of the private Cypriot airline Helios Airways after month-long negotiations.
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.
