LABOUR Minister Christos Taliadoros said yesterday negotiations to reach an agreement with Cyprus Airways unions on a plan to save the ailing national carrier could not continue indefinitely.
The Ministry’s mediation services has been attempting to thrash out an agreement between the company and unions for weeks but has so far been unable to get both sides to meet half way.
CYPRUS will hold the EU presidency together with Poland and Denmark for the 18-month period starting in July 2011 and ending in December 2012.
The decision on which countries will be grouped together along with the periods they will hold the presidency was taken by the permanent representatives this week, according to sources. It has yet to be formally approved by a Council.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided to further back civil society in the 10 new member states, including Cyprus, as it believes enhancing citizens’ control over their governments is essential for good governance.
Three villages’ cry for help
REPRESENTATIVES of the refugee Turkish Cypriot populations of Morphou, Lyssi and Yialousa say their people are close to breaking point as a result of continued uncertainty over their rights to inhabit the three settlements.
ITALIAN Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said hoped that the “disastrous” result of the referendum on the reunification of Cyprus last April dishearten the peace talks aimed at reunification of the island.
AROUND TWO hundred potato farmers spent all day and night in the cold with only their tractors for company as their protest against the government’s refusal to grant them several million pounds in extra subsidies continued.
Delegation compares Palestinian plight to the Cyprus problem
A TEAM of Palestinian refugee activists are in Cyprus on a fact-finding mission to study how the United Nations is striking a balance between international law and politics to formulate proposals on conflict resolution.
THE RESULTS of a recent study on the changes in price of 430 everyday goods and services revealed that prices in general have gone up by 1.62 per cent from January to October of this year, with the biggest increase shown in tuition fees and the greatest drop in the cost of telecommunications.
POLITIS: “Police and potatoes”. Police were the protagonists in Thursday’s protests by potato farmers and according to the paper proved, once again, to be incapable of dealing with the widespread mobilisation of people. Potato producers found themselves enclosed by an iron-ring of police, making conflict unavoidable as batons were wielded, and their spirits battered.
I AM looking out of a window on a top floor. Opposite the building I am in, there is a building site, and directly opposite me – as if suspended in the air – is a crane with two builders on a platform pretending to be photographed and posing in a very funny and exaggerated fashion.
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.
