THE Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) announced yesterday it was slashing international call rates by up to 77 per cent.

MEMBERS of Cyprus Airways’ (CY) cabin crew yesterday gave the go-ahead to initiate strike measures when and how their union leadership sees fit.

THE spiralling row between opposition DISY and the government yesterday proved that the much-vaunted “consensus on the domestic front” was but wishful thinking.

THE Cyprus Veterinary Services have shepherded in 5,000 goats for testing after it was discovered on Friday that a goat in France had been diagnosed with mad cow disease, the first case of the disease in goats.

CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday denied allegations that factions within the national carrier were trying to scupper negotiations with a buyer for its loss-making Athens-based carrier Hellas Jet.

STUDENTS Unions yesterday lashed out at government plans to force nightclubs and bars to close earlier as part of an attempt to reduce the number of young people killed on the roads.

THE CONSUMERS’ Association yesterday vowed to launch an investigation, after statistics published in Politis newspaper revealed that Cyprus has one of the highest coffee prices in the world.

THE three men arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of Elmas Guzelyurtlu and two of his family members more than two weeks ago are to remain in custody for a further eight days, a Turkish Cypriot court in Nicosia ordered yesterday.

GOVERNMENT spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides yesterday sought to quash reports of “vested interests” in the awarding of a government tender to an international company with “links” to the family company of Commerce Minister George Lillikas.

WITH just under three weeks left before Turkish Cypriots go to the polls to elect a ‘government’ for the second time in just over a year, an opinion poll published in the north’s top-selling daily Kibris claimed yesterday that Mehmet Ali Talat’s Republican Turkish Party (CTP) would be first past the post with almost 36 per cent of the vote.