SECONDARY school teachers across Cyprus will walk out of class today in protest over a spate of attacks against colleagues in the past month.
This month alone has seen five separate incidents in which teachers have been physically attacked, abused or threatened.
Sir,
The government has just revealed its 100-year energy policy! Wow, we will have something else to discuss about other than the Cyprus problem in the long term too.
Multi million pound LNG and LPG and other hydrocarbon based fuel dumps will not only mean we will secure our energy needs, there are a multitude of other benefits from this as well.
STATE doctors yesterday agreed to suspend strike plans to give the government more time to consider their demands.
Marathon discussions between the Union of Public Doctors (PASYKI) and the Health and Finance Ministries started at noon yesterday and lasted throughout the day.
Meeting between management and board yesterday is inconclusive, more talks today
THE FUTURE of Cyprus Airways was still uncertain last night following an inconclusive meeting on a make-or-break reconstruction plan between union leaders, the airline’s Board of Directors and government ministers.
THE MINISTRY of Agriculture yesterday urged potato growers not to go ahead with today’s planned protests and to reach a civilized agreement through dialogue.
Potato growers will take to the roads today demanding subsidies form the government and cash incentives to leave the failing profession; they have not said which roads they would block.
THREE more mukhtars in the mountainous regions submitted their resignations to the Interior Minister, while residents of the various mountain communities plan to occupy three Ministries after the government rejected their request for a reduction in the consumption tax on heating fuel and for a near doubling of the direct assistance to compensate for their high heating costs.
DISGRACED former bishop Chrysanthos, stripped of his Limassol diocese in 1998 over allegations he was implicated in an international financial scam, has been hurled back into the public glare, with Greek authorities investigating his part in a multi-million dollar fraudulent investment scheme.
A WHOLE bag of worms could be unleashed if the government goes ahead with plans to amend the Constitution to allow EU law to take precedence.
THE Finance Ministry yesterday promised that Cypriots studying abroad would soon receive their grants, which are overdue in many cases.
A spokesman at the Ministry explained that the delay “has been caused by too many students applying for grants, with the exact numbers very difficult to forecast.”
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