CYPRUS Airways’ cabin crew union SYPKA yesterday became the latest union to accept the controversial restructuring plan for the company, with remaining unions indicating they would follow suit.
At around 1.30pm, SYPKA leader Costas Constantinou made the announcement that the majority of his members had agreed to the proposal to save the flagging national carrier.
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MEP MARIOS Matsakis yesterday sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell, requesting that the EU intervene in the matter of his arrest in the occupied areas on New Year’s Eve.
ALL ANTIOBIOTICS added to animal feed for fattening purposes have been banned in Cyprus as of January 1 with the implementation of a law that has taken effect in all 25 EU member states.
CYPRIOTS travelling within the EU or in a European Economic Area (EEA) country are now entitled to reduced-cost, sometimes free, medical treatment with the introduction of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
HYPERMARKET owners who flagrantly and repeatedly violate shop closing hours will be prosecuted, Labour Minister Christos Taliadoros threatened yesterday.
The Minister was referring to the large number of hypermarkets that have failed to resume to normal opening hours following the Christmas season, incensing trade unions SEK and PEO.
A GREEK Cypriot woman, who was arrested on New Year’s Eve for trying to smuggle her Turkish illegal immigrant boyfriend into the south, was freed on a £1,000 bond yesterday.
The 24-year-old woman admitted in court that she had brought her 26-year boyfriend to her parents’ home on a number of occasions. “Everything I did, I did out of love for Mehmet,” she told the judge.
AFTER being blocked by the police in their descent upon the Presidential Palace in tractors and then backing down from their plans to restage their demonstration in pickup trucks, the potato farmers decided on Tuesday night to resume a dialogue with the government by sending a letter today to the government presenting their requests for economic support.
THE CELEBRATION of a wedding is always a joyous occasion in itself; that it took place at the at the church of Ayios Mamas church in occupied Morphou, the first sacrament celebrated there since the invasion of 1974 is cause for celebration and hope.
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.
