CLOSE to 400 employees of Cyprus Airways (CY) asked for voluntary redundancy, but not all will be let go, while others who did not apply will be laid off anyway, vice chairman Frixos Savvides said yesterday.
MAVERICK MEP Marios Matsakis said yesterday he had no intention of reappearing at court in the north on charges of stealing a Turkish flag last year.
“I don’t recognise the courts in the north. No intention of going back,” he told the Cyprus Mail from Brussels.
POLICE yesterday told the Cyprus Mail they were receiving a flood of panicked calls from Nicosia women worried that they were being followed or watched by the suspected serial rapist.
TWO 19-year-old conscripts were killed yesterday in a car crash on the Nicosia-Troodos road, bringing the death toll this year to five in just six days.
A SPECIAL constable of the Nicosia Police Headquarters was yesterday remanded in custody on prostitution-related charges.
A LARGE crowd yesterday gathered in Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square for a special Epiphany Day Service.
The people, including high-ranking military officials, were entertained by Greek, English and French festive songs, which were followed by the reading of psalms and the setting free of white doves. The Bishop of Kykkos then performed the blessing of the waters.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is due to visit Cyprus but the date has not yet been fixed, the government said yesterday.
Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said the date of the visit is being discussed between the Foreign Ministry and the British Foreign Office.
MUSICAL VAMPIRES: Being in a small place Cyprus – or an even smaller community like London’s Cypriots – and making music can be a frustrating process. I often get CDs from young singers trying to make it. They have usually been produced and manufactured at extortionately high prices.
“REPUTATION is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving,” says Iago in Othello. Like the Max Clifford of Shakespeare, Iago knew the power of destroying someone’s reputation and how little it has to do with the truth. So I don’t set much store by reputation.
AGRICULTURE Minister Timis Efthymiou said yesterday that Greek Cypriots should not be concerned over bird flu deaths in Turkey, and that all necessary measures were being taken.
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.
