Sir,

With prices rising, one of your correspondents (Letters, Sunday Mail, February 19) suggests that we “just stop shopping”.

CYPRUS AIRWAYS Chairman Lazaros Savvides last night confirmed a meeting scheduled between the national carrier’s board and pilots’ union PASIPY had been rescheduled for next week, after the pilots were kept waiting for over an hour.

AN 18-year-old student from Nicosia’s Grammar School was yesterday killed on his way home from school, police said.

CYPRUS’ first international film festival is set to take place at the end of March, the first of what organisers hope will develop into a major yearly event for international filmmakers and cinemagoers.

DISY yesterday wanted to know why there were a reduced number of Cypriot representatives in the EU and why the public was not being properly informed on the special programmes organised by the EU.

AROUND one million job vacancies throughout the EU were advertised yesterday on a new job search website, unveiled as part of the launch of the European Year of Workers’ Mobility. The website and the year were launched by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Commissioner Vladimír Špidla and Austrian Minister for Economy and Employment Martin Bartenstein in Brussels.

THE FOREIGN Ministry has berated Politis newspaper for its coverage of a scandal involving photographs of a Cypriot ambassador that appeared on a gay website.

The article spoke of an ambassador working in a Central European country, whose half-naked photo appears on the website with what seems to be a request for a sexual partner.

OPPOSITION DISY said yesterday it saw no reason to take part in the National Council given the body did not meet its primary purpose, which is the formulation of a policy strategy on the Cyprus problem.

THE ASSOCIATION for Repatriates yesterday denied claims that the government was doing nothing to help returning Cypriots.

They were responding to the story of repatriate Andreas Gregory, who claimed the Republic of Cyprus was unwilling to recognise him as a citizen.