ONE HUNDRED and twenty-five people will today be leaving Cyprus Airways (CY) as part of the airline’s restructuring plan.
Another 225 redundancy notices were yesterday sent out, with two months’ notice given to employees from all departments across the airline.
CY spokesman Tassos Angelis said, “the people involved will all receive generous compensation packages.”
Sir,
I’ve learnt with astonishment of the assumption of a number of European newspapers that the publication of the cartoons by the Danish paper Jylands Posten picturing the prophet Mohammed as a terrorist, is being considered as freedom of opinion.
Sir,
I appreciate the comment on the West Lothian issue made by Michael Paraskos regarding my suggestion for a solution to the Cyprus problem based on the UK model.
Sir,
Reading your article last week about pet poisoning in Kato Paphos and the claim by the local authorities that the practice wasn’t widespread, I felt I had to write this letter. I work in Kato Paphos and they do poison animals here; just like in the rest of Cyprus, it is a fashionable custom.
COMPANIES found guilty of storing out-of-date or unsuitable foods are on average fined a mere £300, nothing compared to the profits they stand to gain if they get away with shifting it into the market, Parliament heard yesterday.
HEALTH Minister Andreas Gavrielides said yesterday that moves to open the new Nicosia general hospital had already begun.
On Monday, movers went ahead with setting up the new facility’s nursing school and will continue with installing its clinic over the next few days, he said.
A MAN has been jailed for eight months for owning a false passport perfect in every respect… except the spelling.
When Nicosia CID arrested Fazal Ur Rehman from Pakistan at his home last October 10, Rehman insisted he was Saood Khan, the name on the false Afghan passport he was carrying.
DUBBED the ‘Jasmine Group’, a six-man delegation representing 78 Turkish Cypriot politicians, businessmen and individuals yesterday met with Interior Minister Andreas Christou in a bid to reinstate the rights of Turkish Cypriots to vote and be voted for in elections in the Republic of Cyprus.
A DRUNK driver was yesterday jailed for two and half years for causing the death of a youngster through reckless driving.
THE VETERINARY Services yesterday confirmed that had reported one of two dairy importers found with expired cheese in their fridges to police.
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.
