THE COMPETITION Commissioner has fined state telecommunications provider CyTA £25,000 for refusing to cooperate in a probe on a business deal with subscriber channel LTV, after its chief executive refused investigators access to his email.
PROVIDED there is no reduction in state income, the Communications’ Ministry has no objection with the transfer of road tax to fuel prices, Minister Haris Thrasou informed the House Communications’ Committee yesterday.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) has signed a deal to outsource its passenger revenue accounting operation to Mercator, the Dubai-based IT division of the Emirates Group, it was revealed yesterday.
ALL PRO-GOVERNMENT parties yesterday came out of the National Council meeting pleased with recent developments on Cyprus, while opposition DISY continued to boycott the body.
AROUND 400 Paphos B’ Lyceum Kykko students yesterday gathered outside Paphos police station demanding the release of their fellow student’s mother.
The students held banners saying among other things: “Free the mother of our friend, she’s not a criminal… The ombudswoman asked for Jasmina to be set free, is anyone listening?… Let Jasmina go back to her children.”
A MARRIED couple were yesterday handed a six day remand on suspicion of being in possession of around 500 stolen watches.
The Albanian man and his Greek wife, who live together in Pyla, stood in the dock impassively and listened as Nicosia CID Constable Christos Takoushis read out his statement to the court.
FIVE MEN were each handed hefty prison sentence from a Nicosia Court yesterday after admitting to charges relating to a series of burglaries in which around £260,000 in cash and other items was stolen.
THE PUBLIC Health Services yesterday confirmed it was looking into information hundreds of boxes of expired dairy products – some of which were nearly a year out of date – had been dumped at the Kotsiatis garbage site in the Nicosia district.
LIBRA Holidays Group (LHG) yesterday sought to assure shareholders that the creation of a new airline Ajet and the reassigning of Helios Airways aircraft to the new charter company would have not affect the group’s financial situation.
Opposition plans ‘a professional, powerful and more modern National Guard’
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
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.
