STRIKE action by Cyprus Airways (CY) cabin crew in a row over promotions was narrowly avoided late on Wednesday.
Yesterday the two unions representing cabin crew met with airline management and officials at the Labour Ministry in an attempt to resolve the problem. The meeting is set to continue on Tuesday.
Sir,
I write with reference to the article in Friday’s Cyprus Mail (‘Hoteliers disappointed at prospects from UK and Germany’).
When will the hoteliers and Cyprus Airways realise it is not the accommodation offered that is at fault, but the lack of flight availability. I refer, in particular, to flights from the UK.
Sir,
I refer to ‘An ad too far?’ by Jacqueline Theodolou last Saturday, April 8.
I find the promotion of Replay distasteful and degrading to women, and wonder, how come so much fuss is made of International Women’s Day when we women are still widely used so commercially?
Sir,
I’m not sure where the ‘Man from the pru’ did his shopping to obtain the price of CY£20 for his 10 items.
As a test, I did an internet shop for the 10 items on the Tesco website and found the items came to GB£15.25 so no argument there. Looking back at the same items purchased in Cyprus supermarkets the total came to CY£10.76 or converted to GB£12.96.
Sir,
I have been waiting for years for someone to explode this myth about the Cyprus police force, viz, that it contains only a few rotten apples and because the majority of the personnel is good, the force as a whole is OK.
EIGHT PEOPLE were taken to Nicosia General Hospital after a bus crashed in Lakatamia yesterday lunchtime.
Ten people were on board when the 58-year-old driver lost control of the vehicle and veered into the opposite lane of Makarios Avenue. The bus hit the pavement before crashing into the wall of a confectionery. The wall crumbled, damaging a nearby motorcycle and car.
THE WING of a Cyprus Airways (CY) plane was damaged when the aircraft hit a bird on its way in to land at Cairo airport late on Wednesday, the airline said yesterday.
OPPOSITION DISY has accused the government of electioneering in the wake of AKEL’s proposal to increase the cost of living allowance (CoLA), claiming that it only remembers the working class before elections and then forgets them immediately.
IN THEIR annual Easter wishes, the Forestry Department sends has warned of the dangers to the forests from all the Easter festivities. The department has asked the public to be extra careful and always light their fires inside the permitted areas and not to harm any of the plantations.
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.
