CYPRUS Airways (CY) pilots yesterday met management to press their demands in the hope they would not have to go ahead with a 48-hour strike planned from midnight on Thursday.
Polis Economou, the head of pilots’ union PASIPY, told the Cyprus Mail after the nearly three-hour meeting that they had handed over their positions to the board.
IN THEIR drive for vindication, the relatives of the victims who perished aboard the Helios airliner are going ahead and suing manufacturers Boeing, one year after the worst aviation disaster in Cyprus’ history.
They are holding Boeing responsible for a string of build omissions, which they say contributed to the crash.
A MURDER suspect believed by police to have killed his wife and her lover has been remanded for another eight days after investigators last week discovered the body of a woman believed to be his wife.
On August 1, Christoforos Charalambous, 29, is believed to have stabbed 45-year-old Yiannos Demosthenous 38 times in the back with a kitchen knife.
POLICE in Akaki on Sunday launched a huge operation to track down Michalis Papiris, the father of the boy believed to have been murdered by four British tourists in Protaras last Friday, after he disappeared for almost seven hours.
POLICE in Polis Chrysochous have arrested two men after a woman claimed she was raped in a nearby village.
The 23-year-old woman from Pelathousa village told police that two men had raped her between 11pm and 1am on Saturday night.
Police immediately launched a manhunt for the two suspects, a 21-year-old from Marathounta village and a 29-year-old from Mesoyi.
THREE prisoners escaped from the holding centres of the central prisons yesterday by cutting through the steel bars of a second floor window.
The three 22-year-olds – Kumar K. Sunny, Gabriel Hugos and R.B. Sukri Ramadan – broke out of the prison between 4 and 6.30am yesterday.
THE UNITED Nations Peacekeeping Force In Cyprus (UNFICYP) has appealed to all hunters to exercise extreme caution and safety during the current small game hunting season, which lasts from August 20 to October 22.
Hunters are being asked to remember that hunting in the buffer zone is both off limits and extremely dangerous.
INTERIOR Minister Andreas Christou has confirmed his interest in running for the Limassol mayorship.
Perhaps the most popular politician in the Papadopoulos administration, Christou had long wanted to leave his portfolio during the recent government reshuffle, but had been persuaded to stay on by his AKEL party.
TEMPERATURES yesterday soared to 40 degrees inland with little hope for relief with forecasts of little change over the next three days.
Nicosia residents bore the worst of the effects of the heat wave which hit the island on Sunday, and the Labour Ministry was forced to issue an announcement telling workers to avoid working outdoors between the hours of 12 noon and 4pm.
THE LOUIS group has signed a franchise agreement with easyCruise for exclusive use of the brand in the eastern Mediterranean, in a deal that will bring the distinctive bright orange vessels to Cyprus shores.
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.
