CYPRIOTS could soon be forced into vegetarianism with workers at the island’s main abattoir in Kofinou one week into a strike and showing no signs of backing down.
According to disgruntled employees, the two main reasons for the strike are disagreement regarding sick leave, and the management’s “one-sided” decision to impose pay cuts for employees with unexcused absences from work
Pittokopitis lashes out at party bosses
FORMER DIKO bruiser Nikos Pittokopitis has delivered a warning to his political foes: stop undermining me or I will unleash a political typhoon the likes of which you have never seen.
AJET – formerly Helios Airways – has been barred from landing in fog, after authorities deemed the airline could not guarantee safety in such conditions.
This was confirmed yesterday by Civil Aviation director Leonidas Leonidou, who said the airline’s licence to land in low-visibility conditions – known as Cat II & III – had been revoked as of last week.
THE HOLY Synod did not yesterday ratify the results of last Sunday’s Archbishopric elections due to the large number of objections regarding voter irregularities.
Only when the Holy Synod ratifies Sunday’s results will the 100 Electors be officially distributed among the three remaining candidates – the Limassol Bishop, the Kykkos Bishop and the Paphos Bishop.
GREEK Cypriot refugee Kyriacos Myrianthis has returned to occupied Davlos, the village where he was born and raised, after 32 years of longing to spend his last years in his beloved birthplace.
Myrianthis, 68, was yesterday quoted in Politis, speaking about his desire to live out the remaining years of his life in the village he fled following the 1974 Turkish invasion.
POLICE strongly believe that a hit man, killed in road accident last Sunday, had been planning to murder two more people after a hit list was found in an apartment he was renting in Nicosia.
BRITISH police are in north Cyprus to assist in the trial of a Turkish Cypriot man accused in connection with the death of a man in the UK.
THE Larnaca Water Board yesterday promised an immediate investigation after a local resident complained that her drinking water was unfit for consumption.
Elly Rousou, who moved into an apartment complex in the town 15 years ago, told the Cyprus Mail that she noticed a problem two years ago.
TONIGHT’S clash between leading teams Anorthosis Famagusta and last year’s champions Apollon Limassol is expected to be this weekend’s most eventful game, with both sides in need of a win to remain in the race for the first division championship.
BARELY three months ago, the government announced plans for a £350 million cash injection in to the country’s ailing public transport infrastructure, setting as a target the increase in bus use from the current two per cent to 10 per cent by 2013.
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.
