Lawyer cites economic failure due to ‘war’ against airline
AJET, formerly known as Helios Airways, announced yesterday that it would cease all airline operations in the next three months, a move which the ajet’s legal team has emphasised does not relieve the airline of any responsibilities.
EUROPEAN UNION president Finland is trying to arrange discreet high-level talks next Sunday to break a deadlock over Cyprus that threatens to derail Turkey’s EU membership negotiations, diplomats said yesterday.
‘Women pass the entry exams and then demand desk jobs’
POLICE CHIEF Charalambos Koulentis said yesterday unless immediate steps were taken to change a system that favoured the employment of women over men, the island would soon have a police force on its hands that was “weak and unable to carry out its obligations”.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos said that he has not yet decided upon whether or not he will run for a second five-year term in the February 2008 presidential elections.
“At this moment I am not at all preoccupied with the issue of a second term,” Papadopoulos said in an interview with daily Phileleftheros.
THE DEFENCE Ministry is promoting a bill that provides an alternative community service for those who claim to have psychological problems in order to escape their National Guard obligations.
Defence Minister Nicos Symeonides said yesterday that the bill was expected to be ready for implementation by the end of the year.
THE TRIAL of a Serbian businessman who is suing Laiki Bank and a now-defunct company known as Antexol resumed yesterday in a Nicosia court.
The main witness of the day was Pambos Ioannides, a top lawyer from President Tassos Papadopoulos’ law offices and director of Antexol Trade Ltd from 1992 to 1995, at the height of the Bosnian war.
PRIME MINISTER Tayyip Erdogan said his government has no plans to change a controversial article of Turkey’s penal code, despite a European Union warning that failure to do so could harm Ankara’s entry bid.
LAIKI’S shareholders meet today to vote on whether their bank should merge with the Marfin Financial Group and Greece’s Egnatia Bank.
The Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) will be held at Nicosia’s International Conference Centre at 5pm.
A NEW chapter opened yesterday for the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE), with the launch of the common platform between the CSE and the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), which is considered to be a leap towards its modernisation and an official entry into the world market.
TWO-thirds of Cypriot students choosing to study abroad opt for Greece, while only 20 per cent go to the UK, and five per cent to the US.
The information is no surprise in light of the fact that three-quarters of the island’s children attend Greek speaking state schools, and links with mainland Greece remain very high.
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.
