ATTORNEY-general Petros Clerides yesterday hit back at daily Politis for running a story alleging that, on his recommendation, the President had interceded on behalf of a man refusing to pay alimony to his ex-wife.
Clerides rebuked the daily for not presenting the facts accurately:
TURKEY yesterday accused the European Union of bowing to Greek Cypriot pressure and being hesitant to take bolder steps on the Cyprus stand-off, and said that a solution to the long-running dispute could only be found at the United Nations.
“The EU has once again refrained” from taking steps, Foreign Ministry spokesman Namik Tan told a weekly news conference.
AROUND 2,000 public health care workers stopped working for two hours yesterday morning over what unions said was the government’s failure to implement their collective agreements.
The work stoppage, by employees contracted on an hourly basis, took place between 10am and 12 noon at all state hospitals and health centres.
UNIONS reacted with ambivalence to Tuesday’s news that the island’s labour market would be opened to Bulgarians and Romanians without restrictions as of January 1, 2007. While expressing concern about unemployment levels and low wages, most believed there were enough low-tier jobs to fill.
WITH CHRISTMAS fast approaching, charities across the island are going into overdrive with a series of events and campaigns in an attempt to help those in need.
Refugees and asylum seekers have hit the headlines with increasing regularity this year, with many allegations of the Immigration Department coming down too hard on them.
THE BRITISH Conservative Party has launched a new website aimed at British citizens living overseas.
LAWMAKERS will today debate over whether or not third country nationals should demonstrate proficiency in Greek to be granted long-term residency rights.
A RECYCLING project for the collection of household packaging across five municipalities in Nicosia and Limassol has been launched, in an effort to cover the needs of 125,000 people.
The project comes in the wake of strict EU requirements, specifically on packaging and packaging waste.
EDUCATION Minister Pefkios Georgiades said yesterday a two month study has been launched into mobile phones in schools to see how the problem can be resolved.
Georgiades said there would be a dialogue between the Ministry, parents and also students to come up with a solution.
THE BANK of Cyprus (BoC) yesterday passed the buck to Greece’s Piraeus Bank regarding a proposal for cooperation between the two.
Persistent reports said that a few days ago the chairman of Piraeus, Michalis Sallas, addressed a letter to the BoC board, asking them to decide on the marriage. Sallas wanted a meeting of top execs from the two banks to seal the deal.
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.
