BANKS across the island will stage a two-hour stoppage on Monday, in sympathy with their colleagues at the National Bank of Greece, the bankers’ unions ETYK said yesterday.
The walkout was announced by ETYK boss Loizos Hadjicostis, who also said the union would submit a strike benefit to the employees of NBG.
Monday’s stoppage will last from 12.30pm to 2.30pm.
POLICE are hunting for a Nicosia serial stalker who has terrorised hundreds of women over several years, police chief Iacovos Papacostas said yesterday.
When found, the man, known to women as Christos or Christodoulos, will face criminal prosecution, he said.
MEP Ioannis Kasoulides will on June 13 announce whether he will stand in the presidential elections.
The former Foreign Minister yesterday invited “concerned citizens” to attend a gathering at the International State Fairs in Nicosia, where he would inform them of his final decision.
IT IS unlikely that those responsible for leaking information and personal data in a CyTA phone tap scandal will be prosecuted.
The investigative report into the affair was yesterday handed to Attorney-general Petros Klerides, who said he would now “study the report to see if prosecutions could be made”.
The scandal was first reported by Politis newspaper back in March.
TWO CIVIL servants who claimed they were unfairly forced into early retirement have lost their appeal at the Supreme Court.
Yesterday, the 12-judge panel of the Supreme Court informed the two appellants that they did not have the jurisdiction to intervene in laws that had been passed by Parliament.
HOUSEMAIDS from developing countries will find it that much harder to slip under the radar of immigration authorities, after new policy regulations introduced by the Ministry of the Interior.
THE POSSIBILITY of a specific action plan to involve overseas’ Cypriots in seeking a resolution to the Cyprus problem was discussed yesterday at the annual conference of their co-ordinating committee.
CYPRUS has the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the EU.
Figures for April show the rate at 4.4%, according to figures released by Eurostat.
In the Eurozone, average unemployment stood at 7.1%.
The lowest rate was in the Netherlands with 3.3%, followed by Denmark with 3.4%, Ireland 4% and Cyprus 4.4%.
THE EUROPEAN Union has called on the British Bases to take measures in order to limit the amount of noise generated by their military aircraft in the Akrotiri area, following complaints from residents in the area.
IN his first interview since signing for Glasgow Rangers Giorgos Efrem believes it is the right move at this stage in his career and hopes that it will lead to breaking into the national team.
The 17-year-old Cypriot midfielder has signed for the Scottish giants from Arsenal on a two-year 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.
