OVER 2,000 passengers on 12 flights to and from six destinations will be affected in a five-hour strike by Cyprus Airways (CY) pilots on Saturday.
CY has drawn up a contingency plan to minimise the inconvenience to passengers during the 10am to 3pm strike, which programmes some of the flights earlier and the remainder later in the day.
Sailors may have cruised the Med 14,000 years ago
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Cyprus have discovered what they believe could be the oldest evidence yet that organised groups of ancient mariners were plying the east Mediterranean, possibly as far back as 14,000 years ago.
AN HISTORIC agreement between the Cyprus and United States governments means that ancient Cypriot coins will now be barred from unauthorised importation into the US.
The agreement went into effect on Monday after being officially adopted last week.
IT IS HARD to say when the criminal investigation into the Helios crash will be completed, Attorney-general Petros Clerides said yesterday, while reassuring relatives they will have the information from the Kallis report in time to file civil suits in Greek courts.
A SYRIAN man was crushed to death yesterday as he was working on a building site in the Lakatamia area of Nicosia.
Maheid Hussein, a 30-year-old political asylum seeker and father of a young daughter, was working on the dig on Pompias Street where pipes were to be installed.
THE MARFIN group appeared yesterday to be on a new spending spree with forays into the health and dairy sector in Cyprus.
Marfin, which merged with Laiki Bank last year, yesterday said it had acquired the Achilleion Hospital in Limassol through the Greece-based Hygeia Diagnostic & Therapeutic Centre in Athens, which Marfin owns.
NO DATE has been set for a new meeting between senior advisers to the leaders of the two sides, the government said yesterday.
Regular meetings screeched to a halt last week when the Turkish Cypriot side pulled out of talks for a planned meeting between Mehmet Ali Talat and President Tassos Papadopoulos.
A NICOSIA man was yesterday found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol when he ran over and killed a pupil in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
THE CENTRAL Bank yesterday defended its move to keep interest rates unchanged, saying it avert inflationary tendencies by discouraging heavy consumer borrowing that could lead to a rise in the price of commodities.
THE OWNER of a small confectionary business was jailed for two months by a Nicosia Court yesterday for hiring illegal workers.
Androulla Mavromattis, 46, had pleaded guilty to three counts of hiring three Filipina women who were illegally residing on the island.
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.
