THOUSANDS of tourists came close to grief yesterday after Hermes threatened to cancel passenger handling services to 11 mainly British and German charter airlines which had refused to pay an increase in airport fees since April.
MAYORS, mukhtars, councillors and members of semi-governmental boards who did not submit a capital statement will pay a £1,000 fine.
Attorney-general Petros Clerides made it clear on Wednesday that there was no way out of the decision made by the three-member Cabinet committee to fine those who failed to submit their statements.
THREE Turkish nationals jailed for illegally crossing into the Republic of Cyprus yesterday told a judge that they did because they were curious to see what a European state looked like.
Their line of defence was presented to the amused judge by the men’s defence lawyer during sentencing yesterday.
HARRY Potter is ready to cast a spell over the book industry this weekend, with the seventh volume in the boy wizard series going on sale at Larnaca and Paphos airports at 2.01am tomorrow morning
Millionaire author J.K. Rowling will mark the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with a midnight reading at London’s Natural History Museum.
LABOUR Minister Antonis Vassiliou yesterday launched an initiative to try and solve the dispute between Cyprus Airways (CY) and its pilots, who are staging a five-hour strike tomorrow.
CY spokesman Kyriacos Kyriacou said the initiative would be ongoing in an attempt to prevent further strike action by the pilots union PASIPY in the coming weeks.
THE FORESTRY Department has said it is working to aid recovery efforts in private-owned areas of the Saittas region, despite locals’ complaints that they have yet to see any results.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday welcomed the open support for the re-election of President Tassos Papadopoulos from the European Party (EVROKO).
Spokesman Vassilis Palmas said EVROKO was a party with some electoral force, which was represented in Parliament, and accounted for a significant proportion of the voting population.
WOMEN have a long way to go in terms of equal wages, with Cyprus still having the biggest gender pay gap in Europe.
Along with Estonia, according to a recent Eurostat report the island has been named and shamed as having the biggest gap in men’s and women’s wages, with a 25 per cent difference in earnings.
Ayia Napa joins Monte Carol and Madrid on top championship circuit
THE Cyprus Jet Ski Association (CJSA) has announced ambitious plans to bring high-powered international racing action to the coast of Cyprus.
CYPRUS Airways Chairman Kikis Lazarides has not demanded a £90,000 company car instead of the brand new £45,000 vehicle he was being offered, the airline said yesterday, denying newspaper reports.
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.
