Women paid 20-year-old minimum wage and have no access to support mechanisms
FEMALE MIGRANT domestic workers are paid no more today than they were almost 20 years ago, new research has shown.
A MAN accused of killing his compatriot after a row during a Sunday barbeque in September was jailed for 18 years by the Nicosia court yesterday.
On September 16, Greek Pontian Hippocrates Damotsides, 32, was arrested by police after the victim Demis Pasenides, 30, was found dead with three stab wounds to the neck and chest in the park near the Ochi roundabout.
Postal services fined again over inefficiencies
THE POSTAL Services’ Department has been fined for failing to reach its qualitative goals – despite keeping on more staff than necessary.
The department’s shortcomings were underlined in Auditor-general Chrystalla Yorkadji’s 2006 report, which found a number of problems in the department’s efforts to improve its service.
THE U.N. Security Council yesterday renewed the mandate for the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus until June 2008 without including a controversial reference to the so-called isolation of the Turkish Cypriots.
CONSUMERS have been advised to take immediate action if they are not entirely happy with a service provided or the quality of goods purchased, a leading watchdog said yesterday.
The Consumer Association’s Service Officer explained: “If for example somebody is not satisfied with the standard of their hotel room, they should contact management on the spot.”
THE AGRICULTURE Ministry yesterday rubbished media reports claiming compensations offered to farmers affected by foot and mouth disease were given outside the law.
Two months to go but voters say they’re tired of the rhetoric
A LOT of Cypriots are “bored” with the long-winded election campaign, feel disenchanted with politicians, but at the end of the day will probably cast their vote so that it doesn’t “go to waste”.
AROUND 1,000 Turkish Cypriots closed off the Pergamos checkpoint in the Larnaca district for hours yesterday morning over the north’s measures regarding the foot and mouth (FMD) outbreak in the south.
The protesters, who kept the checkpoint closed from 6.30am to around 10am, said the measures hindered their crossing to the Republic where they worked.
RUSSIA’s most decorated cosmonaut yesterday said he always wanted to come to Cyprus after looking upon the island from space.
Colonel Alexander Volkov is on a week-long visit as part of the 50-year celebrations of the first artificial satellite being launched.
TO ENSURE the smooth running of the AEL-APOEL football game taking place today at 7pm at Tsirion Stadium in Limassol, Stelios Kyriakides street will be closed to all vehicles from 5pm until the end of the game, police announced yesterday.
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.
