THE SUPREME Court’s decision not to grant a domestic worker long-term residency will lead to ‘chaos’ and ‘gridlock’ in the courts, immigrant support group KISA warned yesterday.

OMBUDSWOMAN Iliana Nicolaou has accused the government of allowing the exploitation of asylum seekers in the workplace and ordered an immediate review of its policy, referring in particular to the decision to restrict their employment to the farming sector.

CYPRUS Airways (CY) unions said yesterday they planned to put a new proposal to the company in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute over the airline’s plans for a joint venture to handle ground services at the island’s airports.

PETROL companies yesterday announced that they would lower fuel prices from today.

Petrolina stated that the price of petrol would go down by two cents a litre after petrol companies and petrol station owners became embroiled in a dispute over the price of petrol.

PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos met with the media yesterday to present a staggering “160+1 commitments” for the second half of his decade as President.
It is not clear whether these include the 153+1 commitments that DISY candidate Ioannis Kasoulides last week accused the President of not keeping.

A REVISION in the tax coefficients levied on imported cars is expected to occur after a Supreme Court decision last Monday.

The decision paves the way for either a wholesale or a partial abolition of the discounts afforded on taxes levied on used vehicles that are imported from non-EU countries, such as Japan and Singapore.

A CONVICTED killer will re-appear in a Limassol court next month after the Supreme Court gave licence to his lawyers to accept new evidence being admitted in the case.

Ierotheos Christodoulou, alias Ropas, is scheduled to go before the Limassol District Court on February 8, when state prosecutors will state whether they have any objections to the new evidence being submitted.

THE FINAL form of the February 17 presidential election ballot paper was yesterday agreed in a meeting between Elections Registrar Lazaros Savvides and spokesmen for the nine candidates.

CYPRIOTS have come bottom of the list of EU citizens in a survey on biodiversity, with 84 per cent saying they never heard of it.

Of the 15 per cent who had, less than half knew what it actually meant.

Biodiversity or ‘Biological Diversity’ is the term given to the variety of life on Earth, such as plants, animals and other aspects of nature.