THE BRITISH Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that runs the ATOL travel protection scheme has been continuing to arrange flights back to the UK for XL passengers stranded in Cyprus.
Yesterday, two aircraft left Larnaca for the UK as part of one of the largest repatriation operations in modern tourism history.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat will today hold their second substantive meeting since negotiations were official launched on September 3.
AYIOS NICOLAOS mineral water was yesterday withdrawn from the market as a precaution by the KEO Group, after a virus was detected in a batch of 1.5 litre bottles.
The Health Services of the Ministry of Health said in a statement that they had immediately withdrawn the specific batch, “in a plastic bottle of 1. 5 litres with batch number L14208 and the expiry date 28.08.2009”.
THE NICOSIA Criminal Court yesterday acquitted 10 police officers on charges of torture and grievous bodily harm.
The court then instructed the officers, who are still facing a total of 70 charges between them, to apologise for their part in the December 2005 beating of students Marcos Papageorgiou and Yiannis Nicolaou.
THE HEAD of the Cyprus National Anti-Doping Committee and the members of the committee have announced their resignation following a series of conflicts with the Cyprus Sports Organisation (CSP).
Committee head Dr Evagoras Nicolaides said the resignation was due to the CSP’s counter-productive attitude towards the committee and constant undermining of their anti-doping efforts.
OPPOSITION DISY remained tight lipped for a fourth day yesterday as former Minister and Central Bank Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou continued his personal attack on party leader Nicos Anastassiades.
NEGOTIATIONS between the Cyprus Cattle Farmers’ Organisation (POA) and the Director of the Department of Agriculture, Christodoulos Photiou, yesterday reached a dead end, with the farmers protesting outside the Presidential Palace as the Cabinet met in weekly session.
The farmers arrived at the Presidential Palace at around 11.30am under police supervision.
THE HEALTH Ministry yesterday urged all EU nationals from other member states to make sure their residency and work status in Cyprus is properly established to avoid mix ups over medical treatment down the line.
EUROPA Donna Cyprus said yesterday it had contacted a European network of breast cancer specialists to commission a feasibility study about setting up a breast unit in Cyprus.
The move was prompted after the breast cancer coalition tired of waiting for the government to set up a breast unit.
ROMANIAN airline Blue Air yesterday announced they would be selling plane tickets for as cheap as one euro, as part a new promotional offer.
Blue Air, which is the leader of low-cost Romanian airline transport, has signed a deal with Cypriot travel agency Orthodoxou Aviation, naming it its exclusive representative in Cyprus.
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.
