THE NATIONAL Bank of Greece has scored another point in its ongoing feud with ETYK, the blanket union of bank employees.
ETYK had taken recourse to the Supreme Court, asking the court to declare as illegal a breakaway trade union formed by NBG employees with management’s blessings.
PRESIDENT Dimitris Christofias has echoed the pleas of health and government officials calling on the public not to panic over the spread of the H1N1 flu virus, which he described as a “normal flu, which has not mutated and is benign.”
DUTIES payable when a mortgage is switched from one lender to another have been “drastically cut” by the Council of Ministers following approval by the House of Representatives, Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis announced over the weekend.
A Turkish Cypriot man, said to be around 35 years old, was arrested last night for the suspected murder of his Romanian girlfriend.
According to initial police reports, the man, who lives in Potamia (Nicosia), is said to have confessed to strangling the woman – said to be of the same age – and thrown her body down a well in the village.
A 25-YEAR-OLD man from Bangladesh has been remanded after admitting that he stabbed his 33-year-old ex-girlfriend in her Limassol flat, police said yesterday.
AN AD hoc strike by Swissport ground handling staff that wrought weekend havoc at Larnaca airport has been roundly condemned by the ministers of Communications and Commerce, as well as the labour unions and the company itself.
THE iMER Medical Services air ambulance has rounded up the first year of its operation in Cyprus carrying out more than 150 missions for the transfer of patients abroad and specialist doctors to the island.
THE number of young men seeking deferment or exemption from military service has grown at an almost exponential rate during the last decade, according to press reports.
In the year 2000 the number of conscripts declared unfit for service due to psychological problems stood at 43, rising to 566 in 2006 and reaching 995 in 2008.
THE NEW police leadership and Justice Ministry are determined “to break the code of silence” prevailing for years in the police force, said Justice Minister Loucas Louca yesterday.
EMPLOYEES OF the state broadcaster went on a four-hour strike yesterday to protest against the Board’s perceived delays in implementing prior agreements on staff promotions and other labour-related issues.
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.
