Government to compensate Limassol porters with €28m

By Andria Kades

The government reached a preliminary agreement with porters at the Limassol port under which they will receive a total of €28m in compensation in exchange to the withdrawal of their licenses ahead the port’s privatisation, the Cyprus News Agency reported citing transport minister Marios Demetriades.

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.