in Cyprus Today – 2/3/2011

‘strikes won’t stop the cuts’ – PM, İrsen Küçük has vowed that strikers’ pay will be cut no matter what they do, although pensions will not be taxed. Editor: if only the same determination was shown to prevent property victims’ misery.

Work permit changes to reduce unemployment – no permits for unskilled foreign workers […]

in Cyprus Today – 26/2/2011

Storm wreaks havoc at Ercan – a three-minute freak storm resulted in traffic controllers having to move into their former base at Ercan airport. It appears that the control tower windows were sub-standard and were the work of a Turkish-based company. Cafer Gürcafer, TRNC Construction Union president, said that if the firm had been […]

in Cyprus Today – 23/2/2011

Homebuyers hit by strikes chaos – more than 10,000 title transfer files have to be processed by the Land Registry and recent strikes are slowing this process down even more. Editor: this slow process hasn’t worried the governments over the last 6 years and won’t worry them when the strikes are over. See below.

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