In today’s episode, Zeta Emilianidou, the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, died on Monday at the age of 67.

She had suffered a cerebral aneurysm three weeks ago and had been transported by ambulance airlift to a hospital in Greece where she underwent lengthy surgery.

Elsewhere, a Limassol pensioner was arrested on Monday morning after going to a police station and informing officers he had killed his 82-year-old wife. The police found her body in the garden of the couple’s house in Ayios Ioannis, in the Limassol district.

In other news, three young British women were detained in connection with an alleged assault on a nurse at the A&E department of Paphos general hospital in the early hours of Sunday.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.