In today’s episode, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos has expressed his ministry’s concern with the high number of road fatalities this year after they have consistently fallen over the last ten years.

Elsewhere, former government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos has been named as the new labour minister, a position vacated after the death of Zeta Emilianidou earlier this month.

In other news, the first ferry trip between Cyprus and Greece in 21 years docked in Piraeus port on Monday evening was hailed as “very positive” by deputy shipping minister Vassilis Demetriades.

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