In today’s episode, Electricity Authority (EAC) unions called off a strike planned for Tuesday in an eleventh hour decision on Tuesday evening, which means there will be no power cuts.

The U-turn was due to the intervention of Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos, who has committed to arranging meetings between unions and the ministers of energy and finance in the coming week.

In other news, the row over the cutting of a line from a play with an LGBTI+ message is still ongoing as children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou blasted the education ministry and saying the move should be reversed.

Elsewhere, dozens of Cypriots stranded at Stanstead airport for over a day after their Ryanair flight did not depart on Monday morning as scheduled finally arrived on the island on Tuesday.

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