Petrol station strike in effect - or ending? - across the island. The issue is the demand by station owners that the government stop issuing licences to new stations as there isn't enough revenue to go around. An interesting objection from a private sector that complains about Christofias' communist government, although in fact the government hasn't been all that communist and the real objection is to the government's having gone bankrupt under Christofias' watch. And that would probably have happened regardless of who had won the last election. As with Greece the transition to democracy was somewhat incomplete, with nepotism and corruption at the top a permanent feature. And not only at the top - right down to who does or does not get parking tickets as the policeman on the beat visibly struggles to identify the owner of the offending vehicle. And there is no sign of life from behind the closed doors of the beautiful (colonial architecture) police station as young hoods speed past on motorbikes or in cars with illegal Hollywood mufflers.
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