March 15 Daily News Briefing

Cyprus Beat

In today's episode, the government has a ‘Plan B’ for the stalled Vasiliko liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, though it has not yet worked out the timetable for that alternative, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Thursday.

Elsewhere, scandal continued to rock the church, with a new video surfacing of a woman being beaten with a belt by a monk at the now notorious Osiou Avakoum monastery.

Meanwhile, preparations were being made on Thursday for a second humanitarian aid ship to set off from Larnaca, with the first 200-tonne batch of items, including food and water, expected to arrive in Gaza by Friday morning.

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