LIFEGUARDS at the Nicosia municipal swimming pool yesterday rejected allegations that they were not doing their jobs properly, claiming a man who was thrown out of the pool on Friday had provoked and verbally abused them.
English Cypriot Chrysostomos Tokkos had earlier this week complained that lifeguards at the pool were oblivious to what was going on in the water.
APPLICATIONS from Turkish Cypriots for Cypriot passports have tripled in the first eight months this year.
The increase has been linked to Cyprus’ looming EU accession, and to the economic crisis in Turkey and the north. Once Cyprus joins the EU, a Cyprus passport would entitle Turkish Cypriots to unrestricted, travel, residence and employment opportunities within Europe.
This beautiful version of the famous Tavas dish is only found in the villages around Lefkara. All follow a similar recipe but the one found at O Takis, is to my mind the best. So here it is. The measure used is a standard water tumbler (25 cl).
Ingredients
1 glass rice
3 glasses water
A 36-YEAR-old Israeli tourist drowned while swimming in the Akamas area yesterday morning.
Chaim Wijnbergen and his wife Mira, 33, had hired a boat from the Anassa Hotel water sports centre yesterday morning, and moored it off the Fontana Amorosa area.
TWO FAMILIES had to be rescued from their burning homes when a fire broke out in a apartment block in Lakatamia in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The fire broke out at 1am at a two-storey apartment building in the suburb of Nicosia. The families were trapped in their apartments.
SUPER-COOL UN dude, Alvaro de Soto was back in the island of love on Wednesday. He arrived at Larnaca provincial airport wearing a blue t-shirt, shades and white slacks on the belt of which his mobile phone was fixed.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
