Not manly? Me?

NOT manly? What do these Cypriots know about manliness? Were you there when we trekked through Boulder Canyon in Colorado, just Abe, Rocco ‘The Rock’ and me.

Why, we’d knock down a couple of buffaloes before breakfast, skin ’em with the old Bowie and we’d be spitting steaks the size of old Seth Ironside’s shovel before you could say ‘gimme some souvla’.

Donkey crop raiders ‘should not be banished’

AGRICULTURE Minister Costas Themistocleous yesterday said he opposed the decision by the Turkish Cypriots to export donkeys to Turkey because of reports they were damaging crops.

“I join my voice with the Turkish Cypriot environmental groups in opposing this,” Themistocleous said.

Themistocleous to represent Cyprus at Earth Summit

PEOPLE, planet, and prosperity will be the themes of the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa attended by around 60,000 delegates from around the world, Agriculture Minister Costas Themistocleous said yesterday.

THROUGH THE DECADES: 1932

1932 facts and figures

Top 5 Money-Makers (US): Not Available

Best Film Oscar (1931-32): Grand Hotel

Best Actor Oscar (1931-32) [tie]: Wallace Beery, The Champ and Fredric March, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Best Actress Oscar (1931-32): Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Price controls? Not in a free market

PRICE control is not allowed in any form in a free market system, the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism said yesterday.

Responding to recent reports about high prices in the retail trade, it said the matter has been studied in a series of meetings chaired by Minister Nicos Rolandis and in co-operation with the island’s chief EU negotiator, George Vasiliou.