Fun with politics

2003-02-16

BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE ****

DIRECTED BY Michael Moore

US 2002 119 mins.

NO MAN’S LAND ****

DIRECTED BY Danis Tanovic

STARRING Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Katrin Cartlidge, Simon Callow

France / UK / Slovenia 2001 97 mins.

In Serbo-Croat and English, with Greek subtitles.

By Preston Wilder

What are we actually voting for?

2003-02-16

By George Psyllides

THESE presidential elections will certainly go down in history — if not the last in the Republic of Cyprus as we know it – then certainly as the elections where policy differences between the two frontrunners were almost non-existent.

Today’s vote has been labelled as a referendum on whether people want a solution or not.

Woman jailed for writing dud cheques for shares

2003-02-16

By a Staff Reporter

A NICOSIA court has sentenced a 45-year-old Limassol woman to 12 months in prison after she was found guilty of issuing three dud cheques to a total value of £1,738,282.

Judge Leonidas Kalogyrou found Nelly Loutsiou guilty of writing dud cheques to stockbrokers Severis and Athienitis to obtain shares on the stock exchange in September, 1999.

Turks 'duped passport authorities'

2003-02-16

By a Staff Reporter

THE INTERIOR Ministry has been duped into issuing passports to two Turkish nationals claiming to be Turkish Cypriots, a newspaper said yesterday.

New president? We'll know by 10pm

2003-02-16

By Alexia Saoulli

NEARLY 500,000 voters will go to the polls today to vote for a new president.

By 10pm the final results should be in and it will be known whether there will need to be a second round of voting next Sunday, Chief Returning Officer, Kyriakos Triantafyllides said yesterday.

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.