MARIA SOCRATOUS examines the growing trend among young people of living within the walls of Nicosia Once the stomping ground of an older generation who referred to Nicosia as Hora, the old part of the capital is increasingly home to young people. But what is it that makes life here so appealing?
In the latest of a monthly series on what to do outdoors, VALERIE SINCLAIR suggests that a little thought now will provide a garden you can enjoy all year round NOW IS the time to think about making improvements and re-organising your garden for next year.
Take an old piece of furniture, tart it up and use it for a different function to add interest to your home suggests interior designer SUZANNE SACORAFOU MAYBE you think that painted furniture has had its day, but I feel the occasional piece can give a personal touch and add variety and colour to your interior scheme.
PARALIMNI Mayor Nicos Vlittis yesterday lashed out at abuse of power allegations levelled against him, and charged that certain politicians wanted him to be removed as mayor because he had refused to issue building permits to companies they had invested in.
UNITED Nations experts will be in Cyprus next week to meet UN staff from Baghdad to discuss the safety of staff there, following August’s suicide bomb attack on the United Nations HQ that killed 22 people. The UN appointed the experts to find a solution to the dangers faced by the world body’s international staff in Iraq, to review the situation, and to take measures to keep them safe.
HEALTH Minister Dina Akkelidou said yesterday an investigation into allegations of the sale of medicine from dealers directly to doctors was a breach of three articles of the relevant legislation. She said the matter would be investigated by the police.
A MACHINE engineer was seriously hurt in an explosion at his workplace in Pyrga yesterday morning. Theophanis Theophanou, 46, from Yerolakko now living in Nisou, was trying to repair a machine part attached to an electrical device that heats it at Skyra-Lima, when there was a sudden explosion in the lift he was in ten metres off the ground.
YESTERDAY was the deadline for the removal of illegal billboards lining our roads, but there was no sign of anything being done about it. The Sunday Mail did see workmen at one billboard in Nicosia – but they were replacing the advertisement, not taking down the billboard itself.
MAVERICK DIKO deputy Marios Matsakis yesterday refused to rule out the possibility of clashes similar to the violence of the summer of 2001 if the British Bases (SBA) put their new PLUTO antenna at Akrotiri into operation.
AS THE situation in Iraq spins out of control, the disarray in the occupying forces grows more acute. “Certainly these attacks seem to have been the operations of foreign fighters,” said Brigadier-general Mark Hertling, deputy commander of the 1st Armoured Division, after four suicide bombs in one day in Baghdad left dozens dead and hundreds injured.
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.
