THE NEW tax proposals on cars look set to benefit consumers who will be able to buy new environmentally friendly cars at prices that are 19 to 21 per cent cheaper. But the proposals are also likely hit hard the market for all-terrain diesel vehicles.
LUFTHANSA has announced special Christmas fares to the US from Larnaca starting at £240 return plus taxes. The offer lasts until December 15. A round trip to New York starts at £240, Boston and Chicago from £290, Atlanta, Houston and Philadelphia £325, and Los Angeles and San Francisco from £375. The airline said that its online ticket auction system has become well-established in Cyprus.
A YOUNG man and a woman have been arrested by police for allegedly acting in an indecent manner in a nightclub. Members of the Crime Prevention Unit checked a nightclub in Nicosia late on Friday, and said they found part of the club had been “specially prepared for indecent acts”. They say a 19-year-old man and 20-year-old artiste were caught red-handed having sex.
WELL-KNOWN Nicosia criminal lawyer Lefkos Clerides was slightly hurt yesterday when the car he was travelling in overturned on the Nicosia-Larnaca highway. Clerides and two others were driving towards Larnaca when one of the tyres blew out, causing the car to overturn and get wedged in a ditch off the hard shoulder.
THE TURKISH Cypriot religious foundation EVKAF is ready to implement its master plan to rebuild the abandoned Greek Cypriot town of Varosha in Famagusta, the Turkish Cypriot newspaper Halkin Sesi reported yesterday. The organisation is though to have completed work on the master plan and is now ready to put it into action.
A SMALL group of United Nations experts has arrived on the island to prepare for a crucial meeting next week to discuss the UN’s future role in Iraq.
Sir, I was born in Cyprus in the Larnaca district in a village called Kalo-Khorio, and I have been living in England since 1975. I have been a British citizen for the past 23 years. I began to visit Cyprus in 1990, and I was always treated deferentially by immigration officers. I was always asked how long I was going to stay and where I was going to stay.
Sir, I have recently returned from another great holiday in Paphos, but was extremely disappointed to see that the timeshare touts are now congregating in great numbers around the harbour area. We were near Coral Bay this time (we highly recommend the Neptune Hotel Apartments, especially the restaurant) but every time we went into Paphos town, we were accosted by these people.
Sir, It is, I suppose, pardonable for the Duchess of Devonshire (Books page, Sunday Mail, November 2) to regret that Anne de Courcy’s biography of her sister Diana (née Mosley) does not convey the aura of laughter that the Duchess recalls surrounded her. For the rest of us, choosing to marry Oswald Mosley in Joseph Goebbels’ drawing-room drowns out 93 years of jolly laughter. K.M. Kirk, Paphos
WHEN YOU are young and day-dreaming about your future, the love and marriage part of the fantasy probably doesn’t include becoming someone else’s second wife. And it’s unlikely that being a stepmother features in your dreams either. However for many this could be what the future holds. We are living in an age when the concept of togetherness has taken on an entirely new meaning.
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.
