TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday it was important to reach a long-lasting solution in Cyprus that would not cause any incidents or tension in the future.
A Cyprus-flagged ship is one of ten ships that have been banned from a European port since July and seven others are under notice according to a new blacklist published by the European Commission. The Commission on Friday published its first-ever list of ships banned from EU ports under the new European rules on port State control.
UNITED Nations Secretary-general Kofi Annan has recommended that UN peacekeepers in Cyprus stay in the divided island for another six months, although he reported few incidents along the ceasefire line.
THE government could this week announce the preferred bidder for the contract to build the island’s new airport at Larnaca and the upgrading of Paphos airport following the completion of the assessment of the financial bids.
FIRST of all I’d like to say that I am not a food writer (the only thing I do with food is to cook, eat and sometimes binge on it when I’m stressed). Second, I am not going to bore you about the feelings I get while savouring the taste of a mushroom picked from the wild, or how it feels to have an exquisite French red wine caress my throat.
FROM Tuesday, Cypriots will have a unique opportunity to view part of their cultural heritage – Greek Mythology – as seen through the eyes of the royal weavers of the 17th and 18th century French court. The exhibition at Limassol’s Evagoras Lanitis Centre, entitled ‘Weaving the Greek Myths’, will feature large tapestries from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Paris.
HERE’S our regular look at some of the more interesting films recently released on DVD in the US and UK (most of these are also available on VHS).
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS **1/2 DIRECTED BY Andy & Larry Wachowski STARRING Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne US 2003 129 mins. CITY OF GOD **** DIRECTED BY Fernando Meirelles STARRING Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen Brazil 2002 129 mins. In Portuguese, with Greek subtitles.
THE Sunday Mail asked the Head of the Welfare Department, Evanthia Papasavva, why it was so difficult to find housing for asylum seekers or refugees and why they often ended up in seedy hotels that double up as brothels. “Because there are no houses.
With St Andrew’s Day only a fortnight away, JILL CAMPBELL MACKAY catches up with the island’s resident bagpipe player AN ELDERLY Scotsman lay dying in hospital in a far away land. He asked his doctor to grant him one final wish, and that was to hear for one last time the sound of the bagpipes. A piper was found, and he duly marched up and down the hospital corridor, playing his heart out.
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.
