OPPOSITION politicians, diplomats and analysts have warned that unless the government curbs its negative rhetoric on the Cyprus issue, it will prompt the international community to assume the Greek Cypriot side does not want a solution.
To most cooks, the humble peppercorn is still worth its weight in gold OF ALL the distinctly flavoured seeds, barks, roots, fruits and leaves that we hoard in our cupboards, pepper is the most widely used. No plant since the apple in Eden has had a larger, more telling effect on human history than the black pepper vine.
GONE are the days when cannabis was only smoked by longhaired, peace-loving hippies, who lived in communes and practised free sex. Today, a whole new generation has adopted the habit of getting ‘high’ on marijuana, from teenagers, to businessmen and even teachers.
THE general response you get when talking to local restaurant owners about the EU tends to be one of the following: either, ‘I don’t really know what I’ve to do to come into line with the EU’; or, ‘I just haven’t got the money to make any big changes to my place, so I’m just going to ignore all this stuff’; or even, ‘No damned politician’s going to tell me how to prepare my souvla!’ Thankfully (f
SINGER Alkistis Protopsalti stares life in the face, refusing point-blanc to hide from what it may have in store. Life is to be lived, with all the good and all the bad. “Life is a unique, unusual game of emotions,” she tells me ahead of one of her concerts in Cyprus this week (they were sold out and extra performances had to be put on).
THIS column, in the past, has been critical of Attorney-general, Solon Nikitas, for his refusal to acquiesce to the modernisation of the antiquated law of evidence. Today, I feel obliged to praise him and also to pose a challenge.
THIS GOVERNMENT, intentionally or unintentionally, is proving bad for business. It seems to look at the private sector with suspicion and, at times, disdain, as if businesses were the root cause of all the economic problems facing the country and had to be punished for it.
FOR the past 30 years, the Greek Cypriot side has never had to stick its neck out when it came being straight about a Cyprus solution. As long as Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash kept insisting on two separate states it never had to. But the tide may be turning, and one day soon President Tassos Papadopoulos and his government may have to lay their final cards on the table.
Kurd dies after month long coma A 40-year-old Kurd who had been in a coma for more than a month following a street fight in Limassol died yesterday, police said. The fight broke out during a card game with compatriots at a local coffee shop on December 13 last year. The man slapped one of them in the face after they argued and was thrown out of the establishment.
LIMASSOL police were yesterday looking into a complaint made by a Scottish permanent resident that she had been raped by a taxi driver. The 28-year-old woman claimed she had flagged down the taxi at 4am on George the First Street in Yermasoyia. She asked the man to take her home but instead he drove her to an unknown place in town where he allegedly raped her.
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.
