THE harrowing personal experiences of accident victims have once again highlighted the island’s woefully ineffective ambulance service. Poor training, understaffing and unacceptable response times are just two of the serious problems afflicting the island’s ambulance service. Governments over the years have pledged to upgrade the service, but it is still notoriously inadequate.
Human rights campaigners are calling for new measures to tackle drugs and overcrowding in the Nicosia Central Prison. The National Organisation for the Protection of Human Rights, Ethnopad, called on the Government yesterday to bring in serious reforms on a host of problems revealed last week when the facility opened its doors to the press.
CONSUMERS face yet another increase in fuel prices after the government failed to take advantage of an EU grace period that would have frozen duty increases until 2012. The EU suggested the transitional period, being adopted by the other nine acceding countries because they felt that sudden increases in fuel consumer tax would affect lower class families and businesses.
The European Elections bill passed last Thursday presents a number of obstacles that will limit the participation of Greek and Turkish Cypriot voters, one European official told the Sunday Mail.
What do EU legislation woes and the Hutton report have in common, asks Phedon Nicolaides TWO completely unrelated but significant events happened this week. The first was the appraisal of the European Commission of the preparations of Cyprus to enter the European Union.
THE CYPRUS problem is in danger of becoming the longest outstanding unresolved problem of the world. Germany has been reunited, the problem of Northern Ireland has been nearly solved, there is good news from India and Pakistan concerning Kashmir, but the Cyprus problem is still there.
ANYONE who had wondered what I was talking about when, just before last February’s elections, I had written that a Tassos Papadopoulos win would signal a return to the 1960s, must now have good idea of what I meant. Also, my claim of a few weeks ago, that Papadopoulos and Christofias had become a danger to the country with their bizarre declarations and behaviour, is now easier to grasp.
EVERYTHING happens in threes. Or at least it does for Craig and Maria Webster, whose lives changed irrevocably exactly four months and three days ago today. On September 29, 2003 Maria was admitted to Nicosia’s Apollonion Clinic for a caesarean section in her 34th week of gestation. She was giving birth to triplets following successful in-vitro fertilisation nine months earlier.
CYNICS always had a good chuckle, in the past, when it was suggested, by politicians or newspaper columnists, that there was great interest for the Cyprus problem abroad.
BIO location – more commonly known as dowsing – is an age-old technique. The first known recorded use is illustrated in a 6000BC cave painting found at Tassili n Ajjer in Algeria, which shows a crowd of people eagerly watching a dowser at work, his Y shaped stick held with both hands, in what experts believe is a search for an underground desert spring.
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.
