Time may be running out for the leaders of both communities to reach common ground on the Annan plan, with both leaders giving the impression talks are moving at a termite’s pace, but behind the scenes, the picture looks quite different.
POLICE remain convinced that young people are gathering in out of the way places to practice satanism, despite a denial on Friday by Justice Minister Doros Theodorou. In a written reply to DIKO deputy Antigoni Papadopoulou Thedorou said that most of the reports actually concerned fortune-tellers who plied a trade by reading coffee cups and tarot cards.
The new opening hours for shops in the tourist areas of Cyprus will begin tomorrow the Minister of Labour Makis Keravnos confirmed. According to the directive the new tourist shopping hours will last until the November 15.
SOME years ago, a Turkish Cypriot journalist said that if a solution to the Cyprus problem ever came to be, it would emerge from the streets of northern Nicosia. For many who thought they knew the Turkish Cypriot people, the idea that these modest and easy-going people would take to the streets in an attempt to bring down their leadership was regarded as something of a joke.
THIRTY flamingos have died already this year in Larnaca many more are expected to perish if the Larnaca Salt Lake is not cleared of pollution and hunting continues in the area, a highly-placed source warned yesterday. The source revealed to the Sunday Mail that the area near the salt lake has been transformed into a rubbish dump.
THIS COLUMN did not have to see the president’s top advisor and right hand man, Tasos Djionis, expounding his negative views about the Annan plan on television to understand the devious political game being played by Tassos Papadopoulos in order to avoid a settlement. Even before his election this column had been pointing out that he remained the man he had been in the Eighties.
FOUR WEEKS ago, just after President Tassos Papadopoulos and Rauf Denktash had signed up to the New York agreement, we asked the following questions: “So who will sell the peace plan to the people, particularly to the Greek Cypriots, who are being bombarded with negative messages every day?” We had added: “Perhaps Annan has a strategy for selling his plan, because relying on Denktash and Papadopou
Introduction One of the thorniest aspects of the Cyprus problem is the issue of compensation to those property owners who, under the terms of the Annan plan, are not entitled to reinstatement of their property rights. The Annan plan has dealt with this by providing for a compulsory acquisition against a compensation value.
GEORGE Panayiotou has worked for over 50 years as a plant chemical salesman. He has raised and married off three children, and took care and fed their grandchildren. But since retirement, the only source of income for him and thousands of older people on the island is his pension, a measly £200 a month, which he uses to pay for his rent, his bills and food.
I was reading lately a book on wine from Oz Clark and Margaret Rant and under the chapter where they briefly touch the history of wine there were some interesting references to wine and health in ancient times. This prompted me to devote this Sunday’s article to this interesting subject.
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.
