Sir,
In response to articles appearing in the press during the week preceding the referendum of April 24, the Senior Management Team (SMT) of the English School would like to state the following:
“THE WORST is over,” announced Ethnarch Papa-Dop on Sunday after the EU summit in Dublin, reminding us that his powers of prediction are on a par with his political judgment, which is about as sound as the finances of Cyprus Airways.
THE AKEL leadership has recently been going out of its way to drive us all crazy. First, in order to avoid the risk of a clash with President Papadopoulos – and therefore its possible exclusion from power – it took that absurd position in favour of a ‘no’ to the Annan plan on the ludicrous grounds that this was the best way to ‘cement’ the ‘yes’ in a new referendum.
THE AZTECS loved them, and called them Xitomatl (plump), while the rest of the world considered them poisonous. One reason for this fear of tomatoes might have been their relation the family that produces the deadly nightshade plant, and so, up until the 19th century it was always recommended that tomatoes be boiled for at least five hours to eradicate any nasty stuff that might linger within.
THINK family lunch and a tasty pie sufficient to feed ten hungry guests using fresh spinach, crumbled feta, potatoes and cumin All combine to make this a wonderfully wholesome pie – which is a doddle to make. If there are any leftovers (which I doubt) you can then enjoy it cold the next day or warm it up in the oven.
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Serves ten portions
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ACCORDING to legend, a vineyard owner in France once left on a journey, giving instructions to his workers not to touch the grapes during his absence. As fate would have it, he was delayed on his return and his workers, following instructions, left the grapes hanging on the vines well-past usual harvest.
THE CYPRUS referenda of April 24 represent a sad and sorry tale of incompetence, malice and complacency of the highest order, at every level of governance.
Here are 10 reasons why it was never going to work:
ONE question has been puzzling me. Why did it prove virtually impossible to get a ‘no’ supporter to change his/her mind, despite the fact that none of the ‘no’ arguments at the end of the day stood up to logical scrutiny? Not the ones about the settlers, nor the ones about the economy, nor the ones about the refugees, nor even the ones about the Turkish army and guarantees.
AS IF THE mounting problems facing Cyprus after the referendum were not enough, President Papadopoulos has decided to add to them by needlessly firing broadsides against the US administration. Thursday’s public outburst by the president was not only injudicious, it was totally unnecessary as it achieved nothing other than whipping up anti-US sentiment at home.
JILL CAMPBELL MACKAY meets a man trying to bring canine problems to the fore in Cyprus
IT WOULD be a mistake to automatically assume that the retired expat population of Cyprus consists solely of whingeing wrinklies residing in ‘Club Geriatric’ ghettoes.
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.
