Sir,
When the Central Bank Governor, Christodoulos Christodoulou, warns that the public deficit and public debt need to be cut, these dire warnings deserve to be heeded. In shorthand, he is saying that the current Cypriot standard of living is not fully earned, which on the latest figures cannot be disputed.
DISY chief Nicos Anastassiades yesterday announced he was planning to withdraw his formal complaint to the European Parliament regarding the manner in which campaigning had been carried out in the run-up to the April 24 referendum.
THE FORMER bishop of Limassol yesterday launched an attack on his successor following an early morning bomb blast that wrecked his car.
Police said the explosion took place at around 3am and caused extensive damage to the Mercedes used by former Bishop Chrysanthos.
The car was parked outside his residence on Spyros Araouzos Street.
THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has raised a number of political issues on new developments in Cyprus, jeopardising the outcome of pending Greek Cypriot appeals against Turkey, human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades warned yesterday.
Sir,
I live near Ayia Napa but rarely go into the town during the season.
Recently, a coffee house opened near the harbour which sells excellent coffee, and I’ve taken to spending the odd hour or so there several times a week while watching people ambling up and down the pedestrianised area, or observing the odd fishing boat passing beyond the small church.
THEODOROS Fikardos harvested grapes for the first time in 1988 – there was just enough to fill up a barrel. His interest in wine making, though, grew year by year. Through the 90s Fikardos managed to become an established winemaker not only in Paphos and Cyprus but abroad as well. Wine connoisseurs from Finland especially enjoy his wines.
JILL CAMPBELL MACKAY on the art of quilting, as an exhibition of some made locally opens in Paphos
Quilt: Originated from the Latin word Culcita meaning a stuffed sack.
Sir,
Allow me through your columns to express my personal feelings (and I hope those of my fellow Armenians) and in particular our hearty and grateful thanks to the government of Cyprus and our Greek Cypriot compatriots for their noble and courageous stand taken in support of the continued existence of the Melkonian Institute.
Weird and wonderful chairs and other furniture can now be yours following the opening of a new shop in Nicosia. ELENI ANTONIOU is impressed
ALL HAIL new national saviour Yiannakis Matsis, who has heeded the desperate calls of the expelled DISY deputies and the disgruntled DISY masses, triumphantly returning to the political battlefield from his self-imposed exile to lead them to where it is they want to go.
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