I’VE JUST got back home from the East End of London. I rarely leave the centre of town, but this morning my agent asked me to take my portfolio to a printing company, to get some cards made up for clients. So I get myself a travel card and a bottle of water and join the crowds on the underground… When I get off at Liverpool Street everyone is wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND ****
DIRECTED BY Michel Gondry
STARRING Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood
US 2004 107 mins.
50 FIRST DATES **1/2
DIRECTED BY Peter Segal
STARRING Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin
GREEN party leader George Perdikis yesterday applauded a Supreme Court decision that rejected advertisers’ appeals to be spared from complying with a new law to take down or push back their illegal billboards.
In effect, the decision will force the remaining advertisers to remove the billboards or face having them torn down by members of the public works department.
THE SCOTTISH teenager left fighting for his life after a brutal attack in Ayia Napa on Tuesday was moved to Nicosia General Hospital yesterday where he was put back on a respirator.
THE Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) yesterday warned that profiteering at the expense of tourists would give the island a bad name.
Tourism Department Tourist Services director, Lefkos Phylactides, was commenting on reports that taxi drivers in the Ayia Napa district had been ripping off tourists by doubling their fares.
THE COMPANY charged with the destruction of a grade one archaeological site in the village of Kazafani says it will do all it can to go ahead with its project to build luxury housing on the site of an early Bronze Age necropolis.
SIMERINI: “A life worth only £2,000”. A Paphos court fined a French tourist £2,000 and suspended his driving licence for 12 months after he collided and killed 21-year-old Giorgos Georgiou from Yeroskipou last Sunday.
THE European Council sent a clear message to Turkey yesterday that it must recognise the Cyprus Republic and include it in the Customs Union agreement it has already signed with all other 24 member nations of the EU.
The message came in the form of a report on the conclusions of the latest meeting of the European Council in Brussels.
THE POLICE officer involved in the extortion allegations involving Marios Matsakis yesterday challenged the DIKO MEP to tell the truth regarding their meetings and publish his itemised telephone bills, which proved their conversations.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday conceded that he had known about the allegations that DIKO MEP Marios Matsakis sought £10,000 to ensure a police officer under investigation for attempted manslaughter would be acquitted.
Pressure grew on Matsakis yesterday, as the officer at the centre of the case challenged the deputy to deny that he had repeated conversations with him.
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.
