Sir,
I wish to comment on the statement of casino owner Ian Ohalloran (‘Cyprus letting money slip through its fingers’, August 15), who claims that only an “extreme minority has a gambling problem and would most likely have an addictive personality anyway”.
Sir,
I have never, in my many years travelling, found it necessary to put pen to paper to complain about the short-sighted greed and opportunism of a small but significant number of people. The people I am referring to are the people who have an involvement in Cyprus’ tourist industry, however vague or remote.
A PROMINENT Turkish Cypriot organisation yesterday called for people in the north to attend the festival at Ayios Mamas in Morphou on Wednesday in a show of solidarity with Greek Cypriots following a bomb attack on the Orthodox church on Friday.
TURKISH Cypriot ‘Prime Minister’ Mehmet Ali Talat has written to UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan requesting the joint operation of the Institute of Neurology and Genetics with the Greek Cypriots.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) is expected to announce heavy losses for the first six months when results are published tomorrow amid ongoing discussions on the future of the airline.
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With more and more options available ELENI ANTONIOU looks at it from a couch potato’s perspective
AS WITH all other inventions, the TV has evolved considerably since its inception and is now threatening to become more intelligent than a fair proportion of its viewers.
OVER the past two weeks, the Athens Olympics have become a backdrop to our lives. They have been a constant presence in our living rooms, the lure of non-stop live sport simply too much for many to resist (and while football is distinctly a blokes’ sport, the Olympics has events to satisfy the whole family).
PARENTS soon learn that although state schools might provide free education, it most certainly does not mean their kids attend school for free.
With children as young as the age of six, parents are faced with the rude awakening that their little terrors cost a fortune to put through primary school, let alone secondary school.
THERE’S a quiet, almost unsettling intensity that burns behind the bright eyes of Matthew Steliou, an intensity that provides a contrast to a natural demeanour that pretty much defines the term ‘laid back’. Steliou does not live up to the archetypical image of the successful music promoter.
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.
