Sir,
I feel betrayed and angry that our tough-talking president said he would veto Turkey if our conditions were not met, but changed his mind at the last minute. In fact he actually supported the beginning of Turkey-EU accession talks. I could not believe I saw him clapping and smiling when Turkey got its date. Bravo sou!
Exhibitions
Nicosia district
Cyprus Folk Art Museum
Old Archbishopric Palace. Tel: 22-432578.
Cyprus Icons and Mosaics
Makarios III Foundation, Archbishopric.
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Special Exhibition of Ceramics
Raised as a secular Israeli Jew in the conflict ridden city of Jerusalem, Gilad Atzmon witnessed and empathised with the daily sufferings of the Palestinian people and spent 20 years of his life trying to understand and resolve the ethnic tensions and strife of his native country.
ON THE morning of December 17, the Cypriot President was faced with probably one of the most difficult moments in his political life. EU leaders had backtracked on a decision regarding relations between Turkey and Cyprus reached only the previous night.
MOST OF US will be hurtling about town today, desperately hunting down last-minute Christmas presents and raiding supermarket shelves for a weekend of gargantuan celebration.
Most of us will have overspent, getting exhausted and stressed in the process.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday he could still veto the start of EU accession talks with Turkey if Ankara failed to extend a protocol offering tacit recognition to the island by October3.
A Greek Cypriot veto at an EU summit which decided to open membership talks with Ankara was averted last week, but Nicosia says it can use it at a later stage of the process.
TWO youths were yesterday jailed for four and six months respectively in connection with the theft of £50,000 worth of valuables from a Nicosia jewellery shop earlier this month.
The two, aged 19 and 24-years-old, were arrested shortly after they broke into the Gold and Silver jewellery shop just off Ledra Street.
A 32-YEAR-old Nicosia woman suspected of conspiring to kill her husband yesterday pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder and conspiracy charges.
Her Pakistani lover and a Chinese man were also charged in connection with the murder of 38-year-old contractor Pavlos Christodoulou.
They too pleaded not guilty.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) expects answers from all five of its unions on the Labour Ministry’s compromise proposal to save the company’s finances by the end of the first week of January.
A PRANK caller was yesterday arrested after putting police units onto full alert on Wednesday night after he falsely reported that Chechen terrorists would strike the Russian Embassy with missiles.
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.
