BEFORE embarking on this week’s celebration of our wonderful plantation, I would like to subject myself to the humbling experience of admitting that I got one of my facts wrong last week.
AS CYPRUS enters the summer season, doctors are warning the public of the dangers of skin cancer caused by excessive exposure to the sun.
GREEK and Turkish Cypriots will be offering each other an olive branch of friendship when they team up with young people from other countries on a special ‘European Voyage of Understanding’ next month.
ON THE walls of the outpatient ward of the Nicosia General Hospital, signs read “The enclaved are our priority: Ministry of Health”.
It’s just one surreal touch as hundreds of outpatients squash together on benches and queue for hours to have their eyes checked or their medicine prescribed.
Sir,
As a British citizen, residing in England, I can say that the United Kingdom is experiencing all of the social problems which are currently occurring in Cyprus (‘Society in Crisis’, Sunday Mail, June 5).
Sir,
There has been a barrage of criticism (‘Romantic fools?’ June 5) of my letter of May 29 suggesting it was naïve to expect Greek and Turkish Cypriots to live together in harmony given the events of the past. To those critics I would like to pose a number of questions:
Sir,
Yes, romantic fools indeed. In my opinion, in order to live together, we
have to be accountable for our mistakes. We all know about the Armenian
THE healthcare system in Cyprus “is totally outdated and is not improving”, a top doctor warned yesterday.
Marinos Soteriou, co-founder and director of the American Heart Institute in Nicosia said, “expenditure on healthcare on the island is way below the expenditure seen in northern European countries.”
A NEW meeting between representatives of the Cyprus government and Turkish Cypriots is expected to take place this week, which will determine the Luxembourg presidency’s initiative towards a deal on an EU support package for Turkish Cypriots before it hands over to the British in July.
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.
