IBRAHIM RIP: sad news hit the world last weekend of the passing of Ibrahim Ferrer in Cuba. The original Buena Vista member died at the age of 78 from multiple organ failure. He will be dearly missed by people throughout the planet. I feel blessed for having seen Ibrahim live last autumn in Cyprus. Ibrahim’s music will always be played in my house.
ACCORDING to new research published at the University of Sheffield, men are biologically programmed to find it more difficult to hear women’s high-pitched voices than men’s lower ones.
ONCE again, there is talk of improving the ambulance service, with new ambulance stations to cut down on response times and paramedics to be able to treat people at the scene.
IN A couple of days, we will to lose one of our most talented and eccentric jazz musicians to the raucous street life and haven of possibility that is New York. Alexi David’s return New York is probably inevitable. For starters, he was brought up in Brooklyn by Cypriot parents.
THE MINISTRY of Foreign Affairs is mulling over whether to issue a travel advisory on Turkey, said a ministry official yesterday.
TRAFFIC Police chief Theodoros Achilleos yesterday urged drivers over the long holiday weekend to make sure they respect traffic laws in order to avoid chaos on the roads.
AN EU-backed £24 million strategic agriculture plan has reduced grape production in Cyprus from 100,000 tonnes per year to 60,000, while increasing the quality and variety of the grapes.
UNDER discreet security, the Iraqi national football squad was yesterday preparing ahead of its friendly game against Cyprus today in Limassol.
The venue for the match is the Tsirion stadium, where the Iraqis held a training session last night. The team arrived on the island from a tour of the Middle East.
NORTH Cyprus is no longer an inn that anyone can simply wander into unregistered, Turkish Cypriot ‘interior minister’ Ozkan Murat claimed yesterday.
PRESIDENT Papadopoulos’ upcoming meeting with Greek premier Constantinos Karamanlis in Athens is seen as crucial in determining the two countries’ stance on Turkey’s refusal to recognise the Republic of Cyprus before the start of its accession negotiations.
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.
