Students’ union say repression is not the answer to juvenile delinquency
SOCIAL inequality, negative role models promoted by the media and society’s habit of dismissing pupils’ abilities are to blame for underage antisocial behaviour says pupils’ union PSEM.
Sir,
As l sit here on Tuesday morning having listened to the news, I am now reading my Cyprus Mail and feeling rather angry at some of the articles. When I reached page 15 (I’m dreaming of a green Christmas), I felt I needed to write this letter.
THE LAW Commissioner has called into question the government’s immigration policy after receiving a series of complaints from people who have been arrested and deported.
THE TECHNOLOGICAL University of Cyprus will receive its first students in September 2007, Education and Culture Minister Pefkios Georgiades and President of the University’s Temporary Administration Committee Andreas Demetriou announced yesterday.
Akinci says north’s law change is just to get the ECHR off Turkey’s back’
PROPOSED changes in the north’s property law designed to allow Greek Cypriot refugees to reclaim ownership of their homes were described as a Turkish ploy to gain time by Turkish Cypriot Peace and Democracy Movement (BDH) leader Mustafa Akinci yesterday.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday that Cyprus would work for improvements in the EU budget that would be for the benefit of the Cypriot people.
Referring to the new proposal by the British EU Presidency regarding the EU budget, he said it provided for a reduction of the allowances for some states, including Cyprus, and for an increase for other countries.
THE PARENTS of a 12-year-old gymnasium pupil, who allegedly groped his teacher during break time, are suing the school’s headmistress, acting principal and teacher for mistreating their son.
According to lawyer Michalakis Kyprianou, who is representing the family, the officials of the Apostolos Andreas gymnasium in Emba are being sued on both a personal and professional basis.
Tassos says real dialogue needed to resolve Ledra dispute
ONLY DIALOGUE can help resolve the crisis over the opening of the Ledra Street crossing point, President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday.
A DUTCH company has expressed an interest in creating a golf course in the capital’s Athalassa park.
Representatives of the company this week met with lawyers in Cyprus and have apparently submitted an application to the Town Planning Authority of the Interior Ministry.
THE WORLD’S second-largest bottler of Coca Cola products, Greece’s CCHBC, said yesterday it would offer to buy Cyprus bottler Lanitis for around $90 million, to expand further into non-carbonated soft drinks.
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.
