Tales from the coffeeshop

YOU COULD not help admiring the way the government and the alliance parrots tried to present the DISY decision to stop taking part in the farcical meetings of the National Council as a national tragedy that would bitterly divide out society and weaken our Ethnarch’s position as he takes on the foreign forces of evil.

Heart disease: the top killer for women

CORONARY artery disease, not cancer, is the leading cause of death and disability in women, a leading cardiologist has warned.

Moreover it is under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated by women patients and doctors, according to Dr Lakis Anastassiades.

Will art be hijacked by the politics?

ABOUT 1.8 million euros will be spent in total for an international art school that will be the major component of the Manifesta 6 Art Biennial planned to take place in Nicosia between September and December this year.

Cyprus shrouded in dust

CYPRUS yesterday woke up to a thick cloud of dust in the atmosphere, which sent scores of people into hospital and saw the cancellation of flights.

Fiddling while Cyprus burns

Sir,

I would like to congratulate you on publishing the excellent article by Nick Pittas (‘Self-interest and the politics of the possible’, Sunday Mail, February 19) – truly, a breath of fresh air. If only one or two of our politicians would support his argument, then we could have a genuine political debate that would give Cypriots a real choice come election time.

An eye for an eye

Sir,

Please! Please! do not make the same mistakes our goverment has made.

If the sentences are strong and severe, the crime rate will stay low. If the do-gooders intervene and quote ‘human rights’, look the other way. Just look at who they are calling ‘human’.

Paphos poisonings

Sir,

With reference to your article entitled ‘Paphos denies spate of pet poisonings’ (February 23), I would like to comment on the statement by Paphos Municipality Health Inspector Nikos Paspalis that animals are not dying due to poison in Paphos.

Cypriots in the UK

Sir,

Your article ‘Why doesn’t the Cypriot Republic recognise me as a Cypriot’ (February 21), although well written, contains an inaccuracy.

There are not 350,000 Greek Cypriots in the UK. The 2001 UK Census showed 77,156 born in Cyprus by both communities and the BBC estimates the Greek Cypriot population to be around 180,000.