WHAT AN emotional rollercoaster ride we have been on in the last couple of weeks. Eleven days ago the plantation hit new depths of collective depression, as we mourned DISY’s decision to leave the National Council but by last Tuesday we were seized by ecstatic joy thanks to our Ethnarch’s diplomatic triumph in Paris.
NEARLY a quarter of Cypriot children are obese or overweight, with indications the figure is increasing.
The number corresponds to international statistics regarding the increasing prevalence of obesity in developed countries, raising questions of how best to combat a problem that has emerged as the new challenge in public health.
WITH Cyprus joining the EU in May 2004, it was said that the country would be moving into line with the rest of Europe, harmonising its laws, regulations and everyday life with its European cousins.
If you live in Nicosia you may have seen a strange, tall bike being ridden around the strets. It belongs to a member of a street circus currently passing through the island and practicing an alternative way of life
Defence ministry says soldiers who burnt dog and filmed it ‘beyond condemnation’
DOZENS of phone calls and letters yesterday poured in from distraught animal lovers demanding the National Guard soldiers responsible for the horrific torture of a dog, aired on Sigma television, be brought to justice.
Sir,
Mr Averoff Neophytou is quite right when he warns against the increase in prices in Cyprus (Sunday Mail, February 26), costs which have hit the most vulnerable groups the hardest.
Sir,
Please could Mr Neophytou (‘Young people today don’t stand a chance’ Sunday Mail, February 26) tell where on Long Island I can buy a “big plot of land with a house for $150.000”. I will buy it immediately.NOW,NOW,NOW!!
Or does he still live in his student days?
Egbert Hakker Paphos
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.
