ONE IN TWO drivers had their picture taken for breaking traffic rules last weekend, as the police switched on the recently acquired traffic cameras at selected spots for a trial run. The good news, according to one newspaper, was that the traffic violations had gradually decreased from 50 per cent to 30 per cent by Tuesday and 10 per cent on Thursday.
THE DISAPPEARANCE of Terrence Calton is certainly a head-scratcher.
THE TRAFFICKING of women in Cyprus constitutes possibly the biggest social sickness of today, both in the south and north of the island.
WHEN YOU played Monopoly as a child, did you go all out to buy the hotels? They did seem very expensive, but it was vital to own at least one, then you could make a killing any time your little brother landed on your property.
Real hotels operate in much the same way, except it’s no board game, and certainly not one without risks.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos warned Cyprus Airways (CY) pilots yesterday that if they continued their belligerence, the airline would be forced to close down.
“It is the first time I hear that we can save the company by having a strike,” he said, referring to the claim of pilots’ union PASIPY that they were the ones that wanted to save the airline, and not the management.
Sir,
I refer to the recent letter by M Gray (‘Rubbish disgrace’, March 5) regarding the illegal dumping of rubbish in the countryside and elsewhere.
Sir,
I feel I must write regarding the recent remarks of Mr Averoff Neophytou concerning the cost of living in Cyprus (Sunday Mail, February 26).
Sir,
I was reading Lauren O’Hara’s article entitled, “Should one defend
intolerant religions?”. I think it was wonderfully written and spot on.
She was right on every point except one. Being an amateur, and somewhat
fanatical student of United States history, I would like to point out
that Benjamin Franklin was very publicly a deist, not an atheist.
Sir,
I am writing in response to the letter by Mr Sivitanides in the Sunday Mail (March 5) that commented on the article by Nicos Rolandis “King Jigme and floundering Cyprus”. Having read both the article and the response of Mr Sivitanides I would like to note the following:
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.
