THE majority of sexually active adolescents start having sex before they are 16, with one in 10 admitting to having had intercourse at 13.
Only half of those same school children, always use a condom, with one in 10 admitting to having had an unwanted pregnancy and a smaller percentage claiming to have contracted a sexual transmitted disease at some point.
Sir,
I have noticed that in your December 10 edition you published a paid announcement from the “Concerned residents of Peyia”, who criticise the efforts I am jointly making with the mayor of Peyia Mr Neophytos Akoursiotis to overcome the language barrier in case, as is highly likely, a continental resident is elected to the new municipal council of Peyia.
Sir,
I would like to respond to Mr Leonida’s letter, “Calling from planet Earth” (Sunday Mail, November 26), where he ask “how these lofty legal principles (i.e. principles of European human rights law) would be implemented in the case of Cyprus”.
Sir,
For years I have avoided writing in the English press of Cyprus about the village of Androlikou in the Akamas area, possibly one of the most picturesque communities of rural Cyprus, abandoned by its progressive Turkish Cypriot inhabitants 12 months after the Turkish invasion.
Sir,
On Monday, our dog was poisoned, along with two other dogs on the same quiet street in Paralimni. Within a short block, three dogs and a cat, helpless animals, were attacked.
We were very fortunate, our dog survived the attack effected in our very own yard, described as the worst case seen by our vet.
A MAN was arrested yesterday in connection with the brutal overnight murder of a mother of three in the Nicosia suburb of Latsia.
Police say Kyriacos Kakoullis, 37, has confessed to killing Androula Avraam-Goumenou, also 37, after a heated argument.
THIRD-born sons could be serving half the army service of their elder brothers, if a proposal is approved by the House Defence Committee and Plenum.
The matter was suggested for discussion by the Committee Chairman, Yiannakis Omirou of EDEK, while a related bill was submitted by DISY deputy Soteris Sampson.
THE MEDIA Complaints Commission yesterday berated the media’s role in the recent violent attack against the English School’s Turkish Cypriot pupils, though no punishments were announced.
A 30-YEAR-old Palestinian man was left lying helpless after he was kidnapped, beaten and robbed in Limassol on Wednesday night.
Six men are wanted in connection with incident.
THE GOVERNMENT should undertake initiatives and pressure providers to ensure that Cyprus citizens are offered an adequate degree of quality electronic communication technologies, the telecommunications regulator said yesterday.
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.
