WITH approximately 50,000 new blogs registered every day around the world, it’s no surprise that the phenomenon has reached our shores, with around 25 Cyprus-based blogs currently in operation.
Before we go on, I can almost hear many of you asking, “what on earth is a blog?”
THE NEW Year was welcomed with a death. In the early hours of January 1, a 17–year-old boy was the latest victim of reckless driving. He wasn’t even driving, just innocently standing on a pavement. Gone is a split second.
IT ISN’T difficult to identify flamingos. Their legs and necks are considerably larger than any similar sized water birds, such as herons or cranes. This is especially obvious in flight, when they have been likened to flying sticks. Their pinkish colour is often cited as an identification aid, but they are not necessarily always as pink as we have been led to believe.
POLICE are investigating a series of complaints against a developer accused of taking close to three million pounds from around 70 people for properties in the Paphos district which have not been built, two years after deposits were paid.
Sir,
Congratulations for Yiouli Taki’s article in the Sunday Mail about illegal parking.
It puts everything in perspective, doesn’t it? If you have friends in the right places you can pretty well do what you like.
Sir,
On January 14, I attended the ‘hovihankist’ (requiem) for the Melkonian brothers and then the meeting and discussion organised by the Cyprus Alumni Association of the Melkonian school.
Sir,
I seem to have hit a nerve with Mr Denktash, regarding his response in Sunday’s edition to my previous letter (‘Cyprus has done remarkably well’, January 14).
Admittance of wrong-doing was part of the opening paragraph in my initial letter, something which Mr Denktash (like all politicians) seems to have selectively omitted from his tirade.
Sir,
There has been much discussion lately about the need for water conservation – and very sensibly many good ideas have been suggested and published. What is dismaying is that all the comment about desalination is as if this technique has just occurred to government as being an important issue.
Sir,
The President and Central Bank have ruled out devaluation ahead of joining the euro zone. What else could they say? Every devaluation in history has been preceded by such denials. The more denials necessary, the more likely the event.
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.
