THE EAGERLY awaited big debate of the three main men which was broadcast live by all five national TV stations turned out to be a big yawn marathon. The candidates were not solely to blame for their dismally boring monologues, as they were ably helped by the five hacks chosen by each station to ask the questions.
THE FIRST individuals in history are having their genome sequenced by a personal genomics firm.
A genome is an organism’s entire string of DNA.
It contains the organism’s entire hereditary information.
THE DIRECTOR of the Antiquities Department said he was shocked and outraged by Achilleas’ story.
“What he and people like him are doing is a clear violation of the law, which forbids the use of a metal detector in or in the vicinity of an area declared for ancient monuments,” said Pavlos Flourentzos
Sir,
On an island that purports to hold tourism as an important part of its gross domestic product, why does the government go out of its way to alienate tourists?
Sir,
In Wednesday’s article of “Campaign frenzy as election looms”, writer Andreas Avgousti pointed out that Ioannis Kasoulides’ attribution to Goethe’s Faust of the phrase ‘nothing can come from nothing’ ignored its prior use by Shakespeare in his play King Lear.
Shakespeare did indeed use this aphorism in King Lear, but was he the first to do it?
Sir,
You reported on January 19 that “EU urges Cyprus and Greece to rethink position on Kosovo”.
But isn’t it NATO, the EU and all the others involved that should rethink?
The UN resolution 1244 of 1999 when this unnecessary war finally ended said that the UN guaranteed the existing borders of Serbia.
One man describes his adventures with his metal detector
By Jill Campbell Mackay
FOR SOME people, happiness is a warm metal detector and despite strict laws forbidding the practice, dozens of people are currently making a tidy living digging up the past and flogging it to the highest bidder.
PIRAEUS Bank’s acquisition of Arab Bank has been made official, the new Cyprus operation will include nine new branches, the bank said yesterday.
The bank has already been granted a licence from the Central Bank for the provision of banking operations and will commence its activities immediately, with an initial capital of €50 million.
INCIDENTS of poisoning of people’s unsuspecting pets for no apparent reason are sadly not unusual in Cyprus, but do not cease to be shocking, criminal behaviour.
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMEA) continued to back the vaccine Gardasil after two women in the EU died unexpectedly after being vaccinated.
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.
