WHAT do Archbishop Chrys, Ethnarch Tassos and Yiorkos Lilickass have in common apart from their arrogance, good looks and passion for telling lies? The answer is that they are all from villages in the Paphos district, the most primitive and uncivilised part of our lovely island.
AS THE first round of the presidential elections edge closer, the media on the island have focused mainly on the last-ditch attempts by politicians to sway undecided voters in what is being touted as one of the most tightly contested ballots in Cypriot history.
CYPRUS has 1,924 people still missing from the inter-communal strife in the 1960s and the Turkish invasion of 1974. When the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) was set up under the auspices of the UN in 1981, the figure was 1,995; 502 Turkish Cypriots and 1,493 Greek Cypriots.
THEY have been slickly packaged as forward-looking 21st century politicians, so our presidential candidates and their campaign managers probably think they are above something as trivial as dabbling in the stars.
A BRITISH businessman has accused Paphos hospital of killing his elderly mother last year when she choked after being force fed by a nurse.
Well known painter Thraki Rossidou-Jones died from asphyxiation after choking on her dinner on July 18, 2007.
THE case of the sexually abused girl Hannah has been submitted to the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
TWO BRITONS were killed last night after their car smashed into a police car parked on the roadside.
The incident took place at 2.30am on the Coral Bay-Kissonegra road in Peyia, with the victims named as Nigel Downing Waite, 45, and Caroline Edwina Talbot, 42. Both were permanent residents of the village of Empa.
CYPRUS Airways has been found to be among the three least punctual airlines in the EU in a survey by the Association of European Airlines.
ONLY 38 per cent of Cypriots have used the internet in the past three months, the fourth lowest figure in the EU27.
Additionally, only ten per cent shopped online, with another 19 per cent saying they were victims of a computer virus.
The figures were released by the European Commission ahead of Safer Internet Day on Tuesday.
FIVE OF the 29 flights chartered by the Tassos Papadopoulos campaign team to fly over voters from Europe and America are Boeing 747 planes, better known as jumbo jets.
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.
