AKEL presidential candidate Demetris Christofias lost a spot of political capital when he refused to answer a journalist’s question on the grounds that he was the next president of the Cyprus Republic.
Christofias lost his temper several times with journalists on Mega television on Thursday when they poked and prodded him on his and his party’s past negative attitudes to the EU.
THE presidential campaign has been going on for eight months now – posters, banners, manifestos and brochures, campaign logos, slogans, TV ads, websites, sms and e-mail messages, exit polls, speeches, debates, concerts with famous and not so famous artists. The list of political clich?s goes on…
A PAPHOS street is to be named after a Danish King buried in the town over 900 years ago.
The street will be in homage to Erik I after a suggestion by Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Markoulli, with a special ceremony to take place on March 27 in the town.
THE split in centre-right DIKO widened yesterday when a second government minister opted to support the party’s rival, DISY candidate Ioannis Kasoulides.
Health Minister Costas Kadis said he would be supporting Kasoulides and not the party’s choice, AKEL candidate Demetris Christofias.
TALK of water transport plans appears to be nothing but hot air.
Only a month ago did the issue briefly resurface, when plans for water transport were leaked to the press by the Minister of Agriculture Fotis Fotiou.
FOLLOWING a meeting between the Mayor of Limassol Andreas Christou and the Director of the Antiquities Department, Pavlos Flourentzos, it was agreed that the Limassol Archaeological Museum in the centre of town would be upgraded and refurbished, while new and never-before-seen exhibits will be added to its collection.
THE CYPRUS Sports Organisation (KOA) has hit back at criticism that it is starving the rugby authorities of funds, leaving both senior and junior national teams unable to compete in international competitions.
TWO cars, belonging to different people, were set on fire while parked outside a house in Limassol yesterday.
The fires broke out at 4.15am and the fire brigade was called in at once. Police officers, including Limassol’s Deputy Police Chief, also arrived at the scene.
IT’S not every day you get an offer of a free VIP ticket to see a Champions League match, in fact it’s never happened before and I doubt it will ever happen again. And it’s not every day that you decide to give it away to a mate. Last weekend, it snowed in Athens. It snowed and it snowed and it snowed.
IT MAY seem ungracious to begrudge Ioannis Kasoulides the support of the Archbishop. With every last vote up for grabs, and with AKEL, DIKO and EDEK, shamelessly recomposing their alliance in a sordid game of musical chairs, here at least was an endorsement that bucked the seemingly irreversible trend towards Demetris Christofias.
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.
