Born a lonely, only child Andreas Antoniou was determined to have a large family and put them first. The rewards have been tremendous
TO SOME Andreas Antoniou was an accountant for a property company. To others he was the UK’s top salesman of the year when he worked at Dun and Bradstreet. To dozens of pensioners he was the director of an old people’s home.
Developer accused of not honouring contract
A MAN waiting 13 years for his title deeds has claimed the developer is “fobbing him off” by promising an end in sight to the saga.
The hairdresser who was forced to flee to Cyprus
Forty-year-old Marika believes she is just one of many Bulgarian women who have been forced to find employment in Cyprus after having lost everything to the mafia in her own home country.
“I used to have four hairdressing salons in Sofia and then from one day to the next I had nothing,” she said.
THE MAYOR of Ayia Napa is cooperating with local police in a bid to prevent violence between British gangs from spilling on to the streets of the resort this summer.
THE GREEK Cypriot side has its own views on the issue of Turkish settlers in the occupied areas and has plans to put them forward, President Demetris Christofias has said.
A LOCAL winery has continued its success story of the past decade, taking the first major gold medal for its Commandaria wine at the recent Cyprus Wine Competition in Paphos.
Saint Barnabas 2004 by Sodap came out on top over 160 wines.
YERMASOYIA will keep alive an ancient tradition when it celebrates the coming of spring with its annual two day Flower Festival next weekend.
THE GOVERNMENT this week announced major infrastructure work to improve public transport in Nicosia. The measures include a €3.3 million revamp of the woeful central bus station at Solomou Square, as well as the inclusion of special bus lanes on new avenues in the capital.
Isabella’s ramblings
Why are men so predictable? I wish for once I could meet a man who takes me by surprise and shows me that confident, uncomplicated, decent ones do exist. Instead, all my friends and I seem to meet is one insecure, feeble, spineless wimp after another.
DUBLIN IS on fire. The city is pumping more barrels of energy per day than Venezuela spends on petro-diplomacy. The bars and restaurants are packed seven days a week while hotels and hostels hang up NO VACANCY signs at the weekends. And it’s not just tourists that come out to play.
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.
