Linda Ryan is representing Cyprus in the World Bowls Singles Champion of Champions competition, taking place this weekend in Scotland.
Ryan came to live in Paphos in May 2005. She previously lived in the UK, where she bowled for England for four years, as a member of the indoor and outdoor associations.
FOR MOST of us leprosy is up there with plagues of locusts and the Black Death. They all evoke man’s brutal – and all too often brief – existence back in biblical and medieval times. All three belong firmly in the past.
Yet, there are three elderly ladies living a peaceful existence in a home in Larnaca who will tell you otherwise.
As increasing knife crime becomes a major problem for police forces across the EU, the unrestricted sale of knives is enjoying a boom in Cyprus, with virtually all seaside gift shops and kiosks selling some kind of deadly weaponry.
Sir,
Yes, it was a great night for Anorthosis this week and congratulations to all.
However, while watching the match, and looking at the crowd, I noticed there was not one Cypriot flag amongst the so called fans. What’s going on? Are Anorthosis fans ashamed to be Cypriot?
Sir,
Eli Minoff’s suggestions (Sunday Mail, August 24) for stopping the unruly behaviour of Israeli youths in Cyprus – namely that they should either be accompanied by a parent or not allowed entry and be punished with imprisonment when offending – should not be considered by Cypriot authorities.
THE REFUSAL to temporarily open the Limnitis checkpoint is “an unfavourable development that poisons the atmosphere”, the Government spokesman said yesterday.
Stefanos Stefanou was commenting on the Turkish Cypriot leadership’s decision on Friday to refuse Kato Pyrgos residents entry through the Limnitis checkpoint to attend an organised pilgrimage to Ayios Mamas in Morphou.
FARMERS have challenged the results of recent tests by the State Lab that indicated aflatoxin levels over the permissible limits in fresh milk dairy farms in Larnaca on Friday.
A MAN accused of raping his teenage daughter on a building site has been sent straight to trial by Nicosia District Court.
The 36-year-old father from Nicosia has been charged with raping his daughter twice over the past month, once at home and again on a deserted building site.
FOR THE first time since the disastrous Burgenstock lock-in four years ago, the leaders of the two communities will sit down for fully fledged negotiations this Wednesday.
OVER THE YEARS, we have come to associate Cypriot farmers with aggressive behaviour, disruptive protests and constant demands for state funds. Always pandered to by vote-hungry politicians, the farming community has acquired a reputation as a collection of selfish scroungers who consider it their right to be compensated by the state when things do not go well.
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.
