BBC has lost its good name

2008-11-07

Sir,
I write in response to the article by Nathan Morley in last Friday’s issue of Cyprus Mail (‘The BBC needs stars like Brand’).

The ongoing furore concerning Messrs Ross and Brand looks like running out of steam. Lacking real talent, these yobbish, middle aged ‘lads’ ought to know better, but for some reason, they think it’s OK to insult decent people in public.

What’s left when even the dancers are called off?

2008-11-07

Sir,
I would like to voice my concern relating to the decline in tourism.

Whilst visiting a favourite restaurant, Melitzia in Tala, I was horrified to find out that the weekly Cypriot dancing has had to be cancelled due to complaints from a very misguided few.

Can Cyprus be saved from itself?

2008-11-07

Sir,

Working in industry we had two main customers on which the company relied for its very existence.  These companies were wined and dined, and looked after like Royalty, with direct access to the MD if they had any problems. They were, after all, our ‘life-blood’.

Obama fever hits the press

2008-11-07

OBAMA FEVER has hit Cypriot press, as daily papers across the island are spreading the news that Obama will change the world.

Stocks plunge nine per cent

2008-11-07

STOCKS plunged almost nine per cent yesterday, shaving off this week’s gains in the second consecutive negative session.

The Cyprus Stock Exchange general index dropped back to 1,525 from 1,700 on Tuesday.

Trading opened at 1,600, the highest level hit during yesterday’s session and stayed in the red throughout.

Bank of Cyprus profits up despite the crunch

2008-11-07

BANK of Cyprus nine month net profit edged up 1 per cent to €375 million, the island’s largest lender said yesterday, as it was largely shielded from the global economic crisis.  

Bank of Cyprus said it still expected to meet its net profit guidance for 2008 of €540 million and was proposing a €0.15 dividend to shareholders.  

‘Throw away the history books’

2008-11-07

THE LEADER of the Orthodox flock in Cyprus will ask school children to throw away their history books if he feels they have been distorted, the primate warned yesterday.

State still has a lot to do to improve attitudes on human rights

2008-11-07

DESPITE marked progress in the state administrative machine, there’s still a lot to be done to improve attitudes toward human rights and treatment of foreigners.

That was a preliminary conclusion that could be gleaned from the Ombudswoman’s latest report, submitted yesterday.

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.