OUR MOLE at the palazzo informed us that comrade presidente’s face turned his favourite colour and smoke was coming out of his ears when he was told how Al Capone had got away from three (it became four in the cop chief’s second version of the great escape) police cars which had tried to ambush him on Stassicratous Street.
According to a report released in March by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS), almost two per cent of female students in Nicosia aged between 18 and 24 have suffered date rape.
For many commentators, Papadopoulos’ role in EOKA, his work in setting up the Republic and his ultra-successful law practice all pale in to near insignificance when compared to his stand on the Annan Plan )
IN A pensive mood once, Tassos Papadopoulos told fellow a DIKO member: “Our generation will come and go. But what we do today will echo on future generations.”
POLICE continued with their islandwide manhunt for escaped rapist and killer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas yesterday, carrying out a large scale operation around Nicosia.
Officers from the anti-terrorist unit, the riot squad MMAD, the crime prevention unit and the CID, with ordinary police officers, scoured Mammari village in the early hours
Sir,
My family is on this poster, and I am an employee of the European Parliament with a soft spot for Cyprus. I got to know the island when I first visited it with the ALDE Liberal group (currently Mr. Matsakis’ group) in 1996, long before Cyprus joined the EU.
Sir,
Of course it was sad that Mr Papadopoulos lost his fight with cancer last weekend, but it is a fact that this is a battle many have lost, including children, which is more tragic.
Sir,
I think that the so-called Public Holiday (when only government employees get the day off, not the public) declared for the day of the funeral of ex-President Tassos Papadopoulos, proved the point of my letter a few weeks ago that government offices should be moved out of Nicosia.
Sir,
In reference to the paper’s editorial last Thursday (‘The purpose of Christmas lights is misunderstood’), I think the author can forget about Christmas stockings this year. With the global downturn and everything, I’m afraid Santa’s got cuts to make and the author’s chimney is first to go.
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.
