WE WOULD like to convey to all our regulars, rather belatedly, our best wishes for a happy, productive, exciting, intellectually stimulating, sexually active year full of love and joy. You may have noticed that we diplomatically omitted the stock adjective ‘prosperous’ in case some readers thought we were having a laugh at their expense.
FACED WITH mounting criticism over falling living standards and a lack of progress on a solution to the Cyprus problem and EU membership, the Turkish Cypriot ‘government’ called a snap general election on Monday, prompting fears that a change in leadership in the north could further hamper efforts to reunite the island.
FOR a brief period in the 1980s Derek Hatton was arguably the most famous left-wing politician in Britain, best remembered as a firebrand socialist when he was deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in 1985.
ANYONE WHO’S been to the archaeological site at Kalavasos-Tenta will know that a group of people gave up their nomadic lifestyle to settle there some 9,000 years ago.
They didn’t know it at the time, but this community of pioneers developed an original civilisation called the Cypriote Aceramic Neolithic.
FINDING A resolution to the Cyprus problem by the end of 2009 will depend on the stance held by Turkey and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, President Demetris Christofias said on Friday.
Sir,
I have read much in your paper recently about the dwindling number of tourists visiting your beautiful island and many reasons have been put forward as to why this is happening.
May I give you one very strong reason for tourists being driven away.
Sir,
I was intrigued to see the above headline in the Cyprus Mail (January 1, 2009). I smiled to myself at how the mighty have almost fallen.
I am a citizen of the Irish Republic who visits Cyprus four times a year. Eurocypria fly from Dublin to Larnaca but do you think I can go online and book myself a return flight? Not on your Nelly.
Sir,
As happens every year, heated altercations are breaking out in our village square and tavernas on this vexed subject.
Who is eligible? Who is not? Why are there several lists doing the rounds? Many thought the allowance had something to do with winter or heating or both. The truth is not a bit of it.
Sir,
What is going on out here? The prices are just rising all the time and if it carries on like this, I feel most British expats will be returning to the UK as they cannot afford to live out here.
Can I please point out that today we purchased six items of groceries from E&S. The cost of these items came to €56.94.
Sir,
I am glad that Chris Christofi (Do Turkish Cypriots need a lawyer? Sunday Mail, January 4) has responded to my theoretical “marriage by force” concept. I am also glad that he came up with some kind of a “union” concept; although, with all due respect to Chris, I found your presentation somewhat incoherent.
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.
