THE MINISTER with the highest public approval rating, according to a monumentally meaningless survey published in last Sunday’s Phil, is foreign minister Marcos Kyprianou. Bottom of the ministerial hit parade is Education Minister Andreas Demetriou.
A PAPHOS man aims to cycle from Kato Pyrgos to Deryneia in May, raising €10,000 for charity, and he hopes the event will become an annual event by next year.
Paul Clarke praised the response from the public, which he said has already been overwhelming.
Mixed picture for local wedding industry
A slow economy can stop many things, but if local wedding companies are to be believed, it’s not deterring thousands of British couples who are planning to fly to Cyprus this summer to walk down the aisle.
CYPRUS is ranked in the top three wedding destinations for British couples marrying abroad with around five thousand British couples getting married here each year. Paphos has scooped up nearly 40 per cent of those weddings, and despite the financial downturn, bookings have so far held reasonably steady for 2009.
THE ULTRASOUND machine at the gynaecology ward at Limassol General Hospital has been broken for an unbelievable 16 months, forcing pregnant women to either go private or travel to Paphos hospital for scans.
And it’s not only pregnant women who are affected.
POLICE at Larnaca Airport’s passport control are seldom shocked by the lengths some people will go to in order to pass themselves off as someone else.
But even they were taken by surprise last week when a Pakistani man dyed his hair blonde and powdered his face in an attempt to pass off as his Bulgarian friend whose ID card he had stolen.
CYPRIOTS may be political animals par excellence, but when it comes to the European Parliament elections, they buck the trend and say: je m’en fous?
Should we care about the euro elections which will be held on June 6? Most definitely so, says Phedon Nicolaides, a professor at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht.
Why do the Euro-elections leave us cold?
Rising degree of abstention from electoral politics generally:
HELPLINE counsellors are being recruited to take calls from children in yet another initiative to crackdown down on unsafe internet use.
The Pancyprian Co-ordinating Committee for the Protection and Welfare of Children (PCCPWC) in collaboration wit the CyberEthics project is looking for operators for its Safer Internet Helpline for Children.
DIKO leader Marios Garoyian was yesterday re-elected party chairman for a further four-year term.
The announcement was made at the start of the Democratic Party’s electoral congress at Nicosia’s Hilton Park.
Garoyian, who was elected in 2006 after former President Tassos Papadopoulos stepped down, was unopposed.
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.
