ONCE THE people, who have been protesting against the acquittal of the 10 cops by the criminal court, end their campaign against the judges they could buy a few bunches of bananas and head to the Attorney-general’s office.
In 2008 paying a monthly rent of 800 euro rent was the equivalent of 571 pounds sterling. Now it’s 747 pounds sterling
Savings before the economic downturn were giving a return of five to six per cent, now they are around 0.5 or one per cent.
UNTIL one day in February, the highlight of Andreas’ week was to attend an away game of his football team, Omonia.
“You make a day out of it. You might go for lunch first and then go and spend a few hours watching the team you love play,” the 23-year-old said.
IT’S NO overstatement to say that both staff and patients of the old Nicosia hospital couldn’t wait to abandon the rundown building opposite the House of Representatives for the more comfy, spacious new buildings in Athalassa.
WHEN IT comes to foreign investment anything remotely positive is talked up to the maximum. Over the years this has resulted in a succession of potential or actual foreign investors being saluted in turn as the “next big thing” for our economy.
CYPRUS will come under US scrutiny if we succeed in our bid to entice Iranians to enter our international business and property sectors in a big way.
A HIGH-RANKING Cypriot commerce and tourism delegation returned from Iran in jubilant mood this month. It trumpeted the Islamic Republic as a rich new market that would jet in the tourists and property-buyers we desperately need now that interest is plummeting from cash-strapped Britain, our no longer quite so dependable cash cow.
DOCTORS from Limassol Hospital, accused by a Lebanese patient of racism, told the Sunday Mail the man should learn Greek if he wanted to be treated by them.
Three rousing cheers for the Attorney General’s courageous defiance of the court over its failure to accept the video taped evidence of vicious, criminal assaults by ten cops on two helpless students.
Now that the building boom in Cyprus is grinding to a halt, it may be a good time for the Government to take stock of the current situation and legislate as necessary to avoid progressing much further with the types of mistake that have already been made elsewhere in Europe.
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.
