YOU HAD to admire the assertive way our comrade Presidente accosted President Obama last Sunday in Prague. As world leaders prepared for the obligatory family, he headed straight towards Obama, shook his hand and like some time-share salesman started talking to him.
PRIVATE doctors said last week they had been unfairly lambasted in the press for
favouring C-sections over natural births. Recent reports of doctors “blackmailing” women into booking their delivery at convenient times prompted outpourings of outrage from women, government health authorities and lawmakers.
AGGRESSIVE time-share touts have resorted to hassling guests inside top-class hotels along the Paphos seafront in a desperate attempt to drum up new business.
FOR NEAR half a century, Cypriots have been hearing in one shape or form about the chasm that exists between the two communities on the island. Are things about to change and if so, why aren’t we hearing more about it?
FOR Paphos-based Frances Heyward Easter is one of the busiest times of the year, and it all comes down to chocolate.
‘Fr-Ocolates’, the 50-year-old’s range of handmade chocolates, has proved to be a year-round winner for the ex licensee of a Windsor wine bar in the UK, who moved to Paphos four years ago.
TWO young boys were yesterday arrested on suspicion of using deadly lasers to blind a police helicopter pilot while he was flying over Limassol on Thursday night.
Police said the two 14-year-olds had been charged in writing and released.
A GREEK Cypriot soldier could have provoked a military crisis when he foolishly crept across the buffer zone, tore down a Turkish flag and stole military equipment from an unmanned Turkish army barracks, the government said yesterday.
Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou was extremely critical of the act and said the soldier’s actions were “of concern” and “condemnable”.
AFTER two years of work perfecting a Cyprus-specific search engine, a Paphos-based company is launching yasmos.com, a website described as the Cypriot version of Google. The search engine aims to create an online community resource for locals and visitors where any Cyprus-related information is readily available, including information, news, entertainment, services or products.
SPEAKING on the eve of Barack Obama’s recent trip to Turkey, House President Marios Garoyian said Cyprus needed to take the US President’s visit “very seriously”. “Turkey remains important as ever to US geopolitical interests, and it will take a lot of hard work, both by the Cypriot and Greek governments, to make the most of our influence within the United States,” he said.
SOME BANKS are now charging customers to keep money in their accounts – can you believe it?
Money has suddenly become a liability – so much of it floating about and nobody wants it. Investors are running scared and hanging on to what’s left of their dosh in the hope banks will start lending again and interest rates will rise.
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.
