Cyprus just can’t compete

Greece and Cyprus suffer from intense noise pollution that is augmented by the warm atmosphere and hot temperatures during the summer months.

It is pollution at a non-European level that both diminishes tourism and prevents it reaching a higher economic level of visitor.

Terrible roads, abundant litter and garbage, ubiquitous smoking, grating noise, vulgar public chatter and contempt for public order will assure that Greece and Cyprus will always be in competition for a mass tourism at the lower economic  levels.

Peter Kirk,
Messinias, Greece

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.