Tales from the coffeeshop by Patrolcos
WE ALWAYS knew that comrade presidente desperately wants to be loved, which may explain why he tries so hard to be all things to all patriots.
THERE’S no doubt that President Demetris Christofias struck a raw nerve when he berated the tourist industry for failing to match the state’s investment in the industry with a corresponding move on prices that would make the service they offered more attractive in a time of crisis.
“…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily” Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
A permaculture garden in Filani shows how to meld nature, agriculture and human settlement
DR EMILY Markides throws her arms wide and welcomes us with a grin, beads of perspiration dotting her face. We have just arrived at Markides’ ‘fruit forest’, a permaculture project garden near Filani, half an hour’s drive from central Nicosia.
A&G PROPERTY Wise Development Ltd (A&G), the company operating the Froiber brand in Cyprus, will be liquidated on 17 July for repeated failure to make employer’s social security contributions.
THE AGRICULTURE and Education Ministries are set to deliver free fruit and vegetables to primary school pupils in Cyprus.
The programme, which will be enforced in the coming school year, will run throughout the EU under a scheme to tackle childhood obesity and promote healthy eating.
A CANCER patient whose condition is growing worse by the day is desperately awaiting the arrival of a drug she hopes will help, but which hasn’t yet been approved by the Pharmaceutical Services.
The multiple myeloma sufferer has been told by Nicosia Hospital’s Haematology Department that the drug Revlimid may help her condition, which recently regressed.
THE Agriculture Minister plans to submit a proposal to the Cabinet requesting a ban on circuses that use wild animals in their shows.
Minister Michalis Polynikis said he had reached this decision after realising the methods used to train these animals to do their various tricks “verged on the barbaric”.
DEPUTY Attorney-general Akis Papasavvas yesterday reiterated that former police chief Iacovos Papacostas’ criminal prosecution regarding the Antonis Prokopiou Kitas debacle had never been on the cards.
A BRITISH couple looking forward to their dream wedding in Cyprus have been left devastated after their holiday villa was robbed of valuables – including their wedding rings.
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.
