THE government yesterday gave its full backing to the Attorney-general regarding his announcement last week to criminally prosecute five Justice Ministry officials over the Antonis Prokopiou Kitas fiasco.
When I read ‘Cyprus may host Indian aluminium plant’ (Sunday Mail, June 7), I thought the paper had printed an April Fool joke by mistake.
No wonder the tourists numbers are down when those ‘lovely’ taxi drivers at Paphos airport can commit daylight robbery €85 to Coral Bay with four passengers during the daytime.
The CTO should have a notice board displaying taxi charges to various parts of the island.
With all this talk about the need to go green, I think they are severely missing something – especially when it comes to renewable energy sources.
Through your columns I would like to express my thanks to my neighbour Marcos, in Paradise Gardens 3E when my wife had a distressing fall at 2am in our flat a couple of weeks ago. Without his help, I would never have been able to call the Ambulance Service, the Fire Service or get to Paphos General Hospital A&E.
In reference to the recent letter on title deeds by Paphos lawyer Savvas Savvides (Letters, June 7), Mr Savvides’ emphasis on the Cyprus courts as the logical route for redress and the Law of Cyprus being ‘a higher authority than the government’ requires comment.
I HAVE THE impression that Alexander Downer is unaware that for the last two years, American stretch limousines are being imported into Cyprus for newlyweds to rent as transport during their wedding.
So what do luxury limos have to do with Mr Downer and the work he was assigned to do by the Secretary General of the United Nations?
Below is the gist of an e-mail I sent my wife. She doesn’t live here yet as she still has not retired.
“I took today off to fish the Evretou dam just a few miles from Polis. It’s a dam I’ve wanted to fish for some time but I have to say now after going, it wasn’t worth it.
THE HEAD of the H1N1 virus task force yesterday called on the media to show more responsibility in reporting on the pandemic after the number of confirmed cases in Cyprus reached four at the weekend.
Dr Chrystalla Hadjianastasiou accused the media of inaccurate and overzealous news reporting which harmed the economy and tourism of the country.
Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis spoke bluntly yesterday about what has been done and what needs to be done to sort out the title deeds situation.
“We do not have a magic wand which we can wave in order to solve the problem just like that, especially when we are dealing with problems of omission and oversight that have been piling up over decades”, he said.
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