Silly season kicks off in style

2009-07-12

PSYCHOLOGISTS and behavioural scientists one day might be interested to study the lunacy cycle of our House of Representatives.

Can Cypriots and nicotine really part company?

2009-07-12

SO THAT’S that, it’s official. Parliament has passed the law that will see the smoky interiors of clubs and cafés, police stations and mechanics’ garages becoming relegated to the memory warehouse of Cyprus’ collective consciousness.

When Ari met Ali

2009-07-12

Stelios Award networking event helps break down barriers

AFTER a few months of press adverts and enquiries, the Stelios Award for Business Cooperation in Cyprus moved to the next level last Monday, when entrepreneurs from both sides of the Green Line attended a networking event hosted by British High Commissioner Peter Millett.

Great concert, woeful directions

2009-07-12

I arrived in Cyprus on Monday for five days business in Limassol. I noticed from Cyprus Airways’ in-flight magazine that the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra was playing that week in Larnaca and Nicosia.

Euro is a great equaliser

2009-07-12

Mr Virides is entirely correct in his analysis of Cyprus as a holiday destination (Letters, July 2). What he has omitted, as have numerous others, is the basic fact that as Cyprus voted to become EU members and consequently adopted the euro.

Cyprus is small, Luxembourg is smaller

2009-07-12

To those who think that a division of Cyprus is unfeasible, think again. Aysu Basri Akter who writes about a public opinion poll which was conducted by the Cyprus social and economic research centre (KADEM), concluded that the Turkish Cypriots in the north are 78,000 and the overall population is over 320,000.

Title deeds poses a twin-edged sword

2009-07-12

There was a legal inaccuracy in a recent report about A&G’s forthcoming liquidation when your reporter wrote that all owners were now unsecured creditors.

State’s flawed plans to fix title deeds mess

2009-07-12

It was suggested in a recent edition of the Sunday Mail that one way of solving the title deed fiasco was for the government to issue deeds to the lawful occupiers to raise €5bn with this money, in part then being used to write off the €4bn of toxic debt held by developers.

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.