Vicky from da block

2009-07-26

The daughter of disgraced Tory MP Jonathan Aitken, who was famously jailed for perjury, is in Cyprus celebrating her new found pop-fame. )

Does national service make a man of you?

2009-07-26

Proving ground or breeding ground for psychological problems?

Contrasting views on the value of national service

RICH, POOR, tall, short, cerebral or intellectually unaware, for decades now thousands of young men have had to share the same experience at the peak of their adolescence; conscription in the National Guard.

Turkish Cypriot passes bar exam of Republic

2009-07-26

Lawyer is only second from north to do so since 1974

A TURKISH Cypriot lawyer passed his Cyprus Bar examinations last week, making him only the second Turkish Cypriot to pass since 1974.

Murat Hakki, 27, was one of five Turkish Cypriots who sat the exams last June in the Turkish language but the only one who passed.

No cause for alarm

2009-07-26

ALMOST 70 per cent of people injured through accidental falls are over the age of 64, and in the UK alone 1,500 older people die in this way each year.

Taxis cannot have airport route monopoly

2009-07-26

TAXI drivers held a 24-hour strike this week, temporarily blocking access to the island’s airports and ports in protest at the ‘unfair’ competition they claim is driving them out of business.

Home alone

2009-07-26

Moving out of the family home and into your own flat can be an unnerving, but ultimately satisfying experience finds ZOE CHRISTODOULIDES )

Limassol becomes the backdrop

2009-07-26

The annual Summer Dance Festival sees performances take place in the strangest places around Limassol town. DARA MILOVANOVIC-MICHAEL reports

Originally setting out as a dance festival taking place in and around Limassol’s Medieval castle, the annual Summer Dance Festival now takes in much of the old town.

Dancing on the sand

2009-07-26

Finally beach culture has been taken up a notch in Paphos. Sometimes slow to catch on, the coastal town is emerging as a ‘happening place’ for the under 45s to spend time this summer says BEJAY BROWNE

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.