A scuttled car ferry has put Cyprus on top of Europe’s best dive list
IN RECENT years scuba diving has swam to the top of the league when it comes to recreational sports making it a lucrative market that, perhaps surprisingly, Cyprus has the chance to tap.
Tom McGuinness of Manfred Mann: the Sixties icon who can’t stop playing)
“THE closest I’ve ever been to Cyprus was hearing ‘Akrotiri Calling’ on Two Way Family Favourites in the sixties,” joked rocker Tom McGuinness, who is in Cyprus next month for a one-off concert with The Manfreds.
FOR 21-year-old Hara Pipitsouli, summer 2009 has provided her with a life-changing experience in the West Bank where she was involved in a project rebuilding Palestinian homes demolished by the Israeli Authorities.
The project, organised by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), brings together volunteer workers from around the world.
JAMES BOND’S latest onscreen nemesis in the recent Quantum of Solace just so happens to be a dark and dashingly handsome Cypriot bloke who goes by the name of Simon Kassianides.
THE COALITION rift appeared to be widening yesterday with hidden innuendo disguised behind calls for cooperation from both ruling AKEL and partner DIKO.
Despite holding two high-level fence-mending meetings during the week, it is clear that behind the pubic smiles, the issues have remained unresolved.
Vryssoules, Famagusta District, August 2009. A bird hangs high from a bamboo pole above a shack in an orchard. At first sight, it looks like a crow. But it isn’t. It is a globally threatened species, the Roller, Coracias garrulus. This is a bird strictly protected across the EU, and in Cyprus too, at least on paper.
I am trying to trace my cousin, John Anthony Doyle, who recently re-located to Cyprus with his family.
It’s important John contact his family back in Scotland immediately. Unfortunately we have no address in Cyprus.
Full name: John Anthony Doyle
DoB: 6/9/1966, East Kilbride, Scotland
Wife Carol, daughter Amy,
Please contact family back home immediately
It is very interesting that the leeches of the government employees are saying that they should not be affected by the current economic crisis (‘Keep your hands off CoLA’, Cyprus Mail, August 20).
They suggest that the self-employed doctors, lawyers, etc., should be targeted by the government.
Mr AP Loizou’s rant in your Letters page (August 15) has the hallmarks of a very confused soul.
Skipping over the scare tactics and incitement to violence implicit in his glorification of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ and the anti-Arab riots in Cyprus in 1988, those comments alone must have snuffed out any revival of the property market in Cyprus…
Gwynne Dyer’s opinion ‘Shackled to the warlords’ (Cyprus Mail, August 18) is the kind of non-opinion that I used to hear from the local barber, who would often lament that people should mind their own business and stay out of trouble.
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.
