‘Everyone has forgotten us’

2009-08-15

RELATIVES of those who tragically lost their lives in the Helios air crash mourned their loved ones yesterday, four years on from the worst aviation disaster in Cyprus history.

Making a lot of assumptions

2009-08-15

In response to a letter from Mr A.P. Loizou published on August 9, reading between the lines, I suspect the author to be none other than Mr Antonis Loizou of real estate fame, and therefore seriously connected to and in favour of major developers throughout Cyprus.

Not all critics of Cyprus are Turkish spies

2009-08-15

I am shocked by the content of Mr Loizou’s letter, presumably addressed to me. I find his content myopic, xenophobic, hypocritical and worst of all, racist.

I have lived in 27 countries – not just the UK – and only in Cyprus is there no absolute title with property ownership. Maybe Mr Loizou should check his facts outside this tiny Island state as well as his tiny island brain.

Freedom of speech is EU guaranteed

2009-08-15

Once again a foreigner dares to legitimately criticise the Cypriot Government/President/People and he is invited to leave Shangri La? (A.P. Loizou’s letter Sunday Mail August 9) “I wonder why Mr Davis who says he lives in Droushia does not emigrate to another country”

So much for the Cypriot sense of fair play

2009-08-15

With regards Mr Loizou’s article (Sunday Mail August 9) titled “Time to stop the ‘them and us’ rhetoric”, in which he claims Enoch Powell was chairman of the Conservative party in 1988. In fact Enoch Powell had not been a member of the conservative party for over a decade in 1988; the chairman at the time was Peter Brooke.

Local sensitivities must be taken into account

2009-08-15

I refer to your issue of July 19, in which you published a letter by a certain [unknown] person using the initials A.W. (I choose to call him Mr Mystery), from Larnaca.

This letter referred to an article of mine published in your paper on July 12 on ‘misinformation’.

British buyers should not be treated as ‘cash cows’

2009-08-15

May I take the opportunity to reply to Mr Loizou’s rather rambling letter (Sunday Mail August 9). It mentions the “Us and them” but he himself has commented on how the Brits should behave whilst in their ‘host’ country with regard to respect.

Well may I point out that if the Brits have settled in Cyprus and pay their taxes this is ‘their’ home as much as his.

The truth about the hell at Djiaos

2009-08-15

FOR A WHOLE week now the public has been blitzed with information and witness testimony about the five National Guardsmen, who were photographed alive after being captured by Turkish soldiers and who went missing ever since. The average Joe has been stumped by this welter of statements, testimonies and interviews by the protagonists. But what really happened back in 1974?

Cyprus marks 35th anniversary of second invasion

2009-08-15

CYPRUS marked the 35th anniversary of Turkey’s second offensive against the island yesterday.

On the August 14, 1974, Turkish troops expanded their occupation to include the tourist resort of Famagusta in the east and the rich citrus-growing area of Morphou in the west. In total, almost 37 per cent of the island ended up under Turkish occupation.

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.