ON FRIDAY, April 23, 1999 Matt Plested was looking forward to the weekend, the last one before he married his fiancée the following Saturday.
A bit overweight at 92kg, Matt returned home from his job as an account manager that Friday evening full of the joys of life and looked forward to the next day, when he would be heading into Reading to buy his best man’s gift.
SITTING picturesquely in the foreground of Cape Greco, pulsating with sound, bursting with life, running on alcohol; Ayia Napa is an odd place not because of its humble origins as a fishing village, nor because of the fact that the most influential catalyst in its development has been its nightlife.
Ayia Napa is strange because despite being peddled as a cradle of vice, noticeably sterile of any cultural idiosyncrasy, it still manages to attract a mystifying assortment of families, louts and fashion-conscious youth from northern Europe, the Middle East and Cyprus itself.
RICCOS Beach café in Yeroskipou is still standing after earning an eleventh-hour reprieve when bulldozers came flatten the popular beach café a year ago.
Riccos, whose real name is Andreas Xenofontos, told the Sunday Mail, “As long as I have breath in my body, Riccos will be here and will be open for everyone to enjoy.”
IT’S A writing competition, but it’s no ordinary competition. It’s twelve books, but they’re not ordinary books. This is new media, embracing old-school serialised fiction and throwing it everything into the reality ring.
Sound confusing? It is to begin with but once you get the bug, a new form of web-based novella writing becomes quite addictive.
I read with incredulity an article in your August 12 edition regarding the suggestion that a leading psychiatrist Yiangos Mikellides should be investigated over his views on the National Guard.
Whilst there might be a conflict of interest at stake, the notion that he should be silenced for stating the blindingly obvious – an opinion which so many would agree with –is ludicrous.
I was interested to read your journalist, Daniel Thomas’s article on the Co-proxamol (dextropropoxyphene) ban in the Cyprus Mail (‘Painkillers to be withdrawn from the market’, July 2009).
I have read with alarm Mr Antonis Loizou’s increasingly inflammatory remarks in the Cyprus press over recent months. He claims to be arguing for less ‘them and us’, more sensitivity towards local Cypriot interests and avoidance of antagonising Cypriots.
I welcome the Ombudswoman’s recommendations to the Interior Ministry regarding their role in legislating to ensure the equal treatment of gay and lesbian citizens and residents of Cyprus.
It has not gone unnoticed that a few years ago the government reluctantly agreed to introduce legislation to decriminalise sexual relationships between consenting adults of the same sex.
Referring to Mr Solomon’s article (‘Why in God’s name are we over there?’, Sunday Mail, August 2), referring to Afghan and the billions it costs to run a modern war, I would take this one step further.
I am sick and tired of listening to whinging Brits who can’t think of anything positive to say about the island they voluntarily chose to migrate to!
It’s ‘Cyprus this’ and Cypriots that’… for God’s sake! If you don’t like it, what are you doing here? From the sound of it, it seems you were sooo much happier in good ’ole Blighty, why did you ever consider leaving it?
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.
