Tales from the Coffeeshop
THE BIG APPLE tour wound up last weekend with the Annual Dinner Dance extravaganza of the Cyprus Federation of America, at which comrade prez was the guest of honour. Despite its title, the bash did not feature any dancing – at least in the footage that we saw on our TV screens last Sunday.
BOTH LEADERS want a solution based on reunification, both leaders say time is of the essence, and both leaders accuse the other of stalling and distorting. So how close are we?
Events in Cyprus down the years have had a tragic impact on a tiny island just seven kilometres from Turkey
Eric Lloyd Wright, grandson of the world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is in Cyprus for a series of lectures. He spoke to Nathan Morley about organic architecture and green building design.)
ERIC Lloyd Wright’s grandfather, Frank Lloyd Wright, was the most celebrated American architect of his time, and one of the outstanding architects of the world in the 20th Century.
THE bodies of 47 of passengers and crew killed in the worst air disaster ever in Cyprus are to be dug up and reburied in a communal grave in Larnaca due to a lack of space.
The graves contain some of the bodies of those killed on board a Globe Air flight which crashed as it attempted to land at Nicosia airport in 1967.
Your letter writer last week (‘Germany shows speed is not the killer’) seems to lack knowledge of the terrain of Cyprus.
I am a German, having driven there for more than 30 years, covering thousands of kilometres. I started driving when I was 15 and have been driving for 54 years – both accident and traffic-fine free.
If the finance minister truly wants to create some worthwhile jobs which would help the environment and the tourist industry, then here’s a plan.
Apart from the cost of changing all the road signs and businesses being put to the expense of printing new stationery, turning Athalassa Avenue into Tassos Papadopoulos Avenue will have no effect on anyone.
Two recent articles (‘Most Turkish Cypriots support a two state solution’, September 10) and (‘The status quo suits everyone just fine’, September 20) only confirms that both Cypriot communities want separation.
The topic which mainly crops up in conversation is the huge problem of litter along the sides of the roads here.
On my recent flight back to the UK, the two ladies I sat next to commented on the rubbish they saw and were extremely disappointed – they mentioned the Akamas area.
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.
