JUST WEEKS before opening officially, the new Larnaca airport held trials last week using volunteer passengers to test the readiness of the new establishment before it goes “live” on November 10.
Statistics
Research has shown that it takes on average 35 beatings before a woman seeks help.
One in three women who arrive at inner city A&E departments has suffered domestic abuse, according to the journal of Emergency Medicine.
Police reports show that two women are killed by a partner or ex partner every week of the year.
New book calls for separate states as preferable to ‘disastrous’ bizonal bicommunal federation
A DETAILED argument in favour of partition is the theme of a book published last month by Greek Cypriot Dr Takis Georgiou, except nowhere in the pages of Plan B is the word ‘partition’ explicitly mentioned in any positive light.
IN A perfect solution to the Cyprus problem, all refugees would be allowed to return to their homes; Turkish troops and settlers would leave Cyprus; no one would have the right to forcibly intervene under the guise of restoring order and there would be a truly egalitarian democracy.
THIS year the easy empire launched its first budget flights from London to Cyprus, shortly followed by the first Cypriot Easyhotel in May.
The 56 room hotel is a five minute stroll from Larnaca’s Phoinikoudes beach and 15 minutes drive from the airport. With a 4am flight the next day, it seemed the perfect starting point for long weekend.
The rows of headstones at the British Military Cemetery in Dhekelia tells a story of heartache for young parents in the 1960s
I find few places more serenely poignant than graveyards, and Dhekelia Military Cemetery was no exception.
GREEK PRIME Minister George Papandreou’s flash visit to Istanbul on Friday injected a breath of fresh air to the worn down Greco-Turkish relations, ten years on from rapprochement, and to the regional handling of the Cyprus problem by the two NATO enemies.
I have no interest in PrimeTel but it seems absurd to me that the Yeroskipou villagers are trying to force a company to abandon an investment that will help Cyprus and lose money – out of complete naivety that the value of their land will depreciate.
I am from Russia and have long retired here, and have learnt to understand and speak a little Greek and English. When I go shopping, I hear the talk of local people, English tourists and retired residents. I am constantly surprised to hear that the locals have no respect for the English, and often see them charged much more – often double –for the same shopping items.
Following the interesting article on hypnosis as an anti-smoking therapy, I can confirm how very successful it can be. I and several friends and relatives have given up because of it.
However, it might be useful for your readers to know that there is a very much cheaper way than consulting a therapist.
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.
