OPENING a lap-dancing club in Paphos must have seemed a good idea at the time. It’s is a massive business in Europe, it’s less tacky than Cyprus-style cabarets, and there’s a big British market to tap which is perhaps more comfortable with this type of titillation.
IT’S A little known fact that there at least 50 species of edible mushrooms growing in Cyprus. Unfortunately, there are a similar number of toxic ones.
But help is at hand for the growing numbers of enthusiastic mushroom-pickers who seek to sort the mycological wheat from the chaff in the form of the Cyprus Mycological Association (CMA).
The current events in old Nicosia bring to mind the 1981 Brixton Riots in South London, where I was doing voluntary community work, thus having first-hand knowledge of that situation.
Your piece ‘What about cremation?’ within the story about the Mavrou grave scandal (October 8) shows yet again the necessity for a crematorium in Cyprus.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandeou is absolutely right in saying that both Greece and Turkey must free Cyprus from ‘Motherlands’ etc.
Nothing will work until Cypriots – Greek and Turkish – class themselves as Cypriots first.
Several articles lately have been critical of the Cyprus NHS. I would like to share my experience with them.
My wife recently had a serious operation at the Cardiovascular Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital.
With reference to the comment by V. Anastasiou concerning the old Nicosia General Hospital printed in the Sunday Mail (October 11), I would like to add my voice to that of my much respected colleague.
Watching the CyBC broadcaster Yiannakis Nicolaou express ridicule at the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the US President Barack Obama made me sick.
The gentleman in question has a very bad habit of letting his personal feelings, which are typical of a provincial and not well informed person, get in the way of his job of reporting events.
I would like to draw your attention to the practice I have noticed happening at the GSP Stadium during the APOEL Nicosia’s football games – the display of a big banner stating ‘Cyprus is Greek’.
LARNACA’S Civil Defence force is this week hosting a series of seminars and training events for Cypriot, Greek and Lebanese rescue groups, culminating in an epic simulated disaster on Sunday night.
The venture aims to prepare international civil defence groups for joint humanitarian operations, in the event of a natural disasters or hostilities.
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.
