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Well Andy Murray didn’t win but he really didn’t need to apologise for not winning when half the country wanted him to lose anyway! And if it makes him feel any better, I am sure his mum reassured him that he did lose to possibly the world’s greatest ever tennis player, playing on top form, so fair enough. Maybe next time………I enjoyed watching the match twice. Once in the morning, which was very stressful and once in the evening just to enjoy the tennis, particularly the third set. The tennis was exquisite but Murray’s inability to convert five set points was no less frustrating the second time round. But I really felt for him when he cried.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday it was time for a Cyprus solution as he urged the leaders to find the courage needed to do so.
“For decades, the world has heard about the Cyprus problem. Now is the time for the Cyprus solution,” Ban said at a joint news conference with President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday afternoon.
“We will need even more courage and determination in the period ahead to bring these talks to a successful conclusion. No one is under the illusion that any of this is easy. Peace negotiations never are.”
WHEN THE news that the UN Secretary-General was to visit Cyprus were announced we expressed the hope that his presence would give a fresh impetus to the talks which had been moving at a snail’s pace. Perhaps he would persuade the two leaders to show a greater sense of urgency in the talk or help them bridge the outstanding differences in the governance and power-sharing chapter, which has taken up 16 months of negotiations and remains open.
THERE IS no doubt that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s arrival injected a dose of enthusiasm to the peace process which until now has displayed symptoms of a heavily sedated patient; sometimes dull, often grave and always depressed.
It’s too early to tell what kind of an impact his visit will have on the talks, but from his brief stay, one got a sense that his wings were clipped by the convoluted dynamics of the peace process.
POLITICAL parties expressed outrage yesterday at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat at the ‘presidential office’ of the breakaway regime.
In a sign of protest at the UN chief’s “faux pas”, four parties – DIKO, EDEK, the European Party and the Greens – boycotted a reception held last night with Ban as the guest of honour. The reception, at the Ledra Palace Hotel in the buffer zone, was attended by representatives of civil society Non-governmental organisations and the diplomatic community.
The reaction was lightning-fast, the offended parties calling news conferences within an hour or so of Ban’s meeting with Talat.
AT LEAST one group of people looked over the moon about the UN Secretary General’s visit yesterday and they wore light blue berets. The UN soldiers seemed delighted with the fact that something was actually happening. More elbow work went into polishing shoes, uniforms were starched as the usually bored-looking UN soldiers got to work directing convoys of cars and people through the UN-controlled Nicosia airport and Ledra Palace hotel in the buffer zone.
ALL WATER restrictions are to be lifted as from today following the wettest January for six years, which has left dams almost 50 per cent full, and ahead of the completion of planned desalination plants.
Agriculture Minister, Michalis Polynikis said: “I am pleased to announce that we are close to resolving this lingering problem, particularly as a result of the desalination plants and recent rainfall.”
Reservoirs were yesterday at 47 per cent capacity with 137 million cubic metres from a total capacity of 284 million cubic metres, after a wetter than average January, in which 42 million cubic metres flowed into the reservoirs.
This time last year reserves stood at only 22.4 million cubic metres, or 7.7 per cent of capacity.
THE SISTER of TV presenter Elena Skordelli and Tasos Krasopoulis, who are in custody in connection with the murder of media boss Andis Hadjicostis, was arrested and charged after she allegedly made threatening signs to two other suspects in custody.
The sister was seen by state prosecutor Savvas Matsas making threatening hand gestures to suspects Andreas Gregoriou, 33, and Theophanis Hadjigeorgiou, 30, during their remand hearing at Nicosia’s Hippocration hospital on Sunday morning. The woman allegedly ran her finger across her throat to Hadjigeorgiou and motioned to Gregoriou to keep his mouth shut using a gesture where she pretended to stitch her own mouth shut.
FIVE PEOPLE were injured, one seriously, when strong winds tore through an open market held every Sunday in Oroklini near Larnaca.
Two men and two women were treated at Larnaca hospital and released, while a third woman was kept for observation after suffering a spine fracture.
The winds damaged stalls and seven cars parked in the area of the Oroklini lake, just off the motorway.
The gusts tore through the stalls, scattering the merchandise all over the area.
Metal frames crushed into the cars, causing serious damages.
On the coast of Zygi, between Larnaca and Limassol, three fishermen were injured when their boat crashed into the rocks during rough seas.
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