An odd sense of priorities

Sir,
Tuesday’s Cyprus Mail, page 5, tells us the new wing of the women’s prison in Nicosia is “regarded as on of the best prisons in Europe… and aims to get better”. Page 7 tells us Larnaca Airport has been voted “most disappointing airport” and “the services are just not up to standard”.

Does this seem slightly odd in a country so dependant on tourism from overseas? The millions who endure the endless queues and sardine-tin crowding at Larnaca Airport may have little concern for the 30 prisoners (6 per cent of a total prison population of 500, the report tells us) who are no longer overcrowded.

I am fascinated to know how the meeting went when it was decided to have an awful airport for the holiday makers and a great prison for the local bad girls. Justice Minister Doros Theodorou must have been on great form that day.
BP – Limassol

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.