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UN deadlock pressures EU Focus must be on Syria’s humanitarian crisis, EU urges

By Stefanos Evripidou

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IVEN THE current deadlock in the UN Security Council (UNSC) over the Syrian crisis, the EU must focus on tackling the growing humanitarian crisis in and around the country while encouraging the Syrian opposition to show a united front, said EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton yesterday.

The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy made the comments at a press conference in Nicosia yesterday following a two-day informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Paphos.

The main focus of the meeting was “the ongoing tragedy in Syria”, she said.

“It is clear from all of our discussions that we are adamant (Syrian President Bashar al) Assad should go, and we need to see the political transition to inclusive democracy”.

However, not all heavyweights in the UN Security Council agree with that view. Russia and China have blocked a number of efforts to apply stricter sanctions against the Assad regime and permit more tangible assistance to the Syrian opposition, resulting in the US and its allies, including the EU, working outside of the UN framework.

According to Ashton, the EU ministers, gathered in Paphos, focused on the importance of supporting the new UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in his search for a

peaceful, political solution.

They also recognised that “the inability of the UNSC to move forward means that the pressure is on all of us to try and respond in a coherent way on the issues of greatest concern”, she said, singling out the need for the Syrian opposition to create an “inclusive” base which represents all the people of Syria.

Many observers have warned that the fabric of Syrian society, particularly in terms of the numerous religious groups, is so diverse that there is a strong possibility Syria will implode and fragment should Assad fall.

Ashton acknowledged the risk, saying opposition groups must find ways to make the Syrian people feel part of “the push for a future that includes everyone”, except Assad.

“I keep going back to this word, inclusivity. It’s really very important that people in Syria feel, whoever they are, that they are part of that future. It means reaching out to minority groups, making sure they do feel that. That’s the way we have to go, even more so when we don’t see the UN Security Council being able to move forward,” she said.

The EU foreign policy chief told reporters in Nicosia yesterday that the humanitarian crisis was “an absolute priority” for the EU. The EU was working on a number of different tracks (political, diplomatic and humanitarian) as well as supporting the Syrian opposition groups to come together and create a viable

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THE FIRST day of school is always daunting but pupils entering the first year at the English School in Nicosia tomorrow face the added challenge of avoiding falling plaster.

Just a few days before the start of the new school year, a malfunction in the water tank on the roof of the Lloyds Building on the English School premises resulted in an overflow of water, which spilled onto the ceilings in a number of classrooms used by first and second year students.

As a result, management ordered the damaged sections of the ceilings to be dismantled and replastered, turning the place into a construction site ahead of tomorrow’s start of the new school year.

Speaking from abroad, English School board chairman Antonis Valanides told the Sunday Mail that he will hold a meeting with the school head this afternoon to discuss the next steps.

“But in the meantime, I gave strict instructions to ensure that no student will be put at risk,” he said.

Asked if other rooms will be made available for the 12 to 14-year-olds expected at the Lloyds Building tomorrow, he said a decision will be taken at today’s meeting.

Regarding alarmist press reports of a faulty roof, Valanides argued that there was a need to renovate the roof of the old building but this was a separate issue to the water leak.

“They are two separate things. We’ve been in consultations with the ministry and our own consultant to fix the roof, and were preparing a joint report on this issue when the water tank on the roof started leaking, resulting in some plaster falling down,” he said.

Suspects remanded for Paphos murder TWO MEN were remanded in custody for eight days by the Paphos District Court yesterday in connection with the murder of 32-year-old Andreas Charalambides, who was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Paphos last month.

The men - a 31-year-old Bulgarian and a Greek Cypriot of German origin, 28 - were arrested on Friday after police secured a witness account connecting them to the victim.

Both men denied any involvement in the murder during questioning.

During yesterday’s remand hearing, a police investigator told the court that police detected genetic material of the victim on three knives found at the flat of two suspects in Chlorakas.

The victim, who was murdered on August 21, was found in a pool of blood by his father in his apartment in the Tombs of the Kings area.

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AN avid gardener from Oroklini has recently made an application to make it into the book of Guinness World Records for an impressive super-sized 3m tall ‘molohia’ plant.

According to Mahmoud Dib, who planted the molohia plant (also known as Jew’s mallow or Egyptian spinach) in June, the plant has reached almost 3m (295cm) in height and its red stalk has reached 12cm in diameter.

Dib said they usually only reach about 1.4m and the stalk only 2cm in diameter “All of my friends say that they’ve never seen one this tall before, it’s like a tree,” said Dib, who had made his application recently and now he will have to wait six weeks to see whether he’s made it in with the impressive plant.

Dib said that he planted a number of molohia plants along with this one but none of them grew to this size.

Questioned as to where he bought the seeds he said: “I brought them from a flower shop in Larnaca; she didn’t give me anything different,” said Dib adding that he had not given this extra tall plant any special treatment either.

“They were planted altogether in the same soil,” he said.

Molohia is used as a vegetable in Cypriot, Middle Eastern, East African, North African and South Asian cooking.

Dib said that he will not be cooking up this tree, describing it as ‘amazing.’

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UN deadlock pressures EU Evacuation plans for 200,00 are in place (Continued from front page) plan for the future of Syria, she said.

EU foreign ministers are also in agreement on the need to support neighbouring countries like Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey who have seen an influx of Syrian refugees.

“The numbers are increasing quite dramatically. We have about 230,000 refugees that have come across the borders,” said the EU foreign policy chief.

On Friday, the UN said about 2.5 million people need humanitarian aid as a result of the conflict just across the water from Cyprus, following the upsurge in violence over the summer.

“The situation for the people of Syria is appalling and getting worse every day,” John Ging, director of operations for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was quoted saying.

The UN has almost doubled its appeal for funds for humanitarian aid to Syrians from $180 million (€140m) to $347 million (€271m) while the European Commission announced it would give a further €50m million in addition to its existing €69m

contribution.

Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, the official co-host of the informal meeting labelled gymnich, said EU ministers were “united in our position on Syria”, noting that the message from the meeting is “very loud and clear on what needs to be done”.

Regarding the possible evacuation of EU and third country nationals from the region, Marcoullis said a plan has been drawn up to evacuate up to 200,000 people from Syria and neighbouring countries like Lebanon and bring them to Cyprus for 24 to 48 hours, just enough time for their respective countries to arrange for their further transport to new destinations.

Asked whether further sanctions would be implemented on Iran, Marcoullis said the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council, “in every meeting, every month, adds to the sanctions against the regime, and in that sense, I think that would be very natural to continue to do that”.

Ashton said sanctions were kept under review all the time, noting that a number of ministers (reportedly France, Germany and Britain) raised

EU High Representative Catherine Ashton with Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis in Nicosia yesterday (PIO) the issue of strengthening them.

She added that it was also important to ensure current sanctions were not being “evaded or avoided”.

Speaking to the Sunday Mail, a diplomatic source said the Cyprus gymnich provided “very important groundwork,

guidelines and a sense of direction” for decisions that will take place at a later date.

“It’s the only meeting where the ministers are on their own, there are no delegates or diplomats with

them to monitor or check or put them in a cage. So it’s a real chance for brainstorming,” he said.

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Dismay as ‘massacre’ families lose ‘The healing process requires a grain of remorse,’ says Cyprus-based veteran of Malayan emergency

By Nathan Morley

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BRITISH author has expressed his dismay after campaigners seeking a judicial inquiry into the killing of 24 male villagers in Malaya by British troops over 60 years ago lost their fight at London’s High Court earlier this week.

The allegations relate to an incident that took place in 1948, when a patrol from the Scots Guards allegedly shot dead 24 unarmed men before setting fire to their village.

On Tuesday, British judges upheld a government decision not to hold a public hearing into the alleged massacre in the former colony.

Larnaca-based author Barry Wynne, 84, who was an infantry platoon commander in Malaya at the same time, told the Sunday Mail that the ruling will come as a bitter blow for those that have campaigned for an apology.

“Really, beyond any doubt, the incident at Batang Kali was absolutely unlawful, for whatever reasons, the suspected insurgents were definitely unarmed, whichever version you consider. It seems to me that there should be some kind of apology - an official apology,” he said.

Wynne has been in frequent contact with John Halford, a solicitor representing the relatives, providing background information into conditions in the country at the time.

Accusations of an act of appalling brutality by the British on that fateful day in 1948 refuse to vanish. At the time, Malaya was Britain’s rubber and tin rich colony and the authorities faced a brutal guerrilla war in the jungle from Mau-backed Chinese communists, fighting to overthrow their rule.

It was estimated that during the late 40s more than 7,000 battle-hardened Communist guerrillas were active all over Malaya, killing some 3,000 unarmed citizens and 2,000 police and soldiers.

Many of the young British conscripts argue they were sent to a ‘kill or be killed’ situation, with the uncertainties of jungle warfare ranging from subversion to sabotage, from booby traps to base infiltration and the constant threat of sniper fire.

What happened in Batang Kali was different. Witnesses maintain that British troops entered their village, separated the adult men from the women and children and then marched the men into the dense jungle and shot them dead.

The British version of events was different.

They claimed the men were Chinese terrorists and were gunned down trying to escape.

This version was accepted by the British authorities which stated two weeks after the incident: “After careful consideration of the evidence and a personal visit to where the incident occurred, the Attorney general is satisfied that the suspects would have made good their escape had the security forces

not opened fire. It is not proposed to take any further action in the incident.”

Wynne was several hundred miles away deep in the jungle on the day of the shootings, but says all British troops were experiencing pretty intense jungle fighting, often at extremely close quarters.

“I was shot at three times in 24 hours at less than ten paces, which was stimulating,” Wynne remarked wryly.

In his latest book A King’s Shilling, which covers much of the Malayan crisis, he states that just days after the incident, rumours were rife that something untoward had happened at Batang Kali.

“It was no longer being claimed as a victory. Looking back, the alleged massacre at Batang Kali, over sixty years ago, has not been satisfactorily resolved. It occurred at a highly stressful time only months after the demobilisation of Britain’s wartime army, which had been replaced by a new, mostly

conscript soldiery, now operating over a huge territory comprising mountain ranges rising to six thousand feet and four fifths covered in virgin jungle. It took place exactly, coincidentally even to the week, when I was leading a patrol of the Devon Regiment.

We were desperately searching for our lost patrol,” Wynne wrote in his book.

The alleged incident was the subject of two separate investigations at the time, one by the military authorities and one by the civil authorities in Malaya. An additional Scotland Yard inquiry in 1970 into the incident was dropped, with critics describing the probes as being a cover up.

“The Foreign Office have for years been very carefully trying to dodge the issue, and the reason for that is because one can well understand that the many cans of worms from Kenya and other situations could prove very embarrassing once these incidents start being examined in retrospect,” Wynne added.

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fight for probe British troops on patrol in the Malayan jungle (left). Barry Wynne in Larnaca (right) and as an infantry platoon commander in Malaya in 1948 (below)

The deadly game of hide-and-seek continued in the Malayan jungles into the 1950s, with the battle against Communists costing the British 150,000 dollars a day. The country finally gained independence from Britain in 1957, but Wynne insists that even though so much time has elapsed since Batang Kali, an apology should be forthcoming.

“The Republic of Malaysia is an esteemed member of our Commonwealth,” he said.

“Is it too much to expect that our Mother of Parliaments, with all its personal failings at present, might not advise Her Majesty the Queen, on their behalf, to issue a Royal Proclamation to simply say, ‘Please forgive us this incident. We are deeply sorry’. And pay nominal compensation as requested by the petitioners.

“We all make mistakes. The healing process requires a grain of remorse… and a plea for forgiveness. Without that element there is no future for humanity.”

After Tuesday’s ruling, a British government spokesman said: “This was clearly a deeply redent and we grettable incident mpathy to the families and extend our sympathy he loss of life and suffering. survivors for the “We have always said that a public inquiry would not be able to reach any credible conclusions given the length of time passed.”

John Halford, a solicitor representing the relatives called on the government to “do the right thing” and “end the ongoing injustices at the heart of this case”.

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TELL US WHAT THE WALLS ARE SAYING!

Graffiti on the walls say a lot about a community. What does the graffiti in your town or village in Cyprus say about the state of peace and reconciliation on the island?

HELP US TO FIND OUT! The Cyprus 2015 project invites you, wherever you live on the island, to submit reports on any graffiti, stickers, posters or other inscriptions on the walls of your neighbourhood, which contain a message of tolerance or a message of intolerance.

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Dairy companies merge TWO OF the biggest dairy industries on the island, Charalambides and Christis Dairies, have joined forces to become Charalambides Christis Ltd returning it to Cypriot hands, they announced this week.

Charalambides Christis Ltd was formed after the Constantinos N Shacolas Group and the Alexis Charalambides family bought out 90 per cent of Vivartia Cyprus.

Vivartia Cyprus is part of the leading Greek food company Vivartia Greece.

The company shares are distributed as follows: 45 per cent by companies belonging to the Constantinos N Shacolas Group, 45 per cent by the Alexis Charalambides family and 10 per cent by Delta Greece, who retain the share they originally had in the company.

“The new structure (in terms of ownership) and mainly the fact that the company has returned to Cypriot hands has created new strength in our staff,” said head of the Charalambides Christis board, Alexis Charalambides.

Referring to the company’s name Charalambides said: “We chose to give the company a new name because we want to preserve both historic names of the founders of the companies.”

Hard-hitting: the BirdLife Cyprus billboard poster that will greet visitors as they leave Larnaca airport

Call for ambelopoulia boycott WITH the slogan ‘Ambelopoulia: Just say no’ BirdLife Cyprus is calling on all the public to boycott restaurants offering the illegal delicacies.

“Illegal bird trapping has become a money-making business, driven by market forces of demand and supply in the restaurants serving illegally the trapped birds,” said BirdLife’s Martin Hellicar.

Bird trapping is an illegal yet highly lucrative activity that fetches offenders hundreds of thousands of euros each year. A dozen ambelopoulia costs between €50 and €80.

Part of the campaign to get people’s attention includes an anti-trapping message by BirdLife on a highway bill-

board at Larnaca airport exit.

“Our campaign aims to influence consumers, to make them aware that eating ambelopoulia is tantamount to directly supporting an illegal, ecologically destructive practice controlled to a large extent by organised crime,” said Hellicar.

He also stressed that it was in the hands of consumers to make the right decision.

The aim of the billboard is to also raise awareness among officials and dignitaries arriving for meetings during Cyprus’ EU presidency, but also among tourists and the wider public.

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els have increased dramatically since 2007.

Non-selective methods and large scale killing of birds are illegal both under the EU Birds Directive and Cyprus legislation. BirdLife Cyprus is also calling on both the Cypriot government and the UK government there is a lot of trapping in the British bases in Cyprus - to adopt a clear ‘zero tolerance’ approach, to throw more enforcement resources at the chronic problem and to develop a strategic action plan.

For more information, please contact: Martin Hellicar, 22455072 or martin.hellicar@birdlifecyprus.org.cy

Some felt tipped pens contain high levels of benzene

Dangerous school supplies warning THE LABOUR Inspection Department has issued a warning to parents to be careful when buying school supplies as some may contain harmful substances.

The warning stated that some products such as superglue, markers, correction fluids and felt tip pens may contain organic solvents such as benzene, chloroform or toluene in higher concentrations that permitted. These substances are considered highly toxic and carcinogenic.

In addition, there may be some plastic items containing phthalates, substances again that are considered highly toxic, along with cadmium which is carcinogenic.

They clarified that products should say in Greek whether they contain substances that are flammable or that may cause irritation otherwise they should not be on the market.

Some products, containing harmful substances, that have already been discovered includes “Hello Kitty” felt tip pens manufactured in China containing high concentrations of benzene (barcode 3281640292377) and “Nille” felt tip pens, manufactured in China with high concentrations of benzene (barcode 7047160046922).

For more information look to http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/dyna/rapex/rapex_archives_en.cfm If anyone locates such products they should call the Labour Inspection Department on 22405611, 22405637 or 22405609.

‘Lebanon could have more gas than Cyprus’ LEBANON COULD have access to more offshore natural gas deposits than Cyprus and Syria, the Lebanese paper the Daily Star reported on Friday.

Quoting the CEO of Norwegian Spectrum Company David Rowlands saying: “My humble opinion based on the data that I have is that there is greater potential [for natural gas] offshore Lebanon than offshore Cyprus and offshore Syria.”

He made the comments based on data gathered from Lebanon, Cyprus and Syria by Spectrum and its partner Dolphin Geophysical, which is surveying the Lebanese coast with its high-capacity seismic vessel, M/V Polar Duke.

“We compared the data of offshore Lebanon with the data of offshore Cyprus and Syria,” said Rowlands.

The processing of the seismic survey will be completed in January 2013.

“The early results have shown us structure which has never been seen before. The geological structures are favourable for accumulation of gas and this has never been seen before at this early stage,” Rowlands told the Daily Star.

Lebanon and Israel are currently in dispute over an area of water claimed by both countries as part of their own economic waters.

Cabinet green light for greener petrol Drivers can bank on savings from LPG conversion

By Poly Pantelides THE CABINET’S announcement this week that it was allowing the introduction of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in road transport paves the way for a cheaper and greener fuel alternative.

Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis announced on Tuesday that the cabinet has decided to introduce LPG in vehicles, saying they are cheaper, and environmentally friendlier.

LPG is a blend of propane and butane, which can be produced from natural gas or as a by-product of oil refining.

LPG is about 50 per cent cheaper to conventional fuels which makes up for its lower efficiency compared to petrol and diesel-run vehicles.

The commerce ministry’s energy services estimated last year a saving of at least 20 per cent, after fuel efficiency is accounted for.

A cost saving calculator on an UK-based LPG online portal drivelpg.co.uk helps drivers work out longer term savings.

Even with the need to use more fuel to make up for the loss in efficiency, a car user with a 24,000km a year mileage on a petrol consumption of about 7.8 litres per 100 km (30MPG), paying an average of €1.36 per litre for unleaded 95 - can save about

Conversion to LPG may take up precious boot space €383 over a year using LPG Autogas which is available in the UK. The cost with conventional fuel was placed at about €3,000.

It will take a vehicle owner with the above consumption, a minimum of two years to recover the cost of converting from petrol to LPG (diesel cars cannot be converted).

Conversion costs between €800 and €1,500 and can take place in two days.

LPG proponents claim that performance is similar to driving a petrol vehicle although converting may take up precious boot space because of the need to install a new tank.

LPG is considered less harmful to the car’s engine, environment commissioner

Charalambos Theopemptou has said adding that petrol emissions are worse than LPG, making LPG a greener fuel alternative.

Some cars have dual-propulsion engines and drivers can press a button on the dashboard and choose LPG. Sylikiotis said that the cabinet decision was “activating a procedure to prepare the introduction of LPG use” and set as a goal a year for different departments to prepare the necessary legislative changes.

A number of ministries and departments need to cooperate, including the labour inspection department, the road transport department, and the state’s legal services, Sylikiotis said.

Among others, laws need to be passed to oversee licences for mechanics carrying out conversion and the labour inspection department needs to decide and oversee how LGP pumps will be set up in stations (for example whether separate stations will be built or not), the commerce ministry’s energy chief Solon Kassinis previously told the Sunday Mail.

After departments coordinate and decide on the necessary law amendments, the state’s legal services will need to check them over, and send them to cabinet that will then forward bills to parliament.

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Franco-Cypriot school offers an educational first Cheap fees and fluency in two languages

By Zoe Christodoulides

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HE BRAND new Franco-Cypriot school has now officially opened its doors in Nicosia and is ready to greet its students for the start of the school year tomorrow.

Housed in the former premises of the Higher Technical Institute in Aglandjia, the establishment has replaced the French Arthur Rimbaud school.

As the result of a project jointly implemented by the governments of Cyprus and France, yesterday’s grand opening event was attended

by President Demetris Christofias, Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, Minister of Education George Demosthenous and the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. .

“The creation of the Franco-Cypriot school, although an investment in education, is also a great investment in French Cypriot relations.

It demonstrates in practice the will of our two countries to cooperate and deepen our relations in all fields,” Christofias said: He noted that relations between the two countries hail back to 1192, when French aristocrat Guy de Lusignan was crowned king of Cyprus, adding that the French language has been taught in Cyprus since 1908.

The new school gives students the choice between a French curriculum and a bilingual

French-Greek curriculum, while also reinforcing the teaching of English coupled with the extra options of Spanish and German.

The former Arthur Rimbaud building in Nicosia’s old city is presently empty with no official confirmation of what will become of it, though there are reports that the grounds will at some point be taken over by another school.

But the main question centres on the reasons behind the move itself. Cooperating with the government has brought obvious benefits that the old French School just couldn’t manage solo. In practical terms, the Franco-Cypriot school has now acquired the extensive old technical school grounds that can accommodate at least 400 pupils.

“Staying on the older grounds was no longer viable. Students will now be in a bigger school with great facilities. Before we just didn’t have enough space, even for sports. Now there will be ample opportunities and many more comforts. All new facilities and equipment has been provided for by the Cypriot authorities,” says member of the school board, Jean Claude Boloux. “The French government also pays part of the salaries of the French expat teachers, the salary of the headmaster, as well as providing various teaching courses and scholarships.”

With the school now jointly managed by the French and Cypriot governments, subsidies

mean the school can offer highly competitive tuition fees. The school offers a full curriculum from kindergarten to the last year of high school, accommodating pupils aged 18 months to 18 years.

Fees start off at €253 per month for two year olds, with high school costing €540 per month.

“The school will primarily run according to the French curriculum. But French students will also be learning Greek in parallel and Cypriot students will be learning French,” says Boloux. “Once they reach the first year of high school they will be able to choose whether they wish to follow the French Baccalauréat or work towards the Cypriot Apolytirion. Whatever they choose, they will of course keep on learning both languages as well as English.”

The school says it will provide a very high level of education that will respect both French and Cypriot education, both in terms of language and history.

But not everyone is pleased about the move and a number of parents have decided to transfer their children to other schools. Some voice scepticism about the new project.

“I initially sent my kid to the French school because I wanted something that was separate to the government. It was so liberal and multiethnic and it was all taking place on neutral grounds,” says one mother who chose to remain unnamed. “We just didn’t like the idea of a two stream approach to education and I don’t want my child to learn things as set by the Cyprus education ministry. The concept of

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The new Franco-Cypriot school is housed in the old technical school premises and replaces the cramped Arthur Rimbaud building the new school just didn’t inspire confidence on a pedagogical level.”

The mother also voiced concern about the lack of an integration system in place. “I think there will be a premature politicisation of the kids in the school yard according to whether they are following the Greek or French classes.

But the school is taking for granted that this won’t happen and they don’t have any contingency programme.”

But the school insists that this is not an issue. “We don’t think there will be any integration problems at all. W already had Cypriots at Arthur Rimbaud mixing in very well with the foreign children and they all get on,” Boloux said.

As for the main language that will resonate around the school yard and corridors, it’s expected to be a complete mix. “French, Greek and English. The kids will be comfortable in all three languages,” he said.

“But yes, we have had a number of drop outs since the end of the last academic year,” he admitted. “We have, however, had more than double the number of new pupils come in.”

Starting the new academic year with 160 pupils, the ratio of Cypriots has increased while

the number of French pupils has seen a slight decrease.

“We want to place attention on the fact that this is a multicultural school with 20 nationalities in total. At the start of this new year, 38 per cent of our students are French, 33 per cent are Cypriot and the remaining is all a big mix.”

Another mother, Nathalie Martin, voices her approval with regards to the change. “I understand that the school couldn’t stay where it was because it was no longer financially feasible and it needed to expand,” said the mother of a five-year-old who will be continuing to attend the school.

“I’ve had a look at the new premises and it looks good, there’s more space for the students and it’s better equipped. Any improvement is a welcome one.”

Waiting to see how the whole system pans out in practice, she said that it all looked very promising on paper.

“I’m happy that my son will be learning more Greek. After all, he will feel more integrated and he should be able to speak Greek fluently.”

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World Assad troops storm into Damascus refugee area SYRIAN troops stormed into a Palestinian refugee district in Damascus, opposition activists said, after a four-day artillery assault on the southern suburb where rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad have dug in.

Assad’s forces have used air power and artillery to hit areas where rebels are positioned and infantry raids normally occur only once many have fled. Activists said they feared for civilian inhabitants in the latest offensive.

Assad’s use of military force to quell an uprising that began almost 18 months ago as a peaceful pro-democracy movement has cost him many allies in the Arab and Muslim world and caused a trickle of defections from Syrian government and army ranks.

Two Syrian diplomats in Malaysia announced late on Friday that they had joined the opposition, according to a report by pan-Arab television channel Al Arabiya.

Two men identifying themselves as First Secretary Imad Ahmar and Attaché Mahmoud Obedi from Syria’s Kuala Lumpur embassy read out a statement on the channel declaring their “support for the Syrian people’s revolution against the tyrannical regime”.

Teenage bomber kills six near NATO HQ in Kabul Taliban say strike theirs, deny bomber was a minor

By Mirwais Harooni A 14-YEAR-old suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily-barricaded NATO headquarters in Kabul yesterday, killing six civilians including children, NATO and local officials said.

The bomber wore a vest packed with explosives and rode right up to the NATO gates on a bicycle, underscoring the insurgents’ ability to strike deep inside the Afghan capital, ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign combat forces by the end of 2014.

Pieces of flesh and splattered blood lay on the street near the base, where the small bodies of children were lifted into ambulances. Scores of young children

Afghan security forces guard the site of a suicide attack in Kabul’s diplomatic quarters yesterday (AFP)

peddle trinkets and chewing gum around the foreign bases, hoping to earn a bit of cash.

Wailing women in headto-toe burqas who said they were the dead children’s mothers rushed shortly after the attack to the site, where small flip flops lay

strewn in the mud.

Kabul Police, in a statement to media, said the bomber was 14 years old, without giving details.

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, but denied they had deployed a teenage bomber, saying instead he was a 28-year-old

who targeted the Kabul offices of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) condemned the use of children. “Forcing underage youth to do their dirty work again proves the insurgency’s despicable

tactics,” said spokesman Brigadier General Gunter Katz.

The US embassy in Kabul said in a statement that using “the most impressionable and vulnerable”, such as a teenager, to carry out such attacks revealed the true nature of the insurgents.

Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said six civilians were killed in the attack, which took place just before noon, and five more wounded, including children.

Security was beefed up across the capital yesterday as celebrations were under way to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the hero of the 1980s war against Soviet forces, and later a fierce opponent to the Taliban.

Massoud was killed on September 9 by al Qaeda militants posing as reporters.

Yesterday’s bombing was the latest example of how militants are able to strike the most secure parts of the Afghan capital even after more than a decade of fighting Western forces with far superior firepower.

Pakistan frees Christian girl accused of burning Koran A YOUNG Christian girl accused of burning pages of the Islam’s holy book has been freed from a jail near the capital, according to a Pakistani jail official.

The release comes a day after a judge granted her bail.

Mushtaq Awan said the girl left the prison in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad, yesterday afternoon.

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She has been held for a little over three weeks after neighbours accused her of violating the country’s strict blasphemy law.

She was taken from the prison in an armoured vehicle and whisked to a waiting helicopter while covered with a sheet to protect her identity.

Her lawyers say they will now push to have the case against her thrown out entirely.

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China, Russia sound world economy alert APEC leaders told deeper regional economic ties key

By Timothy Heritage

A rescuer with a sniffer dog look for victims in Yiliang yesterday (AFP)

Rescuers focus on remote areas after China quakes RESCUERS in southwestern China tried yesterday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 89 people and damaged many thousands of buildings, state media reported.

Shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and communications on Friday and the death toll could rise as news trickled in from cut-off areas, the Xinhua news agency said.

The quakes cut off electricity and triggered landslides that blocked roads, hampering rescue efforts. Adding to rescuers’ difficulties was rain which

forecasters said was expected for the next three days.

State TV showed crumbled walls and roads strewn with rubble and rocks.

More than 200,000 people in Yunnan province were relocated after the quakes levelled more than 6,600 houses and damaged many more thousands of buildings. Up to 740,000 people had been affected in Yunnan’s six worsthit counties, officials said.

In neighbouring Guizhou province, more than 11,700 houses were damaged and the lives of nearly 28,000 people were disrupted, the state news agency and officials said. Xinhua said more than 800 people were injured.

CHINA and Russia sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy at a summit yesterday and urged Asian-Pacific countries to protect themselves by forging deeper regional economic ties.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Beijing would do all it could to strengthen the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and boost prospects of a global recovery by rebalancing its economy, Asia’s biggest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, 59 said trade barriers must be smashed down. He is hosting the event on a small island linked to the Pacific port of Vladivostok by a spectacular new bridge, a symbol of Moscow’s pivotal turn to Asia away from debt-stricken Europe.

“It’s important to build bridges, not walls. We must continue striving for greater integration,” Putin told gathered APEC leaders.

“The global economic recovery is faltering. We can overcome the negative trends only by increasing the volume of trade in goods and services and enhancing the flow of capital.”

China’s Hu told business leaders before the summit the world economy was being hampered by “destabilising factors and uncertainties” and the crisis that hit in 2008-09 was far from over. Beijing would play its role, he said, in strengthening the recovery.

“We will work to maintain the balance between keeping steady and robust growth, adjusting the economic structure and managing inflation expectations,” he said.

Hu spelled out plans for China, whose economic growth has slowed as Europe’s debt crisis worsened, to pump $157 billion into infrastructure investments in

Bridge building: Russia’s Putin agriculture, energy, railways and roads.

Hu, who steps down as China’s leader in the autumn after a Communist Party congress, promised continuity and stability for the economy.

Putin, who has just begun a new six-year term as president, said on Friday Russia would be a stable energy supplier and a gateway to Europe for Asian countries, and also pledged to develop his country’s transportation network.

Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas export monopoly, signed an agreement with Japan to develop plans for a $7-billion liquefied natural gas plant on Russia’s Pacific coast, underscoring Moscow’s eastward shift.

The relative strength of China’s economy, by far the largest in Asia and second in the world to the US, is key to Russia’s decision to look to the Pacific Rim as it seeks to develop its economy and Europe

battles economic problems.

APEC, which includes the United States, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Canada, groups countries which account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, 54 per cent of its economic output and 44 per cent of trade.

APEC members are broadly showing relatively strong growth, but boosting trade and growth is vital for the group as it tries to remove trade barriers hindering investment.

“It is absolutely clear the most important region for economic growth this decade - and probably the next decade - will be the Pacific,” said Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

The European Union has been at odds with both China and Russia over trade practices it regards as limiting free competition. Cooperation in APEC is also hindered by territorial and other disputes among some of the members.

Discussions at the two-day meeting focused on food security and trade liberalisation. An agreement was reached before the summit to slash import duties on technologies that can promote economic growth without endangering the environment.

Breakthroughs are not expected on other trade issues at the meeting, from which US President Barack Obama is absent. He has been attending the Democratic Party convention and Washington is represented by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton said after talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the US government was working with Congress to pass legislation needed to upgrade trade ties with Russia, which recently joined the World Trade Organisation.

Also missing the summit was Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who went home after learning her father had died.

A team of French and British detectives begin their investigation of Alps murder family’s UK home POLICE have begun their search of the family home of a couple shot dead with two other victims in the French Alps.

A team of four French officers has travelled to the UK to work with British detectives at the house of Saad al-Hilli in

Claygate, Surrey.

Iraqi-born al-Hilli, 50, was gunned down in his car alongside his dentist wife, named by neighbours as Iqbal, on Wednesday.

An older Swedish woman travelling in the car was also killed, along with Sylvain Mol-

lier, 45, a French cyclist who apparently stumbled across the attack in Chevaline.

The couple’s four-year-old daughter Zeena lay undiscovered under her mother’s corpse for eight hours after the murders, while her seven-year-old sister Zainab

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Opinion Christofias’ filibustering over bailout causing untold damage WHEN the government applied to the European support mechanism, in late June, many of us believed that President Christofias, having no funding options, would be forced to sanction the tough measures he had avoided taking in the last two years. How wrong we were to even entertain such an idea.

Two-and-a-half months later it is becoming apparent that he has no intention of taking the necessary unpopular measures - cutting pay and pensions, privatising state corporations, reducing benefits, scrapping CoLA, etc - and his only objective is to buy time, in the hope of seeing out his term without signing a bailout agreement.

This is why the government has done nothing to prepare people for an austerity package - there have not even been consultations with the social partners - engaging instead in Christofias’ favourite tactic of filibustering. Representatives of the troika completed their consultations in Cyprus before the end of July and delivered a document with its proposals to the

government before departing, but the government has been dragging its feet ever since.

Finance Minister Vasos Shiarly claimed, earlier this week, that “consultations are at a advanced stage”, but insisted the government had “never promised to submit counter-proposals within August”. Troika representatives have been invited back to Cyprus in the second half of September - another indication of the total lack of urgency - but it is highly unlikely the government will be ready to finalise a bailout deal by then.

AKEL chief Andros Kyprianou’s gave a demonstration of the government’s filibustering intentions on Thursday, when he said the troika had submitted ideas - not proposals - that would be discussed before the Cypriot side tabled its counter-proposals. “It is very early for anyone to take a stance concerning what they will do when the troika submits any proposals,” he said, suggesting there was no rush while also hint-

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ing at the possibility of rejecting the bailout terms.

As for the government, it has been calculatingly avoiding the issue. It has had no discussions with the ‘social partners’, in preparation for austerity measures nor has the president deemed it necessary to discuss these with party leaders, in an effort to forge a united front. His spokesmen have instead been lambasting the DISY leader for his positions on the Cyprus problem and pillorying the former governor of the Central Bank for the banking crisis.

There is also the much-trumpeted issue of the Russian loan, which the government keeps slipping into public debate in a transparent attempt to divert attention away from its inaction. Nobody knows whether the €5 billion loan will be given (neither Shiarly nor any government official could con-

firm a press report claiming it had been secured), but even if it were, it would change nothing with regard to the bailout terms, as the government has been claiming.

The indecision and filibustering are causing great harm to the economy, by cultivating additional insecurity and uncertainty. Nobody knows what will happen. Will the government reject the troika’s bailout terms or will it persist with its delaying tactics in the hope of avoiding a decision until Christofias leaves office? Perhaps it will sign the bailout agreement and then refuse to implement its terms on the grounds that the ‘social partners’ were opposed to them.

Prolonging the uncertainty is more damaging than any austerity package as it kills business initiative. Nobody will take an investment risk, as long as the possibility of rejecting a bailout exists, because this would lead to a collapse of the banks and the end of Cyprus as a financial services centre. Nobody in the government seems to understand that

the immediate re-capitalisation of the banks is a dire necessity for the economy to have a future.

Delaying it not only prolongs the economic uncertainty but also puts the survival of the banking system at great risk.

These risks and the uncertainty they fuel will only be eliminated when the bailout agreement is signed. Austerity measures will be unpopular as living standards will fall and the economy contract.

But at least public finances would be put on a sound basis and the banking sector would be able to support business activity again, as re-capitalisation would allow the banks to start lending money, presumably at lower interest rates.

The path to economic recovery and growth, which all our politicians pay lip service to, passes through a bailout and austerity.

But someone must first persuade the deluded and reckless populist Christofias that the heroic path of resistance to the troika he wants to follow will lead inexorably to destitution and despair.

Letters to the Editor About the glorification of the cowardly and beastly Ramil Safarov I am writing with regards to the release of Ramil Safarov under an Azerbaijani presidential pardon upon his arrival to a hero’s welcome in Baku last Friday.

Safarov was serving a life sentence in Hungary for hacking to death an Armenian Army officer while the latter was asleep in his bed.

Paradoxically, Safarov and his Armenian victim were attending a training program in Budapest under NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program.

Not only was he pardoned on arrival but was also rewarded financially as well as promoted in rank from Lieutenant to a Major. To my mind this made him into a state sponsored assassin.

Having served eight years of his sentence in Hungary, the Hungarian Government was induced (bribed/hoodwinked) to extradite Safarov to Azerbaijan to serve the rest of his sentence in his home country.

If the pogroms of Sumgait and Baku in the late 80’s and early 90’s and terroriza-

tion of Azerbaijan’s 500,000 Armenians into exile was not proof, the glorification of that cowardly and beastly Ramil Safarov by the President of Azerbaijan should be sufficient proof to the International Community that the Armenians of Nagorno Karabagh can never live and feel secure under Azerbaijani rule.

It is time for the International Community to recognize the independence of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabagh) and demonstrate to Azerbaijan that, oil or no oil, there is no tolerance in the 21st century for a country with a murderous and genocidal culture.

As to the Hungarian Government if it wishes to salvage its domestic and international credibility and reputation it should sever diplomatic ties with Azerbaijan and set an example to the rest of the world by recognizing the independence of Artsakh.

What a sorry state of affairs you’re in Although I sold my villa in Cyprus in 2010 and returned to the UK after living happily in Cyprus since 1999, I still read the Cyprus Mail on line and take interest in what is happening on the island, but unfortunately all that is reported now is economic doom and gloom.

When we first moved to Cyprus in 1999 we were welcomed with open arms by most of the local people, with the exception of the (un)civil servants who did everything in their power to make life difficult for us, a trait which just got worse every year as their bad attitude, rudeness and laziness just made life unnecessarily difficult for all non Cypriots.

Then along came the EU whose crazy rules and regulations started to attack the very heart of the Cyprus culture and changed the personalities of many Cypriot traders, tavern owners, etc as they struggled to comply with senseless rules and regulations dreamed up by some faceless bureaucrats in Brussels, which set about destroying the simple village way of life and business to the absolute detriment of the island.

Then along came the change of currency to the euro which created massive inflation in prices, and loss of competitiveness in the tourist market dragging the poor hardworking Cypriots in the

private sector down and down whilst the lazy blood suckers in the public sector grew richer and lazier on fantasy money that was no longer being earned by the tax payers.

However, the piece de resistance was still to come and that was the election of the present president of the Republic of Cyprus who singlehandedly with his total lack of knowledge of even basic economics and total pandering to the trade unions has now brought Cyprus to the very edge of economic meltdown which he is now trying to make into an even bigger disaster by looking to get massive loans from Russia.

I always said where Greece goes Cyprus follows and I regret to say this but I believe that Cyprus will very soon have to accept even greater austerity measures and controls imposed by the EU for many years to come in order to obtain the financial support needed to rescue the economy.

My only hope now is that Cyprus and the ordinary hard-working Cypriots will eventually work through this and come out the other side better but most importantly wiser.

George Raistrick, Newcastle UK

Disgruntled, Paralimni

Please could we not do something to help out? I’m sure many people would be willing to donate food on a weekly basis to help those in need.

As for school children not having enough money to get writing books as well as school clothes isn’t there something we could do about that such as donating old school clothes and donating new books for the

Christina Andreou Kallis Dali

How will I pay?

children to write on?

All I’ve seen on TV channels are people complaining they need help and I’ve seen many shows with this topic but not one announce how we can help them.

If we all did our bit and contributed as people and stopped relying on our government maybe we’d get somewhere.

Chrissie Michael by email

Alex Kyprianou by email

Stop the mindless morons We all need to do our bit for those in need After watching a show on a Cypriot TV channel I was deeply disturbed to see how many families are going without food.

When the whole Greece crisis occurred there were people collecting food in the supermarkets, churches and schools to help our fellow compatriots.

Where are these food drives now when our own people need food?

That horrible blue envelope arrived and once again The Electricity Authority of Cyprus ruined my day, actually my life.

Amount due €521.47 for two months of electricity.

Do I have the air conditioning unit on all day? No. Do I have the washing machine going morning, noon and night? No. One hundred euros of this bill are taxes and surcharges.

My family lives on a single income of €1,050. I have two children under four. Can someone please tell me how I am expected to pay for this extortionate bill?

If everyone refused to pay their electricity bill surely that would send a message. Let them cut off every household in Cyprus. This has gone long enough.

I live in a three bedroom house. I make €838 each month at my job. Today I was issued my electric bill which was a staggering €776. How will I pay for this? The only two things left switched on in my home are my fridge and my PC. I use only a fan as well instead of A/C. I do not understand how my bill can be this high.

The building I work in has around 60 rooms with lights and A/C on 24/7 and the bill is only €2000.

The EAC needs to sort things out. How are people to pay?

S. der Avedissian, Nicosia

There is a mindless moron who comes round the streets of Paralimni every weekend between 2am and 4am on a powerful motor bike with the engine tuned so it backfires to make the maximum amount of noise It was four am on Friday morning when he went round the village with no destination in mind just to make as much noise as possible I could hear it from my apartment on Photi Pittas so I am sure Paralimni police station could hear it too. Are there no police cars or bikes out at this time to deter this kind of thing or do we have to accept it as Cyprus tradition? It’s time we all stood up against this kind of attitude.

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Opinion The US court of appeals made the wrong decision in its recent ruling on cigarette packaging

Comment Peter Singer

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N contrasting decisions last month, a United States Court of Appeals struck down a US Food and Drug Administration requirement that cigarettes be sold in packs with graphic health warnings, while Australia’s highest court upheld a law that goes much further. The Australian law requires not only health warnings and images of the physical damage that smoking causes, but also that the packs themselves be plain, with brand names in small generic type, no logos, and no colour other than a drab olive-brown.

The US decision was based on America’s constitutional protection of free speech. The court accepted that the government may require factually accurate health warnings, but the majority, in a split decision, said that it could not go as far as requiring images. In Australia, the issue was whether the law implied uncompensated expropriation - in this case, of the tobacco companies’ intellectual property in their brands. The High Court ruled that it did not.

Underlying these differences, however, is the larger issue: who decides the proper balance between public health and freedom of expression? In the US, courts make that decision, essentially by interpreting a 225-year-old text, and if that deprives the government of some techniques that might reduce the death toll from cigarettes - currently estimated at 443,000 Americans every year - so be it. In Australia, where freedom of expression is not given explicit constitutional protection, courts are much more likely to respect the right of democratically elected governments to strike the proper balance.

There is widespread agreement that governments ought to prohibit the sale of at least some dangerous products. Countless food additives are either banned or permitted only in limited quantities, as are children’s toys painted with substances that could be harmful if ingested.

The plain cigarette packaging with brand names in small generic type favoured by the Australian government

Public health versus individual freedom

John Stuart Mill’s defence of individual liberty appears naive today New York City has banned trans fats from restaurants and is now limiting the permitted serving size of sugary drinks. Many countries prohibit the

sale of unsafe tools, such as power saws without safety guards.

Although there are arguments for prohibiting a variety of different

dangerous products, cigarettes are unique, because no other product, legal or illegal, comes close to killing the same number of people - more than traffic accidents, malaria, and AIDS combined. Cigarettes are also highly addictive. Moreover, wherever health-care costs are paid by everyone - including the US, with its public health-care programmes for the poor and the elderly - everyone pays the cost of efforts to treat the diseases caused by cigarettes.

Whether to prohibit cigarettes altogether is another question, because doing so would no doubt create a new revenue source for organised crime. It seems odd, however, to hold that the state may, in principle, prohibit the sale of a product, but may not permit it to be sold only in packs that carry graphic images of the damage it causes to human health.

The tobacco industry will now take its battle against Australia’s legislation to the World Trade Organisation. The industry fears that the law could be copied in much larger

markets, like India and China. That is, after all, where such legislation is most needed.

Indeed, only about 15 per cent of Australians and 20 per cent of Americans smoke, but in 14 low and middle-income countries covered in a survey recently published in The Lancet, an average of 41 per cent of men smoked, with an increasing number of young women taking up the habit. The World Health Organisation estimates that about 100 million people died from smoking in the twentieth century, but smoking will kill up to one billion people in the twenty-first century.

Discussions of how far the state may go in promoting the health of its population often start with John Stuart Mill’s principle of limiting the state’s coercive power to acts that prevent harm to others. Mill could have accepted requirements for health warnings on cigarette packs, and even graphic photos of diseased lungs if that helps people to understand the choice that they are making; but he would have rejected a ban.

Mill’s defence of individual liberty, however, assumes that individuals are the best judges and guardians of their own interests - an idea that today verges on naiveté. The development of modern advertising techniques marks an important difference between Mill’s era and ours.

Corporations have learned how to sell us unhealthy products by appealing to our unconscious desires for status, attractiveness and social acceptance. As a result, we find ourselves drawn to a product without quite knowing why. And cigarette makers have learned how to manipulate the properties of their product to make it maximally addictive.

Graphic images of the damage that smoking causes can counterbalance the power of these appeals to the unconscious, thereby facilitating more deliberative decisionmaking and making it easier for people to stick to a resolution to quit smoking. Instead of rejecting such laws as restricting freedom, therefore, we should defend them as ways to level the playing field between individuals and giant corporations that make no pretence of appealing to our capacities for reasoning and reflection. Requiring that cigarettes be sold in plain packs with health warnings and graphic images is equal-opportunity legislation for the rational beings inside us.

Peter Singer is Professor of bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, One World, and The Life You Can Save © Project Syndicate, 2012

Partition has made federation spat utterly pointless Comment Loucas Charalambous I HAVE written on countless occasions that our political life belongs in a mental home, but how else can someone explain what has been going on. The main issue of public debate this last week was yet another confirmation of this view.

Where else but in a mental hospital could there have been such a stupid row, over an article that was written in the Turkish daily Hurriyet?

In what country with serious politicians could there have been such an insane feud over nothing, a feud that would have been unjustified even if we did not have the collapse of the economy to deal with?

Out of the blue, one of Presi-

dent Christofias’ relatives, a state employee at the presidential palace, practising political skulduggery, decided that the most serious issue facing the country today was whether DISY chief Nicos Anastasiades wanted a loose or tight federation.

As if this were not bad enough, Anastasiades and his DISY lieutenants, happily, fell into the trap, engaging in this idiotic row and trying to convince the public that he did not want a tight federation but a loose one. Any outsider following this row would have thought that the Cyprus problem will be solved in the next 15 days and we were bickering over how tight the federation would be.

The Cyprus problem, in its current form, has been around for 38 years. Not only has it not been solved in these

38 years, but today it is in the tightest deadlock ever. To be more precise, the problem was solved in 2004 with the partition that Christofias cemented, first with his ‘no’ to the Annan plan and subsequently, during his presidency, by killing any hope of a solution, in order to remain in the presidential place.

At a time like this, when everything is falling apart, with the banks collapsing, one in nine people unemployed, businesses closing down by the dozen, hundreds being made redundant and the finance minister admitting the state will run out of money in two months, the Cyprus problem is the last thing on the average Cypriot’s mind.

And in these desperate times the main concern of our politicians are Anastasiades’ positions on the solution of the Cy-

prus problem, which has been solved for eight years now.

For 50 years our politicians have been squabbling over who has the most patriotic positions with regard to the Cyprus settlement, ignoring the fact that they would eventually have to strike a deal, and that in any case the problem was eventually solved by itself.

Half of Cyprus is now an extension of Turkey and the big majority of the population in the north are Turkish citizens thanks to Christofias and his former allies who imposed partition in 2004. And these people are now trying to harm their opponents on the grounds they have positions similar to Turkey’s.

The question now is not who wants a tight or loose federation. Federation is dead and was buried by Christofias. The

question the president should answer is why he killed that federation and left us with partition.

It was through his personal choices (the electoral backing of Papadopoulos, the ‘no’ in the referendum, the filibustering of the talks with Mehmet Ali Talat) that he handed over Famagusta, Morphou and 45 villages to Turkey, increased the number of Turkish settlers in the north from 41,000 in 2004 to 300,000 in 2012 and kept the occupation army in Cyprus. Why did he make these choices?

This is the question that needs to be answered and not whether a politician wants a loose or tight federation, now that federation is dead and was killed by Christofias himself. Unless, this ridiculous row is the official funeral of federation.

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Opinion Reader’s letter: editor’s choice

A vain attempt to camp amid a transplanted city The joys of camping have been destroyed by urban villagers who insist on creating a home from home

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HE “Kampi tou Kalogyrou” camping site run by the forestry department is in the heart of the Troodos pine forest on the road between the Trooditissa monastery and Prodromos village.

My wife and I enjoy camping very much and we often escape from hot Limassol to the fresh, cool air of the mountain to enjoy two or three days under canvas in the middle of a pine forest to rejuvenate ourselves.

Unfortunately, the people who administer camping sites on Troodos, be they the forestry department, the local authorities, or licensed individuals, give the campers carte blanche regarding the use of their camp site. The selection of a place and how much of the camp’s space one can use is entirely arbitrary and left up to the campers. Needless to say the Cypriot mentality runs rampant when it is allowed to express itself without limits.

Evidently the management’s only controlling mechanism over the actions of their guests inside the campsites is the few inadequately written rules in small letters on a board that everyone ignores and never reads; just as the unwritten rules about respect for the natural beauty of the forest and regard of the well being of one’s neighbours

within the small camping community never enter some people’s minds.

The problems are created, to a very large degree, by the selfishness of ‘resident’ caravan owners who, not content with just staying in their well-equipped homes on wheels, proceed to fence off and appropriate large areas of the site around their caravans. Their ‘land’ is then ‘developed’ to become their free holiday villa in the heart of the

‘Resident’ caravan owners fence off and appropriate large areas of the site Troodos forest, complete with patios and flower beds. The wonderful old forest trees are there not to be admired for their beauty and protected, but for their usefulness.

Cables are nailed to them to string up lights; someone has even got a string of Christmas lights strung

up. Wooden bars and planks are nailed to trees to provide supports for tarpaulin and plastic covers to create extra outdoor living areas; water tanks, kitchens, showers and even private toilets lean up against them. The trees are also used by everyone as posts to fix awnings and washing lines. Some are so low that if you don’t see them you could be decapitated. One bold ‘camper’ went as far as to build his own wood and steel frame ‘house’ covered with tarpaulin and supported by lines tied to the trees, an impressive construction.

There are water points with large sinks for washing up dirty dishes.

However, the few metres’ walk to them is something which our ‘urban villagers’, who are used to driving their cars on the pavement outside the door of a shop rather than park legally and walk a few yards, do not like to do. So, they screw and nail large water tanks to the trees and connect them to the site’s network of water points with hosepipes that crisscross the entire site. Not only do these self-centred people monopolise the water supply, but they also put the other campers in some danger. It is very easy to trip over them, particularly at night.

Furthermore, they dig conduits to

Flower pots mark territory while pine trees make useful poles for attaching electricity cables

Camping with everything including the kitchen sink channel their dirty used water away from their realm; anyplace, as long as it is somewhere far from them.

These dirty water channels that run across footpaths in some places, create unhealthy muddy pools.

Picnic tables which are there for everyone’s use are included in their fenced off areas and they are often covered with garden canopies, so as to put their stamp of ownership on them. Growing flowers in beds and pots is another way of marking the boundaries of their dominion and are surrealistically out of place as the character of the coniferous forest is altered by turning it into a ridiculous representation of an urban garden.

BREAKING THE RULES There is no electricity at the site, but this is no problem for the ‘urban villager’. Electricity generators whine and drone for most of the night to provide power for their floodlights, their fridges and TVs. Disco music mingled with zeibeckigo and dog barking (the holiday ‘home’ must be protected by the family dog tethered to a tree day and night) compete with the generators in a cacophony of sounds that bounce around the tall dark pine trees. Rules one and two are broken from dusk to very late without consideration.

According to the camp’s nearly invisible rules, fires are only allowed within several designated areas, and there are enough, but our ‘urban villager’ insists on having his own hearth in front of his ‘villa’ and fires are lit all over the camp, not only for the cooking of the souvla, but also for sitting around eating, drinking, talking loudly and shrieking with laughter late into the night and to hell with the little people in their little tent next to them who are trying to sleep. Rules three and four are broken with impunity every night Collecting wood from the forest for burning is not permitted, but foraging for anything that burns is a daily task for the ‘urban villagers’ and some even bring wooden pallets in their twin cabin trucks for their nightly bonfires that fill the site with suffocating smoke.

Rule five has been totally ignored since everything that could be burned has been turned to ash.

There’s not a fir cone or pine needle in sight.

This egotistical and arrogant behaviour of caravan owners is detrimental to the enjoyment of the many nature-loving canvas campers who are disillusioned and are gradually being squeezed out of the campsites by sheer thoughtlessness or ignorance. The creation of a home-from-home approach that exists amongst the permanent caravan campers in our forests, coupled with the Cypriot way of thinking (given an inch, he’ll take a mile) is destroying the fundamental idea and ethos of camping in our countryside and our forests.

The forestry commission has got to get to grips with this situation before it gets out of hand, as it did with the campsite near the Troodos Square where it was deemed necessary to close it down because of the unruly mentality of the caravan owners who dominated the site not only by appropriating large areas of the site for themselves, but also by laying water pipes and running cables from tree to tree, stealing the electricity that was to light up the public showers, to run all their electric appliances and to illuminate their holiday ‘villas’.

Our stay at the ‘Kampi tou Kalogyrou’ site was a bitter reminder of all that was wrong with the nowdefunct Troodos Square site. It seems that all those caravan owners who were evicted from there have now moved their caravans and unchanged mentality to the ‘Kalogyrou’ site. Is this the beginning of the end of this camping site too? We hope not!

The immediate solution to all these problems is very simple. The sites must be separated, one site for tents and another for caravans and both strictly regulated. The permanent solution must be for the organisers of camping sites to realise that it is time to study some of the first-class European models of properly run camping sites and to put their findings into practice now!

Nick Moschatos (ever an optimist), Yermasoyia

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Opinion

Silly games with Cyprus’ economy

uotes of the week “I am like Marmite. I’ve stopped worrying if people don’t like me” Controversial cricketer Kevin Pietersen “Christians have acted like doormats for too long in a culture which owes so much to the formation of the Christian faith” Lord Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, hitting out at those who diminish Christianity

President Christofias: ‘it’s their fault, not mine!’

The Olympic Committee should have financed a practice run for the president before he took over office

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FRIEND emailed me a Daily Telegraph article, squeezed in below the London Olympic 2012 medal table, stating that the formerly well managed Cyprus economy had only just fallen into recession, whereas Britain was suffering its third year of hardship and the economy’s third quarter this year of negative growth.

On the night ‘the greatest show on Earth’ closed its doors to four-limbed, outstandingly athletic bipeds, you would have thought London was the richest and happiest city in the world.

But no, you would have been mistaken. Once the hype of the Paralympics has died down, Londoners will return to work long faced and drab throughout this autumn/winter, and probably for the next few years, as they struggle to pay for playing sometimes silly games while their economy, like most others, burns.

Yet I was initially glued to my ‘on offer’ Smart LED 42 inch flat screen (with Internet access, etc. but unable to make a cup of tea) watching daily transmissions on Rik2 HD right up until Day 10, when I was suddenly repelled by the sight of yet more lovely girls’ faces on muscular bodies (notwithstanding the two perfectly proportioned and magnificently beautiful, Chinese beach volley players) or butch faces on Brunhilde bodies, compelling me to lose interest in balls, arrows, shots, javelins, innumerable different projectiles, whether human or canoes, kayaks, coxless men’s twos, fours and eights and coxless women’s eights, fours and twos, racing bikes, BMX and mountain jobs, basket, volley, hand balls et al. Why

profession” President Obama (below)

Comment Hermes Solomon not tiddlywinks and Formula One? And just when will the Paralympics (first introduced at the London Games of 1948) - which I watched somewhat reluctantly and cynically at first and later full of admiration for the contestants - be followed by the ‘Gerontolympics’ and ‘Pediolympics’?

No, these silly games we play then bedeck winners with gold leaf, followed by offers of hugely profitable image rights and sponsorships - only for winners to say, ‘It was great!’ when asked how they felt winning gold - have nothing at all to do with the 1896, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin’s original Olympic spirit. Back then amateur sportsmen (mostly, if not uniquely ‘perfectly formed’ white Caucasian, middle upper class) competed at their own personal expense for glory and national pride alone.

Analogously, the Cyprus government has been playing silly games with the country’s economy ever since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and only belatedly has the Telegraph noticed and brought it to my friend’s attention, a friend who believed our then minister of finance, Charilaos Stavrakis’ claim that we would withstand the worst effects of the world recession. This worthless utterance was supported by our ‘faultless’ president, and let’s be fair, the then chairman of the Central Bank of

“I am not even going to say that it was a piece of cake or not. I will never do it again” The Duke of York after abseiling down the Shard, Europe’s tallest building (below) Olympic spirit: Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin Cyprus, Athanasios Orphanides.

Admittedly, the banks must take most of the blame for the mess we’re in today.

But they had nothing to do with the media hyped, then shredded, Qatari and Far Eastern Phoenix projects nor the now brushed aside Mari/Vassiliko power station disaster which, were it not for President Demetris Christofias’ immunity, would have ‘him’ entered in the ‘high jump’.

And frankly, as much as I respect another past finance minister’s (Michael Sarris) gift of the gab, he must think himself a god to have taken on the seriously bankrupted Cyprus Popular Bank, vainly trying to save it when the country’s ‘public enemy number one’ was holding the reins.

If our politicians and bankers were judged on an Olympic scale by their past performance in government and high finance, none would even make the Paralympic heats, never mind the medals’ rostrum. And as for Stavrakis’ replacement, soft shoed, Kikis Kazamias, who retired on grounds of ‘ill health’ after just six months of failing to convince our president about the dire state of ‘things’, I can but wish he gets well soon then tells us his true reasons for resigning which, when published in his memoirs - undoubtedly a ‘worst’ seller since we will all be too poor by then to buy it - is certain to be rubbished with the same invective our president employed against Orphanides during their overly publicised pointless tiff.

No! Four and a half years ago, we made the unforgivable mistake of putting the communist party in charge

of Cyprus, its economy and welfare. If anybody is to blame for the mess we’re in today, it is the ‘sloppy’ voter himself - the alternative at the time being DISY - a political party that does little other than rubbish AKEL’s athletic attempts to hide their many bungles behind DISY’s past mistakes without telling us what they intend to do about their present ones.

Getting back to those ‘silly games’, it should be noted that although the host nation came a deserved third, Cyprus, pro rata population, did better with its solitary silver.

British athletes enjoyed ‘open purse’ government support, whereas our only medal winner ever, Pavlos Kontides, was financed to the tune of €100,000 by his father (a former AKEL mayor of Limassol) to practise on the Olympic Weymouth course for the entire year prior to the Games, with this government putting on ‘the greatest media show on Earth’ several days before, during and after the lad’s return to his patrida.

If only the Cyprus Olympic Committee had financed our president to practise his job for a year ahead of his inauguration, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in today! This ‘artful dodger’s’ persistent misplaced opacity insults our intelligence. Does he really think Russia will lend him five billion euros without first seeking the green light to do so from the troika?

Well, I’ve had enough of our politicians’ weak excuses for the bankrupt state of our crippled economy and I’m considering visiting London to find out just how bad things are over there compared to ‘tricky old’, full of gas and hot air, Cyprus!

“I have no relationship with the President - none whatsoever. Obama doesn’t know how to be President.

He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent.”

Reported comments by ex-President Bill Clinton “The then leaders of the United States and Great Britain fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies” Archbishop Desmond Tutu, demanding that Tony Blair and ex-US president George W Bush should be tried over the invasion of Iraq

“I knew right from the start that you cannot compete with Maggie Smith. She will steal every scene” Actress Elizabeth McGovern on her fellow star in Downton Abbey “When you get to my age, 74, you are more worried about losing your marbles and your memory than your possessions” Sir Terry Wogan

“The tyranny of Brussels is not a violent one. It is a velvet kind of tyranny, but a tyranny nonetheless” Boris Johnson, Mayor of London “No one has ever walked up to me in a bar and said, ‘Hey, you’re hot’.”

Actress Kim Cattrall (below)

“I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere” Actor Larry Hagman, who plays JR Ewing in Dallas “I have been around actors all my life. It’s why I call people ‘darling’ - and I am only 23” Actor Freddie Fox “One thing about being president or running for president - if you are easily offended, you should probably choose another

“Some people ask me, ‘Are you scared that you are stereotyping Latin women?’ and I don’t even know why that is supposed to be bad.

I mean, this is who we are.

We’re loud. We’re passionate. We’re colourful. We’re voluptuous.”

Actress Sofia Vergara

16 September 9, 2012 • SUNDAY MAIL

News Review

Of milk and ‘wanted’ men Advanced stage THE government and its lenders could agree on a first draft of Cyprus’ bailout programme the next time they are on the island, Finance Minister Vasos Shiarly said on Monday, as he assured that the state could meet all its short-term financing needs even with delays in the negotiations. “I believe we will be at such an advanced stage that normally we should be able to agree on the first draft of the memorandum,” the minister told reporters.

Prevention IN THE next twenty years baby boomers, born after World War II, will start retiring and there will be fewer people of working age to support the over 65s, Health Minister Stavros Malas said on Monday. He said the situation warrants a greater need for public health intervention. “Right now the state spends about 97 per cent of the health budget on treatment and just 3.0 per cent on prevention in public health. This balance must change,” Malas said.

Health fees THE BILL laying out the new income criteria for those entitled to state subsidised health care, which also provides for an increase in hospital charges of 30 per cent, plus a €10 euro fee for an A&E visit, has been submitted to the House.

It aims to bring in €13 million and discourage abuse or unnecessary use of the overworked system, a health official said. The proposal includes simplifying the categories of health beneficiaries, increasing hospital treatment costs and introducing small fees for medicines’ subscriptions and visitations.

Fare bonanza LOW-COST carrier Ryanair is offering cheap flights from Paphos airport to the airline’s 15 destinations from the Cypriot hub for the month of October, with fares starting at only €20. To promote the offer, the Paphos regional board of tourism undertook a campaign, a first of its kind for the organisation. Nassos Hadjigeorgiou, the head of the Paphos regional board of tourism said: “We had teams of Cypriot girls holding boards promoting the Ryanair flight offer for October.”

Not serious THE GOVERNMENT on Monday dismissed as ‘cynical and lacking seriousness’ an informal invitation to President Demetris Christofias from Turkey’s EU negotiator Egemen Bagis to watch AEL Limassol’s Europa League match with Turkish team Fenerbahce together.

Bagis, was quoted in a Turkish daily saying that Christofias was “looking for a reason to come to Istanbul”.

So he said Christofias should talk to Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu about the possibility of visiting the country together to watch the November 8 match.

Most wanted A ‘MOST wanted’ list of nine UK criminals suspected of offences including rape and drug dealing who are thought to be hiding in Cyprus was launched during the week. It includes two Turkish Cypriots and one Greek Cypriot.

Crimestoppers has compiled the list working with officers from the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and Cypriot authorities in an operation code-named Zygos.

Milk shortage A RECENT warning by cattle farmers has become reality with supermarkets

President Christofias with Jordan’s King Abdullah inspecting a guard this week.

The President was on an official visit to Jordan, where several bilateral agreements were signed

suffering severe milk shortages after the competition watchdog ordered them to supply Pittas Dairies with 65 tonnes of milk a day. According to the Pancyprian Cattle Farmers’ Organisation (POA) the shortages will continue until October.

At the beginning of August the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) ordered POA to supply Pittas Dairies with 65 tonnes of cow milk per day. The order was issued after Pittas filed a complaint against the cattle farmers.

Fuel leak LARNACA Mayor Andreas Louroudjiadis on Tuesday couldn’t say for sure whether residents in the Drosia part of the town were at risk, after a fuel leak was spotted during road works ten days ago. Even though Louroudjiadis was quick to reassure residents in the area – a 10-minute walk from the town centre – he still admitted he couldn’t be sure of the exact dangers posed to public health and safety. No efforts were made to warn nearby residents of the possible dangers “so as not to spread panic”.

Church cuts

Record high

THE Church on Tuesday announced 25 per cent cuts in the salaries of its top clergy and a 15 per cent reduction in the income of lay personnel in a bid to tackle the economic crisis, which has taken a bite off the organisation’s revenues. The Holy Synod decided that its members, including the archbishop, would have 25 per cent shaved off their monthly income and would not be receiving a 13th salary at the end of the year.

SOARING FUEL prices are taking a bigger chunk out of household incomes following the latest price hikes, representing a record high in Cyprus.

Unleaded petrol has increased by around three cents while diesel by around two cents a litre. The latest increases, following a period of continuous price hikes over the summer, have taken the price of unleaded petrol to around €1.42 and diesel to €1.40 a litre.

Cut power OPPOSITION parties DISY, DIKO and EDEK on Tuesday called for the political decision to supply mixed villages Pyla and Pergamos with free electricity to be reviewed. After a House Commerce Committee meeting, Chairman Lefteris Christoforou said since the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) started providing free power to Turkish Cypriots in Pyla and Pergamos in 1964, the average household has contributed around €2,000.

He proposed the €267 million spent so far on supplying Pyla and Pergamos were offset with cuts in the benefits Turkish Cypriots were receiving from the state.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK “It’s not enough buying MRI machines and adding beds in hospital rooms, that’s management not prevention” Health Minister Stavros Malas “We reached the point of no return on December 14, the black day for our country, not just large families, when the law was passed slashing benefits” The head of the Pancyprian Large Families Association, Paraskevas Samaras “While these suspected criminals will see Cyprus as a safe place to evade law enforcement, my belief is that with the help of the local public and expatriate community these individuals will not be able to escape justice for much longer” Lord Ashcroft “In the following years we must learn to live within our means and not spend more than we make” Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly

(Right) “I have the cheapest prices in Cyprus and the various petrol station owners are putting on the pressure so they can keep their prices high” Larnaca petrol station owner who denies a reported fuel leak is coming from his outlet “I am not retracting ting anything because I am completely ompletely in the right” Paphos Mayor Savvas Vergas on his criticism of the foreign ministry for changing plans s to host an EU ministers meeting in Paphos “We will no longer ger tolerate the excessive privirivileges offered to Turkish Cypriots” s” DISY’s Lefteris Christoforou on n free electricity to Pyla and

Pergamos “In total, the three latest increases translate to a seven cents hike for petrol and four cents for diesel. Also, we’ve got to say that this time last year, prices were roughly 15 cents cheaper” Petrol station owners representative Stefanos Stefanou “There are problems in proble where all the countries w austerity measures measur only were imple implemented” Andros AKEL leader A Kyprianou

Rejection BANK employees on Thursday turned down an early retirement scheme offered to a section of Popular Bank staff, and served notice that any similar plan that might follow must bear their stamp of approval. The decision was taken at a general meeting of the Cyprus Union of Bank Employees (ETYK) to discuss an early exit plan put to around 180 staff at the Popular Bank.

The meeting was called amid rumours that a number of employees were being approached by management and coerced into agreeing to early retirement.

Sunbeds scam FAMAGUSTA District Court on Thursday remanded 13 municipal beach workers for eight days, after they were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of embezzling a reported €500,000 by pocketing the takings from sunbed rentals.

The most popular method used, the court heard, was by re-issuing receipts.

Someone would pay for their sunbed and/or umbrella and the municipal worker would re-print the previous customer’s receipt on the ticket dispensing machines introduced by Paralimni municipality two years ago.

More fish IT WAS fisherman’s paradise on Thursday in the Limassol area after thousands of sea bream were released from a nearby fish farm. The company which owns the farm, off Governor’s Beach, said the cages had been sabotaged, releasing some 70 tonnes of sea bream worth around €400,000. That did not matter much to dozens of fisherman who scrambled to the area after hearing that thousands of fish were loose. Television footage showed lines of fishermen knee-high in the water, filling bucket after bucket with sea bream.

17 SUNDAY MAIL • September 9, 2012

Coffeeshop

Keeping a five-year-old happy IT IS with great regret that we have had to re-open our establishment after a revitalising two week break, far away from the obliterating heat, humidity and stupidity of the Parasites’ Republic of Kyproulla, but a man has to work for a living when he is not on the state pay-roll and there is no shame in making coffees and machallepi.

This was, after all, the first job our charismatic comrade leader had and he did not do too badly, even though some believe Kyproulla would have been much better off if he had stuck to it and avoided pursuing a political career. Then again, a political career pays much better and gives much higher social status, which even humble, idealistic commies, concerned about the plight of the poor worker, would kill for.

Why am I mentioning this? I don’t really know. It could be envy, knowing that the comrade can now go on his annual, luxury holiday in New York, holding court in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria and collecting a per diem of €200 despite the fact that all his expenses are paid for by our bankrupt state.

And all this for a traditional, mind-numbingly boring, half-hour speech about Turkish intransigence, he will give at a two-thirds empty UN General Assembly with attendees having their earpieces switched off. Nice work if you can get it.

THERE has been concerted effort by the comrade’s poodles in AKEL and the government over the last week or so to make the Cyprob the main issue of debate in order to shift public attention away from his grand project of destroying the economy and sending living standards to 1970s levels.

Last weekend the commies held half a dozen news conferences to attack comments about the Cyprob, attributed to the DISY Fuhrer by a Turkish newspaper that the comrade’s son-in-law, who is employed as the palazzo’s expert on Turkish affairs, happened to read. Nik committed the treachery of supposedly expressing a preference for a ‘loose federation’ to an MEP who mentioned this to Hurriyet daily.

The comrades were apoplectic you could see smoke coming out of their ears as soon as the TV camera focused on them - and managed to keep their self-righteous rage going for the cameras until Wednesday.

They were helped by Nik’s stupid decision to respond through his party deputies with an intensity that made you think AKEL had accused him of expressing a preference not for loose federation but for loose women.

THE COMRADE spoke about the ‘danger of loose federation’ outside a church on Friday night, warning that this would lead to a two-state solution. His commitment to a tight federation on the other hand, had averted the twostate solution.

This insistence on talking about the Cyprob at time when everybody wants to know what the president plans to do about the economy that is in free-fall gives rise to fears that he has a screw loose.

Akelites believe he will not sign a bailout, if it includes pay and pension cuts, which is why he has adopted his favoured policy of saying and doing nothing about the bailout.

EVEN HIS loyal appointee, Central Bank Governor Professor

Panicos, has been expressing concern about the dangers of the comrade refusing to sign a bailout agreement. The professor recently sent one of his associates, to meet the DISY Fuhrer and talk about the issue.

The professor’s emissary told Nice Nik that DISY should stop criticising the comrade’s handling of the economy and offer him some support, because he was threatening to reject the bailout terms, which would be catastrophic. There would be a better chance of the comrade agreeing to the bailout, if the political parties rallied behind him and there was some form of consensus, argued the professor’s envoy.

Antagonising him would only fire up his colossal obstinacy and he would refuse to sign the bailout agreement was the message. It is scary that the future of country is in the hands of a president with the maturity of a spoilt, five-yearold that everyone has to appease and pander to because otherwise he would flush the country down the toilet.

The Fuhrer obviously took the Governor’s warning very seriously because on Thursday he held a news conference at which he urged the sulking president to call a meeting of the party leaders so they could collectively decide an action plan and share the political cost of the austerity measures proposed by the troika.

Deputy government spokesman Chris-Chris said the spoilt fiveyear-old would call a meeting when he felt there was something specific to discuss. Currently the president had much more pressing issues to deal with such as the threat of the loose federation and had no time to study the troika’s proposals.

ON ITS 11am news yesterday, the AKEL-owned,-controlled and -run radio station Astra carried a damning report, from its correspondent in New York about the government’s refusal to engage in discussions with the troika about the bailout.

Astra correspondent Panicos Panayiotou, quoting IMF sources in New York, said the Fund was very unhappy with Cyprus because Nicosia was ‘delaying presenting its proposals’ and had not yet given a date for the troika’s visit to the island.

The IMF, which had given its proposals to the government at the end of July, expected to receive counter-proposals before the end of August but has not heard from Nicosia yet. Panayiotou also reported that the IMF planned to express its displeasure about Nicosia’s lack of co-operation publicly, in order to put pressure on the comrade.

Someone with a screw loose must have been in charge of the Astra news yesterday to allow the broadcasting of the report.

The palazzo or AKEL intervened

President Christofias found visiting a church preferable to dealing with economic woes this week subsequently, because the report was not repeated on the 12 or 1pm news bulletins. We hope Panayiotou will not lose his job as a result of his irresponsible journalism.

THE CORRESPONDENT had also reported that Big Bad Al will have meetings with the village mukhtars in Kyproulla on the September 17 and 18, but no developments were expected because of the EU presidency and the February presidential elections. But no development is no news. This did not stop Astra repeating this nonews, as its lead story both on the 12 and 1pm news bulletins. For Astra news editors, no developments in the Cyprob are more newsworthy than the IMF’s displeasure with the government, unless the news editor has a screw loose.

COMMERCE Minister Neoklis Sylikiotis in a ridiculous attempt to persuade the troika to give us loans without insisting on austerity measures, sent it a report which claimed that the state would make between 300 and 500 billion euro from natural gas in the coming years.

The troika was not impressed, informing Sylikiotis that its concern was the next three years and it did not believe the hundreds of billions would start pouring into state coffers during this time.

Sylikiotis should have informed the head of the euro-group about this news, because we will be able to bail out the entire eurozone with our natural gas zillions.

THIS ESTABLISHMENT had developed a soft spot for the DISY Fuhrer in the last few years, but we were less than happy with the news of an imminent electoral alliance with the principled opportunists of DIKO. We thought Nik had more style

than to pander to that self-serving, bash-patriotic creep who will almost certainly have secured the presidency of the House in exchange for his support of the Fuhrer. Having the backing of Marios Garoyian, the man responsible for electing the worst president in the history of the Republic, is embarrassing even if it did secure the presidency for Nik. Many of our customers are considering not voting for Nik if the election deal with DIKO is finalised and who can blame them. It is time we had a government that did not contain DIKO rusfetologists.

STUNG by criticism of his principled opportunism Garoyian lashed out at his detractors.

He said: “Unfortunately, political opponents and several mass media have as a dear and permanent refrain that DIKO ‘sticks to power for personal benefit’. This is a myth that has no relation to reality.”

He has a point, because the reality is that DIKO sticks to power only to ensure there is a just, fair, viable and workable solution to the Cyprob, an objective it achieves every time at huge personal cost. This is the permanent refrain of DIKO which has no relation to the myth.

THE PERSECUTION of the old regime at the Central Bank is gathering steam. Ten days ago instructions were given to selected members of staff to give up their PCs and mobile telephones in order to assist with the investigation being conducted by an independent company called in to establish the causes of the banking crisis.

The governor, on instructions from the government, wants to find out who was responsible for exposure to the Greek debt and to identify the weaknesses in Central Bank’s regulatory role. AKEL announced

that the investigation would show all those “who had responsibilities for the crime against the country’s economy, which unfortunately led to the support mechanism.”

AKEL is preparing a new blame game master-plan on the scale of the 1974 coup, which it has been exploiting ever since. The comrades know that the economy is going to the dogs and that we are facing the biggest disaster since the Turkish invasion.

It needs scapegoats to blame the disaster on and is now busy building a case against the boards of the banks, whose members will be the new Eoka B and the former Central Bank governor, who will be the new Grivas. The troika will have the role of NATO in the revamped coup narrative.

INTERESTINGLY, the PCs that Professor Panicos’ office has asked for were those belonging to the closest associates of the former governor and Grivas candidate, Athanasios Orphanides.

But for some reason, the Central Bank officers in charge of monitoring the Popular Bank’s transaction and activities were not asked to deliver their PCs and mobile phones. This is very strange considering the Popular Bank is much deeper in the merde - it could collapse any time - than the Bank of Cyprus and its boss, Andreas Vgenopoulos, took much more reckless decisions than his B of C counterpart.

Is the government trying to protect the man who singlehandedly destroyed the Popular Bank?

Why is our commie leader being so protective of a greedy, ruthless and lying banker who personally made a fortune on the back of Laiki, before bankrupting it?

Answers on a postcard and we promise to publish the best ones next week.

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World in pictures

Six-year-old quadruplets from Shenzhen, south China with their hair shaved into numbers before they start school. Their parents decided to mark them with 1, 2, 3, 4 on their heads to make it easier for teachers and classmates to tell them apart

Pakistan Air Force cadets march at the mausoleum of the country’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi (AFP)

A man waves a sign at the Democratic National Convention (AFP)

Priscilla Marquez and Evie Walls from Arizona pose in the Google photo booth at the Democratic National Convention

US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney impersonator Mike Cote (right) and US President Barack Obama impersonator Reggie Brown perform a dance face off during an Obama vs Romney showdown in Washington Square Park, New York

A teacher gives a class in a bus to children from the Roma community in a suburb of Paris (AFP)

A diver carries a young girl after a boat carrying illegal immigrants trying to reach Europe capsized in waters off western Turkey (AFP)

South Africa’s Radebe Samkelo looks at his gold medal during the award ceremony for the men’s 4x100m relay during the London 2012 Paralympic Games (AFP)

Papua New Guinean Fuzzy Wuzzy Hannington Dabinyaba mingles with guests following a Battle for Australia Commemoration service in Sydney (AFP)

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Lifestyle

Passing the baton: the Duchesses of Cambridge and Cornwall will take on more duties to take pressure off the Queen

The Firm’s new foundations I

T WAS not the images of Prince Harry cavorting naked in Las Vegas unwelcome though they were - that most troubled the inner coterie of Buckingham Palace courtiers this year. The picture that potentially has far more profound implications for the royal family was of a whitehaired elderly lady cautiously climbing the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral without her partner of 64 years.

The image of the Queen arriving at the Jubilee Thanksgiving service in June on her own while the Duke of Edinburgh recovered in hospital from a bladder infection is said to have been a key catalyst for a major shakeup in thinking at the heart of Britain’s royal family.

Insiders say it simply looked wrong for an 86-yearold woman to be entering the cathedral for a celebration of her own life without a male family member to support her. It is a role Prince Charles might be expected to take on, but his responsibilities to his wife make this a delicate quandary.

While the Duke of Edinburgh - the oldest spouse of a reigning British monarch - is blessed with a remarkably robust constitution, it is clearly no longer reasonable to expect him to keep up the same pace as he approaches his century. There will inevitably be more occasions when the Duke will not be in his usual place three paces behind his wife. It will not be an easy transition. Even Philip says “he has done his bit” but he refuses to let his wife down. He is also notoriously reluctant to cut down on his busy schedule of private engagements.

Another hospitalisation for Prince Philip last month - and the Queen’s concern about his workload - have

Plans are afoot to ease the Queen’s burden of official duties. Robert Jobson and Jonathan Prynn report The younger generation were visible throughout the Olympics

speeded up plans for a subtle handing over of the torch. It is likely that Prince Charles, with his wife the Duchess of Cornwall and his brothers Andrew and Edward, will take on more royal duties to ease the pressure on the Queen and her 91-year-old husband.

One senior palace figure said that in the next few months Charles, will adopt a “shadow king” role - enabling his mother to spend more time with Philip. “This is not a

One senior palace figure said Charles will adopt a ‘shadow king’ role - enabling his mother to spend more time with Philip

question of Her tMajesty abdicatning her respone sibilities,” the e senior source e said. “It’s more g about sharing d the workload and being more selective of the duties she undertakes. Herr d Majesty and dthe Duke of Edd inburgh worked t i r e l e s s l y e throughout the Diamond Jubi-o lee. Perhaps too much was ex-pected of them. s “The Queen is remarkably fit but she appreci-n ates that when she is on duty s the Duke, as

he liegeman, believes her i is his duty to be it at her side. The difficulty is persuading him that any of his sons can step in for him to accompany

Slowing down: Prince Philip (L) and the Queen attending the Thanksgiving ceremony alone

Her Majesty and that that would be acceptable.

“If the Duke does not agree to that, the only solution is for Her Majesty to do fewer engagements and for the younger members of the family to represent her at the others.”

The Duke of York in particular is seen as a key figure. Single and without an official role since stepping down as a trade ambassador last year, he is best placed to provide the personal support for the Queen she needs when Prince Philip is absent. As a result, his somewhat tarnished image as “Airmiles Andy” is being carefully rehabilitated. On Monday the former Royal Navy helicopter pilot abseiled from the top of London’s tallest building - The Shard - as part of a £1 mil-

lion fundraising effort for the Outward Bound Trust and the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund.

The younger generation, having acquitted themselves well during the Olympics, will be far more visible.

Despite his PR slip in Las Vegas, royal advisers believe Prince Harry’s improving reputation will survive the exposure. He has confirmed he will be patron of a charity race to the South Pole between three teams of wounded servicemen. On Monday he attended the WellChild children’s charity awards in London.

Insiders say it could also mean Prince William - who serves as an RAF search and rescue pilot until mid-2013 will have to abandon plans for a longer-term military career to become a full-time royal to fill the void. During the Duke’s most recent spell in hospital – he spent six days in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary last month when a bladder infection flared up again - the Queen took the opportunity to discuss how to handle this important reshaping of the monarchy with her heir at Balmoral.

“It is a delicate situation and one of which the Prince of Wales in particular is mindful. He is ready to do whatever Her Majesty requires of him,” a member of the royal household said.

Royal watchers said that the passing of the baton will be carefully controlled but inevitable. Kate Reardon, editor of Tatler, said: “If, after an almost supernaturally never-put-a-footwrong career, the Queen decides to step back a bit, we’ll miss her like crazy but we’ll have to begrudgingly understand.

“It simply means we’ll very slowly see a bit more of Charles, Camilla, William and Kate. The transition will be imperceptibly gradual, tightly managed and no doubt entirely orchestrated

by The Queen herself - she knows that, even if they come across as a little dull, we like our royal family to appear calm, composed and in control at all times.”

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THE SOCIALITE NETWO

Are the rich so different that they need their own Facebook? As the Best of All launches, its founder Count Erik Wachtmeister grants Joshi Herrmann an au Exclusive tastes: it all comes back to the trusted few says Erik Wachtmeister

Wild boar: hunting them leaves plenty of time to think

OUNT Erik Wachtmeister says he came up with the idea of an online social network for the elite when hunting boar on the Bismarck family’s Friedrichsruh estate in the northern German state of SchleswigHolstein. “They have fantastic boar hunts every year,” he says, “there are suddenly

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Connaught, I had been told about his successful banking career with Lehman Brothers and elsewhere, about a company he set up raising private money for publicly listed companies (“It was amazing, I could talk to you for hours about that”), that he has always had “very strong people skills”, that he was born into a noble fam-

Do you have what it takes? The website

50 animals coming at you and it’s a real excitement, but then you can have three hours where nothing happens and you can have some good ideas.” It’s a romantic creation story, like Wagner’s vision at La Spezia but with less profound consequences, and probably just as apocryphal.

But either way, it is typical of Wachtmeister, 57, that he should tell the world about it. Within five minutes of meeting him in the living room of his suite at London’s

ily, that he has met five US presidents and that his father was “maybe one of the most successful international diplomats of all time” who was so close to George Bush Senior that they played tennis together twice a week.

Tall and grey, with narrow horizontal lines shooting up both cheeks, Wachtmeister looks like a more relaxed incarnation of Max Mosley. He speaks English with a soft American inflection, acquired while living at the Swedish embassy in Wash-

The vision of Friedrichsruh - a social networking site that allows that global coterie to plan their lives together online ington from the age of 19, and his undergraduate years at Georgetown. Since then, he has been a proud member of the international jet set, “running into the same people who all know each other, whether it’s in Punta del Este, Uruguay for New Year, the US Open in September, Paris Fashion Week in March, the Grand Prix in Monaco in May, maybe midsummer in Sweden...” - you get the idea.

Hence the vision of Friedrichsruh - a social networking site that allows that global coterie to plan their lives together online. To get to the point where you think such a site is necessary, it helps to have Wachtmeister’s partic-

ular take on friendship. He says that when he was single (he made Louise Austern, now 34, his Countess eight years ago), he “was kind of combining networking socially with networking professionally, in kind of an optimal way”.

Optimal apparently means not with your friends. “I don’t know if you know about the weak link hypothesis,” he asks me across the coffee table. It sounds like it could be something to do with the master race, so I say that I don’t. He says

weak links are people you don’t know very well. “Because people are always focusing on their strong links, they may be very secure and happy because they’re with their mates, but if you are focusing on your weak links, you have much more reach, influence and information,” he says, adding that “I’ve been very good at organising my weak links.” Do you have real friends, I quite reasonably interject. “Of course,” he says, chuckling gleefully like Moriarty, “of course!”

It was “the idea of creating

Wachtmeister la World at the s Facebook w a platform for all the weak links” that led him to his elite online networks. His first was a website called A Small World, founded in March 2004. Dubbed “MySpace for millionaires”, it operated an

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Wachtmeister’s kind of people (left to right): spy Anna Chapman, Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Lady Victoria Hervey, Tim Jefferies and Naomi Campbell

The movers and shakers sought for the site would have attended occasions such as Paris Fashion Week

unched A Small same time as went online. invitation only sign-up policy to keep the membership rarefied. It reportedly counted Naomi Campbell, Prince Pavlos of Greece, Lady Victoria Hervey, Tim Jefferies, Freddie Windsor and Will

Astor among its members, but quickly became a repository for the orange tans and mindless boasting of the selffashioning Eurotrash. “Beloved of gay Swiss bankers,” was how one of my friends described it. When the Russian spy Anna Chapman was exposed a few years ago, the site gave me one of my first good stories as a journalist, after a colleague and I found her profile on there linked to a series of embarrassed former drinking partners in the world of business.

Wachtmeister launched

A Small World at the same time as Facebook went online. After membership had risen to hundreds of thousands, he left the project five years later, in 2009, following disagreements with investor and movie producer Harvey Weinstein, whom he blames for neglecting the site itself in favour of selling advertising.

He says allowing the highprofile Weinstein to come on board was “a big mistake”.

The latest Wachtmeister intervention in the world of social media is the inelegantly named Best of All Worlds,

which launched last week and by day two had built up 25,000 members on its prereleased iPhone app, including billionaires and members of royal houses, I am assured.

He says it is a step ahead of A Small World, not to mention Facebook and LinkedIn. “I mean what has Facebook done really? It’s all about self expression and showing off.”

Best of All Worlds is active, he says, allowing invited users to say “I want to play polo” [his example] when they hop into a city, and get the right sort of companion.

Bestofallworlds.com also offers hotel, restaurant and shop listings, rated and reviewed by other “sophisticated” users. “It comes back to the trusted few rather than the wisdom of crowds,” he says, returning to his favourite catchphrase.

He hopes its wealthy membership will appeal to advertisers, and that additional revenues will flow from ex-

clusive event tie-ups and “lead generation” - the kickbacks a site can earn when its users sign up to a credit card or book a hotel room after clicking on an ad. But who exactly are these “best” people (he looks blank when I ask whether Voltaire’s Pangloss had a hand in the naming process) Wachtmeister is targeting?

“It doesn’t necessarily mean high net worth, it can include opinion leaders, thought leaders, first movers, people who have maybe A personalities, people who are very well networked, people who are very well educated, and people who are leaders in their fields,” he says. But he also wants them all to have “a high degree of sophistication and taste”.

Those exhibiting bad taste will be removed from the site.

“It’s funny, we recently had a discussion about whether we should allow people to publish their titles if they bought

their titles on eBay,” he adds, to show one of bad taste’s most wicked manifestations.

Soon the site will feature “worlds” which users can be invited to join, including ones for business, polo, hunting and philanthropy.

“We’re considering having some secret worlds: one of them might be a noble world, for anyone with a bona fide, proven aristocratic background,” he reveals, inadvisedly. “But those worlds will probably be secret because we will be subject to ridicule, maybe.”

Maybe, I say. And maybe his boar hunts and noble worlds and polo meet-ups won’t ever appeal to the two million users he wants to have by this time next year. Or maybe - as no one has ever lost money underestimating the taste of the Cristal jet-set - this business-savvy, networking-crazy, nobilityobsessed Swedish count is on to something.

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Property LEGAL ISSUES WITH GEORGE COUCOUNIS

EC law supersedes the Cypriot rent law THE statutory tenancy is a right protecting the statutory tenant from being evicted from the demised premises with the reservations of the law and it is applicable for both Cypriots and citizens of EU countries. The relevant discrimination provided in the Rent Control Law is unacceptable, since it is not in accordance with the EC law. The Rent Control Court should ignore the said discrimination and apply the law equally for all citizens of member states. The legal order in Cyprus through the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution has been harmonised with the European acquis and has given superior effect to European law in all areas, binding the Republic of Cyprus as from the date of its accession to the European Union.

The application of the Rent Control Law and the extension of the jurisdiction of the relevant court after Cyprus’ EU accession to cover and apply to all EU citizens has been examined by the Supreme Court, which referred to the above and indicated that the state should take all necessary steps for amending the Rent Control Law. Moreover, it has stated that according to the Cyprus Constitution, treaties, contracts and agreements entered into in accordance with the provisions of the said article, from their publication in the Official Gazette, have superior effect to local law, provided that they are also applied by the counterparty. ECT and TFEU were entered into in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and they were properly published and therefore, there is nothing indicating that they are not mutually applied by the counterparties.

Consequently, they supersede any local law, including the Rent Control Law. The Fifth Amendment made it clear that no provision of the Constitution would be considered as cancelling any laws or regulations enacted by the Republic, which are necessary in accordance with

its obligations as a member state of the EU. Thus, the courts of Cyprus are obliged to adjust local laws so they do not contradict the European acquis, part of which is certainly the freedom of movement and establishment in any state of the EU without any restriction or discrimination.

The case referred to a claim by the owner of an apartment, which he rented to a lady from Romania. She delayed payment of the rent and common expenses and remained in the apartment.

The owner had to resort to the Rent Control Court, claimed her eviction, the payment of the rents in arrear, as well as mean profits until delivery of the apartment to him. She did not appear before the court and the Rent Control Court issued a judgment suspending the application of the owner, deciding that it had no jurisdiction to try the case, since she was not a Cypriot citizen. The Supreme Court, examining the appeal of the owner, agreed with him that the Rent Control Law should be considered as applicable not only for Cypriot citizens but also citizens of all other member states. Article 12 of the ECT which was replaced by article 18 of the TFEU prohibits the discrimination based on nationality and citizenship. The court referred to the example of the application of the European acquis in the legal order of Cyprus in relation to the right of establishment and which applied to an alien married to a Cypriot, inasmuch in the present case where the tenant is a European citizen. Consequently, the Supreme Court held that the Rent Control Court had jurisdiction to try the case, set aside the judgment and ordered it to try the application of the owner.

George Coucounis is a lawyer specialising in the Immovable Property Law, based in Larnaca, Tel: 24 818288, coucounis.law@cytanet.com. cy, www.coucounislaw.com

WHAT YOU GET FOR

Quality and sales

By Antonis Loizou WE are often asked whether adding quality to a project/ property will make it pay.

This is not an easy question to handle, since it depends on what quality is considered to be.

The primary question in terms of quality is the location. So the better the location, the availability of public services, the views, proximity to urban facilities etc, the better the quality is.

In terms of 1-10 points we will say that location will secure the 2 points.

The second matter is that of the design. We watch in horror some spacious villas that, save for a particular market source, do not appeal to many others. In this context and notwithstanding an otherwise alternative design, which refers mainly to the external appearance, one must consider also the facilities provided – e.g. individual baths for all bedrooms, storage space, internal lift, covered garage, etc.

In this context we will give 2 points.

The third parameter is that of the expense of materials. It is the norm that good quality materials cost more.

Double glazing, imported ready made kitchens, good quality marble/ceramics, the use of VRV air conditioning as opposed to ordinary split units, overflow pools as opposed to the less expensive

Will the use of quality materials in a project be reflected in its sales price? skimmer type, the use or not of shutters etc etc, are costly items, which are taken into account by the market. In this context we will give this heading 1 point (in terms of luxurious materials).

The garden size is another item to be remembered.

Most gardens are not competitive in terms of size and as a rule we would suggest permanent residences have an average garden size two to three times that of the house, and 1.5 to two times for holiday homes. In terms of value we adopt 1 point.

The neighbourhood also plays a role and this is specially important, as price/ house costs goes up and up.

So if a house of good quality is set in a downgraded neighbourhood, it should be discounted on this account alone. The neighbours themselves also play their role in terms of quality - noisy neighbours, buy-tolet neighbours. In terms of quality of neighbourhood we adopt 1 point.

Management of projects in comprehensive development projects is also a point to be considered. Good management and maintenance of the common areas is of paramount importance.

What if the house is full of granite and marble, gold

€275,000

How much: €275,000 What you get: This three-bedroom, one-bathroom detached property in Larnaca includes an open kitchen, along with a guest toilet.

From: www.cyprusprop.com, Tel: 99 537985

door handles etc, when the project as a whole is run down, the private roads are unkempt and the common facilities are out of use? In such cases you do not stand a good chance of selling the property at a reasonable price - 1 point.

The facilities provided in a project should also claim a point. If the residents do not pay their common expenses, the numerous facilities become a nightmare. We note some new projects that have a project spa and extensive other facilities, such as an internal pool etc, which are non economically viable in terms of business value, but as an initial stage they are appealing. These sort of facilities sell, but if problems follow, then these facilities will become a liability. As an initial attraction however we adopt ½ point.

The developer’s ‘name’ plays its role in small countries such as Cyprus. A good name which gives reliability and confidence has its merits in terms of attraction, especially when the project has no titles/under construction - 1 point.

Maintenance costs should play a role, but they do not get their fair share. Materials, which are used and are of free/limited maintenance,

should be credited with a point. Usually the maintenance free materials are more costly and sometimes more ugly. So the use of sprits instead of paint, fare faced concrete as opposed to stone cladding, etc are not taken into account seriously by the market – 1 point.

So that you do not think we are exaggerating this situation, two Nicosia developers (out of the hundreds) not only sell at approximately 20 per cent more than the competition, but also they have run out of properties to sell.

These two developers are active in the local market, which is by far more difficult than the foreign one. So, these two developers, who reflect most of the points referred to before, sell at €2,600/m² (apartments), whereas the competitors sell at €2,000/m². This rate of 25 per cent increase is the result of most of the points above and is an example to learn from.

Quality has many interpretations and it will depend on the individual to place his own score.

Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Property Valuers & Property Consultants, www.aloizou.com.cy, alaHQ@aloizou.com.cy

Compiled by Natalie Hami

How much: €275,000 What you get: This three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Paphos boasts three verandas, as well as coming with a satellite dish.

From: www.kaimarconsulting.com, Tel: 25 318712

How much: €265,000 What you get: This three-bedroom, three-bathroom detached property in Vrysoulles, Famagusta comes with a private pool and a stone fireplace.

From: www.buysellcyprus.com, Tel: 26 200000

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Property Around the world in 80 borders Luxury living by the sea AKAMAS peninsula is a place of unique natural beauty and is also well known for Fontana Amoroza and Aphrodite’s baths.

In close proximity to this area, in walking distance of Latchi marina and the picturesque harbour with its fish and seafood tavernas, Leptos Estates is developing Latchi Beach Villas.

Leptos Estates has released the first of 13 luxury beach front villas of the project.

Situated in a fantastic location, all modern villas offer spectacular sea views.

The entrance doors open to a bright, open-plan kitchen, dining and sitting areas

with a feature fire place and bay windows with sun terraces overlooking the spacious swimming pool and the blooming gardens.

The panoramic sea view is absolutely breathtaking.

Every house has a spacious parking place and many open green areas.

Leptos Latchi Beach Villas will place higher the benchmark of quality and luxury living. Their architectural design and construction level together with the Leptos Group’s 50 years of experience and expertise in real estate development, guarantee an exclusive way of life by the sea.

Leptos Kings Palace project sold out ANOTHER sold out project has been notched up by Leptos Estates in Paphos. All properties at Leptos Kings Palace on the west coast of Kato Paphos have been sold out.

Investors and other buyers are mainly from Russia, China and Scandinavia, while even local buyers from the capital have choosen this beautiful development.

Leptos Kings Palace provides an idyllic lifestyle for discerning people. It is located in an exclusive coastal area, within walking distance of the shops and nightlife, on a gently sloping hillside overlooking the sea.

FIVE years on and still going strong, Border Choice Ltd has been shipping their ‘Easy Fit’ swimming pool borders globally to countries including France, Spain, Canada, USA, Italy and Australia with great success and is delighted to have the business based on the sunny shores of Cyprus.

Swimming pool owners far and wide are now looking for our products, says Andy Carrington, Managing Director. If you’re looking to make your swimming pool look like new, be easy to clean at an affordable price then look no further, no need to replace your liner or remove the water.

All designs are Border Choice’s own designs with product testing undertaken in numerous climatic conditions both here in Cyprus and in the UK. Borders are manufactured in the company’s UK factory and delivered using a reliable door to door courier service.

Carrington said.

Border Choice wishes every success to its new Australian Agents, Healing Water Supplies who are now moving forward with Border Choice and their products. Say Leith and Jutta, co-owners, “we purchased our first border online and after seeing the fantastic transformation it made to the pool we got in touch with Border Choice and said we would like to represent them in Australia”.

Border Choice can make your pool ‘look like new’ with one of its easy to fit and easy to clean borders.

It offers a fitting service for those clients wishing to take advantage of a friendly professional service.

Expanding products reach into Australia “Our online ordering and customer service is working extremely well at our website www.borderchoice. com, giving customers more freedom to shop when

they want and browse at their own leisure, with payment being by credit/debit card using the ‘safe’ Cyprus recognised JCC payment process or bank transfer,”

Call the sales HOTLINE on 99 857556 for answers to any questions you may have about the products.

With 50 per cent off fitting, see fantastic discounted borders at www.borderchoice.com

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Property Earlier this summer the French government announced a hike in second-home taxes. Stephen Robinson recalls the shaky foundations of the European property adventure that cost him a lotta

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STILL recall the moment I was lured onto the European property market carousel. For a few years afterwards I became convinced I was a bit of a Continental real estate genius.

It was 15 years ago, and my home, then on the Chelsea/ Fulham borders, was tired and needed the retro-fitting of some seriously expensive German and Scandinavian domestic appliances. A spiffy Mayfair-based architect casually informed me that it would cost something like 60 grand, plus VAT. The next day I happened to fly off to stay with friends living outside Barcelona.

We laughed about the absurd price of building work in London and over a bottle or two of rosado, with the sun setting over the Med, we convinced each other to spend the same amount of cash on a little piece of holiday heaven facing westwards over the sea. So I forwent the Philippe Starck basins and embraced the Mediterranean dream.

At the time it seemed rather an exclusive and radical thing to do. Little did I know that, a decade and a half later, roughly 400,000 Britons would now have their main home in Spain. If you do not wish to know the inevitable result of the European property bust, look away now.

The numbers, and the individual human experiences, are terrifying, and in some cases heart-breaking.

Buyers may find themselves wishing they were here but actually own something more like the scene below

Costa catastrophe?

ABSURD No wonder that Spain - to take the country where the pan-European property bubble inflated most absurdly was recently forced to drop all pretence that it really didn’t need a bailout to remain within the euro, and formally demanded €80 billion to stop its banks having to close down their ATMs. As anyone who has visited the coastal regions of Iberia in the past couple of years knows, it is, as the expats living there say, “Costa Catastrophe”.

Along the Med, and around all manner of inland speculative golf course-based developments thrown up in the past five years or so, there is a rolling fire-sale of empty houses and flats. There are a quarter of a million unsold and unwanted homes on the market as a result of Spain’s speculative construction bubble. It inflated as Madrid enjoyed rock-bottom interest rates set in Frankfurt by bankers intent on controlling the ever-expanding German industrial machine.

In those boom-boom years, the Spanish banks were tripping over each other in their zeal to extend credit to locals, and to British, Dutch and Germans as well. Now these local banks, the cajas, are tottering, and their credit rating has been reduced. The Spanish property market went insane as banks extended ever more sumptuous lines of credit to ever more demented developers. There are spanking new ribbons of frightful apartment developments along any bit of coast, and doughnut housing projects all around the arid plains that surround Madrid.

“The problem is,” says Alex Vaughan, a London lawyer

should really worry if you own a lovely little gîte or château in Languedoc or Normandy French property is reckoned to be 47 per cent overvalued. Not only that but earlier this summer the French government announced it is to increase taxes on foreignowned second homes. Tax on rental income will rise from 20 per cent to 35.5 per cent, and capital gains tax on property sales from 19 per cent to 34.5 per cent.

I cannot claim to be one of the real victims of the Costa Catastrophe, as my co-owner and I put in less than £100,000 in 1998, and I always regarded it as a place for long weekends, and then, once my wife and I had young children, a reliably familiar holiday destination.

But I’d be lying if I claimed that, throughout the Noughties, I did not cast a greedy eye through the windows of the local estate agents as we walked to the beach.

At one point this little two-bed flat was apparently worth a staggering €450,000.

No more, even if its prime location right on the Med has spared it the full catastrophic price drop seen in brand new speculative developments. That said, it is probably unsellable at the moment given the glut in the market. As I sit in drizzly London I find that oddly reassuring, for it removes the temptation to sell up something I love that was never intended to be an investment.

REGRET

turned director of Barcelona-based estate agent Lucas Fox, “trying to imagine who is likely to be the end user of these properties.” His firm works at the higher end of the market, though all prices have dropped, with the possible exception of parts of the islands, notably Ibiza, which are holding up fine. Barcelona prices have fallen about 30 per cent since 2008, prime property less so, while “at the low end of the market, it’s carnage”, with drops of more than 60 per cent, says Vaughan.

This is because we are not talking about a bit of localised overbuilding which might take a few months to shift. The reality in Spain is

that there are tens of thousands of speculatively built homes that will probably never, ever, be occupied. There is no housing shortage in Spain - just a dismal overhang of flats and homes that no one wants to buy or live in.

The other problem is that this oversupply has destroyed the market for everyone else.

Many expat Brits are now stranded in developments that have gone bust in the crisis, leaving the homes on the books of banks which, desperate to offload them, sell at almost any price - if they can.

This crisis is certainly not limited to Spain. Radio 4’s Today programme presenter John Humphrys spoke

poignantly of his neighbours around his second home in the Greek Peloponnese, who are struggling to get by as the euro crisis bites and unemployment rockets. And the Guardian’s Polly Toynbee will surely lament the condition of the Italian underclass when she returns from her summer break at her Tuscan villa.

As David Cameron might say, John, Polly and I are all in this together, and it could get much worse. Should the bond markets be right and Greece be forced to exit the euro, John Humphrys’s piece of heaven might be worth half in devalued drachmas what he assumes it is worth today.

Polly could take a hit too,

as Tuscan property prices have been soggy ever since the Lehmans bust, and it is no longer inconceivable that Italy might be forced to readopt the lira at a rate prejudicial to foreign property owners. The numbers for anyone who owns Continental property remain truly depressing.

The Economist runs a grim quarterly survey, assessing through rental yields and real incomes how over or undervalued properties are in various countries.

Staggeringly, it reckons Spanish property is still 27 per cent overvalued, despite price collapses of up to 60 per cent.

In Britain homes are said to be a relatively modest 22 per cent overvalued. But you

I cannot speak for others who have ended up owning Continental property, but I have never regretted my modest investment in a small but lovely flat, and never felt moved to sell my half share even when the notional value rocketed upwards. But there is another factor at play. The late Nineties was the heyday of the budget airlines, when you could leave a London office on a Thursday evening and fly to Barcelona, Milan or Athens for a three-day weekend for £80 return. No more, now easyJet and Ryanair have loaded on all the extras for every piece of luggage and check in fees, and the government regards budget travellers as cash cows for bogus “carbon taxes”.

Normally, when there has been a property crash causing prices to fall by a half or more, bottom-feeders would move in to pick up bargains. But an even scarier scenario is now possible.

On top of the price falls that have already occurred across the eurozone - Germany and Holland excluded, where there is no obsession with home ownership - what happens if there is a complete break-up of the eurozone?

This is why there is no floor to the prices for marginal and grotty properties in the balmy outer reaches of the eurozone. Should the single currency collapse, so will any pretence that Mediterranean-facing flats are worth anything much, even if they have to-die-for views over the waves that lap below your open bedroom window.

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Business & Jobs Barclays official sees Middle East driving investment banks

Barclays’ Makram Azar: committed to the Middle East

By Mirna Sleiman THE MIDDLE East will be an important growth area in coming years for investment banks, including Barclays, as local wealth funds put their oil dollars to work buying European assets, a senior executive at the British bank said.

“If you look globally, the upside is in emerging markets and the Middle East is a key component of that,” Makram Azar, global vice-chairman for investment banking at Barclays, told Reuters.

“We are committed to the Middle East. I do not see why our strategy would change,” Azar said in an interview.

Last week’s appointment of retail banker Antony Jenkins as Barclays group chief executive could see a shift from riskier investment banking, analysts said, as the lender tries to recover from an interest rate-rigging scandal that brought down former CEO Bob Diamond.

Barclays is also the subject of a British regulatory inquiry into payments to Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund linked to its participation in an 11 billion pound ($17 billion) refinancing of the bank at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

Azar would not comment on whether that inquiry might affect its business in the region.

While investment banking has been at the heart of recent troubles at Barclays, the unit delivered 54 per cent of underlying first-half group profit.

Middle Eastern deal activity has been picking up after a subdued period. Cash-rich Gulf Arab sheikhs and governments are buying European assets, lured in part by attractive valuations due to weak markets.

“There is a pick-up in M&A activity in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, led to a large extent by Qatar and Abu Dhabi,” Azar said.

“The environment in Europe is still challenging but there are names that were beaten up and are now trading at attractive levels. This presents an opportunity for Gulf investors.”

Barclays leads M&A advisory rankings in MENA, according to Dealogic, with $4.7 billion of deals this year, followed

by Goldman Sachs at $3.7 billion and Credit Suisse on $3.5 billion.

Gulf investment into Europe almost froze in 2010 and 2011 because of confusion over the eurozone debt crisis and losses suffered on previous overseas deals completed at the height of the 2008 crisis - most notably sovereign funds from Abu Dhabi and Kuwait investing in US banks.

Middle East funds are beginning to return and are making waves, led by cash-rich Qatar, which said last month it was buying a 20 per cent stake in London Heathrow airport owner BAA. Also, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund became an unexpected kingmaker in the Glencore-Xstrata deal after spending more than 3 billion pounds raising its stake to 12.3 per cent.

Other regional players are also involved, with Abu Dhabi fund Mubadala acquiring a 5.6 per cent stake in Brazilian conglomerate EBX for $2 billion and Almarai, Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy company, buying Argentine farm operator Fondomonte S.A. for $83 million.

EXCESS REVENUE Gulf Arab investors are also targeting options closer to home as they look for places to park their cash. “The oil price is at a high level, higher than the levels at which Gulf government budgets are based on, and this excess revenue needs to be invested,” Azar said.

“Some of it is being channelled indirectly into the region in the form of investments such as Qatar Telecom’s bid for Wataniya and the rest is invested outside the region.”

Barclays has been advising Qtel’s $2.2 billion bid for the 47.5 per cent of Kuwaiti telco Wataniya it does not own.

The Qatari group has also increased its stake in Iraqi firm Asiacell to 60 per cent in a $1.47 billion deal in June.

Gulf-based banks are also said to be keen to acquire stakes in Egyptian lenders being offloaded by French owners who want to divest assets to shore up capital positions at home.

Azar said further opportunities would emerge this year.

“The bank worked on several deals in the region worth around $4.7 billion and the year is not over yet. We are now looking at a number of additional deals in the pipeline.”

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

Investment Bill Blevins Bill Blevins is Financial Correspondent at Blevins Franks International.

Remember, the bigger the return, the greater the risk WHEN making any investment, it is important to only use firms which are authorised and regulated and to look for arrangements which provide a high enough level of investor protection to give you peace of mind.

We unfortunately still hear stories of people losing money to unauthorised sales people. For example, three Britons have recently been convicted over a £10 million Ponzi scheme which had targeted British expatriates in Spain.

The scheme ran from 2001 to 2009. Trading as Gilher Inc, the fraudsters promised investors 20% returns.

The money was however never invested, and was instead diverted to support their own lifestyles.

70 British residents in Mallorca were defrauded out of £10 million. Most of them were retired, with many of them handing over their life savings.

In March, Texan financier Allen Stanford was convicted by a US court of orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Again, he had promised investors high returns, but used the money to fund his other businesses and an opulent lifestyle. The largest Ponzi scheme in recent years remains Bernard Madoff ’s $65 billion fraud.

Ponzi schemes basically use money from new investors to pay existing ones.

The first investors will see returns, but those who invest later usually lose their money. The capital is not actually invested and earning returns, and the schemes collapse when the unsustainable supply of new investors and money dries up.

According to the UK Financial Services Authority, around £500m is lost each year to scams where people are contacted to invest in shares, property or rare goods, with a promise of a high return. The majority of victims are men aged over 50, and most of them say they are experienced investors.

Generally, the bigger the proposed return is, the greater the risk. “Boiler

The largest Ponzi scheme in recent years remains Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion fraud room” scams involve fraudsters cold-calling people offering shares or other investments which turn out to be worthless, overpriced or non-existent. Investors are promised high returns but usually end up losing their money. Some victims have lost all their savings or their family home.

How can you protect yourself from fraud?

When it comes to investments and pensions you should only work with firms which are fully authorised and regulated by a reputable national regulatory body like the UK Financial Services Authority.

Check this independently with the relevant authority. You can often do this online, for example, you can access the Financial Services Authority register at www.fsa.gov.uk/register/ home.do.

Only ever transfer money to an authorised institution or trust company.

Investing through a large established firm rather than being a one-man band

will also give you peace of mind.

Compare the return being promised with comparable investments. If it is much higher then there is probably a catch. If nothing else it may be a much riskier investment than you realise.

Do not be tempted by get rich quick schemes.

At the very least, limit the amount you invest and make sure you understand the investment.

Most importantly, as the Financial Services Authority website warns (and the bold and use of capitals are theirs): Remember, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. To protect your wealth, you should only invest through proven investments placed through a trustworthy and established firm, such as Blevins Franks Financial Management Limited.

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Business & Jobs

Fate of eurozone in the hands of German court Ruling on bailouts and budget rules expected on Wednesday

By Stephen Brown ERMANY’S Constitutional Court holds the fate of the euro in its hands when it rules Wednesday on whether a crucial eurozone financial rescue fund can go ahead.

A negative ruling, considered improbable by legal experts, would cast the 17-nation European single currency area into turmoil, spurring panic on bond markets by raising doubt over any more rescues of debtladen southern states.

But if, as expected, the court gives a green light on September 12 to the eurozone’s permanent bailout mechanism and a pact on stricter budget discipline, it may add conditions that constrain Berlin’s power to pursue further European integration.

The court based in Karlsruhe in western Germany, one of the country’s most trusted institutions, is unlikely to let Chancellor Angela Merkel completely off the hook.

Few experts expect the eight red-robed judges to reject the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)and fiscal pact outright, not least because of the devastating impact on financial markets.

“If they were to surprise us by striking down Germany’s participation, I would think it’d be an utter bloodbath in markets,” UniCredit global chief economist Erik Nielsen said.

But the sages may well demand more parliamentary consultation before Germany agrees to any further European integration, or signal that the process has gone as far as can be permitted without rewriting Germany’s Ba-

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sic Law. “I don’t think the court will block the ESM or the fiscal pact, so European integration of the euro will not come to an end on Sept. 12,” said Franz Mayer, a professor of European Union and constitutional law at Germany’s Bielefeld University.

“But it is unlikely there will just be one paragraph saying ‘no problem at all, just go ahead’. As in the past, it will be foggy, open to interpretation and all parties involved will say ‘We won’,” Mayer told Reuters.

The ESM was meant to succeed the existing temporary European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from July and erect a 700 billion-euro firewall to prevent the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis from spreading further.

But Karlsruhe threw a spanner in the works by de-

‘If they were to surprise us... it’d be an utter bloodbath in markets’ ciding in mid-July to take two months to look into complaints that the ESM and the fiscal pact that gives EU institutions intrusive powers to enforce the currency area’s budget rules violate the German constitution.

That left the fate of the new rescue fund in limbo.

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biggest economy it cannot go into force.

On Sept. 12 the court’s Second Senate will rule on requests for an injunction from over 12,000 plaintiffs, who include eurosceptics from academia and Merkel’s own coalition as well as the hardline Left Party.

They essentially argue that these treaties undermine German lawmakers’ constitutional right to decide on the budget and expose Germany to potentially unlimited financial liability for the ESM risks.

Rulings on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty in 2009 and on the Greek loans and the EFSF in 2010 earned the court a reputation as a thorn in the side of the euro for insisting on the Bundestag’s (lower house of parliament) rights as a condition for approval.

“For Germans this is nothing new, every major decision on European integration is contested domestically so we are pretty much used to it and not overly worried,” said economist Klaus Deutsch of Deutsche Bank.

“Given the fact that they decided positively on the EFSF, I’d be surprised if they came out clearly against the constitutionality of the ESM,” he added.

Set up in 1951 to avoid a return to Nazi tyranny, the court has a history of testing the patience of chancellors such as founding father Konrad Adenauer, who called it “the dictator of Germany”.

The ruling comes amid frantic diplomacy over proposed action by eurozone governments and the European Central Bank (ECB) to cap Spanish and Italian borrowing costs, which is conditional on the ESM being deployed.

Merkel says it is “of the utmost importance” that

The court is one of the country’s most trusted institutions the court approve the ESM. The worst-case scenario for eurozone leaders would be Karlsruhe rejecting it, leaving them in the short term with only 150 billion euros left in the EFSF. German ECB board member Joerg Asmussen has said a ‘No’ from the court would just require “changes to the construction” of the ESM. But Morgan Stanley economists, rating the chances of a ‘No’ verdict as high as 40 per cent, said one impact of this would be to permit “only cosmetic” ECB bondbuying via the EFSF. “We believe that markets are not priced appropriately for the downside tail risk of a possible ‘no’ verdict,” the investment bank said in a note.

Still, the most likely scenario is that the court allows Germany to ratify the ESM and fiscal pact - but with qualifying comments that could range from mere formalities to fundamental observations about European integration that could reverberate for years to come.

The “soft” options include reiterating the need to consult lawmakers, splitting hairs about where the ESM treaty belongs in the constitution, or tinkering with details of the fiscal pact.

It could slow down the ESM by insisting that the upper house (Bundesrat), representing the federal states, also vote on new

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rescue requests or on new powers such as granting the ESM a banking license.

Constitutional experts have also speculated that the court could demand that a reservation be attached when President Joachim Gauck signs Germany’s ESM ratification.

This would address concerns about exposure to the ESM being open-ended - for example, if other eurozone states are unable to pay their share, or if there is an attempt to raise the maximum capital - by setting in stone the interpretation of “limited liability”.

The court could even force an unprecedented referendum on deeper EU integration by rejecting the treaties outright or by stating that no more sovereignty can be transferred to European authorities or courts under the current German constitution. “A change of the German constitution would be a big game-changer on the future of the euro,” wrote Morgan Stanley.

This would take Germany into uncharted territory. The constitution does not permit nationwide plebiscites, which got a bad name in the Weimar Republic and under the Nazis. Neither is there any guarantee that the public, let alone the increasingly eurosceptic media, would back deeper political and fiscal union.

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there were an aggressive ruling, meaning at least a referendum and possibly much more, the result could be a huge economic depression unseen in Germany or Europe since World War Two,” said Humboldt University’s Matthias Kumm.

But the law professor believes the judges, especially 48-year-old court President Andreas Vosskuhle, are “finely-tuned” enough politically to avoid such a bombshell.

While Vosskuhle and court rapporteur Peter Huber, who drafts the ruling, are known to lean towards the idea of a referendum on Europe, as does Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, the judges will not want to sign away their powers or complicate the 2013 election, when Merkel will seek a third term in office.

But the referendum debate will not go away. Opinion polls suggest seven out of 10 Germans would like to have a direct say in how much more sovereign power - especially regarding how their taxes are spent - should be surrendered to Brussels.

Katinka Barysch at the Centre for European Reform said this debate “suits both the opposition and government”, giving the Social Democrats an easy platform and enabling Merkel to “put off hard decisions until after the 2013 election”.

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FURNITURE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress €50 play table and stools €50 Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40 Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum cleaner Miele €80 Abstract canvasses from €10 ENGOMI 22355790 **************************** CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall fittings (clothes rails.) Selling at very low prices for clearance.

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FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ONE ACRE (3 donums) land for sale Arakapas area Limassol district, with title deeds. Sloping ground with stream and 8 foot waterfall at lower boundary.

Naturally growing trees. €40.000 sandymathie@hotmail.com or 99416918 FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large flat screen TV’s + projector, fits 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business!

Please call: 99493579 FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195.

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES HYUNDAI MATRIX GLX 2004 74,000 kilometres. Black, leather seats, good condition. 1599cc.

MOT till April 2013. €2,850 or near offer Phone 97727928

WANTED TO RENT FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/terrace or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org. cy, 22455072, 99089083.

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FLATS/HOUSES RENT studio Strovolos 280, Ag. Andreas 295, 1 bdrm Ag. Andreas 450, Makarios Av. 490, Ag. Antonios 380 2 bdrm Lykavito furnished 600 Acropolis new 650, Ag. Omologites 500, Engomi near universities 540 Strovolos furnished 650 3 bdrm central 700, Kennedy 650, US Embassy independent house gardens 850. POSPORIDES ESTATES REG. 338 99474839 99646822 **************************** FOR RENT 3-bedroom luxury apartment over 200 sq.m. Very spacious living area extending to a large veranda overlooking the green of the river area. Bathrooms all marble (one en-suite), modern kitchen. Fully air-conditioned, with underfloor heating, garage for 2 cars and large store. Situated in the exclusive gated development of J&P Glastonos, one of the oldest classy residential areas of Nicosia. Call 99630320 ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The European University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m. Please call 99695382 TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sit-

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA ACROPOLIS LUXURY FLAT; three bedrooms, master with ensuite; bathroom; laundry room; fully fitted kitchen; large sitting/ dining room; everyday room; two large verandas; guest WC; c/h-a/c, broadband internet/ TV/satellite connections, covered parking. Furnished/unfurnished (€1,200/1,000 monthly) 22312255, 99557457 FOR RENT luxurious furnished office next to “City Plaza” Nicosia ready for business. Tel: 99697243 SPACIOUS 2 bdrs 2 baths fully furnished kitchen fully equipped dishwasher AC cold/hot large terasse 4rth floor great location Kennedy av. 1 block from Central Bank €600 monthly charges and hot water included. 99459267 VILLA LATSIA 900 sq.m. build in 6 donum inside pool lrg garden, Strovolos villa pool 330 sq.m. underfloor heating patio €2500 Latsia 5 bedr.pool f/f €2500, Acropolis modern flat 180 sq.m. €1100, 3 bedr., Mak/ssa modern flat wooden floors €1200 Upper house Archangelos f/f modern €1000 Costas Markides 22378898 / 99 464764, Reg. No. 487, E16 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358.

TO LET NICOSIA ting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighbourhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €900 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 4 bedr + separate office space + maid’s room luxury detached house, split level, big open space sitting areas,400sq.m,a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, swimming pool, big verandas, 2 covered parking, in a very quiet area near Lidl – Latsia €2500 (H4LAT0008-R), (photos in the website).

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4. 3 bedr ground floor semi detached house, 170sq.m, central heating, 3 a/c, 2wc, big kitchen with cooker, oven, big front veranda, small yard, in a very quiet neighbourhood near Areteion hospital and Alpha Mega supermaket. Available end of September - Dasoupoli €650 (H3DAS0007-R), (photos in the website).

5. 4 bedr new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house Strovolos €1400 (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos

in the website) 7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, lighting fixtures, 2 bedrs with en suite shower and wc, main bathroom with jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only shower ,swimming pool with wooden deck around, covered patio with nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area – Strovolos €2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos in the website).

8. 4 bedr luxury detached house + big separate maid’s room, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, big separate family room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area, 4wc, parquet floor all the house, mature garden on the front and back of the house, 3 covered parking, in a quiet area - PARISSINOS €2300 (H4PA20006-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/

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shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker),mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre- PLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website).

10. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, Strovolos €2700 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land. Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, office and guest room with separate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website).

12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bed-

rooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighbourhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website).

13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office,250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place,1bathroom,1 shower,2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

areas and big separate dining room, big kitchen, central heating, full a/c, extra sitting room upstairs, big swimming pool with cover, big covered patio around the pool and bbq area, covered parking, in a very quiet area near Alpha Mega supermarket. Price negotiable - ENGOMI €4000 (H5ENG0002-R), (photos in the website).

17. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven,6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website).

18. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, small yard, bbq area, FULLY FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

19. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with fire place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training field. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000 (H4AR0007-R), (photos in the website).

20. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room

with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite shower/ bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website).

21. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

ered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, office space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms, covered parking, in a small building near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000 (A3ENG0023-R), (photos in the website).

6. 2 bedr Brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern building with storage heaters, full Daikin air conditions, electrical appliances in the kitchen, top quality double glazed windows with electrical shutters, 1 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 wc, big sitting and dining room, Very big covered veranda, pressure system, covered parking, big storage room, near Acropolis park – Dasoupolis €670 (A2DAS0028-R), (photos in the website).

7. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near traffic lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 1 bedr, fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, ice view off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop – Nicosia Centre €460 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website).

10. 2 bedr new( 5 years old) luxury

ground floor apartment,85 sq.m, storage heaters, full ac, fully modern expensive furnished and equipped ,expensive silver appliances in the kitchen with dishwasher, small garden and big yard in a quiet neighborhood behind Burger King. MINIMUM CONTRACT 2 YEARS – ENGOMI €650 (A2ENG0002-R), (photos in the website).

11. 2 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment in a small modern building with electrical floor heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda, covered parking and storage room, off Kennedy avenue in a quiet area – ACROPOLIS €800 (A2ACS0030-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website).

14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website).

15. 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school – Strovolos €1500 (H3STI012-R), (photos in the website).

16. 5 huge bedrooms luxury detached house(2 bedrooms downstairs+3 upstairs) all of them en suite with bathrooms, separate maid’s room, big sitting

CHILDCARE From a Cypriot - with 20 years experience in a kindergarten - looking after infants and children at her house in Nicosia

For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225/96-422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr furnished apartment, 140sq.m, near Cyprus Hilton, kitchen, bathroom and extra guests toilet, large sitting room, opposite a small park, recently renovated independent oil central heating, air conditions, solar heater, covered parking – Acropolis €630 (A3ACS0040-R), (photos in the website).

2. 2 bedr luxury apartment, 3 a/c for hot and cold, covered veranda, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking on a small building 200 METRES from Akropolis Park. Price includes common expenses – Dasoupolis €650 (A2DAS0027-R), (photos in the website).

3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, cov-

13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th floor of a small building with 6 flats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighbourhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website).

14. New 2 bedr luxury apartment, 90sq.m, storage heaters, 3 a/c, cooker and oven, covered verandah, 2 wc, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking and storage room of Kyriakou Matsi street near the centre – Agioi Omologites €650 (A2AOM0008-R), (photos in the website).

15. 3 bedr +separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) & luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid par-

For information call 99781943 WIN A TRIP FOR 2 TO SOUTH AFRICA IN AID OF PAPHOS HOSPICE Organised by SACY NEWS The SACY NEWS was launched early 2012, and has within a short period, become a popular and well-liked publication among the South African community, and other expatriates living on the island of Cyprus. With the support of the South African Consulate, the SACY NEWS has become a prime media source for all South African Cypriots living in Cyprus.

“We wanted to create a ‘voice’ for all South Africans in Cyprus. The South African community has increased in number, and it was only a matter of time before we had our own community paper,” says Paul Charalambous, editor of the SACY NEWS. The high-quality publication is produced on a bi-monthly basis and is distributed all over the island, free of charge.

The SACY NEWS’ presence as a media sponsor for almost all South African events has spread extensively throughout the island. In recognition of the strong and supportive South African community, the SACY NEWS will be organising the South African New Year’s Eve Ball at the ‘Fifth Floor Restaurant’ in Paphos. This event will become an annual affair on the SACY NEWS calendar. “Everyone is welcome,” says Paul. “We want to revive the traditional South African Greek events we were accustomed to in South Africa.”

The SACY NEWS will be organising competitions on a regular basis to support the many charities on the island. After months of planning, and the support from many sponsors in Cyprus and South Africa, the SACY NEWS recently launched the ‘Win a trip for 2 to South Africa Competition’ in aid of the Paphos Hospice.

This unique prize package, which includes two return tickets to Johannesburg with Etihad Airways and Century Travel, will be complimented by seven nights at the 5-Star Peermont D’oreale Grande at Emperors Palace Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort. The prize includes an additional two nights at Sandton’s premier Michelangelo Hotel, and a further two nights at the Thabana Safari Lodge for an exceptional full board safari experience.

SAFARIS 4 U – A leading group tour operator based in Johannesburg, will provide unique tours to top attractions in Johannesburg, during the course of your stay.

Tickets are on sale from all Paphos Hospice Charity Shops, participating outlets (island wide) and private individuals for the price of € 3 per ticket. The winner will be announced at the South African New Year’s Eve Ball on the 31st December 2012.

For more information on this unique eleven nights prize package to South Africa, contact the SACY NEWS on 96 343 687. You can also visit their page on Facebook.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company.

1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date.

2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized.

5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012.

Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

THE DEVONSHIRE RESTAURANT IN PAPHOS WILL RE-OPEN ON THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER, WILL RESUME IT’S REGULAR MENU, OPEN FOR SUNDAY ROAST LUNCH AND DINNER, FOR BOOKINGS CALL 96870774

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quet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre €1100 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website).

16. 2 bedr luxury modern penthouse apartment 125sq.m +40sq.m veranda with very nice view and bbq area, solid parquet floor all the flat, fully modern furnished and equipped central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas, covered parking in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end, off Athalassa Avenue near English School behind Stephanis Electronics – Strovolos €770 (A2ST10010-R), (photos in the website).

17. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, electrical appliances in the kitchen, off Makarios avenue near the centre – NICOSIA Centre €820 (A3NIC0025-R), (photos in the website).

18. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/ bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – ENGOMI €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

19. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/ bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – Engomi €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

20. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €800 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

21. 2 bedr new luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building in a quiet neighbourhood next to a playground, near Central offices of Cyta and Laiki Head quarters – Dasoupolis €600 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the website).

22. 4 bedr new luxury finished

apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin airconditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood – Nicosia Centre €1400 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website).

23. New luxury spacious 3 bedr quality apartment, 165sq.m+ big covered verandah, separate floor heating, full a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solid parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area (can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), electrical appliances in the kitchen which has a breakfast area,2 covered parking, storage room in a very quiet green neighbourhood near the centre and Ag. Andreas - Nicosia Centre €1450 (A3NIC0004-R), (photos in the website).

24. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c for hot and cold, blinds on all the windows, nicely expensive full furnished with real leather sofas, double bed, big dining table, LCD 32”, satellite dish with receiver, internet, very big bedrooms with big and many wardrobes, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet area near BMH – Aglantzia €590 (A2AGZ0001-R), (photos in the website).

25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big

covered parking and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website).

26. 3 bedr luxury spacious fully renovated apartment with separate central heating, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 3 wc, parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining areas with fire place, big covered veranda, covered parking, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking, on a small 2 storey building, walking distance to the centre – Lykavitos €1000 (A3LYK0009-R), (photos in the website).

27. 3 big bedrs +office space luxury penthouse floor apartment, renovated, central heating independent, full a/c, 230sq.m, double glazed windows,3wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solar heater, pressure system, SKY satellite dish, big sitting and dining areas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with cooker and oven and breakfast area, very nice view of the old city,40sq.m private roof garden area ,covered parking on a small building in the centre of Nicosia near the Museum and the old Hospital. Available middle 15th of SEPTEMBER –Nicosia Centre €1200 (A4NIC0005-R), (photos in the website) 28. 3 bedr new luxury finished PENTHOUSE apartment 150sq.m internal areas+120sq. verandas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, big semi separate kitchen with electrical appliances, home cine ma with big screen, LCD tv, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood near CYTA, Laiki + Hellenik bank headquarters and French

school. CAN BE RENTED ALSO expensive furnished for higher rent – Dasoupolis €1200 (A3DAS0019-R), (photos in the website).

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LIMASSOL FOR RENT deluxe 2 bedroom fully furnished 100 sq m brand new 3rd floor, beach front apartment at EDEN BEACH APARTMENTS, 28th October Street, Limassol, near Municipal Garden, with parking, store room, swimming pool, gym and unobstructed sea view. Tel: 99639714 FOR RENT new small furnished studio, in Katraki Building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia. Price: €290 (included common expenses and water bill. Tel. 99406415 Andreas.

OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre. com/listing-LIM-0103

LARNACA FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new

TO LET LARNACA built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 FOR RENT PHINIKOUDES PROMENADE, one bdrm apartment on the 4th floor, f/f, a/c, in the most exlusive area on the sea front of the city centre. A panoramic view of the Marina and the sea. Situated right on the sea. Makes life a holiday all year round. For long term rent only €380. Tel. 99222197, 99541828.

LARNACA FLATS TO LET Fully furnished, spacious 2 bedrooms in central Larnaca. Near Saint Lazaros Church, 4 minutes walk to Phinicoudes sea front. Small block 2 years old (6 apts) From €400 - to €500. Tel. 99388901 FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 PROTEA APTS LARNACA Residential and holiday apts for rent monthly or weekly Larnaca – Dhekelia road, close to Golden Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with low rent with swimming pool, 2 minutes walking distance from the beach, with a new pedestrian crossing in front of the building. Contact us on 99672466, 99404522, and 99078590 LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central lo-

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cation near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca.

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ances. Lift to all floors. This complex offers a lovely communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close to amenities, a great central location.

Call Val on 99166563 ****************************** PROPERTY TO RENT Peyia: 2bed F/F town house, A/C, Nilesat, Communal Pool, 375 Euro p/m REF: JAP2T221 Tombs Of The Kings: Ground Floor F/F Apartment 1 Bedroom, A/C, BBQ area, Centrally located 300 Euros per month REF: JAP1A220 Peyia: 1 Bed F/F Apartment 1st Floor, Comm Pool, Gym, Underground Parking. 325 Euros per month REF: JAP1A219 Emba: 3 Bedroom U/F House, A/C, White Goods Communal Pool 500 Euros per month REF: JAP3V053 Peyia: 1 Bed Traditional Stonehouse, furnished, Ideal for single person, village location close to shops and amenities 250 Euro p/m Ref:JAP1H214 Kato Paphos: 2 Bedroom F/F 2nd floor apartment, A/C, Large Communal Pool. 360 Euros per month inc water & refuse.

REF:JAP2A212 Kissonerga: 2 Bed 1st floor apartment, f/f, A/c, Large Kitchen, Comm Pool, Undercover parking, 375 Euros, Ref: JAP2A217 Peyia: 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, ground floor apartment, F/F Com pool, under cover parking, gym, shutters, A/c 375 Euros per month. REF: JAP2A126 We urgently require properties in all areas for waiting clients.

Property management only 25 Euros per month. John Alice Properties TEL: 00357 99984681 WEB: www.johnalice-properties.com ****************************** PAPHOS RENTAL

EMBA – 3 bed villa – u/f, a/c, 1 bedroom downstairs, 3x en-suite bathrooms, private pool, garden, storage, quiet location and close to all amenities – 650 euros UNIVERSAL – 1 bed apartment - f/f, a/c, wall heaters, communal pool – available for 6 or 12 month rentals -270 euros MESOYI - 3 bed detached house – u/f, spacious family home, garden, storage, quiet location – 450 euros MESOYI – 4 bed detached house – u/f, a/c, large living area, utilty room, swimming pool, roof garden, very quiet location with views – 750 euros FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL - 9977 4314 OR 9962 1875 ****************************** BRAND NEW APARTMENT block in the centre of Paphos (near Papantoniou supermarket) with fantastic views offers to rent, 2 bedroom apartment spanning the entire 3rd floor, unfurnished with a/con, and office for rent spanning the entire first floor, 130 sqm, both are offered at very reasonable rents, please call: Vasilis 99553624 PROPERTY RENTALS From 250 Euros per month. Villas and apartments available. Also wanted for waiting clients. www. johnalice-properties.com johnalicecy@gmail.com Tel: 00357 99984681 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the heart of Kato Paphos, the property is situated in a quiet, private complex, next to archeological site overlooking the light house, very reasonable rent, tel : 99411933 FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully

Registered Company in Cyprus ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga.

Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom.

Tel: 99-492521/ 99- 673276 PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes.

Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 ****************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. Geroskipou €350 modern ground floor 2 bedroom apartment. Situated in a quiet complex with lovely communal pool.

Enclosed pretty patio area & underground parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture, including leather sofa’s and plasma tv. Would suit mature couple.

Pets allowed.

2. Chloraka €425 modern 3 bedroom townhouse, master with ensuite. Ground floor guest wc.

Fully furnished with modern fur-

niture. Enclosed garden with decking offering sea views. Undercover parking. Pets allowed.

Complex with large communal pool & playground.

3. Tomb of the kings €450 modern 2 bedroom apartment on first floor with lift. Modern ensuite shower room & family bathroom.

Fully furnished with modern furniture. Balcony with sea views.

Situated on a good complex with lovely communal pool. Close to bus routes and shops.

4. Tala €650 modern 3 bedroom detached villa with garage. Situated in a small quiet cul de sac.

Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite.

Separate utility room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants & private pool offering stunning sea views. Available unfurnished.

5. Peyia €750 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite tv. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. A spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking.

6. Mesogi €800 fantastic modern 4 bedroom 3 bathroom detached villa. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. Storage room. Beautifully finished to a high standard. Quality modern kitchen with granite worktops & modern bathrooms. Gas central heating & real fireplace. Beauti-

CORAL BAY THREE BEDROOM HOUSE To let furnished or unfurnished with panoramic view to sea and mountain a st0nes throw from coral beach, rent 600 euros monthly, negotiable tel 99431415 (available first November) Mob: 99604658.

PAPHOS ***************************** FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION 1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a modern 2 bedroom, stone walled villa with sea views, large swimming pool and 650 sq metres garden. On a quiet cul de sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar panels and pressurised water system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets.

2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul de sac, this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views of the sea.

3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must to see!

4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250 modern 1 bedroom top floor apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe.

Fully furnished with all appli-

act PANTO AUDITIONS It’s panto time again! Auditions for act’s Christmas pantomime, “Cinderella’’ will be held at St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Hall, Byron Avenue, Nicosia on Saturday afternoon, 15 September at 2pm for children (8-12 years) and 3.30pm for adults (13+ years).

Performances at Russian Cultural Centre on 1/2/7/8/9 December. Members and nonmembers welcome both on and off stage.

Call 99 457882 or 99 609543 for further details.

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Nicosia ........................22 802 020 Limassol ......................25 805 050 Larnaca .......................24 804 040 Paphos ........................26 806 060 Famagusta ..................23 803 030

Nicosia General .............22-801400 Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000 Limassol Old ................25-305333 Limassol New ................25-801100 Larnaca Old...................24-630312 Larnaca New .................24-630300 Paphos ..........................26-821800 Famagusta ....................23-821211

Drug Law Enforcement Unit ......................................... 1498 (Confidential Information) Rescue Co-ordination Centre ............................. 1441 (Immediate Response Service for Aeronautical or Maritime Accident & Incidents) Game Fund Service: (Wildlife and hunting) Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897 Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697 Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728, Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128, 99-634325 Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679 Forest Fires ..................... 1407

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826

ACT’s summer production of The Rivals will now be performed on 26/28/29 September in the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral, Byron Avenue, Nicosia. Performances start at 7.30pm prompt. Tickets are €15 - pls book early as seats are limited. Tel: 96 504284 or 99 924363 for ticket reservations. Don’t forget your coolbox for your picnic under the stars Or why not take advantage of the Get Fresh sandwiches and wraps which will be on sale during the interval along with wine, beer, soft drinks and coffee.

TO LET ON THE BEACH STUDIO FLAT WITH SUPERB SEA VIEW Newly renovated, fully air-conditioned one bedroom flat, comprising open-plan living room, fully equipped kitchen, bathroom and veranda with direct sea view on the beach next to the Larnaca fishing harbour. Covered parking in gated garage. Long-term rental, furnished €650 or unfurnished €575/month.

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Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims)

Friends for Life Limassol Hospice Care Appeal requires new Friends and Volunteers to help operate their Charity Shops in both Limassol and Larnaca.

Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401

This is to help our large volunteer group to expand in the near future.

Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267

Our aim is to open a Third Shop in the Limassol area due to popular demand.

Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information)

Please do not forget when clearing your wardrobes and cupboards to remember us.

Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

Shop hours Mon-Sat. 9.30 -12.30

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Loading bays for warehouses and parking space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank plus car mechanics station.

Contact Anne 25632446 99269016

For more information please call 99218866

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ful landscaped garden with private pool. Undercover parking on drive. Available unfurnished.

Wonderful property.

7. Peyia €850 spacious detached 4 bedroom luxury villa, offering stunning sea views. Private pool, enclosed garden, garage, basement for storage & separate utility room. Modern fitted kitchen with miele kitchen appliances & granite work tops. Private drive.

Available unfurnished or part furnished. Fantastic property!

8. Mesogi €1250 stunning detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom villa. One bedroom & ensuite on ground floor. Spacious kitchen with separate utility room. Available unfurnished though includes gas central heating plus real fireplace in living area. Enclosed garden & private pool. Gated entrance with undercover parking.

Situated on a private road.

TEL: 97790883 OFFICE: 26271858 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MANY MORE PROPERTIES www.mrrent-paphos.net Email: info@mrrent-paphos. net ****************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!!

1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious

development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. €475.00 a month 2. GEROSKIPOU 2 bed 1.5 bath furnished duplex apartment in quiet location with outstanding sea views. Open plan living area and dining area.. Fully fitted kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 2 double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Balcony & covered parking. Comm pool. Rent includes free internet. €430.00 a month.

3. SEA CAVES – 5/6 bed fully furnished luxury villa with no immediate neighbours.. Open plan formal living area with dining area for 12. Separate family room. Outstanding fitted kitchen with breakfast area. Separate utility /2nd kitchen. Ground floor office/bedroom Shower-room with sauna. 4 double bedrooms, master with en-suite and large dressing room with safes.. Family bathroom. Garage, parking & gardens. Separate 1 bed suite plus maids quarters. Swimming pool with massive outside BBQ/ kitchen. A/C, C/H and fireplace in family room. An outstanding luxury home with many internal features. Very quiet area. €4000.00 a month 4. MESA CHORIO – 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP. Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite.

Family bathroom. Off street park-

ing & comm. Pool. Minutes into Paphos. €425. Or close offers 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with ensuite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. €750.00 per month.

6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom.

A/C. Enclosed garden area, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at €250 per month.

7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large fully furnished villa. Very large property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2 bedrooms, bathroom on this level with small seating area. Ideal for dual living. Stairs up to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom. Heated swimming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.€1500.00 per month or offers.

8. POLEMI – 4 bed 2.5 bath massive unfurnished apartment with own entrance in large landscaped gardens. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Huge fit-

ted kitchen and breakfast area.

Guest WC with storage area.4 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom. Pretty landscaped gardens, shared pool and off street parking. Quiet rural property.. €550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLAS PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@ aol.com ****************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.

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FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!

NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!

PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600.

PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WITH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008 THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 September 15th Paphiakos Stall at Episkopi Fete.

September 15th Sights & Sounds of the 60s & 70s Live Music & Dancing Trimithousa Community Hall at 8pm €5 tickets from Ollies Bar Trimithousa Pre Show Suppers at Ollies ring 96354182 September 27th Legends of Rock Pissouri Ampitheatre €10 tickets from Pissouri Pools, Markos Internet Café & all Paphiakos Charity Shops Tel 99905624/99955431 for further details.

PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2

CHEMISTS NICOSIA SUNDAY 02/09/2012 A. Stavrou, 76 D. Akritas St. Tel: 22751679, 22333220 (H) P. Aresti, 206 Strovolos Ave, Strovolos. Tel: 22420058, 22491533 (H) E. Christou, 13A Kantaras Ave, Pallouriotissa. Tel: 22435250, 22730120 (H) Y. N. Gobrial, 28B C October 28 St, Makedonitissa. Tel: 22590447, 22819910 (H) Ch. Savva, 146A Athalassa Ave, Strovolos. Tel: 22514131, 22354627 (H) LIMASSOL N. Kriticos 107 Pan. Evaggelistrias K. Polemithia Tel: 25397704, 25386455 (H) O. Drousiotis, Glastonos 131B Tel. 25379777, 25581928 L. Constantinou, 23 Georgiou Neofytou, Tel: 25585859, 99895992 LARNACA G. Antonis, 14 K. Matsis St. (Atticon Cinema road) Tel: 24626332, 24657313 (H) M. Economidou, 15 Raphael Santi, Tel: 24102524, 22511250 PAPHOS L. Tselepou, 91 E. Venizelou St. Tel: 26954594, 26949276 (H) PARALIMNI A. Kamilaris, 52 Korai, Tel: 23744160, 23743418

NICOSIA MONDAY 03/09/2012 I. Kitiris, 63 Metochiou St. Tel: 22774950, 22774368 (H) N. Nouris, 33 A. B D. Akritas Ave. Tel: 22751801, 22374323 (H) M. Charalambous, 48A Armenia Ave, Acropolis. Tel: 22426655, 22492968 (H) O. Solomou, corner Strovolos & Pythonos St, Strovolos. Tel: 22313123, 22375724 (H) Ch. Kari, 50 Andrea Avraamide, Tel: 22771999, 22351072 LIMASSOL K. Michaelidou, 1E Ay. Zonis St., Tel: 25363546, 25722589 (H) P. Ioannou, 8, Dodekanisou Tel. 25364188, 25332618 (H) Sp. Zinoviou 4 Evgeniou Voulgareos K. Polemithia Tel: 25715555, 25382058 or 25320324(H) LARNACA L. Vernis, 29 S. Timayia Ave. Tel: 24638470, 24533055(H) Despo Theodosis, Lordou Vyronos & Gladstonos 1, Tel. 24622522, 24720083 PAPHOS G. Ioannou, Tombs of the Kings Rd, Kato Paphos, Tel: 26818397, PARALIMNI G. Kayias, 6A Sotiras St. Tel: 23827020, 23744353 (H)

DOCTORS ON DUTY NICOSIA Pathologist: Doros Polidorou, Tel: 99727817 Urologist: Achilleas Corellis, Tel: 70007773, 99562642 Gynaeocologist: Pieris Pieri, Tel: 22339169, 22665777, 99665855 Paediatric Surgeon: Eliana Eliadou, Tel: 99384324 LIMASSOL Pathologist: Georgios Vasiliou, Tel: 99649905,25750343, 25317383 Theodosis Loizides, Tel.: 25355211, 25334115 Neuro-Surgeon: Christos Kyriakides, Tel: 99696706 Paediatric: Androula Stephanou, Tel.: 25340570, 99615535 Paediatric Surgeon: Georgios Christophi, Tel.: 25762586, 99474260 Ophthalmologist: Andreas Elia, Tel: 25725134,25353424, 99675811 Doctor: Maro Hadjikyriacou, Tel: 25341814, 25342003

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Motoring Compiled by Rosie Ogden Motor industry hit by fall in sales MONTHLY new-car registrations fell again in Germany, France and Italy in August with mass-market brands hit hardest.

German sales fell 4.7 per cent to 226,500 registrations in August, preliminary data from the VDIK importers association showed on Tuesday, while sales in France tumbled 11 per cent to 96,115 cars for a tenth monthly decline, the CCFA industry association said.

In Italy, sales dropped 20 per cent to 56,447 units, a level unseen since 1964 and the ninth consecutive double-digit fall in the market, according to think tank Promotor.

New-car orders in Italy have fallen 22 per cent in the first eight months to 921,000. The August decline led Promotor to trim its full-year forecast to 1.370 million units from a previous 1.379 million.

“Without intervention to help boost the purchasing power of families via tax reductions and a relaunching of consumption it will be very difficult to see any sign of recovery,” Jacques Bousquet, President of Italy’s car industry association UNRAE, said on Monday.

Spanish car sales rose 3.4 per cent in August as customers rushed to complete purchases and beat a sales tax rise in September.

Some 10,000 consumers completed purchases they would otherwise have made later, the ANFAC automakers’ association said - forecasting a challenging environment later this year.

Sales are set for a sharp fall unless automakers discount even more aggressively, a spokesman added.

Analysts said the downtrend in Europe would likely resume this month.

“We still do not see any signs of recovery on the horizon,” said Flavien Neuvy, head of French auto-industry think tank Cetelem.

In France, domestic registrations of the Renault brand plummeted 30 per cent, even as its low-cost Dacia marque recorded a 21 per cent gain on runaway sales of its nofrills Sandero subcompact and Duster SUV. PSA/Peugeot-Citroen’s domestic sales fell in line with the local market’s 11 per cent drop.

Ford saw August sales plunge 17 per cent in France and 22 per cent in Spain.

Kia, however, recorded strong increases, as the South Korean automaker and affiliate Hyundai continued to build on a combined European market share that reached 5.9 per cent in the first half up 1.2 points year-on-year.

Sales of Volkswagen’s core brand fell 7.4 per cent in France and rose 8.7 per cent in Spain, outperforming both markets.

VW’s luxury Audi division delivered gains of 8.4 per cent in France and 9.7 per cent in Spain. BMW also rose in both markets.

Fiat brand sales tumbled 34 per cent in France, rising 13 per cent in Spain.

The DS3 Cabrio will be launched in early 2013

Citroën set to raise roof on cabriolet version of DS3 AT the 2012 Paris Motor Show, Citroën will unveil the latest advance in the DS line, DS3 Cabrio, a cabriolet version of the multi-award winning DS3 that Citroën says “uses intelligent design to make top-down driving considerably easier and more enjoyable”.

Since its launch in 2010, the DS3 has won a string of awards, notched up over 180,000 sales worldwide and featured a line of special editions including DS3 Racing and DS3 Ultra Prestige.

It’s therefore no great surprise that the latest addition to the range is a cabrio, to offer aficionados al-fresco driving.

Continuing DS3’s personalisation options, three soft-top roof styles will be available - black, Infinite blue and a DS Monogrammed design. An innovative 3D rear light signature and original tailgate opening action ‘add to the refinements’.

At 3.95m long, 1.71m wide and 1.46 m high, the Cabrio retains the hatchback’s compact proportions.

All the bold styling choices are also retained, from the ‘floating’ two-tone roof and dynamic ‘shark fin’, to the sculpted front-end with its instantly recognisable LED daytime running light signature.

Range of soft-top roof colours to personalise al-fresco driving The soft-top roof becomes a new source of personalisation, available in a range of colours and designs, along with one of seven body colours.

The Infinite blue soft-top uses three different coloured threads - one of which is shiny - each reacting differently to changes in light conditions and “creating delicate hues of blue and violet”.

Inside, there’s white LED ambient lighting on the ceiling-mounted console, which is home to the roof opening control, and white lighting around the instrument cluster and automatic air conditioning displays.

Decors on the dashboard strip, air vent surrounds and gear stick knob are also colour-coded to the body paint and soft-top. Six decors are available grey, Brillant black, white, Carbotech, Infinite blue and Moondust grey.

The rear also features a new threedimensional LED light signature, with tail-light technology inspired by the

designs on Citroën’s Revolte and Survolt concept cars. The central part of the light comprises a rectangular set of 31 LEDs and semi-reflecting mirrors that ‘reflect the light guide into infinity’. The 3D unit illuminates at night when the headlamps are turned on and in daylight during braking. A 15-LED blade on the upper part of the light emphasises the 3D unit and acts as both side and stopping lights.

The roof takes just 16 seconds to fully close, up to speeds of 120km/h (75mph).

A button on the ceiling console opens the roof to three positions: intermediate, horizontal and total. Even in the horizontal setting, rear passengers get a completely clear view overhead.

Citroën says the soft-top material delivers “standard-setting soundproofing”, comparable to that of a hatchback when closed. When the roof is open, an aerodynamic deflector net springs up to provide optimum acoustic comfort by deflecting air currents

and preventing air buffeting.

There are five adult seats, and the Cabrio features the largest boot in its class at 245-litres. Unusually for the segment, it offers the same cabin space as the hatchback and even retains the 60/40 split-folding rear bench.

The tailgate features an original opening mechanism, which uses a circular motion - allowing owners to fully open the boot even when parked close to obstructions.

The aerodynamics are identical to that of the hatchback (SCx of 0.69 m2), which maximises performance and helps to maintain low CO2 emissions.

Modifications include adding a longer spoiler and aerodynamic deflectors on the quarter-light surrounds.

With a focus on efficiency and minimising kerb weight, DS3 Cabrio is just 25kg heavier than the hatchback - most convertibles are around 100kg more than their hatchback versions.

The same rigidity, strength and agility as the hatchback are retained, with identical architecture for the sides and structural reinforcements around the boot.

Produced at the Poissy production site in France, the car will be launched early in 2013.

New Santa Fe on sale this October HYUNDAI Motor Company has announced that the all-new 2013 Santa Fe will go on sale in October.

The new car will “continue the solid brand heritage of Hyundai’s most representative SUV model”, which is entering its third generation. Since the model made its debut in 2002, 56 million units have been sold worldwide.

The new car has reclining angle comfort rear seats “identical to seats found in luxury sedans”, as well as full leather for both the front and rear seats, with a 12-way power driver’s seat. Other added touches include a cooling box and a rear window curtain that will “provide more exclusivity and privacy for the rear passengers” – though whether this is a good safety feature is debatable!

In Cyprus, the car will be available in five-

seat form with ‘ample room and storage across different parts of the car’. In the boot there are two compartments, a luggage under-tray space and a luggage centre box, in addition to the main boot.

Though full specifications will be announced closer to the model’s arrival, Hyundai promises new and improved technologies such as LDWS (Lane Departure Warning System), EPB (Electric parking brake) and SPAS (Smart Parking Assistant System) with an RPAS (Rear Parking Assist System) “making difficulties parking a thing of the past”.

With Hyundai’s commitment to making all its new cars more eco-friendly by adding an option of active ECO, this will actively control air condition output and engine transmission activity for the best fuel efficiency.

Hyundai’s new Santa Fe will come in five-seat form in Cyprus

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Cricket gloves off for ‘fighting’ Flintoff

But are ‘petrolhead’ fans ready for sound of silence?

HAVING knocked down many an off stump during his time as England cricket captain, Andrew Flintoff hopes to do the same to opponents when he takes to the boxing ring later this year.

Flintoff’s preparations for his debut fight, scheduled for November 30 at the Manchester Arena, are to be televised in a documentary The Gloves Are Off. The 6ft 4ins sportsman, who would box as a heavyweight, has yet to apply to the British Boxing Board of Control for a licence, but is being trained by ex world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan and the Irishman’s son Shane.

“This is an amazing opportunity to try a sport that I love, to be tutored by a man I respect and admire and, at the age of 34, the chance to become a professional sportsman again,” Flintoff was quoted as saying by British media.

“It’s a huge challenge - probably the biggest I have ever undertaken, especially in such a short time frame. I have a long road ahead and a lot of work in front of me. The stakes are high.”

Flintoff played in 79 tests for England as an all-rounder before retiring from cricket in 2010 because of injury.

He transcended sporting fame to become a national treasure by leading England to a famous Ashes victory in 2005 - their first test series win over Australia in almost two decades.

He has made numerous media appearances since on sports panel shows and was a guest commentator during some matches of the 2011 Darts world championship in England.

Robert Smith, the general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, said obtaining a licence was not a foregone conclusion.

“An application can take three to four weeks or longer depending on the circumstances. He will have to pass medicals and there are measures in place to see whether an applicant can actually box.”

By Alan Baldwin FORMULA One giants McLaren are keen to be involved in a new global electric motor racing series set to start in 2014 and could even enter a team at some stage, according to principal Martin Whitmarsh.

The Formula E series, to be promoted by a Hong Kongbased consortium led by Spanish businessmen, will be sanctioned by the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) with plans for a grid of 10 teams and 20 drivers.

The plan is for hour-long city-centre races in at least 10 different landmark locations around the world with drivers having to change cars at pitstops due to the batteries lasting only 15-20 minutes.

The world of Formula One, a series on the cutting-edge of technology but still one where the ear-splitting roar of a V8 engine is a key attraction for ‘petrolhead’ fans, is keeping a close watch on what promises to be a silent revolution.

“I think there’s quite a lot of interest... it’s something that McLaren would be delighted to be involved with so we’re obviously looking at it at the moment. Who knows, we might pop up in it,” Whitmarsh said.

“I think we’re looking at all sorts of things. I think it’s a good initiative and we’d be delighted in whatever form to be involved with it.”

McLaren are far more than just a Formula One team these days, having diversified into a range of applied technologies and manufacturing their own sportscar at their Woking headquarters.

They are also the official suppliers of electronic control units to Formula One and NASCAR and have developed a 120KW E-Motor for hybrid and electric vehicles.

Asked whether McLaren might consider entering a team in the series, Whitmarsh replied: “At some point, yes.

But that’s not at the moment.

“We are looking at the technology challenge and how we can contribute there. But I think the sport has to evolve and change and I personally think they are good technical

Above: the Formulec EF 01 prototype will provide the basis for the electric race cars that will compete in the Formula E series. Below right: Whitmarsh said McLaren drivers would enjoy the technical challenge of an electric series

‘The beauty of motorsport and Formula One ... is we can try out things very quickly and we apply huge amounts of engineering intellect to a problem which tends to move it on more quickly than it would do in automotive or defence or aerospace’ challenges and those are the things McLaren enjoys and flourishes at.”

Formula One already uses KERS kinetic energy recovery systems and will take another technology leap in 2014 when a new 1.6 litre turbo-charged V6 engine is due to be introduced.

The cars will be expected to run in electric mode only in the pitlane.

The lack of noise has been singled out as a possible danger as well as a turn-off for fans but others see the silence as another potential benefit even if the technology is already available to create synthetic engine sounds.

Whitmarsh said he had driv-

en an all-electric Nissan Leaf with his family recently and, while he found it an eerie experience, his children loved it.

“What we’ve got to appeal to isn’t old buggers like us,” he smiled. “We’ve got to be looking to the future and the sport has to be socially relevant.

“We are increasingly going to get silent cars and I think in the coming short order you will see a number of very exciting things from McLaren which are resonating with some of these challenges.”

Racers appearing in a regular FIA news conference in Belgium last weekend were sceptical about there ever being a silent F1 with electric cars, although seven times champion

Michael Schumacher was intrigued by the idea of drivers hearing the crowd rather than the other way around.

Most of those currently in the sport doubt they will see a circuit-based electric formula similar to F1 in their careers but Mercedes GP chief executive Nick Fry was less sure.

“I think it’s inevitable that it will become an electric series,” Fry, who recalled writing a strategy paper for Ford in the 1970s on electric vehicles, told Reuters.

“But the question is ‘Is that 10 years away or 20 years away?’. Just as more and more electricity is being generated by wind and other natural sources I’m sure motor racing

and road cars will all go in that direction. But it will be a long process, it’s not going to happen overnight.”

Formula One could be the perfect test-bed for many of the electrical innovations of interest to the automobile industry.

“The beauty of motorsport and Formula One in general is that we can try out things very quickly and we apply huge amounts of engineering intellect to a problem which tends to move it on more quickly than it would do in automotive or defence or aerospace,” said Fry. “When you are up in the sky, there’s a limit to the risks you can take.”

Former England cricket captain Flintoff would be boxing as a heavyweight

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Time is running out for England’s Kevin Pietersen

Merritt sets world record

Cricketer is not among 10 players who were granted 2012/13 playing contracts

By David Clough TIME appears perilously short if Kevin Pietersen is to be chosen for England’s Test tour of India, after he was left off the list of those awarded central contracts.

Pietersen was not among the 10 players granted 2012/13 playing contracts by the England and Wales Cricket Board Friday night.

If the ECB press ahead with plans to name a squad next Thursday to undertake the four-Test tour of India, under Alastair Cook, it is hard to see how Pietersen’s differences with his employers can be settled before then.

There were no surprises among the nine players awarded contracts alongside Cook, Eoin Morgan the only one not currently a Test regular after his loss of form in the United Arab Emirates last winter.

Tim Bresnan and Steven Finn, currently battling for the position of England’s third seamer behind James Anderson and Stuart Broad, are on the list.

The ECB have also awarded four incremental contracts - to Jonny Bairstow, who replaced the dropped Pietersen to impressive effect in last month’s Lord’s Test against South Africa, Ravi Bopara, limitedovers wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter and Durham seamer Graham Onions.

ANNOUNCEMENT Friday night’s ECB statement, accompanying the announcement of the contracts, made one scant reference to Pietersen - whose return to the fold, after his well-chronicled contract disputes and the “provocative” text messages sent to South Africa players during the Headingley Test, depends on a series of meetings with coach Andy Flower and Cook.

“In respect to Kevin Pietersen, discussions are ongoing - and they remain private,” the statement read.

National selector Geoff Miller made special mention of Onions, awarded an increment contract after his return from a career-threat-

ening back injury - even though he has played just one Test since his comeback.

“Congratulations to Graham Onions, the one addition to the list of players who have been awarded increment contracts, in recognition of the effort he has put in since his return from injury in 2011 and an indication that we feel he has plenty to offer England in the coming months,” said Miller.

“Contracts are ongoing recognition for those players who have regularly been selected for England and have performed consistently as well as players who we feel could play an important role for England over the next 12 months.”

Broad, in his capacity as Twenty20 captain, earlier made it clear his squad of specialists are happy to face South Africa - in a threematch series starting in Chester-le-Street tomorrow - and prepare for the defence of their ICC world crown, without Pietersen.

Broad has long been plotting England’s autumn cam-

Pietersen’s return to the fold depends on series of meetings with coach Andy Flower and skipper Alastair Cook paign, here and at the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, in the knowledge Pietersen’s talents would not be in the equation.

The South Africa-born batsman’s reversal, last month, of his initial decision at the end of May to retire from all international limited-overs cricket changed little.

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tain the World Twenty20 without Pietersen, he said: “Of course, yeah.

“Our planning started for the ‘World Cup’ with the Trent Bridge game (against West Indies) earlier in the summer.”

Alex Hales, Pietersen’s replacement at the top of the order, made a big-hitting 99 as England won that June fixture by seven wickets.

OLYMPIC champion Aries Merritt of the United States broke the world record in the 110 metres hurdles while Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake won their sprints in the final Diamond League meet of the season on Friday.

Merritt clocked 12.80 seconds, beating the previous best of 12.87 set in 2008 by Cuba’s Dayron Robles.

Merritt had said in recent weeks that he thought the world record was beatable given the right conditions.

The 27-year-old American has dominated the event this year, with the most sub-12.95 seconds performances in a single season.

Triple Olympic champion Bolt, who shattered the 200 metres meet record at the previous Diamond League event in Zurich, pulled away towards the end of the 100 metres, crossing the line in 9.86 seconds, which is a modest time for him.

Compatriot and training partner Blake, who took silver twice behind Bolt in the sprints at this year’s London Olympics and clinched gold in the sprint relay, was a clear winner in the 200 metres, already well ahead at the top of the bend.

Blake, who set a personal best and equalled the thirdfastest time ever in the 100 at the Lausanne meeting in late August, won in 19.54 seconds, the third fastest time this year.

Earlier on Friday, Kenya’s Emmanuel Kipkemei Bett ran the fastest 10,000 metres of the season in 26 minutes 51.16 seconds.

Yankees regain top spot of American League East THE New York Yankees regained sole possession of first place in the American League East on Friday night with an 8-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.

Alex Rodriguez smacked a huge 300th home run for the Yankees, with Russell Martin and Steve Pearce also connecting and Phil Hughes giving up three runs on six hits over six innings.

Ben Zobrist struck a tworun homer in the bottom of the 11th inning to hand the Tampa Bay Rays a 3-1 walkoff win over the AL Westleading Texas Rangers at Tropicana Field.

Edwin Encarnacion, Moises Sierra and Colby Rasmus went deep in the Toronto Blue Jays’ 7-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox, Henderson Alvarez giving up just two runs over 6 1/3 innings, while two home runs from Lorenzo Cain helped the Kansas City Royals down the AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox 7-5.

In other AL games on Friday, the Oakland Athletics were 6-1 winners against the Seattle Mariners, the Cleve-

Rodriguez hit a huge 300th home run for the Yankees land Indians edged the Minnesota Twins 7-6 and the Los Angeles Angels squeezed past the Detroit Tigers 3-2.

In National League action, the East-leading Washington Nationals had their fivegame winning streak halted in a 9-7 loss against Miami.

Jose Reyes’ two-run triple in the top of the 10th inning proved decisive at Nationals Park, turning the series opener in the Marlins’ favour and inflicting only a second defeat in 10 games on the Nats.

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Newcomers Argentina make All Blacks work hard for win Late tries from wingers Savea and Jane save NZ’s blushes New Zealand 21 Argentina 5 NEW Zealand were made to work hard for victory over Rugby Championship newcomers Argentina in awful conditions in Wellington.

The All Blacks led only 6-5 after a first half littered with handling errors, but Aaron Cruden’s third penalty and tries in the final quarter from wingers Julian Savea and Cory Jane secured victory.

A third win from as many games left New Zealand top of the table irrespective of the day’s later game between Australia and South Africa, while Argentina remain on two points for the tournament.

Cruden missed an early penalty shot from wide on the left as wind and heavy rain swept the stadium, but he landed a simpler second effort 10 minutes in to put the hosts 3-0 ahead.

But Argentina responded with a try after New Zealand’s Ma’a Nonu was tackled and lost the ball. A huge tackle by Savea prevented rival wing Gonzalo Camacho from crossing but as the Argentinian pack followed up, prop Rodrigo Roncero showed great power to break through the home defence on the line for his sixth try in Tests. Martin Rodriguez’s conversion attempt hit the post and bounced wide.

Cruden slotted his second penalty to nudge New Zealand back in front at 6-5 in the 25th minute, after a ruck infringement by Roncero.

The All Blacks were denied a chance to open up a significant lead on the stroke of halftime when, with Victor Vito in full flow down the left wing, Marcelo Bosch produced a crucial try-saving tackle and took the flanker into touch.

That took place in the corner nearest the players’ tunnel, enabling them to dash for shelter as soon as the whistle blew - and they were granted an extended stay under cover as the wild conditions led to a power cut, delaying the start of the second half after the

AMERICAN twin brothers Bob and Mike Bryan won the U.S. Open men’s doubles title on Friday to capture a record-setting 12th grand slam doubles championship.

The duo beat India’s Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 6-3 6-4 to capture their fourth US Open title.

The second-seeded Bryans had entered the US Open tied with Australia’s Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde for 11 grand slam doubles titles.

“We looked up to the Woodies, and to steal all their records is unbelievable, because we idolise those guys,” said Mike Bryan.

“They’re one of the reasons we play doubles.

Just to be mentioned with those guys is pretty special.”

Marathon ban for Armstrong

Above: New Zealand’s Aaron Cruden (left) is tackled by Argentina’s Juan Martin Hernandez Below: The Pumas’ Martin Rodriguez is brought down by All Blacks’ Victor Vito floodlights went out.

After a hold-up of just over five minutes, the game resumed but there was no change to the scrappy nature of play and the opening 10 minutes of the second period were scoreless before Cruden booted the home side 9-5 ahead.

But they were immediately on the back foot after Rodriguez launched a deep kick-off which bounced into touch near the corner after Kiwi scrum-half Aaron Smith slipped. The Pumas won a penalty midway inside the New Zealand half, but Rodriguez missed an excel-

lent chance to cut the deficit back to one.

New Zealand were next to threaten when Julio Cabello was sin-binned for a deliberate knock-on, but Cruden’s penalty hit both posts. Argentina lock Manuel Carizza grabbed the rebound and hoofed it for touch, but a freakish bounce inches inside the touchline led to a chaotic passage of play which ultimately came to nothing.

A magnificent touch-finder by Rodriguez, with the outside of the foot, was out of keeping with a game in which the weather was understandably restricting the

quality on show.

But the All Blacks stepped up a gear as the game neared its end and finally gave themselves a comfortable position with 13 minutes to go. Conrad Smith drew three defenders before offloading to Nonu, who unselfishly gave the glory to Savea in the corner. Cruden’s kick was a long way wide.

And Jane soon dived over for a second try after racing onto a long miss pass from Cruden which was ruled not to be forward. Cruden this time landed an excellent conversion from wide on the right to make it 21-5.

Di Resta has to play short-term waiting game over his future

Di Resta’s fate rests on Hamilton and Schumacher

IN BRIEF Bryan bros take doubles title in NY

PAUL Di Resta appreciates he has to play a waiting game over the next few weeks with regard to his future.

The driver merry-go-round should soon be getting under way, but is at present stalled given the situation surrounding Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher.

Hamilton is locked in talks with McLaren over a new contract, but Mercedes are also in the frame for his services.

The German manufacturing giant, though, are themselves discussing with Schumacher the possibility of him staying on for another year or retiring for a second time.

Once the illustrious duo decide on their futures that will then allow

the driver market to open, and Di Resta is one of many in the frame for a move, with both McLaren and Mercedes mentioned.

2013 PROSPECTS Otherwise, with an option on his Force India contract for next year, it could be the 26-year-old Scot stays with the Silverstone-based team.

Assessing his prospects for 2013, Di Resta said: “I don’t know because I don’t hold the key to it.

“Obviously it has become a year where there are possibly three teams that might be changing, and it’s always nice to have speculation, to see the interest.

“But it’s something I can’t let my brain run away with. I’m in the car this weekend and expected to do a job. That is going to be the focus.

“This is quite an important event. It’s the last European race of the season before the flyaways and given my misfortune at Spa, I am very keen to try and do something good here.”

Di Resta was referring to the fact his car suffered a KERS failure 40 minutes prior to last Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.

The Scot still managed to finish 10th and end a run of three races without a point, but his poor recent run means he has now fallen behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in the standings.

LANCE Armstrong has been banned from running in next month’s Chicago Marathon, a spokesman for the suspended American cyclist said on Friday.

“Lance was going to be running as a fundraising team member of Team Livestrong at Chicago,” Mark Higgins said. “One of the Lance Armstrong Foundation staffers had communicated that to the race organisers and she was told he could not run.”

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France wins last month and handed a lifetime ban by the US Anti-Doping Agency after indicating he would not challenge charges he had doped throughout his career - while always denying doing so.

T20 slump for Australia AUSTRALIA will begin this month’s Twenty20 World Cup ranked 10th in the world in the shortest form of the game after losing a thrilling match to Pakistan in a ‘super over’ in Dubai.

The Australians matched the tally of 151 achieved by Pakistan late Friday, sending the match to the single over shootout, in which they scored 11 runs, only for the hosts to edge them by a single run off the last ball of the match.

Having been beaten by seven wickets in their first match against Pakistan earlier in the week, Australia lost the series 2-0, dropping behind Ireland in the ICC rankings.

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Positives aplenty for Hodgson following 5-0 Moldova victory

Deschamps praise for matchwinner Diaby

final appearance.

In the aftermath of that penalty shoot-out defeat to Italy in Kiev, it seemed Hodgson was wedded to the old 4-4-2 formation, which is no longer effective at the very highest level.

At 65, Hodgson has proved himself willing to adapt.

The use of Cleverley in particular was astute and raises the question of whether Wayne Rooney will return to his favoured ‘number 10’ role, or as the lead forward, when he is fit again. Jermain Defoe was proficient enough in the latter role Friday night.

These are questions for the future of course.

October includes a trip to Poland, who through their draw in Montenegro Friday night hinted they may be the biggest barrier to England’s World Cup progress. Ukraine cannot be dismissed lightly either, despite the retirement of star man Andriy Shevchenko since England beat them in Donetsk less than three months ago.

And, as Hodgson’s assistant Gary Neville has pointed out, margin for error in qualification tournaments is slim.

“We have to qualify for a World Cup - and qualification is difficult,” Neville told FATV. “We have to perform. We travel to some difficult places, including Poland and Ukraine, so we have to be at our best.

“World Cup qualification is about professionalism. You can’t afford mistakes. You might get away with one. You can’t afford two or three.

“If you make a mistake and things don’t go your way, as we found out in qualification for Euro 2008, you end up chasing yourself and it is difficult.”

FRANCE coach Didier Deschamps hailed Abou Diaby as the “complete midfielder” after the Arsenal man marked his international return following a long-term injury with the winning goal against Finland.

Diaby played just five times for Arsenal last season due to a string of injuries, including a calf problem and a broken ankle, but has started the Gunners’ first three games in the new Barclays Premier League campaign.

That was enough to persuade Deschamps to pitch him straight into World Cup qualifying action and the 26-year-old repaid his faith by converting Karim Benzema’s pass as Les Bleus opened their Group I campaign with a 1-0 win in Helsinki Friday night.

And the coach, for whom it was a first competitive game in charge after succeeding Laurent Blanc, said: “He is a boy with a lot of qualities, but I knew that. He is a complete midfielder.”

Diaby himself added in L’Equipe: “It was a good return, I was pleased. I hope this will be the real return.”

Rio Mavuba also praised his central midfield partner, describing him as “indispensable for the France squad”.

But Terry loss looms ahead of Ukraine clash

By netting two goals, Lampard (R) underlined the contribution he can still make in the midfield

By Simon Stone ENGLAND boss Roy Hodgson was able to reflect on a job well done in Moldova Friday night, but his team did not come through their trip to Chisinau completely unscathed.

Hodgson is anticipating bad news on John Terry’s ankle injury and, with the Chelsea man also expected to face his Football Association hearing before October’s doubleheader, his future availability is a matter of debate. Terry has denied a charge of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand during a Barclays Premier League game last October, having been cleared of any wrongdoing in the courts in July.

The blow of possibly losing Terry would be softened for Tuesday’s Wembley encounter with Ukraine by the availability of Gary Cahill, whom many felt would have partnered Terry Friday night anyway.

And the potential for Ashley Cole winning his 99th cap after an ankle injury is also positive news.

Even more importantly, England have slipped into a pleasant groove.

It may have appeared little has changed since Euro 2012.

However, first against Italy

in Berne, then at the Zimbru Stadium Friday night, there were signs they have moved on a great deal.

Tom Cleverley’s performances behind a lone striker have been a revelation. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain provides a different kind of option out wide.

Leighton Baines was an able deputy for Cole at left-back, whilst Frank Lampard under-

lined the contribution he can still make in midfield at the age of 34.

Beyond even that though, against limited opposition, with the result assured after half an hour, Hodgson was delighted how well his players maintained their focus.

“The professionalism and discipline were the biggest things,” he said.

“Even at the end there was

no casual play. I don’t feel we made that many bad decisions.

“I would have been more than happy to win it 2-0 or 3-0 but, generally speaking, I thought it was a thoroughly professional, thoroughly disciplined performance.”

Hodgson has shown greater flexibility than seemed likely following England’s European Championship quarter-

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Germany boss disappointed by side’s missed chances GERMANY coach Joachim Low bemoaned his side’s inability to kill off the Faroe Islands sooner after they had to settle for a 3-0 win in Friday night’s opening World Cup qualifier.

Home fans could have been forgiven for expecting their side to run up a huge tally against the Group C minnows, but they had only Mario Gotze’s goal to show for their first-half dominance.

Mesut Ozil’s second-half brace ensured the result was never in doubt, but Low expects more from his highlyrated attacking players.

“We had many chances but did not score enough goals,” he told kicker.de. “That is precisely our problem. We’re not good enough with the chances we get.

“In some situations we could have done better. We sometimes made small errors and did not find the finish we needed.”

While the 2010 semi-finalists could afford such wastefulness against Lars Olsen’s

unheralded side, Low warned they will have to improve for subsequent clashes in a group which also contains Austria, Sweden, the Republic of Ireland and Kazakhstan.

“The Faroe Islands were not the benchmark for the other opponents against which we have to play in the group,” he said.

Captain Philipp Lahm was also frustrated and said: “We played well but did not get the goals, at half-time it could have been 4-0.”

Ozil added: “We put pressure on from the start and wanted to score an early goal.

“With so many missed chances in the first half we made the game interesting, but we gave everything and deserved to win.”

Playmaker Gotze paid tribute to the Faroes’ defensive efforts, though, admitting: “They stood very deep and it was difficult to get through.

“We should have been a little more consistent (in front of goal) but we took the goals well.”

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New Spurs midfielder Clint Dempsey’s (L) efforts were not enough to save the USA from a 2-1 loss to Jamaica

JAMAICA sprung a major surprise in the third round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying by coming from a goal down to defeat the United States 2-1 in Kingston and earning sole leadership of Group A. New Tottenham midfielder Clint Dempsey needed only 36 seconds to put the Americans ahead, but Leeds midfielder Rodolph Austin equalised 20 minutes later with a fierce free-kick which deflected off defender Kyle Beckerman and beat Tim Howard.

Then, in the second half, Everton goalkeeper Howard was beaten by another free-kick, this time Luton Shelton the man on target.

US coach Jurgen Klinsmann was disappointed with his side’s performance.

“They were hungrier and more deter-

mined,” the German said of the Jamaicans. “We have to fix some mistakes if we want to recover quickly.”

The result lifted the Reggae Boyz to the top of the pool on seven points - two ahead of the Americans and Guatemala, who had to work hard to sink Antigua & Barbuda 3-1.

Peter Byers silenced the home crowd by putting the visitors ahead in the 38th minute, but Carlos Ruiz’s second-half brace turned the game on its head before substitute Dwight Pezzarossi sealed matters in stoppage time.

The result left Antigua & Barbuda bottom of the group on one point ahead of Tuesday’s fixtures, in which they face Guatemala and the USA host Jamaica.

In Group B, Mexico maintained their perfect record with a straightforward

2-0 victory over Costa Rica in San Jose.

Carlos Salcido volleyed home the opener two minutes before the interval, after being set up by Javier Hernandez, and Jesus Zavala converted a corner to double the Mexicans’ advantage seven minutes into the second half.

“It’s always very complicated to play in San Jose, but we did it well and we could even have won by a bigger margin,” Mexico coach Jose Manuel De La Torre said. “We have to think and plan every game like it was our last. We have not achieved our main target yet.”

In the pool’s other game, El Salvador could only manage a 2-2 home draw against Guyana. Isidro Gutierrez and Osael Romero netted the goals for the hosts, with Treyon Bobb twice on target for the visitors.

Cyprus ‘did not deserve to lose,’ says Nioplias

Messi propels Argentina to South America table summit

By Nemanja Bjedov

Paraguay swatted aside by unstoppable striker’s team

TWO late goals left Cyprus empty handed after an encouraging second-half performance against Group E rivals Albania, with the Cypriots suffering a 3-1 defeat in the opening game of the 2014 World Cup qualifying round at the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tirana.

The hosts took the lead through midfielder Armando Sadiku in the first half, but Cyprus equalised deep into first-half injury time, thanks to a 30m free-kick from Vincent Laban.

After the interval, the superiority of the hosts paid off when substitute Edgar Cani headed home with six minutes remaining and fellow substitute Erjon Bogdani netted from 25m out to clinch victory.

Albanian Football Federation president Armand Duka was ecstatic. “We fully deserved this victory as our players left their hearts on the pitch,” he said.

Disagreeing, Greek coach Nikos Nioplias, who leads Cyprus, said: “We did not deserve to lose this game.

We played away from home against opponents who wanted to start their World Cup qualifying campaign on a positive note, before a home crowd, and they ultimately managed to do so.

They scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the game without actually creating a proper chance.”

“We were forced to change our goalkeeper at half time and that was a problem; however, we also had a couple of chances to score at 1-1, but unfortunately failed to convert any of them.

“Albania relied heavily on crosses inside our penalty area and their strategy was successful in the end. The only thing we can do now is try to focus on our next opponent and get all three points,” Nioplias concluded.

Cyprus take on Iceland next on Tuesday night at Larnaca’s Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, with kick-off scheduled for 8pm.

By Rex Gowar LIONEL Messi was almost unstoppable again as Argentina posted their sixth victory in a row, swatting Paraguay aside 3-1 to take the lead in South America’s World Cup qualifiers on Friday.

Argentina, among the favourites to win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, took over from Uruguay as the team to beat in the qualifying campaign.

Argentina ended a 39-year wait for another home win over the dogged Paraguayans in a World Cup qualifier and in securing it they sent their opponents to the bottom of the standings.

Messi might have had a third hat-trick in five internationals, hitting the woodwork twice, and his goal took his tally to 10 in six matches including friendlies.

“This is beautiful. It’s lovely when the crowd give you so much love,” Messi said.

Messi brought the best out of the players around him with Angel Di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain scoring fine goals. Sergio Aguero, seen as Messi’s ideal partner in attack, was not even missed.

Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella, whose side stuttered at the start of the qualifiers, said: “We remain with our feet

Higher power: Messi might have had a third hat-trick in five internationals, hitting the woodwork twice, and his goal took his tally to 10 in six matches on the ground and we don’t want the players to go from one extreme to the other ...

Messi is happy and shows it on the pitch.”

The nine-nation group without Brazil, who as hosts are spared the qualifiers, can be divided into two halves. The top four will go to the Brazil finals, the fifth team will have a 50-50 chance, playing off against an Asian side, and the

bottom four will miss out.

Colombia, who had played below potential in a poor start to the campaign that included the sacking 10 months ago of coach Leonel Alvarez, climbed into the top five with a 4-0 rout of Uruguay in steamy Barranquilla.

“We mustn’t lose focus of what this qualifying campaign is,” Colombia’s Argen-

tine coach Jose Pekerman warned after the emphatic win sparked by red-hot striker Radamel Falcao’s early opening goal.

“This was a key result against one of the best teams in the world ... (previously) 18 matches unbeaten, and we need to make the right reading of it,” he said.

Colombia’s win pushed Venezuela, who are looking

to reach the finals for the first time but were beaten 2-1 away to Peru, down to sixth place.

Peru, who came from behind with a brace by reinstated, controversial winger Jefferson Farfan, climbed out of the basement now occupied jointly by Bolivia and Paraguay, who two years ago were quarter-finalists in South Africa.

The Peruvians will be looking to confirm their improvement when they host Argentina in Lima on Tuesday.

The same day, previous leaders Chile, who had a bye on Friday, entertain the Colombians, while Uruguay will be looking to pick up the pieces against Ecuador.

Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez, who makes no bones about the qualifiers being tougher than the finals, saw his side drop to fourth two points behind Argentina and one short of Chile and Ecuador.

Ecuador, crushed 4-0 when they met Argentina in Buenos Aires in June, have quietly picked up a maximum 12 points from four home matches without conceding a goal, evidently taking advantage of the high altitude of Quito that handicaps their opponents.

Bolivia have been unable to do this, apart from a 3-1 home win over Paraguay in June due more to the ineptitude of the Paraguayans’ former coach Francisco Arce, who was then sacked.

Experienced Uruguayan Gerardo Pelusso took over from Arce and had hoped to surprise Argentina with some tough defence and counter-attacking while admitting before the game noone has succeeded in shackling Messi. His team were no exception.

Despite comfortable win over Turks, Van Gaal wants more from his youngsters NETHERLANDS coach Louis van Gaal was not fully satisfied with the performance of some of his young players, despite his side’s winning start to World Cup qualifying against Turkey.

Goals from Robin van Persie and

Luciano Narsingh earned the Dutch their first three points in Group D on the road to 2014. But Van Gaal, who had included several new faces on his return for a second spell as coach, warned he expects a higher standard from many of his players.

Jordy Clasie and Daryl Janmaat were singled out for criticism, while only a significant improvement after half-time spared Bruno Martins Indi and Jetro Willems.

“Janmaat was not Janmaat,” Van Gaal told De Telegraaf. “Clasie can

offer a lot going forward, but he did not. That’s why I changed them after the break.”

Van Gaal added: “In the first half I was also dissatisfied with Martins Indi and Willems, but in the second half they improved handsomely.”

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Hamilton (R) and Button made it an all-McLaren front row ahead of today’s GP

Hamilton on pole at Monza, Alonso 10th LEWIS Hamilton swept to pole position for the Italian Formula One Grand Prix yesterday in an all-McLaren front row with team mate Jenson Button lining up alongside him.

It was McLaren’s third successive pole, and the 23rd of Hamilton’s career, and left the two Britons perfectly placed for a third win in a row after their third one-two in qualifying this season.

“I think practice was a lot better for me,” said Hamilton, who was fastest in the morning’s final practice, of what he called a ‘halfdecent’ lap at the end of the session.

“I didn’t think that lap was anywhere near good enough,” added the 2008 world champion, whose Formula One future has been the major talking point of the weekend with speculation raging that Hamilton could move to Mercedes.

Button has finished runner-up at Monza for the past three years in a row, but knows only too well that the driver on pole has also ended up the winner in six of the last 10 races there.

“The last few races have really shown our strength,” said Button. “Qualifying both of us on the front row is great ... but even being on the front row it’s not going to be an easy race.”

Ferrari’s Brazilian Felipe Massa qualified third, but team mate and championship leader Fernando Alonso, who has a 24-point lead over Red Bull’s champion Sebastian Vettel, could manage only 10th place on the grid for his team’s home race.

“I think he had a problem,” said Massa, whose future at Ferrari looks shakier than ever after he scored just 35 points in 12 races. “He had a problem on Q3 (the

third phase) and was not able to complete his lap.”

Britain’s Paul Di Resta qualified fourth fastest, but has a five-place grid penalty due to an unscheduled gearbox change.

That meant Michael Schumacher, still adored by the Ferrari fans for his golden past with the team, will start on the second row instead for Mercedes.

Vettel will share the third row with the Mercedes of compatriot Nico Rosberg, with former Ferrari champion Kimi Raikkonen seventh for Lotus and alongside Japan’s Kamui Kobayashi for Sauber.

Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg will start last after he failed to set a time in qualifying after slowing and stopping on the escape road next to the first chicane.

His problems allowed Belgian Jerome D’Ambrosio, replacing the banned Romain Grosjean at Lotus for one race, to go through to the second phase.

He will start 15th because Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado, wearing a new helmet with “Less Trouble, More Speed’ written on it, has a 10-place grid penalty for jumping the start at the last race in Belgium and causing a collision.

Frenchman Grosjean was handed his ban at Spa for causing a pile-up that dumped Alonso and Hamilton out at the first corner.

For the first time since 1969, today’s race will have no Italian drivers in it - although the grim economic climate was a more likely explanation for the unusually large numbers of empty seats in the main grandstand.

D’Ambrosio, Massa, Toro Rosso’s Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Di Resta all have Italian ancestry, however.

ustralia got their Rugby Championship campaign back on track with a scrappy 26-19 victory over South Africa yesterday, coming back from a first half deficit to register a fifth successive win over the Springboks.

Back-to-back losses to the All Blacks in their first two matches of the inaugural competition had made this a must-win test for the Wallabies and their coach Robbie Deans.

After a poor first half where they fell behind to Springbok winger Bryan Habana’s 42nd test try, scores from forwards Scott Higginbotham and Ben Alexander and a perfect kicking display from Berrick Barnes just about got them across the line.

South Africa, who drew 1616 with Argentina in their last outing, were still looking for a converted try to tie the match at the end of the game but will rue a lack of a spark in their backline.

“We went into the second half and felt that we hadn’t played as much as we would have liked to,” Australia captain Will Genia, on crutches after injuring his knee, said.

“So we came out with a lot more enthusiasm and energy. ... We know we’re a good side and just happy to get a good win against a quality opposition.”

Springbok captain Jean de Villiers was disappointed that his young team were unable to come away with a victory in Perth, where they again enjoyed good support from the large South Africa community.

“It was probably one we should have won but credit must go to Australia for coming back when they were down at halftime,” he said. We have to learn from this and if we’re in that situation again, we can capitalise and get a win.

“We probably made one or two errors and that cost us big time. A much better effort than against Argentina,

South Africa’s Springboks’ Francois Steyn (C) is tackled

by Australia’s Wallabies’ Will Genia (L) and Berrick Barnes but unfortunately not good enough on the day again.”

The South Africans had the better of the first half as the Wallabies gave away good attacking ball with a series of inneffectual grubber kicks.

The visitors were always going to win a kicking duel and Morne Steyn had already tried and failed with a drop goal attempt before he gave them the lead with a penalty after three minutes.

Berrick Barnes then slotted his first attempt at goal after 17 minutes but the parity was short-lived.

Australia messed up the restart and the Springboks pounced, moving through the phases before Habana seized the ball at the foot of a ruck and dived over the line under the post.

It was a 42nd test try for the winger and a fifth in four matches against Australia in Perth. Morne Steyn added the extras and South Africa led 10-3 with 20 minutes on the clock.

Francois Steyn extended the lead with a long-range penalty kick six minutes later, but Barnes immediately chipped away at it with one of his own.

South Africa prop Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira was sinbinned seven minutes before the break for blocking Kurtley Beale when the Australia

fullback was chasing a kick, but the Wallabies were unable to make the extra man tell and went in 13-6 down.

Australia finally got some tempo in attack early in the second half and were rewarded by a third Barnes penalty in the 47th minute.

Nine minutes later, loose forward Higginbotham finally found a way through the Springbok defence and broke a couple of tackles to touch down under the posts and give the home side the lead for the first time in the game.

Barnes kicked the conversion before Francois Steyn tied the match up at 16-16 with another long-range effort. Thereafter Barnes again edged the home side ahead, but Morne Steyn took just four minutes to square up the contest with his second penalty in the 67th minute.

A minute later, though, prop Alexander burst down the touchline to clinch the victory, with Barnes adding the two extra points with his sixth successful kick from six attempts.