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‘Interim IPT bill to satisfy troika’ ‘Unfair’ law to be amended in June by government rushing to meet lenders’ deadline By George Psyllides

EARS of omissions and delays have forced the government to submit provisional immovable property tax legislation (IPT) in a bid to meet immediate bailout conditions, but which will have to be amended by the end of June to make it fairer, spokesman Christos Stylianides said yesterday. The spokesman said authorities lacked sufficient data to prepare a comprehensive proposal but at the same time the bill had to be approved in the next few days for Cyprus to be eligible for the muchneeded first tranche of a €10 billion bailout at the beginning of May. “Unfortunately, past omissions and shortcomings have resulted in insufficient data,” Stylianides said, adding that the government could not accept the current distortions in the system. Cyprus has until now taxed properties according to their 1980s values while many properties have not even been registered. “There are whole areas in Limassol, Nicosia, and Larnaca, where houses worth millions of euros are built, which do not have a building permit at the moment and are considered plots and fields,” Stylianides said. This means any law

passed under current circumstance would be unfairly distributed among registered home owners. The administration was asking for more time, pledging to have a fairer final proposal before parliament by the end of June. “We must send a bill to parliament … because we all know that we need the disbursement of the first tranche. “We expect the approval of this proposal being fully aware there will be a much better and much fairer IPT by June,” Stylianides said. The finalised IPT was expected to be paid by property owners towards the end of September. Stylianides said the state would use information and data held by local authorities, the land registry and even the VAT service. The finance and interior ministries judged that they could not collect all the data in such a short time, he said. “We are asking for this small extension because we saw that the data is distorted and insufficient,” Stylianides said. The bill aims to raise €75 million on top of the €30 million collected from the IPT in 2012. Stylianides said the final bill provided for €125 million in revenues from IPT – €75 million plus €30 million plus a ‘cushion’ included because “not everyone will

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MAN BURNS TO DEATH IN TRUCK FIRE

A 66-year-old man burnt to death yesterday while his son, 44, was in critical condition after the truck they were in was engulfed in ﬂames on a rural road in Nicosia (Christos Theodorides) SEE STORY PAGE 3

Human extinction warning from Oxford University WHAT are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction? An international team of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute is investigating the biggest dangers. And they argue in a research paper, Existential Risk as a Global Priority, that international policymakers must pay serious attention to the reality of speciesobliterating risks. According to the BBC, the Swedish-born director of the institute, Nick Bostrom, says the stakes couldn’t be higher. If we get it wrong, this could be humanity’s ﬁnal century.

So what are the greatest dangers? First the good news. Pandemics and natural disasters might cause colossal and catastrophic loss of life, but Dr Bostrom believes humanity would be likely to survive. This is because as a species we’ve already outlasted many thousands of years of disease, famine, ﬂood, predators, persecution, earthquakes and environmental change. So the odds remain in our favour. And in the time frame of a century, he says the risk of extinction from asteroid impacts and super-volcanic eruptions remains “extremely small”. Even the unprecedented self-inﬂicted

losses in the 20th Century in two world wars, and the Spanish ﬂu epidemic, failed to halt the upward rise in the global human population. Nuclear war might cause appalling destruction, but enough individuals could survive to allow the species to continue. If that’s the feelgood reassurance out of the way, what should we really be worrying about? Dr Bostrom believes we’ve entered a new kind of technological era with the capacity to threaten our future as never before. These are “threats we have no track record of surviving”.

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Wearing army-style camouﬂage costumes, young Armenians lower ﬂags as they visit the genocide memorial, which commemorates the 1915 genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, in Yerevan yesterday, as they mark the 98th anniversary of the tragedy (AFP)

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ON THIS DAY APRIL 25

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

1792

35 years ago, Tuesday April 25, 1978

The guillotine is ﬁrst used in Paris on a convicted highwayman.

France today denied it had tested a neutron bomb and said it had no plans to experiment with the controversial weapon. The denial, issued by President Valery Giscard D’ Estanig’s ofﬁce, followed press reports that France had recently exploded a neutron device underground at its nuclear test site, in the South Paciﬁc.

1915 The First World War: Australian, New Zealand, British and French forces begin landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula to attack Turkish positions.

1953 Scientists in England write about the structure of a chemical called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

1974 The Carnation Revolution in Portugal restores democracy to the country.

1983 In Germany, the magazine Stern publishes extracts from what it claims to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler. Extracts are also published in English newspaper, the Sunday Times. The diaries are later discovered to have been fakes.

45 years ago, Thursday April 25, 1968 Paris today emerged as the most likely site for preliminary Vietnam peace talks. US ofﬁcials and diplomats said the consensus appeared to be that the French capital will be the compromise choice of venue by America and North Vietnam. But French ambassador Charles Lucet met all queries with the statement “no comment because I honestly do not know.”

55 years ago, Friday April 25, 1958 Selwyn Lloyd’s assertion in the Commons that he had been negotiating on Cyprus with the Karamanlis government until its fall, although disputed by members of the late Radical Cabinet seems to have harmed their party at the crucial pre-election period. The Liberal spokesman declared “the British Foreign Secretary’s statement is a revelation and renewed proof of the falsehood of the Karamanlis government”.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY School brawl POLICE are investigating a fight between roughly 30 youths in a school yard in Limassol which took place in the early hours of yesterday. According to a police spokesman, members of the force arrived at the school in Polemidia after being tipped off at 11.45pm on Tuesday, as troublemakers fled the scene. Police later searched Limassol General Hospital where they found two 19year-olds who had suffered severe head injuries. Due to the severity of their injuries the two young men were moved to Nicosia General Hospital. Police are looking into the incident amid rumours the fight was scheduled for midnight after three unknown young men had visited the school in Polemidia earlier in the day and had been attacked by students from the school.

Interim IPT bill approved (continued from front page) be able to respond during the speciﬁc timeframe.” “‘Cushions’ are included in all memoranda in all countries,” the spokesman said. According to the bill, reports said, individuals will pay between €50 for a property valued at €12,500 in 1980 to €51,419 for those over €3.0 million. Owners whose properties were worth between 40,001 to €120,000 would pay an average €305 and a maximum of €640. Properties worth between €170,001 and €300,00 will be taxed an av-

Between €50 for a property valued at €12,500 in 1980 to €51,419 for those over €3.0 million erage €1,500. The maximum amount for this bracket will reach €2,340, reports said. Under the memorandum of understanding struck with the troika, authorities must “implement a property price index that establishes the average property market valuation in 2013 by square metre of habitable surface and land plot. This

index shall be operational to provide imputed market valuations for each non-agricultural cadastral plot [Q2 2014], in time for its application in the calculation of the immovable property tax in 2014.” The previous MoU, concluded last November, had called for putting an immediate end to the use of 1980

values. It was understood the troika had wanted the government to raise around €100 million, but a government bill brought by the previous administration overshot that target by intending to generate twice that. That bill never made it to the House plenary due to the intervening elections,

Man burns to death in truck fire

Drugs arrest FAMAGUSTA District Court remanded a 19-yearold soldier from Xylofagou for three days yesterday for allegedly growing cannabis. The soldier who is currently serving in Avgorou was being questioned by members of the drug squad after they found six cannabis plants being grown outside the Avgorou National Guard army post. The drug squad had initially received reports that soldiers had been growing the plants, which were seven centimetres in height, in plastic pots just outside the post. The 19year-old was arrested after he showed up to allegedly water the plants. “The case will be investigated fully,” a statement from the drug squad said.

Car fire A CAR valued at around €15,000 was completely destroyed by a ﬁre at around 4am yesterday in Lakatamia, police said. The cause of the ﬁre has yet to be ascertained and police are investigating all possibilities.

and the new government decided to scrap it and start again. Under the ﬁrst MoU, 1980 prices were to have been adjusted by the Consumer Price Index from 1980 to 2012 and the threshold at which IPT becomes payable would be increased to €150,000. Under that arrangement, anyone owning property with a 1980 value exceeding roughly €44,000 would become liable to pay IPT and would be required to submit an annual self-assessment to the Inland Revenue Department.

Ofﬁcials gather at the scene of the accident yesterday

(Christos Theodorides)

A 66-YEAR-old man burnt to death yesterday while his son, 44, was in critical condition after the truck they were in was engulfed in flames on a rural road in Nicosia. Gavril Yerolemou died at around 1.30pm when the truck driven by his son, Yerolemos, was engulfed in flames while on the Nicosia to Palehori road near the Ergates industrial estate. The fire started in the engine and spread quickly to the bales of hay the pair were carrying in the truck. Yerolemos managed to get out of the vehicle but his father remained trapped inside. Eyewitnesses spoke of the injured son’s desperate effort to save his burning father. He was trying to save him, shouting “my dad, my dad,” said a driver who had stopped to offer help with a small extinguisher. “When I got close it was no longer possible. We shouted to him to get back to save himself if nothing else. His father burnt inside. We did whatever we could,” the driver said. Yerolemos was rushed to Nicosia general hospital in critical condition. He was placed on a ventilator and is being treated for burns. Eyewitness Makarios Christodoulou also tried to help. I tried to do whatever I could to help but it was in vain. “I couldn’t do anything,” he told reporters. The fire was put out by the fire service while experts later inspected the destroyed truck in search of the cause of the blaze.

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Push to boost tourism from the Netherlands By Peter Stevenson OFFICIALs from the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) met with the heads of the Dutch Association of Travel Agents along with journalists from the country’s three biggest newspapers yesterday in an attempt to attract tourists from Holland. Speaking after the meeting, head of the CTO Alecos Oroundiotis said that the meeting took place as the organisation is making attempts to reverse the negative image the island is suffering from in light of recent economic developments. He added that both sides took part in a very constructive meeting regarding the arrival of Dutch tourists and promoting Cyprus in the Dutch tourist market. “We were assured by everyone that they found Cyprus a very attractive destination that should not be envious of any other tourist destination as our Dutch colleagues have not found any problems here,” he said. Oroundiotis added that an agreement had been put in place with the head of the Dutch Association of Travel Agents, Frank Oostdam, to hold their next conference in Cyprus. “This indicates once more the trust shown to Cyprus by Dutch travel agents and we are sure this support will continue in the future,” Oroundiotis said. “The Dutch market is one of the best in central Europe,” he added. In 2011, 45,000 tourists came to Cyprus from Holland according to Oroundiotis who added that 2012 was not a great year regarding Dutch tourism, with arrivals being limited to just 35,000. “The Dutch market has plenty of potential and we hope to surpass in the future the amount of tourists from Holland that we have had in the past,” he said. Asked whether any incentives would be given to travel agents working abroad to attract tourism to the island, the head of the CTO said that efforts were being made, although unfortunately the organisation was working with a lower budget in 2013. “Of course this affects all of our efforts but we will do our best to reverse the situation,” he said. Oostdam told reporters that a very interesting discussion had taken place with ofﬁcials

from the CTO. He revealed that the number of tourists from Holland had decreased by 25 per cent in comparison to previous years and said that it was in everyone’s interests to find a way to attract Dutch tourists to the island. “I believe the Cyprus government needs to give funding to promote the island as a tourist destination in Holland and in that way help Dutch travel agents,” he said. He expressed the Association’s support towards the Cypriot people and gave assurances that an increase in Dutch tourists to the island would benefit both the Association and Cyprus. “I am sure the situation will improve,” he concluded. Senior executives from international leisure travel group TUI Travel PLC, will be in Cyprus today to meet with government officials and representatives from the tourism industry. They will be headed by deputy chief executive, Johan Lundgren. According to a TUI statement, the aim of the group’s visit is to reaffirm their trust in the island’s tourism industry and the wider business environment after recent events. They will be present at an official dinner this evening hosted by the government in the presence of Commerce and Industry Minister, Giorgos Lakkotrypis and other officials from the tourism industry. “Despite recent developments in the economy, Cyprus remains a very attractive tourist destination that has all manner of high quality services that any visitor might require,” Lundgren said. “Tourism can be a powerful weapon against the recession and can also spearhead the effort to restart the country’s economy,” he added. TUI is one of the leading tourism organisations in the world and has 141 aircraft and 1,800 retail stores across Europe. TUI’s customers spend around €120 million annually in Cyprus, with the average expenditure per tourist coming to about €65 per day. Through its programmes, TUI Travel brings more than 365,000 tourists during the summer season and 81,000 tourists in winter to the island. It cooperates with 65 tourism companies in Cyprus, which include more than 300 hotels.

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Andreas Vassiliou (right) who received a bone marrow transplant when he was a child issued a plea yesterday along with Defence Minister Fotis Fotiou (left) (PIO)

THE DEFENCE ministry is calling on people to step up their efforts to give blood so that a viable bone marrow donor can be found for ﬁve-yearold leukaemia sufferer George Philippides from Paphos. Vassos Vassiliou, whose son Andreas, also suffered from leukaemia in 2000 but was cured after a donor was found, took the initiative along with the defence ministry to have his son speak to the press yesterday. “It is our chance to show that despite the current ﬁnancial crisis we can stand on our feet and help little George,” Andreas Vassiliou said. “When I heard about the case I was moved to make a plea to the public because I know what he is going through.” Defence Minister, Fotis Fotiou called on people to act now to help save the little boy, and hailed Andreas for currently serving in the army when he could have asked for an exemption. People who want to donate blood to be tested must be 18 to 45 years old. Donors from Nicosia can visit the Karaiskakio foundation from 8am to 4pm on weekdays or the Engomi blood bank from 8am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 2pm on Saturdays. People in other towns can visit the city blood banks from 8am to 2pm on weekdays. For further information contact the Karaiskakio foundation on 22772700.

ESM grants stability support to the island Dijsselbloem: member states showing solidarity with Cyprus By Stefanos Evripidou CYPRUS IS on track to get €3 billion by the end of June after the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) yesterday decided to show “solidarity” and grant, in principle, financial assistance to the troubled island. Following the Eurogroup’s decisions taken on March 25, 2013, Cyprus will receive assistance of up to €10 billion over the next three years. Repayment of the loan will begin in ten years time and have a maximum maturity of 20 years and an average of 15 years while the interest paid will be calculated based on the funding costs of the ESM, likely to be between 2 and 3 per cent. The ESM is expected to provide approximately €9 billion, subject to approval by its Board of Directors, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to contribute around €1 billion, subject to approval by its Executive Board. “By providing loans of up to €9 billion the euro area member states are showing solidarity with Cyprus,” Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Chairman of the ESM’s Board of Governors and Eurogroup President said. “The implementation of the conditions attached to the assistance should ensure that Cyprus can build its economy on a sustainable basis,” he said. Klaus Regling, the ESM’s Managing Director, said: “This is the first fully fledged macro-economic

adjustment programme financed by the ESM.” So far the ESM has financed the programme for financial sector reform in Spain to the tune of €41 billion. The ESM was set up last October to preserve the financial stability of Europe’s single currency by providing direct financial assistance to euro area Member States in difficulty. It was preceded by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM). The EFSF and EFSM continue to handle money disbursements and programme monitoring of previously approved bailout loans to Ireland, Portugal and Greece. Greece alone has secured around €200 billion in bailout funds so far from the two previous instruments. Cyprus is not only the first fully fledged macro-economic bailout financed by the ESM, it is also the first country forced to contribute to its rescue package with a “bail-in” by uninsured depositors of the island’s two biggest banks. A further estimated €3 billion will come from privatisations, state gold sale and fiscal adjustments. While the ESM’s mandate includes providing loans to eurozone countries in financial difficulties or to finance the recapitalisations of banks, in Cyprus’ case, no portion of the €10 billion can be used to recapitalise the Bank of Cyprus or Laiki whose losses are considered too big to be covered by the EU. Instead, €3.4 billion of the funds will be used to cover Cyprus’ fiscal needs, €4.1

billion to redeem its medium and longterm debt, and €2.5 billion for the recapitalisation of banks apart from Bank of Cyprus and Laiki. Despite containing buffers for possible upward adjustments, the above figures regarding the state’s fiscal needs and banks’ recapitalisation needs are merely estimates. The true figures will depend to a large extent on how many depositors try to take their money out of Cypriot banks once capital controls are lifted and the impact of the crisis on state revenue and expenditure. The first disbursement of ESM financial assistance to Cyprus, around €2 billion, is expected in mid-May 2013, to pay maturing government debt while a further €1 billion will come before the end of June. Each tranche will be disbursed roughly every quarter after that. The ESM can tweak the size of each tranche disbursed based on the current needs of Cyprus at each stage and its adherence to pledged reforms. The country will be subject to quarterly reviews of its needs and implementation of an extensive programme of policy reforms including restoring the soundness of the Cypriot banking sector, continuing the process of fiscal consolidation, and implementing structural reforms to foster competitiveness and sustainable growth. Cyprus is expected to receive around half of the full bailout money within 2013. The aim is for Cyprus to return to international markets for loans after the three-year programme ends in 2016.

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CBC says urgent need for interest rate reduction Governor meets with financial institutions for a drop in rates effective as of May 1 By George Psyllides THE CENTRAL Bank (CBC) is trying to create conditions under which banks could reduce their interest rates on deposits, which could eventually lead to a cut in borrowing rates, the regulator said yesterday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The CBC recognises that under the current circumstances â&#x20AC;Ś there is an urgent need for a reduction in deposit rates, which in turn will lead to lower borrowing rates,â&#x20AC;? CBC spokeswoman Aliki Stylianou said. The CBC has proposed that a lender would have to keep additional equity when its rate on deposits exceeds Euribor (Euro Interbank Offered Rate) plus 300 basis points. Stylianou said banks pass the cost of high deposit rates onto borrowing rates with negative effects. It causes an increase in non-performing loans, which then affects the lendersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; capital, Stylianou said. The scheme will apply to deposits made or renewed from May 1 onwards. Hellenic Bank struck a note of caution over the CBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal, which had been based on a similar scheme implemented in Portugal. Marios Clerides, Hellenicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of risk management, said the two countries had dif-

Iliana Nicolaou poses for the cameras yesterday

ferent conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Portugal does not have restrictions on the export and import of capital,â&#x20AC;? Clerides said. The executive, whose bank was downgraded by Fitch ratings agency because of the capital controls, said they must be lifted soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also feel they must be lifted because they hurt us as an organisation without being to blame,â&#x20AC;? Clerides said. Fitch said it downgraded Hellenicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longand short-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Restricted Defaultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and removed them from Rating Watch Negative on prolongation of capital controls, which included deposit withdrawal restrictions set by the Cypriot banking regulator. Clerides said a number of restrictions ought to be lifted to see how the system responded. Depending on that, the remaining controls should be lifted as soon as possible, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dangerous is to lift restrictions and then reinstate them. You need to do it right,â&#x20AC;? he said. Capital controls had been imposed at the end of March following a chaotic bailout, which led to a lockdown of the banking system for 15 days. They were put in place to prevent a ďŹ&#x201A;ight of funds from a banking system ďŹ&#x201A;ush with cash from Russian and European businesses, but also from many overseas Cypriots.

(Christos Theodorides)

Nicolaou sworn in to inquiry panel FORMER Ombudswoman Iliana Nicolaou was sworn in yesterday at the Presidential Palace, before President Nicos Anastasiades, replacing Panayiotis Kallis on the committee of inquiry into the economy, after he resigned on Tuesday. In a letter to the president and the justice minister, Kallis said he felt obliged to step down citing a possible conďŹ&#x201A;ict of interest with his sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; law practice. In the letter, Kallis explained that he could not in good conscience continue his work as his sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; law ďŹ rm has taken on clients challenging the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;haircutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on deposits at Laiki and Bank of Cyprus. Speaking to Nicolaou, Anastasiades said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like to thank you for your willingness to participate in the committee of inquiry which has been set up to investigate the acts or omissions of persons who were authorised to manage Cyprusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; economy or its banking systemâ&#x20AC;?. The president went on to clarify that the government neither intended nor aimed at â&#x20AC;&#x153;punishing political lifeâ&#x20AC;?. Through investigating the circumstances that led to the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;economic tragedyâ&#x20AC;?, Anastasiades added that noone was immune from scrutiny. He said that any possible criminal liabilities were the responsibility of an independent judiciary panel and not the government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The government has

provided the committee of inquiry with wide-ranging terms of reference and it is your sole responsibility to complete the project with sound judgement and ethical integrity,â&#x20AC;? Anastasiades said, addressing Nicolaou. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am convinced that

thanks to your experience as a qualiďŹ ed lawyer, but also your service as Ombudswoman, with integrity and honesty, that you will contribute to the successful mission of the Committee as soon as possible,â&#x20AC;? he concluded.

NICOSIA FAMILY COURT Divorce Jurisdiction Appl. No. 251/13 BEFORE: G. Serghides, Pr. Fam. Ct. Chr. Demetriou, J.Fam. Ct. F. Constantinou, J. Fam.Ct. Between: PANKAJ KAUSHIK, Gerasimou Markora 6, Agioi Omologites, Nicosia. Applicant - and LUNGU ANGELICA ROXANA, unknown address in Cyprus. Respondent Interim Application from Applicant dated 12/4/13 Upon the application of Mr Costas Loizou Counsel for the Applicant, THIS COURT, after having read the application and the affidavit attached there to, dated 12/4/13 and after hearing what was said from Mr. G. Loizou, lawyer, DOTH HEREBY GRANT AN ORDER by which SUBSTITUTED service of the Application and of the present Order by publishing it in a daily English language newspaper. In the publication paper should only be mentioned of the remedy applied for and that the substantial facts which the Applicant invokes for the issue of the remedy applied for, are contained in the Application. The Respondent may file a Defence within 20 days from service on her. In case of failure by the Respondent to file a defence within the above mentioned period of time, any other subsequent notice shall be deemed as well served if same is appended on the Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notice-board for five consecutive days. The cost of the Application shall be cost in the cause. This application is fixed for service on 20/5/2013 at 9.00 a.m..in replacement of the 27.5.13. Given on 15.4.13 Drawn up on 23.4.13 (Sgd) G. Serghides, Pr. Fam. Ct. (Sgd) Chr. Demetriou, J.Fam. Ct. (Sgd) F. Constantinou, J. Fam.Ct. TRUE COPY REGISTRAR RK-AD.590-EPDIVM251.13 NICOSIA FAMILY COURT Divorce Jurisdiction Appl. No. 251 /2013 Between: PANKAJ KAUSHIK, Gerasimou Markora 6, Agioi Omologites, Nicosia. Applicant - and LUNGU ANGELICA ROXANA, unknown address in Cyprus. Respondent REMEDY APPLIED FOR: A. Judgment of the Court and/or Order of the Court, dissolving the civil marriage of the Applicant with the Respondent, which was celebrate on 22.06.2012, at Aradippou Municipality, Larnaca, for irretrievable breakdown of their conjugal relationship. The substantial facts which the applicant invokes for the remedy applied for, are mentioned in the application.

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The voice of diversity New radio station aims to give everyone a chance to speak out By Maria Gregoriou CYPRUS’ ﬁrst multilingual community radio station, MYCYradio was launched yesterday to provide a platform for cultural and linguistic diversity on the island. The radio station has been established by the Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) and is supported by the European Commission Representation in Cyprus. The station’s studio is located in the buffer zone in Nicosia, in the CCMC building where individuals who are interested in participating will receive training and broadcasting time. Radio is still the most dynamic medium within the community media sector, with over 2,000 community radio stations across Europe. It is for this reason that radio has been chosen to represent the different communities in Cyprus. “Cyprus has many communities. Not just the long-established, historic communities but also newer communities of people who have come to the island seeking work, education or, indeed, a peaceful retirement. And not just communities deﬁned alongside ethnic, religious and linguistic lines but also communities made up of people of different backgrounds who are bound together by shared concerns

MYCYradio has been established by the Cyprus Community Media Centre or interests,” Georgios Markopouliotis, head of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus said during the launch event. The project is guided by a charter, which is a set of principles and guidelines based on the shared EU values of respect, diversity and active citizenship. “Community organisations and their representatives who are interested in broadcasting on MYCYradio will need to subscribe to this charter. Once they do so, access to air time, or more precisely, to bandwidth on the internet, is free of charge and equal for all”, Markopouliotis added. “We are very excited about the launch of MYCYradio, a project that we have been working on for a long time and are pleased to be working with the European Com-

mission Representation in Cyprus, who have been supporting the development of community media in Cyprus since November 2011,” said Larry Fergeson, the station manager of MYCYradio and project manager of CCMC. “CCMC works to empower community groups with the tools to communicate their message to a wider audience and we believe MYCYradio, through its media skills training and dedicated production support, as well as access to a state-of-the-art production studio, will promote the beneﬁts of community-based media by giving people the skills to be an example of best practice,” Fergeson added. The radio station has funding for one year. This funding was raised following an open competitive tender launched

by CCMC. “We will monitor how the radio station will perform during this year and if more funding is required, it will be considered,” Markopouliotis said. When asked why someone should listen to this radio station and not another one Fergeson said “the radio station is aimed at communities that are not so much out in the open so when they hear their language on the radio, it will grab their attention and a momentum will be created. This may attract them to present a programme themselves.” The project was approved in late December of 2012. CCMC has used these four past months to research how the radio station could best be set-up. The community radio station is open to individuals, organisations and com-

munities in Cyprus who want to have their voice heard and who want to broadcast their own programmes online. It will initially begin with ﬁve presenters who responded to an announcement on the CCMC website. As of Monday April 29, the radio station will be broadcasting a scheduled programme in a number of languages. These include English, Greek, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Swahili, Tamil and Sinhalese. Music shows and community news will also be broadcast. MYCYradio is accepting applications for programmes on an ongoing basis. An application form can be downloaded from http://mycyradio.eu/getinvolved/apply-for-a-show To listen to MYCYradio live or to view the radio schedule go to http://mycyradio.eu

Downer meets Eroglu to prepare ground for new talks UN SPECIAL Adviser Alexander Downer yesterday called on all sides to take into account the huge economic difficulties facing the Greek Cypriots at this point. Speaking after meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu yesterday, Downer said everyone wants to get peace talks started again but that one cannot ignore the very difficult times facing Cyprus as a result of the Eurogroup decision last month. He noted the increase in unemployment and deteriorating living conditions, adding that the UN would not be acting humanely if it did not express its sympathy and concern to the Greek Cypriots at this point. Downer met President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday and plans to visit Athens, Istanbul and Ankara in the coming days before returning to Cyprus on Tuesday to meet again with Eroglu and Anastasiades. The UN diplomat said a meeting with the two leaders is likely to take place next month. According to press reports, the UN is trying to host an informal dinner between the two. It will be the first meeting of Anastasiades and Eroglu since the former replaced Demetris Christofias as president last month. With the Cypriot economy tanking and its future sustainability in the balance, it remains to be seen when the UN will be able to resume peace talks which Eroglu pulled out of last June, citing Cyprus’ six-month EU presidency.

Turkish Cypriot teen left alone after Turkish father thrown out By Stefanos Evripidou A 17-year-old school pupil has been left to fend for himself after his father was deported from Cyprus following nine years living in the country. Turkish national Sabahattin Sakizci, 45, was arrested and deported two weeks ago on the grounds that he was illegally resident on the island, despite living here since 2004. He came to Cyprus in 2004 with his Turkish Cypriot wife, Meryem Sakizci, 43 and their son. Taking advantage of the government’s decision to fund Turkish Cypriots’ education so long as they live in the government-controlled areas, the family moved to Nicosia and enrolled their son at a private primary school in the capital for three years. When of age, the son continued his secondary education at a different private school in the capital. However, given his parentage being mixed, half Turkish, half Turkish Cypriot, Sakizci said his son became the target of taunts from other Turkish Cypriot pupils there. The family tried to move him to a public school in Turkey but the school would not recognise his edu-

cation in Cyprus and tried to move him down two classes. Instead, after the summer, the family re-enrolled him in the same private school in Nicosia. The taunts continued, said Sakizci, so the parents decided to enrol him the following year in a private school in Turkey. The son spent one year in Turkey but was not happy there. So, he returned to Cyprus where the parents enrolled him in another private school in the capital, one of the most expensive in the country, where he resumed his education.

LIVING ALONE He is now in his third year there, and needs one more year to graduate. The problem is he is currently living alone in a ﬂat in central Nicosia, preparing for exams. According to Sakizci, his mother Meryem has a job in Turkey as an associate professor at a university. Effectively, she never lived with the father and son permanently, only spending summer holidays and other breaks with the family. The father, meanwhile, works in the north as a sales manager. In essence, neither parent is contributing direct

taxes to the state, a factor which may have influenced the authorities’ decision to deny him temporary residence here. Sakizci has applied for a temporary residence permit three times. The first two times, he secured a ‘pink’ slip from the migration authorities but on his third application, he received no reply. According to the 45-year-old, he spent five to six years waiting for a reply. Every time he went to migration asking about his application, he was told, “Your case is under examination”. He believes the authorities delayed responding because he told them he planned to apply for citizenship after getting a third pink slip. Last month, while he was at work, police visited his flat where his son was staying. When he tried to cross over in the evening, police told him he was on the stop list because he didn’t have a pink slip. Officially, he hasn’t had one in years. Sakizci was able to cross anyway and talk with immigration police who removed him from the stop list. “I have to be there in the mornings for my son and in the evenings after work, I stay with him,” he said. On April 5, a Friday, he received a

letter saying he was illegally resident on the island and had to leave. The following Monday he went to the migration department where he spoke to an ofﬁcial who said they would ﬁnd a solution. As he was driving away, he said he felt anxious about the situation and turned back to talk again with someone at the department.

ARRESTED This time, a policeman spotted him and arrested him. He was handcuffed and taken to Block 10 at the Nicosia Prisons. Sakizci was told he would have to wait a week until his deportation could be arranged. Instead, he found the money and bought a ticket to Athens himself. From there, he went to Turkey and has since returned to the occupied areas. Now, he sleeps at his workplace, north of the buffer zone, while his son is alone in the ﬂat. “I don’t want to make a political issue out of it, I just want to go see my son,” he told the Cyprus Mail. “I have no problems with Cypriot people. They have been great with me. It’s just migration that is causing problems,” he added.

Migration department head Anny Shakallis said yesterday Sakizci was deported because he was deemed to be living here illegally. His pink slip application was rejected because it did not fulﬁll the necessary criteria. Asked to clarify, she said a third country national who is a family member of a Cypriot national needs to be living with the Cypriot national to be eligible for a residence permit. “His wife does not live anywhere on the island,” said Shakallis. Also, he has to present evidence of adequate ﬁnancial resources. It doesn’t matter where these resources come from as long as he can prove he has access to the funds through a Cypriot-based bank, ie, in the government-controlled areas. Asked about the teenager living alone, the migration head said the teenager is a Cypriot national and can stay where he likes. Without professing direct knowledge of the case, she said: “He is of a certain age where it must have been considered OK for him to stay here without his parents. The son will be referred to the welfare services, if this has not already happened, so they can keep a check on his living conditions.”

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Organic veggie gardens planned for 100 schools Children learn eco-lessons and grow food at the same time By Maria Gregoriou ORGANIC vegetable gardens are to be grown in 100 schools islandwide to get students involved in the process of nurturing crops and to teach them to be more environmentally friendly. Premier Shukuroglou Cyprus Ltd, a company that offers products and services in the fields of crop protection, animal health, public health and industrial chemicals, will donate the compost and instructions on how the organic plants should be grown. Solomou Nurseries Ltd, a garden centre and landscaping service, will donate the plants. Two vegetable gardens have already been created in the elementary and secondary schools in Yeri. Lettuce, onions, parsley and other vegetables were planted about two months ago. Other vegetable gardens will be planted in schools that want to take part in the programme. Once the crops are ready, the students can take some vegetables home. “Students will soon have the ability to come into daily contact with nature and learn how to grow their own organic vegetables,” said a statement. During an event to officially inaugurate the programme yesterday in Geri, Education Minister Kyriacos Kenevezos said: “The vegetable gardens can help children learn key concepts and help them strengthen their connection with nature. Students can also become familiar with a scientific way of thinking through monitoring, investigating and interpreting various biological phenomena.” Kenevezos complimented the school on its good work and said the efforts that had gone into creating the garden provided a very good example to other schools. “The vegetable gardens do not only teach the children how to grow crops but it also teaches them to add vegetables to their diet and therefore to lead a healthier lifestyle,” said Ioanna Panayiotou, Environment Commissioner and Green Party head. At the end of the event students gave Kenevezos and many people who were present some vegetables from their garden. The elementary and high schools in Yeri regularly take part in the Eco-Schools programme. “We asked which students

Two such gardens have already been created at Yeri schools, which were ofﬁcially inaugurated yesterday by Education Minister Kyriacos Kenevezos (front right) (PIO) were interested in taking part in these events and small teams of eight to ten pupils were created. In this way all students have the chance to take part in the Eco-Schools programme,” headmaster of the secondary school, George Antoniou said. “Whenever the students have a free period or when they have free time they can go to water and attend to the garden. Their time is used in a creative manner and there are always teachers with them to help and supervise their work,” Antoniou said. This programme was initiated by Premier Shukuroglou Cyprus Ltd. The company approached the education ministry and the planting of organic vegetable gardens became a part of the Eco-Schools Euro-

pean programme. Schools that are interested in becoming part of the programme can contact Premier Shukuroglou Cyprus Ltd on 22815353 or send an email to contact@premier.com.cy More information about organic vegetables gardens can be found at www.lawnandgarden.com.cy An event to launch the creation of an organic herb garden by around 20 students from the Athienou secondary school will be held today at 10.30am at the Kleanthiou community home. The planting of organic herb gardens is a collaboration between the Recycling and Environmental Organisation, the Kleanthiou community home, the Athienou high school and the adult centre.

Annual flower festival in Paphos celebrating ten years of popularity By Bejay Browne THE annual flower festival at Ayia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa church in Paphos is celebrating its tenth year in May with a focus on biblical proverbs. Ayia Kyriaki - known locally as St. Paul’s pillar church - is a beautiful setting for the festival and is a church which is steeped in history and tradition. “This year we have decided to use the Book of Proverbs as our theme and we will create about 20 arrangements each depicting individual proverbs,” festival organiser Margaret Keeble told the Cyprus Mail. The experienced flower arranger noted that the event is a joint effort between the Anglican church the local Catholic church, the Paphos flower club and friends. The church of Ayia Kyriaki will be awash with colour and perfume of thousands of flowers for the three day festival in May, which attracts hundreds of visitors every year. “I have been involved with this event for several years now and none of us are professional florists.” Nevertheless arrangements by participants displayed at the

popular event are magnificent and of a high calibre. Flowers used in the displays are all fresh and are mostly Cyprus grown. “We always try to buy Cypriot flowers wherever possible, but some do have to be imported.” Keeble moved to Cyprus 12 years ago and has been flower arranging for close to 50 years. The flower lover usually comes up with a couple of ideas for the event and then the groups involved discuss the options and pick a theme between them.

THEMES “It is important to remember that the festival takes place in a beautiful Greek Orthodox Church, so we always try to have something with a biblical connection. The furthest we have strayed from these ideas was a theme of favourite hymns,” she said. “We are working on our ﬂower order now. The ﬂowers will then be delivered to our church hall two days before the festival gets underway. There are massive amounts of them and we will sort them into individual buckets for each arrangement.” The following day, the participants will spend most of the day - around seven

hours - creating their masterpieces ready for the public to view. She said: “Entry to the festival is free, but we would hope that the public will leave a donation.” Funds collected at the event will be divided between the two churches and donated to local Cyprus charities; the Archangel Michael’s Hospice, the Kidney Association and the Heart Association. ‘Evenings of Music’ will be held daily from 6.00 pm for the duration of the festival. Performances will include a local choir, a recital by the Anglican church resident organist and an evening of choral music and readings from the combined choirs of the Anglican and Latin churches. There will also be refreshments, such as light lunches and afternoon teas available all day at a restaurant next to the Anglican Church hall which is situated just up from Ayia Kyriaki church. This year’s Flower Festival at Ayia Kyriaki Church, Kato Paphos will take place on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, May 15, 16 and 17 from 10am to 5.30pm. Admission is free. For further information contact: Margaret Keeble-26 422 380 or 99 533 704

Thursday, April 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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UK signs deal to try to deport cleric Qatada

WORLD TODAY Facing jail for tandem deaths A DISQUALIFIED driver is facing jail after mowing down and killing a husband and wife while they rode their tandem bike as he ﬂed police. Nicky Lovell, 38, entered guilty pleas to causing the deaths of “perfect couple” Ross Simons, 34, and his wife Clare, 30, by dangerous driving. Lovell, of Oldland Common, South Gloucestershire, admitted the two charges and one of driving while disqualiﬁed at Bristol Crown Court today. Louise Cox, 35, who owned the Citroen Picasso driven by Lovell, also appeared at the court to admit a charge of perverting the course of justice by providing police with false details about who had been driving her vehicle. Mr and Mrs Simons died at the scene of the crash on Lower Hanham Road on January 27. The couple, from Staple Hill, Bristol, were killed less than 24 hours after celebrating the news they had been accepted for fertility treatment to start a family.

Jordan pact due to be ratified by June’s end By Mohammed Abbas

Fall in UK crime THE UK has seen a “substantial and sustained” fall in violent crime over the last decade, according to a report, while Broadland in Norfolk has been declared the most peaceful local authority area. The murder rate has halved since 2003, from 1.99 per 100,000 people to one per 100,000 with the violent crime rate falling from 1,255 to 933 per 100,000 people, according to a new “peace index.” Broadland, in Norfolk, was the most peaceful area at local authority level, followed by Three Rivers in Hertfordshire, South Cambridgeshire, East Dorset and Maldon in Essex. Inner London boroughs were the least peaceful - headed by Lewisham and followed by Lambeth, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. The most peaceful region in the UK was South East England and the least peaceful Greater London followed by Scotland and Northern Ireland. The least peaceful major urban centre in the UK was Glasgow, followed by London and then Belfast.

Toys for Boris TRANSPORT for London chief Sir Peter Hendy has claimed £175 on expenses in buying toy buses for Boris Johnson, it has emerged. A TfL spokesman said: “We bought models of the New Bus for London from Corgi so the Mayor could use them as gifts for visiting dignitaries and to promote investment in London during his foreign trips.”

Embarrassing saga: Muslim cleric Abu Qatada arrives at his home in north London after being freed on bail in London, Britain, November 13, 2012 (EPA)

BRITAIN has signed a new legal treaty with Jordan in the hope of being able to deport a radical cleric accused of being Osama bin Laden’s “right-hand man in Europe” later this year, the interior minister said yesterday. The British government has for years been unable to deport Abu Qatada back to his native Jordan, where he is wanted on terrorism charges, because judges have said evidence obtained through torture could be used against him. The saga has been embarrassing for the Conservative-led government, which wants to appear tough on security and immigration, and in particular for Home Secretary Theresa May, who has been tipped as a future party leader. A year ago, she said she was conﬁdent that Abu Qatada, whose sermons were found in a Hamburg ﬂat used by some of those who carried out the September 11 attacks on the United States, would “soon” be on a plane out of the country for good, but judges have ruled otherwise. “I have signed a compre-

hensive mutual legal assistance agreement with Jordan,” May told parliament, a day after a court rejected the government’s latest appeal of a judicial decision to block Abu Qatada’s extradition to Jordan.

ASSURANCE “The agreement also includes a number of fair trial guarantees ... I believe these guarantees will provide the courts with the assurance that Qatada will not face evidence that might have been obtained by torture.” The treaty is expected to be ratiﬁed by the Jordanian and British parliaments by the end of June, but May said it could still take several months to secure Abu Qatada’s deportation. Once described by a Spanish judge as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, Qatada has been in and out of jail since ﬁrst being arrested in 2001, and was last month sent back to prison for breaching his bail conditions. May’s lawyers have described him as a “truly dangerous” individual, a point judges do not dispute, but despite assurances from

Jordan they fear a “ﬂagrant denial of justice” if Abu Qatada were returned there for a retrial. The use of evidence obtained through torture would breach the European Convention on Human Rights, to which Britain is a signatory, prompting speculation that Britain may ditch the treaty to get rid of the cleric. A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday Britain was looking at “every option” to deport the Jordanian, and did not rule out withdrawing from the convention. Such a move would delight Cameron’s increasingly antiEurope centre-right Conservative Party, but would dismay his left-leaning proEurope Liberal Democrat junior partners in government. It would also anger human rights campaigners. The opposition Labour party blamed Abu Qatada’s continued presence in Britain on legal missteps. “In the past, the home secretary has overstated the evidence, overstated her legal position, and overstated her legal strategy, which has not worked,” Labour interior affairs spokeswoman Yvette Cooper said.

Reporter charged in payments probe THE Sun’s chief royal correspondent has been charged with allegedly paying public officials for stories about the Royal Family and Sandhurst military academy. Duncan Larcombe, 37, is alleged to have paid more than £23,000 to John Hardy, 43, who served as a Colour Sergeant at the Royal Military Training Academy at Sandhurst, and his 39-year-old wife Claire Hardy, for stories relating mainly to the Royal Family or matters at Sandhurst. All three were yesterday charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office between February 9, 2006 and October 16, 2008, Scotland Yard said. A fourth person, Tracey Bell, 34, who was employed by the Ministry of Defence as a pharmacy assistant at Sandhurst Medical Centre, was charged with misconduct in a public office. The charges have come as a result of investigations under Operation Elveden, Scotland Yard’s probe into alleged corrupt payments to public officials. Announcing the decision to bring charges, the CPS yesterday said it is alleged that

between February 10, 2006 and October 15, 2008, 34 payments were made to either John or Claire Hardy totalling more than £23,000. Tracey Bell allegedly received £1,250 between October 17, 2005 and July 7, 2006 relating to ﬁve articles published in The Sun regarding matters at Sandhurst, said Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). “These decisions were considered carefully in accordance with the DPP’s guidelines on the public interest in cases affecting the media,” she said. “These guidelines require prosecutors to consider whether the public interest served by the conduct in question outweighs the overall criminality before bringing criminal proceedings.” Larcombe, of High Street, Aylesford, Kent; John and Claire Hardy, of Millbrook Close, Oswaldthistle, Lancashire; and Bell, of Co-Operative Street, Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, are all due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 8.

Larcombe has been charged with allegedly paying public ofﬁcials for stories about the Royal Family and Sandhurst

Watchdog: police failed to act on evidence of Dowler hack FORMER senior ofﬁcers at Surrey Police failed to act on evidence of the alleged hacking of schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone during their 2002 investigation of her murder, the police watchdog has found. Ofﬁcers at all levels of the investigation knew that an allegation of hacking had been made against the News of the World but did nothing despite suggestions that a crime had been committed, the Independent Police

Complaints Commission (IPCC) said. But the watchdog added it had not been able to discover why nothing was done, adding that senior officers appeared to be suffering from a “form of collective amnesia”. The findings follow an investigation into the conduct of two senior officers, Deputy Chief Constable Craig Denholm and temporary Detective Superintendent Maria Woodall. Surrey Police said it had taken “man-

agement action and issued words of advice” to both ofﬁcers, although the IPCC concluded neither had a case to answer for misconduct. IPCC deputy chair Deborah Glass said: “We will never know what would have happened had Surrey Police carried out an investigation into the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone in 2002. “Phone hacking was a crime and this should have been acted upon, if not in 2002, then later, once the News of the

World’s widespread use of phone hacking became a matter of public knowledge and concern. “Our investigation has heard from ofﬁcers and former ofﬁcers from Surrey Police who have expressed surprise and dismay that it wasn’t investigated. “We have not been able to uncover any evidence, in documentation or witness statements, of why and by whom that decision was made,” she said.

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, April 25, 2013

Europe

Protest leader says trial is Putin’s revenge

Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny stands outside a court in the provincial northern city of Kirov yesterday

RUSSIAN protest leader Alexei Navalny accused President Vladimir Putin yesterday of seeking “political revenge” against him after a court refused to throw out what he says are trumped-up charges. On day two of his trial on theft charges that are punishable by up to 10 years in jail, the anti-corruption campaigner and protest organiser said Judge Sergei Blinov was biased. Navalny urged Blinov to recuse himself and send the charges back to state prosecutors for review. The judge rejected both demands and pressed on with a trial in the drab industrial city of Kirov which Navalny says is part of a clampdown on the opposition since Putin’s return to the presidency last May. “First, this is political revenge for my and my foundation’s investigations in the ﬁght against corruption,” Navalny, 36, told a packed courtroom after the judge announced his decisions. “Second, it is political revenge for my and my supporters’ campaign to ‘Vote

for any party except United Russia’,” he said, referring to his opposition to Putin’s party that he has branded “swindlers and thieves”.

CALM ADDRESS Addressing the judge calmly and clearly, and occasionally turning to face the court, he said: “The most important purpose of this case is to squeeze me out of the legal political arena.” Navalny, an organiser of the biggest protests since Putin rose to power 13 years ago, is accused of stealing 16 million roubles ($500,000) from a timber ﬁrm that he was advising in 2009 while working for the liberal Kirov regional governor. The most prominent opposition leader to be tried in post-Soviet Russia, Navalny says he has done nothing wrong but is convinced he will not receive a fair trial. Even a suspended sentence would bar him from elections, although opinion polls show little support for him outside

big cities, meaning his ability to challenge Putin now is limited. The Kremlin denies interfering with the judiciary or clamping down on opponents to crush dissent. But two human rights groups issued damning reports on Putin’s ﬁrst year back as president. Amnesty International accused him of a witch-hunt against public dissenters and Human Rights Watch described it the toughest crackdown on opposition since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. Tall and clean-cut, Navalny has been a thorn in the side of the government since starting to campaign online against state corruption in 2007. He established himself as a powerful speaker at anti-Putin demonstrations that ﬂared 16 months ago. Although the rallies drew tens of thousands of demonstrators at their peak, Putin won almost two-thirds of votes in the presidential election in March last year, and the protests against his long rule have dwindled since then.

Push to expose MPs’ assets

Centre-left deputy leader Letta to be Italy premier

FRANCE unveiled draft legislation yesterday aimed at making hundreds of parliamentarians and other elected officials disclose their wealth and business activities to a new watchdog. A response to a scandal over a former minister’s secret bank account, the bill would create one of the most transparent systems in the West, exposing lawmakers’ assets and barring them from non-governmental work that means a conflict of interest. President Francois Hollande is striving to reassert his authority after the furore over ex-budget minister Jerome Cahuzac’s Swiss account and wants to force all 577 deputies and 348 senators, and other senior public officials, to declare their assets and activities upon taking and leaving office. He faces stiff opposition, including from within his Socialist Party, from lawmakers loath to be exposed to scrutiny. “The main bone of contention is whether it should be made public or not. Most members of parliament oppose that as they are worried it will lead to resentment against politicians,” said Jacques Reland of the Global Policy Institute. “In other countries people think it’s normal, a good sign even, if politicians are rich, but in France there’s this guilty rapport with money where people are envious and less admiring of the rich than people in the US or Britain,” he said. The law would force elected officials, ministerial staff, mayors and other officials to declare their assets, income and any potential conflicts of interest to an independent authority. The state council, the government’s legal watchdog, would decide how much information to make public. Failure to comply would risk a three-year prison term and a 45,000-euro ($58,600) fine. A minister caught lying about assets could face a five-year jail sentence and a 75,000-euro fine.

Represents generational change in Italian politics By Barry Moody and James Mackenzie ITALIAN President Giorgio Napolitano yesterday asked centre-left deputy leader Enrico Letta to form a new government, signalling the end of a damaging two-month vacuum since elections in the eurozone’s third largest economy in February. Letta, a youthful former Christian Democrat from the right wing of his Democratic Party, said he would start talks to form a broadbased coalition today. It will likely go to parliament for a vote of conﬁdence by early next week. The prime minister designate is expected to select a group of ministers, mixed between politicians and technocrats, under the guidance of Napolitano, whose own unprecedented re-election last weekend opened the way for an end to the crisis. The new government will be backed primarily by Letta’s centre-left and the centreright of Silvio Berlusconi, which had hitherto repeat-

Enrico Letta, under-secretary of Italy’s Democratic Party, said that he would start talks to form a broad-based coalition today (AFP) edly failed to cut a deal following inconclusive elections two months ago. Formation of a government after a lengthy and turbulent political impasse will send a signal that Italy might at last be ready to make a start on much-needed reforms. Accepting his mandate,

Letta said he was surprised by the nomination and felt a profound responsibility on his shoulders. But he said he would not form a government “at all costs”, warning that the warring parties must make compromises. Italy faced an untenable “difﬁcult and fragile” situ-

ation and the government must provide answers on jobs, poverty and the crisis facing small businesses in a deep recession, he said. He added that European Union economic policies had been too focused on austerity instead of growth and that Italy’s electoral and par-

liamentary system must be reformed. Napolitano’s choice of Letta instead of veteran former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato, who was said to have been his original favourite, indicated he had plumped for a more political figure who reflects a generational change in Italian politics. The bespectacled and balding Letta, an urbane moderate who speaks fluent English, is 46 against Amato’s 74 and is an elected member of parliament, unlike the older, more experienced man. He will be the second youngest prime minister in Italian postwar history and as a staunch pro-European is likely to be welcomed by foreign governments and markets. Investors had already reacted with relief to the prospect of an end to the intractable crisis, with Italy’s two-year borrowing costs yesterday tumbling to their lowest level since the start of European monetary union in 1999. However, the country’s problems are not over, with significant differences remaining between left and right over economic policy. Nonetheless Napolitano, who reluctantly agreed to serve another term as president, has made clear that he will brook no more endless squabbling between the parties and has threatened to resign if they do not unite behind economic policies and important constitutional reforms.

Greece to push claim for German war reparations - foreign minister

Samaras was pushed to raise the reparation issue

GREECE is planning to pursue a long-dormant claim for reparations from Germany over World War Two, a further strain on relations with Berlin, which foots most of the bill for its 240billion-euro rescue. The Finance Ministry has compiled a report that takes stock of all relating available documents spanning more than six decades, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos told parliament yesterday. It will be submitted to Greece’s legal advisers and then Athens will decide

how to ofﬁcially press its claim, he said. Avramopoulos did not not say how much would be sought. “We will exhaust every means available to arrive at a result,” he told lawmakers. “One can’t compare the times, but also not erase the memories.” Germany, whose forces occupied Greece in World War Two, says it has already paid all reparations owed. The issue has resurfaced since last year as Greece suffers under austerity measures imposed on it by its creditors, mainly Germany, as a condition

for its international EU/IMF bailout. Avramopoulos said it was wrong to link the issue to the debt crisis. “This has been an open issue for 60 years, it is too large an issue to fit into the confines of the fiscal crisis,” he said. Greece’s fragile coalition government has so far earned praise from Chancellor Angela Merkel for starting to fix Greece’s finances. But conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was pushed to raise the reparation issue by the main opposition, anti-bailout Syriza party.

Thursday, April 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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Deadly factory building collapse in Bangladesh By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul

An exterior view of the Cultural Centre where witnesses say Chiheb Esseghaier prayed in Montreal, Quebec

Train plot suspect dismisses Canada law, cites ‘holy book’ ONE of the two men accused of an al Qaeda-backed plan to derail a passenger train in Canada questioned the authority of Canadian law to judge him, telling a court yesterday that the criminal code is imperfect and is not a holy book. Chiheb Esseghaier, a Tunisian-born PhD student, faces charges that include conspiracy to murder and working with a terrorist group. He and another suspect allegedly hoped to derail a passenger train, perhaps at a bridge near the US-Canada border, with possible heavy loss of life, authorities said. In a brief hearing where he was ordered back into custody, Esseghaier, 30, said the allegations against him are based on laws that are unreliable because they are not the work of God. “All of these conclusions was taken out based on (the) Criminal Code,” he told a Toronto court. “The Criminal Code is not (a) holy book.” He added: “Only the Creator is perfect.” Esseghaier, who has a thick black beard and wore a blueblack windbreaker, declined to use an Arabic interpreter the court had made available. But he seemed to struggle at times to understand the proceedings.

Canadian authorities said they have linked the two to al Qaeda factions in Iran. They said, however that there is no indication the plans, which police described as the ﬁrst known al Qaeda-backed plot on Canadian soil, were statesponsored. Tehran has vehemently rejected any ties to the arrests. Authorities said there is also no connection to the Boston Marathon bombing. But US ofﬁcials say investigators are trying to establish if the two suspects were part of a wider network with associates in the United States, especially in New York. Esseghaier, along with Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, were arrested on Monday in separate raids after what police said was a joint Canada-US investigation that started last year after a tip from a member of the Muslim community. Jaser was remanded into custody on Tuesday. He denies the charges against him, said his lawyer John Norris, who has also represented Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. Jaser was born in the UAE and came to Canada with his parents as refugees 20 years ago, although he only recently obtained status as a permanent resident, Canada’s equivalent to a US Green Card.

A BLOCK housing garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh yesterday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than a thousand, officials said. Firefighters and troops dug frantically through the rubble at the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 km (20 miles) outside Dhaka. Television showed young women workers, some apparently semi-conscious, being pulled out. One fireman told Reuters about 2,000 people were in the building when the upper floors slammed down onto those below. Bangladesh’s booming garments industry has been plagued by fires and other accidents for years, despite a drive to improve safety standards. In November 112 workers died in a blaze at the Tazreen factory in a nearby

Nearly 100 confirmed dead, more than 1,000 injured

Volunteers prepare lengths of textiles to use as evacuation slides for the injured and dead after the collapse suburb, putting a spotlight on global retailers which source clothes from Bangladesh. “It looks like an earthquake has struck here,” said one

resident as he looked on at the chaotic scene of smashed concrete and ambulances making their way through the crowds of workers and

wailing relatives. “I was at work on the third floor, and then suddenly I heard a deafening sound, but couldn’t understand what was happening. I ran and was hit by something on my head,” said factory worker Zohra Begum. An official at a control room set up to provide information said 96 people were confirmed dead and more than 1,000 injured. Doctors at local hospitals said they were unable to cope with the number of victims brought in. Mohammad Asaduzzaman, in charge of the area’s police station, said factory owners appeared to have ignored a warning not to allow their workers into the building after a crack was detected in the block on Tuesday. Five garment factories employing mostly women - were housed in the building, including Ether Tex Ltd., whose chairman said he was unaware of any warnings not to open the workshops.

Name on watch list THE name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government’s highly classified central database of people it views as potential terrorists. But the list is so vast that this did not mean authorities automatically kept close tabs on him, sources close to the bombing investigation have said. Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a police shootout early Friday, while his younger brother Dzhokhar, 19, was captured later that day. Prosecutors say the brothers, ethnic Chechens who had been living in the United States for more than a decade, planted two bombs that exploded near the finish line of the marathon on April 15, killing three people and wounding more than 200. The sources said Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s details were entered into TIDE, a database maintained by the National Counterterrorism Centre, because the FBI spoke to him in 2011 while investigating a Russian tip-off that he had become a follower of radical Islamists. The FBI found nothing to suggest he was an active threat, but all the same placed his name on the “Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment” list. The FBI has not said what it did find about Tsarnaev. But the database, which holds more than half a million names, is only a repository of information on people who US authorities see as known, suspected or potential terrorists from around the world. Because of its huge size, US investigators do not routinely monitor everyone registered there, said US officials familiar with the database. As of 2008, TIDE contained over 540,000 names, though they represented about 450,000 actual people, as some of the entries are aliases or different name spellings for the same person.

Afghan residents of Alachapan district help clear debris from a collapsed house in Mazar-e-Sharif province on April 24, 2013. An earthquake in Afghanistan’s east and flash floods in the north killed at least 33 people yesterday as hundreds of traditional mud-brick homes collapsed, officials said. The 5.7 magnitude quake, which hit before 2pm (0930 GMT) was felt as far away as the Indian capital New Delhi and was the latest in a spate of tremours to shake Asia this month. The quake was 65 km (40 miles) deep with an epicentre 11 km (seven miles) from Mehtar Lam, capital of the east-

ern province of Laghman, according to the US Geological Survey. At least 18 people were killed in adjacent Nangarhar and Kunar provinces and the death toll was expected to rise, a spokesman for the Afghan Red Crescent Society said. Some 70 people were injured in Nangarhar alone. Hundreds of homes collapsed across Kunar and Nangarhar. Yesterday saw steady rain across most of Afghanistan, which would have weakened the mud-brick dwellings many Afghans live in, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (AFP)

Federal agents target Mississippi martial arts instructor in ricin probe FEDERAL law enforcement agencies investigating ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and other ofﬁcials broadened their search for clues yesterday by targeting the former business of a Mississippi martial arts instructor. Members of an anti-terrorist response team from the Mississippi National Guard wearing hazmat suits had

already searched the Tupelo home of Everett Dutschke on Tuesday, accompanied by agents from the FBI and the US Capitol Police, according to law enforcement sources and Dutschke’s attorney, Lori Nail Basham. Federal agents moved their search to the premises of a former martial arts studio Dutschke ran in Tupelo yesterday morning, Basham said.

US prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against another Mississippi man, Paul Kevin Curtis, who was released from jail after a search of his home in nearby Corinth revealed no incriminating evidence. Prosecutors said the “ongoing investigation has revealed new information,” but provided no additional details.

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Human extinction warning

Brahimi accused by Syria

(continued from front page) Likening it to a dangerous weapon in the hands of a child, he says the advance of technology has overtaken our capacity to control the possible consequences. Experiments in areas such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology and machine intelligence are hurtling forward into the territory of the unintended and unpredictable. Synthetic biology, where biology meets engineering, promises great medical benefits. But Dr Bostrom is concerned about unforeseen consequences in manipulating the boundaries of human biology. Nanotechnology, working at a molecular or atomic level, could also become highly destructive if used for warfare, he argues. He has written that future governments will have a major challenge to control and restrict misuses. There are also fears about how artificial or machine intelligence interact with the external world. Such computer-driven “intelligence” might be a powerful tool in industry, medicine, agriculture or managing the economy. But it also can be completely indifferent to any incidental damage. Seán O’Heigeartaigh, a geneticist at the institute, draws an analogy with algorithms used in automated stock market trading. These mathematical strings can have direct and destructive consequences for real economies and real people. Such computer systems can “manipulate the real world”, says Dr O’Heigeartaigh, who studied molecular evolution at Trinity College Dublin. In terms of risks from biology, he worries about misguided good intentions, as experiments carry out genetic modifications, dismantling and rebuilding genetic structures. “We are developing things that could go wrong in a profound way,” he says.

SYRIA accused international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi yesterday of bias and interference after he criticised its response to an opposition offer of talks and suggested Bashar al-Assad should not stand again for president. Brahimi told a closeddoor session of the United Nations Security Council last Friday that Damascus was “surprised and embarrassed” by a January offer of talks from opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib, and its response was “slow and confused”. At the conclusion of his remarks, which were later circulated by UN diplomats, Brahimi suggested Assad “voluntarily forego” the right to stand for another term as president in an election scheduled for next year. Syria’s foreign ministry said in a statement that if Brahimi wished to continue his role, he must show impartiality and realise that “the Syrian people are the only decision-makers who will choose their representatives”. “The brieﬁng ... was marked by interference in the Syrian Arab Republic’s internal affairs and a lack of neutrality which should characterise his mission,” said the ministry in a statement. The ministry also said it would treat the veteran Algerian diplomat, who is the joint United Nations and Arab League envoy for Syria, as a purely UN envoy because it considered the Arab bloc as “a party to the conspiracy” against Assad. Wealthy Gulf Arab states like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which hold sway over the League, have thrown their weight behind the rebels ﬁghting to topple four decades of Assad family rule.

A Syrian rebel walks in the damaged interior of Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Aleppo

Ancient minaret falls By Erika Solomon THE 1,000-year-old minaret of Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque has collapsed due to clashes between Syrian rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists and state media said yesterday. Syria’s civil war has cost more than 70,000 lives and has also damaged or destroyed many archaeological and architectural treasures, some of them United Nations world heritage sites, such as Aleppo’s Old City where the mosque is located. The opposing parties blamed the other for the toppling of the minaret, which predated the medieval-era mosque it stood in. Fighting has ravaged the Old City’s stone-vaulted alleyways for months and had already reduced much of the mosque to rubble. State news agency SANA

Rebels, government trade blame for minaret collapse accused the Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked rebel group, of bringing down the minaret. Opposition groups said army tank fire was to blame. The conflict in Syria, now in its third year, threatens ancient castles and Roman ruins across the country. Meanwhile, forces loyal to Assad seized a strategic town east of Damascus yesterday, breaking a critical weapons supply route for the rebels, activists and fighters said. Rebels have held several suburbs ringing the southern and eastern parts Damascus for months, but they have been struggling to maintain their positions against a ground offensive

backed by fierce army shelling and air strikes in recent weeks. “The disaster has struck, the army entered Otaiba. The regime has managed to turn off the weapons tap,” a fighter from the town told Reuters via Skype. “The price of a bullet will go from 50 Syrian pounds to 1,000 Syrian pounds ($10) now, but we must pay and retake it. It’s the main if not the only route.” Rebels said they pulled out of Otaiba, a gateway to the eastern rural suburbs of Damascus known as alGhouta, in the early hours after more than 37 days of fighting in which they accused the government of

using chemical weapons against them twice. The government has denied using chemical weapons and accused rebels in turn of firing them in Aleppo. Rebels used Otaiba for eight months as their main supply route to Damascus for weapons brought in from the Jordanian border, where Saudi Arabia and other private donors are believed to be sending in arms. Government forces pushed in with tanks and soldiers. “Now all the villages will start falling one after another, the battle in Eastern Ghouta will be a war of attrition,” another fighter in the area said, speaking by Skype. More than two years into their struggle to end four decades of Assad family rule, the rebels remain divided by struggles over ideology and fighting for power.

Bloody clashes between army, Sunni tribesmen leave dozens dead in Iraq CLASHES erupted yesterday between the Iraqi army and armed Sunni tribesmen who sealed off a central Iraqi town, leaving nearly two dozen dead in an outbreak of violence that killed 28 people around the country. The ﬁghting came a day after security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp

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in the town of Hawija, sparking deadly clashes and a spate of other attacks, mostly targeting Sunni mosques, that killed at least 56 people. The unrest is heightening SunniShiite tensions and raising fears that the country could be headed toward a new round of all-out sectarian

violence. Yesterday’s fighting broke out after tribesmen blocked roads leading to the Sunni town of Qara Tappah, about 75 miles (120km) northeast of Baghdad. Iraqi troops arrived and fierce clashes erupted, and helicopters fired at the gunmen. Police say 15 gunmen and

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seven soldiers were killed. In other violence, three gunmen were killed when they attacked a security checkpoint near Mosul, about 225 miles (360km) northwest of Baghdad. Later, a car bomb struck a police patrol north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and two civilians, according to police.

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Business Europe’s healthier car makers straining

ECB: ditching austerity would not help eurozone

EUROPE’S deepening car market slump is starting to strain its most prosperous automakers as they respond to profit-crushing discounts imposed by loss-making rivals in a desperate battle for customers. The region’s car sales are heading for their sixth straight yearly decline to a two-decade low and industry forecasters now say the crisis could drag on for years. German manufacturers with some of the industry’s strongest brands have held up better than mass-market competitors such as France’s loss-making Peugeot or Italy’s Fiat. But yesterday, Volkswagen and Daimler said their earnings dropped in the first quarter and Daimler scrapped a profit target for the second time in six months. Volkswagen, which is Europe’s biggest car maker, said it was bracing for “increasingly stiff competition in a challenging market environment”, after withstanding most of the slump last year. “We’re not completely immune to the intense competition and the impact this has on business,” the company said. While Volkswagen held to a six-week old target to equal last year’s record operating profit of 11.5 billion euros ($14.94 billion), Daimler said it no longer aimed to match its 2012 earnings before interest and tax from ongoing business of 8.1 billion euros, dropping the goal it had made just nine weeks earlier. “Many markets developed worse than expected for economic reasons, especially in western Europe,” Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said. Volkswagen is counting on new models and signs of improving consumer confidence in Germany to brighten its fortunes in Q2. It pledged to push sales and deliveries to new records this year.

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ECB policymakers rebuffed suggestions that Europe should ease up on austerity and said that while the central bank has room to cut interest rates, such a move would not necessarily help the economy much. European Central Bank Vice-President Vitor Constancio said that seeking to stimulate economies by stopping measures aimed at cutting government debt could merely increase countries’ borrowing costs rather than triggering growth. Finance leaders of the G20 economies last Friday edged away from a long-running drive toward cutting spending and raising taxes in rich nations, rejecting the idea of setting hard targets for reducing national debt in a sign of concern about a sluggish global recovery. With budget cuts blamed for a second straight year of recession in the eurozone, the EU’s top economics ofﬁcial Olli Rehn indicated over the weekend that more ﬂexibility on tough economic targets was needed. His boss, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, said on Monday that austerity had reached its natural limits of popular support. Recent surveys and data have pointed to economic weakness spreading to the eurozone core, and yesterday

German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann had a stern message for France, the eurozone’s second major economy, which is slipping already this year from commitments to cut its budget deﬁcit Germany’s Ifo sentiment indicator came in weaker than the most pessimistic of forecasts as poor exports undermined Europe’s largest economy. “We certainly still have some margin of manoeuvre to take decisions, and as (ECB) President Draghi said in the latest press conference, we stand ready to act if economic conditions continue to provide bad news, as has unfortunately been the case,” Constancio told the European Parliament in response to a question.

But ECB policymakers did not accept that weaker growth was a reason to change course on reform, insisting that more balanced budgets were essential to revive sustainable growth. “Economic adjustment, both internal and external, has been signiﬁcant, has implied high costs in terms of unemployment and should not (be) put into risk of unravelling now,” Constancio told the European Parliament. Joerg Asmussen, who sits on

the ECB’s Executive Board, also spoke of a risk of slipping back and warned against taking the current market calm for granted. “(A) sound fiscal condition is really a precondition for growth,” he told the Financial Times. “If one postpones fiscal consolidation to a later day, that comes not without risks.” ECB Governing Council member Ardo Hansson said EU states must push economic reforms further, strengthen public finances and avoid

complacency. German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann had a stern message for France, the eurozone’s second major economy, which is slipping already this year from commitments to cut its budget deﬁcit. Lessons should be drawn from earlier breaches of debt limits, Weidmann said. “France especially has an important role to serve as an example for credibility of the rules and trust in the sustainability of public budgets.”

Barclays investment banking shines as overhaul costs hurt

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INVESTMENT banking made most of the first quarter profit at British bank Barclays, highlighting the challenge for the lender’s new boss in making money as he shrinks that part of the business. Chief Executive Antony Jenkins was brought in to bring a more ethical approach to Britain’s third largest bank after scandals over rate-fixing and big bonuses in the investment banking arm that was built up by his predecessor Bob Diamond. Jenkins has pushed out top management and cut pay and jobs and yesterday’s results showed the costs of

restructuring contributed to an overall fall in earnings for the lender. Investment banking proﬁts, however, jumped 11 per cent, outperforming rivals Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. “The big success story is, as ever, Barclays Capital. Importantly it’s both a revenue and a cost story,” said Ian Gordon, analyst at Investec. Barclays said last week Diamond acolyte Rich Ricci would be leaving the bank as part of the effort to ﬁx its image. Over half a billion pounds was spent in the quarter on Jenkins’ “Project Trans-

form” overhaul, triggering a drop in adjusted pretax profit to £1.79 billion, just below a mean forecast of £1.85 billion. The investment bank arm made a profit of £1.3 billion by keeping revenues steady and cutting costs. Its income rose 1 per cent to £3.5 billion, higher than the £3.3 billion expected by analysts. Growth in equities and advisory offset a fall in fixed income, currencies and commodities. This success could complicate Jenkins’ reforms, as it shows how central the business, dubbed “casino banking” by critics, is to the future of Barclays.

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BOEING Co’s ﬁrst-quarter earnings jumped nearly 20 per cent, handily beating analysts’ estimates and showing little impact from the 787 Dreamliner problems, sending the company’s shares up more than 3 per cent in midday trading. Boeing, in its quarterly report yesterday, stood by its sales, earnings and cash forecasts for the full year, reassuring investors that it expects to deliver all of the jets it had planned, including Dreamliners. Cost-cutting and higher proﬁt margins

more than offset a small decline in sales. Boeing delivered the same number of commercial jets as in the year-earlier quarter, but with deliveries of low-margin 787 halted, margins improved. Regulators grounded the plane after batteries overheated on two 787s in January, which stopped deliveries. The company did not release a cost estimate for the Dreamliner problems, as some analysts had expected. But on a conference call, it said the majority of the cost of ﬁxing the battery issue had been reﬂected in the

first-quarter results. The cost of analysing the problem, redesigning the battery system, testing it and retrofitting the 50 Dreamliners in service was absorbed in large part by shifting resources around the company, CFO Greg Smith said. On an accounting basis, the expense will be folded into the cost of producing more than 1,100 Dreamliners, so it will not be felt in the company’s earnings, he added. He declined to provide a figure for that total cost.

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It’s time children were taught to take responsibility for their actions IT WAS inevitable that the police who tried to restore order, at 5am on Monday morning, when faced with some 60 reportedly, drunk and disorderly teenagers, would be accused of using excessive force. Yesterday morning, on a radio show, an outraged representative of the parents’ association of the teenagers’ school, accused the police of exactly that, avoiding mentioning, however, what he would have considered adequate force. And of course the students, also claimed they were blameless, telling one daily newspaper that they had done nothing wrong – the smashing of school windows and setting fires to dustbins was the work of outsiders who had arrived at the school before them, a student said. As for the two students who had been arrested by the police, they had done nothing wrong – one was handcuffed after just ‘touching’ an officer on the arm, while the second was charged for trying to prevent the arrest. “They treated us like criminals,” one student was quoted as saying, subscribing to the hyperbole used by the parent that complained about ‘excessive force’. But how should drunken teenagers vandalising school property at five in the morning be treated? Perhaps the parents’ association of the school should advise police how to deal with unruly and anti-social behaviour by drunken teenagers, in the early hours. Should the police have offered the unruly kids coffee and toast? The problem is that nobody takes responsibility for their actions. The students insisted they had done nothing wrong, blaming outsiders (as if non-students have nothing better to do at 5am than go around smashing the windows of random secondary schools) and of course the police for not treating them as lawabiding citizens. But for the parents to ignore their kids behaviour by shifting blame to the police was beyond belief. Why do parents allow their children to be out drinking until the early hours, something that invites trouble? And why do the schools allow the holding of parties for school-leavers at which there is alcohol consumption until the early hours? Nobody is to blame for all this except the police who are forced to deal with the consequences of everyone else’s irresponsible actions. Nobody is asking why inebriated teenage students were out and about at dawn, causing damage to school property and ignoring police orders. This was totally unacceptable behaviour and the parents’ association should have been condemning the school-kids’ behaviour instead of blaming the police. It is time children were taught to take responsibility for their actions, if they are ever to become responsible adults.

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HERE ARE, we are told, only two options. Either we stop burning fossil fuels before our carbon dioxide emissions drive the planet’s average temperature up a full 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F), in which case we will push the world into the biggest-ever recession. Or we continue to burn fossil fuels and push the planet into runaway warming, with lethal consequences for a large part of the human race. The 2008 bank crash that triggered the recent recession was caused mainly by reckless investment that created a “bubble” in house prices. When the bubble burst, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of investments suddenly became worthless. The losses were so great that they nearly brought the whole banking system down. This time the problem is a “carbon bubble”. The market valuation of the world’s 200 biggest oil, gas and coal companies is about $4 trillion, a figure based on the assumed value of their confirmed reserves that are still in the ground. Or, more precisely, a figure based on the assumption that they will eventually be able to sell all of those reserves to customers who want to burn them. On the strength of that assumption, the fossil fuel companies have been able to take on $1.5 trillion of debt, and last year alone they spent $647 billion in the search for even more oil, gas and coal reserves. But what if

Comment Gwynne Dyer they will never be able to sell all of their reserves? What if the need to avoid runaway warming forces governments to curb the burning of fossil fuels, so that much of those reserves has to stay underground forever? This is the focus of a new report titled “Unburnable Carbon 2013”. The report’s authors, the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and the Carbon Tracker Initiative, have the support of organisations like the HSBC and Citi banks, the Standard and Poor’s rating agency, and the International Energy Agency. Their conclusion is that if we are to have a 50 per cent chance of stopping the warming before +2 degrees, then at least two-thirds of the currently listed fossil fuel reserves will have to stay in the ground permanently. If they cannot be burned, then they have no economic value. Therefore, the market valuation of the fossil fuel companies is three times higher than it should be. The report assumes that rationality will prevail, and that at some point a limit will be imposed on the burning of fossil fuels. In this new reality, the debt burden of the fossil fuel companies becomes unsustainable and

there is a financial meltdown that dwarfs 2008. Global warming is held to +2 degrees, but at the cost of the Mother of All Recessions. The other option is that no controls are imposed on burning fossil fuels, and the carbon bubble does not burst until the warming breaks through the two-degree limit and triggers the natural feedbacks that will carry us inexorably up to +6 degrees C. That implies mass death and possibly civilisational collapse by the end of the century, but the fossil fuel reserves will retain their assumed value for the meantime and there will be no financial crash. This is the scenario that the market is betting on, and at the moment most of the evidence supports that wager. The ideological and commercial interests that oppose action on climate change have triumphed in the United States and Canada, and without the Americans decisive action is hard to imagine. The denial campaign has not explicitly defeated science elsewhere, but four years of recession in Europe have had much the same effect, sapping the will of governments to spend money fighting climate change. Last week, for example, the European Parliament refused to fund a scheme to rescue the carbon emissions trading scheme, once the centrepiece of the EU’s climate strategy. In big, rapidly developing

countries like China and India, the race for growth takes priority over cutting carbon emissions. And just when you think things couldn’t get worse, along comes shale gas to expand the fossil fuel reserves even further. It’s a grim choice: either financial meltdown if we act decisively to halt climate change, or physical meltdown if we don’t. But there is, unfortunately, a third alternative. In fact, it’s the likeliest outcome by far. First we go on growing our emissions at the current rate (3 per cent per year) for the next couple of decades, and the fossil fuel industry thrives. Then, when it’s already too late and we have crossed the +2 degree limit, the actual warming (which always lags the growth in emissions by a decade or more) frightens us into taking action at last. So we lurch into a crash programme to cut fossil fuel use – and suddenly the market wakes up to the fact that a lot of those reserves will have to stay in the ground forever. If you liked the subprime mortgage fiasco in 2008, you’ll positively love this one. It’s not either Disaster A or Disaster B. It’s first one and then the other, interlocking and mutually reinforcing. And Disaster B will mean there’s no money left to do anything about Disaster A. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

Banker steps into the role of superhero IN OTHER ages, we have called on shamans or saints in times of crisis when the usual remedies have not worked. In the stagnant world economy today, we have designated central bankers as our superheroes, and we are relying on their magical monetary powers to restart global growth. As the European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, whom some have nicknamed Super Mario, said this month: “There was a time, not too long ago, when central banking was considered to be a rather boring and unexciting occupation.” Not anymore. No one embodies this new glamour more than Mark Carney, the 48-year-old governor of the Bank of Canada, who has been tapped to lead the Bank of England, making him the ﬁrst foreign governor in the institution’s 319-year history. The bar for Carney could not be higher. A cartoon in the British papers made the point. It showed a Bethlehem inn with Joseph leading Mary on a donkey. The caption above the innkeeper’s head declares: “Unless you’re Mark Carney, you’ll have to make do with the stable.” Carney’s star power was reﬂected in the packed house that turned out in Washington on Thursday to hear him at a

Comment Chrystia Freeland Thomson Reuters Newsmaker interview. Carney, who told legislators he hoped his departure from Britain would be “less newsworthy” than his arrival, continued his effort to play down heroic expectations. He deftly dodged questions about the British economy, saying it was not his job to comment on Britain yet. And he pointed out that fiscal policy - the domain of the elected authorities - and the private sector were the true engines of economic liftoff. “If we want to talk about ultimate sources of growth, sustainable fiscal policy is a necessary condition. Sustainable growth comes from the private sector, not from the (International Monetary Fund), the Bank of Canada or anyone else,” he said. He also took care to delineate the proper lines of authority between the central bank and the Ministry of Finance, and steadfastly declined repeated invitations to overstep them. “Central bankers take fiscal policy as given,” Carney said. “Treasuries take monetary policy as given. That’s the separation, and I’m not going to wade in positively,

negatively, neutrally.” Within those constraints, though, Carney offered a cautiously optimistic view of the world economy. “The important development in our opinion over the course of the last 12 months or so, is that the quality of private-sector growth in the United States has picked up,” he said. “The US is moving towards that class of advanced economies that have well-functioning financial systems where private credit is growing and where there is reasonably solid investment growth.” Carney believes that a crucial element in restoring sustainable global growth is finishing the job of repairing global finance and the regulatory framework in which it operates. As the head of the Financial Stability Board, set up by the Group of 20 major economies in the aftermath of the financial crisis, he is one of the leaders in that effort. A major focus is repairing the gap that was revealed in the emergency response to 2008 the existence of “too big to fail” banks, whose owners and executives pocket profits in the good times but get a state bailout when things go awry. Over the next few days in Washington, during the spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank,

Carney and other central bankers and finance ministers will continue to hammer out a way to let banks die without requiring taxpayers to foot the bill. The recent crisis in Cyprus gave a messy preview of how that sort of resolution might work. Carney hopes that global guidelines - and they need to be simple enough, he said, to be usable in the time frame in which the authorities in the real world must often operate - will make future resolutions cleaner and more predictable. That game plan, he believes, should include bail-ins, or making stakeholders in the banks pay most of the costs. “Bail-in broadly speaking - not bail-in as it was performed a couple of weeks ago in Cyprus - but bail-in as a component of addressing systemic risk,” Carney said, “is an absolutely necessary element. It doesn’t solve everything, but it’s absolutely necessary.” Having lost our faith in the private sector and the bankers who dominated so many Western economies before 2008, some are looking to government bankers like Carney. One of the analytical mistakes before the financial crisis was believing that efficient markets were perfect and that private bankers could police themselves.

Thursday, April 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

Showbiz Bieber wants his pet monkey housed in Robert Downey Jr. reprises role of superhero industrialist Tony Stark a zoo

Iron Man 3 goes back to basics in quest to save US By Zorianna Kit AFTER battling grandiose villains and teaming up with other superheroes, it's backto-basics for Iron Man in the third installment of the multi-million-dollar franchise featuring Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man 3, which opens in most of the world this Friday and on May 3 in the United States, has Downey reprising his role of superhero industrialist Tony Stark from the first two films as well as last summer's The Avengers. Collectively, the three films have made about $2.7 billion at the global box office in the past five years. Iron Man 3, which continues Stark's storyline from both sets of Marvel franchises, centres around the evil extremist known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who is hell-bent on destroying the United States. When The Mandarin destroys Stark's personal world as well as his superhero suit, Stark must begin from scratch, rebuilding his suit, freeing the woman he loves and saving the country from destruction. Bombs go off in crowds of people and buildings are destroyed in the film that the cast says reflects real-life threats. "We do live in an unsafe world, that's the truth," Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Downey's love interest Pepper Potts, told reporters at a news conference this week. "I don't think there is anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend the world is perfect." Marvel's first self-financed film, 2008's Iron Man, became a global phenomenon, transformed Downey into a superstar and set off a

Iron Man 3, which continues Tony Stark's storyline from both sets of Marvel franchises, centres around the evil extremist known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who is hell-bent on destroying the United States chain of action movies that spawned other franchises, culminating in last year's crossover film, The Avengers. But in 2009, Walt Disney Co. bought Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion, and Iron Man 3 is Disney's first release in the franchise. In a first, Iron Man 3 teamed with China-based DMG Entertainment and shot additional scenes that will only run in the Chinese version of the film, a nod to the growing importance of the Chinese movie market

to Hollywood. The cast and filmmakers have kept quiet on details of the extra scenes. But director Shane Black, who also co-wrote the script, said he was thrilled to work with "one of the single, fastestemerging box office environments in the world." Promotional duties have also become more creative, with Downey doing a twoweek global tour for the film by making stops in Korea, Beijing, Moscow, Munich, Paris and London. Downey said the storyline

took other risks, including 11-year-old actor Ty Simpkins playing Stark's sidekick - the first time a child has been prominently featured in the Iron Man films. "Black's idea of a superhero running into a little kid in heartland America, I think, wound up being a wise choice, and a calculated risk," said Downey. He acknowledged the pressure that follows two successful films, saying "usually the third of any movie struggles to even meet the first two, let alone the first one."

But Paltrow said all three ﬁlms work because of the similarities between the off-screen Downey and his brash-but-vulnerable Stark, and also owing to the actor's persistence. "One particular strength of Robert's that we don't see on screen is the fact that he's always asking, 'What is the big picture here? How can we make it feel real?'" Paltrow said. "I think that's why the movies keep working. They're not a weaker carbon copy of the one before."

Journey over for chart-topping boy band JLS By Dominic Harris

JLS have shocked fans by announcing they are to split after a string of hits

CHART-TOPPING boy band JLS have shocked fans by announcing they are to split after a string of hits and said: "It has been the most incredible journey." The group, whose hits include Everybody In Love and The Club Is Alive, said they had been agonising over the decision for months. The quartet, which found fame on The X Factor after featuring in the 2008 series, will give a farewell tour in December and said they wanted to "end on a high". The foursome - Aston Merrygold, 25, Marvin Humes, 28, Jonathan 'JB' Gill and Oritse Williams, both 26 - had fulﬁlled their initial recording deal, but did not want to sign a further contract committing them to several more albums.

Their success has led to several spin-offs with the group launching their own range of condoms and Merrygold has taken a judging role on Sky's Got To Dance series. Gill has developed an interest in farming and recently featured on the BBC's Countryﬁle as he learned more about agriculture. After their run of ﬁve number one hits and two Brit awards, they announced their exit with a statement to fans which said: "We wanted to make sure that you heard it from the four of us, that we have decided to bring our time as a band to an end. "It has been the most incredible journey over the last six years and we have achieved more things than we could have ever dreamed possible. "Thanks to all of you guys,

your support, your dedication and your love, you have changed our lives forever and we wouldn't be where we are today without you. "Goodbye: The Greatest Hits Tour will be the last time that we will perform together as a four and we want to make sure that this tour is the best ever and that we end on a high! "We will always remain brothers and friends and we will always be your boys." They will also release a best-of album to coincide with the ﬁnale shows. JLS - which stands for Jack the Lad Swing - ﬁnished second to Alexandra Burke on The X Factor, but nevertheless picked up a record deal. The group also set up their own charitable foundation and have pledged to continue with this work, despite going their separate ways.

THE 19-year-old singer's animal pal Mally was seized by customs in Berlin, Germany, in March when he tried to sneak it into the country without the correct papers. Justin had a deadline of May 17 to arrange for Mally's collection but rather than ﬁghting for his furry friend to be released, the pop star has asked his manager Scooter Braun to request the animal centre which has been caring for the creature to ﬁnd him a new home in a zoo or shelter. Karl Heinz Joachim, the boss of the animal centre where the monkey is staying, insists it is imperative Mally is found a new home quickly because there are no other monkeys to keep him company at the centre. Joachim said: "There are a great many suitable places that have offered to take Mally and integrate him with their own Capuchin monkeys where he would be much more happy with his own kind. "A baby monkey was never going to be suited to be on a world tour even if he is travelling by private jet. He should be out in the wild climbing tress and learning from other monkeys if he isn't to have serious psychological problems later in life."

Rihanna spent $8,000 on strippers THE Where Have U Been hitmaker dropped by Miami's King of Diamonds strip joint last Saturday night to see how the girls danced to her music and ended up staying at the bar for several hours, TMZ reports. While at the venue, Rihanna blew a wad of cash watching the girls take their clothes off, giving special attention to one of the most popular strippers, Remy Redd. The 24-year-old singer kept followers on her Twitter up to date with her antics, with one Instagram photo showing a mass of dollar bills surrounding her seat. She posted: "Last night one of my fantasies came to life! I got to see K.O.D strippers dance for me to the stripper song I made! (sic)" Her good friend Katy Perry is also said to have joined in the fun later on during the evening. This isn't the ﬁrst time the controversial star has splashed her cash on erotic dancers on a night out. Last year, Rihanna shared a saucy snap of a stripper bent over backwards with her head between her legs as she paraded her money, adding the caption: "Bands ah make her dance. (sic)"

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, April 25, 2013

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Sunrise Hotels get Trip Advisor award

New cost saving solutions from MTN MTN has responded to this challenging economic period by offering its customers timely cost-saving solutions. Speciﬁcally MTN is offering a 50-per cent discount on the monthly fee for all its new subscribers who transfer their number to any MTN Pay Monthly plan. Now, new subscribers who do not wish for a new device have the opportunity to beneﬁt from 50 per cent savings on their monthly fee for 18 whole months and continue to enjoy the full privileges of the MTN Pay Monthly plans, including free minutes and free SMS. With MTN, clients always enjoy the lowest rates, with the best service and the most modern and advanced network.

EASY TRANSFER To transfer a number to MTN, a subscriber can simply visit any of the 20 MTN Stores or selected distributors with their last mobile bill and their ID. This has never been done in Cyprus before and it’s further proof that MTN is responding once again to the consumer’s need for reducing their costs without being deprived of their right to unhindered communication. At MTN we will continue to take initiatives that comply with the circumstances and help consumers in these critical times. MTN is one of the largest telecommunications providers in Cyprus, offering integrated mobile, ﬁxed and broadband services. MTN boasts the largest fully-owned retail network amongst operating telecommunications companies in Cyprus, with 20 MTN Stores. MTN is also a member of the MTN Group, a multinational telecommunications group, operating in 22 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia and connecting 189 million customers. MTN Cyprus is a major contributor to the economic and social developments in the country, both through its 400 employees, and also as a responsible corporate citizen in the ﬁelds of sport, education, health and culture. MTN is a proud sponsor of the APOEL football team.

THE hotels Sunrise Beach Hotel and Brilliant Hotel Apartments, of Sunrise Hotels, were recently recognised and honoured by global online travel guide Trip Advisor Travellers for the high level of their quality and innovation of their services. Speciﬁcally, Sunrise Beach Hotel and Brilliant Hotel Apartments were honoured in the category “Top 25 Hotels in Cyprus”. The award is only given to hotels which receive positive comments by their customers - speciﬁcally, registered members of Trip Advisor - on their stay and the experiences they enjoyed. Such honours are no surprise as Sunrise Hotels have already received a number of prestigious awards in the past by top travel organisations, resulting from their customers’ recognition of the high level of hospitality services

offered. Meanwhile, Sunrise Hotels continue to invest in the tourism sector, having become synonymous with the best beach locations in Cyprus. The company's opulent Sunrise Pearl, which is on the Protaras coast next to Sunrise Hotel, was added to its hotel units last July. The hotel offers high technological services for the beneﬁt of its guests, and provides, among other features, 99 deluxe rooms, 10 junior suites with private access to a pool, three restaurants, three bars and four outdoor swimming pools. Furthermore, the Sunrise Pearl operates the biggest centre for specialised SPA services in the area. For more information on Sunrise Hotels and to make bookings directly, please visit www.sunrise. com.cy

Luxury on tap: the Sunrise Pearl, among its other opulent features, offers its guests three restaurants, three bars and four outdoor swimming pools

Talent show at Limassol Theatre Arts School a hit UK judges flown in to adjudicate in competition THE Limassol Theatre Arts School (LTAS) held its third Annual Talent Show with great success this past weekend. Limassol’s own stage school for kids gave young singers, dancers, musicians and entertainers the opportunity to showcase their talents in a fierce competition organised into three age categories (juniors, intermediates and seniors). All three judges - accomplished professionals in the field of performing arts - were flown over from the UK and included: Ms Laura Meaton, Ms. Joanne Davies and Mr Richard Roe. The judges found the standard represented extremely high, so that at times they had tough decisions to make comparing vocalists with gymnasts or musicians. Nonetheless,

The judges found the standard of the 62 acts extremely high, so that at times they had tough decisions to make comparing vocalists with gymnasts or musicians they were unanimous in their choice of winner for each section and believe those picked stand a good chance of enjoying future careers in the music or theatre industry.

Sixty-two acts competed on the day, ranging from solo and group singing to ballet, modern and hip hop dancing, gymnastics, solo harp, guitar and piano, a band, musical thea-

tre, mime and comedy acts to name but a few. In the Junior Section, the winner was Artemis Georghiou, the runner-up was Nicoletta Christoforou; in the

Intermediate Section, the winner was Alison Ioannou, the runner up was Pauline Blyum; in the Senior Section, the winner was Michalis Antoniou and runners-up were Anastasia Dalchanina and Andreas Foklas. Prizes included a fully produced cover song with video sponsored by Soundscape Studios worth €3,600; with various vouchers as well as scholarships to the LTAS for Vocal and Musical Theatre coaching. Runners up were given a month's scholarship for vocal and dance tuition at LTAS and vouchers. Additionally, a scholarship to the Musical Theatre Summer School at the renowned Pineapple Performing Arts Studio in Covent Garden was awarded to 11-year-old Iman Arnous. The LTAS would like to offer a special thank you to its sponsors: Soundscape Studios, Russian Wave, Vestnik Kipra, Lemesos Newspaper, Musical Paradise, Serres Education and Design Centre who made the event such a success. For more information about LTAS, visit: www. limassolarts.com

STAROIL offers its financial support to Chlorakas CYPRIOT oil company STAROIL, as part of its corporate social responsibility, ﬁnancially supported the community of Chloraka in Paphos with a signiﬁcant donation. The funds will now be used to cover the basic needs of food and clothing for needy families in the region. STAROIL CEO Mr. George Petrou personally presented the donation to the head of the community of Chlorakas, Mr. Cleovoulos Papacostas, at the community's own STAROIL service station. Mr. Petrou, stated: “With the ever-deepen-

ing crisis and our fellow citizens confronted with more and more economic challenges on a daily basis, we couldn’t remain indifferent to such a situation. "We must stay as close as possible to people in need, especially in light of recent developments”. With fuel terminals located in Larnaca and Nicosia and satellite storage in different towns, STAROIL delivers high quality fuels, at competitive prices, using proven transporters and company-owned tank lorries.

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How eurozone backw became its latest liab The tiny eurozone state of Slovenia achieved Europe’s smoothest transformation from a Communist economy to a market-based model

Trying to avoid bailout as transformation from Communism to market economy half finished report Michael Winfrey and Marja Novak

GOR Luksic, leader of the Social Democrats in Slovenia’s ruling coalition, disagrees with the European leaders who say his country should privatise its three biggest lenders to avoid the misery of another bailout in the eurozone. The political science lecturer who has lined his office with portraits of Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi and Che Guevara said his party would fight the move. “We have always been against selling banks,” said Luksic, whose party is the second largest in Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek’s government. The banks in the Alpine former Yugoslav republic of 2 million people are a key reason why it showed up on the agenda of last Friday’s Dublin meeting of the bloc’s 27 finance ministers on preventing a new eurozone debt crisis. “Slovenia is facing serious challenges,” EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said, calling for decisive action to restructure and recapitalise the banking sector among other urgent measures. Financial market pressure on Slovenia has lain bare how this tiny eurozone state achieved Europe’s smoothest transformation from a Communist economy to a marketbased model: it only went half way. While former Soviet satellite states like Poland and the Czech republic privatised big firms, slashed budgets

and pushed through other reforms, Slovenia held on to public assets, avoided cost cuts and repeatedly bailed out state banks after escaping the violent breakup of nonaligned Yugoslavia in 1992. That has now become a liability for Bratusek who, after last month’s chaotic rescue of Cyprus, is scrambling to stop a spike in Slovenia’s borrowing costs and convince investors it can change its ways and avoid insolvency. Bratusek, who took power only four weeks ago, has pledged to break taboo by imposing unpopular austerity measures and selling at least one of the publicly owned companies that make up as much as half of the economy, and possibly a bank. Luksic stopped short of threatening to quit the coalition if it privatised the banks, but the cabinet has not rejected its predecessor’s plan for Ljubljana to keep blocking stakes in the main two ones, which experts say will prevent their sale. The coalition of parties whose members range from neo-liberal centrists to leftists, is not united on other reforms either, and may face staunch opposition from voters. “Slovenia did not embrace reforms because it did not have to,” said Borut Hocevar, an analyst at the daily Finance. “Everything seemed ﬁne on the surface until a few years ago but now it is clear that banks were used as a tool of political and economic elites and that Slovenia would be

Ljubljana - immaculate highways and trendy shops and bars

Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek has pledged to impose unpopular austerity measures

much better off if it had sold them a while ago.” From its immaculate highways to the trendy shops and bars in its capital Ljubljana, Slovenia resembles developed EU states like Austria and Germany far more than its ex-Communist peers. With living standards measured at 84 per cent of the EU average, it has leapfrogged eurozone laggards Portugal and Greece and enjoys more than twice the standard of Serbia, from which it split when it left the former Yugoslavia in 1991. But, following a nasty downturn and spike in the budget deﬁcit, its once enviable debt levels have doubled to 54 per cent of gross domestic product. Last week the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned the debt level, fuelled by the cost of saving Slovenia’s banks

plus healthcare, pension, and other costs, could reach 100 per cent by 2015 if Ljubljana does not embrace reform. Luksic acknowledged his party might not prevail in its attempt to stop the banks be-

should develop,” he said. Foreign institutions have for years criticised successive governments for stiﬂing competition and investment and say it has avoided painful reforms that its regional peers embraced. Spending by the state is about 50 per cent of gross domestic product, one of the highest levels of the OECD club of wealthy countries. Governments have also repeatedly rejected foreign bids to buy state-owned ﬁrms, most recently killing the sale of leading grocery chain Mercator to a Croatian rival in 2011. Protecting national interests, diplomats, business leaders and others say, is also tangled with corruption and cronyism in Slovenia’s small ruling elite and will be a hard habit to break.

But, following a nasty downturn and spike in the budget deficit, its once enviable debt levels have doubled to 54 per cent of gross domestic product ing privatised but said at the very least the biggest bank Nova Ljubljanska Banka or NLB, should stay in state hands, since it could become a big regional bank. “This is the tool that the state, as a national state, should use for promoting its perception of how the state

“Whenever they want to keep something because they are connected in some way with the business or a certain group of people because they have interests in those businesses, they always throw up this concept of national interest, when really it’s personal interest,” a Western diplomat

said. “Everyone has convinced themselves that it’s truly in the best interest of the country to work in this way, because it worked for 20 years and they were the model for the rest of the former communist countries,” said the diplomat who declined to be identified. The combination of state ownership, a tight-knit political network, and bad management helped trigger the lending spree from state banks that, following a collapse in real estate prices, has gone sour. Bratusek plans to shift some of the €7 billion in bad loans choking mostly the banks NLB, Abanka Vipa and Nova KBM, in which the state is either the majority or a strategic stakeholder, to a “bad bank” in June. The government must then pump some €1 billion of new capital into them this year the OECD says maybe much more - with the aim of selling them, even though bankers, analysts and diplomats say there are no prospective buyers for now. It is not the first time the government has had to bail out its banks. It has injected capital into NBL - which needs an estimated €375 million this time around - on five separate occasions. “It has been proven that foreign owners are better,” said Tomaz Boltin, the head of Slovenia’s banking sector union. Selling them “is the only way to cut the cycle in which banks are used to finance the

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bility EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn calling for decisive action to restructure and recapitalise the banking sector political and economic elite,” he said. But it may be hard to convince voters. It was a wave of protests against auster-

ity measures - and graft - that helped topple Bratusek’s predecessor. “I think the government should not sell banks and other state companies which are the property of us all,” said Omar Beckanovic, a retired builder at Ljubljana’s main open market.

Leader of Slovenia’s Social Democrats Igor Luksic is against selling banks Biggest bank Nova Ljubljanska Banka

Although Bratusek can ﬁnd support for the measures from the centre-right opposition, parties within her own coalition could oppose them, which could destabilise her fragile cabinet. Another risk is the role of plebiscites in Slovenia, where anyone can demand a vote to

knock down a newly passed law by gathering 40,000 signatures. Unions have used them to attack laws on belt-tightening and state asset sales. There are already signs Bratusek is softening on austerity. In talks with unions, her government has trimmed a plan to cut public sector wages to

€158 million from some €255 million envisaged by the previous, right of centre, government. Last week, it postponed a debate in parliament on the ﬁscal “golden rule” which calls for a balanced structural budget by 2015, and Luksic’s party has said balancing the budget

should take longer to shield poorer Slovenes. Andrew Page, Britain’s ambassador to Slovenia said reforms could require a signiﬁcant shift. “The challenge here is not just to bring one or two political parties with the Prime Minister but actually to begin to change public perceptions.”

Thursday, April 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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films

(K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/ 15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

NICOSIA Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.20pm; KCineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 7.50pm, weekends also at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.20pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.20 and 7.50pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm

Oblivion (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also Times are subject to at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of change, so check first Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5.25, 7.45 with cinemas before you and 10.15pm, weekends also at head out 11.30am and 3pm

Telephone nos: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383

Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Rio Limassol: 25-871410 Rio Paphos: 26-207000

Zero Dark Thirty (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15

and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.10pm Beautiful Creatures (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.15pm Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm Cyprus Film Days (tonight at 6pm: The Great Rock’n Roll Swindle) (tonight at 8pm: War Witch) (tonight at 10pm: The Shine of Day) Zena Palace. All films with Greek and English subtitles. www. cyprusfilmdays.org

CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL

ends also at 5.30pm

Broken City (15) Rio 3 at 7.45pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.35pm

Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm

The Croods (K) Rio 2 (in 3D, in Greek) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in Greek) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) at 10pm; Rio 5 (in 2D, in English), weekends only at 5.15pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 7.50pm, weekends also at 5.20pm

Oblivion (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 5.25pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 2 at 10pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Zero Dark Thirty (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 5.20pm Cyprus Film Days (tonight at 5.30pm: Rude Boy) (tonight at 8pm: Shameless) (tonight at 10pm: Broken) Rialto Theatre. All films with Greek and English subtitles. www.cyprusfilmdays.org

Oblivion (12) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm. KCineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm

LARNACA

Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm. KCineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.35pm

Zero Dark Thirty (15) Rio 3 at 10pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.10pm

The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 7.50pm, weekends also at 5.20pm

Beautiful Creatures (12) Rio 6 at 8 and 10.15pm, week-

Beautiful Creatures (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.15pm Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm

PAPHOS

The Croods (K) Rio 1 (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.15 and 7.30pm, weekends also at 3pm; Rio 1 (in 3D, in English) at 9.45pm; Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) at 5.15 and 7.30pm, weekends also at 3pm Oblivion (12) Rio 7 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 3 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm Zero Dark Thirty (15) Rio 2 at 9.45pm Beautiful Creatures (12) Rio 2 at 5.15 and 7.30pm Pitch Perfect (12) Rio 6 at 9.45pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 4 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 7, weekends only at 3pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm

Broken City (15) Rio 5 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm

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Music

Exhibition

Other Events

Easter Concert Concert of traditional songs and tunes from Cyprus, Greece and Asia Minor associated with Lent and Easter with the Anotoli ensemble. April 25. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 22-470470

Free Range Unicorns: Two Dimensional Possibilities Photography and video installations. Opens April 26, 8pm until May 17. Paphos Municipality Gallery, 7 Gladstonos Street. Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm. Saturday: 9am-1pm. Tel: 26-930653

In Androulla’s Kitchen A talk on Cyprus food and culture by Sonia Demetriou, part of the Friday Lecture series. April 26. Cornaro Institute, 23 Mehmet Ali Street, Larnaca. 4.30pm. In English. Entrance is free. Tel: 24-254042

Rami Sarieddine Piano recital. PASYDY Amphitheatre, 3 Demonsthenis Severis Avenue, Nicosia. 8pm. €5. Tel: 22-379545

Music

Visual Narratives of Homeland in Women Artists’ Practices Workshop with female artists exploring issues of homeland and identity. April 26. Phytorio, Association of Visual Artists, 2 Nehru str. Nicosia Municipal Garden, (next to the Parliament House and opposite the old Nicosia Hospital). 6pm-9pm. The language of the workshop is English. Attendance is free and open to all. Tel: 99-314384/22-681088. E: vartcy@gmail.com

Chamber Music Concert Recital with Musicians of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. April 25. Larnaka Municipal Theatre. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 22 463135

Other Events To Become Oneself in the Midst of Others – Kierkegaard on the Modern Individual in Society The Danish Embassy in Cyprus marks the anniversary of famous Danish philosopher with a lecture at the University of Nicosia in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair. April 25. UNESCO Amphitheatre University of Nicosia. 4.30pm. Free in English. Tel: 22-660418/22-841572

The Deep River of Music The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra will present a programme devoted to music of the African-Americans and the indigenous Indians of America. April 26. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. Before the concert, a short 20-minute film about the music of the Afro-Americans will be shown at the theatre entrance hall. 7.45pm. Tel: 22-313010 Agios Dometios Solidarity Concert Concert that aims to collect food for the support of residents in need. April 26. Agios Dometios Multipurpose Centre, Nicosia. 8pm. Free. Tel: 99-220220 Zamba Viola A night of Latin music. April 26. Academy 32 Constantinou Paleologou 32, Nicosia (Old Town). Tel: 22-760073

Theatre Churchill Fresh Target Theatre Ensemble presents charity performance by Pip Utton in a one man play exploring the life of Winston Churchill. April 26. Pallas Theatre, old Nicosia. 8.30pm.

Ongoing Theatre

Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609 In the Land of Peter Pan The Puppet Group of Satiriko Theatre presents work by James Barry. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11 - 15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas which satirises Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 1. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Nicosia. On Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Gone With the Jobless A comedy performance by Marinos Hatzivasiliou who, together with other actors from the popular TV programme Patates, present a hilarious show with humour and laughter. Until May 5. Diachroniki Music Stage, 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 9pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 99-783455

In Motion The Black Box Theatre Group presents play by George Kleanthous. Until April 26. Old Vinegar House, 34 Genethliou Mitella Street, Limassol. Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. €10. Tel: 99-790819/99-349719

A Steady Rain The theatre group D-tale presents two-character melodrama by Keith Huff. Until May 16. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. €12/15. Tel: 99-535625

Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatro presents comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. On

The Dispute The Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Until May 17. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm

and Sunday 6pm. In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717 Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800 Egg Salad A new children’s play, in a new theatre presented by Aiora. Until May 26. Aiora Theatre, 4 Trion Ierarchon Street (Carrefour Volos Street), Limassol. Every Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 11am & 4pm. Adults €7/Children €5. In Greek. Tel: 99-668843 Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. Until May 31. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. On specific days at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 6pm. In Greek. Performances on April 17-19 will be with Greek and English subtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300 Centuries away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali. Until June 2. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-621845/22-818999 Sovrakaless Play based on the book by Terrence McNally and the film The Full Monty. Until June 9. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 70-000612

For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail

Exhibition Norwegian Architecture Three exhibitions highlighting recent achievements in Norwegian architecture: Contemporary Norwegian Architecture #7, The Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta and Palimpsest – Norway by Claudio Santambrogio. Until April 26. The Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia, 31 Michael Giorgalla ,Str., Engomi Industrial Zone, Nicosia. Open daily: 9am-6pm.Tel: 22842600/601. info.arc.@unic.ac.cy Christos Michlis Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. Rouan Gallery, 28 Dodekanisou, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am-1pm and 4.30pm-7.30pm. Tel: 25-350845 Costas Economou Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. EKATE building, 11 Paeonos, Nicosia. Opening hours: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-466426 Group Exhibition Group painting and sculpture exhibition. Until April 27. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Children’s Dialogues Group children’s art exhibition. Throughout the exhibition there will be workshops and events that have been carefully designed by the creative children educators of Aigaia team. Until April 30. Aigaia School of Art and Design, 81 Agion Omologiton Avenue, Nicosia. Monday - Friday: 4pm-8pm. Saturday & Sunday: 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 22-445757

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Coming Up Other Events Upbeat cookery and gardening... for the kids Staying in Nicosia for the Easter break? It goes without saying you’re going to need to ﬁll out the days with loads of things for the kids to do, so they don’t get too bored. But don’t worry, there is lots going on while school is out. The ARTos Foundation usually offers some creative and instructive classes for children during school holidays, and Easter always lends itself to get their hands dirty in more ways than one. The kitchen isn’t just a place for grownups anymore. It’s never too early to start developing culinary skills and, inspired by shows like Master Chef, kids can also get excited to get cooking. Luckily for mums and dads, ARTos has come up with a unique cooking workshop for their pint-size gourmands that also includes lessons in gardening. Aimed at six- to 12-year-olds and designed for the creative diversion of children during the Easter holidays, the workshop will be held at the Foundation on the Monday and Tuesday before Easter. Inspired by Stella’s workshop, dur-

ing the two-day workshop, children will have the chance to learn, among other things, the fundamentals of cooking and gardening through the enjoyment of contact with nature and through working in cooperation with each other. And that’s not all; young ones will also have a fun session learning the drums with Heleniq Argyrou (Clin. Psych). The workshop will be conducted in Greek and there is a need to book as places are limited. Window to Optimism A unique cooking and gardening workshop for children aimed at children from six to 12 years and designed for the creative engagement during the Easter holidays. April 29-30. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyiton Avenue, Nicosia. 7.30am-1.30pm. €50 for two days. In Greek. Tel: 99-108096

NIGHTLIFE I dub thee a good night out Start your weekend on the right note by checking out Pantheon Tritos, in Nicosia, as Psylent Harmony presents Dub Partycles. This Saturday crowds can expect a totally chilled-out affair with plenty of ‘rrrrrreagge vibes and riddims’ as local ‘supa stah’ Johnny Blue is joined by some out-of-town dub heads: Kukan dUb Lagan from Israel, and making their debut appearance in Cyprus, Vlastur and J.P. Illusion, from Greece. But ﬁrst, what is dub music exactly? Glad you asked. An offshoot genre which developed from reggae proper in the 1960s, in the strict musical sense dub refers to space-oriented, studio-manipulated reggae and to the method of creation that it has spawned. It is essentially reggae created from pre-existing recordings. The pioneers, such as Lee

Takin’ it to the streets

‘Scratch’ Perry and King Tubby, looked to the mixing board for inspiration and as an instrument in itself, setting off an ongoing chain reaction through clubs and studios across the world. Dub, then, is a short slang form for “double,” and stands as a precursor to other late 20th-century samplebased music like hip hop. Forty years after its inception, dub’s vibe continues to catch the ears and shake the rumps of multitudes of DJs and club-goers alike, so join Tritos for a night coloured by dub beats, atmospheric vibes and make sure you’re in a dancing mood. Dub Partycles Psylent Harmony presents dub party with local and international guest artists. April 27. Pantheon Tritos, 40 Evagorou Avenue, Pantheon Building, 3rd floor, Nicosia. 10pm. €8. Tel: 22-670843/99-432923

Along with the warm weather comes a fresh crop of outdoor activities, street fairs and big festivals, as well as smaller community happenings. These spring fests are a great way to entertain your family for just a few euros — sometimes even for free and this weekend sees the return of the highly-anticipated Street Life Festival. Each spring the streets of Limassol come to life with celebrations and activities that attract thousands of visitors from all over the island. With the sun shining, (Saturday is set for a scorcher, wear sun block!) what better way to enjoy the great outdoors than a community festival celebrating urban culture? Following the success of previous events, with more than 5,000 visitors, the festival returns for a seventh consecutive year to its usual location on Saripolou and Athenon Streets for an exciting family day out. Visitors are urged to approach the city centre from the seafront road. There are various car parks by the old port and on the seafront promenade. From there the festival venue is only 150 metres towards the city. Organisers recommend that you grab this opportunity to use your bicycles, skates, roller blades and explore the city centre of Limassol. Building a modern day community of collective creativity, the philosophy of the festival is to revive the city and its streets and embrace the beauty of the historical centre of Limassol, by converting the walls into a huge canvas. No doubt the highlight of the festival is watching local and European grafﬁti artists practicing their art. Watch and learn from Paparazzi, Studio 8, DEAK, ANWS, FM crew and many others as they create huge murals or get in on the action and pick a paint brush or spray can and leave your own creative mark for the world to see. There are a ton of things going on, local artists will sell their wares and run workshops, with live performances including a huge variety of music and dance. Kids aren’t into shopping? No problem. There will be a bunch of fun activities

Don’t Forget Music Easter serenades Strovolos Municipality is hosting an Easter concert tonight at the Strovolos Municipal Theatre featuring the Anatoli ensemble

dren, infor children, cluding face g, painting, games, nd crafts and titions so you competitions owse and buy in can browse peace. pants with kiosks inParticipants clude: Theotokos foundation, a Demetriou Dancing Dr Yiota Queen Foundation Foundation, Vimto drink drink, Sirius Dog sanctuary, Pets2Adopt, Penny Douglas with her magic tricks, old comics and stamps by Adonis, Limassol Cycling Centre, CUT students, Friends of CUT and more. Other pillars of street culture like skateboarding and BMX tricks will also be on display, some of the best talents in Cyprus will be there to show off their best tricks and stunts and, as always, everyone is encouraged to join in. No festival would be complete without a comprehensive music programme that will keep you in the mood for partying and true to form there will be a big stage where various bands, DJs, MCs and dancers will be performing from 9am to 7pm. During this year’s Street Life Festival, food will be collected to be given to Funraising Charity Foundation which is helping/caring for Limassol’s families in need especially during these particularly difﬁcult times. If you wish to contribute to the food collection, please check the Street Life Festival Facebook page, for the commodities needed. Street Life Festival Street festival with music, graffiti, painting, jugglers, handcrafts, food & drinks and much more. April 27. Saripolou and Athenon Streets, Limassol. 9am-7pm. Tel: 25353573. For more info please check Street Life Festival Facebook page. Email.giftsandgadgets@cytanet.com.cy

and a range of music that’ll take you back to a time before today’s chocolate eggs and ﬂuffy bunnies. Traditional songs and tunes from Cyprus, Greece and Asia Minor will be performed, associated with Lent and Easter. ‘Anatoli’ play traditional instruments – an oud, in case you were wondering, being “a pear-shaped stringed instrument” similar to a mandolin. Participants include: Elias Kou-

By Ledha Socratous loumis (vocals, lute), Michalis Kouloumis (violin), Pantelis Iona (oud, lute, guitar), Maria Kouloumis Papetta (vocals), Petros Kouloumis (vocals, lute) and Evripides Dikeos (percussion). Easter Concert Concert of traditional songs and tunes from Cyprus, Greece and Asia Minor associated with Lent and Easter with the Anotoli ensemble. April 25. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 22-470470

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television.

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News Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

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Friends (rpt) American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.

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Discovery documentary series looking at the making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ella To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.

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Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

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Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Pame Paketo CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘Pay Up’. One of the CSIs is gunned down when media mogul Robert Dunbrook’s son is kidnapped on the way to testify against his father in court. Desperate for justice for their fallen comrade, Mac, Stella and Flack investigate Dunbrook and his son’s abductors, but they risk putting more lives in jeopardy.

Oi Vasiliades FILM: American Crude A man meets a prostitute, an ex-convict and a porn king when he throws a bachelor party for his best friend. Comedy, starring Gino Cabanas. 2008.

Eilikrina News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Horis Oria (rpt) To Paihnidi Tis Signomis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira

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Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more. Hosted by real-life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.

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Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt)

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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

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Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV Berdema Fotis Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fringe Third season of sci-ﬁ drama. ‘6B’. The team encounters a grieving widow, and discovers that the membrane separating the two universes is becoming ever thinner. Meanwhile, Peter and Olivia try to repair their emotional rift.

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Cold Case (rpt) Third case. ‘Debut’. Rush reopens the case of a debutante who died at a ball in 1968, after a newspaper report reveals that the man who escorted her to the event has been charged with murdering his wife.

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Kalitera En Ginetai Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Sto Mati Tou Kiklona (rpt) News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Sharpe’s Peril Adventure, starring Sean Bean. 2008. See Pick Of The Day

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FILM: The Stranger Game A working mother hires a male nanny, who ultimately tries to destroy her family. Thriller, starring Barclay Hope. 2006.

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FILM: Another You A compulsive liar is placed in the custody of a petty crook - who soon realises there is money to be made from the situation. Comedy, starring Richard Pryor. 1991.

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01:00 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 01:30 My Family 02:00 The Weakest Link 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors 03:50 Silk 04:40 After You’ve Gone 05:10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:00 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 06:30 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Charlie and Lola 09:20 My Family 09:50 One Foot In The Grave 10:20 The Weakest Link 11:05 EastEnders 11:35 Doctors 12:05 Hustle 13:00 Silk 13:50 My Family 14:20 Monarch Of The Glen 15:10 One Foot In The Grave 15:45 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 The Weakest Link 17:30 Hustle 18:20 Silk 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 Keeping Up Appearances 22:00 Spooks 22:50 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 23:20 Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive 23:50 Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle 00:20 The Diamond Queen

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 River Monsters 08:40 Rodeo 09:30 Prehistoric 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Inside West Coast

12:45 Fitness: The Box 13:00 Cycling: Italy 15:00 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 19:00 Strongest Man: Champions League Martinique 20:00 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 01:00 Fight Sport: Total Ko

Customs 13:05 Chasing Classic Cars 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 Wild Fisherman: Norway 15:25 Prehistoric 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 17:50 Mighty Mississippi 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Norway 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 Prehistoric 22:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 22:50 Mighty Mississippi 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 02:50 Mighty Mississippi 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 Prehistoric 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Norway 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 Cycling: Italy 11:00 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Friends With Benefits 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Friends With Benefits 12:00 Scandal 12:45 The Hour 2 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 5 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Friends With Benefits 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 5 18:30 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 19:30 Desperate Housewives 7 20:15 Bones 21:00 Scandal 2 21:50 Castle 5 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Friends With Benefits 23:30 Scandal 2 00:20 Castle 5 01:05 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Friends With Benefits 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 5 04:50 Make It Or Break It 4

07:30 Saint John Of Las Vegas 09:00 Harry Brown 11:00 Peggy Sue Got Married 12:45 Haunting Of Bryan Beckett 14:30 Felicity: An American Girl Adventure 16:00 Hangover Part II 18:00 Whistleblower 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Underbelly Files - Tell Them Lucifer Was Here 23:00 Takers 00:55 Hustler TV 03:00 Shattered Silence 04:30 St. Elmo’s Fire 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 19:00 Barclays Premier League Review 20:00 2013 Wtcc 20:30 La Liga World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 201213 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 Toyota Australian Football International 2012 01:30 Ironman 02:30 Best Premier League Games 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Best Classic Premier League Games

07:15 2 Broke Girls 08:00 Two And A Half Men 08:30 Hawaii Five-0

09:15 Ncis: Los Angeles 10:00 Friends 10:30 Pan Am 11:15 Necessary Roughness 12:50 Gossip Girl 13:40 2 Broke Girls 14:30 Hawaii Five-0 15:15 Ncis: Los Angeles 16:00 Two And A Half Men 16:30 One Tree Hill 17:15 C.S.I. New York 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 Privileged 20:30 Friends 21:00 Top Boy 21:55 Luck 22:50 Closer 23:35 Fringe 00:20 Black Rain 02:30 Secret Life 03:50 Two And A Half Men 04:15 One Tree Hill 05:00 C.S.I. New York 06:30 Gossip Girl

08:00 Primal Fear 10:15 In Praise Of Older Women 12:15 Mercy 14:00 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 15:45 Lovely Bones 18:15 All Good Things 20:15 Unnatural & Accidental 22:00 Freeway Killer 23:30 Action Zone (E) 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Bonnie And Clyde 06:00 After.Life

05:20 Paranormal Activity 3 06:45 Encounter With Danger 08:20 Cine News 08:50 Abduction 10:40 Action Zone 13:25 Flicka 3: Best Friends 15:00 Bright Star 17:05 Cine News 19:30 Mad On Novacinema 20:10 Sister 22:00 Once Fallen 23:40 That’s My Boy 01:40 Magic Mike 03:30 How I Spent My Summer Vacation

18:20 There Will Be Blood 21:00 The Illusioninist 23:50 Sniper Reloaded 01:30 Adult Zone

19:05 Loyfa Kai Parallagi: Sirines Sti Steria 21:00 Margin Call 23:00 The Following – 23:50 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone

19:10 Wings Of The Dove 21:00 The Smurfs 22:50 Jane Eyre 00:50 Our Day Will Come

00:00 Sports Unlimited 1:00 Golf Central International 01:30 MLB Player Poll 2:00 Courtside Jones 02:30 NHL: Los Angeles Kings At Detriot Red Wings 05:00 Pinks All Out Montgomery 06:00 Pinks All Out Texas 07:00 Morning Drive 08:00 The Haney Project: Michael Phelps 9:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Titleist Performance Institute - Block 10:00 MLB: St. Louis Cardinals At Washington Nationals 13:00 Golf Central International 13:30 NHL: Los Angeles Kings At Detriot Red Wings 16:00 European Tour Ballantine’s Championship Rd. 1 19:30 MLB Player Poll 20:00

MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers At New York Mets 23:00 Pass Time 23:30 Stuntbusters

06:00 Only Hits 8:00 MTV GreekLips 9:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 16:30 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 17:30 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Young and Married 21:00 MTV Underemployed 22:00 MTV Underemployed 23:00 MTV Ridiculousness 23:30 MTV Ridiculousness 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits

07:00 In This Our Life 08:40 Today We Live 10:40 The Barretts Of Wimpole Street 12:30 Guns For San Sebastian 16:20 The Harvey Girls 16:00 Ice Station Zebra 18:30 Easter Parade 20:25 Bombshell 22:00 Straight Time 00:00 Ryan’s Daughter 03:10 Gone With the Wind

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Sharpe’s Peril (Capital, 21.00) Just when he thought he was out of it, they pull him back in! 15 years after he first played Sharpe - 19thcentury soldier and adventurer - Sean Bean, now pushing 50, is “no longer in the service of his Majesty”, but gets prevailed upon to perform “one last duty” by an officer of the East India Company. There’s a baggage train travelling through hostile territory, and Sharpe is just the chap to protect it from bandits; also on hand is a snobby French mam’zelle (“Unhand me!” she protests indignantly, calling our hero an “uncouth brute”) plus elephants, Indian princesses and other exotica. “Holy crap are they ever old. I miss the days when he was a young officer fighting the French with

his chosen men,” says a rather ungracious fan on YouTube - and it’s true that ITV milked this franchise past its sell-by date (this is the last Sharpe movie, though more may conceivably be made as long as Bean is still around), but this kind of handsome colonial adventure is still good fun, even with the clichés and occasional dodgy stereotypes. Made for TV in 2008.

Once Fallen (Novacinema1, 22.00) “I’d like to do something with my life other than fight and deal drugs,” says the hero of this little-known crime drama, which reflects my own feelings exactly. Except that I don’t fight. Or deal drugs. He (Brian Presley) is an ex-con looking to go straight - but “there are

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few choices on these streets”, and pressure from a local kingpin to whom Brian’s mate owes a lot of money forces our hero back into “the dangerous world of underground bare-knuckle fighting”. Gosh! Not the kind of film where you’d expect to find two Oscar nominees among the cast - but in fact Ed Harris co-stars as Brian’s estranged dad, trying to help his son from jail where he’s part of a neo-Nazi gang, and Taraji P. Henson plays the inevitable love interest who holds out the promise of a normal life, at least if Bri can beat his demons, overcome his chequered past and so on. To paraphrase our tortured hero: I’d like to do something with my life other than fight, deal drugs and watch crushingly predictable B-movies. Made in 2008.

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HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

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2 Medicinal diamond (7) 3 Military student acted improperly (5) 4 The cheek of a clippie? (3) 5 Fancied the idea (7) 6 Nun i.e. troubled by listlessness (5) 7 Unselﬁsh riotous desecration (11) 8 Decisive way to ﬁnish off a race! (11) 12 Little Margaret with a new Welsh name (5) 15 State of fairy in Hertfordshire town (7) 16 Bouquet to wilt in the middle (7) 18 Ape can’t hide this nut (5) 20 Mean with a girl (5) 22 A ship used as transport in Biblical times (3)

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1 Flat landlord? (5,6) 9 Exuded from animals on the way back, Edward concluded (5) 10 Fabulous bird in Arizona (7) 11 Can’t change quantity of money going round holy place (7) 13 Guy will shortly, we hear, produce some treachery (5) 14 River delta (3) 15 Pale-sounding isle (5) 16 Combined with carbon, uranium and mercury initially (3) 17 Drive away the salesman the French rejected (5) 19 In Avignon, I, Ronald found it was dripdry (3-4) 21 Sort of overture to many a jazz fan included (7) 23 Cook altered rotas (5) 24 Does not emphasise where Mexico is on the map (11)

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Across

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Answers to crossword 2373

HOROSCOPE

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Reluctance; 7 Octagon; 8 Prang; 10 Jerboa; 12 Crambo; 13 Niche; 14 Snag; 16 Unit; 17 Debit; 19 Nodded; 20 Rocket; 23 Wanda; 24 Hastier; 25 Party piece. Down – 1 Rotor; 2 Lagoon; 3 Cone; 4 Aspire; 5 Coalman; 6 Not just now; 9 Ghost story; 11 Aimed; 12 Chair; 15 Addenda; 17 Depart; 18 Tousle; 21 Knife; 22 Chap.

QUICK: Across – 1 Lengthwise; 7 Rhyming; 8 Rival; 10 Caller; 12 Pen-nib; 13 Décor; 14 Fist; 16 Fair; 17 Cut-up; 19 Loathe; 20 Patent; 23 Yokel; 24 Meddler; 25 Indistinct. Down – 1 Loyal; 2 Nailed; 3 Togo; 4 Warder; 5 Savanna; 6 Gracefully; 9 Laboratory; 11 Revue; 12 Pop up; 15 Slacken; 17 Chilli; 18 Pardon; 21 Eilat; 22 Emit.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Issues associated with shared resources may come to attention, as a Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio could coincide with events that make you sit up and pay attention. You might need to review your current ﬁnancial situation, including any debts or investments. If you’ve been hovering on the edge of taking action - this could encourage you to get a move on.

Unexpected news on the home front may jolt you out of any complacent feelings you may have had. Events could coincide with a change in family dynamics or with a need for a timely decision. Career wise, you might need to jump to attention too. Yet despite any inconvenience and the need for change, something good may come out of this.

You could feel caught between a rock and a hard place, as a sense of duty weighs you down and limits your freedom. You may need to make an attitude adjustment if you’re going to come out smiling and on top form. Despite a heavy workload, there are still options for fun, as long as you’re willing to expect the unexpected and embrace it.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

People may be unpredictable and strong willed today. Keep an optimistic outlook, and don’t be surprised if reactions get blown out of proportion. You may ﬁnd it hard to steer clear of quarrelsome types, but you can try to fuel the day’s agenda with fun projects and upbeat plans. Changes to an ongoing relationship could be a possibility.

Take a short trip, or do some sightseeing - but guard against hasty actions. You might also want to prepare for an unusual offer. The Lunar Eclipse in your communication zone brings the possibility of a message you can’t ignore. You may see the sense in changing a plan or strategy to accommodate new information or emerging trends.

There may be changes to your social life which could be shocking or surprising at ﬁrst. Under current trends that includes a Lunar Eclipse, a good friend may have to leave your social circle for whatever reason, while potential new friends can make an entrance. You may become choosier about the clubs or groups you’re willing to join.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Issues at work could cause anxiety and stress. Don’t be surprised if a new direction isn’t in line with your goals. It might help to chat to a friend or to your partner. A solution may be just around the corner if you’re alert enough to spot it. It’s not a good day to ask for perks on the job - but socialising with pals could cheer your spirits later on.

You may need to buck-up your ideas with regards to personal ﬁnancial issues. Today’s Full Moon Eclipse may even see you change your mind around one issue. Perhaps you’ve already been cutting back and are already budget conscious - but you may need to do more. A change in perspective concerning your feelings about money may help however.

Watch out for behind-the-scenes ploys which could affect your career goals and aspirations. Powerful forces may mean you have to abandon a plan that’s no longer working out. You may ﬁnd your career status could change on the spur of the moment. However, new doors can open and you’ll need to be quite determined to walk through them.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Negative fears could make you more inward looking, especially in matters of the heart. A Lunar Eclipse in your romance and creative zone, may coincide with high passions and feelings. If you ﬁnd yourself falling in love, it might be best to hold back, as relationships began at this time can take some strange highways and byways. Go easy for now!

The Lunar Eclipse in your sign may have a personal effect on you. Perhaps you’ll be motivated to change the way you dress, the way your image deﬁnes you and anything else that you might feel uncomfortable about. This isn’t about blaming yourself for any perceived inadequacies, but more about living to your full potential. Begin to harness it.

The focus on long-range goals, religious or philosophical beliefs, educational matters and travel may be highly emphasized today. A Lunar Eclipse in this zone suggests changes to your current trajectory. For instance, a trip may need to be cancelled or reorganised. If you’re studying, you may feel a change of course is necessary for your success.

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veranda 30sq.m, fully fitted kitchen with expensive electrical appliances, blinds, covered parking, on the 6th floor with plenty of view and nice breeze, in the centre off Kennedy avenue – Nicosia Centre €700 (A2NIC0031-R), (photos in the website). 13. New luxury finished 3 bedr penthouse (floor apartment) on the 5th floor,165sq.m+ big verandas(one bigger with bbq), solid parquet floor all the flat,3wc,2 bathrooms, central heating ind, full a/c, big separate Italian kitchen with electrical appliances and dining area, big sitting room, covered parking and storage room off Makarios Avenue walking distance to the centre €850 (A3NIC0030-R), (photos in the website). 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq. m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol, full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse,165sq.m+80sq.m verandah with bbq, central heating ind, full AC, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with dining area, fully MODERN FURNISHED, covered

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TO LET Large 4 bedroom unfurnished house in the village of Asomatos nr Akrotiri Limassol. Fully A/C & Heating (storage heaters). 5 wc’s, large kitchen/diner, lounge and sitting room. Large loft with own shower/wc (suitable for office/playroom/gym). Carport - prominent position in cul-de-sac - lots of parking. €850 pcm (negotiable). Available from April 2013. Tel. 99831431 TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/C-toilet in main bedroom. Semi/full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/ shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800. GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 *****************************

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ommended. website reference number: RTL_679 2. SECRET VALLEY €750 spacious modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a peaceful residential area. Offering large private pool with a low maintained enclosed garden with sea views. Off street parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture and includes gas central heating throughout. Modern fitted kitchen with granite worktops. One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_561 3. KAMARES TALA €850 a stunning detached villa offering 4 bedrooms plus office in a quiet & private residential area with large parking bay for numerous cars and covered off street parking. Offering spacious living accommodation and breathtaking views of the sea. This property includes a lift to all 4 floors. Luxury modern fitted kitchen with appliances. Lovely garden with spacious veranda & private pool. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_669

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4. SEA CAVES €850 price includes pool cleaning & gardening. Luxury modern detached 3 bedroom villas in a peaceful & private location. Fully furnished with good quality modern furniture including a log burner for those winter months.

CHURCHES GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m. Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24365152

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM

Family oriented evangelical church Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month) Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org

ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives. Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm. International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome! PROPHETIC CALL-OUT Grieved by preachers living in sin ? Pastors collaborating with idolaters? Bored with just being a spectator? In Prophecy there is no ‘us and them: Everyone contributes (1 Cor 14:26) 10am start 9/2/2013 God willing, Meet: Entrance Palaiopafos, Kouklia Instruments/shofars welcome

Open Door Baptist Church

St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932. \VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist th 4 Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist 3rd Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala st rd 1 & 3 Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Byron Avenue, Nicosia, 22 445221/22 677897

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Sunday 0930 : Holy Communion Sunday School in the hall 1800 : Evening Prayer Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 0830: Morning Prayer Wednesday 1030 : Holy Communion First Monday of each month 1930 : Guild of St Raphael Parish Office : Mon-Fri : 0900 – 1100 Saturday 1000-1200

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Modern fitted kitchen with top brand appliances. Two bedrooms on ground floor with family bathroom & master bedroom & ensuite on upper level. Good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy & sea views. Shaded bbq area. Off street parking with shaded car port. website reference number: RTL_625 5. KAMARES TALA €900 a unique property combining modern and traditional. Situated in the sought after area of Kamares on a large plot with mature gardens & stunning private pool, offering total privacy and breathtaking sea views. Separate annex with modern shower room & separate kitchen. Guest room offering bedroom & shower room at pool level. Large modern office. Main house offering 2 further bedrooms plus a number of sitting rooms. Perfect for those who require something completely different from the norm. Available furnished or part furnished. website reference number: RTL_673 6. PEYIA €950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & fittings. Offering spacious accommodation with breathtaking sea views. Furnishings & fittings are of a very high quality. Spacious living area with modern fitted kitchen & utility area. One bedroom on ground floor with ensuite & kitchenette. Guest wc. Private infinity pool & enclosed

low maintenance garden. A must to see! website reference number: RTL_670 7. ST.GEORGE €1,100 a brand new stunning detached 3 bedroom villa with modern fitted kitchen & bathrooms. Beautifully finished with detail mosaic flooring. One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom. Enclosed landscaped garden with kidney shaped private pool. Situated in a quiet residential area. Available unfurnished though includes top brand kitchen appliances & blackout blinds. website reference number: RTL_678 8. CHLORAKA €1,800 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fitted kitchen, living room with working fireplace. Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrentpaphos.net email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net

Konia on 3 floors. Four spacious bedrooms with nice veranda views of mountains. Middle floor has sitting/dining area all with classic furniture and fireplace and lovely big kitchen. Downstairs is a self-contained annex with bedroom and kitchen area/ bathroom wc. Private pool BBQ area and outside sink. REF 1232 €1300 AYIA MARINOUDA 2 bedroom furnished bungalow in lovely quiet complex with communal pool. Property has fire place, off street parking, nice stone features, character property. REF 1224 €500 KOLETRIA 4 bedroom house with 3 bathrooms offered unfurnished, central heating and flyscreens throughout 3 bedrooms upstairs, master bedroom has ensuite. Large shower room. Fourth bedroom downstairs TIMI with shower room. Lovely large kitchen and sitting room. Covered area for car and back garden REF 1234 €500 A LARGE HOUSE in its own private grounds surrounded by orange groves in Timi. This property has been built to a very nice standard and offers lots of living space. Large quality kitchen, sitting room and dining room. 3 large bedrooms. The master bedroom has ensuite and there is an additional room used as office, upstairs loft room. REF 1049 €650 PANO PAFOS Large 3 bed-

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

Sport Players to get huge Wimbledon windfall, new roof

IN BRIEF Godolphin doping hearing set

Pot biggest ever in tennis after 40% rise By Martyn Herman WIMBLEDON organisers moved to justify a staggering 40 per cent rise in total prize money this week that will make the pot at this year’s championships the biggest ever in tennis. Players at this year’s grasscourt grand slam, which starts on June 24, will receive a total of £22.6 million with the men’s and women’s singles champions each pocketing £1.6 million. Last year’s Wimbledon singles champions earned £1.15 million - 39 per cent less. “These are significant increases and we have made them because we wanted to and not because we had to,” All England Club chairman Philip Brook told reporters at a news conference that also outlined a redevelopment of the site including putting a roof on Court One by 2019. “We understand and appreciate the difficulties for all players reaching the top echelons of our sport. It’s a long and expensive road to the top and it’s getting longer.” Asked if the rises were justifiable during a harsh economic climate in which many people struggled just to afford tickets for the prestigious tournament, he said Wimbledon had to compete with other major sporting

events. “I know the economic climate is difficult, I accept that, but the world that we live in is a world where we are competing with other international tennis events and we also keep an eye on what is happening in other sports. “We do think that this was a moment in time when we could respond to a subject that has been spoken about a lot over the last 18 months and we have chosen to make these increases this year because we feel it’s the right thing to do. “Fans won’t pay the price (through ticket increases),” he added. “It’s an affordable increase in terms of our overall operations here. “We’ve had early discussion about 2014 ticket prices and there won’t be any significant change to how we look at that.” Brook said there had been no pressure from the world’s leading players but said the increases reflected calls for more prize money for the lesser-ranked players who are often packing their bags after the early rounds. Players who lose in the opening three rounds at Wimbledon this year will be the chief beneficiaries of the prize money rises with increases of between 62 and 64 per cent. Those who fail to survive a single match in the main draw at the champion-

ships will be rewarded with a £23,000 cheque, up from £14,500 last year. “We started last year focusing the prize-money increases on those that lose in the early rounds or qualifying,” Brook told Reuters. “These are not players who are superstars but players who are finding their way and not making a lot of money.” A women’s singles player who bows out in the first round without winning a game will still be rewarded with a cheque that is close to the average annual earnings in the UK. With a 6-0 6-0 demolition usually lasting less than 45 minutes, Wimbledon officials were quick to defend their generosity. Richard Lewis, chief executive of the All England Club, said the public should recognise that the riches enjoyed by the likes of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic through prize money and sponsorship were not available to rank and file tour players. “It’s not just the top players, we have to make the sport attractive to the next generation of talent and that means that players ranked 50 to 100 or 100 to 200 need to know that they can make a good living.” Even defeat in the qualifying rounds will be tempered by a 41 per cent rise with £12,000 going to players who fall at the last hurdle before the main draw.

Roger Federer pocketed £1.15 million for winning the men’s title in 2012. This year’s champion will get a huge raise

Australia’s Haddin brought back as vice captain for Ashes By Stuart McDill

Veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, who was dumped last year, is back as vice captain

THE shallow depth of Australia’s cricketing stocks were exposed yesterday with selectors being forced to recall two 35-year-olds in an attempt to wrest back the Ashes from England in July. Veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, who had been dumped last year, and top-order batsman Chris Rogers, who had played just one Test in 2008, were named in a 16-man squad for the ﬁrst of back-to-back Ashes series against England. Haddin will reclaim the vice-captaincy from Shane Watson, who relinquished the post earlier this week but still made the Ashes squad as a batting all-rounder, while the uncapped James Faulkner was named the bowling allrounder. “The most impressive thing about Brad is that he continues to put form on the board,” Australia captain Michael Clarke told a news conference in Sydney. “His leadership and his experience will play a large part in this group. The best teams in the world have a good mix of youth and experience and I think this squad of 16 has that mix.

“I’m confident that we have a good group of players that can learn from each other.” Australia’s planning and confidence to regain the Ashes from Alastair Cook’s side when the first game begins at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on July 10 suffered a massive dent last month when they were hammered 4-0 in the Test series in India. The result on the sub-continent, however, was merely a manifestation of the loss of experience and world class talent from the side that dominated the game for more than a decade from the early-1990s. The trickle of retirements from that side, which included greats like Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist, ended with former captain Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey calling time on their international careers over the Australian summer. That lack of experience was ruthlessly exposed in India last month, a result that forced Clarke to defend the team yesterday when asked if it was the weakest Ashes side ever selected. “Since I’ve taken over the captaincy of the Australian cricket team I think I’ve heard that every tour so this will be no different,” Clarke added.

GODOLPHIN stables trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni, who has admitted using banned steroids to dope racehorses, will face a Disciplinary Panel in London today, the British Horseracing Authority said. Eleven horses based at Newmarket in southern England tested positive for steroids, including stanozolol - the substance used by disgraced Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Announcing the date for the disciplinary hearing, the BHA said Al Zarooni had also admitted administering prohibited substances to four other horses under his care, in addition to the 11 that were tested positive. On Tuesday Al Zarooni, who works for Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s stable, said he regretted what he described as “a catastrophic error”. Samples were taken from 45 horses at Godolphin’s Moulton Paddocks Stables on April 9. Eleven samples were found to contain prohibited substances including ethylestranol and stanozolol. Unbeaten in four career outings, Certify was one of seven horses to test positive for ethylestranol. Gold Cup runner-up Opinion Poll was one of four to test positive for stanozolol. Founded in 1992, the Godolphin stable has won more than 2,000 races worldwide with winners in 14 countries.

Beaten Maguire couldn’t watch STEPHEN Maguire said he could not watch Dechawat Poomjaeng’s antics during their World Championship match. World number five Maguire suffered a shock 10-9 defeat to Poomjaeng in the first round in Sheffield. The Thai player, ranked number 70 in the world, applauded his own shots, willed Maguire’s to go awry, and spilt a bottle of water mid-frame. “I was afraid to look in the end. Crazy things were happening. I don’t think he’s the full shilling,” the Scot said. “I just had to switch off. I’ve never seen him before but there’s definitely something missing.” But he added: “He seems like a really nice boy and very genuine.”

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, April 25, 2013

Sport Pirelli urged to keep tyres Cyclist’s lawyer describes US government as ‘opportunistic and insincere’ as they are

Armstrong ‘unjustly enriched’ THE US Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong this week, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the US Postal Service and was ‘unjustly enriched’ while cheating to win the Tour de France. The government had previously announced it would join the whistle-blower lawsuit brought by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis. Tuesday was the deadline to file its formal complaint. The Postal Service paid about $40 million to be the title sponsor of Armstrong’s teams for six of his seven Tour de France victories. The filing in US district court in Washington, DC, says the USPS paid Armstrong $17 million from 1998-2004. The lawsuit also names former Armstrong team director Johan Bruyneel and team management company Tailwind Sports as defendants. The financial costs for Armstrong and Bruyneel could be high. The government said it would seek triple damages assessed by the jury. “Defendants were unjustly enriched to the extent of the payments and other benefits they received from the USPS, either directly or indirectly,” the complaint said. Armstrong, who in January admitted using performance-enhancing drugs after years of denials, has argued that the Postal Service’s endorsement of his team earned the government agency far more than it paid him. Armstrong attorney Elliot Peters called the government’s complaint “opportunistic, and insincere.”

By Alan Baldwin

The US Postal Service paid about $40 million to be the title sponsor of Armstrong’s teams for six of his seven Tour de France victories. The ﬁling in court says the USPS paid Armstrong $17 million from 1998-2004 “The US Postal Service beneﬁted tremendously from its sponsorship of the cycling team. Its own studies repeatedly and conclusively prove this. The USPS was never the victim of fraud. Lance Armstrong rode his heart out for the USPS team, and gave the brand tremendous exposure during the sponsorship years,” Peters said. Paul D. Scott, the lawyer representing Landis, issued a statement Tuesday night. “Mr. Landis is pleased to see the United States take

this important step toward recovering taxpayer dollars lost to fraud,” Scott said. “It plainly does more damage than good to the policies, programs and international standing of the United States for it to be associated with a cycling team that dopes to win. The fact that the team’s fraud was concealed for many years does not take away from the fact that the United States was harmed. Even if the USPS received some ephemeral media exposure in connection with Mr. Armstrong’s

false victories, any illusory beneﬁt from those times will be swamped over time immemorial by the USPS forever being tied to the largest doping scandal in the history of sports.” The government must prove not only that the Postal Service was defrauded, but that it was damaged somehow. Previous studies done for the Postal Service concluded the agency reaped at least $139 million in worldwide brand exposure in four years - $35 million to $40 mil-

lion for sponsoring the Armstrong team in 2001; $38 million to $42 million in 2002; $31 million in 2003; and $34.6 million in 2004. The formal complaint against Armstrong appears to rely heavily on evidence and statements supplied by Landis and gathered by the US Anti-Doping Agency for its 2012 investigation that exposed a doping program on the USPS team. Armstrong has been banned from sports for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France victories.

LA Clippers star Paul calls late game heroics ‘just basketball’ By Jahmal Corner

The diminutive six-foot Chris Paul provided the signature moment of the NBA playoffs so far

CHRIS Paul drove right, stumbled forward, leaned back and banked in a gamewinning shot that lifted the Los Angeles Clippers to a crucial playoff win and elevated his status as one of the game’s top closers. While Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and LeBron James are often noted as fourthquarter assassins, it is the diminutive six-foot (1.83m) Paul who provided the signature moment of the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs thus far. Paul’s last-second jumper gave the Clippers a 93-91 victory and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven ﬁrst-round series with the Memphis Grizzlies that left the home crowd buzzing. “He’s so stubborn and strong-willed. There’s not too many players like that,” Clippers forward Lamar Odom

told Reuters, likening Paul’s clutch play to former team mate Bryant. “It’s all about their mentality. He just didn’t take no for an answer.” Paul finished with 24 points and nine assists, and got the final say in a duel with Grizzlies guard Mike Conley, who had a playoff-career-high 28 points and nine rebounds, but it was the timing of his points that made all the difference. As Los Angeles let a 12-point advantage slip away in the fourth quarter, Paul scored the last eight points for his team in what has become a familiar occurrence for the Clippers. Blake Griffin’s scene-stealing athleticism is the high point of a deep and exciting roster, but when it comes to the last 12 minutes of a close game the offense begins and ends with point guard Paul. “Any time we get in those positions, he’s our closer and

we look for him to close games out,” said Clippers guard Chauncey Billups, nicknamed ‘Mr. Big Shot’ for his own ability to make crucial buckets during his career. “All great players are not clutch. Chris has proved to be one of the best clutch players in the NBA.” It is that intangible of Paul’s that has resuscitated the Clippers franchise and helped them steal some billing from the crosstown rival Lakers. When the Clippers traded for the All Star guard prior to the 2011-12 NBA season they were looking to reverse a painful history of losing. “I don’t think it’s that dramatic,” said Paul, of the big moment. “It’s just basketball.” It certainly felt that dramatic to everyone else when Paul blew past Memphis defender Tony Allen, lofted a shot over Darrell Arthur and raised his reputation to yet a new height.

RED Bull have an agenda in complaining about this year’s tyres and the ‘vast majority’ of Formula One teams have urged Pirelli not to change them, according to the Italian company’s motorsport director Paul Hembery. After the ﬁrst four races of the season, Pirelli have been in the headlines more than ever after introducing new compounds to encourage overtaking, mix up strategy and create more pitstops. There have been concerns that the races have become confusing for fans, while some drivers have moaned about having to pace themselves rather than being able to go ﬂat out. Much of the criticism has come from champions Red Bull, who want the tyres to be longer-lasting and blamed excessive wear for their controversial use of ‘team orders’ in Malaysia last month. Hembery said he felt like ‘piggy in the middle’ and the situation was all “a bit weird really”. “We often sit down and go ‘what’s all this about?’,” the Briton, Pirelli’s main man in Formula One, told Reuters at last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

CHALLENGE “It’s the third year (of Pirelli being sole tyre supplier), it’s no different this year than any other year. We’ve given the challenge, some like it and some don’t. They all have the same challenge,” he added. “In the end we’ve had the vast majority of teams come to us and say: ‘Whatever you do don’t change anything’. “We might - because we have to, and because we see things that as tyre supplier we might want to change - but essentially they are saying: ‘Don’t change even if you are getting thisnegative) media coverage.’ So it is rather strange.” Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull in Bahrain, the triple champion’s second victory of the year, but team principal Christian Horner told reporters afterwards that he felt the tyres were still too “on an edge”. “The most vocal team has been Red Bull obviously, and for their reasons,” said Hembery. “The others, if they see one team pushing that way will push against that because they feel there’s a good reason why Red Bull want to go in that direction.” Pirelli have been supported by Formula One supremo Ecclestone, who always likes a controversy - or indeed anything that gets F1 talked about - but is also in favour of rewarding strategy and driver skills. “If the tyres lasted from January to December, there’d be something else to talk about,” 82-year-old billionaire Ecclestone told Reuters with a sigh.

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Sport Leoz the latest to walk as FIFA’s old guard disbanding

Torres mask can’t slip in Chelsea’s Europa pursuit

By Mike Collett

Blues ready for Basel test in semi-finals By Mark Meadows CHELSEA are in the last chance saloon as far as a trophy goes and Fernando Torres, complete with his ‘Mask of Zorro’, must continue his recent improvement in swashbuckling style in tonight’s Europa League semifinals. Fenerbahce welcome Benfica in their first leg while European champions Chelsea face a tricky trip to Basel without the cup-tied Demba Ba, meaning fellow striker Torres will take up the fight as the Londoners chase Europe’s second prize. Group stage elimination as holders in the Champions League has been followed by the lack of a Premier League title challenge and defeat in the FA Cup semi-finals by Manchester City. Unpopular interim coach Rafael Benitez is left with the Europa League as his only hope of quitting in May with a modicum of pride restored and Spanish compatriot Torres, still playing with a mask to protect a broken nose, feels upbeat. “We have a young squad and we need to learn winning ways and this is a very good way. It is not the Champions League but it is the Europa League,” Torres told www.uefa.com “Now we’re in the semi-finals everyone can see we want to win and the team I think is happy. “The competition is helping

the team a lot because it is giving us a lot of satisfaction not like in the Premier League this season, and we lost the semi-final of the FA Cup, so we were also close. But the Europa League is keeping us in a good mood and thinking it could be a good season.” Torres, who has struggled for sustained form since joining Chelsea in 2011, was highly impressive in the last round when he scored three goals in the two legs against Rubin Kazan. However, he laboured against former club Liverpool in Sunday’s 2-2 Premier League draw. John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Gary Cahill, Victor Moses and Yossi Benayoun were all left out of the starting XI at Anfield but are likely to return. Basel have reached a European semi-final for the first time and Chelsea will be wary after the Swiss team confidently dispatched London rivals Tottenham Hotspur in the last eight. The Swiss club are the only domestic champions among the Europa League last four and have played more European matches this season (18) than any other surviving team, having begun their campaign in the Champions League second qualifying round. Basel, Swiss champions for the last three seasons, have lost only two league matches since Murat Yakin, a former Switzerland defender, took

over as coach at the end of October and are unbeaten domestically this year. “Chelsea are the best team left in the competition but there is no reason to feel upset or afraid of this draw. I’ve never been to Stamford Bridge and I’m looking forward to going there,” said Yakin. Twice European champions Benfica travel to Istanbul after a morale-boosting 2-0 win over Lisbon rivals Sporting on Sunday kept them top of the domestic league. It was the Eagles’ eighth consecutive league win as their attacking firepower has brought them close to a memorable treble of league, cup and Europa League. One of the main Benfica threats today will be skilful Argentine winger Nicolas Gaitan who stood out on Sunday with a man-of-the-match performance. “He sometimes gives the ball away easily but that happens with players like him who are full of magic and can go on and decide games,” coach Jorge Jesus said of the 25-year-old. Fenerbahce’s chances of the Turkish title were hit on Sunday when they lost their first game in 11 matches, going down 2-0 at Genclerbirligi to slip seven points behind leaders Galatasaray. “There’s nothing we can do but focus 100 per cent on the Benfica game,” coach Aykut Kocaman told reporters. The second legs are on May 2.

Fernando Torres, complete with his ‘Mask of Zorro’, must continue his recent improvement in swashbuckling style

RVP should expect ‘hot reception’ By Jim van Wijk

Robin van Persie, who ﬁred Man United to the title on Monday, has been warned to expect a hostile reception from Arsenal fans when he returns to the Emirates for the ﬁrst time

ARSENAL Independent Supporters Association chair Lois Langton feels the club were right to agree to a guard of honour for newly crowned Barclays Premier League champions Manchester United ahead of Sunday’s showdown at the Emirates Stadium - but warned Robin van Persie should expect a “hot reception”. United sealed a 20th domestic championship on Monday night when they beat Aston Villa 3-0 at Old Trafford, where former Gunners’ captain Van Persie smashed a hat-trick. The title winners have traditionally been clapped out onto the pitch in their next match, with United having done so themselves in 2005 for Chelsea, who then returned the gesture two years later, and also Arsenal when they came to Highbury back in 1991.

However, with passions still running high among some of the Emirates Stadium faithful by the manner in which Van Persie left last summer in a £24million move, there have been suggestions those disgruntled fans will turn their backs when the teams come out from the tunnel in protest. While AISA chair Langton believes the club are right to show United respect of their achievements, she can understand why emotions will boil over as far as Van Persie is concerned. “I think we have to give the guard of honour, as I don’t want us to look as though we are being petty by not giving the guard of honour,” Langton told Press Association Sport. “For it not to happen and for supporters not to acknowledge the Manchester United team as they come out would actually boost Robin van Persie’s ego. “I would rather us just ac-

knowledge them and then get on with the game - otherwise the focus will be on Robin van Persie, rather than the Arsenal team, which is what we are supposed to be going there to support. “Having said that, the reality is he will get a hot reception.” Langton added: “Football is a game of passion and emotion, and there are a large amount of supporters who feel very strongly about the circumstances in which Robin van Persie left. “We had the seven years of him being injured with us, then he had his one injuryfree good season, and at the end of that he decided to leave. “He alienated himself from supporters by the way in which he brought about his move, that is still felt very strongly by Arsenal supporters and is what is going to generate the response that he is going to get when he comes back on Sunday.”

THE sudden resignation from FIFA’s executive committee of Paraguayan Nicolas Leoz means almost half the men who decided on the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals have left world football’s governing body. Leoz, 84, president of the South American confederation CONMEBOL, has quit the executive role he has held with FIFA since 1998 and his position as CONMEBOL’s president after 26 years. He is the fifth man who voted in December 2010 on the World Cup hosts to leave with the whiff of corruption trailing in his wake. Three others have gone with their good names unblemished while two more were banned from even voting at the time because of their involvement in vote-selling allegations. In all, 12 executive committee members have been accused of some form of corruption since October 2010 with Leoz, Jack Warner (Trinidad & Tobago), Mohamed Bin Hammam (Qatar), Ricardo Teixeira (Brazil), Chuck Blazer(United States), Amos Adamu (Nigeria), Reynald Temarii (Tahiti) and Vernon Manilal Fernando (Sri Lanka) facing the most serious allegations. Leoz, Warner, Bin Hammam, Teixeira and Blazer have resigned with Bin Hammam banned from football for life. All of them have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Adamu was banned for three years and Temarii for one year while Fernando is serving a provisional 90-day suspension. Leoz, one of FIFA’s crusty old guard, has quit shortly before FIFA’s Ethics Committee announces its findings into a bribery probe in which he was implicated in 2008. He was identified during a criminal trial in Switzerland as having received kickback payments from FIFA’s former marketing partner ISL, which went bankrupt in 2001. The Paraguayan, who has been suffering with heart problems for years, cited ‘health reasons’ for his departure and said he was leaving his roles with a clear conscience. “I feel very happy because I’m retiring with the tranquility and knowledge of having done a sincere, honest job,” he said at a news conference in Asuncion. He follows out of FIFA four disgraced colleagues who were among the 22 men who voted in Zurich in December, 2010 for the 2018 World Cup to be held in Russia and the 2022 finals to be staged in Qatar.

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Sport ‘Raumdeuter’ Mueller strikes again By Brian Homewood

Memorable: Bayern Munich celebrate a 4-0 thrashing over mighty Barcelona in the ﬁrst leg of their Champions League semi-ﬁnal

Heynckes: Bayern extraordinary BAYERN Munich coach Jupp Heynckes insisted he was not surprised by their performance as they thrashed Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League. Heynckes, 67, is on the brink of taking Bayern to their third Champions League ﬁnal in four years after a crushing victory in the Allianz Arena. He said: “We’ve been playing extraordinary football all season. “It was not a really big surprise to me that we scored four goals. We have played to a high level all season.” Heynckes - who will be replaced by former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola at the end of the season - insisted

‘We have played to a high level all season’ before the game that he would not seek any information on Barca from his chosen successor. And it was Bayern who were utterly dominant in front of their own fans, cruising to a deserved win with two goals from Thomas Mueller added to by Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben. Barcelona may have had 63 per cent of possession but were subdued as Bayern restricted them to only four attempts on goal all night. “You have got to analyse the other team and I did

that,” said Heynckes. “How do they play? What is their style? Where do they move? You have got to have something to hold against that and I did that. “I had a powerpoint presentation to show the different ways Barcelona work and move. My team was very tactically disciplined.” Bayern, who last won the Champions League in 2001, are now huge favourites to book a place in next month’s ﬁnal at Wembley. They were beaten on penalties at their own ground by

Chelsea last season, while Jose Mourinho guided Inter Milan to a 2-0 victory over the Germans in 2010. Heynckes said: “My players were fantastic again. Falling short of success in the past two seasons has only made them more hungry for success this year. “We defended so well and in possession we have style of play going forward. We have a lot of creativity and a lot of class and quality. “The fact that we did not concede a goal was very important and the fact we

scored four goals was even nicer for us.” Barcelona’s chances of reaching the ﬁnal look slim at best but Heynckes refused to say the mauling is the end of an era for the great Catalan side. He said: “Barcelona were very strong and they are still one of the best teams in the world. No-one can dispute that. They are one of four strong teams in the Champions League semi-ﬁnals along with Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid. “Barcelona are a fantastic team and that is why you can only rate this victory even more.”

Shell-shocked Barca offer little hope of a reaction By Mark Elkington

Dejected: World Player of the Year Lionel Messi was hardly involved in the game in Munich

EVEN Lionel Messi, so often Barcelona’s saviour, was at a loss to explain how the La Liga leaders could come back from their Champions League semi-ﬁnal mauling in Munich. Barca were thumped 4-0 away by an impressive Bayern Munich in their ﬁrst leg on Tuesday, putting in one of their most toothless displays in recent memory. Yesterday, they were greeted with newspaper headlines such as ‘Historic beating’ in Madrid-based daily Marca, ‘Catastrophe’ in Barcelonabased Mundo Deportivo, and ‘Azulgrana Waterloo’ in daily El Mundo. The Barca players looked dazed and downcast as they spoke to reporters in the mixed zone, and lacked conviction when asked about their chances of turning the result around at the Camp Nou next Wednesday. “They were better than us, they were much stronger. They beat us in everything and were superior,” World Player-of-the-Year Messi told reporters.

“A comeback is difficult, Bayern are a very good team. We have to lift ourselves, try to secure the league title and try to turn this round. If we can’t, we need to start thinking about next season.” Barca could be crowned La Liga champions for the fourth time in five years if they can beat Athletic Bilbao on Saturday, and Real Madrid lose the city derby at Atletico. The Argentine forward has been the outstanding figure in the Barcelona side that won the European Cup in 2009 and 2011, his goals helping them to a sixth consecutive Champions League semifinal, but he was a barely noticed presence in Munich. Messi suffered a hamstring injury against Paris St Germain in the quarter-final first leg, and after making a decisive substitute appearance to help Barca through the second leg two weeks ago, he has not played. While Messi faltered, Barca coach Tito Vilanova’s lack of faith in his alternatives up front was startling. He did not make a substitution until the 83rd minute, bringing on striker David

Villa for Pedro, by which time his side were already 4-0 down. Asked if the side were too reliant on Messi, Dani Alves retorted: “The debate on our ‘Messi-dependency’ only appears when we lose.” Barca have famously shunned talk of a Plan B when their trademark passing game fails to produce the goods, simply saying they need to sharpen and improve Plan A. Looking ahead to the second leg, their only alternatives up front are Cesc Fabregas and little-used winger Cristian Tello. On top of that, is the feeling that the side are running out of steam. Their pressing game high up the pitch has dropped off and the circulation of the ball has lost its zip, in stark contrast to a dynamic and imposing Bayern. “They beat us with their physical ﬁtness,” Barca captain Xavi told reporters. “We have to work a miracle. There are 90 minutes remaining and it is practically impossible, but we have to try because we wear the badge of Barcelona.”

TWO things usually happen when Louis van Gaal coaches a side. The fiery Dutchman invariably gets involved in personality clashes with the directors and he also discovers young talent that other coaches might have missed. His two-year stint at Bayern Munich was no exception. Van Gaal slunk out the back door when he was fired in 2011 after a series of disagreements with the club’s high profile directors, so much so that club president Uli Hoeness recently said that the Dutchman considered himself to be ‘the father of God.’ Yet, Van Gaal, now in charge of the Dutch national team, also left an impressive legacy, harnessing the talents of wingers Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben and turning Bayern into an aggressive, attacking outfit. Possibly his most important contribution, though, was to recognise the potential of forward Thomas Mueller, the architect of Tuesday’s astonishing 4-0 win over Barcelona in the Champions League. Mueller, who scored two goals and was involved in the other two against the stunned Catalans, was expecting to be loaned or transferred from Bayern until Van Gaal turned him into a first-team regular in the 2009-10 season. On the pitch, he does not terrorise opponents with his dribbling in manner of Ribery and Robben, nor does he score goals at the same prolific rate as Mario Gomez and Mario Mandzukic. Instead, Mueller has emphasised that his gift is his understanding of space. “You can reflect about a game as much as you want beforehand, but on the pitch you must rely on your instinct,” he once said in an interview. “There’s sometimes logic in where the ball is going and maybe I simply have the gift for reading it. “I have to find my own ways of being successful. Some things you can learn by training, but sometimes you have a certain instinct, a feel for space. I’m happy I have that capability.” German media have labelled him the ‘Raumdeuter’, which means ‘interpreter of space’ and is a term usually associated with interior design. Bayern lost 4-0 on their last visit to the Camp Nou four years ago, when Mueller was still in Bayern’s youth division, but the 23-year-old was convinced it would not happen again. “I made my contribution. It went very well,” he said of Tuesday’s game. “You’re fired up for a Champions League semi-final. It feels good when it ends like this. “I knew I’d only be able to do a good job if I covered a lot of ground. 4-0 is a dream result. We’ve all witnessed the magic of Camp Nou often enough. But we want to show the world it won’t work on us.”

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Lewandowski scores four as Real humiliated Spanish giants humbled in Dortmund Borussia Dortmund 4 Real Madrid 1 By Karolos Grohmann

Chew on this: Luis Suarez is said to be very disappointed over the severity of his punishment for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic

Liverpool ‘shocked’ after Suarez gets 10-game ban By Martyn Herman LIVERPOOL striker Luis Suarez was handed a 10-match suspension by the Football Association (FA) yesterday following his bite on Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic on Sunday. Suarez accepted a charge of violent conduct after the incident in the 2-2 Premier League draw at Anfield but disputed the FA view that it merited more than a threegame ban. An Independent Regulatory Commission met in London yesterday to decide the Uruguayan international’s fate and added seven games to the usual ban for violent conduct. The suspension begins immediately meaning Liverpool’s leading scorer will miss his side’s last four games of the season and the first six at the beginning of next term. Liverpool, who expressed their shock at the Commission’s decision, have until tomorrow (11:00 GMT) to appeal. “Both the club and player are shocked and disappointed at the severity of today’s Independent Regulatory Commission decision,” Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said in a statement on the club’s website (www.liverpoolfc.com). “We await the written reasons tomorrow (Thursday) before making any further comment.” Suarez’s bite on Ivanovic’s arm at Anfield was missed by referee Kevin Friend but television replays showed him sinking his teeth into the Serbian. The 26-year-old Suarez, who was banned for biting an opponent while with Dutch club Ajax before joining Liverpool in 2011, apologised for the bite after the game and

was fined a reported £200,000 by the club. However, he was widely condemned for his behaviour with some media suggesting he was in danger of being sacked by the club. Former Liverpool player Graeme Souness said Suarez’s latest misdemeanour had left him in the “last chance saloon” although the Mersey side club said this week that they wanted the Uruguayan to see out his four-year contract. The FA said a three-match ban was “clearly insufficient” for the serious nature of the offence. Controversy has followed Suarez since he joined Liverpool, with his antics often overshadowing his impact on the pitch. He served an eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra last season and later angered United manager Sir Alex Ferguson by failing to shake the French defender’s hand before their league match in February last year. He has also been regularly accused of diving to win penalties and free kicks, while in an FA Cup tie this season against minor league Mansfield Town he was again criticised for scoring a goal despite a blatant handball. Until Manchester United forward Robin van Persie’s hat-trick against Aston Villa on Monday that secured the title, Suarez was leading scorer in the league with 23 goals - a record that saw him included on a six-player list for PFA Player of the Year. BBC Match of the Day host Gary Lineker said on Twitter: “Very strong punishment. Vital now that FA are consistently strong on all issues eg racism, abusing refs etc. Also this ridiculous nonsense of ‘if the ref saw it they can’t punish retrospectively’ has to be addressed!”

ORWARD Robert Lewandowski scored a stunning four goals to steer Borussia Dortmund to a 4-1 demolition of Real Madrid in their Champions League semi-final first leg on Wednesday. Dortmund’s dazzling performance comes only a day after Bayern Munich crushed Barcelona 4-0 in the other semi-final first leg to raise the prospect of an all-German match-up in the final at Wembley in May. Poland international Lewandowski, who looks set to leave after refusing to extend his contract past 2014, became the first person to score four goals in a Champions League semifinal, opening his account after eight minutes. The 24-year-old added three more in the second half, including an emphatic penalty, leaving the ninetime European champions badly wounded. Cristiano Ronaldo had equalised just before the break for the Spaniards, who face a monumental task against still undefeated Dortmund in Tuesday’s home second leg. Dortmund, who had beaten Real at home in the group stage, had hoped a surprise July transfer of Mario Goetze to Bayern Munich announced on Tuesday would not distract them. Coach Juergen Klopp had appealed for a great footballing evening and the 62,000 Dortmund fans, angered by the 20-year-old’s decision to join their archrivals in the south, showed restraint when he came onto the pitch. He soon paid them back, curling a superb cross into the box for Lewandowski, who had come close a minute earlier, to tap in after holding off Real’s Pepe for his seventh goal of the Champions League campaign. It took Real more than 20 minutes to curb their opponents’ attacking game and Ronaldo tested keeper

Poland international Robert Lewandowski became the ﬁrst man to score four goals in a Champions League semi-ﬁnal Roman Weidenfeller with a long-range stinging free kick. But they needed a Dortmund mistake to level in the 43rd, seconds after the Germans had demanded a penalty for a challenge on Marco Reus.

MISCUED Central defender Mats Hummels miscued his back pass and Gonzalo Higuain intercepted it and fed unmarked Ronaldo in the box who levelled with his 12th goal of the competition. Ronaldo joins Thierry Henry in fourth place of the Champions League all-time scorers list with his 50th goal. But their joy was shortlived when Lewandowski struck twice in ﬁve minutes

after the break as the onesided trafﬁc resumed. The Pole was picked out by Reus in the 50th minute to score from close range after evading the offside trap and then controlled a Marcel Schmelzer cross to drill in from about 10 metres after some superb skill. He completed a brilliant individual and team performance when he converted a 66th minute spot kick with Real looking wildly out of sorts, much like their Spanish rivals in Munich on Tuesday.