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Hope for slow property sales Forget the Brits and the Russians, it’s the Chinese who are buying up property By Bejay Browne

HINESE buyers are helping to rejuvenate the stagnant property market in Paphos where sales have risen by 25 per cent in recent months, industry professionals say. The once booming Paphos property market, formerly dominated by British buyers, collapsed in 2009 as a result of both the worldwide recession and the title deeds scandal in which buyers who had paid in full for their properties were left years later without possession of ownership documents. The collapse has had a serious knock on effect on the local economy which had long relied on tourism and property sales as an economic mainstay. “There has been a 25 per cent increase in Paphos sales according to recent ofﬁcial statistics and part of this increase is due to the Chinese purchasers,” said George Leptos of the Paphos-based developers the Leptos Group and head of the Paphos Chamber of Commerce (EVE).

Billboards along the main roads of Paphos are now advertising properties for sale in Chinese while developers have been actively targeting the Chinese market for some time. Their perseverance appears to have paid off. “We have various ofﬁces in China and we regularly attend various property exhibitions. All of our sales in recent months have been to Chinese clients,” said Sophia Charalambous of Korantina Homes. She said Chinese clients are keeping the company busy, and are choosing to purchase top end luxury properties. “We have many Chinese clients, mostly business people and families. Most of our clients have a budget of around €1,000,000,” she said. “The British market has almost dried up for us. We have the occasional Russian client but we are mainly working with the Chinese. Next week 12 prospective buyers are arriving and we will see how many make purchases.”

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THE HEALTH Services yesterday warned that a certain batch of Roquefort cheese that may be circulating on the Cypriot market contains serious microbiological contamination. According to the Health Ministry announcement, the health services received a notice from the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) warning about the contamination of the Roquefort AOP cheese, sold under the business name Decasse, weighing 100 grammes from the batch 120466173 and with a 19/11/2012 expiry date. The authorities are working with the veterinary services to carry out intensive checks to establish whether this particular batch has reached the Cypriot market. For purely precautionary reasons until the tests are complete, consumers who may have the product in their possession are urged not to consume it, but return it to the place they bought it from. The ministry will update consumers once the investigation underway is complete, said the announcement.

AKEL: measures don’t have to be so painful Ruling party says there are other ways to reach goal By Stefanos Evripidou THE GOVERNMENT will stress alternative ways than imposing “painful” measures against workers to get out of the current ﬁscal crisis to the troika, said AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou yesterday. He hoped other political forces did not go the opposite way and encourage the international moneylenders to impose tough measures. Speaking after the troika wrapped up its second round of meetings, Kyprianou said the ruling party’s position was that the needs of the state and the banks needed to be looked at separately.

“We clarified to the troika that our demands are to apply to Cyprus what will apply for Spain and possibly Italy and Ireland, in other words direct financing (to the banks) so as not to increase public debt,” he said. The government and troika have agreed to continue discussions via teleconferencing over the coming weeks, after failing to see eye-to-eye on the structural changes needed to clean up state finances. According to reports, the government also disagrees with the troika on how to calculate the recapitalisation needs of the banking system, with the gap between the two ranging from €6 billion up to €11 billion. Add to that the €4.5 billion needed by the state

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to cover its needs for the next two years and the final loan could surpass the €15 billion figure estimated by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. During its meeting with the House Finance Committee on Friday, the troika basically passed on the message that Cyprus can forget about the good life for a while. Troika representatives reportedly told MPs that the recession is here for at least another two years and if measures are not taken, things will get worse. They also reminded deputies that the International Monetary Fund has repeatedly warned Cyprus on the need for structural measures. Regardless of the size of the loan eventually given, Cyprus will have to take “painful” measures to reduce the cost of the civil service and social benefits, the delegates report-

edly said. “We indicated to the troika that there is more than one path to reach your destination. There are various options and we want to discuss those with them,” said Kyprianou. “I hope that all political forces will operate in the same way and we will not have some trying to encourage the troika to impose or propose painful measures,” he said, adding that all forces should reach agreement on how to tackle the economy’s problems in a way that workers do not bear the brunt of measures. Speaking to CyBC yesterday, Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said any measures would have to be discussed with the “social partners” ﬁrst. At the same time, he acknowledged that some small sacriﬁces will necessarily have to be taken for the good of the country.

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CYPRUS TODAY Card fraud FRAUDSTERS spent nearly €5,000 on ‘copy’ credit credits over an eight-day period, it was reported yesterday. An employee of JCC Payment Ltd informed Famagusta CID that between July 12 and 20, fraudsters used 11 credit cards owned by four people in 22 transactions of which only nine were successful. The thieves managed to spend €4,567 while in 13 failed attempts they tried to spend a further €4,896. Police believe the credit cards were used by four British citizens of Turkish origin who they believe may have escaped to the north. The cards were used in a clinic, hotel and for motorbike rentals.

Car arson IT WAS a bad day for cars in Limassol yesterday as five were damaged in two separate incidents in the early hours. At around 2am, one parked car owned by a 50-yearold was damageed after a factory-made firecracker placed between the front bonnet and windshield exploded. Fifteen minutes earlier, at a car park in another area, fire damaged four cars owned by another 50-year-old man. The fire appears to have started on one car and then spread to the others. The blaze was put out by the fire services but not before completely destroying one of the cars.

Armed robbery AN ARMED robber wearing tights over his head took €260 from a bakery in Nicosia in the early hours of yesterday. The man entered the bakery in Strovolos at around 3am wielding a knife, and told the employee to hand over the money. The robber was described as being of thin build, around 1.8m tall and young. He wore a black shirt and trousers, a short woolly hat and tights over his head.

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EDEK backs Lillikas Both sides ‘share the same political positions and goals’ By Stefanos Evripidou PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES for next year’s elections are firmly in the starting blocks waiting for the pistol to fire after EDEK put its support behind independent Giorgos Lillikas yesterday while DIKO chose to forge a path with main opposition party DISY. EDEK’s central committee decided in favour of Lillikas’ candidacy yesterday by an overwhelming majority of 90 votes in favour, four against and nine abstentions. “We believe that Giorgos Lillikas adequately meets the requirements set for a presidential candidate,” said EDEK leader Yiannakis Omirou. Lillikas’ positions on the Cyprus issue, on the necessary reforms of the political system, the economy and society are similar to those of EDEK, he said. He argued that the proposal of EDEK’s political office to support Lillikas was “not a proposal of necessity but of political choice”. Meanwhile, DIKO’s central committee yesterday adopted the proposal of its secretariat to continue consultations with main opposition party DISY and the parties of the “in-between space” to form a new power bloc. DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, the party’s candidate for next February’s elections, will be happy to hear that earlier collaboration between DISY and DIKO during the Nicosia

mayoral elections appears to have paid off. DISY is also in negotiations with EVROKO, believed to be split between support for Anastasiades and Lillikas. DIKO spokesman Fotis Fotiou said the leadership got the go-ahead to continue dialogue with DISY, EVROKO and the Greens to form a coalition “based on the strategy of national consensus and unity”. The decision was taken with 90 votes in favour of the secretariat’s proposal, eight against and three abstentions. Speaking earlier to the central committee, party leader Marios Garoyian said the secretariat had ruled out any collaboration with AKEL, thereby rejecting the candidacy of health minister Stavros Malas. Lillikas’ candidacy leads to further fragmentation of political forces and goes counter to the goal of pursuing a broad and powerful coalition of forces, he argued, accusing Lillikas of “opportunism”. As a result, the decision was taken to pursue dialogue and a common election manifesto with DISY based on national unity and salvation. “Dialogue must conclude at the latest by early September,” he said. If the two parties fail to reach agreement, then DIKO has the choice of going it alone, added Garoyian. Commenting on EDEK’s decision, Lillikas thanked the socialist movement, saying EDEK has proved that it

Giorgos Lillikas: “not a proposal of necessity but of political choice” places the country’s interests above party considerations. “EDEK’s decision increases my responsibilities and obligations,” said Lillikas. In a dig at Garoyian, the former minister said of his new relationship with EDEK: “Our cooperation is not based on hidden agendas or anachronistic exchanges. It is based on shared political positions and goals.” Lillikas further questioned how to reconcile those DIKO members who are against an Annan-type peace plan for Cyprus with the positions of

Anastasiades who voted in favour of the Annan plan in 2004. AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said yesterday his party’s candidate Malas “has proved in a short period of time at the health ministry that he is an extremely good and capable politician”, adding that he has “radical approaches on how the country can move forward”. Speaking on the same subject, Malas said he was conﬁdent the support of the centre left forces would get him through to the second round of elections next February.

On the economic crisis facing the country, he said certain measures would have to be taken to secure a shortterm loan but that austerity measures alone will not solve Cyprus’ problems. “We’ll need to ﬁnd solutions for economic growth, and a country like Cyprus with a small economy and many possibilities for economic growth needs to pursue those choices and not lead the country to complete economic stagnation with the measures currently being discussed,” he said.

Security beefed up at ports and airports over Israeli fears POLICE ARE taking heightened measures against potential terrorist attacks on Israeli interests at ports, airports and any other places deemed necessary, said police spokesman Andreas Angelides yesterday. Asked to comment on reports that police have beefed up their presence at Larnaca port where cruise ships carrying Israeli tourists docked, Angelides said: “Police are taking increased security measures in various locations like ports, airports, places where there are Israeli interests and any other areas deemed necessary.” He added: “Where information is made available, it is investigated immediately and thoroughly and in cases where deemed necessary, persons considered

suspect based on that information are questioned and checked.” According to online news site Sigmalive.com, police chief Michalis Papageorgiou chaired a meeting at police headquarters to assess information from Israel regarding the safety of Israeli tourists. A team dealing with terrorism issues is reportedly going through surveillance camera footage from the ports and airports looking for potential suspects believed to belong to terrorist organisations. Police are on heightened alert after a suicide bus bombing in the Bulgarian city of Burgas on July 18, killed seven people, ﬁve of them Israelis. The Jewish state has blamed the attack on Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah, and

Iran, which has denied any involvement. Meanwhile, a Swedish national of Lebanese descent arrested on suspicion of plotting to attack Israeli tourists in Cyprus will stand trial on September 12 in Limassol, facing nine charges of securityrelated offences. The man is accused of tracking the movements and areas frequented by Israeli visitors to the island. He was arrested on July 7 as a suspected security threat. Cypriot authorities have acknowledged the suspect showed behavioural patterns similar to the incident in Burgas, in which the attacker waited for Israeli holidaymakers to board a bus at an airport before detonating a backpack of explosives.

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Hope for a dormant market Chinese buyers offer some solace to Paphos’ property woes

veyors) said that the latest figures were far less impressive when put into context. “Whilst it is correct to say that there has been an increase in property sales in Paphos since 2010, very few transactions actually occur every month and so when these figures are turned into percentages terms the increase appears greater than it actually is.” While Loizou said he couldn’t specify if Chinese buyers were purchasing properties in Paphos, he noted that in March only 90 properties were sold in Paphos, 36 of them to foreign buyers. In April the figure dropped to 84, 36 of them to foreign purchasers. In May, sales reached 165, 82 of them to non Cypriots.

(continued from front page) The property professional added that even though China was a ‘new’ market, it wasn’t a ‘phenomenon’ as such, as investors from China should be expected in Cyprus. “China has a large population and has a rich economy. It’s doing better than a lot of other countries,” she said.

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ECONOMIC LINKS House sales in Paphos are just one example of the stronger economic links between Cyprus and China. The Chinese company, Far Eastern Phoenix, is eager to lease the old Larnaca airport from the government to turn it into an exhibition space. On Friday Communication and Works Minister Efthymios Flourentzou said an oral agreement had been reached over terms, but a written agreement was still needed. China was also one of the countries approached to provide a loan to the government before it was forced to go the EU for a bailout in June. Charalambous said that most of the developers in Paphos are dealing with the Chinese market and that the deﬁnite upward trend in Paphos property sales was due to the Chinese. George Leptos was equally optimistic. “Generally there are good prospects re-

A Chinese family attending a property fair in Beijing last year garding this market and it should be explored further,” he said. The Leptos Group has participated in exhibitions, generated Chinese business contacts and undertaken product promotion in China. Leptos said that the company’s Chinese clients are interested in ready or almost ready properties, of a value ranging from

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€300,000 to €800,000. As non-European nationals, prospective Chinese buyers need to make a minimum property purchase of €300,000, and prove they are of an adequate financial status to stay in Cyprus. “The Chinese as well all other non-European property buyers are entitled to apply for and receive a permanent residency permit for themselves and their family, providing that they fulfill certain pre-specified standard conditions,” said Leptos. “Once the permit is obtained, they can reside in Cyprus for as long as they own the property. They become what I would call ‘permanent tourists’.” While Chinese buyers are apparently boosting sales in a depressed market, Pavlos Loizou, board member of RICS Cyprus (the Royal Institution of Chartered Sur-

“Paphos was the first town to experience a fall in sales as well as the largest decrease in sales, but it is beginning to stabilise, whilst other towns are still falling. You could say that Paphos hit the bottom first.” Paphos has been most affected by the property slump in Cyprus because it had a far greater reliance on foreign purchasers and now has the highest number of completed units which remain unsold. But the decline in sales was also due to the title deeds fiasco. Commonly in Cyprus, developers take out mortgages on land or property, the liability for which may then be placed on the purchaser of a property on that development, if the developer or landowner becomes bankrupt. It also meant title deeds were held by the bank who granted the mortgage. After years of outcry by misled owners, in 2011 the government introduced a ‘specific performance law’ which grants a contract of sale precedence over any pre-existing mortgage. Even so, buyers should still purchase a property with a title deed to ensure a buyer is protected from the numerous pitfalls; this will also enable the resale of the property without encountering any problems over ownership. However, according to Korantina Homes, their Chinese clients are purchasing a mixture of properties, some off plan, some with title deeds and some where the deeds are “almost ready”.

Enraged motorist attacks officer A 28-YEAR old motorist was arrested on Friday night in Nicosia after allegedly hitting a police officer who had moments earlier booked him for not wearing a seatbelt. He is now being investigated in connection with charges of causing grievous bodily harm against an officer on duty. At around 10pm, the police officer stopped the 28-year-old motorist to check his car. According to police, the driver began to shout and protest after getting booked for traffic violations. Police spokesman Andreas Angelides said despite the provocative reaction, the police officer “showed patience, without creating any tension”. The police officer then rode away on his motorcycle, reaching a set of traffic lights on Ayios Georgios road. At this point, the 28-year-old reportedly also drove in the same direction, crashing into the officer, who fell to the ground on impact. The officer proceeded to arrest the motorist, who continued to swear and resist arrest, forcing the officer to use “proportionate force” said Angelides. Both men were taken to the accident and emergency ward of the Nicosia general hospital where the police officer received treatment for friction burns on his left forearm and bloody abrasions on his left leg. The 28-year-old was diagnosed with a fractured arm and was kept in for observation. Angelides described the 28-year-old’s actions as “unjustifiable”.

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A brooch fit for a queen Local jeweller in bid for diamond jubilee By Zoe Christodoulides LOCAL designer Marcus Platrides is putting his artistic skills to the test in an attempt to create a winning jubilee brooch to be handed over to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. To celebrate the queen’s diamond jubilee this year, the British Jewellers’ Association (BJA) recently announced a prestigious competition for a brooch design that will be gifted to the queen. Open to all members of the BJA, members have been encouraged to design a piece that embraces the theme of the ‘Graceful Modernisation of the Monarchy’. With Marcus’ Etherial jewellery brand standing as the only Cypriot member of the BJA, the designer set about creating something special. “I felt that it was a very interesting challenge to do something like this,” he explains. Established in 2006, Etherial specialises in high quality bold and unique designs, with all custom made pieces fashioned from pure silver encrusted with semi precious stones. Usually boasting an offbeat and rocky edge, Ethe-

rial have been approached and sold jewellery to British celebrity footballers including Liverpool’s Djibril Cisse and Top Shop Tycoon heiress Chloe Green. They now have many resellers in Europe, the USA and the Middle East. For the prestigious BJA competition, designers are encouraged to be inspired by the queen’s 60 year reign through many formative and historically significant eras. The brooch is to be made primarily in platinum and small quantities of gold donated by mines across Britain. In its first ever attempt at a BJA competition, Etherial has adopted a bold and daring scientific approach. “The 60th anniversary of the Queen’s reign, marks a major milestone not only in the remarkable life of a monarch but also what some may claim to be the greatest discovery of all time: the discovery of the Higgs Boson by a team of theoretical physicists led by yet another Briton, Peter Higgs,” says Marcus. The elementary subatomic particle is believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.

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The brooch design includes a platinum wire mesh inspired by images of particle collision at light speed taking place inside the Large Hadron Collider. Then there’s six platinum concentric circles each representing a decade of the queen’s reign encrusted with ten diamonds symbolising the ‘rings of time’ and

Marcus with Etherial jewellery fan, footballer Djibril Cisse four gold interlocking semicircles representing the union of the four countries which make up the United Kingdom. Upon each semi-circle is encrusted a different colour diamond to represent the four ﬂowers of the UK (red, green, yellow and lilac). Ten ﬁnalists for the com-

petition will be chosen at the start of August while shortlisted designs will then be shown and voted for via the BJA website and at the BJA stand during the International Jewellery London event in September. The winner will be announced at the show on the last day at lunchtime. The winning

brooch will be gifted to the queen after being displayed at a BJA event at the House of Commons in November. Photos of the brooches will not be available until then. “I have really high hopes for this competition,” says Marcus. “I believe we will deﬁnitely be one of the ﬁnalists.”

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Paradise found, paradise lost Expats buying their dream home in the sun and the politics of living on occupied land are just two of the themes of a topical new play By Zoe Christodoulides T’S OFTEN said there’s no place like home. But what really makes somewhere your own? And all too often one person’s dream location can be another’s nightmare. A Slight Risk is a new play by the Fresh Target Theatre Ensemble which attempts to dig deep into the psyche of a seemingly trouble free British couple who’ve set up base under the Cyprus sun. The only problem is their dream home is located in the north, on Greek Cypriot-owned land. Inspired by the infamous Orams case that saw a British couple sued by the Greek Cypriot Meletios Apostolides for building a house on his land in occupied Lapithos, scriptwriter and director Paris Erotokritou was also stirred by the George Seferis poem entitled On the Outskirts of Kyrenia. The poem centres on a dialogue between two ladies, one of whom sees Cyprus as paradise, while the other, undergoing an existentialist crisis, feels like she’s heading toward a dead end. The writer was also moti-

vated by a visit to the village of Karmi in the Kyrenia district which his grandfather had often spoken about with great nostalgia. “When I actually went there I was struck by the fact that it’s ﬁlled with the likes of English, Germans and Belgians living in beautifully renovated old houses; the whole place has a distinctly foreign feel,” recalls Paris. “But something didn’t sit well when I saw people leading their lives in perfect houses on land that witnessed a barbaric history.” Unwilling to take sides, he used the play as a chance to approach the subject of ‘home’ from an alternative angle. “The point is to focus on the personal story that people hold inside them rather than critically taking on an oppositional stance from the outside,” explains the playwright. The play isn’t trying to come up with the right answers, but instead, provoke a series of sharp questions. “This isn’t a propaganda piece,” he is keen to point out. “It’s certainly not about saying ‘we’re good’ and ‘they’re bad’.” Set in Kyrenia during the three days of the 2004 Annan

Paris Erotokritou: exploring the themes of home and ownership referendum, one of the main undercurrents throughout the piece looks at what can happen between a couple when one sees life in a new place as a paradise and a fresh opportunity for their relationship, but in contrast, the other feels trapped. Exposing the strong ties of the English to home and property-ownership, it bursts open the clichés of the tanned, moneyed, middle-aged expat. And hanging over all this, is the exploitative relationships and politics hiding in the brick and mortar of a house in the northern part of Cyprus.

The legal, political and human rights dimension acts as a backdrop to a personal crisis between the couple in question rather than the focus of the play. Largely based on ﬁctional elements, the real crunch is centred on what happens to this couple who have invested in an idyllic location when someone unexpectedly comes and claims the land as their own. The visit threatens not just their property, but the fragile foundations of their relationship. “The story starts with the court order and ﬁnishes af-

ter two days,” says Paris. The Annan plan adds another topical layer with day one set before the referendum, day two unfolding on the day of the referendum, and it all culminating in day three played out directly after the referendum. Intent on seeing to every detail in a believable fashion, the set will see the erection of the skeleton of a house designed by Socratis Socratous giving a temporary makeshift feel to the home. The innovative play will be presented at the Skali Aglandjia Amphitheatre in Nicosia on October 3 and 4 within the framework of the Kypria International Festival. Featuring a star cast largely comprised of British actors it will include Pip Utton - who previously impressed local crowds in the role of Hitler in Adolf - as well as the talented Angela Walsh, Daphne Alexander, Patrick Myles, Alkis Kritikos and Lefteris Zabetakis. It will be performed in English with Greek surtitles on a screen. Paris opted to immerse

himself in the life of the characters in every sense of the word with his research involving ﬁeld trips and many chats with foreign couples who have set up base on the island about their experiences. “The play will be successful if it poses a number of questions to a number of people,” concludes Paris. “There’s an overriding opinion that Cyprus is a summer holiday paradise. I wanted to show that it’s not always the case, it can also be a ‘paradise lost’.” A Slight Risk by the Fresh Target Theatre Ensemble, written and directed by Paris Erotokritou. October 3 and 4. Skali Aglandjia Amphitheatre, Nicosia. In English with Greek surtitles. www. facebook.com/freshtarget In an attempt to raise the necessary funds for the play, the Fresh Target Theatre Ensemble have created a special website with an informative video about the show. To donate money and receive various rewards visit: www.indiegogo.com/ aslightrisk

Police warn over ATM scams POLICE are warning the public to be careful of devices such as cameras used on ATMs to copy credit card information and then use it abroad. According to police spokesman Andreas Angelides, it mainly takes place with small cameras placed on the ATM. The scammers watch the ATM and when the camera has recorded the data they take it off. Angelides said that customers should cover the keyboard on the ATM with their hand while punching in the pin in order to protect their information. Added protection will be if customers change their pin regularly, he said. After the information is stolen from the card the scammers then use the information abroad some months later, police said, adding that it was imperative that people checked their bank accounts regularly. Angelides also said a lot of credit card scams take place in the summer, however he did reassure that the police can spot cameras on ATMs a lot easier during the summer as the glue used to secure them weakens. Anyone who has used an ATM and then notices anything suspicious should contact their nearest police station, the Citizen’s Line on 1460, or call 112 or 199.

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A celebration of all things Latin Twenty one years ago a radio show helped kickstart our love affair with Latin music IN Cyprus, we may be best-known for our penchant for meat-fest barbeques, Zivania, and some pretty poor parking skills, but what the outside world - and maybe even some people closer to home - would be surprised to learn is that people on this tiny island also have a rather soft spot for all things Latin, especially Latin music. Every Sunday afternoon for over two decades now, state television and radio channel Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) has entertained listeners of its Third Radio Channel to two hours of Spanish-speaking broadcasting and the latest Latin tunes, with its show Viva La Musica which was the ﬁrst radio programme on air in Cyprus fully in Spanish. Twenty-one years on and this Latin craze is still going strong with the presence of at least two Latin American telenovelas per terrestrial channel, all avidly followed by viewers intrigued with the twists and turns of “Cinderella” type stories and their happy ever after endings. As with most things Latin, Viva La Musica is a bit of a family affair. It went on the airwaves 21 years ago with Louiza Anastasiou, whose brainchild the show was - and later her sister Alexia on the mike. Both of them were fresh from an adolescence spent soaking up the Latin vibes in far-ﬂung Uruguay, brimming with the energy and enthusiasm of Latin America and its music and dance. “It was when we returned from Latin

America, enthusiastic and in love with Latin music and the Latin atmosphere. We started doing Latin parties. Back then dance schools were involved with Latin, but not like now. It wasn’t in vogue then, unlike now,” says Alexia. Bright and bubbly, the pint-sized Alexia who compiles and presents the show today often with her husband, Argentine DJ Javier - told The Sunday Mail: “We lived in Uruguay for eight years - feeling the music and dancing of Latin America - and we wanted a way to express this here in Cyprus.” Starting off in its ﬁrst year as a mix of Latin and 80s genre music, it quickly became exclusively Latin in response to listener demand and the support of the then director of CyBC Radio 3 programmes, Giorgos Kotsonis. Alexia believes that this was mainly down to the explosion of Latin telenovelas on Cypriot terrestrial television. “Telenovelas helped a lot to embrace the show. Back then when Viva La Musica started, Spanish-language TV series’ weren’t dubbed as they are today. Cypriots would watch and they started learning Spanish.” Listeners of the show are Spanish speaking expats, Cypriots, fans of all things Latin and Spanish speaking students, eager to hear the latest music news from Latin America, new music releases and send out their own song requests. “We get listeners sending in messages written in Spanish - both from Cypriots and

Alexia Anastasiou on air every Sunday

Latin Americans or Spaniards. The Cypriots do this to practise their Spanish, so it’s like a lesson too, and you see how they progress over the years!” Another fact is the growing Latin American and Spanish-speaking community here on the island. Many of these additions to the Cypriot social fabric are former UN peacekeepers from the Argentine contingent - made up of troops from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil, who met local women and decided to marry and settle in Cyprus. Putting the rhythms of Salsa, Bachata, Cumbia and Reggaeton aside, the show is also a voice for this community, to share their country’s traditions and culture. “We have various guests on the show - including bands or dance troupes visiting

the island for performances, and at Easter for example, we invited Latin Americans hailing from across the continent to come and share different snippets of information about their country and talk about their traditions.” To celebrate Viva La Musica’s 21 years on the air, next Sunday, August 5, there will be a live-link with CyBC Radio 3 in Nicosia from Fat Tuesdays at Mackenzie beach in Larnaca from 5.00 p.m., packed with Latin music featuring Alexia Anastasiou and DJ Javier and friends of the show, dance shows with Caliente Dance Studio, competitions, games on the beach and other surprises. Viva La Musica with Alexia Anastasiou: on air 6-8pm every Sunday on CyBC Radio 3, transmitting on 94.0 and 94.8 FM.

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A Greek Cypriot life kept alive in London British Cypriots look forward to free Orthodox school By Poly Pantelides

OR THE ﬁrst time in Britain, a free state Greek Orthodox secondary school has been given the go-ahead to open its doors in September next year, aiming to meet high academic standards while providing the Cypriot community in the UK with a strong Orthodox element within school. “St Andrew the Apostle is based on the Christian faith and moral principles of the Greek Orthodox church, and we are delighted to be working with the Russell education trust (RET) to establish a school with the very highest academic standards,” said the chairman of the classical education trust (CET), Yiannis Pareas. The school will serve students aged 11 to 19. There are around 300,000 UK citizens of Cypriot descent living in England with the vast majority based in London, but the opportunity for a freely available

Archbishop Gregorios talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and local MP David Burrowes, about the new St Andrew the Apostle Greek Free School Greek Orthodox education has long been lacking. With the opening of St Andrew the Apostle, parents in north London, at least, will be given the chance to send their children to an Orthodox Christian faith school focusing on modern languages, maths, sciences, and the classics. The school is funded by the

government, as part of the Conservative government’s free schools initiative, which saw the ﬁrst schools open in September 2011. Groups - parents, teachers, charities - can propose and establish schools to suit their goals and needs. In September 2011, 24 free schools opened, around 50 are due to open this September,

and the department of education lists 102 approved for a 2013 opening, including St Andrew. Successful applications convince the government of a sound financial and academic plan, sufficient local demand, and professional backing. Because St Andrew the Apostle, though a statefunded free school, is also a school of religious designation it can reserve 50 per cent of its intake first for students of the Greek orthodox faith and then for students of other faiths. The remaining spaces will be determined based on applicants’ distance from school: residents who live the closest to school will have priority. As a free, state-sponsored school the language of instruction is in English. The school is allowed to offer Modern Greek and the classics as part of the government’s statutory curriculum. For a large proportion of the Greek Cypriot community in Britain, developing a reasonable level of fluency in Greek becomes increasingly difficult for the children and grand-children of the original immigrants. Pareas acknowledges that and hopes that at some point the school will be able to offer extra Greek classes. “If it can be stretched to include classes for adults, we should be trying to do that too. It is up to the community and the school governing body if these could be done,” he said. “The priority at the moment is to set up the school - everything else will come with time, patience and determination.” Although the idea of a Greek school had floated about the community for a while, it was the launching of the free schools initiative that instilled some necessary focus. Pareas happened to attend an event a couple of years ago where he got chatting to Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain, who said he would support a Greek faith school. “So we decided to start something,” Pareas said and soon formed CET, the classical education trust, and a week later Pareas went to a conference on free schools. One of the academic sponsors with the experience to help was RET, the Russell Education Trust, which helped the CET put together an application which would convince the state there was both will and demand for St Andrew the Apostle. The RET, which specialises in secondary education, has been successful in opening free schools, including the largest in 2011 in Bristol and the largest one due to open this year, the Becket Keys church of England school in Essex. “Our involvement is permanent,” RET’s chief executive, Karen Lynch said, She added that with the application out of the way, they now needed to help recruit resources, get the right

School will focus on Greek Cypriot traditions staff, finalise the site of the school (probably in Enfield), and “operate the school for the community”. As expected of a faith school, children will be encouraged to attend their church and there will be a religious flavour to assemblies as well as collective worship. But Lynch said that students from all faiths or none are welcome and religious teaching will include all major religions.

‘British Cypriots hold values and traditions more strongly than they do in Cyprus’ “We will make sure that children have a good understanding of all major faiths,” Lynch said. “Because of its traditional emphasis on good behaviour, good discipline, respect for family, high work and high standards,” the school has already been attracting non-faith or other faith families including Muslim and Sikh families, Lynch said. Many parents have wanted a high calibre school and “a number of them felt they could only get by getting in the independent sector,” Lynch said. Pareas said that it took them a couple of years to get the application just right but the enthusiasm from the north London Greek Cypriot community as well as the feedback they received,

alongside with RET’s help enabled them to put together a “fantastic application”. “It will be the hub for the community: there’ll be Greek concerts, inviting people from abroad to talk about Greek culture and tradition… holding of school activities, the whole community will come together because of that,” Pareas said. Already, a teenager on social media site twitter said her “yiayia” – i.e. her grandmother – wants her to move to St Andrew and a man tweeted that his daughter was asking what colour her uniform would be. And because in its first year, the school will only admit the bottom year, year 7, rather than open admissions for all years, it will grow as those first students are growing. Lynch said that they have seen students in their Bristol school take responsibility for the school. “You build [the school] from the bottom,” she said. The first intake should be 150 students spread over six classes. Lynch said. And though it may welcome all faiths and races, the school’s “soul… is the Greek orthodox faith,” Pareas said. “British Cypriots hold values and traditions more strongly than they do in Cyprus.” “We still do the traditional Greek dances,” Pareas said by way of example. “Holding on to the Greek identity: this is why we need [the school],” he said. To find out more about the school and express an interest for a 2013 entry please visit http://www.standrewtheapostle.org.uk and visit http://www.russelleducationtrust.org.uk/ to find out more about the RET. For more information on free schools visit http://www.education.gov.uk/

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Helicopters pounding US is blamed for failure to secure rebel-held Aleppo area arms agreement Onslaught on Syria’s largest city resumes By Erika Solomon MILITARY helicopters pounded a rebel-held district of Aleppo yesterday and armoured units positioned themselves for an onslaught that could determine the fate of Syria’s biggest city, opposition sources said. Turkey, once a friend but now a ﬁerce critic of the Syrian government, joined growing diplomatic pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, calling for international steps to deal with the military build-up. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group which collects information on the 16-month-old uprising against Assad, reported helicopter attacks on the central Salaheddine district of Aleppo and ﬁghting else-

A Free Syrian Army ﬁghter looks out from the window of the burnt Shaar district police station in Aleppo on July 25, 2012 (AFP) where in the city. “Helicopters are participating in clashes at the entrance of Salaheddine district and bombarding it,” the group said in an emailed statement. “There are also violent clashes at the entrances to Sakhour district.” One opposition activist said he had seen Syrian tanks and armoured carriers heading for Salaheddine.

The battle for the city of 2.5 million people is seen as a crucial test for a government that has committed major military resources to retaining control of its two main power centres, Aleppo and the capital Damascus, in the face of a growing insurgency. While neither side has managed to gain the upper hand, the outcome of the uprising is being watched anxiously in

the region and beyond, amid fears that sectarian unrest could spread to volatile neighbouring countries. Three rebel ﬁghters were killed in clashes before dawn yesterday in Aleppo, the Observatory said. It said 160 people were reported killed in Syria on Friday, adding to an overall death toll of around 18,000 since the uprising began.

MEMBER states failed to reach agreement on a new UN treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade, and some diplomats and supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unravelling of the monthlong negotiating conference. Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some major loopholes by Friday’s deadline for action. But the US announced Friday morning it needed more time to consider the proposed treaty - and Russia and China then also asked for more time. “This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the ﬁnish line,” said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA. “It’s a staggering abdication of leadership by the world’s largest exporter of conventional weapons to pull the plug on the talks just as they were nearing an historic breakthrough.” A Western diplomat also blamed the US, saying “they

derailed the process”, adding that nothing will happen to revive negotiations until after the US presidential election in November. Chief US negotiator Thomas Countryman refused to talk to several dozen reporters when the meeting broke up. The draft treaty would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms and to regulate arms brokers. It would prohibit states that ratify the treaty from transferring conventional weapons if they would violate arms embargoes or if they would promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. In considering whether to authorise the export of arms, the draft says a country must evaluate whether the weapon would be used to violate international human rights or humanitarian laws or be used by terrorists, organised crime or for corrupt practices. Many countries, including the US, control arms exports but there has never been an international treaty regulating the estimated 60 billion US dollar (£38 billion) global arms trade.

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World China calls off project after violent protests CHINESE officials cancelled an industrial waste pipeline project yesterday after anti-pollution demonstrators occupied a government office in eastern China, destroying computers and overturning cars. The demonstration was the latest in a string of protests sparked by fears of environmental degradation and highlights the social tensions the government in Beijing faces as it approaches a leadership transition this year. It was also the second cancellation of an industrial project this month, as officials buckle under pressure from protests. Zhang Guohua, city mayor of the eastern China city of Nantong, said the city would terminate the planned pipeline that would have emptied waste water from a Japaneseowned paper factory into the sea near Qidong. The decision came hours after about 1,000 protesters marched through the city of Qidong, about one hour north of Shanghai, shouting slogans against the pipeline. Several protesters entered the city government’s HQ where they smashed computers, overturned desks and threw documents out the windows.

Osborne hails confirmation of UK’s AAA rating Verdict said to show ‘confidence’ in econ By James Tapsfield and Tom Lawrence GEORGE Osborne has hailed confirmation of Britain’s gold-plated AAA credit rating by a key agency. Britain’s Chancellor said the verdict from Standard & Poor’s showed the “world has confidence” in the coalition’s economic policies. The news is a boost to Osborne after dire GDP figures prompted heavy criticism of his performance and the British government’s austerity measures. S&P said its outlook for the UK’s coveted rating was stable and predicted the economy would pick up in the coming months. “We project that despite recent weakness, the UK economy should begin to recover in the second half of 2012 and steadily strengthen, and we expect economic policy to continue focusing on closing the fiscal gap,”

the agency said in a statement yesterday. “In our view, monetary flexibility remains a key credit strength owing to the British pound sterling’s role as a global reserve currency.” S&P said its stable outlook for the rating reflected its “expectation that the UK Government will implement the bulk of its fiscal consolidation programme and that the economy should recover in the remainder of 2012 and strengthen thereafter”. But it added: “We could lower the ratings in particular if the pace and extent of fiscal consolidation slows beyond what we currently expect.” Osborne said: “As Britain welcomes the world to our country for the Olympic Games, this is a reminder that despite the economic problems we face, the world has confidence that we are dealing with them. “The deficit has fallen by a

quarter; inflation has fallen by half; employment is rising, with British businesses creating over 800,000 new jobs; and the economy is rebalancing, with Britain now exporting more to the rest of the world than Europe. “And as S&P themselves say, what would damage Britain’s creditworthiness would be relaxing our resolve to deal with our debts. We won’t do that.” Woeful growth figures released this week showed the UK economy sliding deeper into recession with a 0.7 per cent fall in GDP between April and June. The statistics prompted coalition opponents to call for a change in course from the “failing plan” to revive growth, while some Tories called for Mr Osborne to be replaced as Chancellor. But Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the Government would “finish the job” of getting Britain’s debt under control.

S&P’s credit verdict is a boost to Osborne after dire GDP ﬁgures prompted heavy criticism of his performance and the UK government’s austerity measures

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Britain hopes for tourist boost Cashing in on the Olympics is no easy task, but tourism officials are optimistic By Belinda Goldsmith BRITISH tourism chiefs hope the Olympics and a global advertising campaign will entice more overseas visitors by 2015 and more than compensate for any short-term losses as the country tries to dig out from a double-dip recession. Tourism Minister John Penrose said the 2012 Olympics had given Britain the chance to re-establish itself as a top destination after a drop in the number of tourist and business visitors over the past ﬁve years. “This is a tremendous opportunity to get people interested in coming here next year and the year after that,” Penrose said this week. “We have a pretty good tourism market but we’re very conscious that this is not a static position. We need to come up with new and exciting reasons for people to come to Britain ... and it would be great to slay an old myth about British food.” Critics have questioned whether Britain should be spending nine billion pounds on the Olympics when the economy is in dire straits. Economists have mixed views on what impact the Games will have on the economy, especially as previous Olympic hosts have found cashing in on the Olympics is no easy task. Cost overruns and expensive maintenance of huge but rarely used venues have long been

The Olympic ﬂame sails past Tower Bridge, a major London tourist attraction a ﬁnancial burden for host cities, with many venues in Athens abandoned since the 2004 Games. Organisers of Sydney 2000, one of the most successful modern Games, admit they did not plan carefully enough how to capitalise on the Games after the event was over and did not get the post-Olympic tourist bonanza it had hoped for. Sadie Dawe, chief executive of national tourism agency VisitBritain, said tourist numbers usually fell in an Olympic year but Britain posted a surprising 7 per cent rise in visitors between January and May 2012. The landlord of large parts of London’s tour-

ist district, the West End, said locals scared off by dire warnings of road and train chaos would likely cancel out any revenue boost from increased foreign visitors during the Games. Brian Bickell, chief executive of Shaftesbury, which owns 330 shops and 217 restaurants, bars and cafes across areas like Chinatown, Covent Garden and Soho, said the transport warnings would convince many locals to stay at home. “For weeks we’ve had stories of where to avoid, which potentially puts up a barrier in people’s minds that parts of London are nogo zones,” Bickell told Reuters on Thursday. “People won’t go to the theatre if they are

worried about getting back home afterwards.” Penrose played down suggestions that the Olympics could drag Britain out of its recession but he said such a major event could boost confidence in the country. “We plan to maximise the possibilities that the Olympics will create,” said Penrose. British Prime Minister David Cameron, under pressure to turn the economy around, has used the Olympics to drum up business with a series of trade and investment events which started on Thursday. Figures on Wednesday showed the economy shrank by 0.7 per cent between April and June, worse than the predicted 0.2 per cent decline. Dawe said a 35-million-pound advertising campaign was being rolled out in 21 countries over 18 months, including in the growth markets of China, India and Brazil. Organisers are hoping the campaign, which is Britain’s biggest international tourism drive, could increase visitor numbers to about 35 million in 2015 from an estimated 30.7 million this year, which would mean a 20.3-billionpound injection for the British economy. Britain had a record 32.7 million visitors in 2007. “We are looking at recovering some of the market we lost during the credit crunch and building on it,” said Dawe. Last year’s royal wedding, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June and now the Olympics had put the international spotlight on Britain, Dawe said. “Billions around the world will watch the Olympics and we aim to benefit from this massive global exposure,” she said. Richard Dickinson, chief executive of the New West End Company, which represents more than 600 retailers, property owners and businesses in central London, expected the revenue benefit of the Games to be “very positive” over the long term.

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Opinion ‘Social cohesion’ is code for obeying union diktats THE SAME script we witnessed during the ﬁrst visit of the troika unfolded during its second coming in the past week. Once again the troika’s representatives met the government negotiating team, central bank ofﬁcials, party leaders, employers’ representatives and union bosses. And once again we heard the union bosses talking about their red lines, only this time they also issued threats of strike action and dynamic resistance to austerity measures targeting the workers. After last week’s meetings everyone had a better idea of the measures the troika was considering, which is why the public reaction has been much more vociferous and included the bizarre threat of ‘dynamic measures’. Who would such measures punish? Our union bosses must have taken leave of their senses if they think IMF, ECB or the European Commission could be blackmailed by the threat of strike action in Cyprus. The EU presidency may suffer and the Cyprus economy would come to a standstill if our civil

servants go on strike, but we doubt the troika would be too bothered. The government is indirectly endorsing the irrational reaction of the union bosses, as its negotiating team opposes austerity measures. The AKEL leadership told the troika, during their Wednesday meeting it rejected the suggestions for suspension of payment of 13th salaries, the extension of the retirement age and the abolition of CoLA because social cohesion must be maintained; ‘social cohesion’ is code for obeying union diktats. President Christofias reportedly said the same in Thursday’s meeting with the troika, arguing that measures should combine fiscal discipline with development spending and social cohesion, because austerity was proven not to work. It truly defies belief that the government camp is under the illusion that the lenders are here to finance the economy’s development. Perhaps it is not and is merely engaging in its customary propaganda techniques, to fool people into thinking

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that there was an alternative to the proposed austerity package, but that the evil troika ﬂatly refused to consider our caring government’s no-pain remedies. This obsession with misinformation rhetoric when the country is sinking deeper into chaos every day is truly alarming and indicative of the government’s irresponsibility. The latest diversion tactics are the calls for wealth to contribute to the tackling of the crisis. This point, reportedly made by the government’s negotiating team at its meetings with the troika, was being repeated by the union bosses while government mouthpiece Haravghi trumpeted that measures should target wealth. The devious implication was that the troika was opposed to targeting wealth and was intent on making the poor government workers pay for the crisis. Yet anyone capable of rational thinking

knows that targeting wealth would raise nowhere near the annual loan repayment amount. And if the government proposed it, we are sure the troika would have no objection to wealth making a contribution through an increase of the corporate tax, but is this what we want? How much better off would the economy be with a corporate tax of 50 per cent that might raise an extra few tens of millions from Cypriot companies and drive away all foreign businesses? State revenue would fall rather than rise as a result of such a measure. And we could not impose a tax rate of 60 per cent on incomes above €60,000 per year, as the unions of the wealthy public employees would be up in arms, because social cohesion would be at risk. These silly publicity games must stop and the government should for once act professionally and take responsibility for the situation instead of offering scapegoats to the public. It should accept that the troika is here because we asked for

its help, because the banking sector is in a deep crisis and our state cannot meet its ﬁnancial obligations. In order to lend us the billions of euros the lenders want measures to be taken to ensure that they would be repaid over a pre-speciﬁed period. The troika does not care whether the money comes from targeting wealth, higher taxes or the nationalisation of private businesses, but the measures we propose to take must be backed by real data and proper documentation instead of by hollow rhetoric. We cannot reject everything the troika proposes because we are in desperate need of a bailout. We are a small and inconsequential state which could be left to sink if we refuse to impose austerity measures, because there would be no danger of contagion or threat to the eurozone from our bankruptcy. And what would happen to social cohesion if we are left to go bust, because of our government’s refusal to cut wages and pensions of public employees?

Letters to the Editor Kudos to Ryanair and Paphos airport for help Paphos airport and Ryanair are to be congratulated for the exemplary manner in which their wheelchair assistants and cabin crew dealt with boarding and in flight support given on July for flight FR3132. Our friend’s daughter travelled from Stansted to return with her father on the above flight. She was distressed because her father was unwell as he needed wheelchair support due to leg problems. On arrival at Paphos airport, inside the terminal there were assistants waiting to help disabled people. They immediately rose to their feet and one member of staff took control of what was required. He did everything that needed attention and made the whole experience a great deal easier than

it would otherwise have been. The sense of relief was enormous. The help given in seating on the aircraft was the ﬁnal requirement before the Ryanair cabin crew took over their duties. Our friend was overwhelmed by the kindness support and efﬁciency offered by the airport assistant. This level of support continued with the Ryanair cabin crew who were also exemplary all the way to Stansted. I felt that I had to write to you on behalf of our friends and ask you publicly thank in particular the assistants at Paphos airport and of course the Ryanair cabin crew who overwhelmingly did Cyprus a very big favour indeed in helping the tourist effort. Geoffrey Bailey, Akoursos

Junkets for EU, kittens in the bin Can I please ask readers to be vigilant and look, when they are out and about, in bins and other unlikely places for abandoned kittens which appear to be as easily disposed of as unwanted rubbish. What does not help, of course, is the fact the government has not seen ﬁt this year to award money to vets in order to spay feral cats without charge. It seems ok to spend €23 million to renovate a conference centre for the next six months of EU junkets and, while I realise there are many who would quite rightly argue their case about salary cuts and loss of bonuses, I feel an allowance by the government to vets would be a drop in the ocean in order to cut down the unwanted and unneeded cat population. Beryl Hutchinson, Pervolia

Nothing at all to do with Euripides I attended the performance of “Bacchae” at the Makarios III Amphitheatre. Your critic is quite right, “the use of Euripides’ play was almost superﬂuous”. I would go further and question if the event should be advertised as “by Euripides”. This was excellent dance and drama, but owed nothing to the ancient Greek play that I remember studying in 1945. R W Mellor, Oxford

Ode to the euromess The eurozone is in a mess But that’s no great surprise The whole idea was badly ﬂawed It’s collapsing before our eyes

There’s going to be enormous hardship It’s already on the way But it’s going to get a damn sight worse As we head for that breakup day

To lump the disciplined Germans With the free and easy Med’s In one single currency They must have been off their heads

Law and order will breakdown around Europe Anarchy is well on the way Unemployment will reach record levels And people will work for less pay

What’s wrong with our euro politicians Like ostriches – heads in the sand They’re “wishing” that they can save us Wishful thinking – no answer to hand The whole world will go into recession Due to this stupid euro idea Our politicians will all blame each other But the fault will become very clear The recession in the thirties Will look like a minor one This one will last much longer And more damage will be done If Britain had joined the euro It too would be in the mire The pound has swung by large amounts As the euro went higher and higher Other currencies should have gone the same way The drachma, peseta and more But the euro has stopped them all ﬂoating Soon they’ll be down near the ﬂoor

Third world countries will suffer great hardship As donations from countries dry up Millions more will die of starvation As they ﬁnd little or nothing in their cup So what is the way to improve things? I think there’s a bullet to bite Stop trying to delay the inevitable And for Gods’ sake see the light Politicians have had many meetings To try to sort out the mess They’ve been going on for years now Wasting time but there’s no progress Don’t waste more hundred billions Trying to mend what cannot be done Accept it was a massive mistake Let the weak leave the euro anon Tom Lince, Emba

Letter from a lonely Kyprophile Q: Suppose you wanted to keep out tourists from coming to Cyprus. What’s the best way? A: Build a wall, a biggie. Q: What is the best wall and how high need it be? A: Are you kidding me? It extends three kilometers high in the sky. Yup! It’s called prohibitive airfare. This week I could ﬂy from Tel Aviv to Europe for $400, a four-plus hour’s ﬂight. But I am coming to Cyprus, and the ticket will be

$389, for 33 minutes in the air. I guess it is the most expensive $/km in the world. By comparison, Las Vegas has packages which are almost free, designed to lure you to its golden palaces. What may I ask is your agenda? Speaking of which, at these prices you meet mostly Israelis who come to gamble. You get very few Kyprophiles like me, who admire your food and mood. Don’t you wish for more tourists, amongst whom

one may find those who understand by now the difference between Turkey and Cyprus? For me, I have never been to Turkey, as my first preference is Greek music. Who knows, one day I might even get lucky and bring my 45member choral group to one of your folk festivals. Somehow I find the doors shut, and a dear Cypriot contact could only get me into a song fest in... Macedonia. Oh, well. Amnon Sheeloh

Does national debt belong to all Cypriots too? Visitors to the island do not cease to remind those listening to their speeches that the hydrocarbon wealth of Cyprus, recently discovered off the south coast, belongs to all Cypriots. They are, of course, referring to the fact that the Turkish Cypriots must have their share. The national debt is never mentioned but can one assume that this also belongs to all Cypriots? Lorena Lambrakis, Nicosia

Casinos would bring money The government seems to have a total lack of understanding on the issue of online gambling and the rewards that it could bring to the country. Normally I would expect this type of stance and objection to come from a religious authority! A similar situation that also needs to be looked at is the fact that you have land based casinos in one part of the country and none in the other. JJ Woods, Dublin

Heat warnings Regarding the truly awful death of the ten year old boy, on holiday in Paphos. I feel that holiday companies, hotels and other organisations involved in the tourist trade, should issue health and safety warnings to visitors ...as many will not understand the dangers of dehydration and heat...particularly during this recent heat wave. Christine Jolley, Argaka

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Enslaved by taxes? Not necessarily Ultra-rich people who avoid taxes on vast sums of money fall into a quite different category from the electrician who just wants to be paid in cash

NE of the best tax-avoidance tactics in the late Roman Empire was to sell yourself into slavery. You didn’t really have to work as somebody’s slave, of course - it was more like rock star Hotblack Desiato being “dead for a year for tax reasons” in Douglas Adams’ wondrous confection The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - but with the legal status of slave, you were exempt from taxation. Nowadays the legal manipulations used to avoid taxation are less dramatic, but they are spectacularly effective. James Henry, former chief economist at business consultancy McKinsey and a member of the board of directors of Tax Justice Network, has just published a report, The Price of Offshore Revisited, that estimates the amount of wealth hidden in tax havens by the super-rich at a minimum of $21 trillion: i.e. $21,000,000,000,000. It might be as much as $32 trillion, he adds, but greater precision is impossible when the whole point of holding money overseas is to keep it secret. Henry came up with this range of numbers by sifting through data from the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and private sector analysts - and it does not even include yachts, mansions, art works and other forms of wealth held overseas. It doesn’t matter. The point is that it’s a very large amount of money: equal to the annual Gross Domestic Product of both the United States and Japan. Some of it is the laundered proceeds of crime, and much of it is money stolen from national budgets by corrupt national elites (an estimated $306 billion from Nigeria, $798

Comment Gwynne Dyer billion from Russia, $1,189 billion from China), but most is deposited by the respectable super-rich of the West. Henry’s report, published in The Observer last weekend, calculates that almost half of the minimum estimate of $21 trillion is owned by just 92,000 people, some of whom pay no tax at all. A number of very small places (Liechtenstein, Cayman Islands, Jersey) and a few larger countries like Switzerland make a good living by providing these secret tax shelters, and work very hard to protect their clients from exposure. Back home, the “high net-worth individuals” also enjoy the services of “a highly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting, and investment industries,” said Henry. We always sort of knew about it; now we know the scale. Information of this sort is dangerous. It annoys those who merely work for a salary or an hourly wage, and whose taxes have to ﬁll the gap created by the defection of the super-rich. It might even destabilise the established social order. But the British government, at least, knows how to deal with that sort of thing. Less than 48 hours after Henry’s revelations, British politician David Gauke, one of the treasury ministers, went public with the assertion that the lower orders cheat on their taxes just as much as the rich.

The amount of wealth hidden in tax havens by the super-rich was last week put at a minimum of $21 trillion. The ﬁgure does not include yachts, mansions etc held overseas “Getting a discount with your plumber by paying cash in hand is something that is a big cost to the revenue and means others must pay more in tax,” he said. Well, yes. Paying cash to a tradesman to get a discount (knowing that he will then not report this income to the tax authorities) is something that many people reading this article will have done. It is tax avoidance - and since there are a great many more of us than there are of the super-rich, these little private deals do add up to a serious loss of tax revenue. Let him who always insists on a receipt cast the ﬁrst stone. David Gauke was almost philosophical about it. “Tax avoidance is not a recent problem,” he said. “In the fourth century AD, the Roman Emperor Valens had to make it illegal for individuals to sell themselves into slavery to avoid tax. And while this particular ruse seems to have fallen out of fashion, there will always be some who seek to shirk their civic duty.” But it’s clear enough to ordinary people that ultra-rich people who avoid taxes on vast sums of money by employing expensive experts to hide their wealth overseas fall into a different category from the electrician who wants to be paid in cash. And

hard-pressed governments, desperate for more revenue, are beginning to go after the tax havens. Britain has made a deal with the Swiss authorities in which UK residents with undeclared assets in Swiss banks can make a one-off payment to the British Treasury of between 21 and 41 per cent on their total assets, clear the slate, and remain anonymous. The Swiss will then levy a withholding tax of 27-48 per cent on future money going into those accounts, which will also go to Britain. Germany has negotiated a similar deal, although it is still awaiting ratification by the Bundestag (parliament). The US government has taken a different tack, demanding that Swiss banks hand over information on thousands of undeclared accounts held by American citizens. The heat is definitely on, and yet.... Yet while all this was going on, the amount of wealth that is managed by the top ten private banks, most of it held overseas in secret accounts, has more than doubled in the past five years. Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Christofias and his grand conspiracy Comment Loucas Charalambous IN AN EARLIER column I had asked how much more damage President Christoﬁas was capable of doing to the country before February, when he steps down. This may have been an excessively harsh question, but the truth is that, as we move closer to February, Christoﬁas is becoming more aggressive and more vindictive. He could cause many more problems in the next six months. Recently he is behaving in a way that gives the impression he sees enemies everywhere. And he attacks them with a savagery that nobody would expect from head of state. Not even his friend George Vassiliou, who warmly

backed his candidacy, was spared the presidential dressing down. In the last few days he has directed his ﬁrepower abroad. The arrival of the troika has upset him very much because he knows he brought it here. Addressing a gathering of the relatives of the missing on July 19, Christoﬁas’ aggression reached its apogee. The target was foreigners and his words were a poisonous mix of hatred and incoherence. Below are some excerpts of his speech. “Now we have discovered that bizonal federation is a mistake? Now that Turkey has the upper hand? Because there are expediencies, and expediencies are in the soul of the United Nations and the international community... We are battling for 10 days now to block the English machinations...

“Why is Greece suffering today? Because there are expediencies. Why, tomorrow, could Cyprus ﬁnd itself in the maelstrom and the clamp? Because there were expediencies internally and there are expediencies externally. There is an international conspiracy which listens to the name ‘markets’. The markets are the big thieves of the universe.” Our president is creating problems for the country by labelling everyone conspirators and big thieves. This behaviour is very similar to the notorious revelations about the ‘big conspiracy’, made by the late Spyros Kyprianou in 1978 at a council of ministers meeting. A good interpretation of the president’s behaviour can be found in the recently published book, with the excellent title ‘I kinonia to Horkaton’ (The Soci-

ety of the Villagers), by Cyprus University lecturer Caesar Mavratsas. It is the perfect aid in this instance as it deals with the theory behind the foreign conspiracy, which is very popular in the Cypriot ‘society of villagers’. Mavratsas writes: “Greek Cypriots believe that the big powers of the West, systematically and at all times are conspiring against them in order to promote Turkish interests. It is no coincidence, of course, that during the presidency of Tassos Papadopoulos, the Cyprus Republic was continuously at loggerheads both with its supposed, traditional ‘bad demons’ (Britain and the US) as well as with new ones such as the UN and the EU. Cyprus is so important that foreigners are continuously plotting against it.” In the prologue of his book, Mavratsas mentions that during

his study of the Greek Cypriot villager (all of whose traits are exempliﬁed by the TV character Rikkos Mappouros) he realised that “apart from ridiculous, the Greek Cypriot villager was extremely dangerous”. He explained what he meant thus: “Rikkos Mappouros may have a comic dimension and cause much laughter, but he is also an agent for the conservation of a status quo that hampers the meaningful progress of Cypriot society. Mappouros, a totally Greek Cypriot phenomenon - and not the foreign powers that are constantly conspiring against us - is to a large extent the factor that prevents the tackling of the real problems of Cypriot society (including, of course, the Cyprus problem which remains unresolved for decades) and its modernisation.”

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Opinion

Adding salt to muddy water ‘Toxic tax’ is nothing more than a miniscule drop in a massive ocean Comment Hermes H So Solomon

USTRALIA, the world’s highest emitter of greenhouse gases per head of population, has introduced a ‘carbon tax’ of A$23 per ton for those industries spewing filth into the atmosphere, notably their huge mining corporations (coal to China) airlines, steel makers and energy firms, in the vain hope of reducing the threat of climate change which, this year we are told, is responsible for a notable increase in the number of meteorological catastrophes - life threatening storms, tornadoes, floods, mud slides, heat-waves, forest fires, droughts, etc. In keeping with the imposition of this tax, the price of grains have jumped 35 per cent on world commodity markets, in particular that of wheat (Australia being a major producer), followed by corn, rice, soya and millet (that bland-tasting ‘graminé’ which feeds sub-Saharan Africa), further threatening the lives of the world’s undernourished, who are paying increasingly for the developed world’s profligate failure to sustain economic growth as stock market indices waver in a no-man’s land and economies rely in-

creasingly on financial bailouts or ‘quantitative easing’ to stand still. Fat westerners, who recently moved their investment capital from gold to wheat, know this and don’t give a damn, having already turned the page in search of titillation to excite an insatiable appetite rather than face the fact that ‘they’ are the planet’s public enemy number one. While China and India claim the right to continue rubbishing the sky to ‘catch us up’, the German government (Vorsprung durch Technik - progress through technology), hide their culpability for climate change behind an active yet ineffective ‘Alliance ‘90/The Greens’ (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and a government policy not to build any more nuclear power stations, while their motor industry produces ever bigger and more luxurious monster 4WD Mercs, BMWs, Porsche and Audis, successfully selling them with impunity worldwide. Cyprus, a small and recently lucrative market for these models, now finds its economy flapping around in noman’s-land like many others, having failed to distinguish between buying monster motors and building houses, the latter at least increasing housing stock whilst the former, apart from wastefully consuming fossil fuels, devalue annually at an astronomic rate. So what does the Australian government hope to achieve by collecting this tax

Droughts in the US have caused the price of grain to spiral

other than raising the cost of essential foodstuffs, transport and factory ﬂoor prices when, as a major wheat producer consuming quantiﬁable (ergo taxable) units of energy in its production, they will only further burden the poor man’s pocket without noticeably reducing the catastrophic effects of climate change nor seriously bothering the pockets of insatiably fat westerners? Australia’s opposition parties complain that this ‘toxic tax’ will have a deleterious effect on the country’s economy if other ‘western nations’ refuse to follow suit. To that gargantuan consumer of fossil fuels, the US of A, in particular, the tax is an anathema. ‘Una maledizione!’ Australian politicians of Italian origin might cry, taking their cue from

the heartfelt closing phrase of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto, after its eponymous protagonist, having paid an assassin to kill his cherished daughter’s secret lover, cries ‘maledizionne!’ in forlorn desperation on discovering her body instead of the duke’s in a sack delivered to him by the assassin. It is rumoured that the ﬁnest production of this opera was performed in Chicago during the early part of the last century with that god warbler, Enrico Caruso cast in the title role. Mention Chicago, as it was a century ago, and many recall the depression years of the 1930s: prohibition and those infamous mobsters, Al Capone, James (Mad Bomber) Belcastro (not Belcanto) and John Dillinger, etc. But this wonder-

ful mid-west town houses the world’s most important corn (American English for wheat) exchange, the state of Illinois, along with adjoining states, being the world’s major bread basket. But this year that basket of thousands of thousand hectare fields is drought ridden, the harvest nothing to sing about as maize and wheat struggle to attain barely half their usual height, presaging serious worldwide shortages/famine in 2013. So, if it’s not the unjustifiable fluctuation in oil prices bringing economies to their knees, it’s the undesirable price hike of a bushel of grain tipping the already starving into their graves. It’s as if the mobsters of yesterday have become the commodity dealers of today – those unsung assassins who pro-

tect the interests of the already rich at the cost of the always-to-remain poor. By paying lip service to the world’s starving (in the form of food aid that rarely reaches them) rather than seriously addressing the problems that cause climate change, insatiably fat westerners are merely adding salt to a thirsty man’s cup of muddy water. We must decide once and for all between megalomaniac globalisation and saving the planet. And believe me, unless we come up with something a lot better than ‘carbon tax’, the human race is doomed and nobody will be left to shed ‘una furtiva lagrima’ for those who cared enough for what ‘was’ the only planet inhabited by man, and most beautiful planet in our solar system!

Virtuous victuals: the ancients got it right Comment Steven Shapin THE maxim “you are what you eat” has deﬁned dietary thinking for hundreds of years. The prevailing interpretation is simple: our bodies, like the foods that we eat, are chemical compositions. In order to live long and healthy lives, and to maximise our potential, we must consume the right chemicals - that is, foods with the right nutrients. Not so long ago, however, this saying was understood quite differently, indicating a profound shift in the way that we think about our diet and ourselves - a shift that has powerful implications for current health debates. In ancient Greek and Roman medicine, prevention was key. Regimen, commonly called dietetics, prescribed a lifestyle designed to keep

people healthy. Indeed, while doctors did everything in their power to cure ailing patients, dietetics was considered the most important area of medical practice. After all, with a sound diet, one would presumably never need a cure. Dietetics was a prescription for an ordered manner of living, guiding people not only on matters of food and drink, but on all governable aspects of their lives that affected wellbeing, including their places of residence, exercise, sleeping patterns, bowel movements, sexual activity, and an area neglected by medicine today: emotional control. In short, dietetics was a matter of virtue as well as of bodily health. The medical profession doled out advice about how one should eat in the same breath as instructions about how one should live - and about what sort of person one should be. Traditional dietetic advice now seems banal, with its almost exclusive focus on moderation. For example, dietetic counsel would rec-

ommend that patients eat neither too much nor too little; sleep when necessary, but not excessively; exercise, but not violently; and control anger and stress. The Temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription, “Nothing in excess,” while Aristotelian philosophy held that the golden mean was the path to the good. Given the current frenzy of fad diets and the eternal search for simple remedies for complex conditions, moderation in all things may seem like shabby medicine. But dietetics’ conviction that health and morality are two sides of the same coin is a deep-rooted notion. After all, Christianity lists gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins, while temperance is one of the cardinal virtues. Both good and good for you, moderation became a commanding idea: by rooting medical advice in powerful systems of social values, dietetics shaped medical thought for centuries. Rejecting dietetic advice amounted to rejecting moral

wisdom. This merging of medicine and morality now seems naively unscientiﬁc, thanks to “nutrition science”, which replaced traditional dietetics as a formal discipline in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nutritional experts today are more likely to suggest monitoring cholesterol levels than they are to give such holistic and commonsense advice as moderation. Gluttony was once a sin; obesity is now a disease (or a “risk factor” for other diseases). Because science ostensibly advances by setting aside moral questions to address material causeand-effect relationships, this shift could be perceived as progress. But the separation of the “good” from the “good for you” limits the inﬂuence of modern nutritional expertise on people’s behaviour, ultimately undermining the goal of improving public health. Historical change cannot be undone. But the ways in which mod-

ern societies handle excess, whether in people’s diets or lifestyles, merit reﬂection. For example, one plausible explanation of the rise in obesity is the decline of the family meal - at which children might be urged to “eat more”, but also would likely be told when they had eaten “more than enough”. In today’s eat-andrun culture, people increasingly tend to consume food free from fear of a disapproving gaze. Individuals eat alone, and societies get fat together. While there is no simple solution to today’s dietary woes, we can take a collective decision to reconsider not just what we eat, but our approach to eating, and to recognise the inherent value in eating together. A shared meal might be good for you as well as good. Steven Shapin is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. © Project Syndicate, 2012

15 SUNDAY MAIL • July 29, 2012

Opinion Cyprus’ EU presidency marred by failure to act on occupation Comment

uotes of the week

Alfred Farrugia

MAGINE Germany or France assuming the presidency of the European Union (EU) while a third of their country is occupied by a powerful neighbour. That is exactly what happened on Sunday, July 1, on a smaller scale when the Republic of Cyprus took over the presidency of the EU, while Turkey - an EU candidate country - is occupying a third of the island. The whole of Cyprus has been a member of the European Union for the past eight years, since May 1, 2004, so the EU had plenty of time to anticipate what was going to happen when it was time for Cyprus to assume the presidency. Yet the EU has done practically nothing to avoid such an embarrassing situation, apart from a half-hearted European Parliament resolution adopted on March 29, this year. The present situation might be a reﬂection of three possible scenarios, among others. Either the EU, in spite of all its gloriﬁed status and clout, is hopelessly powerless when faced by the intransigency of a candidate country; or the EU rotating presidency has become just a formality after the introduction of a long term presidency; or the EU could not care less about the security of its own smaller members, or all of the above. Cyprus had all the credentials to join the EU in 2004, and it should not have been penalised simply because Turkey invaded and continued to occupy the north of the island for the past 38 years. The challenge for the EU should have been to persuade Turkey to withdraw its troops from EU territory. All the members of the EU are also members of the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), among others. So in fact, these EU members have practically done nothing not for eight years since 2004, but for 38 years since July 1974. The European Union has come a long way since the European Coal and Steel Community, but it is evident that the current group of political leaders is completely different from the statesmen and visionaries of 62 years ago, such as Robert Schuman and others. One of the main purposes of pooling the resources and industries of coal and steel was to move away from war and towards peaceful coexistence. How can invasion and occupation be compatible with the acquis communautaire of the EU. Negotiations towards accession should not have even started with Turkey before it withdrew its foreign troops from EU soil. This is not a question of EU chapters, but the very essence of the EU and its peaceful political existence. Turkey completely ignored UN Security Council resolution 353 (1974) of 20 July 1974, which demanded “an immediate end to foreign military intervention” and requested “the withdrawal without delay of foreign military personnel” 38 years ago. Turkey has similarly shown no interest in abiding by section 43 of the EP resolution of a few weeks ago “to begin to withdrawing its forces from Cyprus …”. There is another very important consideration, which is rarely ever raised. Turkey is not just any other third country. It is an EU candidate country, and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). According to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, an attack against one member shall be considered an attack against them all. What are the implications when a NATO member is the aggressor against a third country? Does NATO carry any responsibility? Can it be said that NATO as a whole has invaded and occupied Cyprus? Is Article 51 of the UN Charter being used in a perverse way? It is a disgrace for NATO to allow one of its members to continue to occupy a vulnerable small island for 38 years with impunity. After the end of the Cold War, NATO has tried to project an image of a “Partnership for Peace”. In reality, NATO continues to be a Partnership for War, as

“I like threesomes with two women, not because I am a cynical sexual predator. I’m a romantic. I am looking for The One. And I will ﬁnd her more quickly if I audition two at a time”. Comedian Russell Brand on mating

President Christoﬁas addressing the European Parliament on July 4

EU showing no solidarity with Cyprus was evident last year. The European Union has a major problem. It is not a question of widening or deepening, or speaking with one voice. The problem is that it is made up of member countries with double standards and a dual personality. They have all joined the EU in support of common values and in pursuit of peace, but at the same time the most powerful members have no difficulty in engaging in wars when they put on NATO military uniforms. The UN has taken 40 years to set up a Peacebuilding Commission, and has so far failed to find a solution to the Cyprus question. The OSCE has only just started to discuss “reconciliation” after 40 years. Neither the global nor the regional organisation have made the slightest impact on Turkey, or persuaded it to withdraw its troops from Cyprus. The Republic of Cyprus has taken pains to leave its own domestic problems and challenges out of the EU agenda for the next six months. In theory this is laudable, but in practice it does not make sense. As far as it is known, no EU presidency has addressed the Cyprus challenge since May 2004. Greece - Cyprus’ closest ally - does not appear to have done anything during its presidency to resolve the Cyprus conflict. If Cyprus does not take care of its own interests when it is performing the role of the presidency, no one

else is going to do that or look after the island’s own interests. The EU has shown no solidarity with Cyprus in substance during the past eight years, and Cyprus is likely to be completely forgotten for the next 13 years or more once the presidency is over. The EU is showing that behind a façade of summit meetings and photo opportunities for domestic consumption, in essence, it is still mainly just a common market and a huge bureaucracy. If any small countries have considered joining the EU for security purposes, they might as well think again, because the EU has not been capable of delivering when it comes to security, at least until now. Last week marked the 38th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Cyprus by Turkey after a short-lived coup by the Greek military junta. The EU continues to act as if nothing had happened. How insensitive or irrelevant could the EU be? The author is a retired diplomat from Malta, who served at the Permanent Mission of Malta to the UN in New York, and the Embassy of Malta in Washington DC. He is conducting research on peacebuilding in Cyprus for a PhD in conﬂict analysis and resolution at the School for Conﬂict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. The opinions expressed are his own

“I am the alienated intellectual. I simply lob a little verbal grenade. Maybe I’m a coward”. Television historian David Starkey “By all rights I shouldn’t be here today. I should be dead - six foot under in a wooden box. I should have contracted HIV in the 1980s and died in the 1990s, just like Freddie Mercury, just like Rock Hudson. Every day I wonder, how did I survive?” Sir Elton John on his drug-ridden youth

it counts. They will be elitist, ruthlessly and dazzlingly elitist”. Boris Johnson, mayor of London “With so many Africans in Greece, at least the mosquitoes of West Nile will eat home-made food”. Greek athlete Voula Papachristou, banned from the Olympics because of this “joke” on Twitter “We are working-class people. We live in the real world, absolutely we do”. Jacques Rogge, the Belgian-born count, president of the International Olympic Committee, who sports a £10,000 gold watch

“His English is good, but he did not mean working class as in hammer and sickle. He just meant he works very hard”. Mark Adams, the committee’s director of communications, interprets Rogge’s remarks “She is as sweet as lemon”. Simon Cowell’s barbed description of Britney Spears, a judge on the USA X Factor show

“If you could win a gold medal for grumbling, then Britain would deﬁnitely win that”. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt “Why didn’t we let France have the bloody Games in the ﬁrst place?” Veteran Labour MP Austin Mitchell “The Games won’t be remotely inclusive - not on the track, not where

“I am waiting for the next more subversive best-seller - one where the man doesn’t tie the woman up, but unstacks the dishwasher”. Harriet Harman, Labour’s deputy leader, after perusing erotic blockbuster 50 Shades Of Grey “I know such a thing is thought to be a kindness but it often seems to me like a benign conspiracy to trigger a heart attack”. Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, on surprise parties

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News Review Cheating homes The welfare department is gearing up to begin prosecuting old people’s homes who have failed to comply with instructions to turn on their air conditioning. Inspections found that one ﬁfth of the 76 care homes checked during the week had not put on their air conditioning even though at least two of the 13 people admitted to hospital for heatstroke in the past week were residents in old people’s homes.

Witness wanders THE MAIN prosecution witness in the Andis Hadjicostis murder trial, who is being held in protective custody, has been sneaking out from the house where he is staying, police spokesman Andreas Angelides conﬁrmed on Monday. Citing “well placed sources”, Politis said Hadjigeorgiou managed to sneak out twice. On the ﬁrst occasion he was spotted, and members of Nicosia CID managed to locate him and take him back. The second time he is said to have made his own way back.

Dehydrated death A POST mortem carried out on Monday by pathologist Eleni Antoniou on a 10-year-old British boy who died last Sunday in Paphos revealed that his death was due to dehydration. The child had lost a great deal of ﬂuids, which had not been replaced for four days. The boy, who was visiting his grandparents in Paphos, was rushed to a private clinic on Sunday morning unconscious where doctors were not able to revive him.

Phew what a scorcher: a model poses for a photographer at the beach in Ayia Napa

Moment of reckoning

Migrants protest Applications More oil RECOGNISED refugees, migrants and other foreign workers on Monday held a peaceful demonstration outside the Philoxenia Conference Centre where EU interior ministers were meeting to discuss migration and asylum issues. They said they wanted to draw attention to the difﬁculties faced by non-Cypriots seeking to integrate in Cypriot society. The protestors handed over a letter to the interior ministry’s permanent secretary, Andreas Assiotis, so he could distribute it to the European ministers.

Mr Gay CYPRUS WILL be represented for the ﬁrst time in the Mr Gay Europe competition, taking place on August 11 this year in Rome. In a rare display of full transparency for Cypriot society, delegate Kiri Spanos, a 24-year-old graduate of economics, decided to represent the island in the 7th Mr Gay Europe competition, saying he wants to bring more visibility to the difﬁculties of being homosexual in Cyprus.

gery from Austria.

Jumping ship

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“We will not accept abolition of CoLA” SEK leader Nicos Moyseos “The only thing we haven’t heard d is that civil servants ants won’t be paid. d. They’ll work for or free so we can n all move forward” d” PASYDY boss s Glafcos Hadjijipetrou (right))

in the public sector shot up in the first half of 2012 compared to the previous year, after uncertainty over the future of retirement lump sums, the head of the Public Service Commission (PSC) said on Tuesday. After presenting President Demetris Christofias with the Commission’s 2011 annual report, PSC head Pavlos Papageorgiou said there had been 250 applications in the first half of this year, whereas there were 240 for the whole of 2011.

on Wednesday met trade unions, employers’ organisations, semi-government organisations, Laiki Bank board members, the Energy Service head and a delegation of ruling AKEL party. Based on the resulting comments, the troika foresees a long and difﬁcult path ahead for the country. It anticipates the recession will deepen in the coming years, and wants to see state ﬁnances cleaned up through a serious of tough measures.

Moufflon cull

as leverage for matters not related to the development of the hydrocarbon industry in Cyprus.

is seeking more than 1.2 milfor early CYPRUS lion tonnes of gasoil and fuel oil for next year’s power generation, a 15 per cent from its 2012 purchase, as its retirement increase electricity resources remain stretched. Electricity Authority of Cyprus is in the public The seeking 408,000 tonnes of 0.1 per cent sulphur gasoil for delivery into Vassilikos December 2012 to January 2014, a sector shot over tender document showed on Tuesday. up in the Murder suspects Gas mortgage Pioneering op GREECE’S Supreme Court on Tues- THE GOVERNMENT on Wednesday surgery to make the lives day decided to order the execution of denied reports that it was considering first half PIONEERING of Parkinson’s sufferers radically bet- the arrest warrant for the two suspects ‘mortgaging’ potential gas reserves to has been carried out at the Areteion connected to the murder of ﬁve people prop up state ﬁnances. of 2012 ter clinic in Nicosia. A 55-year-old man who in Ayia Napa last month. According to Reports said the Finance Ministry had been suffering with the debilitat- a police spokesman, the suspects – two was looking into a proposal by Canacondition for seven years underwent Greek Pontian men aged 29 and 41 – have dian conglomerate Triple Five for a €3 compared to ing the nine-hour procedure on Monday. the right to appeal the decision within billion loan through the purchase of According to doctors the patient was the next 24 hours, while the court has 30 state bonds. Commerce Minister Neofor the entire procedure which days to accept or reject the appeal. clis Sylikiotis yesterday rubbished the the previous awake was attended by a professor of neurosurnotion of using hydrocarbon reserves

APPLICATIONS for early retirement

“The troika will not be playing alone on the pitch. I want p to clarify that. We have our positions,, sensitivities and limits” s” Government spokesman Stefanos s Stefanou

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“We have to believe in ourselves and embrace our sexuality and not let anyone harass, bully or no discriminate us. I stand for those dis people that are suffering and pe do not have anyone to trust and talk to. I stand for those people tal because I have been through the be same things” sa Kiri Spanos, representing CyK prus in the 7th Mr Gay Europe p “The point is, if the moufﬂon “ over-exceed the forest’s capaco ity, it there is a serious problem for f their wellbeing because they will destroy their habitat” Game Fund chief Pantelis Hadjiyerou “There is intense competition in the international market and it won’t be possible to easily secure w enough natural gas so as to e substantially contribute to massive s reductions in electricity charges” re Commerce Minister Neoclis C Sylikiotis S

“The last electricity bill we received was for €1,870. Prior to the electricity hikes, we used to pay between €600 and €800” Paphos shop owner Rosie Panayiotou who has had to close “By law the claimant needs to ask for an amount, so I will get €100 and give a €1.0 million to charity” Former minister Dinos Michaelides who has ﬁled a slander suit over the Tsohatzopoulos scandal “It needs to sink in that we are facing a very difﬁcult situation. Now it’s time for sobriety, unity of power and responsible negotiating” DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades “The Commission has adopted the position of the complainants that the publication seeks to normalise the sex industry” The Media Complaint Commission on Time Out’s sex issue

THE HEAD of the Game Fund on Tuesday said that if any decision was made to allow elective moufﬂon hunting in the Paphos forest, it would be solely to ensure the indigenous animal’s welfare wasn’t at risk due to overpopulation. Pantelis Hadjiyerou was responding to an announcement by the Green Party, condemning plans to allow “elective hunting” of the protected species.

Cheaper power IF THE government’s efforts to bring natural gas as a temporary solution until Cyprus’ hydrocarbon reserves can be put to use, the island could have the alternative energy source by early 2015, Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said on Tuesday. According to Sylikiotis, apart from efforts to bring natural gas from Israel as an interim solution, there were thoughts of having it imported immediately and in any form, via tender through the Public Natural Gas Company (DEFA).

Doom and gloom THE TROIKA visit has signalled a moment of reckoning for the beleaguered Cyprus economy as proposals discussed by the trio of international lenders have set alarm bells throughout the country. The troika delegation

CTO overhaul THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) is planning to close, merge and reorganise offices abroad to reinforce efforts to promote Cyprus as a popular tourist destination. There are currently 23 CTO offices abroad, costing over €7.7 million, while just €1.8 million is spent on projecting Cyprus as a tourist destination abroad. CTO chairman Alekos Oroundiotis said the organisation’s overseas offices had done a good job over the past years, but it was time to reorganise them to improve their efficiency.

Lawsuit LAWYER and former interior minister Dinos Michaelides on Thursday ﬁled suit against a man who has implicated him in investigations into money laundering allegations against former Greek minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos. Michaelides, 75, has been implicated in one of the biggest scandals in Greece, spanning decades and involving prominent politician, Tsohatzopoulos. Michaelides has denied all claims and has sued, asking the Greek authorities to indict for defamation and perjury.

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Coffeeshop

It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it ILLUSIONS were shattered and false hopes dashed during the second visit of the troublesome Troikans, with many members of our ruling elite finally realising that we will not set conditions, for accepting multi-billion euro loan, as they initially thought. On this visit the terrible Troikans were a bit more forthcoming, talking about the austerity measures they envisaged and the annual spending cuts of one billion euro they would expect to be made. There was talk of scrapping CoLA, suspension of 13th salaries and 15 per cent reduction of public sector wages, as well as cuts in state pensions and benefits. The illusion-busting was completed at the House Finance Committee on Friday when the Troikans told deputies that the measures would hurt and that the next two years would be a difficult time of recession. On the plus side, the measures would not be anywhere near as tough as those imposed on Greece. It was about time that the rampant thieving of the state and the people by the blood-sucking public parasites and their all-devouring comrades at the semi-governmental workers’ co-operatives was stopped. Our good-for-nothing politicians would never have done it so they should thank the Troikans for doing the dirty work for them. UNION bosses left their meeting with the tricky Troikans, on Wednesday, looking as happy as a shareholder of the Popular Bank who had also deposited in pseudoconvertible bonds. I must confess not feeling a hint of sympathy for any of them. On the contrary, it was quite a pleasure seeing the Parasity boss Glafcos Hadjiklamouris looking much more miserable than usual, having his tsambouka (swagger) kicked out of him at last. He was in defeated, self-pitying mood, telling hacks that “the only thing we haven’t heard is that civil servants will not get paid,” adding ironically that “we should work for free so we can all move forward”. His mood improved slightly the following day, when he directed his self-righteous indignation at the banks which had caused all our problems and were now threatening poor public parasites’ privileges. He demanded an official investigation to establish who was to blame for our financial woes and the need for a bailout. And once it is established that the banks were to blame we could close them all down as punishment, for lowering the standard of living of our public parasites. SOME unions persisted with the defiant rhetoric pledging not to accept unilateral decisions and to fight until the bitter end. They were even prepared to go on strike to defend their rights. This cheap militancy was being encouraged by the commies of

AKEL and the government who seem to be preparing for the proletarian revolution. “No to tough austerity that leads to the vicious circle of recession and no to the unequal shouldering of the burdens of the economic crisis,” said the AKEL/government mouthpiece Haravghi in Thursday’s editorial, also endorsing the party line that the Troika should target wealth. The mouthpiece of the ultrahard-line Akelites, the weekly Gnomi, set the general tone on Friday with a front-page, banner headline which urged, ‘Resistance to the Troikan terrorism’. ONLY the bungling idiots of Tof government still seem to be under the illusion that they could persuade the Troikans to agree to mild austerity measures, a sort of bailout-lite that would preserve parasitic privileges (also known as social cohesion) and focus on development projects; the government, as a special concession, would undertake to pursue ﬁscal discipline at the same time. This was what the comrade told the Troikans when he met them; the AKEL leadership said the same. The idea is that the ECB, IMF and Commission would give us about ten billion and what was not needed by the banks we would spend on development projects that would stimulate growth and generate state revenue that would allow us to repay the loan. Charmless AKEL spokesman, Giorgos Loucaides yesterday declared that “the Troika has failed”. The tough austerity model used in other countries pushed them deeper into recession, he explained adding, “wherever the Troika intervenes there is a social cost and social unrest.” “Cyprus can be the exception, as long as the logic of growth and social cohesion is followed,” Loucaides said, unable to conceal his genuine desire to help the Troikans improve their image as baddies that cause misery wherever they go. If they improved their image, by being nice to Kyproulla, it would boost the Troikans’ business as many more countries would ask for bailouts. YOU HAVE to admire the ar-

really afford to pay Iacovou 100 grand a year to do nothing? It is time he was left to draw the generous state pensions he is entitled to. IF THE delaying tactics fail, and the comrade is faced with signing a bailout agreement, cutting wages, pensions and social benefits, abolishing CoLA and collective agreements and raising taxes what would he do? Would he sign and be debited with the most savage austerity measures ever imposed on Cypriot workers? Some very weird information has reached our establishment this week. A skettos-drinking customer said he had heard that if the austerity package was too tough the comrade would reject it and tell the Troikans he did not want a bailout. It would be the Cyprob logic at work, but without the security of the status quo to fall back on. A second customer, a metrios drinker, claimed that top Akelites were seriously discussing the possibility of the comrade stepping down rather than signing a bailout. He would leave office as a hero, a president who sacrificed his post rather than sign a package that was against the workers’ interests. This is just gossip for now, but the possibility cannot be ruled out given AKEL’s time-honoured opportunism and the comrade’s cowardice. AKEL mouthpieces, stepping up the rhetoric against the “Troika terrorism” and urging “resistance,” may be preparing the ground for a heroic resignation.

The most photographed person in Cyprus the past week was surely IMF official, Delia Velculescu. Cypriot photojournalists can’t seem to get enough. Out of 19 photos from two sources on one day, she was snapped in 17, although the troika had some 30 members here rogance of ignorant Akelites who have decided to give lessons on how an economy should be run to the highly-qualified and experienced economists of the troika. These people were chosen by the IMF and ECB, from hundreds of applicants, because of their abilities and excellent qualifications. The ministers that make up our negotiating team, with the exception of Vasos Shiarly, were chosen because they have Akelite DNA and have taken an oath of eternal allegiance to comrade Tof. Those are not the best qualifications for discussing bailout terms. Sotiroulla the bourekka, a member of our team, did however stand up to the nasty IMF representative, Delia Velculescu when the latter said that in Romania, wages had been cut by 25 per cent. This was why so many Romanians had come to Cyprus looking for work, replied our bourekka. SENSING that the Troikans are not giving much ground in the consultations, the government is now trying to buy time. This was the main reason the comrade, a recognised expert in delaying tactics, asked for a meeting with them. He argued that we should not rush things and that we should lengthen the period for putting public finances in order, as this would mean milder measures. The negotiating team, meanwhile unsuccessfully tried to persuade the troika to push back the deadline for a zero deficit budget. It is the familiar Cyprob tactic against as-

phyxiating time-frames. Even his spokesman, Stef Stef resorted to the Cyprob discourse on Friday, saying that negotiations with the troika would continue so that it would be possible to reach convergences. And the bailout terms must respect the right of all refugees to return to their homes and ensure the withdrawal of Turkish occupying troops. SPEAKING of the Cyprob, Big Bad Al must have been very disappointed after this week’s brief visit to his workplace. First there was the life-sapping humidity that must have prevented him from playing a couple of rounds of golf but even worse was that his meetings with the leaders and the technical committees did not provoke a single negative comment in the local media. Has he lost his touch? He better ﬁnd it soon, because without negative comments in the media the big-wigs at UN headquarters might begin to suspect that he is a bit underworked as guardian of the Cyprob convergences. STAYING on the issue of Cyprob convergences, why is the taxpayer still paying Yiorkos Iacovou a salary? He has been doing nothing for the last ﬁve months, but we are still paying him. And everybody knows that if Cyprob talks ever resume it would be after February, under a new president, who will not be using the services of the superannuated Iacovou. Can our bankrupt state

MEANWHILE banks are sinking deeper into the merde by the day. The Popular Bank is constantly drawing large amounts of emergency liquidity from the Central Bank – our banks can no longer use the ECB for this purpose – but its CEO and former Vgenopoulos lieutenant, Christos Stylianides does not seem too bothered. He is more concerned about bad-mouthing fellow executives and accusing them of signing unsecured loans on the instructions of Vgenopoulos. The funny thing is that Stylianides also signed dodgy loans on Vgen’s instructions, but has always claimed that he was simply following orders. Stylianides, despite being a leading member of the disgraced Vgen regime, was made CEO because his knowledge of international banking would enable him to secure capital for the ailing bank. He secured a little over a million, but when you consider the bank’s capital needs this does not even constitute a drop in the ocean. WHILE Stylianides is bad-mouthing fellow executives, more and more people have been asking whether the Popular Bank will go bust. “No bank in an EU country was allowed to go under,” said a senior diplomat when the matter came up in conversation. “Yes, but no other EU country has Christofias as its president,” replied another diplomat. THE CENTRAL Bank has advertised a vacancy for a press spokesman whose pay and benefits would be close to 100 grand. The Bank had an excellent spokeswoman, who was paid significantly less than 100 grand but her contract was vindictively terminated a month after the arrival of Professor Panicos because AKEL’s spies in the bank considered her too close to the former governor. But why is the Central Bank offering such a whopping big salary at time of recession and austerity? And since when does a press spokesman command a salary as high as Yiorkos Iacovou’s? APOLOGIES if I bored you with the troika and the economy. Next week’s Coffeeshop will focus on sex.

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World in pictures

Workers rest next to a life size ﬁgure made from lego at Legoland Malaysia, which is due to open in September (AFP)

A couple dressed as beefeaters wait to welcome athletes arriving at Heathrow

(AFP)

Anti-government protesters burn an efﬁgy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino during a demonstration against his state of the nation address (AFP)

David Cerny’s double-decker bus art installation London Booster. The Czech artist has adapted a 1957 London bus and added huge mechanical arms which enable it to do press-ups (AFP)

Two men dressed as Santa rest on a bench during the annual World Santa Claus Congress this week (AFP)

Two unidentiﬁed divers under water during a training session at the Aquatics Centre in London (AFP)

Two men employed to use their buttocks for advertising in Trafalgar Square, central London (AFP)

A sand sculpture on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Where unusually high winter temperatures hit this week (AFP)

An illustration in Paris made with a ﬁgurine and euro coins. Europe’s economic crisis has deepened, with a slump in German conﬁdence, worsening British recession and a debt-wracked Spain seeking French support (AFP)

Britain’s mounted guards for the Queen parade at Buckingham Palace

(AFP)

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Lifestyle

Like Lily, Peaches, Sienna and now Adele, a growing number of women in their twenties are bumping the trend of waiting until later to have their babies, says Jasmine Gardner

Definitely baby I

T SEEMS everybody is having babies. Adele, it now turns out, will have her first child in just two months’ time. Lily Allen is now pregnant with her second, and most recently Sienna Miller gave birth to baby girl Marlowe. Meanwhile Britain’s Office for National Statistics released its latest data on the birth rates in England and Wales, showing that, despite the recession, more babies were born last year than in 2010. But while the figures also show that the number of women having babies in their forties has nearly trebled in the past 20 years (to 29,350 live births to women of 40 and over, up from 9,835 in 1991), helping to push up the average age for having

deciding not to wait, but to have children now. Leonora Bamford, who recently set up the childcare site, The Baba Blog, is one of these women. At 30 she already has two children aged one and two. “I wanted to have children ever since I can remember,” she says, admitting: “I was incredibly lucky I met my husband in my early twenties.” As some in the blogosphere have criticised 24-year-old Adele, saying she is too young for a baby, so Bamford came under the same scrutiny. “A lot of people said they thought I was too young [to have children at 28], but I don’t think it really matters... Having seen the generation above us, they [women] know that those putting it

Despite a number of medical advances that suggest the efficacy of IVF will keep increasing, that ovarian stem cells may be able to replenish a woman’s diminishing egg supply, women are still told with regularity that at 35 our chances of getting pregnant plummet filling young women with fertility fear a baby to 29.7, mothers in that upper age group still only represent four per cent of all the live births. And, partly thanks to the many reports warning them about the future of their fertility, women in their late twenties and early thirties are feeling the pressure to get pregnant. Like Adele, 24, Lily Allen, 27, Sienna Miller, 30, and 23-year-old Peaches Geldof, who gave birth to her ﬁrst baby, boy Astala, in April, they are

off found there are all sorts of problems, so now women are under such pressure to have children younger.” She refers, of course, to those women about 15 years her senior - a demi-generation encouraged to go far in their careers before even thinking of children - and to reports which lead us to believe that when women decide around age 40 that they have reached suitable ﬁnancial security and seniority in their jobs to have

children, many end up requiring fertility treatment. Despite a number mber of medical advances that hat suggest the efficacy of IVF VF will keep increasing, that at ovarian stem cells may y be able to replenish a woman’s man’s diminishing egg supply, ply, and that tests might turn n up that can predict precisely y when we’ll stop being fertile, tile, women are still told with regularity that at 35 our ur chances of getting pregnant nt plummet - filling young women with fertility fear. “Quite a lot off my friends who are climbing ng the career ladder now afterr all of these horror stories are planning to have children en in just a few years, even though they thought they would wait,” says Bamford. The new ONS S statistics do show a hintt of a shift. As we might expect, pect, birth rates for or women in age e groups 30-34,, 35-39 and 40 and nd over have been rising fairly steadily ily over the past 20 years as women delay parenting, g, while the birth rates in the he under 20s and the 20-24 age group have been dropping. ping. But it’s in the middle that the trend is perhaps the most interesting. ng. Because although the ONS figures show that there re has been a slight drop in n birth rates within the 25-29 9 age group just in the past year, the s year st general trend shows that after a significant drop for women of this age group between 1991 and 2001, the numbers are now starting to recover. The 2011 figures show that there are 106.8 live births per 1,000 women aged 2529 compared to just 91.5 a decade ago, in 2002 when the rate had plummeted from the 1991 figure of 119.4 births per 1,000 women in that age group. Meanwhile, a study for the vitamin supplement Centrum Pregnancy Care at the end of last year, which surveyed 3,000 women, showed that more than 40 per cent

of the women asked said they had planned to try for children between the ages of 26 and 30 - even if it also showed that little more than a third of women actually end up having their babies when they plan to. The fact is that although many women may wish to have babies earlier, unlike their celebrity counterparts, they may not be in the financial position to do so. The Centrum survey showed that 58 per cent of women felt it was important to own a property before having a baby and the largest proportion of those surveyed wanted money saved before starting a family. Author of pregnancy guide From Bump to Baby Natasha Harding has a different perspective. Now 37, she had her first baby at 31. “Financially, being young I could start a new career [after children]. If you are older, then it’s more difficult.” Before starting a family, Harding quit her job in journalism and trained as a yoga teacher. “I didn’t want to be an older mum. I

Young mums (from left): Lily Cooper, Sienna Miller, Adele and Peaches Geldof with baby son Astala

wanted to have the energy to play with [my son] and still have a life at the other end.” Having interviewed several women for her book, she believes that: “People are almost putting family before career again. They are jumping off the treadmill and saying, ‘If that means we can’t have a ﬁvebedroom house then we will just deal with it’. Many more mothers are also deciding to start new careers and setting up small businesses.” Recent years have seen the rise of the “mumpreneur” - mothers who set up businesses from home that are compatible with their

childcare commitments (the word has even made it into the dictionary). However, these alternative career options and new routes to financial security are not an answer for all the potential benefits of being an older mother. New research announced this year by the Institute of Child Health at University College London and Birkbeck College London shows that children of older mothers were likely to develop a broader vocabulary, attain higher IQ scores and be less likely to have accidents or need hospital treatment. The flip side to this, says Harding, is that: “One of the oldest mothers I spoke to said her body didn’t recover from pregnancy as well as younger mothers’ bodies did. She and her husband also found it harder to adapt to having a child, which older parents sometimes do because they have been used to putting themselves first for that much longer. These are all things motivating people to have babies sooner.” So, instead of “Maybe baby, but definitely later,” women are now starting to think “Definitely baby”.

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Lifestyle

The enigma known The musician-super producer who made Justin Timberlake cool, sees music in colour and designs two clothing lines, grants Amy Raphael a rare audience

n a sunny afternoon in central Paris, a people-carrier with blacked-out windows pulls into the courtyard of a recording studio and a posse of young men appears, blinking in the sunlight. I’m introduced to the smallest of them. His hair is cropped short, his denim skater shorts hang low, his black Timberlands are Tipp-Exed with the legends ‘Anxiety Tranquilized’ and ‘Boredom Amused’. There’s an awkward silence as we shake hands. It’s a great day, I tell him. A glimmer of a smile. “Thanks, ma’am.” I don’t know what to say; I was alluding to the perfect sky, not the honour of meeting Pharrell Williams. Williams may be a slight 5ft 9in, but he’s a huge star who is, according to Forbes, worth around £48.5 million. He is the frontman of the rocking rappers N*E*R*D (an optimistic acronym for ‘No One Ever Really Dies’) and one half of producersongwriters The Neptunes. With the latter he has, quite literally, shaped the sound of modern hip-hop by produc-

ing hit songs for A-listers such as Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Nelly and Britney Spears. In the summer of 2003, Williams had co-produced nearly 20 per cent of tracks playing on British radio. In America those stats doubled. Not bad for a kid who was ﬁred not once but three times by McDonald’s. Their loss; the ludicrously talented Williams, 39, is now one of the most successful artists on the planet, and he’s showing no sign of slowing down. Like many of his contemporaries, such as the tireless workaholic will.i.am, Williams is building a fashion empire. In 2005, he launched the high-end streetwear label Billionaire Boys Club (BBC) with A Bathing Ape founder Nigo, after he and the Japanese designer bonded over Star Trek. The A/W collection will be in Harrods next month. And now he is collaborating on a brand-new luxury collection called Bee Line. Williams is a tricky interviewee. He turns up an hour late — we’re lucky it’s not longer, apparently — and

‘When I was young I didn’t understand how the music industry worked. I’ve done things I shouldn’t have done. I’m a human being. I was young. I was dumb. I thought I was a genius. I’d sold a couple of records’ takes a while to warm up. When he does, he chats enthusiastically about the architecture and history of Paris, but is less keen to discuss fashion except in the most general, or even cryptic, sense. On the inextricable link between music and fashion he muses: “They’re like time and space. One can’t exist without the other.” Williams is frequently asked about fame and girls in interviews, but often stonewalls. He makes a

In 2005, Williams launched the high-end streetwear label Billionaire Boys Club (BBC) and now he is collaborating on a brand-new luxury collection called Bee Line

point of refusing to discuss his romantic relationships although, according to the American press, he was rumoured to be dating Jade Jagger in 2003 and has had a long-term relationship with Vashtie Kola, a fashion designer and music director. Today he mentions a woman in his life but won’t be drawn on who she is. He may be reluctant to talk about romance but Williams is hugely proud of his parents. He was brought up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his two younger brothers. His father was a handyman and his mother a teacher; it sounds as though the boys were indulged, but not overly so. “My mum thought her sons could do no wrong. She lived for us. There was plenty of discipline, but we knew we were loved. My dad is a nice guy, Southern, old-fashioned. He restores cars now. My mum has just gotten her doctorate in education.” The young Pharrell attended a school for high achievers and regrets only doing “enough to get by”. Was he too busy chasing girls? He smiles. “I was quiet with the girls at high school. I lived in Normalville USA and I didn’t look like the average kid. I was self-conscious about my eyes.” Another thing Williams doesn’t talk about is his mixed ethnicity, leaving the internet to speculate that he may be of Asian as well as African American heritage. What he really loves to talk about is science and the intricate workings of the brain. He watches the Discovery Channel obsessively and has even become friendly with a professor of

Lips are sealed: not only will Williams not be drawn into who is the current woman in his life, he is also tightlipped about his mixed ethnicity, leaving the internet to speculate that he may be of Asian as well as African American heritage

neuroscience and psychology at the University of California in San Diego, Dr VS Ramachandran, whose son was a N*E*R*D fan. In 2008, the band released an album called Seeing Sounds, a reference to synesthesia. Since he was a child, Williams has seen music in terms of colours; Dr Ramachandran has conﬁrmed in the past that “Pharrell’s brain is probably seeing coloured landscapes when he (hears music)”. I ask what colour N*E*R*D’s music is? Red

hot? He laughs. “Depends on the song, man. But I see them all as different colours. Same way you see a red truck.” We are interrupted by the arrival of a McDonald’s meal and a growl from Williams. “The French don’t believe in ice; in the States cold drinks are predicated on ice.” I’m just about to ask another question when I realise that his head is bowed. He is saying a silent grace. And then he yells: “Mike! Can I have napkins, man? Sorry!” He looks at me with mock sus-

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as Pharrell Williams

Williams (above centre) is the frontman of the rocking rappers N*E*R*D (an acronym for ‘No One Ever Really Dies’) and one half of producer-songwriters The Neptunes. With the latter he has, quite literally, shaped the sound of modern hip-hop by producing hit songs for A-listers such as Justin Timberlake (below), Jay-Z, Nelly and Britney Spears

‘Williams does display some ome diva tendencies. But then, out ut of the blue, he can flip to flirting and being generally playful. Perhaps ps when you’re worth so many millions, lions, you get to dictate the atmosphere’ sphere’

picion. “Please don’t make me sound like a rock star.’ Are you a rock star? “No, I’m a diva.” Williams does display some diva tendencies. But then, out of the blue, he can flip to flirting and being generally playful. Perhaps when you’re worth so many millions, you get to dictate the atmosphere. Was he even cockier as a younger man? “When I first got into this industry? Yes, I was. I was a little more pompous. I got tired of it in the end. I didn’t become

a monster, but I wasn’t as nice as I could have been.” He has been endlessly described as awkward, monosyllabic; is that not his memory? “When I was young I didn’t understand how the music industry worked. I’ve done things I shouldn’t have done. I’m a human being. I was young. I was dumb. I thought I was a genius. I’d sold a couple of records.” His honesty is impressive. Perhaps not quite ﬁtting in at school and realising early on that “honesty is more im-

portant than cool” stopped him from being a snob. Certainly part of his appeal as an artist is his musical diversity. He grew up listening to Queen and has, in the past, talked of liking Coldplay and Keane. “The media want us to ﬁt in a box. To only like one genre. But the iPod was made for people to listen to anything and everything. Right now I’m really into singer-songwriters. Not so much ‘Do you wanna dance?’ as ‘She left lipstick on my collar’. I love Frank Ocean. Adele. I recently worked with Conor Maynard, a kid from Brighton who’s super-talented.” As he ﬁnishes his food, I ask what he thinks his legacy might be and he grins. “Loving life. Loving to inspire others. Hey, man, I don’t want to be thinking about my legacy, there’s still so much to learn. Learning is the most essential part to life as I know it. I’m an enthusiast. It’s what keeps me going. Because, left to my own devices, I’m naturally very lazy”. He doesn’t have time to be idle these days, what with the fashion lines and his work as a producer. “I love

my work!’ He wipes a bead of sweat off his brow. “I d, you know? work hard, n the studio I’m often in for 12 to 15 hours a day. More than half the year I don’t take ff”. Sundays off”. So whatt does en he’s he do when ng? He e not working? shrugs. “I see my family. I’m close to them.” Pharrell Wila liams is ted complicated character, aporn parently torn between he playing the uhip-hop suole perstar role and being a nbright, enod gaged, good bloke. I ask if he kes ever takes per a proper liibreak. “Holim day for me d d, is my bed, ea amy girl, peautnut butelly ter and jelly sandwiches hing and watching at cartoons

3am.” His girl? Hoping his guard might be down, I quickly ask who she is. He shakes his head ﬁrmly, offers an enigmatic smile and changes the subject. “But I don’t like to sit still in the same place for too long; I’m too nomadic. I suppose I’m an artistic maverick. That, I think, would be a good legacy.”

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Property

Football, finance + VAT Make sure you understand new VAT rules before buying By Antonis Loizou FRICS

Border Choice makes big splash in Cyprus BORDER Choice Ltd, a market leader in swimming pool border technology, would like to thank the people of Cyprus for the fantastic interest shown in their products. Border Choice’s help in ﬁxing unsightly stains on swimming pools has now become a great money saver for people tidying up their pools. Border Choice, a leading brand in self adhesive swimming pool borders, deals with satisﬁed customers globally and over the last four years has been helping the people of Cyprus give their pools a fresh new look. First and foremost, the products stay stuck to liners, tiles and almost any pool surface backed by the company’s ‘Stay Stuck Guarantee’. Pictured (above) are Martin Haigh Sales Director and Martin Ruskin of Tala, Paphos, one of hundreds of customers who has had a Border Choice border

SO THE prime minister of Italy, encouraged by his football team’s win over Germany, raised his ﬂag of revolt and all EU members have decided (with the help of the Spanish prime minister and some help from the French) to exclude individual banks’ help from the European bank, from calculating a country’s total debt (described in the simplest form). Will this help Cyprus? We feel that it will, since our biggest problem is the lack of funding by the banks. According to the reports, Cyprus is in need of approximately €10b in a loan with more than 40 per cent of this going to shore up the local banks. If the same principle applies for Cyprus, this means that the banks here will have the required ﬁnance and thus, hopefully, the available funds to continue lending and not be in the position that they are in now, with ever increasing interest rates and pushing etc to get their loan repaid. So it will give the banks and the market some breathing

space, and in the end we expect the property market will be helped. Also the €4b needed for the banks not being on the government’s bill might cause the Troika to impose fewer sanctions on Cyprus, which in turn will help the government ease its own measures. We do sympathise with the German government having to fork out money all the time to support the countries to the south and also have sympathy for the countries to the south, having reached the mess they are in, to go through hell (25 per cent unemployment – 45 per cent youth unemployment). Cyprus is also a case in point caused both by the wrong policy of some of the banks (albeit they have to an extent justiﬁed reasons), but even more crucial the lack of action by the existing government and its exgovernor. The end is near and we will know soon the wrongdoings of our economy and the true amount of the Cyprus deﬁcit (is it possible that even our own Minister of Finance does not know the amount?) and we hope that we do not get

“the shock”.

VAT As you might be aware, home acquisition bears a 17 per cent VAT on the sales price or in case you build 17 per cent on the building cost. This 17 per cent has now been reduced to five per cent for all home buyers i.e. locals, EU members as well as third country nationals (Russians, Chinese etc). The very objectionable requirement that the house must be for permanent residents only (i.e. living in the house for at least 183 days p.a.) it seems is now out. Care is required here. Foreign people who register a Cypriot company to buy a home etc, seem not to benefit from this reduction and might have to come up with the 17 per cent since, by our own interpretation, a company cannot be considered as a permanent residency. We have written to the VAT people on this new development and we await clarifications. In order to get the five per cent we remind you that: The eligibility for five per

cent VAT is for the covered area of the house (or apartment) not exceeding 275m². Anything in excess will not be allowed the benefit. Extra coverage allowed: Covered verandas 40m² Facilities room 5m² Store room 7m² Covered parking 37m² The five per cent is calculated (provided the house is less than 275m²) for covered areas up to 200m² and the other up to 275m² at 17 per cent (the extra coverage falls within the five per cent). So if you buy/build a house for say 270m², the 200m² will bear VAT at five per cent and the remaining 70m² at 17 per cent. Procedure: With the signing of the contract for the purchase of the property from the developer or with the contractor in building a house, the signed contract must be produced at the VAT office to obtain the exemption. So make your search before committing. Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents, www. aloizou.com.cy, ala-HQ@ aloizou.com.cy

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LEGAL ISSUES WITH GEORGE COUCOUNIS

Legal rights of co-owners of immovable property THE legal rights of co-owners of property regarding its possession, use and enjoyment are not properly regulated by the Immovable Property Law. The lack of legislation regulating the rights of co-owners creates problems since there will always be immovable properties owned or registered by more than one person. When there is a disagreement tension and unpleasant situations result. Where ex spouses remain co-owners of the matrimonial house and one is forced to leave the question raised is whether the spouse who left is entitled to claim rent or compensation from the other. The answer is that he can only claim compensation on the basis that he is deprived of his right to possess, use and enjoy the common-

ly owned house and not because the other has the exclusive use of it. There is an issue whether the spouse who is forced to leave is entitled to return. In such a case the available remedy is the procedure provided by the Immovable Property Law for the compulsory sale of the commonly owned matrimonial house. The law applies for any commonly owned property and it provides where an immovable property is held in undivided shares and its partition is not possible, any coowner may apply to the Director of the Land Registry for a certiﬁcate stating this. Upon the issue of such a certiﬁcate, the co-owner may serve a notice on the other co-owner informing him, unless within 30 days they can agree to an arrangement

where the property is allocated to one person or divided in a manner which does not contravene the law, he will apply to the Director to put the property in a public auction. Another example is the case where although all co-owners agree to divide their commonly owned property, they do not agree on how to distribute it. Again, they have to resort to the Director to solve the issue for them, depending on the value of the new plots to be created, on the number of the co-owners and on the readjustments i.e. the compensation each one of them will receive or land equal to his undivided share. Furthermore, there is a case where a co-owner may decide to sell his share to a third person. The law gives the option to the other co-own-

er, if he so wishes, to buy the share himself by depositing the sale price and the transfer fees at the Land Registry within the time specified by the law. It is possible thereafter for the new co-owner to take up the procedure for the sale of the property in public auction to buy the whole property himself. Even the assessment of the reserved price by the Director does not safeguard the rights of the co-owner who is not financially able to buy the property in public auction. Similar problems happen with half plots whereby again the Director plays an important role in their division among the co-owners. The law allows the division, provided the Director is satisfied that each separate sub-plot created can be

properly possessed and used as a separate plot. If it is about a building, the co-owner who requests the division must submit a certificate of final approval in accordance with the provisions of the Streets and Buildings Law. Taking into account the lack of regulations and/or a detailed law for the above issues, co-owners should always seek to compromise for the benefit of all instead of using the aforesaid procedures which will cause them hard feelings and injustice. ■ George Coucounis is a lawyer specialising on the Immovable Property Law, based in Larnaca, Tel: 24 818288, coucounis.law@ cytanet.com.cy

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Property The Omnibot 2000, remotecontrolled robot. c. 1985 was manufactured by Tomy and is part of the MoMA exhibition

Design for kids focus of new MoMA exhibit

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Visions ranging from utopian dreams to dark realities examined says Ellen Freilich

ITH toys, games, small furniture, books and play areas, a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art casts a sharp focus on 20th century design for children. Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 19002000, which opens today and runs until November 5, looks at the symbiotic relationship between children and the artists who designed for them. “We’re showing the twoway, very dynamic relationship between new concepts of childhood and children and new ways of thinking about design process and creativity,” said Juliet Kichin, curator in MoMA’s architecture and design department. Both children and artists share traits of openness and even disobedience, making them natural and empathetic collaborators. Kichin said working for children “gave the avantgarde unique freedom and creativity.” More than 500 objects from

ries, many 20 countries, A’s own from MoMA’s collections, ded are included hibin the exhibems it. Some items have neverr been re in the seen before ates, includUnited States, sh designer Jesing Scottish n King’s 1912-13 sie Marion dollhouse made of painted wood and leather and her l Frog Prince nursery panel. The exhibit’s first point of reference is Ellen Key’s 1900 book Century of the Child. The Swedish design reformer and social theorist looked at the 20th century as a period of intensified focus and progressive thinking about the crucial importance of the rights, development, and well-being of children. The exhibit looks back 100 years, examining individual and collective visions for children ranging from utopian dreams to dark realities. Kindergarten materials based on the theories of Friedrich Froebel recognise the widening influence of the 19th century kindergarten move-

ment. Clay and wood play b i k painted i t d b hild bricks by children at Francesco Randone’s free art school in Rome and the educational materials conceived by Maria Montessori reﬂect a shift in educational methods and avant-garde artistic experimentation. The exhibit includes children’s books collected by Alfred H Barr on a 1927-28 trip to the Soviet Union, before he was appointed MoMA’S founding director. “When Barr was thinking about the development of modernist art and design he went on this life-changing visit to the Soviet Union and chose to buy children’s books,” Kichin said. Familiar objects such as Lego building bricks, Erno Rubik’s Cube, Etch-aSketch and Slinky are part of the exhibit, along with furniture by Alvar Aalto, a chair by Charles Eames a n d Eero

Toy cars on show at MoMA

Saarinen, sc school desks by A Arne Jacobsen and Jean Pr Prouve and pl layground equipm playground equipment b Isamu Noguchi. by Kichin and O’Connor said they particularly enjo enjoyed the painted wood s series personifying childh childhood misdeeds done in 193 1930 by Minka Podhajska and lent by the Museum of Dec Decorative Arts in Prague. “Th ll ti i l “The collection includes the child who can’t sit still and the one who eats too much, another who thinks too much; and the one, wearing glasses, who reads too much,” O’Connor said. Another section focuses on the Cold War race to outer space. “One of the amazing things that design can do is take you on a journey,” Kichin said. “And with children, they’re halfway there already, and design helps propel them that bit further.” Idealised posters of Soviet youth by El Lissitzky and Aleksandr Rodchenko are included. A US Farm Security Administration Depression era photo by Ben Shahn shows Children of Destitute Mountaineer, Arkansas, 1935. Shomei Tomatsu’s 1961 photo, Girl Who Had Experienced the Atom Bomb Explosion While Still in her Mother’s Womb, shows the horrors of war, along with children’s drawings of their villages being bombed during the Spanish Civil War. A different nightmare ensnared Bauhaus-trained artist, kindergarten teacher and art therapist Friedl Dicker, who was gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau with 36 of her young students. Two of her works and a collage by Ruth Guttmannova, created at Theresienstadt concentration camp before her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, are part of the show.

ELECTRICITY costs are extremely high nationwide, with the cost of power now at an average of 29.5 cent/ Kwh, and forecasts show that another hike in 2013 is only going to make ﬁnancial matters worse due to new EU regulations on carbon emissions. So, now is the time to take action. Many of us, especially in Paphos, are lucky enough to have the luxury of owning our own swimming pool to cool off in during the glorious summer months, but as every home owner knows running a swimming pool does not come cheap. It is recommended your pool pump runs for no less than eight hours a day or you could run the risk of stagnant warm water becoming a breeding ground for algae with temperatures reaching around 30C. Also, more problems could occur if the sanitising system is not running sufﬁciently, enabling more bacteria to grow quickly causing ear infections which will need medical treatment. The solution is to use the power from the sun and keep your swimming pool

germ free, not only beneﬁtting your health but your bank balance too. A solar pump can circulate water from early morning until sundown even on those cloudy days. Depending on the pool size you could be saving more than €1,500 per year. No timer or switch is necessary as daylight controls the system for around the next 15 years. From an economical point of view, there is no other renewable energy system worldwide that will give you back such a large return on your investment. Just to put things in perspective, €4,000 in a savings account may gain a maximum of €150 in interest per year. A Lorentz solar pool pump system could save you more than €1,200 a year on electricity costs. Enjoy your pool all year round without it affecting your health or your ﬁnances. Green Air Ltd General importer for Cyprus of Lorentz Germany. Tel: 26 941555 or 99 838364, www.greenair-cy.com

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Inflation: the kiss of death to savings Inflation is insidious...you may not notice the effects each year until it is too late AMERICAN author and humorist Sam Ewing said that inflation is “when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair”. Most of us will smile in recognition at this statement, yet too many people do not take inflation seriously as a threat to their wealth. I should probably quote Ronald Reagan instead: “Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man”. More recently, the UK protest group Save our Savers described inflation as “the kiss of death to savings”. Wealth preservation is about protecting the value of your capital in ‘real terms’ – that is, after inflation and tax. There are various threats to your wealth that you need to plan for, but often interest rate risk and inflation risk come lower down the list than they should. While cash was viewed as a no-risk investment option by many, recent years have proved this is not the case, with a prolonged period of very low interest rates as well as bank failures. If you have cash savings in Sterling, markets now imply that the first Bank of England interest rate rise will not be until August 2017. They have also priced in a cut to 0.25% early next year. Save our Savers calculates that over £100 billion has already been lost since the BoE base rate was cut to 0.5%. If inflation outpaces the low interest rates available on your savings accounts, wherever you live, your capital is not only not growing, but declining in value. Prices have risen throughout history. For example, the pound lost 99% of its value in less than a century.

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Bill Blevins is Managing Director of Blevins Franks International. Tel: 26-912315

Inflation reduces spending power in the long run You may not worry about a 100 years’ time, but inflation can have a significant impact over your retirement years. Inflation is insidious – you may not notice the effects each year until it is too late. Official figures are based on a basket of goods and your personal rate is likely to be different. Over the longer term inflation reduces the spending power of your capital. For example, an inflation

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rate of 4% will reduce the spending power of 100,000 (be it Pounds or Euros) to 81,537 after just five years. After 10 years it falls to 66,483 and after 20 years it will have lost 56% of its value. If your personal inflation rate is 5%, 100,000 would be worth just 35,849 in 20 years’ time. Even lower interest rates have an impact over time. 2.5% inflation reduces the spending power of 100,000 to 77,632 in 10 years and

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60,269 in 20. With more and more people living longer than 20 years in retirement, many for 30 years or more, you need to plan for this possibility. 30 years of inflation could decimate your savings if they do not keep pace with inflation. A 4% inflation rate would wipe out over 70% of the value of 100,000, taking it down to just 29,386. It would even lose over half its value with a lower rate of 2.5%, ending up being worth 46,788. These calculations are only based on the real value after inflation. They do not take tax into equation, another thing you need to plan for. A recent research paper by First Direct provided a good illustration of how a million is not what it used to be, with inflation downgrading the lifestyle it can buy you. The value of £1 million today was worth £2.6m 20 years ago. To quote Save our Savers again, “Albert Einstein said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Given that inflation is its opposite, it is surely equally true to say that inflation is the most destructive force in the universe.” Speak to an experienced adviser like Blevins Franks to discuss strategies for your capital to keep pace with inflation, based on your circumstances and objectives. At the same time discuss the opportunities available to protect your income and wealth from unnecessary taxation. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com

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‘The smaller the country, the easier it is to bounce back’ ON MONDAY June 25, Cyprus became the fifth country to request a eurozone bailout, out of the 17 countries that use the euro currency. With an official bailout request of €1.8 billion – 10% of the Cyprus economy – the potential bailout and figure needed has become a highly debated issue, and recent reports stated that the bailout request could reach double figures. Limassol-based Alpari Financial Services Ltd (Alpari FS), one of the fastest growing providers of online forex trading services, looks at what effect the bailout request has had on the currency market, and discusses the implications and concerns surrounding it. Peter Leonidou, Head of Sales at Alpari FS, said: “The total bailout figure being discussed (around €10 billion) is a relatively small amount in comparison to bailout requests from other European countries, so at a glance might not appear particularly problematic. “This is reflected in the fact that Cyprus’ bailout request has not particularly affected the euro currency rate which remained relatively stable following the announcement, unlike with bailout requests from other euro zone countries. “However a source of uneasiness, and a key topic of discussion, is the fact that €10 billion is a large figure as a percentage, relative to the size of the Cyprus economy. Nevertheless Cyprus is a small country, and the smaller the country, the easier it is for the economy to bounce back. In general, Cyprus has a strong economy so the tools are there for a recovery. “The concern in the immediate future however is time. Government funds have been frozen until further notice, until we see exactly what the amount of the bailout is, how it will be distributed, how long it will take, and what austerity measures will be attached. “Banks have also frozen all assets due to a lack of liquidity. This is going to

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CHF 0,01 0,03 0,04 0,06 0,17 0,37

Peter Leonidou affect businesses in Cyprus. Everything that was lent out or promised by banks to business institutions has been put on hold, so things are stagnant. “Everything is on hold, and the longer it takes to reach these decisions, the bigger the effect it will have on businesses in Cyprus. It is this state of limbo that is having the most negative effect on businesses.” Trading leveraged products such as forex and CFDs carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. There is a possibility that you may lose more than your initial investment. Therefore, you should not risk more than you can afford to lose. Before trading you should fully understand the true extent of your exposure to the risk of loss and your level of experience. If you do not fully understand the risks involved, please seek independent advice. Alpari Financial Services Ltd is registered as a Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF) and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), licence number 129/10. To ﬁnd out more about Alpari FS or to open an account please visit us at www.alparifs.com or call +357 25 257 333. The content in this article comprises personal opinions and ideas and should not be taken or misunderstood as investment advice.

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The lessons learned in 1993 Fragmenting eurozone raises spectre of final crisis

could pose an existential threat to the euro, most view proposals to beef up the ESM as in effect crossing a deep red line that bans central bank financing of governments. But to govern is to choose, and the Governing Council of the ECB could be forced sooner than it likes to choose whether to sacrifice its principles or the euro. The eurozone’s “Lehman moment”, when policymakers must step in or risk financial meltdown, could come as early as this autumn. Greece’s international lenders are likely to report in September that Athens is way off track on its loans-for-reforms programme. Creditors’ demands for further austerity, or a refusal to extend more loans, could push

By Alan Wheatley S TALK persists that cash-strapped Greece might have to exit the euro, and bond markets panic over Spain, the fate of Europe’s single currency could soon be hanging in the balance again. After “Grexit” and “Spanic”, is it finally time to get ready for “Eurover”? The euro certainly seems in danger of market-driven disintegration, as signalled by wildly divergent borrowing costs among the nations sharing the currency. Bond yields in Spain are at euro-era highs because investor confidence has evaporated, while yields on two-year German notes and 12-month Dutch bills are negative. Ever-greater economic divergence is assured, scaring investors still further. But if the currency does break up, it will be for want of political will, not for want of policy solutions. “Is there some point at which the integrity of the region is sufficiently undermined that we pass the point of no return?” asked David Mackie, an economist with JP Morgan in London. “I don’t see that happening in a technical sense, because anything happening in the capital markets at the moment can easily be reversed,” Mackie added. “The break-up of the monetary union is not something that can ever be forced by financial markets.” That is because the European Central Bank, like any other central bank, could if necessary expand its balance sheet, or “print money”, without limit to contain capital flight or buy up the debt of besieged member states. Things would be different if the ECB were defending a fixed exchange rate with a finite stock of foreign-currency reserves. That is the position that the central banks of France and Spain found themselves in 19 years ago this month. Selling pressure on the French franc and peseta was so intense on July 30, 1993, a Friday, that the central banks threw in the towel, unable to keep their currencies off the floor of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), the precursor of the euro. Britain had pulled out of the ERM for good the previous September under speculative attack from George Soros and other investors, while Italy had suspended its membership of the currency grid. If France were to go the same way as Italy, or even suffer the milder indignity of a devaluation, it would deal a body blow to the Maastricht Treaty on economic and monetary union signed in March 1992. The launch of the euro scheduled for 1999 would be delayed, if not scuppered. What to do? At a Sunday crisis meeting in Brussels that ended just before dawn, finance ministers emerged with an ingenious compromise: they simply moved the goal posts, widening the ERM’s permitted trading bands to 15 per cent either side of the grid’s central rates, from 2.25 per cent before. The tactic worked. Selling of the French franc soon petered out as market participants recognised that they did not have the firepower to test the capacity of central banks to defend the widened bands. The dream of the single currency was still alive. At least two lessons from that fraught episode are relevant for today’s crisis. First, markets underestimate at their peril the political determination of Europe’s elite, when their backs are against the wall, to do what is needed to support the euro. The ECB’s provision of one trillion euros in cheap three-year loans to euro-area banks in December and February and last month’s

‘Our view is that the ECB is going to be an interim solution as a step to a more political solution’

The only strategy to save the eurozone is one centred on the ECB, says analysts agreement in principle to euro area-wide banking supervision are further examples. Second, when a central bank intervenes, it must deploy overwhelming force. Just as ERM speculators knew in the early 1990s that the Bank of England and the Bank of France did not have a bottomless chest of foreign exchange reserves, market participants today know that the eurozone’s rescue funds, the European Financial Stability Facility and the embryonic European Stability Mechanism, have limited resources. If they started buying Spanish or Italian debt to bring down yields, markets would begin forecasting how long their money would last, said Laurence Boone, an economist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London. “Investors might therefore seize this opportunity to sell bonds now rather than later, before the EFSF/ESM ran out of cash and the corresponding bond prices fell sharply. This in turn could precipitate wider market falls,” she said in a note to clients. Options for boosting the ﬁrepower of the rescue vehicles are thus being hotly debated. Essentially, they entail drawing on the ECB’s resources: the ECB could buy the ESM’s debt or give the ESM a banking licence, as ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny suggested on Wednesday. The ﬁrst proposal would be controversial, to say the least; the latter would be possibly illegal. But Paul de Grauwe, an economics professor at the London School of Economics, said the only strategy that can work is one that is centred on the ECB. That is because the central bank, as a money-creating institution, has an openended capacity to buy government bonds -

quantitative easing in short. Practically, De Grauwe said the ECB should announce that it would defend a cap on the spreads of Spanish and Italian bonds of, say, three percentage points above benchmark German yields. “Such an announcement is fully credible if the ECB is committed to use all its firepower, which is infinite, to achieve this target,” he wrote in an article for the voxEU.org website. For now, the ECB is definitely not committed to drawing on the unlimited firepower that De Grauwe describes. Even though some policymakers worry that the sovereign debt and banking crisis

Greece out of the euro. For Spain, the moment of truth could come in late October, when it has to roll over 20 billion euros of maturing bonds. Madrid has already agreed to borrow up to 100 billion euros to recapitalise its shaky banks, but markets are betting that, like Greece, Ireland and Portugal, it will be unable to sell its debt and will have to request a humiliating bailout from Europe and the International Monetary Fund. Tim Legierse, senior international economist at Rabobank in Utrecht, said the ECB would act in the event of a full-blown crisis, possibly extracting in exchange a promise of some sort of debt mutualisation to restore confidence in weaker euro zone members. In return for such a pledge, Germany and other creditors would demand more central oversight of debtor states’ budgets. “Our view is that the ECB is going to be an interim solution as a step to a more political solution, which is not going to be forthcoming quickly enough to withstand the contagion that might result from either Greece exiting the euro or from Spain getting a full bailout package,” Legierse said. Mackie of JP Morgan said Spain would put off a full rescue for as long as possible but was likely to succumb by the end of the year, possibly by applying for a precautionary credit line from the eurozone rescue fund. As for Greece, he said it was in the interests of creditors to keep Athens inside the euro for the next six to 12 months at least, even if that means stumping up more cash, in order to avoid the risk of contagion engulfing neighbouring Italy. “This is a very difficult environment. I feel they will navigate their way through this, but it’s not easy to see how,” Mackie said. Nor was it easy to see a way out in the currency crisis of July 1993.

Vacancy The US Embassy in Nicosia is seeking an individual for the Local Guard Force Guard position. These are full-time positions (40 hours per week) with rotating shifts and rotating work days. Applicants must have the required work and residency permits to be eligible for consideration. Main responsibility: Performs guard services to safeguard the US Embassy in Nicosia, its annexes, official residences and other USG facilities. Please visit the following website for detailed qualifications for the position and for application procedures: http://cyprus.usembassy.gov/theembassy/employment.html Applicants should send the DS-174 application for employment to: US Embassy, HR Office, Local Guard Force Guard position, P.O. Box 24536, 1385 Nicosia or via E-mail to: VacanciesNicosia@state.gov to arrive no later than 5:00 p.m. August 7, 2012. No telephone calls will be accepted. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

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chain link fencing, decking and all general maintenance work on properties at competitive prices. For free no obligation quotation ring Tyrone on 99177037 covering Paphos, Polis and Pissouri areas. ***************************** EXPERIENCED PAINTER at very reasonable prices! Decorative coatings, house painting, sprits and graphiato, varnishing, damp proofing and protection from humidity for walls and ceilings. Free estimates! Call Harry on 97768020 ***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) rickyscleaningservices@gmail.com ***************************** UPHOLSTERY, RUG, BLINDS + CURTAIN CLEANING Rugs from 20€ - Carpets from 38€ Fabric Suites form 85€ - Leather Suites from 95€ - Mattresses from 25€. Curtains, Roman blinds, Vertical Blinds need to be surveyed. Collection Service available. For a free quotation call Mark on 70006766 All areas DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER THIS SUMMER by having Windowfilm professionaly fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering your home! Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uv-rays which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con. Also keeps your home warmer in winter. Call Ian on 99979671 ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work. For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, MELIS: 96547879 ***************************** JURIDICAL SERVICES Con-

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049 tracts, sales agreements, conveyancing, wills, administration of estates, general litigation, power of attorney, land registry matters, companies, translations, immigration etc... And all legal matters. Call: Natalia Michealidou – jurist, Paphos Tel: 26 933159 – 99523231 (ofﬁce hours)

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS SAT NAV for sale GARMIN 1200 cost €159 PRICE €70, FINAL SALE of sofa, easy chair TV unit coffee and side tables total €75 lamps, rugs, childrens furniture, glass top dining table 4 chairs, paintings €10 each ENGOMI 96832275 GAS BBQ €60 ***************************** 2 BEDROOM ATLAS MOBILE HOME for sale . Granite kitchen surfaces, tiled ﬂoors in W.C., Shower room and kitchen REDUCED TO E7,900. Tel. 99416918 or <sandymathie@ hotmail.com> SOFA easy chair glass top dining table and 4 chairs coffee side tables euro 475 rugs lamps paintings euro 10 each child bike euro 15 car seat euro 20 gas bbq euro 60 kitchen items and childrens furniture must go this weekend giveaway prices call 96832275 BOOKSHOP language school closing down sale: books, desks, sofas, tables, chairs, bookshelves for sale. Nicosia centre. For info 99821634. FURNITURE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress €50 play table and stools €50 Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40 Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum cleaner Miele €80 Abstract canvasses from €10 ENGOMI 22355790 CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall ﬁttings (clothes rails.) Selling at very low prices for clearance. Tel: 99-168943

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND RESIDENTIAL PIECE OF LAND of 985sqm in the village of Pareklisia. Partial sea views, near to electricity and water supplies. € 135.000 D.C. (Cyprus) Real Estate Tel: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PLOT in the centre of Lefkara Village 670sqm, high build factor, near all shops, and amenities € 210.000 negotiable Tel: 99 330 908 PLOT LOCATED in Mesa Geitonia, Limassol 617sqm. 100%

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FOR SALE B.P./LAND build. Ideal for the construction of apartment building or 1 or 2 large houses. Price reduced to € 360.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0170 ***************************** PLOT IN GEROSKIPOU, just 5 minutes from the Paphos centre, with magnificent sea views of the whole of Paphos, 640 square metres, attached to a green area, premium piece of land, €210.000, Tel 99403261 (owners) ***************************** FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large flat screen TV’s + projector, fits 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579 FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195.

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

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES VOLKSWAGEN POLO 1.4, model 1998, manual, 5 door, dark blue, valid MOT, a/c, great stereo system, good condition. €2500. Nicosia. For info 99548265 ****************************

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FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES MAZDA RX8 2004 Black,(high power 247) electric locks, a/c ,fog lights, MD player, CD changer, TV/DVD, navigator, factory adjustable suspension soft/hard-up/down. 6+1 speed, body kit, MOT. The condition of the car is excellent. CALL 96871551 ****************************

FOR SALE BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE, 2008, colour platinum bronze, 18’’ alloys, being leather, cruise control, front and rear parking sesonrs, lights-rain sensors, wind deﬂector, 45000 km, excellent condition, €30,900. For information call 99405122. *****************************

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PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FLAT FOR RENT location Prevezis 13 Nicosia (near Cleopatra hotel) flat 2 bedrooms - 90m2 (the flat is in a new building in the centre and can also be used as an office. For info., Tel 99-763 804 Andreas Panayi **************************** 3 BEDROOM FLAT completely renovated in Strovolos. 135sqm, quite family owned building recently painted. c/h, a/c, storage room. Stainless steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. € 650/month Call 99 330 908. ***************************** LYCAVITOS 300sq.m., 3 bdrm office lux. €1500, Dasoupolis 2 bdrm., wooden floors modern design €750, Acropolis 3 bdrm f/f., modern furniture, luxury

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€1000, Hilton 2 bdrm., wooden floors, modern building €850, Mak/ssa whole floor flat with/ without furniture €1200, villas Mak/ssa-Strovolos with pool and garden. Costas Markides Tel: 22378898/99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16. ***************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio Strovolos €250, Lykavitos €380 1bdrm Ag. Andreas €490, Makarios Av. €500 2 bdrm Acropolis new €700, Lykavitos furnish €600, Acropolis €530 3bdrm Parissinos house semidetached €550 Acropolis back house €300, Ag. Dometios independent house+garden €800, Acropolis €650, 4bdrm Ag. Andreas penthouse €800. POSPORIDES ESTATES 99474839 99646822 Reg.338 ***************************** ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The European University (Cyprus College) and

all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m. Please call 99695382 ***************************** TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ****************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom. Available end of July - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website). 2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central

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heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighborhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €900 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 4 bedr + separate office space + maid’s room luxury detached house, split level, big open space sitting areas,400sq.m,a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, swimming pool, big verandas, 2 covered parking, in a very quiet area near Lidl – Latsia €2500 (H4LAT0008-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxry detached house with 1 bedr flat in the basement, floor heating with gass a/c units, big kitchen with electrical appliances, 4 wc, 3 bathrooms, big garden with small pebbles, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE in August – Makedonitissa €1700 (H4MAK0027-R), (photos in the website). 5. 4 bedr+ attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with separate maid’s room, central heating, a/c, separate office room, sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining room and big family room opening to the big garden with grass and bbq area, 2 covered parking, behind General flooring shop – Makedonitissa €3000 (H4MAK0025-R), (Photos on the website). 6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small

garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, lighting fixtures, 2 bedrs with en suite shower and wc, main bathroom with jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only shower ,swimming pool with wooden deck around, covered patio with nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area – Strovolos €2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos in the website). 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big storage room, solid parquet floor in the bedrooms, 2 covered parking, swimming pool, garden with trees, veranda with bbq area, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big sitting and dining areas, very near to English School, off Athalassas Avenue €2300 (H4ST10036-R), (photos on the website). 9. 4 bedr detached house with central heating, a/c units, separate big kitchen with el. appliances, small garden at the back, covered parking, 3wc,2 bathrooms, near the French ambassador residence – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10038-R), (Photos on the website). 10. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with

3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, - Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website). 11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land. Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, office and guest room with separate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website). 12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website). 13. 4 bedr+ separate maid’s room luxury finished semi detached house with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with family room, full expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen(Miele), 4wc, blinds on windows, big back yard with tiled and bbq area, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood with easy access to the French school – Aglantzia €1400 (H4AGZ0008-R), (photos in the website). 14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sit-

ting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website). 15. 4 bedr house built in 2 plots,3 bedrs upstairs and one down, big garden with grass, bbq area with kiosk, Central Heating ,full AC,240sq.m,parquet floor,2 showers,3wc,electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighbourhood. Available in aprox. one month from signing contracts. CAN BE RENTED ALSO FURNISHED OR PARTIALLY FURNISHED – Agios Andreas €2000 (H4AAD0006-R), (photos in the website). 16. 3 bedr + office space +separate maid’s room detached luxury house, 450sq.m, recently renovated, with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area with parquet floor, TV room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area and fitted cooker and oven, 4 wc, roller blinds on all windows, very big verandas and yard, covered parking, in a very quiet neighborhood in the centre of Makedonitissa opposite a playground. AVAILABLE MID JULY - €1400 (H4MAK0003-R), (photos in the website). 17. 3 bedr+ attic room which can be used for bedroom or office, luxury semi detached house, with central heating, full a/c, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, big patio with tiles and trees on the back and covered veranda on thr front, parking, in a quiet area off 28th October street in the centre of Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0026-R), (photos in the website) 18. New luxury 4 bedr + very big 40sq.m attic room with shower and wc semi detached house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sit-

ting and dining areas, 4 wc, 2 showers,1 bathroom, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven and, refrigerator in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood and area – Agios Dometios €1500 (H4ADO0004-R). (photos in the website). 19. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, small yard, bbq area, FULLY FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website). 20. 3 bedr+ separate maid’s room semi detached house, 250sq.m, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with family room, 4wc, 2 bathrooms, 1 shower, 2 covered parking, big verandas and big covered patio with bbq, big covered veranda for the winter on the back, fully furnished and equipped, in a quiet neighborhood very close to all amenities and Apha Mega supermarket - Acropolis €1200 (H4ACS0001-R), (photos in the website). 21. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with fire place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training field. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000 (H4AR0007-R), (photos in the website). 22. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite

shower/bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website). 23. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website). 24. 4 bedr luxury detached house with expensive finishes, office space, separate maid’s room, 3 of the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, floor heating, full air condition, white marble floor all the house, fire place, lighting fixtures, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, swimming pool with bbq area, small garden,2 covered parking’s in a nice neighbourhood with expensive houses near KEMA building – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H4PAG0004-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com **************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated apartment, storage heaters, 3 a/c, separate big kitchen, big sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped with solid parquet floor off Prodromou street – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the website). 2. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey apartment with solid

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company. 1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date. 2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized. 5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012. Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

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parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on the website). 3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, cov-

ered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighborhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, ofﬁce space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms, covered parking, in a small building near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000 (A3ENG0023-R), (photos in

the website). 6. 3 bedr luxury apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered veranda, covered parking, near Ippokration hospital – Engomi €700 (A3ENG0024-R), (photos in the website). 7. 2 bedr brand new luxury ﬁnished apartment on a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bed-

rooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near trafﬁc lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 3 bedr new luxury spacious apartment, 150sq.m+big covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, nicely furnished big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, big bedrooms, a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms,

electrical heating if needed, covered parking and big room on the ground floor with window which can be used for a maid or office, in a very quite neighbourhood in a small building – Agios Dometios €750 (A3ADO0006-R), (photos in the website) 9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m oppo-

site Akropolis park. Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website). 10. 2 bedr new luxury ﬁnished apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured entrance building in a very quiet neighborhood – Aglantzia €650 (A2AGZ0022-R), (photos in the website) 11. 1 bedr apartment, 55sq.m, separate kitchen, fully furnished and equipped with

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television in good condition,2 AC for hot and cold on Makarios Avenue near Debenhams. Available for short and long term – Nicosia Centre €450 (A1NIC0002-R), (photos in the website). 12. 1 bedr apartment with storage heaters, 2 a/c, big bathroom, NICELY FUNRISHED, covered parking, covered veranda with nice view, in a quiet area near Ippokration hospital – Engomi €500 (A1ENG0009-R), (photos in the website). 13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th floor of a small building with 6 flats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighborhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website). 14. New luxury modern 3 bedr apartment,145sq.m big covered veranda with nice view, a/c in all the rooms, electrical heating, cooker and oven in the kitchen, big sitting and dining room,2 bathrooms, laundry room, covered parking and storage room off Kennedy Avenue behind KPMG offices – Acropolis €900(A3ACS0038-R), (photos on the website). 15. 3 bedr +separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) & luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast

area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre €1100 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 16. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with central heating independent, full ac, fully modern nicely furnished and equipped, big covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking opposite Hilton, off Makarios Avenue close to the centre – Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0003-R), (photos in the website) 17. Brand new quality finished 2 storey Penthouse apartment with cozy nicely modern fully furnished apartment, 150sq.m unique design, a/c for hot and cold in all the flat, 2wc, big verandas around the flat, private elevator with lock for the flat , in the centre of Makedonitissa of 28th October street – €1200 (A2MAK0004-R), (photos in the website). 18. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas Avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis €1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos on the website) 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, cen-

tral heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – Engomi €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website). 20. 3 bedr new luxury finished penthouse floor apartment, 240sq.m, big sitting and dining area(can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), big separate kitchen with cooker, oven, microwave, laundry room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, storage heaters, full a/c, blinds on all windows, pressure system, covered parking, big covered veranda, off Iphigenia’s street near Ministry of Education on a small building with 7 flats only. Available in September – Acropolis €1300 (A3ACS0019-R), (photos in the website). 21. 3 bedr spacious apartment, 150sq.m, central heating independent, 3a/c, big sitting room,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered veranda, in a small building with 2 flats only, covered parking, near Hilton Park hotel – Engomi €750 (A3ENG0022-R), (photos in the website). 22. 4 bedr new luxury finished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin air-conditions for hot and cold

in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood. Available in August – Nicosia Center €1100 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website). 23. New luxury spacious 3 bedr quality apartment, 165sq.m+ big covered verandah, separate floor heating, full a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solid parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area (can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), electrical appliances in the kitchen which has a breakfast area,2 covered parking, storage room in a very quiet green neighbourhood near the centre and Ag. Andreas - AVAILABLE in AUGUST– Nicosia Center €1450 (A3NIC0004-R), (photos in the website). 24. 3 bedr+ separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered park-

ing and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building. AVAILABLE 1st of AUGUST – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website). 26. 3 bed brand new luxury finished apartment in a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms(one en suite), expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, double glazed windows with electrical shutter, covered veranda, pressure system, solar heater, central satellite antenna, 2 covered parkings, storage room, security entrance, close to Honda traffic lights walking distance to the centre – Agioi Omologites €850 (A3AOM0009-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at w w w. l a n d t o u r i s t e s t a t e s . com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 3 BDRM flat in Pallouriotissa (next to McDonalds). For information call 99606984. 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.

3 new bathrooms, new kitchen with stainless steel appliances. 2 Covered parkings. Price € 1500/month. Call 99 330 908 OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103 ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE 3 bedrooms in Omonia furnished /unfurnished, fire place in sitting room, main sitting room, kitchen, bathroom, utility, shower with W/C. A/C in bedrooms. Covered parking. Price €650. Tel 95 116808 VERY SPACIOUS LUXURY BUNGALOW HOUSE situated in the village of Palodeia, ideal for its proximity to the Heritage school and only 5 miles to Limassol town centre with shops and banks close by. Accommodation comprises of an open plan sitting room/dining area, fully fitted and equipped kitchen, 1 master bedroom with en-suite, 3 large bedrooms, a separate wc/bathroom and an office room. A/c & c/h throughout. In front of the house is a car port for 2 cars but has additional space for another 3 or 4 cars. Price €1250.00pm. Viewing available after 23/8/12 please contact Yiannakis Georgiou 99451011. **************************** LIMASSOL, RENT: Office of around 110 m2, with partitions, split units, kitchenette and parking in a peaceful, green yet central area at Helladion House(off. 201), 5 Andrea Kalvou Str. For viewing, please knock on off.

LIMASSOL **************************** 4 BEDROOM recently renovated whole ﬂoor apartment of 200sqm.. Fully Furnished. Opposite sea, swimming pool, tennis court, and security gate.

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202(2nd ﬂloor). For further details, please call 25-521873 or 25-731163 after 8:00pm. FOR RENT IN CENTRE OF LANIA village a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom modernised old village house. Unfurnished, 425 euro pcm Tel 99305491. OFFICE FOR RENT OPPOSITE SEA WITH amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103

with private swimming pools for waiting tenants in the Larnaca District. Please call us for a free valuation. Tel.(00357) 24815104 3. K.S.L LETTINGS – largest range of properties. Over 200 rental properties in the Larnaca district at the most competitive rates! Flexible contracts available. Tel. (00357) 24815104 4. WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM – VILLA FOR RENT Fully furnished 3 bedroom Villa with a good-sized rear garden & Communal pool, located in the village of Oroklini. Call for further information quoting Ref. TLL1189. Tel. (00357) 24815104 CALL 24 815 104 TO ENQUIRE OR ARRANGE A VIEWING – NO OBLIGATION OR FEES. VIEW OUR FULL RANGE OF OVER 200 PROPERTIES BY VISITING WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM UPDATED DAILY. LANDLORDS ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY FOR FREE AND GET WORLD WIDE ADVERTISING – NO TENANT NO FEE ! ****************************

For info call 99370845 Mrs Androulla Georgiou. ***************************** FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** CHLORAKA, 2 bedroom apartment, only 5 years old, fully furnished with a/c, lovely, large patio area in rear €300 per month, + communal charges please call Malcolm on: 99127031 - no agents **************************** FOR RENT new ground ﬂoor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village(20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. Inf. Mob 99548855 **************************** For your consideration 1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a modern 2 bedroom, stone walled villa with sea views, large swimming pool and 650 sq metres garden. In a quiet cul-de-sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar panels and pressurised water system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets. 2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views

of the sea. 3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must see! 4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250 modern 1 bedroom top floor apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe. Fully furnished with all appliances. Lift to all floors. This complex offers a lovely communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close to amenities, a great central location. Call Val on 99166563 Or Liz on 96703403 **************************** UNIVERSAL AREA, 2 bedroom modern furnished town house, communal pool Euro 450 per month Tel 99387842 ***************************** ANAVARGOS, 3 bedroom detached house, low maintenance garden, communal pool, very close to international school, Unfurnished or furnished, euro 550 per month Tel: 99239262 ***************************** EPISKOPI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom bungalow, unfurnished, a/con, fire-place, spectacular mountain views, large established garden with irrigation, swimming pool, very quiet location, euro 650 ono – long term Please call Micheal: 99655636 - no agents **************************** GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT, - Large modern

studio flat in small residential block, in central Paphos, 5 minutes from town centre, 2 minutes from motorway, and 10 minutes from Kato Paphos. Separate Living area/kitchen and bedroom. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Covered veranda, and undercover designated parking. Only Euro 215/month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-310481. **************************** AYIOS DEMETRIANOS 3 bedroom villa with swimming pool, large established garden, sea views, unfurnished, very quiet area. Euro 550 per month ono. Call: 99127195 **************************** BEAUTIFUL, 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, furnished and fully air-conditioned, situated close to Carrefour €330. And a 1 bed new apt, attractive and spacious, furnished with S.pool, in Chlorakas, 500 meters from the St. George hotel €290. OWNERS, TEL 99403261, 26934650 ***************************** GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT - Large modern studio flat in small residential block, in central Paphos, 5 minutes from town centre, 2 minutes from motorway, and 10 minutes from Kato Paphos. Separate Living area/kitchen and bedroom. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Covered veranda, and undercover designated parking. Only €215/ month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-310481. **************************** 1. YEROSKIPOU AREA, euro 380, beautiful 2 bed, first floor apartment, fully furnished, large bathroom, large balcony.

LARNACA **************************** LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 **************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground floor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool. Beautifully furnished throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District. Quote TLL884. Tel. (00357) 24815104 2. K.S.L LETTINGS – Properties Required for waiting Long Term Tenants. We desperately require 2/3 & 4 bedroom villa’s

PAPHOS **************************** GEROSKIPOU - beautiful brand new unfurnished 2 bdrm apartment €330p.m., 3 bdrm apartment €390p.m., fully a/c, vertical blinds, cooker oven, fan extractor. Situated in quiet area, very modern near Kato Paphos close to Neapolis University, close to supermarkets,

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YEROSKIPOU AREA, 3 bedroom villa with pool, unfurnished, large garden and ample parking. Main bedroom en-suite, ground floor w/c with cloakroom, separate kitchen area. Euro 500 per month 3. UNIVERSAL, 1 bedroom apartment on ground floor with garden, patio to front, well maintained complex with pool, fully furnished, euro 300 per month ono 4. MESA CHORIO, 2 bedroom apartment , modern furniture, fully equipped, one bedroom en-suite + one bathroom, panoramic views, well maintained complex with pool, euro 400 per month ono MANY MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE - CALL : 96753677 **************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga. Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom. Tel: 99-492521/ 99673276 **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 ***************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 **************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OF-

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FICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. TREMITHOUSA €425 never rented before so a real home. Stunning spacious 2 bedroom townhouse, immaculate condition & furnished with good quality furniture with fly screens & ceiling fans & many extras. Downstairs guest wc. Good sized enclosed pretty garden offering sea views. Situated on a quiet complex with communal pool area. 2. UNIVERSAL AREA €550 spacious 3 bedroom semi detached house all with ensuite bathrooms plus downstairs guest wc. Large storage room & roof terrace. Enclosed garden with private pool. Drive for off street parking. Available unfurnished with sky satellite. Situated in a great central location. 3. TALA €625 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite. Large storage room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views. Off street parking. A beautiful home. 4. KAMARES €675 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool. Available unfurnished or fully furnished and includes

central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter months. Outdoor storage facitilites, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters. 5. KONIA €700 new to the market this spacious detached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Guest wc. Beautifully furnished with quality modern furniture. Separate modern fitted kitchen plus separate utility room. Shutters to all windows. Roof terrace with sea views. Fully enclosed garden with storage shed, covered barbeque area and private pool offering lovely views. 6. PEYIA €700 unfurnished 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Spacious kitchen & living area. Enclosed garden with well & private pool offering sea views. Rental price includes pool cleaning. Covered verandah, private drive for off street parking. Situated in a quiet residential area. 7. TALA €1450 magnificent modern 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa, furnished with designer modern furniture, though can be available unfurnished if desired. Includes gas central heating & working fireplace. Beautifully designed & spacious with undercover parking, private pool & sea views. A must to see! 8. ANARITA €1800 amazing 4 bedroom detached villa, this stunning property offers top of the range modern kitchen. Spacious living rooms, all bedrooms with modern ensuites. Landscaped gardens with private pool offering total privacy & covered barbeque area, great for entertaining.

Available fully furnished or unfurnished & includes gas central heating & so much more. TEL: 99133422 OFFICE: 26271858 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MANY MORE PROPERTIES www.mrrentpaphos.net Email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net **************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97641764 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. KAMARES - TALA – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished luxury bungalow set on an elevated plot on this prestigious development. Open plan living area with feature ﬁreplace, dining area. Separate kitchen with D/W etc. Separate utility room with access to side garden. 2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Large verandah overlooking the pool. Sep storage room, covered parking and additional store. Swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. €600.00 a month or sensible offers only 2. TRIMITHOUSA 3 bed 2. bath unfurnished apartment/house set in quiet location with views. Open plan living area and dining area.. Fully ﬁtted kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Large balcony, off-street parking. €400.00 a month. 3. KATHIKAS – 3 bed,2 bath unfurnished stone bungalow with no immediate neighbours.. Open plan living area

with fireplace with log burner.. Fitted kitchen, utility room. 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite. Family bathroom. Parking, Swimming pool and landscaped garden areas. Very quiet area. €600.00 a month 4. MESA CHORIO– 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool. Minutes into Paphos. €425. Or close offers 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with en-suite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. €800.00 per month. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, balcony, shutters, comm. Pool and parking. €400.00 a montn or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal. 7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large fully furnished villa. Very large property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2 bedrooms, bathroom on this level with small seating area. Ideal for dual living. Stairs up to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom. Heated swim-

ming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.€1500.00 per month or offers. 8. PISSOURI DISTRICT – 3 bed 2 bath spacious unfurnished detached villa on large landscaped plot in the beautiful village of Anoygra. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace. Fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Ground floor bedroom with adjacent bathroom. Stairs to 2 additonal bedrooms and family bathroom. This floor also has a mezzanine suitable for office/ playroom. Doors out to balcony. Pretty landscaped gardens and off street parking. Pool facilities are available close by. €500.00 per month. Fixed price FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com **************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610. *****************************

vated. Located in quiet area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 negotiable Call: 99 330 908 **************************** FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, ﬁreplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596. ****************************

OFFICE/WAREHOUSE FOR RENT 735m² of ofﬁce space and 1200m² warehousing available for long term rent on Yianni Kranidioti Avenue very close to Carlsberg Brewery. Easy access to Nicosia-Limassol highway (only 200 metres). Loading bays for warehouses and parking space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank plus car mechanics station. For more information please call 99218866

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

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

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

PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE IS A BUILDING WITH 4 FLATS, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quite area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 euro. negotiable Call: 99 330 908 **************************** FLAT FOR SALE/RENT: ‘ITHAKI’ is a small 3 Storey brand new building, only 5 units located in quiet neighbourhood in Strovolos, near Falcon school. ITHAKI has only 2 completed 3 bedroom apartments per floor. And on 3rd floor an independent 3 bedroom penthouse with a roof garden. Italian Kitchen, big verandas, big storeroom and convenient parking. PANICOS STAVRINOU ESTATE AGENT R.N.497 99666703 email yemo@cytanet.com.cy **************************** FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely reno-

LIMASSOL **************************** 2 BEDROOM FLAT located in Germasoyia with partial sea views, 85sqm less than 10 years old with title deeds Price € 135.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/listing-lim0361 ****************************

SALE LIMASSOL 2 bed flat on beach road; light, airy with balcony. New flooring, a/c units, lift 2nd floor, windows 3 sides, own car space. TITLE DEEDS. €115,000. Tel 99178141 www.homesinternational.info (Les Bois) ****************************

LARNACA **************************** NEAR MARONI Coastline Larnaca 2 bdrm bungalow on large plot Wrap around veranda with sea & mountain views, Large lounge/dining room, Large Kitchen, Full C/H Provision for a/c All furniture & car included €295,000 99147929 ****************************

PAPHOS LUXURY VILLA 550 sq.m in 1250 lot.,5 bed.6 bath. maids en suite, walk in basement, beautiful landscape, double garage, large pool, playground, well, quiet neighborhoot. Price 1.550.000 M. Phone 357-99432074,35799552585 TALA, 5 bdrm villa for sale . Title deeds.sea and mountain view. 5 en-suite double bedrooms. Central heating, a/c, ﬁreplace. Private L shape s/ pool and garden area, patio, with bbq, bar and pergola. Car parking. Plot: 620 sq.m. Covered: 285sqm, €458.000. tel. 99587757. *****************************

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

Semi-detached house in Archangelos

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

area split level on a hill, no houses

Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information) Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

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bathrooms and TV room big lounge & 1-5 bed villas & cottages

dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar. For information call: 99496541

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FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos

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

Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS!!!!! PAPHIAKOS NEW CHARITYSHOP/T.ROOMS NOW OPEN IN PEYIA. T ROOMS NOW OPEN (next to Peyia Police Station) Volunteers and donations needed please contact Suzanne 99151996 for further information. NOW OPEN !!! BOOKSHOP/INFORMATION CENTRE/T-SHOP IN POLIS CONTACT JUDY 99223572 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS. PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. BOOK EXCHANGE SHOP TREMITHOUSA Paphiakos Book Exchange Shop, Tremithousa. Special Tuesday sales held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. For more information Tel 99771763/99283467 PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WIH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008 NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!! THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FEELING THE HEAT? THINK ABOUT THE ANIMALS NEEDING WATER AND SHADE. MAKE SURE DOGS ARE NOT LEFT IN CARS THEY BECOME OVENS IN SUMMER!! For further advice or assistance contact the clinic 26953496 or visit the website www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com

CHEMISTS NICOSIA SUNDAY 29/07/2012 A. Patatas, 33B Makarios III Ave. Tel: 22754644, 22311598 (H) K. Liasi, 79C. D Makarios Ave, Kato Lakatameia. Tel: 22384464, 22324314 (H) E. Georgiou, 58 Ay Pavlos St, Ayios Pavlos. Tel: 22781766, 22773868 M. Gregoriou, 65C D Prodromou St,Strovolos. Tel: 22664750, 22354282 (H) A. Antoniades, 71E Stavrou Ave., Tel: 22427707, 22431301 LIMASSOL G. Aggelopoulou 34A Griva Digheni Ave., Tel: 25581965, 25328511 G. M. Prodromou, 74D Misiaouli & Kavazoglou St. Tel: 25568009, 25811208 (H) O. Agathocleous 269G Agias Phylaxeos Tel: 25386221, 25730209 LARNACA E. Constantinidou , 64 Z. Kitiea St. Tel: 24655129, 24657435 (H) K. Kaymis, 88 Makarios III Ave. Tel: 24637044, 24626339 (H) PAPHOS G. Ioannou, Tombs of the Kings Rd, Kato Paphos, Tel: 26818397, PARALIMNI P. Loizou, 150 Gr. Dighenis Ave. Tel: 23821368, 23823608 (H)

NICOSIA MONDAY 30/07/2012 Th. Nioulikos, 22 Them. Severis Ave. Tel: 22669664, 22661852(H) A. Nicolaou, 12 Ay. Andreou St, Pallouriotissa. Tel. 22430032, 22424078 (H) E. Hadjigeorgiou, 132C Kirinias Ave. Tel: 22338002, 22330761 E. Daskalakis, 24A, Elia Papakyriakou Egkomi, Tel: 22355955, 22357220 G. Konstantinou, Giannitson 8, Tel: 22107447, 22380736 LIMASSOL A. Karamanidou 30 Arch. Makariou Ave., Tel. 25728408, 25727517 (H) Chr. Kleanthous, 16D Gladstonos, Tel: 25748070, 25382437 (H) P. Damianou, 68A Omonias Ave, Tel: 25562444, 25384141 LARNACA K. Evlavis, 69A Arc. Makariou Tel: 24656469, 24662689 (H) N. Aspri, Artemidos Ave. Tel: 24624928, 24622102 (H) PAPHOS L. Chrisostomou (P.E.O. No. 2), 31B Danais St, Kato Paphos. Tel: 26964837, 26221624 (H) PARALIMNI M. Pantelidou, 2 Mapias Sigklitikis,

Tel: 23730111, 23823055

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DOCTORS ON DUTY NICOSIA Pathologist: Doros Polidorou, Tel: 99727817 Antonis Ophthalmologist: Glikeriou, Tel: 70000171 Urologist: Achilleas Corellis, Tel: 70007773, 99562642 Gynaecologist: Michalis Egglezakis, Tel: 99680371 Paediatric Surgeon: Eliana Eliadou, Tel: 99384324 Dentist: Georgia Mavrommati, Tel: 22331258, 99797020 LIMASSOL Pathologist: Savvas Ioannoui, Tel.: 25372003, 99070777 Surgeon: Tzeris Ioannides, Tel.: 25361580 Neuro-Surgeon: Michalakis Spirou, Tel: 99624939 Paediatric: Andreas Pasias, Tel.: 25586144, 25753330, 99681166 Paediatric Surgeon: Georgios Hadjiconstantas, Tel.: 25730055, 25723914 Kardiologist: Constantinos N. Kyriakou, Tel: 99511589, 25108850 Ophthalmologist: Vasos Pouppis, Tel: 25371191 Doctor: Lampros Theodosiou, Tel: 25581712, 99624372

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)

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

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

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

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

Open Door Baptist Church

Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

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 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!

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome 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

GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m. Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist 4th Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist rd 3 Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala 1st & 3rd 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

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

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

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Motoring Compiled by Rosie Ogden

ART DRIVE! BMW Art Car Collection 1975-2010 ART DRIVE! The BMW Art Car Collection 1975-2010 exhibition opened in the NCP car park on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch, London on July 21 and runs for two weeks. In partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the Mayor of London and the London 2012 Festival, the exhibition brings together for the ﬁrst time in the UK a collection of BMW cars transformed by 16 of the world’s leading international artists. Initiated over 35 years ago, it features BMW cars by: Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Ernst Fuchs, Robert Rauschenberg, M.J Nelson, Ken Done, Matazo Kayama, Cesar Manrique, Jeff Koons, A.R Penck, Esher Mahlangu, Sandro Chia, Jenny Holzer and David Hockney. The exhibition is part of

the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running until 9 September 2012, bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. The BMW Art Car Collection started when French racing driver and auctioneer Hervé Poulain invited his friend Alexander Calder to design a car that married artistic excellence to ‘an already perfect object’. The end result was a racing car that would ultimately compete in the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1975. And so the BMW Art Car was born. Since then some of the greatest names in contemporary art have added to the collection creating a wide range of artistic interpretations. David Hockney’s 1995 Art Car paints the inside of the car on the

outside, revealing everything from internal engine parts to a dog in the back. Rauschenberg incorporates photographic transfers of Ingres paintings while Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein used the canvas of the car to portray the essence of speed. Well-known for its support for innovation and new talent across the contemporary arts, the ICA has sought out some exciting emerging names in design from the East End to help deliver this project, including Julia, Loop.pH and My Beautiful City. Ruth Mackenzie, Director of London 2012 Festival, said: “The London 2012 Festival will be one of our most exciting pop up events of the summer - London has never seen these astonishing cars, and this free event will be a highlight of our festival.”

What a beauty: Jeff Koons’ Art Car

Nigel Mansell launches ‘Make Roads Safe’ report Quarter of young drivers crash in first six months THE ‘perfect storm’ of circumstances surrounding drivers’ first accidents has been revealed in a new report, launched by 1992 Formula 1 champion Nigel Mansell last week at the Silverstone Classic. The key findings of the report, ‘Young Drivers at Risk’, centre on a survey of motorists on the AA/Populus panel (14,229 drivers who had been involved in a car crash were surveyed between 22-30 May 2012). The survey shows that new drivers are most at risk on the roads in the first six months or so after passing their test. These drivers revealed that nearly 40 per cent of them had crashed by the time they were 23 years old. The results also showed that a quarter (26 per cent) had crashed within two years of gaining their licence. Analysis of these drivers’ first crashes shows that 23 per cent of 18-24 year olds had crashed within six months of passing their test; one third of 18-24 year olds have been involved in an accident when driving and 28 per cent had crashed by the time they were 21 years of age. First crashes are most likely to happen in the day time

The 1992 Formula 1 world champion Nigel Mansell shows the report, which highlights the dangers that new and young drivers face on the roads, both at home and abroad, and shows ways their safety can be improved – only 13 per cent happen at night, and most people have their first accident without passengers in the car (63 per cent). Bad weather was a factor in 15 per cent of first accidents, while 47 per cent had their first crash on a single carriageway or in a rural area and five per cent of drivers had their first crash on a motorbike. The report highlights the dangers that new and young drivers face on the roads, both at home and abroad, and shows ways their safety can be improved. Compiled jointly by the

AA Charitable Trust and the Make Roads Safe campaign, during the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety, the report was launched at AA World at the Silverstone Classic. The survey has prompted the AA Charitable Trust, as part of its commitment to improving road safety in the UK, to pledge another 1,000 free driver improvement courses for new drivers who are at risk. Drive Conﬁdent and Drive Smart are both taught by AA Driving School instructors and help nervous, lapsed or over-conﬁdent drivers up-

date their skills to stay safe on the roads. The courses are partly funded by a grant from the FIA Foundation, and – perhaps of interest to us here in Cyprus - the grant is also being used to create a template for the courses so that other motoring organisations can implement similar schemes worldwide. Nigel Mansell, a Member of the Commission for Global Road Safety, said: “I became a World Champion by driving fast. I love cars and racing. But I know the place for speed is on a race track, not on the road.

“While road deaths among the young remain a serious problem here in the UK, in many parts of the world they have become nothing less than a crisis out of control. “Someone is being killed or maimed every six seconds. It is an epidemic that is set to double within the next few years unless we take action. “This is a vitally important issue which doesn’t get enough attention. Too many of our young people are still being killed or injured on the roads. These are preventable tragedies.” The report calls for young drivers to be given more op-

portunities to drive in a safe, off-road environment before they turn 17. Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of UK motorists believe this would make young drivers safer. It also shows ways in which education could be improved for young people, many years before they even think about getting into the driving seat. Edmund King, director of the AA Charitable Trust, said: “It’s no secret that new and young drivers are disproportionately represented in road crashes and we need to work together to stem this tide of carnage. “Road safety education must be a life skill that starts at the age of three but is continually refreshed throughout life. It needs to begin many years before someone is old enough to apply for their provisional licence. “Our survey shows one quarter of 18-24 year olds who have had a crash had crashed within six months of taking their test. We must change this. By the age of 17 attitudes towards driving will already have been largely formed. If teenagers have had interesting and practical road safety education they are less likely to take dangerous risks when they get behind the wheel alone. “We must also remember that, when driving, practical training counts for nothing if the driver is impaired through drink, drugs and driver distractions such as mobile phones. “Road crashes are not only the leading cause of death and injury for young people in the UK, but also across the world. We need safer drivers in safer cars on safer roads to reduce these preventable deaths in the UK and across the globe.”

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Sport World Records are on the line come rain or shine

Daley says pressure will not be a problem

Athletes may have to rely on the one thing they can’t control

NOT for the ﬁrst time, British diving posterboy Tom Daley disagreed on Friday with his Russian performance director Alexei Evangulov on handling the pressure of a home Olympics. This time, however, there was no ill-feeling between the pair. Evangulov caused a stir before a test event in February when he said Daley was in danger of failing to achieve his potential and becoming the sport’s answer to former tennis glamour girl Anna Kournikova. He also warned that the teenager’s media appearances could sink his hopes. On Friday, full of praise, he assured reporters that Daley was perfectly prepared for the competition. “There is no word pressure in our vocabulary. Responsibility, yes,” he declared. Daley disproved that, having more problem answering a question from left-ﬁeld about the importance of personal grooming than in locating the P word.

By Toby Davis OLYMPIC athletes hoping to leave their mark in the record books in London may ﬁnd themselves relying on the one thing they cannot control - the British weather. Whether you are a sprinter, distance runner, shot putter or discus thrower, the science behind athletics says your chances of living up to the Olympic motto of faster, higher, stronger could be decided by the unpredictable elements. For example, if London returns to the cold and wet conditions of recent weeks, the prospect of Usain Bolt breaking his sprint world records is slim - though a cold spell would be welcomed by endurance athletes such as marathon runners. “In terms of the hot and cold axis, you have the simple effect of the shorter the event, the warmer you need to be,” Steve Ingham, a physiologist at the English Institute of Sport, told Reuters. “If you are warm, your muscles will be operating more powerfully for the short explosive events. If you are persisting with an event, like an endurance event, then heat is not your friend. You need to stay cool.” This is borne out by the experience of previous Olympics. The men’s 100-metre sprint world record has fallen twice in the last four summer Games in warm conditions, while the men’s marathon benchmark has not been lowered at the Olympics since Abebe Bikila achieved the feat in Tokyo in 1964. The reason is relatively simple. Muscles contract with an improved efﬁciency when it is warm. The biology underpinning the theory, however, is more complicated. “Within a certain limit, when it is warm, your muscle enzymes will operate faster, turning over energy and releasing it to the muscles,” Ingham said. “And when you are accumulating heat in endurance events, you are slowly but surely tipping yourself over the optimum, the enzymes

MEDIA EXPOSURE London’s notoriously cool weather will help endurance athletes. Kenya’s Patrick Makau set the current marathon world record in Berlin last September, with competitors in London eyeing a possible new mark if the bad weather continues

‘The optimum temperature for a ‘power performance’ is a very un-British 26-32 degrees Celsius, whereas for endurance events it would be 12-18’ The men’s 100 metre world record has fallen twice in the last four summer Games in warm conditions are getting too hot and it is starting to impair not only the enzyme’s actions but you also become very uncomfortable.” The optimum temperature for what Ingham calls a “power performance” is a very un-British 26-32 degrees Celsius, whereas for endurance events it would be 1218, which is roughly what Londoners endured last week. “If you are out in the cold weather,” Ingham said, “there is also a psychological element in that you are feeling like you should be shivering rather than relaxed and warm and ready to go.” Then, of course, there is rain. Britain has had the wettest June on record and the wet weather is sure to return at some point duriung the Games “The wet will provide a dif-

ferent limit to performance in that there is likely to be a biomechanical change,” Ingham said. “There is likely to be a slippage, albeit very subtly, at ground contact with your shoe, so that might mean you have to go for a different type of shoe or equipment.” Athletes competing in the throwing events will also be affected by the weather, but unlike the sprinters and distance runners, it is the effect of temperature on aerodynamics that could help or hinder their record attempts. According to Professor Mont Hubbard, director of the sports biomechanics lab at the University of California, Davis, shot putters and hammer throwers will be hoping for heat, while in the discus and javelin they will be less concerned should

Britain revert to its autumnal climate. The reason has to do with forces, and speciﬁcally what forces come into play in different throwing events. “A sphere, which is what the shot and the hammer are, only has drag,” Hubbard told Reuters. “Drag is the part of aerodynamics that slows you down.” Drag, he explained, is proportional to air density, and that is affected by temperature and air pressure. Hubbard said: “To throw a sphere a long way you want low pressure, which is usually associated with stormy weather and high temperatures, both of which cause the density to be low.” This, however, is in contrast to the discus and the javelin. These two events are affected by a force called lift,

which is greater when the air density is high - and the density increases when the temperature falls. Hubbard calculated that with all other factors being equal, a temperature drop of ﬁve per cent results in a discus throw that is 38cm further. Interestingly, Hubbard’s calculations also showed that if the temperature drops, a thrower should alter the angle of his release by a small amount for optimum performance. Not that he believes athletes could do this in the heat of competition. “It is a question of how accurately they could control it,” he said. “All these throwing events are very explosive and everything happens so rapidly and it comes with years of training to try to do it a certain way.”

“Pressure isn’t a bad thing,” grinned the 18-year-old whose face has become one of the most familiar to Britons in the run-up to the Games thanks to media exposure and advertising campaigns. “I quite like pressure going into a competition...in a competition divers either handle pressure or they don’t. I’ve had pressure going into competitions for a long time now and it’s something I’ve been able to get used to.” Daley won the 10-metre platform world title in Rome in 2009 at the age of 15 but finished only fifth in Shanghai last year when the Chinese dominated. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he finished seventh in the individual platform and eighth in the synchronised with partner Blake Aldridge, with whom he had a very public falling out over a poolside phone call. “When you are under pressure in theory it should bring out the best in you because you’ve got that extra adrenaline rush,” said Daley. Daley will be competing tomorrow in the 10m synchronised with partner Peter Waterfield, an Olympic synchro silver medallist in 2004. He then has a break until the individual competition on Aug 10. Wearing bracelets with ‘London 2012’ and ‘LOL’ written on them in beads, Daley said the divers would “get away from the hype” by leaving the village after their opening events for the peace and quiet of a training camp in Southend.

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Sport Monarch ‘parachutes’ in with famous spy THE Queen arrived in spectacular fashion on Friday night at the Olympic stadium, apparently parachuting in with James Bond (actor Daniel Craig). A billion people watched worldwide as a film of Craig being summoned to Buckingham Palace to accept his latest mission was shown at the ceremony. The MI6 spy emerged from a black cab and was welcomed into the palace by the Queen’s corgis who trotted along beside him as he was shown into a drawing room to meet his new boss. Bond stood to attention quietly for a few moments as the Queen remained head down, writing at her desk. After a little prompting cough from 007, wearing black tie, the Queen turned around to acknowledge the world’s most famous secret agent, saying: “Good Evening, Mr Bond”. Loud applause filled the Olympic Stadium as fans cheered their delight. In the months leading up to the Games it had been reported that Craig really had accepted a job On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that the Queen had filmed the sequence with him - but a question mark hung over whether it was true. Then it appeared that the Queen climbed into a waiting helicopter with Bond to be flown off to the stadium where the pair parachuted into the grounds. The film had the pair apparently looking down on scenes of happy Londoners waving at them and celebrating - with a statue of Sir Winston Churchill coming to life and smiling up at them. As the film neared its end the distant sound of an Agusta Westland AW139 helicopter became louder and louder in the stadium until the audience saw it hovering above. As the helicopter steadied Bond slid open the door and the Queen jumped out, followed by Bond. Seconds later the 007 theme tune sounded around the Stadium and the Union Flag opened up in front of the Royal Box to reveal the Queen. She was accompanied by a smiling Duke of Edinburgh and entered the stadium with IOC president Jacques Rogge.

Young athletes carry the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on Friday night

Youth put the great in Britain in opening night extravaganza By Frank Malley IT made a nation proud, that moment when seven young British torch bearers jointly lit an Olympic cauldron of unity. The betting had been on Sir Roger Bannister or Sir Steven Redgrave or even the Queen herself to light the cauldron and give London 2012 an iconic moment but giving the task to seven unheralded teenagers symbolising the hopes and dreams of Britain’s Olympic future was inspired. It brought to an end seven years of preparation and ﬁlled a nation with pride. What a splendid idea, too, for the teenagers, four boys, Callum Airlie, Jordan Duckitt, Cameron MacRitchie and Aidan Reynolds and three girls, Desiree Henry, Katie Kirk and Adelle Tracey, to be nominated and accompanied by Olympic greats Lynn Davies, Duncan Goodhew, Dame Kelly Holmes, Dame Mary Peters, Shirley Robertson, Daley Thompson and Redgrave. What a splendid choice also to begin proceedings at a stunning opening ceremony, full of fun and entertainment, with cyclist Bradley Wiggins,

Boyle’s stunning show captures best of UK the first Briton to win the Tour de France last weekend, ringing the bell. So, after the security shambles, the transport problems, the ticketing fiascos, the inevitable drugs suspensions and the mix-up over the Korean flags, London 2012, the greatest festival of sport, is finally under way. The flame-lighting perhaps was not quite as jaw-dropping as Beijing four years ago, but then Britain was not desperately trying to reinvent itself as one of the world’s leading civilisations. London simply concentrated on reminding everyone of what makes Britain great. Cue the rolling meadows and farmyard animals which had been given so much pre-games publicity. Cue the grimy chimneys representing the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Cue a nurses knees-up and lines of hospital beds in tribute to the NHS. Cue a poignant tribute to those who fell in two world wars. Cue “Jerusalem” and Shakespeare read by actor Kenneth

Branagh and Peter Pan read by Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling and a segment on British pop culture with a foot-stomping soundtrack spanning the decades as diverse as the Beatles and the Sex Pistols. Cue “Abide With Me”. Of course, it was never going to stop at that. Not with Danny Boyle, the radical ﬁlm director of Slumdog Millionaire fame in charge. There was always likely to be a touch of subversion to

accompany £27m of historical cliche. And political protest was symbolised in a parade including representations of Jarrow marchers and Suffragettes. There was humour, too, not least when comedian Rowan Atkinson was discovered sitting apparently playing keyboard in ‘Mr Bean’ mode with the London Symphony Orchestra during a rendition of Vangelis’s “Chariots of Fire”. It hit the spot. So, unsur-

prisingly, did the arrival of the Queen, preceded by a film shot at Buckingham Palace in which she played herself and which ostensibly showed her leaving the Palace in a helicopter with James Bond (actor Daniel Craig), before parachuting into the stadium with 007. Some time later came the athletes, a snaking, camerasnapping mass of them from 204 countries, led by Greece as always to honour the birthplace of the Olympics. South Africa’s flag was borne by athlete Caster Semenya, Russia’s by tennis champion Maria Sharapova, while Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, sidled by carrying Jamaica’s. Bringing up the rear, as is traditional with the hosts, was Chris Hoy, knight of the realm with four cycling gold medals to boot, who led in Great Britain’s contingent. And as the energy sizzled and the fireworks crackled in an opening ceremony of creativity and warmth, there was the promise that these Games will surpass those of Los Angeles, Barcelona and Beijing - perhaps even eclipse Sydney 2000, arguably the best modern Games of all.

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Sport

GB women’s rowing pair make final in record timing

Chinese capture Games’ first gold medal

Glover, Stanning confirm status as gold medal favourites

CHINA fired out a signal of their Olympic intent with the first gold medal of the London 2012 Games yesterday in shooting, while the host city were warming up to a Michael Phelps-Ryan Lochte showdown in the pool. The US team mates were to square off on the opening night at the aquatic centre, which staged early drama when Phelps only narrowly scraped through his heat, and 2008 Olympic champion Park Tae-hwan was initially disqualified in the 400 freestyle. The South Korean came first, but had left the blocks a fraction too early. Park made a first appeal to the poolside referee which was rejected, but a subsequent protest to the jury of appeal upheld his submission. China’s Yi Siling became the first gold medallist of the Games when she won the 10 metre air rifle shooting - despite confessing to reporters: “For the first round and the last round I was very nervous and didn’t know what I was doing.” Meanwhile, Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku became the first athlete to be ejected from the Games after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Thereafter, Ireland’s Olympic Council said it was probing an allegation that one of its competitors had previously bet on an opponent to win an event in which they were both competing. It did not name the athlete or the sport.

By Alex Lowe HELEN Glover and Heather Stanning confirmed their status as gold medal favourites as they stormed into the final of the women’s rowing pair in a new Olympic record time. Roared on by a packed crowd at Eton Dorney, Glover and Stanning won the opening heat of the Olympic regatta in a time of six minutes and 57.29 seconds, beating the previous best by over four seconds. Glover and Stanning controlled the race from the outset, leading the field by a half a length at the 500 metre time-check before pulling smoothly clear to beat the United States crew by a length. The defending Olympic champions Romania came a surprise third and will have to negotiate the repechages to reach Wednesday’s final. Glover and Stanning reacted to being pipped into silver place at the 2011 World Championships by dominating the women’s pair this year, winning gold at all three of this summer’s World Cup regattas. If they can continue that run of success into Wednesday’s final they will become Britain’s first ever female Olympic rowing

Glover (right) and Stanning won the opening heat of the Olympic regatta in a time of six minutes and 57.29 seconds, beating the previous best by over four seconds champions. Yesterday’s performance sent out a powerful message of intent to the rest of the ﬁeld, with heat two winners Australia coming home in a time four seconds slower than the British crew. New Zealand, who beat Glover and Stanning by eight hundredths of a second to win the World Championships last year, trailed home unconvincingly behind the Australians. Great Britain’s men’s eight ﬁnished second in

their heat behind threetime world champions Germany and will have to go through a repechage on Monday to reach Wednesday’s final. But racing for the first time with their current crew - with 20-year-old Constantine Louloudis at stroke after returning from injury - Britain produced a confidence-boosting performance. Germany seemed in control at the halfway mark but Louloudis, the Old Etonian

rowing on his school lake, inspired a powerful second 1,000 metres as Britain closed the gap to half a length. The repechage will give Britain an extra race together. They should enter Wednesday’s final with podium potential and, following yesterday’s performance, gold medal aspirations. The race was five seconds faster than the first heat which was won by a resurgent United States crew,

who had finished eighth at the World Championships and only qualified for the Olympics at the last opportunity. Earlier, the British women’s quad of Melanie Wilson, Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Beth Rodford finished a disappointing fourth in their heat and must now negotiate a repechage to reach the final. The British men’s lightweight four of Peter Chambers, Richard Chambers, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley produced a barnstorming finish to beat world champions Australia and reach the semifinals. The men’s pair of George Nash and Will Satch were also victorious in their heat - but their achievement was overshadowed by New Zealand pair Hamish Murray and Eric Bond smashing the world’s best time in the other heat. Murray and Bond won in six minutes, 08.50 seconds - almost six seconds better than the previous best, set by Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell at the 2002 world championships in Seville, Spain. The Kiwi pair are unbeaten since teaming up in 2009 and one of the strongest gold medal favourites of the regatta. Britain’s men’s double of Bill Lucas and Sam Townsend were edged into second place by New Zealand in a tight race, but it was enough to qualify for the semi-finals. The quad of Stephen Rowbotham, Tom Solesbury, Charles Cousins and Matt Wells were a length behind world silver medallists Germany, but they did enough to make the semi-finals. Alan Campbell rounded off Britain’s interest in the opening day of the regatta by comfortably winning his heat from China’s Liang Zhang to reach the quarterfinals in a packed field.

China’s Yi Siling won gold for 10m air riﬂe shooting

Wimbledon woes continue for Berdych

Gymnasts left bruised

TOMAS Berdych’s miserable summer on the Wimbledon grass continued as he was knocked out in the ﬁrst round of the Olympics by Belgium’s Steve Darcis. The Czech sixth seed lost his opener on Centre Court at the Championships to Ernests Gulbis, and it was deja vu yesterday as he slumped to a 6-4 6-4 defeat against world number 75 Darcis. Seventh seed Janko Tipsarevic had no such problems against Argentina’s David Nalbandian, the Serb coming through 6-3 6-4 to set up a meeting with Germany’s Philipp Petzschner, while Darcis next faces Santiago Giraldo of Colombia. It was a momentous victory for Darcis on his Centre Court

GUO Weiyang was left with a sore head, Zhang Chenglong was rubbing his sore bottom and the once-mighty Chinese men’s team were left nursing sore egos after they endured a bumpy start to the defence of their Olympic gymnastics title yesterday. Four years after the team blew out the opposition by winning seven of the eight titles up for grabs, the class of 2012 often resembled the clown acts in the Chinese State Circus rather than a team who have not been beaten on the world stage for eight years. China, led by 2008 survivors Chen Yibing and Zou Kai, had been expected to top the opening session of men’s qualifying. Instead, they were usurped by hosts Britain, which took pole position in early qualifying with 272.420 points. Zou, the only gymnast to win three golds in Beijing, started off the tumbling for China, stumbling out of the landing mat following his vault, Guo ended up on his knee following his parallel bars dismount before landing on his head during one of his tumbling passes on the ﬂoor exercise. Thereafter the team that regularly broke the 16-point barrier in Beijing, unravelled on the pommel horse. Guo wobbled, Zhang suffered a crash landing mid-routine while Zou’s routine was plain ugly. Their scores of 13.266, 13.133 and 12.533 bore testament to their poor performance, hinting their hold on the Olympic crown could be slipping away fast.

debut, and the 28-year-old said: “It was amazing. “When you are young, you watch the Wimbledon ﬁnal, you watch all the brilliant matches here, and you say, ‘Maybe it will be my turn one day’. “It was amazing to step on the court, to see all the crowd. Of course, it was different. It was the Olympics. You play tennis to play those matches, to play on those courts. Today was one of the best moments in my life.” There was a little-versuslarge contest on Court Two when 5ft 6in Belgian Olivier Rochus took on 6ft 9in John Isner of the USA, and it was the big man who prevailed 7-6 (7/1) 6-4. Commenting on the readi-

ness of the courts for play, less than three weeks after Wimbledon, 10th-seed Isner noted: “I thought the court was too slick. That is the general consensus, too. For a big guy like me it makes it tough. “I feel like I’m moving around too gingerly out there and that’s not too good. You want to be conﬁdent with your movement and I found the court today to be slicker than it’s ever been over here.” Rochus agreed: “I thought that Court Two was not that good, it was pretty bad on the baseline.” Among the day’s other matches, 11th-seed Nicolas Almagro of Spain advanced safely into round two, beating Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 6-4 7-6 (7/3).

Czech sixth seed Berdych went down 6-4 6-4 to Darcis

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Sport Les Bronzes are going for gold

Hockeyroos could usher in new chapter

FRANCE men’s handball team begin their quest to make Olympic history when they take on Great Britain in the Copper Box tonight. Les Bronzes, who are also reigning world champions, topped the podium in Beijing and they start their Group A preliminary stage against the host nation hoping to become the ﬁrst team to win gold medals at consecutive Games. They are widely regarded as the best team of all time, despite their shock failure at January’s European Championship in Serbia, where they went out at the group stages, and technical director Philippe Bana is happy with his side’s build-up. “We’ve had excellent preparation. We had a bad European Championship and a lot of questions were asked,” he said. “The Strasbourg preparation tournament was tough, but a success for us and a key turning point. “We are very humble. To be two-time Olympic champions is a dream, but we can’t say that will happen for sure.”

Australia women’s hockey side bidding for glory, despite failures in last two Olympics By Carl Markham AUSTRALIA hockey coach Adam Commens believes his side could be on the verge of a new golden era for the country. They are the most successful nation in women’s Olympic hockey with three gold medals - in 1988, 1996 and 2000 - and are making a record eighth appearance. In the late 1990s and early 2000s the all-conquering Hockeyroos, under the guidance of Ric Charlesworth who has since restored the men to world number ones, were the team to beat. However, they have not won a medal in the last two Olympics, but Commens believes that could be about to change.

“I believe this is the playing group that can bring a new golden era to Australian women’s hockey, and that begins here at the Olympic Games,” said the coach, whose side have the honour of starting the tournament against neighbours New Zealand at 8.30am today.

FIRST GAME ‘VITAL’ “The players are steadily improving and our ﬁrst game is vital for our chances, but it will be a tough game against a really quality opponent.” New Zealand coach Mark Hager, a former Australia captain, believes set-pieces could be key today. “They’ve got a couple of good (penalty) corner specialists who’ve really improved over time, and if you look at the corner

attack from both teams, we’ve both been pretty successful against each other,” he said. “Whoever defends them or executes them could possibly win the game. “We know that they are going to come out at us, they are a team that likes to pressure.” Defending Olympic champions Holland, who are aiming to become the ﬁrst nation since Australia in 2000 to win back-to-back golds, have failed to win a medal only once in seven Games since the women’s sport was entered in 1980. Beijing silver medallists China play South Korea while world champions Argentina take on South Africa. Hosts Great Britain play Japan, the last team to qualify for London 2012 back in May, while Germany face the United States.

The Aussie women’s hockey coach said his side were in great shape and could be on the verge of a ‘golden era’

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Sport Rangers fight looks set to continue

Terry charge gives Hodgson food for thought England boss wondering whether to pick Blues skipper after new twist in abuse saga By Ben Rumsby ROY Hodgson was yesterday facing another dilemma over whether to pick John Terry for England after the Football Association decided the defender still had a case to answer over allegations of racist abuse. A fortnight after being acquitted by a court of a racially aggravated public order offence against QPR defender Anton Ferdinand in October, Chelsea captain Terry was charged by the FA over the same incident. Despite being given a week to respond, Terry’s reaction was instant, the 31-year-old saying in a statement released to Press Association Sport: “I deny the charge and I will be requesting the opportunity to attend the commission for a personal hearing.” It had not been decided Friday night when that personal hearing would be, but the FA said Terry would be available to play for England until their independent disciplinary commission reached a verdict. The country’s next game is a friendly against Italy on August 15, with manager Hodgson expected to name

his squad days earlier. Hodgson suffered widespread criticism for picking Terry instead of Ferdinand’s brother, Rio, for the European Championship, while the former was still awaiting criminal trial. The England boss would be in another invidious position if a saga which has already dragged on for more than nine months were not ﬁnally resolved before the match in Berne.

‘REASONABLE DOUBT’ Terry was found not guilty of calling Ferdinand a “f****** black c***” during a ﬁve-day trial at Westminster Magistrates Court that ended just over two weeks ago, with District Judge Howard Riddle ruling there was reasonable doubt whether the words were intended as an insult. Terry has always maintained they were not, insisting they formed part of a denial to an accusation of racism from Ferdinand during Chelsea’s Barclays Premier League defeat at QPR on October 23. The Blues skipper was acquitted on that basis, but the FA refused to drop their own investigation into the

matter, which they had put on hold the moment Terry was charged with a criminal offence. They conﬁrmed Friday night they had sought advice from “an external Independent QC” and had also taken into account the trial evidence and verdict before deciding to act. Whereas the prosecution in court had to prove Terry’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt, the FA disciplinary commission can reach verdicts purely on the balance of probabilities, a much lower burden of proof. They did just that in December when Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was handed an eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. Terry could face even more dire consequences if found guilty. He has already lost the England captaincy over the mere allegation of racism and his international career would effectively be ended by a guilty verdict. That would also place enormous pressure on Chelsea, where he has been skipper for more than eight years, and who have taken a hard line on racism among their own supporters.

Terry has already lost the England captaincy over the mere allegation of racism and his international career would effectively be ended by a guilty verdict

SEVCO Scotland secured the right to field a Rangers team at Brechin today, but their fight against the Scottish Premier League’s investigation into undisclosed payments to players looks set to continue. Sevco were Friday night granted conditional membership of the Scottish Football Association following two weeks of discussions, but there remains disagreement between the SPL and the Rangers newco. The SPL launched their investigation, which centres on the employee benefit trust tax scheme that played a significant role in the downfall of Rangers, in early March. The probe was held up for almost three months by a lack of co-operation from Rangers administrators, who hold the SPL share due to be given to Dundee, before the league’s lawyers decided Rangers had a case to answer. An independent commission is due to rule on the matter, with one of the possible outcomes being the stripping of titles won by Rangers. Friday night’s deal demands the share is passed on no later than next Friday, the eve of the SPL season, at which point the SFA membership transfer is complete. Sevco, who bought the assets of Rangers last month, accepted a delayed 12-month transfer ban handed to Rangers in April as well as about £3million in football debts. But Ibrox manager Ally McCoist hit out at the SPL and Sevco board members vowed to challenge any SPL decision over the tax scheme, which could have left the old Rangers company with a £75million bill.

Oscar: I’m happy playing anywhere for Chelsea

The move to Chelsea represents a huge shift for Oscar, (L), who has played all his club football to date in Brazil

NEW Chelsea signing Oscar will be happy to play wherever manager Roberto Di Matteo wants him to at Stamford Bridge. The 20-year-old’s long-awaited move from Internacional to the Blues, for a reported fee of around £25million, was completed earlier this week. The capture of the Brazilian, currently in the UK with Mano Menezes’ Olympic squad, adds to a glittering array of midﬁeld talent following the acquisitions of Eden Hazard and Marko Marin. Competition for places looks set to be ﬁerce among the squad of the Champions League winners, with Oscar laying down a marker of his talent by creating two goals in Brazil’s 3-2 victory over Egypt in Cardiff on Thursday night. But the former Sao Paulo playmaker

says he will not insist on playing in his preferred attacking midﬁeld role, and is sure he can make an impact regardless of where he is asked to play. He said: “The offer was very good for me and I didn’t have to think twice about signing. “After the Olympics I am going to talk to the manager and I am ready to do whatever the manager wants me to do. “For Internacional I played in several different positions, so I have no problem adapting.” The move represents a huge personal shift for Oscar, who has played all his club football to date in Brazil. But he is conﬁdent that the friendships he already has with some of the Portuguese-speaking members of the Blues’ squad will help him to settle in London.

“I am good friends with David Luiz,” he said. “There are also Ramires and Lucas Piazon playing for Chelsea, so they will help me adapt.” While Oscar has insisted that for now his only focus is on ensuring Brazil secure their ﬁrst Olympic gold medal in the men’s football tournament, he admits he has been keeping an eye on some of the other newcomers that will join him at Stamford Bridge next term. And he has set his sights on helping the club add to their collection of silverware. “This is a dream for me,” he said. “I’m joining Chelsea hopefully to win more titles. “The project is very exciting, especially with the young players that they are signing.”

Carroll will only leave Liverpool for a club that can provide him with European football action ENGLAND striker Andy Carroll will only leave Liverpool for a club which can provide him with European football. The 23-year-old is keen to stay at Liverpool and prove himself to new manager Brendan Rodgers,

but is coming to terms with the fact that he might not be required at Anﬁeld. However, with former club Newcastle and West Ham among the clubs to have been linked with him since Rodgers indicated that

he could be surplus to requirements, the £35million man is not prepared to move on anyone’s terms but his own. Carroll wants to stay and prove himself on Merseyside, but if he has to go, it will only be to a club

which can offer him the lure of European action. Newcastle, of course, can do just that following their ﬁfth-placed Barclays Premier League ﬁnish last season, but the Hammers, who have reportedly made a club record bid,

cannot. Rodgers is currently remodelling his squad, and while he insists Carroll will not leave Liverpool on loan, he admits the Reds will consider any offers they receive for the forward.

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Vinokourov crushes Cavendish’s gold hopes GB team mates cannot avert road race defeat By Julien Pretot

The McLaren driver captured the 22nd pole of his career, and the 150th for his team

McLaren’s Hamilton claims Hungary pole BRITAIN’S Lewis Hamilton will start today’s Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position. The McLaren driver, 62 points behind championship leader Fernando Alonso, improved his title chances by topping qualifying at the Hungaroring yesterday. Lotus driver Romain Grosjean will start the race from second position, with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel third. Hamilton had looked strong in practice on Friday and he mastered conditions of around 30 degrees at the circuit near Budapest yesterday to make sure of the 22nd pole of his career and the 150th for his team. Grosjean, eighth in the standings, pipped defending champion Vettel to the second place on the grid. It capped a disappointing day for Red Bull, who hold a 53-point advantage in the constructors standings. Vettel’s team-mate, Mark Webber, will start 11th on the grid. His title chances had earlier taken a knock when he was pipped to a top 10 spot by Bruno Senna. Hamilton’s team-mate Jenson Button starts fourth, with Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus) in ﬁfth. Championship leader Alonso, who holds a 34-point lead over Webber at the top of the standings, is behind Raikkonen on row three. Alonso’s Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa starts seventh, with Williams duo Pastor Maldonado and Senna eighth and ninth and Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) completing the top 10. Hamilton, whose time of one minute 20.953 seconds compared favourably to

Grosjean’s 1:21.366secs, told the post-race press conference: “The mechanics did an excellent job...but we’re not relaxed about things. We know we’ve got a lot of work to do and we know we’ve got to make sure that starts this weekend.” Vettel, who started this race from the front in 2010 and 2011, did not have things his own way in Q1, where he ﬁnished 17th. Post-race the defending champion said: “Through qualifying I think things got better, but I knew we only had one set of tyres in Q3. “I think Romain was within reach, but Lewis was a bit too far away today. With the progress we’ve made this morning we should be in a good position in the race.” However, team-mate Webber said: “I was happy this morning and was quick in Q1, but didn’t feel happy on the last set of soft tyres. That’s how it goes.” Alonso acknowledged the 11th-placed start of Webber was good news for him: “We were not in a position to be as quick as the leaders here. “Victory tomorrow will be difﬁcult for us - we need a strange race or maybe some wet conditions. But at the moment we’re happy with sixth.” Button said: “I was much happier with the car in qualifying - but I was nowhere near as good as my team-mate in Q1.” Paul di Resta, Nico Rosberg, Sergio Perez, Kamui Kobayashi, Jean-Eric Vergne and Michael Schumacher had earlier joined Webber in being knocked out in Q2. Daniel Ricciardo, Heikki Kovalainen, Vitaly Petrov, Charles Pic, Timo Glock, Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan all bowed out after Q1.

azakh Alexandre Vinokourov upset Britain’s plan to set up a massive sprint finish for Mark Cavendish when he claimed the gold medal in the Olympic road race yesterday. Colombian Rigoberto Uran took silver with Norway’s Alexander Kristoff coming home third to win the bronze medal eight seconds behind. Vinokourov was part of a 32-man group that the British team failed to rein in on the way back to central London from Box Hill. Britain, brimming with confidence before the event, controlled the race all day, but it proved too much of an effort for the four men who were looking to bring Cavendish home. A leading group of 32 riders took shape in the last of nine ascents of Box Hill and Britain did not have enough energy left to rein them in. Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome dropped out with about 30 kilometres remaining, leaving Cavendish with only three team mates. It was then Tour champion Bradley Wiggins’s turn to drop out exhausted. David Millar took massive turns in front of the peloton as the gap floated around the minute. Cavendish finished 29th, 40 seconds behind Vinokourov. Swiss Fabian Cancellara, one of the strong men in the leading group, missed a turn and crashed into the safety barriers. He crossed the finish line 5:43 off the pace with a an apparent wrist injury. The crash split the group up and Uran and Vinok-

Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov (above) upset Britain’s plan to set up a massive sprint ﬁnish for Mark Cavendish ourov pulled away to contest a two-man sprint, which the Kazakh, who was supended for two years in 2007 for blood doping, easily won. Vinokourov announced he quit professional cycling after crashing out of the Tour de France last year, but could not resist the urge to get back on the bike. Millar served a two-year ban until 2006 after admitting to using blood booster EPO and was included in the British team after the British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban was overturned. Millar, now a fervent antidoping campaigner, simply

believes Britain ran out of bodies for the chase. “We had ﬁve and a quarter hours on the front, we just didn’t have that extra little bit,” Millar said. “We needed three more riders. We rode the race we said we were going to race, but there were strong guys up the road. “The other teams seemed to be working to smash our race up.”