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Auditor-general says ‘told you so’ Deputies told that troika would not have been needed if her recommendations had been followed By Poly Pantelides

UDITOR-GENERAL Chrystalla Georghadji yesterday slammed the years of complacency in Cyprus which have led to millions slipping through the fingers of the state, much of which is now unrecoverable. During a briefing at the House Watchdog Committee, Georghadji said the state is owed €1.6 billion in tax and other revenues, which have gone uncollected despite repeated warnings from her office over the years on the amount of money wasted across the wider public service. While unpaid taxes now stood at €1 billion, she said, around €380 million owed to the state would now be written off in bad debts. “That amount is likely to increase given the ongoing crisis,” Georghadji said, urging the state to at least make an effort to collect the unpaid taxes. “It is imperative that those whose deposits are inconsistent with their tax statements are investigated,” she said. Georghadji said the current situation clearly demonstrated the “huge importance of timely receipt of every due payment” to the state, suggesting that if this had been done, there may not have been a need for an EU bailout for the island. Over the

years, Georghadji’s office has issued lengthy reports documenting both waste across the government and semi-government sectors, recommending action be taken. But successive governments failed to act ignoring damning report after damning report, and ultimately passing on the problems to their successors. She said that a Greekspeaking member of the troika of international lenders who read her report on the state’s fiscal needs had expressed the opinion that if the Auditor-general’s suggestions had been followed over the years, “Cyprus would not need the troika”. The report was not translated into English because the cost was not covered under her office’s budget, she said. Georghadji was clear that the need to pass measures now in order to get the €10 billion bailout Cyprus needed from its lenders was far worse than what it would have cost successive governments if they had been proactive and followed her recommendations. For example, rather than working on immovable property tax in a rationalised and forward planning way “so that the adjustment was smoother, we are instead now obliged to act under the pressure of the memorandum (of un-

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Two rebel soldiers standing guard in the Karmel Jabl neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, 18 October 2012, as over a dozen holes made by bullets and shrapnel pepper the tin wall behind them. The picture, released yesterday, by AFP photographer Javier Manzano, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (EPA)

Captain Underpants beats Fifty Shades in library moans SUBVERSIVE toilet humour proved more offensive to Americans than bondage and eroticism last year, according to a list of most challenged books in US libraries that saw complaints about Captain Underpants outweigh those for Fifty Shades of Grey. The American Library Association (ALA) said Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series for children, that features characters like Professor Poopypants and Wedgie Woman, came top of its 2012 list of books that Americans asked to be removed from libraries because of content they considered inappropriate. The Captain Underpants series of 10 books has appeared on the annual list three times since 2002, but has never previously reached the No.1 spot, the

ALA said. Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling sadomasochistic tale of college students and a businessmen by British author EL James, debuted on the list in fourth place after the erotic trilogy sold 70 million copies around the world in the past two years. The ALA said that its ofﬁce for intellectual freedom received a total of 464 reports in 2012 on attempts to remove books from public and school libraries or school curricula. That was an increase from the 326 such attempts recorded in 2011. The ALA deﬁnes such “challenges” as formal written complaints to a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed.

Other books making the list included And Tango Makes Three, a children’s tale about two male penguins who adopt an egg together, and Khaled Hosseini’s Afghanistan-based best-seller The Kite Runner. The ALA’s top 10 list of the mostchallenged books of 2012 are Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James, And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Looking for Alaska by John Green, Scary Stories (series) by Alvin Schwartz, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Beloved by Toni Morrison.

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Baby giraffe Tamu explores his outdoor enclosure at the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany yesterday. Tamu was born at the zoo on March 7 (AFP)

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35 years ago, Monday April 17, 1978

Martin Luther appears before the Diet of Worms prior to his ex-communication.

Italy’s most famous ﬁlm couple, producer Carlo Ponti and his actress wife Sophia Loren, have been accused of smuggling money and goods worth 10 million dollars from the country. The couple are likely to be tried in absentia because they now both hold French nationality and Italy will not be able to seek their extradition.

1951 British submarine, the Affray, fails to resurface off the south coast of England. It is eventually found two months later with no survivors.

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US-backed Cuban exiles land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro’s government.

1975 The Khmer Rouge takes control of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, as the country’s civil war ends and Pol Pot’s rule of Cambodia begins.

1986 British TV journalist, John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon.

45 years ago, Wednesday April 17, 1968 Rauf Denktash yesterday called for efforts to make Cyprus a ‘happy land’ that could be an example to the world of intercommunal peaceful coexistence. The Turkish Cypriot leader declared that there should be courage, sincerity, goodwill and realism in the attempt to ﬁnd a Cyprus settlement based on independence.

55 years ago, Thursday April 17, 1958 After a three-day hearing a court martial retired at Wolseley Barracks, Nicosia yesterday for 15 minutes to record a verdict of not guilty and honourably acquitted Major Michael Boyd, of the Irish Guards, to a charge of manslaughter. Major Michael Boyd, 35, was charged with killing Sherif Mehmet, a Turkish Cypriot, who was run over by a Land rover under Major Boyd’s command during demonstrations in Attaturk Square on January 27 this year.

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TC side wants ‘its share’ of the gold THE TURKISH Cypriot leadership is claiming rights to the state gold locked away in the Cyprus Central Bank and earmarked for sale to meet the country’s financing needs. According to Turkish Cypriot reports, the office of Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu issued a statement in response to recent considerations to sell most of the gold bought by the Cyprus Republic in the 1960s. The government confirms that a gold sale is one of the options being contemplated to raise €400 million as part of the Cyprus rescue package, though the final word rests with the Cyprus Central Bank. The Turkish Cypriot statement notes that the Republic of Cyprus was established in 1960 as a common state between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and that all its resources, including the gold, belongs to both communities on the island. Any income or assets, including gold or hydrocarbon resources, that belong to the Turkish Cypriots cannot be sold without their consent, it added. The Turkish Cypriot side did not however offer to share any of the income it has accumulated through the free use of the property and assets in the northern third of the island, which also belongs to both communities. Meanwhile, Bayrak television has reported that Eroglu will meet with President Nicos Anastasiades for their first meeting since the latter’s election on May 22 at a social gathering.

Finance minister says the matter is serious By Elias Hazou THE GOVERNMENT conceded yesterday it was not on the same page with the Central Bank Governor, conﬁrming the growing rift between the two sides. “There is indeed a serious matter at hand...and it needs to be resolved,” ﬁnance minister Harris Georgiades told newsmen. But, he hastened to add, the two sides are “obliged to come to an understanding.” One point of contention, said Georgiades, has been the Governor’s failure to swiftly appoint a new board to the Bank of Cyprus, an omission which has left the bank “rudderless”. The government wants Bank of Cyprus to move away from its current status of being under administration as quickly as possible, even if that entails appointing an interim leadership, the minister said. “The Central Bank had made a commitment that this status should not last beyond a couple of days. Unfortunately, two weeks have elapsed and the bank is still in administration, and this is a very serious issue,” he added. Georgiades revealed also that he has sent Central Bank chief Panicos Demetriades a list of 14 persons as potential candidates for the Bank of Cyprus board. He went on to censure Demetriades for having recently blown the whistle by telling foreign media that he was being undermined by the government. While attending a summit of eurozone bankers in Dublin, Demetriades claimed the Cyprus Central Bank’s independence was being attacked by the government while at the same

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Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades: not on good terms with the government time his family was being threatened by people who lost money in the crisis. Demetriades complained also that the government committed to selling state gold without ﬁrst consulting him. The governor has been criticised for his overall conduct throughout the banking crisis since taking over the regulator last May, but also for his day-to-day handling of matters in the days following the recent decision to wind down Laiki Bank and restructure Bank of Cyprus. Some accuse him of misleading parliament regarding the mandate of the investigation by Alvarez and Marsal (A&M) into the activities of the island’s two biggest banks which have led Cyprus to the verge of bankruptcy.

His critics argue that the A&M investigation was restricted mainly to investigating the Bank of Cyprus rather than Laiki - the main problem bank - despite parliament being told otherwise in a letter sent by Demetriades to the House Speaker in November. The House Watchdog Committee plans to quiz Demetriades on this next week, in a bid to determine whether the banker had misled parliament; unless they get satisfactory answers, some legislators want to ask the Attorneygeneral to investigate the CB chief. Dismissing the central banker is legally difﬁcult, and besides the ofﬁcial has the backing of the European Central Bank. In a recent letter addressed to President Anastasiades,

ECB boss Mario Draghi pointed out that a central bank governor could only be dismissed on grounds speciﬁed by EU law, adding that any dismissal would be subject to review by the EU’s Court of Justice. Meanwhile the Central Bank yesterday asked commercial lenders to grant a 60-day grace period to people unable to pay back loans as a direct result of the Eurogroup decision of March 25. That decision wiped out uninsured deposits held in Laiki, and has frozen access to amounts above €100,000 in the Bank of Cyprus. Such loans are not to be considered as non-performing during the grace period, the CB said, also urging banks not to charge interest on late payments or other charges. (see editoral page 13)

THE CENTRAL Bank of Cyprus has asked the country’s ﬁnancial institutions to give debtors impacted by the terms of the bailout a 60-day grace period to renegotiate their loans. Effective from yesterday, people who have been impacted in any way from the ongoing crisis either through the deposit haircut, or through losing their jobs or income, may visit their banks to discuss with them directly restructuring their loans “on the basis of re-evaluation of their ability to repay them,” the Central Bank said in an announcement. During the 60-day period banks will not penalise debtors who are late in their payments, effectively extending loan repayment deadlines by about two months. Meanwhile, Hellenic Bank said it was reducing its base lending rates from today “to contribute to re-starting the Cypriot economy,” the bank said in an announcement. The base rate for personal loans has been cut to 5.50 per cent from 5.75 per cent, and for businesses (including overdrafts) to 4.50 per cent from 4.75 per cent. Housing loans that were on a 4.40 per cent base rate have been reduced to 4.15 per cent, Hellenic Bank said. Housing loans that were tied to an older, higher, base rate are now on a 5.0 per cent base rate, from 5.25 per cent, the bank said.

House must approve MoU says AG THERE will be no agreement with the troika unless parliament votes through the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the loan agreement the government has agreed to, the Attorney-general (AG) has said. Petros Clerides told state broadcaster CyBC that it was the opinion of the state’s legal services that the government needed to get approval from the House of Representatives on the MoU, if it were to be valid. Online news portal Sigmalive obtained a copy of the letter – already sent to stakeholders including the House President and the ﬁnance ministry – saying that the AG cited article 169 of the Constitution that states that Cabinet decisions relating to international agreements, among others, were not binding before parliament approved them. “The government clariﬁes that it will take any action that falls within the framework of legality,” acting government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said in a written announcement.

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Despite the crisis millions still being wasted Projects not yet underway are costing the taxpayer By Elias Hazou DESPITE the credit crunch, taxpayers are still footing the bill for projects that have yet to get off the ground, or for wasteful public organisations. The National Health System (NHS) is one such venture that is a project on paper only. But so far â&#x201A;Ź24m has been spent on the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), the vehicle set up with the mission to implement the scheme. The NHS was supposed to be up and running by 2008; the date was later pushed back to 2012 and then again to 2015. In her report for the year 2011, the Auditor-general notes that the lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of expenses at the HIO consisted of a series of feasibility studies commissioned

for the NHS. Other expenditures are for salaries (the HIO employs around 60 persons) and rent for premises. Despite all the studies and the money poured in, the ofďŹ cial goes on to say, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely that the NHS would be operating at a deďŹ cit if and when it goes live. To cover the cost of the scheme, contributions by the active population would have to be substantially revised upward. In the memorandum of understanding concluded between Cyprus and international creditors, authorities are urged not to proceed with the NHS unless they have previously updated an actuarial valuation report concerning the level of contributions to the scheme. Meanwhile, the Mail is told, the HIO is currently employing 52 under-worked staff, among them one director at a pay grade equal to that of a

Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impression of the Nicosia cultural centre: building was to have started in early 2013 ministryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permanent secretary (â&#x201A;Ź7,000 gross a month), as well as 14 senior ofďŹ cers at an A13 pay grade (â&#x201A;Ź6,500 gross). The Cyprus Cultural Foundation is another white elephant. The entity, tasked with implementing the much-vaunted Culture Centre in Nicosia, has already sucked over â&#x201A;Ź22m from state coffers. The foundation has seven permanent staff and one hourly-paid employee; its director earns â&#x201A;Ź7,000 gross. In a letter to the Finance Ministry dated March 21, the Auditor-generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ofďŹ ce inquired as to whether the Culture Centre would materialise; it has yet to receive a response. A cap of â&#x201A;Ź95m for

the centre, spread over a period of three years, has been set in the construction bids. The 2013 state budget includes a provision for just â&#x201A;Ź3m. The initial intention was for the project to be co-funded by the EUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seventh Framework Programme (2007 to 2013). But to be eligible for those funds, the last payments on the project must be made by late 2015. Given that construction is estimated to take 35 months, building should have started in early 2013. That deadline has now passed. The project could conceivably still begin, with the government applying in advance for EU funding. But since the last payments

would occur beyond 2015, the state would lose out on a part of the EU funds and would therefore have to absorb that extra cost. In his book published last year, former ďŹ nance minister Charilaos Stavrakis openly branded the Culture Centre a vanity project, writing: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Nicosia had the size of New York and Cypriots the musical cultivation of Austrians, there would have been a slim chance of rational justiďŹ cation for this project.â&#x20AC;? A great deal of waste has also been noted at the Technological University of Cyprus (TEPAK). As reported by Phileleftheros, TEPAK is renting out part of a build-

ing for â&#x201A;Ź16,830 a month but is only making use of half of the surface area. The building in question is located in Zakaki, far from the main campus. A source at TEPAK told the paper that half of the area being rented is idle, while the other half is used but intermittently. The ďŹ ve-year rental contract spans 2009 to 2014, at a total cost of â&#x201A;Ź1.19m to taxpayers. Although TEPAK is not obliged by law to invite tenders for the rental or purchase of premises, the Auditor-general nevertheless notes the absence of good governance regarding a number of rental deals made by TEPAK.

State urged to simplify rules to attract more foreign students By Peter Stevenson THE HOUSE Education Committee wants procedures for registering foreign students to be simpliďŹ ed, and Chairman Nicos Tornaritis has called on private educational institutions to reduce their fees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a recent committee meeting it was established

that the current bureaucratic procedure for registering foreign students in Cyprus entails serious negative consequences for both the sustainability and the development of higher education in Cyprus,â&#x20AC;? Tornaritis said in a letter to the ďŹ nance minister. In the letter, the chairman also explained that the development of the sector

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could positively contribute to Cyprusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; economy, especially if the island could become a regional centre of education. The committee also believes that higher education could also offer positions to young unemployed qualiďŹ ed Cypriots. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is why investment in education and technology needs to be implemented,â&#x20AC;? the letter said. MPs are asking for efforts to be made to change the current procedures so foreign students who are interested in studying at one of the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private universities will not be discour-

aged by the many documents they are required to present. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Committee requests that the ministry assumes a coordinating role in redesigning the whole bureaucratic process to attract quality foreign students to Cyprus,â&#x20AC;? the letter said. Vice-head of Cyprusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association of Private Schools of Tertiary Education, PASISTE, Marios Americanos believes the economy could be helped by such a move. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are expecting the government to take measures to kick-start the economy and believe any move to

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help foreign students register more easily would help bring money to our shores,â&#x20AC;? he said. Responding to calls from Tornaritis for all private educational institutions to lower their fees in light of current events, Americanos said that colleges and universities had been giving out more scholarships over the last two years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Private higher educational institutions have responded to the ďŹ nancial crisis, and two years ago they began giving out more full and partial scholarships to those students who are undergoing ďŹ nancial hard-

ships,â&#x20AC;? he said. Asked if private colleges and universities planned on taking more measures to help those in need, Americanos said PASISTE would look at possibly offering more scholarships and allowing students to pay their fees in instalments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Essentially giving out scholarships is the same as reducing the fees but we concentrate the scholarships on those people who require assistance more,â&#x20AC;? he added. The letter was also sent to the ministries of foreign affairs, interior, education, justice and the department of migration.

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CYPRUS TODAY Condolences sent to US government PRESIDENT NICOS Anastasiades yesterday sent a message of condolence to United States President Barack Obama regarding the deadly explosions that took place at the ﬁnish line of the Boston Marathon. Anstasiades expressed his profound shock and sorrow for the tragedy, which caused the loss of innocent lives and left many injured. On behalf of the government and people of Cyprus, he expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the victims “of this abominable and cowardly attack”. Anastasiades said Cyprus stands in full solidarity with the people of the United States in the efforts “to prevent and eradicate such senseless acts of violence”. In a written statement, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said Cyprus condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. “The perpetrators of this heinous act should swiftly be brought to justice,” he said.

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Auditor-general Chrystalla Georghadji during a previous brieﬁng at parliament where she has delivered many warnings

‘Impunity and tolerance’ for far too long (continued from front page) the memorandum (of understanding),” Georghadji said. She was referring to the need to update immovable property prices – still set according to outdated 1980 values. The issue was delayed and debated many times over but now needs to be passed as a precondition for the lenders to release the ﬁrst tranche of the bailout money. The move is slated to bring in €75 million in revenue. Georghadji was not in a mood to cut politicians any slack yesterday. When deputies asked her whether she was now more optimistic that in the future Cyprus, under the gun of the troika, could perhaps reach the level of transparency of Scandinavian countries in ﬁghting corruption in the system given that actions was being taken on the banks and other sectors of the

economy, Georghadji did not bite. She told the committee she was feeling all the more pessimistic because of all the mistakes and omissions across the spectrum – from the regulators to the banks’ boards: “Not even I could conceive the extent of entanglements, and tolerance that was shown (towards all of it),” she said. She wondered how things might have been had her ofﬁce been allowed to audit the Central Bank and had an early insight into the state of the island’s troubled main banks, Laiki and Bank of Cyprus, one of which is now out of business, and the other being restructured. Georghadji said “impunity and tolerance” had prevailed for far too long but it was those who were not to blame who were paying the price.

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REPRESENTATIVES of Middle East Airlines (MEA) yesterday held “preliminary contacts” with officials from national airline Cyprus Airways (CY) and the finance ministry. According to a CY announcement made to the Cyprus Stock Exchange in response to numerous press reports of a takeover, the airline clarified that discussions with MEA were at a very early stage and that no specific agreement had been reached. The airline reminded that CY has also engaged in discussions with other companies that have shown an interest in buying the state carrier, again with nothing specific to announce at this stage. Regarding the restructuring plan recently agreed between the government, unions and management, the airline confirmed that the CY fleet will be reduced to six aircraft plus one reserve.

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Strovolos and Famagusta municipalities help the needy By Maria Gregoriou STROVOLOS municipality is working with Kykkos Monastery to launch a campaign to collect food for the needy using the slogan ‘the big supper’, and Famagusta municipality will begin to run a community market. “All food and essentials collected by the municipality will be taken to the Kykkos Monastery at 11 Archangelou Avenue, Strovolos,” an ofﬁcial at Strovolos municipality said. Before people can receive food and essential items they must complete a form

stating why they need help. This could be because they have lost their jobs, they have been thrown out of their home or any other reason. The procedure ensures that people who really are in need receive help. “The crisis has to make us all more responsible and understand which people are worse off than us. The real people in need will beneﬁt and we can all start to recover from this tragedy,” the municipality ofﬁcial said. Strovolos municipality is asking that members of the community contribute in any small way they can. “If we all give a little, the total contribution will be much

greater,” it said. The municipality also continues to run free advisory centres. Citizens can receive psychological, drug addiction and domestic violence counselling. Families or individuals can also receive legal advice and speech therapy. These services were available before the crisis but are currently being advanced. Kykko Monastery offers help to single parent families, counselling for domestic violence and free services to help people with abnormal behaviour. The Famagusta municipality will run a community market to help needy families within the Famagusta area. An application

from the Famagusta municipality, which is based in Limassol, must ﬁrst be completed in order for someone to receive essentials from the market. People must be a resident of the Famagusta community and meet all the criteria. The last day to submit an application is April 26. Applications can be collected from the municipality at 138 Archbishop Makarios III Avenue, 3507 Limassol. For further information contact 25384073 or 25339757 or visit the website www.ammochostos.org.cy To contribute to ‘the big supper’ campaign, contact Strovolos Municipality on 22470470.

Barter system being launched in the capital Eight municipalities taking part in pilot programme for exchange of services By Maria Gregoriou THE NICOSIA district development agency is launching a barter of services and goods programme in collaboration with eight Nicosia municipalities, it said yesterday. The new internet based programme will be offered to resients of Latsia, Strovolos, Engomi, Aglandjia, Lakatamia, Tseri, Yeri and Dali municipalities. “Because of the economic crisis we wanted to come up with a way to help people get back on their feet. After some thought we started to build on the idea of exchanging goods and services, rather than money,” said Eleftherios Loizou, Managing Director of the Nicosia district development agency. Anyone from the eight municipalities can register for free on the website which will be up and running tomorrow. People are

asked to present an ID card and a utility bill to prove that they belong to one of the municipalities involved. “Only individuals can register, not organisations. The programme is not based on a competitive market but rather on a free one,” Loizou said. The programme works on a point basis. Once a registration is complete, the person has no points but has a credit ﬁgure of 300. When services or goods has been given, the individual’s account will begin to earn points. “For example, if I am a plumber and I am asked to go to another resident’s house to ﬁx their kitchen sink, they will transfer the agreed amount of points, let’s say 200, to my account when the job is done. So my account will increase by 200 points and my overall points will be minus 100. “At this stage, when I receive over 100 points, my total points gain will begin

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to be positive. The idea is that one citizen’s negative points will be another’s positive points. This is how the programme can get started. Also, each user can view a history of their point transactions, which works just like internet banking systems,” Loizou said. “Some people may choose to advertise their services or goods on the site. Others may want to ask for people to bid on services or goods they want. The users decide how many points their product or service deserves and also how many points they are willing to exchange for a certain service or product,” Loizou added. The website will not display the bids offered on jobs unless the user gives authority for the system to do so. Users will be able to chat online and it will be at their discretion to exchange contact details and arrange where goods can be exchanged.

Consumer watchdog warns shoppers to check for almost-expired goods ‘on offer’

Watch out for ‘special offers’ By Peter Stevenson THE CONSUMERS’ Association has warned people to be wary of special deals at supermarkets and grocers, as there

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING OF CREDITORS OF

Lysys Holding Company Limited

Lysys Technologies Integrator (CY) Limited

Notice is hereby given that a General Meeting of the creditors of Lysys Holding Company Limited (the Company) will be held at 131 Gladstonos Str., Kermia Court, 2nd Floor, 3032 Limassol, Cyprus on 09/05/2013 at 10:00 a.m. to consider and, if thought ﬁt, to pass the following Special Resolutions as they are proposed.

Notice is hereby given that a General Meeting of the creditors of Lysys Technologies Integrator (CY) Limited (the Company) will be held at at 131 Gladstonos Str., Kermia Court, 2nd Floor, 3032 Limassol, Cyprus on 09/05/2013 at 10:00 a.m. to consider and, if thought ﬁt, to pass the following Special Resolutions as they are proposed.

1. Resolution 1 That the merger through absorption of Lysys Technologies Integrator (CY) Limited by the Company, in accordance with sections 198-201 of the Cyprus Companies Law Cap.113, as deﬁned by the Merger Plan approved by the board of the Company on 29/11/2012 and presented to the Shareholders be approved.

1. Resolution 1 That the merger through absorption of the Company by Lysys Holding Company Limited, in accordance with sections 198-201 of the Cyprus Companies Law Cap.113, as deﬁned by the Merger Plan approved by the board of the Company on 29/11/2012 and presented to the Shareholders be approved.

2. Resolution 2 That the Merger Plan as approved by the board of the Company on 29/11/2012 and presented to the Shareholders be approved

3. Resolution 3 That Maria Savvidou be appointed as the representative of the Company for signing any relevant contract, legal document or statement and also for carrying out all necessary actions for the completion of the merger.

3. Resolution 3 That Nicolas Hadjinicolaou be appointed as the representative of the Company for signing any relevant contract, legal document or statement and also for carrying out all necessary actions for the completion of the merger.

A creditor entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting, is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote on his behalf.

The instruments appointing a proxy must be deposited at the Company’s registered ofﬁce at least 48 hours before the time ﬁxed for the Meeting.

A copy of the merger plan is available at the Registered Address of the Company which is situated at 131 Gladstonos Str., Kermia Court, 2nd Floor, 3032 Limassol, Cyprus.

By order of the Board of Directors,

Maria Savvidou Representing Panthem Secretarial Ltd Secretary

Limassol, 16th April 2013

are many instances when the packaging might be damaged or the expiry date too close. “From our experience we know that during times of economic hardship, companies tend to release plenty of special offers to try and get rid of products that are either damaged or are due to expire,” coordinator for the Consumers’ Association, Giorgos Stylianou, told the Cyprus Mail. He added that the association was trying to put consumers on alert. “Everyone needs to be more vigilant and careful and refrain from buying unnecessary products or buying in bulk if it is not needed,” a statement from the association said. The statement went on to say that on March 15, World Consumer Rights Day, Cypriot consumers suffered a big blow after receiving news of the EU’s proposed haircut on deposits. “Since those events, things appear to be a bit clearer, although the dangers have not yet been overcome,” the statement said. The Association also reminded consumers that they can ﬁnd out about dangerous products that have been

removed from circulation on their website: http://www.cyprusconsumers.org.cy/en/. They are also promoting the online, educational system DOLCETA, which is aimed at teachers and students and informs consumers of their rights and responsibilities. The name DOLCETA was originally derived from ‘Developing On-Line Consumer Education and Training for Adults’. The project started in December 2003 and aims to assist in raising the level of awareness and understanding of European consumer rights in the member states and to develop interactive web-based tools for consumer education to be used primarily by teachers, trainers and adult educators in educational institutions, government bodies with consumer responsibilities and consumer associations. The website is also available to individual adult consumers directly. Each module is designed to be accessible and user friendly and is available in all the ofﬁcial languages of the 27 member states.

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EU funding to come earlier for Cyprus Cyprus is to get €945 million over the next seven years By Stefanos Evrpidou THE GOVERNMENT yesterday welcomed the European Commission’s expression of solidarity with Cyprus and willingness to bring forward payments to Cyprus from the 2014-2020 EU budget to help it access much-needed funds in the immediate future. In response to a letter sent by President Nicos Anastasiades on April 9 requesting help to overcome the current crisis, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso proposed “frontloading” payments to Cyprus from the EU budget so that allocations for the next seven years are paid early to give the battered economy a boost. In a return letter to Anastasiades dated April 15, Barroso expressed his “personal commitment to doing everything within the Commission’s power to help Cyprus return to a sustainable situation and to help mitigate the impact of the current crisis”. He said the Commission would also offer Nicosia higher pre-ﬁnancing rates and explore the possibility of increasing the size of the funds already agreed for Cyprus in the EU’s 2014-2020 budget. “With a view to delivering an impact on the ground as soon as possible I would propose to explore with the budget-

ary authority the possibility of frontloading future (EU budget) assistance for Cyprus,” Barroso said in the letter. “This would require your administration to bring forward its planning of programmes and projects under cohesion and rural development.” Also, Barroso said he would support a Cyprus request to join the future Youth Employment Initiative “on an exceptional basis”. Cyprus is to get €945 million over the next seven years as EU co-financing for various projects (€514m of cohesion funds) and as direct payments to farmers and for the development of rural areas (€431m). Barroso proposed Cypriot and commission officials work together to develop a more detailed ‘needs assessment’ for Cyprus to channel help to the areas of greatest need. “Once we have agreed on such a ‘needs assessment’ we could see how to match all available funds to the needs identified. “In this context, I do not exclude seeking additional support from the budgetary authority, despite all the wellknown difficulties currently associated with these matters at EU level,” said the Commission chief, noting however, that this was subject to unanimous member state support. Barroso reminded Anastasiades that the Commission

“had signalled very serious concerns about the situation in Cyprus in its different economic reports over quite a long period”. “As far back as November 2011 we spoke to your predecessor about the need for Cyprus to enter into a macro economic assistance programme,” he said. With this in mind, the Commission made sure the particular needs of Cyprus as a remote island were taken into account when concluding negotiations for the next EU multi-annual financial framework (MFF), said Barroso. This resulted in Cyprus receiving an additional allocation of €150m under cohesion policy and €7m under rural development subject to a cofinancing rate of 100 per cent. Also, the Commission made sure that Cyprus will be able to request higher pre-financing rates (1.5 per cent instead of the normal 1 per cent in both 2014 and 2015). Under cohesion policy and rural development, Cyprus will be able to request a 10 per cent ‘top up’ co-financing rate. This means that where the government would previously contribute 15 per cent of cohesion fund projects, or 50 per cent of European regional development fund and European social fund projects, they will now have the chance

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to contribute 10 per cent less, with the Commission filling in the gap. The government yesterday expressed its “satisfaction” with the solidarity shown in the letter. Government spokesman Christos Stylianides said the efforts undertaken by the president and government to secure additional European funds for Cyprus “seem to be bearing fruit”. Regarding the pre-financing options, he said teams have already been set up to prepare basic targets to seek these funds. The pre-financing and frontloading of projects will help Cyprus because there will be an increase of liquidity, which will in turn have an impact on the economy and state. Stylianides highlighted that the 10 per cent ‘top up’ of cofinancing needs was “extremely significant” as it too would serve to increase liquidity and reduce the level of state contribution to projects.

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EU makes a last-ditch attempt at Serbia-Kosovo deal THE European Union gave Serbia a last chance to clinch membership talks with the bloc yesterday, summoning the Balkan country to new negotiations on ending the ethnic partition of its former Kosovo province. With speculation rife that a deal might be near, the European Commission, the EU’s

executive arm, delayed a report on Serbia’s readiness to start accession talks. The report had been due yesterday, before the EU’s 27 members consider its ﬁndings on April 22. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who two weeks ago declared talks between Kosovo and Serbia

over, said she had invited the prime ministers of both sides back to Brussels today. Serbia does not recognise Kosovo’s 2008 secession, and last week rejected the principles of an agreement on the status of a small Serb pocket of the majority-Albanian country after six months of talks led by Ashton.

EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele, who is tasked with steering the countries of the Western Balkans towards EU membership, said he was conﬁdent an agreement would emerge. “It is time for Serbia and Kosovo to move on from the past and look ahead to a common European future,”

Berlusconi lawyers ask for trial move hearing to be delayed SILVIO Berlusconi’s lawyers have asked for court proceedings related to fraud and sexual misconduct charges to be postponed to allow the politician time to concentrate on the election of a new Italian president, court documents showed yesterday. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday to consider Berlusconi’s request to move the two trials from Milan, where the media magnate says the courts are biased against him, to the nearby city of Brescia. Berlusconi’s appeal against a tax fraud conviction connected with his Mediaset broadcasting empire and a separate trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor are on hold until the Court of Cassation makes a decision on the move. The legal petition argues that the media magnate and his lawyers, Piero Longo and Niccolo Ghedini, will be busy tomorrow because the election of a new Italian president begins that day. As a senator, Berlusconi will be voting for the next head of state, who is elected by a joint sitting of the two houses of parliament together with representatives of regional government. The mandate of President Giorgio Napolitano ends on May 15 and electing his successor is a vital step towards resolving a stalemate after an inconclusive general election in February. Berlusconi succeeded in delaying the verdicts in the tax fraud and prostitution trials until after that election, where his centreright coalition came in just behind the centre-left led by Pier Luigi Bersani.

A man holds minced beef meat in Paris. DNA tests on beef products across the EU found they contained up to ﬁve per cent of horsemeat

France has the most horsemeat in EU beef One in 20 products tested across bloc had horsemeat By Charlie Dunmore FRANCE found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, results of official DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal showed yesterday, with more than one in every eight samples testing positive. Announcing the results, the European Commission said that for the EU as a whole, just less than five per cent of all beef products tested had come back positive for horse DNA. But the figures showed that of 353 tests carried out in France, 47 tested positive for horse DNA, giving a rate of more than 13 per cent. “In terms of image it’s not good. It risks delaying our attempt to regain consumer confidence to get out of the crisis, because it is not over yet,” JeanRene Buisson, chairman of the French food industry group ANIA, said. Buisson said it would be important

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he said. “We hope the two leaderships will seize the historic opportunity that lies before them.” Kosovo’s EU integration minister, Vlora Citaku, tweeted: “Kosovo and Serbian delegations to meet tomorrow again in Brussels! Let’s hope this opportunity won’t be missed!”

to know how much horsemeat was detected in each positive sample, as tiny traces could be the result of accidental contamination at processing plants rather than deliberate substitution. The Commission did not provide that information. Europe’s horsemeat scandal has damaged conﬁdence in parts of the continent’s food industry, hitting sales of processed ready-meals and boosting demand for organic produce. The programme of EU-funded DNA tests was approved by member governments in February in a bid to gauge the extent of the problem and restore consumer conﬁdence in the bloc’s food safety controls. The results revealed a mixed picture across the EU. Greece had the secondhighest level of positive results with 288 tests yielding 36 positive results, a rate of 12.5 per cent. About one in every 10 tests also returned positive in Latvia, Denmark and Estonia. By contrast, Germany found horse

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DNA in just 3.3 per cent of samples, and in the Netherlands the rate was less than one per cent. Both Ireland - where the discovery in January of horse DNA in a burger labelled as pure beef ﬁrst sparked the scandal - and Britain - where retailers including Tesco have been forced to withdraw products found to contain horse - returned no positive results for horsemeat. Criminal investigations are under way in several EU countries to try to identify those responsible for passing off illegally labelled horsemeat as beef. Last week, authorities in the Netherlands said about 50 million kilos of beef distributed by two Dutch wholesalers over a period of two years may have contained horsemeat, fuelling suspicions that the country could be one of the possible origins of the scandal. “It’s probably true that the Netherlands is the source of some of the fraud,” the senior EU source said.

Accession talks would help unlock Serbia’s potential as the largest market in the former Yugoslavia, providing a stimulus for reform and a signal of stability for muchneeded foreign investors. The country will watch neighbouring Croatia, its wartime foe, become the EU’s 28th member on July 1.

Cardinal warns gay marriage law risks violence FRANCE’S top Catholic bishop warned the government yesterday that legalisation of same-sex marriage risked inciting violence at a time the country had more pressing economic and social problems to tackle. Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois told a meeting of French bishops the planned marriage reform, which the government has speeded up amid mounting pressure from opponents, was a sign that society had lost its capacity to integrate different views. Protests against the law, led by lay groups mostly backed by the Catholic Church, have become more agitated in recent days as noisy opponents rally outside the Senate and National Assembly and harass politicians supporting the reform. Vingt-Trois, the archbishop of Paris, said the difference between the sexes was a basic human trait and denying it by legalising marriage and adoption for homosexuals would weaken society’s ability to manage its differences peacefully. “This is the way a violent society develops,” he told the spring meeting of the French bishops’ conference. “Society has lost its capacity of integration and especially its ability to blend differences in a common project.” The government decided on Monday the law would be passed weeks earlier than planned and with a limited debate in its second reading. “Forcing it through can simplify things for a while,” he said. “To avoid paralysing political life when there are grave economic and social decisions to take, it would have been more reasonable and simple to not have started this process.”

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Thatcher’s body moved for her final visit to parliament

‘Absurd’ yellow lines in alley

Around 4,000 policemen to guard route of funeral, closing London streets

By Rod Minchin

By Andrew Woodcock and Joe Churcher BARONESS Thatcher’s coffin yesterday arrived at Westminster, as the former Prime Minister paid her final visit to Parliament. Draped in a Union flag, the coffin was brought by hearse to the Houses of Parliament, where Lady Thatcher’s body was due to rest overnight in the crypt chapel of St Mary Undercroft before her ceremonial funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral today. A short private service to receive the body into the chapel was led by the Dean of Westminster and attended by members of the Thatcher family, senior figures from both Houses and members of staff who worked closely with Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. After the service, MPs, peers and parliamentary staff were allowed into the chapel to pay their respects to the woman who dominated Westminster as Prime Minister from 197990 and served as an MP and peer for more than half a century from 1959 until her death aged 87 last week. In contrast to the elaborate military procession and cathedral service planned for today, Lady Thatcher’s return to the scene of so many triumphs and battles was a simple and low-key ceremony. Her coffin, topped by a large bouquet of white flowers, was lifted from the hearse and carried into Parliament by four pall-bearers in black ties. Lady Thatcher herself had asked for her final farewell to Westminster to be a private affair. As Lady Thatcher’s body lies at rest in the crypt chapel, MPs last night took part in a debate in the Commons about her legacy. The debate was triggered by Respect MP George Galloway who, along with Labour

veteran Dennis Skinner, objected to a business motion which would see today’s session of Prime Minister’s Questions cancelled so that David Cameron and other MPs can attend the funeral service. The pair’s cry of “object” means the proposed change in sitting time then had to be voted on after a debate. Outspoken left-winger Galloway made clear he aimed to use the occasion to air a “disrespectful” assessment of Lady Thatcher’s record in power, which he said had been excluded from last week’s tributes in the Commons. “People think the canonisation of Lady Thatcher has gone on long enough,” said the Respect MP. “The muffling of the chimes of Big Ben is a step too far and now Mr Cameron will miss Prime Minister’s Questions for four weeks. It is unconscionable.” But in a speech last night, Foreign Secretary William Hague was due to say Baroness Thatcher would have relished the arguments over her legacy. “She, who prized freedom above all things, would not be in the slightest bit upset by the disagreement,” he was expected to tell an international audience at the Lord Mayor’s Easter Banquet. Her coffin will leave Westminster by hearse this morning before being transferred to a gun carriage for the final leg of its journey to St Paul’s. Tight security plans were being urgently reviewed by Scotland Yard yesterday. Senior officers at the Metropolitan Police and counter-terrorism officials are understood to have held discussions on whether to upgrade security measures for the event. Around 4,000 officers are expected to line the route. Westminster City Council revealed that it will have 40 staff and nine “flushing machines” on hand to wash the

Artist Kaya Mar carries a picture depicting the cofﬁn of Margaret Thatcher being carried in different directions by two men, one representing the rich (right) and one the poor, outside the Houses of Parliament in central London yesterday (AFP)

street after warnings on Twitter that activists could throw milk at the funeral procession along the route. Lady Thatcher earned the nickname “milk snatcher” after she stopped free milk in schools. Protesters also threatened to disrupt proceedings by throwing coal at her cofﬁn. Argentina’s ambassador

to London has declined an invitation to attend today’s funeral, Downing Street revealed. It comes amid increased attention on the international guestlist for the ceremony, particularly attendees from the United States. Downing Street insisted that David Cameron was not

disappointed with Washington’s decision not to send currently serving senior politicians to the ceremonial funeral. Barack Obama’s ofﬁcial presidential delegation will be led by George Shultz and James Baker, who both served as secretaries of state during the Thatcher era.

BUNGLING council workers have taken parking restrictions to a new extreme by painting double yellow lines down an alleyway just 1.4 metres wide. Despite barely being wide enough for two people to walk down side by side, the narrow walkway in Swindon has had the lines painted down both sides, just in case drivers were unsure whether they could park there. The alley was painted last week when other roads in the area were having double yellows put down. Local resident Liz Adams said: “I’m not sure how one is supposed to park along here in a car. It’s just wide enough for me to stand here. “I think it’s just really, really funny. It’s absurd. “It’ll be a shame if the council rectify it but I think they will now.” It would appear that the workmen putting the lines down were following their instructions to the letter and didn’t feel drivers would not try to park there. “It’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen,” local businessman Ray Mudhar told the Swindon Advertiser. A Swindon Borough Council spokesman said: “Local residents have asked us to deal with illegal parking in alleyways, but it seems that our contractors forgot just how big cars actually are when they painted this one. “We will be taking it up with them.”

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Boyfriend ‘hatched murder plot’ Scandal-hit BBC appoints news chief A CHEATING Polish factory worker killed his British girlfriend for her life insurance policy after hatching a murder plot with his jealous secret lover and her uncle, a court heard yesterday. Rafal Nowak is said to have killed 23-year-old business analyst Catherine WellsBurr as she slept at the couple’s new home in Chard, Somerset in September last year, leaving him able to access a six-ﬁgure life insurance payout and the property. Nowak’s former partner, Anna Lagwinowicz - with whom 31-year-old Nowak is said to have rekindled a

romance - joined her uncle, Tadevsz Dmytryszyn, 38, in dumping Wells-Burr’s body in her car at a nearby roadside and setting ﬁre to it, Bristol Crown Court heard. The murder was the result of months of secret meetings and phone calls between Nowak and Lagwinowicz, with Wells-Burr oblivious to her part in the so-called “love triangle”, the prosecution said. The court was also told how Nowak joined WellsBurr at her father’s house for Sunday lunch, hours before an initial murder plot was aborted at the last minute.

Jurors heard Lagwinowicz embarked on several plots to “trap” her love rival, creating fake profiles on social media from fictional male admirers and even signing up to an explicit dating website pretending to be WellsBurr. The trio also created a fake trail of text messages with a “mystery man”, implying Wells-Burr was having an affair with an unidentified man who was responsible for her death. But police quickly identified clues pointing to Nowak, the “bitter” and “jealous” Lagwinowicz and her doting uncle.

THE BBC named former Times editor James Harding, who was forced to apologise to a media ethics inquiry last year, as its head of news yesterday at a time when the publiclyfunded broadcaster tackles one of the biggest crises in its 90-year history. Among Harding’s tasks will be to restore trust in the globally respected British Broadcasting Corporation, hit by a series of scandals involving the late presenter Jimmy Savile who was discovered to have been a serial sex offender. The announcement of his appointment coincides with fresh controversy surrounding accusations that its ﬂagship news programme Panorama had used British students as “human shields” while it secretly ﬁlmed in North Korea. Tony Hall, the BBC’s director general who took the helm two weeks ago, acknowledged the news operation had been through an

“undeniably difﬁcult chapter”, but added he expected the BBC to beneﬁt from Harding’s “external perspective”. Harding, 43, said he was honoured to be a part of the BBC. “The BBC’s newsroom strives to be the best in the world, trusted for its accuracy, respected for its fairness and admired for the courage of its reporting,” he added in a statement. At 38, Harding became the youngest editor in The Times’ history in 2007 having previously worked at the Financial Times. He stepped down in 2012 in a move he indicated had been forced on him by publishers News International. While the phone-hacking scandal centred on the now defunct News of the World tabloid, it spilled over into stable mate The Times after one of its reporters hacked into emails of an anonymous police blogger in 2009 to expose his identity.

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Venezuela accuses opposition of plotting coup, seven dead VENEZUELAN President-elect Nicolas Maduro accused the opposition yesterday of planning a coup against him after seven people were killed in violent clashes over his disputed election victory. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles has demanded a full recount of votes from Sunday’s election after ofﬁcial results showed a narrow victory for Maduro, who is late President Hugo Chavez’s hand-

picked successor. The deaths occurred on Monday when hundreds of protesters took to the streets in various parts of the capital Caracas and other cities, blocking streets, burning tires and ﬁghting with security forces in some cases. Ofﬁcials also said 61 people had been injured and 135 people arrested in the violence. Protesters tried to burn alive one of the injured people, the govern-

ment said. “This is the responsibility of those who have called for violence, who have ignored the constitution and the institutions,” a furious Maduro said in a speech to the nation yesterday. “Their plan is a coup d’etat.” Maduro also said he will not allow a big opposition march planned for today in Caracas to demand a vote recount. “It’s time for a tough hand,” he said.

The electoral authority has ruled out a recount, so Capriles called for street protests to press his demands in the quickly worsening standoff in the South American nation, which has the world’s largest oil reserves. State media and ofﬁcials said the fatalities on Monday included two people shot by opposition sympathisers while celebrating Maduro’s victory in a middle-class area of Caracas.

The opposition did not respond to the speciﬁc allegations of deaths, but Capriles said the government was responsible for violence by denying its call for an election recount. He reiterated demands for peaceful protests as thousands of his supporters marched to regional election ofﬁces around the country yesterday. The government held counterdemonstrations.

North Korea issues new threats over protests in South NORTH Korea issued new threats against South Korea yesterday, vowing “sledgehammer blows” of retaliation if South Korea did not apologise for anti-North Korean protests the previous day when the North was celebrating the birth of its founding leader. The North also rejected what it called “cunning” US overtures for talks, saying it will not be humiliated into being dragged to sit at the negotiating table by Washington. But a senior US military official in South Korea said the North Korean leadership was looking for a way to cool down its rhetoric after weeks of warnings of war. On Monday, the North dropped its shrill threats against the United States and South Korea as it celebrated the 101st anniversary of the birth of its first leader, Kim Il-Sung, raising hopes for an easing of tension in a region that has for weeks seemed on the verge of conflict. But the North’s KCNA news agency said yesterday the North Korean army had issued an ultimatum to the South after rallies in the South on Monday at which portraits of North Korea’s leaders were burned. “Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now,” KCNA reported, citing military leaders of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as North Korea is officially known. The North’s Foreign Ministry also rejected what it said was cunning US scheming aimed at defusing tensions on the Korean peninsula with an offer of talks while deploying military assets capable of launching nuclear strikes against it.

A policeman walks in front of a large advertisement for Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer at the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Expo in Shanghai. The expo runs from April 16-18 (EPA)

Pakistan bears quake brunt At least 35 killed as big tremors felt from Dubai to Delhi from Iran By Gul Yousafzai A POWERFUL earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran yesterday killing at least 35 people in neighbouring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states. Communications with the sparsely-populated desert and mountain region were largely cut off, making it difﬁcult to assess Iranian casualties. But an Iranian provincial governor said there were no reports of deaths there so far. “Our staff were in a meeting and we felt the ground shake,” Saleh Mangi, Programme Unit Manager for Plan International in the Pakistani town of Thatta, was quoted as saying by the British ofﬁce

of the children’s charity. “It was horrible - we felt the movement in the chairs and even the cupboards were shaking. This is the strongest quake I have felt since the 1980s.” Pakistani ofﬁcials said at least 30 people were killed and 150 injured in the town of Mashkeel in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran. Mohammed Ashraf, head of a health centre in Mashkeel, said several hundred houses had caved in. Three women and two children were also killed when their mud house collapsed in the Baluchistan district of Panjgur. Pakistan’s army said it had deployed troops and helicopters to ferry tents, medicines and medical teams to Mashkeel.

Iran appeared to have emerged relatively unscathed. National media reported that 27 people were injured and that the signiﬁcant depth was the likely reason for the relatively low level of damage from a 7.8 magnitude quake. Hatam Narouyi, governor of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, said there were “no fatalities”, the student news agency (ISNA) reported. The US Geological Survey said the quake hit at 10.44 GMT at a depth of 82km. The epicentre was 198km southeast of the city of Zahedan and 250km northwest of Turbat in Pakistan. People in the Iranian city of Zahedan poured into the streets when it struck, Fars news agency reported. Ofﬁcials in Saravan, the nearest city to the epicentre, said

there had been no serious damage. Iranian Red Crescent ofﬁcial Morteza Moradipour said emergency crews, including dog teams to sniff through the debris for any buried survivors, had reached the area. “Because of the strength of the earthquake we had expected to see signiﬁcant damage in residential areas but the quake was at a depth of 95km and therefore the extent of the damage was on par with earthquakes measuring magnitude 4,” he said. It was the second big quake to hit Iran in a week. On April 9, a 6.3 magnitude quake struck close to the Bushehr nuclear power station, killing 37 people, injuring 850 and devastating two villages. Most of Iran’s nuclear-related facilities are located in cen-

tral Iran or its west, including Bushehr, its nuclear power plant, which sits on the Gulf coast. Iran says safety standards at Bushehr are good, but some Western experts have their doubts. “It (the quake epicentre) is far from Bushehr and other nuclear-related facilities,” Iran expert Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group think-tank said. “However, the recent tremors are ominous reminders of how earthquake prone Iran’s terrain truly is and how critical it is for the Iranian government to be prepared for a nuclear emergency.” The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran’s nuclear authority had informed it that there was no damage to the Bushehr power plant or other facilities.

Musharraf banned from elections US condoned torture after 9/11, must close Guantanamo says report PAKISTAN’S former military leader Pervez Musharraf has been disqualified from running in forthcoming parliamentary elections after returning from self-imposed exile to make a political comeback. Over a week ago, a judge in the remote northern district of Chitral gave him approval to run in the May 11 election, even though he was disqualified in three other districts for suspending the constitution and sacking senior judges while in power. Pakistan’s political system allows a candidate to run for multiple seats simultaneously. Lawyers challenged the decision in Chitral, and a threemember appellate tribunal disqualified Musharraf from running in the district. He can appeal against the ruling in the Supreme Court. The tribunal’s decision is one of the biggest blows in what has been a bumpy return for Musharraf after over four years in self-imposed exile.

AN independent task force issued a damning review of Bush-era interrogation practices yesterday, saying the highest US ofﬁcials bore ultimate responsibility for the “indisputable” use of torture, and it urged President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo detention camp by the end of 2014. In one of the most comprehensive studies of US treatment of terrorism suspects, the panel concluded that never before had there been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inﬂicting pain and torment on some detainees

in our custody. “It is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture,” the 11-member task force, assembled by the nonpartisan Constitution Project think tank, said in their 577-page report. The scathing critique of methods used under the Republican administration of former President George W Bush also sharpened the focus on the plight of inmates at Guantanamo, which Bush opened and his Democratic successor has failed to close. Obama banned abusive interrogation techniques such as waterboarding when he took ofﬁce in early 2009, but the widely condemned military prison at the

US Naval Base in Cuba has remained an object of condemnation by human rights advocates. A clash between guards and prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay camp last weekend and the release of harrowing accounts by inmates about force-feeding of hunger strikers threw a harsh spotlight on the predicament of the inmates, many held without charge or trial for more than decade. The task force called the indeﬁnite detention of prisoners at Guantanamo “abhorrent and intolerable” and called for it to be closed by the end of 2014 when NATO’s combat mission in Afghanistan is due to end and most US troops will leave.

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World

Boston bomb pressure cooker full of shrapnel President Obama brands attacks as ‘an act of terror’ By Scott Malone and Svea Herbst-Bayliss A PRESSURE cooker stuffed with gunpowder and shrapnel caused at least one of the blasts at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured 176 others in the worst attack on US soil since September 11, 2001, law enforcement sources said yesterday. President Barack Obama called the two bombings on the marathon ﬁnish line an “act of terror” and police said parts of the centre of Boston could be closed for days as they investigated the blasts that caused several people to lose limbs. “When these kids came in... they were just so badly hurt, just covered with singed hair and in so much pain, it was just gut-wrenching,” said David Mooney, the director of the trauma program at

Boston Children’s Hospital. “Pulling nails out of a little girl’s flesh is just awful.” At least 10 people had limbs amputated as a result of their injuries, officials at hospitals said. The youngest to die in the attacks was an eight-yearold boy. His family identified him in a statement as Martin Richard, who lived in the city’s Dorchester neighbourhood. An early lead in the investigation and an apartment search ended with law enforcement sources saying that a Saudi Arabian student injured in the blast was likely to be cleared of suspicion. No one has been arrested, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters. Later yesterday in Washington, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said there was no indication that the bomb

Derek Weber of Brighton, Massachusetts holds a ‘Free Hugs’ sign as he walks with friend Cami Kenney, also of Brighton, near the site of the bombings (EPA)

blasts were part of a broader plot. At least one bomb, and possibly both, were built using pressure cookers as the superstructure, black powder or gunpowder as the explosive and ball bearings as additional shrapnel, according to current and former counter-terrorism officials briefed on the matter. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said instructions on how to design such bombs are available on the internet. “Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror,” Obama said in the White House briefing room. “What we don’t yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organisation - foreign or domestic - or was the act of a malevolent individual.” Officials in cities across the United States were watchful and several had security scares yesterday, although no injuries were reported. At Boston Logan International Airport, two passengers and their bags were removed from a United Airlines flight before departure yesterday morning, a source with direct knowledge of the action said. A nearly mile-long stretch of Boylston Street, near the marathon finish and Boston’s two tallest buildings remained cordoned off yesterday and portions of that street could remain closed for several days, police said. Davis, the police commissioner, called it “the most complex crime scene that we have dealt with in the

Shaken city mostly back to work despite a 12-block crime scene SHAKEN but determined, Bostonians struggled to get back to their workday routines yesterday, the day after a twin bombing wreaked havoc during the city’s world-famous marathon and led to the closure of a wide area of Boston’s city centre. The explosions, which claimed three lives, injured dozens and shattered the city’s equilibrium, made the return from a three-day weekend especially difficult for many commuters. Most said they were weary after the horror that unfolded at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on Patriots’ Day, a Massachusetts state holiday. Even so they wanted to get back to work as a message of defiance to the perpetrators of the attack. “I simply refuse to let a few deranged people intimidate me and get me away from my routine,” said George Meier, 56, an information technology manager for a Boston pharmaceutical company. Ropes & Gray LLP, one of Boston’s most prestigious law firms, reported high attendance even though its main office is at 800 Boylston Street, just a few blocks from where the bombs exploded. “It is hard to get into our office, with the main Boylston Street entrance to the Prudential Tower closed,” said Brad Malt, chairman of the firm’s management committee. But he said staff are calm and “serving clients as nor-

mally as possible.” To be sure, some of the city’s biggest financial service firms had to keep workers at home because their offices are near or within a 12-block crime scene at Copley Square, where the two bombs exploded Monday afternoon, ripping indiscriminately through spectators, race officials and runners. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the state would be open for business, “but it will not be business as usual”. He told commuters using public transport to expect a beefed-up police presence, including random searches of packages, bags and backpacks. Cab driver Gary Buchanan, 57, said Boston was a “ghost town”. “It was dead,” Buchanan said after completing a 12-hour shift. Fortunately it was vacation week for many of the area’s schools, making commuter traffic much lighter than usual. But Boston is a busy destination for school children and their parents looking for something to do. The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, located on the edge of the city’s financial district, yesterday considered shutting down during a weekly manager’s meeting. “We asked, ‘Do we open or do we close?’” said Shawn Ford, executive director of the museum. “We said, ‘Damn it, We’re open.’ People will come here to learn what the Boston patriots sacrificed for us to give us this freedom.”

history of our department.” Trauma surgeons at several Boston hospitals said at press brieﬁngs that a number of victims had a range of metallic shrapnel material removed during surgery, including pellets and what appeared to be carpenter nails. Runners who had travelled to Boston for the annual marathon, which has been held since 1897 and attracts an estimated half-million spectators and some 20,000 participants, remained in shock yesterday morning. Pat Monroe-DuPrey, of Winter Haven, Florida, ran with his wife, Laura, in a trip to mark their 10th anniversary after being married during the race. He said he did not know what to make of the blast, which came as he was ﬁnishing the race in a state of exhaustion. “You don’t have a brain at 26 miles,” Monroe-DuPrey said. “They got us off the course, and then I was panicking.”

A man stands amidst piles of numbered belongings left behind near the ﬁnish line of the Boston Marathon (EPA)

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Business

London luxury residential property boom looking shaky GROSVENOR Group, which owns most of London’s upscale Mayfair and Belgravia districts, said the rate of luxury home price growth in Britain’s capital looked unsustainable after years of foreigners pouring cash into the safe-haven market. Luxury home prices have surged 53 per cent since 2009, compared with 25 per cent in Greater London, as investors sought refuge from Europe’s debt crisis, and political uncertainty in the Arab world and Russia, property group Knight Frank said.

Glencore clinches Chinese approval with copper deal CHINA’S antitrust authorities removed the last obstacle to Glencore’s $30 billion takeover of miner Xstrata yesterday after the commodities trader agreed to sell a $5.2 billion mining project to ease its grip on copper. Xstrata’s Las Bambas mine in Peru had been expected to be sacriﬁced to secure the approval of China’s Ministry of Commerce, but Glencore also agreed eightyear commitments covering the supply of copper, zinc and lead to China. Chinese regulators have rarely demanded asset sales to improve competition after a major tie-up, but the importance of the metals that Glencore mines and trades for China’s economy meant the merger was unlikely to go through without changes. In the event, the newest and least predictable of global regulators was also the toughest. Glencore had already signalled that Chinese authorities were focused on its hold on the copper market, reﬂecting China’s appetite for metal and the political side of the regulator’s mission, as much as Glencore’s own weight.

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The buoyant market has since attracted a slew of commercial developers such as British Land and Land Securities while Grosvenor has also cashed in by converting ofﬁces back to their original use as homes. “The extremely high rate of growth over the last two, three years is a thing I’m concerned about and I think it’s probably unsustainable,” Grosvenor’s Chief Executive Mark Preston said yesterday. “As those crises recede then perhaps there’s less interest in capital

moving internationally for safe haven reasons,” he said. “(And) we’re reaching values in prime London that are just extremely high by historic standards.” Preston said Grosvenor would focus on diversifying the business further this year by investing in Canadian residential and British rental homes to offset the risk of slowing price growth in the luxury housing market. London is the third most expensive place to buy a home after Monaco and Hong Kong at 2,540 pounds ($3,900) per square foot,

Knight Frank data showed. Grosvenor is one of the first major London luxury home owners to warn of the sector’s risks. The firm is controlled by the Grosvenor family, headed by Gerald Grosvenor - the Duke of Westminster - whose £7.4 billion fortune placed him at No. 7 in Britain’s Sunday Times Rich List last year. Its London estate, which it has owned for more than 300 years, comprises 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia with more than 1,500 homes, shops and offices as well as investments in China, Europe and

North America and a fund management arm. The company said proﬁt before tax rose 12.5 per cent to £354.4 million in 2012, driven by central London property price growth and improved operational performance. The value of its property assets was £5.8 billion, unchanged from 2011. Total return, based on rental income and property prices, fell to 7.2 per cent from 9 per cent due to losses on a Spanish ofﬁce park and property revaluations in continental Europe.

IMF sees bumpy recovery, trims global growth forecast Warns against fatigue in battling European debt crisis By Lesley Wroughton THE International Monetary Fund yesterday trimmed projections for global economic growth for this year and next to take into account sharp government spending cuts in the United States and the latest struggles of recessionstricken Europe. While it said economic prospects had improved in recent months with a fading of financial risks, it warned Europe against relaxing efforts to combat its debt crisis given the messy bailout in Cyprus and a political stalemate in Italy. The IMF raised its forecast for Japan, welcoming the Bank of Japan’s aggressive new monetary stimulus, which it said would boost growth and help vanquish deflation. “While some tail risks have decreased it is not time for policymakers to relax,” IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard told a news conference to discuss the World Economic Outlook. The report was released as global financial leaders gathered for the semiannual meetings of the IMF and World Bank later this week. The IMF cut its 2013 forecast for global growth to 3.3 per cent, down from its January projection of 3.5 per cent. It also trimmed its 2014 forecast to 4.0 per cent from 4.1 per cent. A more subdued outlook for the United States and for the eurozone led it to lower its growth forecast for advanced economies to 1.2 per cent for 2013 while it kept its 2014 forecast at 2.2

Mayor of London Boris Johnson speaks at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai yesterday during a trip to countries in the region to improve business and new investment opportunities. He hopes to raise billions of pounds of investment for London (EPA) per cent. While it lowered its projections for growth in emerging economies to 5.3 per cent for this year, it also said growth was already accelerating and would hit 5.7 per cent in 2014. Growth has returned to a healthy pace in China and activity is expected to recover in Brazil next year, the IMF said. Strong domestic demand in sub-Saharan Africa should help boost growth in both resource-rich and poorer economies in that region, the Fund added. Meanwhile, growth in the Middle East and North Africa is likely to dip this year as oil production slows in some oil-exporting nations and ‘Arab Spring’ countries struggle with political transitions. “Notwithstanding old dangers and new turbulence, the near-term risk picture has improved as recent policy actions in Europe and the United States

have addressed some of the gravest short-term risks,” the Fund said. Blanchard said the dramatic overhaul of monetary policy announced by the Bank of Japan was a necessary step and he hoped it would succeed. The Fund said the US dollar and euro “appear moderately overvalued” and the Chinese renminbi “moderately undervalued”. Evidence on the value of the yen “is mixed,” it added. The IMF said Europe and the United States had dodged bullets by enacting policies that laid to rest the notion of a eurozone breakup and the possibility the world’s richest economy would fall off a “ﬁscal cliff” of tax increases and budget cuts. However, it suggested an easier monetary policy might be warranted in the euro zone. “Given moderating inﬂation pressure, monetary policy should remain very

accommodative. Room is still available for further conventional easing, as inflation is projected to fall below the European Central Bank’s target in the medium term,” it said. The IMF forecast economic contractions in France, Spain and Italy this year. IMF economist Jorg Decressin said Italy’s economic policy was on the right track and prospects would brighten next year with less need for government spending cuts. He also said fiscal policy in France is “appropriate” even if the country misses the goal to trim the deficit below an EU ceiling of 3 per cent of GDP in 2013. The Fund also made clear that, while a worst-case outcome had been avoided, fiscal policy in Washington had tightened more than it had expected - a key reason for its forecast downgrade. As for US monetary policy, the IMF said it expects the Federal Reserve to hold in-

terest rates near zero into early 2016, although it cautioned that the Fed may need to tighten policy earlier “should upside risks to growth materialise”. The Fed last month maintained a controversial programme of buying $85 billion of bonds a month, while pledging to keep interest rates near zero at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 per cent, so long as inflation stays under 2.5 per cent. The Fund said developing a comprehensive medium-term deficit reduction framework that reformed so-called entitlement programmes and raised additional revenues should be the top priority for the United States. “Such a comprehensive plan should place fiscal consolidation on a gradual path in the short term, in light of the fragile recovery and limited room for monetary policy,” the IMF added.

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Opinion

CBC Governor has shown he cannot be trusted to take the right decisions THE PRESIDENT of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi was quick to come to the defence of Cyprus’ Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades. In a letter sent to President Nicos Anastasiades, Draghi warned that the Governor could only be dismissed on the grounds specified by EU law and even then the action would have to be reviewed by the EU’s court of justice. Anastasiades responded with a six-page letter, denying that any proceedings for the sacking of Demetriades had been undertaken but also listing some of the dubious policies implemented by him since he was appointed by the Christofias government last May. Demetriades has been responsible for many ill-conceived decisions that caused harm to the country, but his decision to carry on providing emergency liquidity assistance to the insolvent Laiki Bank was catastrophic and could be described as criminally negligent. Should a Governor whose appallingly poor judgment has cost us billions be kept in his position to cause more harm to the country because he has the support of the ECB president? And was Draghi not concerned that Cyprus has a Governor who was taking billions of ELA for an insolvent bank, without receiving adequate security from it, building up a debt in excess of €9.2 billion? Obviously not, as the ECB has arbitrarily passed on this debt to the Bank of Cyprus and demanded additional collateral from it to cover Demetriades’ blunders. We would have thought the ECB would have wanted him out, instead of standing by him and issuing warnings to the government. Demetriades has also tried to turn opinion abroad against the government, telling Bloomberg that the Governor’s independence was under attack. He told the news agency that there had been “constant interference in relation to the management of the banks under resolution,” which was a bit rich, considering how Demetriades had obeyed all the diktats of Christofias government without ever complaining that the Governor’s independence was being undermined. He publicly admitted that he carried on sanctioning ELA for Laiki because the previous government wanted any decision on the bank to wait until after the elections. The Anastasiades government has been absolutely right to interfere for the very simple reason that the Governor has shown he cannot be trusted to take decisions that are in the best interest of the country. Was it not Demetriades who wanted to re-open the banks on the Tuesday after the first Eurogroup meeting? If the government had not prevented him from doing so there would have been a bank run that would have made things even worse. Of course it should be said that he was merely following the instructions of the ECB, which, as Demetriades pointed out a couple of weeks ago, has full confidence in the Governor. President Anastasiades has every right to have no trust or confidence in a man who acts as the ECB’s loyal agent because, as events have shown the last thing the ECB is interested in is the good of the Cyprus economy.

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Before asking others to pay up, Germany should pay its own debts Comment Avraam HadjiGiovannis Germany has been refusing to honour its sovereign debt obligations, as one Cypriot company which says it is owed in excess of $9 billion based on today’s gold price, is ﬁnding out.

HE DISPUTE originated in the 1920s when Germany issued series of bearer bonds in the USA for revitalisation of its economy following the devastating effects of WWI. Acting as trustees, ﬁnancial institutions such as JP Morgan and Lee Higgins & Co. produced and sold bonds in America raising funds that would be invested in Germany. These bonds corresponded to Agricultural Loans signed by 14 German banks and guaranteed by the German government. Of these 14 banks four are still active and are part of the troika mechanism. From 1933, Germany defaulted on interest repayments to Bondholders, as the new Nazi leadership considered the debt that Germany faced following WWI as illegal and issued a moratorium on bonds owed to foreign investors. In 1952 following years of German debt crisis, the London Debt Agreement restructured Germany’s debt to be sustainable by the agreement of its creditors. The way this deal would function was to provide the option to the bondholders of German debt, to either accept the repayment terms of the LDA, or to forego attempts to claim their debt until 1993. The rationale being that you can cash in today from a weak Germany or wait for a full settlement after 40 years of German growth and development. Assenting Bondholders: For bondholders who wanted to cash in their bonds immediately, they could receive partial payment, and new bonds, with a discount on the value of their bonds (depending on the issue, between 20 - 60 per cent). For this to be implemented correctly, a procedure of Validation was set up to ensure that anyone presenting bonds for payment could prove that they were indeed the beneﬁcial owner. This would guarantee that all of the disbursements paid went directly to Germany’s creditors in the correct manor. Non Assenting Bondholders: For bondholders who chose to wait for full settlement by their next generation in the future, their course of action was to maintain the debt instruments (the bonds) safely, and not request a settlement until the 40-year grace period had expired. Validation boards were established in the three US states (where the bonds were initially sold) to carry out the compliance requirements for

The German government claims that during WWII Russian soldiers looted the Reichsbank vault, where many bonds were kept, and that these bonds were reintroduced into the market the bondholders who chose to accept the option presented in the LDA. Having performed their role, these boards were subsequently closed a few years later. By 1993 the German government had succeeded in revitalising its economy and began to respond to requests for payment. Unfortunately, they chose not to honour their debt. To the surprise of many bondholders, Germany would receive payment applications with the physical bonds attached, perforate the bonds, and stamp them as invalid. The reasons given by the German Government and its subsidiary bodies are: Germany has compiled a list of Bond serial numbers that Germany considers stolen, and hence invalid. The procedure of validation must be complied with. The German government claims that during WWII Russian soldiers looted the Reichsbank vault, where many bonds were kept, and that these bonds were reintroduced into the market for payment. The simple problem with this claim is that the only bonds that were in the Ger-

‘For over three generations the same sovereign debt has been postponed and avoided’

man vault had already been paid off or pledged, for which there is a public record, and no active bondholders had their bonds physically in Germany. Furthermore, the building which housed the Reichsbank had been completely destroyed, the contents removed by Germany before the arrival of Russian soldiers to Berlin. The bonds were “bearer” instruments, and bondholders would cut off the coupons from the papers for their interest repayments. This claim however, was acceptable in the few years immediately following the war, as it was obvious bondholders would not be able to recover their principal or interest at the time, and was the reasons for the Validation Procedure outlined in the London Debt Agreements. The so-called ‘Validation Procedure’ which was intended to apply to bonds that would be submitted for payment in 1952 added additional security requirements for the bondholder to comply with. Not only was it clear in the legislation that this only applied to Assenting Bondholders in 1952, subsequently indicated by the closure of the Validation boards, but it would be simply impossible for any bondholder to comply with them 40 years later. When bondholders and creditors have asked to see this list, the German government categorically denied access, stating that it is not in their national interest, and has classiﬁed this list as a “national secret”. What followed was a series of lawsuits in the US where German legal defence has never denied the liability for its debt, but has systematically used technical issues and delayed court cases, to the point that many bondholders have paid millions more in legal expenses. Many of these claims continue today, by some of the surviving bondholders and the acquir-

ers of that debt, and will be making appeals to the European Courts in the near future. There is no question in the minds of the many experts in banking and law, with substantial knowledge of international financial instruments, that these bonds represent unpaid debt of the German government and its subsidiary bodies. We, as a Cypriot company, have spent much time and resources acquiring not only the bonds, but the wall of evidence surrounding the sovereign and national debt of Germany and the impressive ability of a great state to escape its obligations. For over three generations the same sovereign debt has been postponed and avoided. The inheritors and purchasers of this debt have been obliged to adopt expensive and cumbersome avenues, to force the German government’s hand to respect and honour its obligations, a fundamental of our modern European society. German economic historian Albrecht Ritschl argued in an interview with Spiegel in 2011 that Germany was ‘the biggest debt transgressor of the 20th century’. “During the 20th century, Germany was responsible for what were the biggest national bankruptcies in recent history. “It is only thanks to the United States, which sacrificed vast amounts of money after both World War I and World War II, that Germany is financially stable today and holds the status of Europe’s headmaster. That fact, unfortunately, often seems to be forgotten,” he said. The undeniable truth is that authenticated bank bearer bonds worth $9,750,000,000, that’s nine billion seven hundred and fifty million US dollars according to the gold price of today, owned by a Cypriot company, were issued on the back of German sovereign debt that remains unsettled.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

Showbiz Psy chasing new YouTube glory

Trust: Will and Jada do not, apparently, have an open marriage

SOUTH Korean rapper Psy's new video, Gentleman, rocketed up the YouTube heights with more than 82 million views yesterday, chasing the success of his megahit Gangnam Style after smashing the previous record for first-day views for songs. Gangnam Style, which holds the YouTube record for most views ever with more than 1.5 billion, made the corpulent Korean a global star and one of the best-known faces to come out of the growing K-pop music scene. The video to Gentleman racked up more than 20 million hits in the first 24 hours after its release on Saturday night. That easily outstripped the 8 million views for Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" in its first 24 hours. "51 million views in 40 hours!!My God!!" Psy tweeted on Monday. The song was also climbing music charts around the world, hitting 8th in Britain and 7th in Australia, according to the Apple store’s iTunes ranking, and holding top

Will and Jada have a ‘grown marriage’

Ozzy hates wife Sharon’s fixation with showbiz life

WILL Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have a “grown marriage”. After recent comments from Jada caused speculation the pair have an open marriage, she took to her Facebook page to insist the couple have a mature relationship but they don’t see other people. She wrote: “Let me ﬁrst say this, there are far more important things to talk about in regards to what is happening in the world than whether I have an open marriage or not.

He and son Jack deny rumours of divorce

INDEPENDENCE “Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. “This does NOT mean we have an open relationship ... this means we have a GROWN one (sic).” Speculation about their marriage was rife after Jada, 41, addressed reports of an open marriage by saying the secret to their happy relationship is that they are independent people. She explained: “I’ve always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK'. Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. “He has to decide who he wants to be and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa."

OZZY Osbourne hates Sharon Osbourne’s obsession with the “showbiz lifestyle”. The Black Sabbath rocker has been living apart from his wife of 31 years in Los Angeles in recent months because he has relapsed into drug and alcohol abuse. In an interview conducted before he admitted he had fallen off the wagon, Ozzy admitted he doesn’t enjoy being in the spotlight like his ‘The Talk’ star wife. He told The Sun newspaper: “Sharon’s obsessed with that showbiz lifestyle. But it’s not for me. Leave me out of it. Sharon’s always introducing me to people I don’t know or want to meet.” The 64-year-old singer revealed issues began arising when his family - including Sharon, 60, daughter Kelly, 28 and 27-year-old son Jack - agreed to appear on MTV’s The Osbournes in 2000, which chronicled their chaotic and controversial family life. He said: “The reality show was all Sharon’s idea. I never wanted to do all that TV stuff. I was TV mogul of the day with that show and I became this thing I didn’t really want

place in most of Scandinavia. It ranked 21st for songs overall, compared with 90th place on Saturday before the video was released. "He is good. I love his energy," one woman commented on YouTube. Others said the video was hilarious and the sunglass-wearing 35-year-old's dancing "smooth." However, some were less complimentary, with a few saying the video was arrogant and "too sexual". It shows Psy playing tricks on women such as splashing coffee in their faces and untying a bikini top. "Meh. Gangnam Style was better," one woman wrote. Gangnam Style racked up digital sales of 3.59 million units in the United States and Canada last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BDS, 9th in the best-selling list. It was third on Amazon’s MP3 song bestseller list for 2012.

Chasing success: The video of the South Korean's new single Gentleman has had mixed responses from women

Issues: the 64-year-old singer has been living apart from his wife of 31 years due to drug and alcohol abuse battles

to be. I can’t stand seeing myself on TV. I never watched a single episode of The Osbournes. “Sharon got a career out of it but I’m not interested. I don’t like showbiz.” Despite rumours of divorce stemming from the couple living apart and being spotted without their wedding rings, the “Changes” singer

has revealed the estrangement is due to him relapsing into substance abuse. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Ozzy insisted that he and Sharon are not divorcing and apologised to his wife, family and Black Sabbath bandmates for his relapse. He wrote: “For the last year and a half I have been drink-

ing and taking drugs. I was in a very dark place and was an a*****e to the people I love most, my family. However, I am happy to say that I am now 44 days sober. “Just to set the record straight, Sharon and I are not divorcing. I'm just trying to be a better person. “I would like to apologise to Sharon, my family, my friends

and my band mates for my insane behavior during this period ... and my fans. God Bless, Ozzy (sic)” For his part, son Jack has also called reports that his parents splitting “bull***t”. Black Sabbath's new album 13 - the ﬁrst by the original band for 35 years - is released in June and they are due to head on tour in April.

Culkin mistaken for homeless man while visiting London

Culkin ’ s ex-girlfriend Kunis is also in London for work

MACAULAY Culkin was mistaken for a homeless man in London. The 32-year-old actor is visiting friends in the English capital, but student Marley Spindler, who bumped into the former Home Alone star at 2.30am on the streets of the city, first thought the star was a vagrant. Marley told RadarOnline: “We chatted for about five minutes and he said he was in London seeing friends, though he was vacant, speaking very quietly and mellow. “I didn’t know who he was at first - I thought it was some homeless guy who was scrounging a smoke.”

Marley took a picture of his friend Drew with his arm around the former child star and posted it on Twitter. “You would never have thought it was the same person who appeared in Home Alone,” he added. “I’m no expert, but he didn’t seem all there.” In fact, serious concerns have been raised about the 32-year-old's health in recent months, with the National Enquirer reporting he has a “$6,000a-month a oxycodone habit” that was “killing him”. Meanwhile, Macaulay has so far man-

aged to avoid an awkward meeting with his former girlfriend Mila Kunis and her new boyfriend Ashton Kutcher, who are also in London. Last week Ashton was spotted departing a hotel in Covent Garden just a few streets away from where Macaulay was walking. The couple are staying in a luxury home in Hampstead, North London while the brunette beauty shoots her latest movie, Jupiter Ascending but took some time out for romance last week to attend an opera at the Barbican before having dinner together in Mayfair.

CYPRUS MAIL Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Education

History curriculum changes defended By Alison Kershaw IT IS “right and proper” that schoolchildren learn about the history of their country, a group of academics said last week, as they backed the British government plans for an overhaul of the curriculum. The idea that the new history curriculum is “jingoistic” because it focuses heavily on British history is “absurd”, according to David Abulaﬁa, professor of Mediterranean history at Cambridge University. Prof Abulaﬁa is one of three academics to back UK Education Secretary Michael Gove’s new national curriculum in a new booklet for the Politeia think tank, saying youngsters should learn key historical dates and events in a chronological order. But there was also a warning that the controversial new history proposals focus heavily on politics, and could leave little time for pupils to learn about other nations. Ministers published details of their new history curriculum in February, laying out plans for pupils in England to learn a broad chronological history of Britain, from the Stone Age through to the end of the Cold War.

UNICEF pushes for renewed focus on children’s well-being Budget-slashing leaders must consider how cuts affect children THE NETHERLANDS ranks first and Romania last among 29 developed countries examined in a UNICEF report on the well-being of children that warns budget-slashing governments to spare a thought for future generations. Nordic countries held the rest of the top five places in a survey by the United Nations Children’s Fund based on criteria of material wellbeing, health and safety, education, behaviour and risk, housing and environment. Britain was ranked 16th and the United States 26th. In its “Report Card 11: Child wellbeing in rich countries”, UNICEF urged governments to place children at the heart of their decision-making in their efforts to slash national debt burdens. A 2008 financial crisis has led to austerity policies across the West and bailouts for several European countries. “For every new policy measure considered or introduced, governments explicitly have to explore the impact and effects on children, families with children, adolescents and young adults,” UNICEF research chief Gordon Alexander said in a statement.

The Netherlands scored highest in terms of children’s well-being only eight per cent said they smoke cigarettes at least once a week; just 15 per cent reported having been drunk at least twice in their life; 99 per cent of girls do not get pregnant whilst still a teenager.” However, exercise levels are low, with the United States and Ireland

the only countries in which more than 25 per cent of children report exercising for at least an hour a day. Report Card 11 also included the views of children on their own life satisfaction. These ﬁndings were broadly in line with the data-based measurement of child well-being.

Fathers perform badly on birds and bees By Olivia Goldhill

DIVIDED VIEWS Opinion on the proposals quickly split, with opponents arguing the plans were too narrow, prescriptive and would leave pupils without a decent understanding of the subject. Writing for Politeia’s history booklet Prof Abulafia said that a number of prominent historians have called for “much fuller representation of the world” in the new curriculum, rather than just focusing on the history of Britain. But he suggested: “This view neglects the simple fact that we are here in Britain and it is essential to know the street plan of one’s own neighbourhood before learning the street plan of Kuala Lumpur or Vilnius, even if one has relatives there.” The government’s proposals offers pupils a chance to learn about Britain’s place in the world, Prof Abulafia wrote. He added: “The idea that this is a jingoistic return to Our Island Story and Kings and Things is absurd.” Speaking at an event to launch the booklet, Prof Abulafia said children living in this country were surrounded by reminders of Britain’s history and were being educated in the nation’s school system. “It is right and proper that they should first of all have a fundamental grounding in the history of this country.”

Examples of problems found by UNICEF included relatively high rates of teenage births in the United States, Britain and Romania, smoking rates of over 10 per cent among children in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia, and the provision of breakfast on a daily basis for fewer than half the children in Romania and Slovenia. The report showed that per capita GDP, a standard measure of national wealth, did not always translate into better overall child well-being. It pointed out that 12th-placed Slovenia ranked higher than a wealthier Canada at No. 17, while tiny Portugal at No. 15 ranked higher than the United States. UNICEF said most of the data in the report was from 2010, so it could not reﬂect on the outcome of decisions made since then. But it said three years of economic hardship over that time “do not bode well for the present or near future”. On the “behaviours and risks” dimension of child well-being, there is good news across the board, UNICEF said. “For instance: among 11-15 yearolds in the 29 countries under review,

Dads prefer to let mums teach their children about sex

FATHERS do not want to answer their children’s questions about sex, with 95 per cent of parents saying that it is mothers who take on that role, new research claims. Out of a random sample of parents, most would wish their child to be taught about sex from the age of 10, according to Mums Show Live!, an upcoming exhibition targeted at parents with children aged four to 12. One in ﬁve parents would

prefer a teacher to explain sex to their children and only one in 10 say that fathers would handle the responsibility well. The survey also suggests that parents did not get much guidance when they were children. More than a third learnt about sex from their friends and only 2 per cent say they learnt about it from their father. Jason Franks, chief executive of Mums Show Live!, said: “Attitudes towards sex education have certainly changed throughout the gen-

erations. Parents nowadays are much more open and direct with their children.” But he added that despite the plethora of information available, especially with the rise of mum blogs, there was still some embarrassment around how and when to address the ‘where do babies come from’ question. “This is why we have a whole expert panel at the show, advising parents on the ways to handle and answer,” he said. Justin Hancock, who runs sex education website Bish

Training and who is speaking at the exhibition, said education about sex can begin for children younger than 10-years-old. “Talking about body differences, different kinds of relationships (friendships, family), learning how to say no and who to ask if you need help is all sex education and can happen from a very early age. Think of talking to children about sex as less of a talk but more of a series of conversations over the course of a child’s life,” he said.

schoolsreport Youth Power skills workshops Extra MBA places at UCY YOUTH Power is offering a series of free workshops on influencing techniques, conflict management, building up core communication strategy and branding and communications this month at the Home for Cooperation in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Trainers Selen Mesutoglu Altan and Phaedon Zaharoudes, Youth Power communication consultants, say the aim of the workshops is to aid passionate young individuals develop skills in and become more competitive. Altan holds an MSc degree in corporate communications and reputation management from the University of Manchester and BSJ degree in strategic communications and BFA degree in graphic design from the University of Kansas. Altan has experience as a communication consultant at NGOs in the public and private sectors. Her expertise and experience is mainly in

strategic planning, corporate communications, crisis communications, visual communications, corporate social responsibility and reputation management. Phaedon holds a degree in audiovisual communications from IED Communicazione in Milan, a qualification in cultural management awarded by MitOst e.V in Berlin, and is an Adobe certified associate. He works with NGOs and individuals as a communications consultant, media developer and media trainer. The workshops will run today at 15:30– 17:30, and on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 April 2013, at 17:30–19:30. All workshops will be held in English at the Home for Cooperation in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone, Nicosia.

THE MBA programme of the University of Cyprus has announced additional places for the academic year commencing September 2013. The university currently offers three MBA programmes: a one-year, full-time MBA programme in English, a two-year, part-time MBA programme offered in English and a twoyear, part-time MBA programme offered in Greek. The part-time MBA programmes are speciﬁcally designed for professionals and individuals already in the workplace. Candidates must submit their applications, along with the following documents by May 31, 2013: Degree from a recognised academic institution or equivalent Copies of certiﬁcates of other relevant examinations Two letters of recommendation Two recent photographs Candidates must also indicate their preference regarding the language of instruction, English or Greek. MBA application forms may be accessed online at: www.mba.ucy. ac.cy

For more information please visit: www.youthpowercyprus.org

For further information about the MBA programme visit: www.mba.ucy.ac.cy or call 22-893600.

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A world of nightclubs, m naked women, brushes w Director Michael Winterbottom with Steve Coogan and Anna Friel

JOKE of the 1970s had it that America owned Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Stevie Wonder, whereas the UK had no cash, no hope and no bloody wonder. And as with the other lively arts, so it was with pornography. The US had Playboy with its pneumatic blondes and its clubs, a veneer of bachelor sophistication and sexual liberation. The UK had Men Only, a hirsutely explicit seaside postcard of a magazine, spun off from his slightly seedy flagship Revuebar by Paul Raymond – “a more low-rent, parochial version of Hugh Hefner”, in the pithy words of Steve Coogan, who plays Raymond in Michael Winterbottom’s new film The Look of Love. The film is a colourful romp, but not an uncritical one, through 50 years of tawdry Soho glamour, stuffed with amusing cameos: Chris Addison in a hepcat beard as porn mag publisher Tony Power; David Walliams as legendary Soho vicar Edwyn Young. As one would expect from a comedian like Coogan, who is at his best playing marginal characters, and a film-maker like Winterbottom, who pushes new boundaries with every movie, it is neither entirely an anti-porn morality tale nor a libertarian hagiography. The Look of Love, like its subject, thrives on ambivalence. Raymond’s story has everything, or almost everything, a film-maker could want: sex, drugs, money, tragedy. Raymond was born Geoffrey Quinn in Liverpool in 1925 to a Catholic mother and absen-

Imogen Poots as Raymond’s daughter Debbie

Time to relax policy: Peng Peiyun

tee father, and was variously a barrow boy, spiv, big-band drummer and variety-show fortune teller before he found his forte, staging revues around the country featuring topless tableaux, in partnership with his choreographer wife Jean, whom he married in 1951. The pseudonym he adopted was very much a prewar provincial boy’s idea of Continental sophistication. In 1958 Paul and Jean opened the Raymond Revuebar in London as a private members’ club, circumventing the Lord Chamberlain’s stricture that nude or semi-clad performers should remain motionless. A very British form of striptease was born and

Raymond went on to become “Mr Soho”, moving into magazines, nude revues and softcore films, and amassing one of Britain’s biggest fortunes in a Central London property empire bought by the profits of smut. As Coogan puts it, he was “an unwitting participant in the changing of the sexual culture in Britain. The sexual revolution dovetailed with his desire to make money.” He also spent money. There were the fur coats and flashy suits, the penthouse shag-pad in St James’s, the Rolls-Royce with the ‘PRII’ number plate and the yacht called Veste Demitte (approximate Latin for ‘Get ’em off’). Not to mention blizzards of cocaine. Ray-

us with mond was capricious his favours: he left Jean for Fiona Richmond, a sometime d Playboy air stewardess and Club croupier who he turned into a sex star in Pyjama Tops at the Whitehall Theatre. When Richmond dumped him, apparently bored by his relentless partying, he peremptorily sacked her from his magazines, but they remained on friendly terms (he also later persuaded Jean to pose naked for his readers). He ignored the son Derry he sired before meeting Jean, neglected the boy Howard he had with her, but doted on their daughter Debbie, who died of a drugs overdose aged 32. Debbie’s daughters Fawn and India Rose, to whom he was by all accounts an adoring grandfather, inherited the bulk of his £650 million fortune when he died in 2008 of respiratory failure; they now manage his property business. Although Raymond dressed like a pimp and snorted cocaine like a demon, his personality is an intriguing blank. Coogan says he was only vaguely aware of “this impresario who presided over an empire, and seemed to live an adolescent schoolboy’s sexual fantasy”, when a producer friend suggested Raymond would be a good part for him to play. Coogan took the idea to Winterbottom, for whom he had already fruitfully played one real figure, Tony Wilson, in 24 Hour Party People, as well as a fictionalised version of himself in A Cock and Bull Story. In that film and the later TV series The Trip, Coogan sati-

Horse play: Steve Coogan as Raymond with Tamsin Egerton as Fiona Richmond

The Look of Love portrays 60s and 70s. Nick Curtis s star and directo rised his own past reputation for drug-taking and consorting with lap-dancers, but he gets a bit testy when I suggest that The Look of Love treads similar territory: “I’m not being all postmodern about my ‘tabloid image’. Paul Raymond made his living off sex. I make my living by being funny.” Even if the leading man remained an enigma, the story and milieu appealed. “I thought Soho would be a fun place to set a ﬁlm,” says Winterbottom. “It’s a world of

nightclubs, music and dancing, naked women, brushes with the law. But the more time you spend in that world, the more you realise the veneer of glamour is very thin. But because he had such a long career, you could see through Raymond’s life how Soho - and by extension the rest of the country - changed from the 1950s through to the 1990s.” Shooting in Soho was a logistical nightmare, not least in the scene where Tamsin Egerton’s Fiona Richmond rides

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Soho in the peaks to its or nude on a white horse down Dean Street, which was shot at 6am but still witnessed by some goggle-eyed club-leavers. But it enabled Winterbottom to use countless real venues that have been part of the Soho myth for decades: the Revuebar itself, Ronnie Scott’s, Kettner’s, L’Escargot, The French House. Apart from Soho, Winterbottom, Coogan and the screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh (Nowhere Boy, Control) decided that the key characters of the ﬁlm would be the three wom-

en in Raymond’s life: the wife, the mistress and the daughter. Imogen Poots is touchingly brittle as Debbie, not quite talented enough to make it as a singer, not quite strong enough to withstand temptation, screwed up by the world she inhabits. Tamsin Egerton, meanwhile, breezes through the film, as lithe, atavistic and heedlessly naked as an eel. The journalist and Soho character Noel Botham, who shot a cameo for the film but has subsequently died, was friends with both Richmond and Raymond and told Winterbottom he had caught the fun, upbeat, untroubled nature of their relationship, at least until Richmond tired of the threesomes and coke benders and went off to become a successful hotelier. But perhaps the most telling of Raymond’s relationships in the film is with Jean, played by Anna Friel, as she is there for the full arc of the story. “Jean was a tough, ballsy, Northern woman,” says Winterbottom. “You wanted someone who was Steve’s equal, to feel that they shared a background and a sense of the world.” Friel says she empathised with Jean: “I think she was a tough cookie, good at her job as a choreographer and she genuinely loved [Paul] before he had money, which shows the love came from a true place.

She ended up being hurt at the end of the day. But she was strong and when he did her wrong she was willing to ﬁght for her rights and ended up with the biggest divorce settlement of the time [£250,000, in 1974]. As an actress, I liked being able to play her through

Although Raymond dressed like a pimp and snorted cocaine like a demon, his personality is an intriguing blank the decades, from 22 to 56.” We ﬁrst see Jean buttoned up in 1950s gear and a chignon in black and white, before colour bursts in and her hair comes down with the opening of the Revuebar and its early years as a sophisticated place to be. Then there’s the journey from 1960s liberalism, via divorce, into 1970s hedonism, when sexual liberation and sexual

exploitation became confusingly entwined. Jean returns from Los Angeles, where she had an affair with Joe DiMaggio, for her daughter’s wedding, and ends up accepting her ex-husband’s offer to pose for a pornographic shoot. “I think she thought, ‘I’ve got a great tan, I’m an independent woman and I want to show my husband and the world that I’ve still got it at 40,’” says Friel. By the time Winterbottom shot the scene, on a closed set, Friel says she had been “surrounded by naked breasts for two weeks so I was kind of inured”. The 1970s scenes feel like a romp, with Raymond and Tony Power pushing the boundaries of what was permissible in print, and Raymond mounting ever more lavish revues to boost Debbie’s career, at one point uttering the deathless line: ‘We’ve got dolphins ripping knickers off girls. What’s not to like?’ I tell Winterbottom that the 1970s scenes made me nostalgic for pubic hair. He replies that this is one reason it didn’t feel “salacious, erotic or dirty” to shoot them, because “effectively most of the girls aren’t naked: they’re wearing wigs in front of them the size of bikinis”. The ﬁlm doesn’t delve too deeply into gender politics or touch on the criminal side of Raymond’s Soho - the bent coppers and the gangsters he refused to pay off; the seedier business that must have gone on in some of his

Anna Friel as wife Jean

properties. “We didn’t want to pontiﬁcate in a Daily Mailesque way about the perils of pornography,” says Coogan. “We wanted to show that actually it’s rather good fun, but it doesn’t lead to everlasting happiness.” Because there is a comeuppance, of course, and we can see it coming when Raymond chops out a line for Debbie to help her master the contractions in the delivery room before giving birth to her daughter Fawn. When we last see Friel as Jean, she is a grieving mother at Debbie’s funeral. Raymond himself becomes a shambling, ghost-like ﬁgure with a drooping moustache and a dilapidated pancake of hair. One note of redemption is struck through his fond relationship with Fawn: he gives her the free run of the cakes in Maison Bertaux and she chooses just one, rather than grabbing a sackful, as her mother had done earlier. Fawn

and India Rose visited the set of the film and attended its Berlin premiere, and broadly support it. Both Coogan and Winterbottom say they felt a responsibility to the two girls and the affection in which they hold their grandfather, even if they themselves did not warm to the man. Winterbottom, who in any case does something different in each new movie, says: “I don’t think I will be doing any more films about pornographers in Soho. Although he always said he was not a pornographer, but an entertainer.” Coogan says: “At the end of 24 Hour Party People I wanted to carry on being Tony Wilson because it was such fun. At the end of this film I wanted to stop being Paul Raymond because it wasn’t a happy place to be. But quite frankly, give me a choice between Mary Whitehouse and Paul Raymond, and I’ll take Paul Raymond any day of the week.”

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

NICOSIA Oblivion (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 11.30am and 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Silver Linings Playbook (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 11.30am and 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Zero Dark Thirty (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Beautiful Creatures (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Jack the Giant Slayer (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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

Padre Padrone (in Italian, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, Thursday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL Oblivion (N/A) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Silver Linings Playbook (N/A) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Zero Dark Thirty (N/A) Rio 2 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Zero Dark Thirty

Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at Times are subject to 7.50pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of change, so check first Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. with cinemas before you Tel: 7777-8383

Beautiful Creatures (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Pitch Perfect (12) Rio 3 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 2, weekdays at 7.45pm, weekends at 8.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Sessions (15) Rio 6 at 8pm, weekends also at 6pm. Tel: 25-871410 Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Jack the Giant Slayer (12) Rio 3 at 7.45pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Last Stand (15) Rio 6 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 5.20pm. Tel: 25-871410

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Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), Telephone no: weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends at 11.30am, 1.30pm Rio Limassol: 25-871410 and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 5 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5), weekends only at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LARNACA Oblivion (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm Silver Linings Playbook (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends at 5.25pm Small Crime (in Greek) Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society. Tel: 99-658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org

PAPHOS Oblivion (N/A) Rio 1 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm

Zero Dark Thirty (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm

Silver Linings Playbook (N/A) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends at 3 and 5.15pm

Beautiful Creatures (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm

Zero Dark Thirty (N/A) Rio 2 at 9.45pm, weekends at 4.30pm

Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends at 5.35pm Jack the Giant Slayer (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends at 5.35pm

Beautiful Creatures (12) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm Pitch Perfect (12) Rio 6 at 9.45pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 7 at 7.30 and 9.45pm The Sessions (15) Rio 3, weekdays at 7.30pm, weekends at 6 and 7.45pm Jack the Giant Slayer (12) Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm The Last Stand (15) Rio 3 at 9.45pm

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Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Opens April 17, 7.30pm until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm and 4pm- 7pm. Tel: 24-621109

Operational Efficiency by Technology Danish-Cypriot marine seminar on how to operate your fleet competitively now and onwards. Followed by workshop and dialogue meetings with the delegation companies together with reception, mini exhibition and dinner. April 18. Carob Mill, Vasilissis Street, Old Port, Limassol. Tel: 22-660418, yiakaf@um.dk

Theatre The Apple Popular Greek romantic comedy. April 17-18. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue. 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 99-300253. www. soldoutticketbox.com Pasatempo New theatre group Attraversiamo, presents a show that consists of a compilation of scenes from Greek cinema from the 60s and 70s with dancing and singing. April 17-18. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue, Nicosia. 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 97-895323 In Motion The Black Box Theatre Group presents a play by George Kleanthous. April 17 until April 26. Old Vinegar House, 34 Genethliou Mitella Street, Limassol. Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. €10. Tel: 99-790819/99-349719

Ongoing Theatre Shear Madness Popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides presents adaptation of one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world. April 10-17. Agios Athanasios Municipal Theatre, 42, Stavraetou tou Machera Str, Agios Athanasios, Limassol. 8.30pm. In Greek. €20. Tel: 70-001910 The Eulogy A black comedy that breaks the mould on what we consider a typical monologue by Greek poet, playwright Iakovos Kambanelis. Until April 20. Epigoni Theatre, Kyriakos Karaolis Square, Old Aglantzia. Every Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €8. Tel: 99-222974

Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatro presents the comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609

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

Centuries away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali. Until June 2. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99621845/22-818999

In the Land of Peter Pan The Puppet Group of Satiriko Theatre presents the work by James Barry. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11 - 15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

The Dispute The Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Until May 17. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6pm. In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717

Sovrakaless Play based on the book by Terrence McNally and the film The Full Monty. Until June 9. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 70-000612

Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents a comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas which satirizes Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 1. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Nicosia. On Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Gone With the Jobless A comedy performance by Marinos Hatzivasiliou who, together with other actors from the popular TV programme Patates, presents a hilarious show with humour and laughter. Until May 5. Diachroniki Music Stage, 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 9pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 99-783455

Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800 Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. Until May 31. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. On specific days at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 6pm. In Greek. Performances on April 17-19 will be with Greek and English subtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300

Exhibitions Atrapos Solo art exhibition by Mikella Psara. Until April 17. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-754009. Myth of Image Solo painting exhibition by Andreas Makariou. Until April 17. Thiseas Art Gallery, 9 Thiseos Street, Limassol. Working hours (including the weekend):11am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Tel: 99-674243/96-335889 Mary-Lynne Stadler Solo art exhibition. Until April 17. Thesis Furniture Shop, 207 Saint Andrews Street, Limassol. Tel: 25-359479. www.marylynnestadler.com

Women in a Period of Crisis Third Cypriot women artist exhibition. Until April 19. Katoi, 43 Agioi Omologites, Nicosia. Open daily: 10.30am6pm. Tel: 22-774157 Design Society Against Crisis Photography, poster, and animation charity exhibition by the students of the Design Society / Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia with the theme Against Crisis in aid of students in need. Until April 19. Scarabeo Bar, 4 Nikokreontos Street, Nicosia. Tel: 96-696669 Erick Vittorino Solo art exhibition by Brazilian interior designer/decorator, muralist and colour specialist. Until April 22. ArtHouse 59 Kitou Kyprianou Street Old Town Limassol. Open daily: 2pm-10pm Norwegian Architecture Three exhibitions highlighting recent achievements in Norwegian architecture: Contemporary Norwegian Architecture #7, The Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta and Palimpsest – Norway by Claudio Santambrogio. Until April 26. Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia. Open daily: 9am-6pm.Tel: 22-842600, info.arc.@unic.ac.cy Christos Michlis Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. Rouan Gallery, 28 Dodekanisou, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am-1pm and 4.30pm-7.30pm. Tel: 25-350845

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On The Scene Other Events Effective history teachings THE Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and the Council of Europe are co-organising a conference for history teachers and educators at the Home for Cooperation on Friday and Saturday with the title Effective Teaching and Learning History in Diverse Environment: New Opportunities and Challenges. On the ﬁrst day of the conference, Dr Richard Harris, Lecturer in History Education, will talk about the role of differentiation and its implementation within a history class while Dr Dean Smart, Senior Lecturer History and Citizenship Education, University of the West of England, will discuss the role of speaking and listening as a means of developing deeper historical thinking. The same day, Brian Carvell, Publishing Consultant, European Educational Publishers Group will present the interactive electronic book for European teacher trainers and history teachers, Shared Histories for a Europe Without Dividing Lines developed by the

Coming Up Other Events Let’s get down to business WHILE THOC’s new theatre building is used to hosting the best Cyprus has to offer in the field of performing arts, this weekend the venue will be filled with business types as they come together for the 2013 Cyprus Institute of Markeitng Summit. The 2013 CIM Summit is a reference point in the field of Management and Marketing studies in Cyprus and in Europe. Organised on an annual basis, the CIM Summit aims to provide the opportunity to Cypriot firms to be informed about the latest developments in the areas of Marketing and Management. World-renowned academics from Europe’s leading business schools attend and share their knowledge with attendees representing the es of Cyprus and leading companies Europe. ves of the The main objectives orm and summit are to inform educate Cyprus’ managers and executives. Moreover, it atform for also provides a platform ecutives to managers and executives uss the network and discuss nts latest developments e in their respective fields. With this summit, the CIM s actively promotes rs research and offers added value to its members and alumni who are encouraged to attend. tTaking part in Satre: urday’s summit are: nsen, Prof. Svend Hollensen, Professor at Uni-

Council of Europe. On Saturday two parallel interactive workshops for a limited number of participants will be provided by Dr Harris and Dr Smart of the conference. Due to the limited number of places available on Saturday, please send your participation request to email address below. The conference is part of the project Developing a Culture of Cooperation through Teaching and Learning History, which aims to raise awareness on teaching and learning history in its complexity in the context of cultural diversity and globalisation based on multiperspectivity with a view to overcoming stereotypes and prejudices and strengthening reconciliation processes. Simultaneous interpretation in Turkish, Greek and English will be provided on both days. Effective Teaching and Learning History in Diverse Environment: New Opportunities and Challenges A conference for history teachers and educators. April 19-20. Home for Cooperation, 28 Markos Drakos Street, UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. April 19: 4.30pm7.30pm. April 20. 9am-2.30pm. Due to the limited number of places available on April 20 please send your participation request to the address:historyteachingwo rkshop20april@gmail.com. Simultaneous interpretation in Turkish, Greek and English will be provided on both days. Tel: 22445740/ 00905488345740. www.ahdr.info versity of Southern Denmark; Prof. Andrew Pettigrew, Professor at the Said Business School, Oxford University; Thomas Brown, Head of Insights, The Chartered Institute of Marketing and Hillik Nasani, Chief Marketing Officer, Easy Forex Group. The speakers will have the opportunity to put forward their theories about the latest developments and trends in the field of Marketing and Management and talk with the executives of Cypriot enterprises on ways to address the global economic challenges. It’s worth noting that all four speakers are highly distinguished individuals in their fields and have published a multitude of books. Due to the current financial crisis in Cyprus and the perceived status of Cypriot enterprises, the Board of CIM has decided that the entrance will be free and the event open to the public. Please note that all presentations will be in English and a Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to all participants at the end of the summit. CIM Marketing Su Summit 2013 A conference th that aims to provide the opportunity to Cypriot firms to be informed about the latest developments in the areas of Marketing and Management with g international guest speakers. April THO New Theatre 20. THOC Buildin 9 Gregori Building, Afxen Afxentiou, Nicosia. 9am. Partic Participation is open and t the public. All free to Pres Presentations will be in En English. A Certificate o Attendance will be of aw awarded to all partic ticipants at the end. RS events@cima. RSVP ac. or 22-778475 ac.cy

Thomas Brown, Head of Insights

Kids serve up their little box of tricks WE ALL know kids love to act, sing and dance and they also like to watch other kids act, sing and dance. From the colourful to the comical, the magical to the musical, there’s never been a better time to introduce your children to the wonders of live performance. On offer this Friday at the Melina Merkouri Hall is a production by Little Box Theatre that incorporates both film and theatre, which is written, devised, filmed and acted by kids. Founded over a year ago, Little Box Theatre is the children’s branch of the theatre company Theatro Transcendental. It follows the philosophies of Transcendental but in a much lighter, more colourful fashion, in order to meet the needs of their younger members. This week, Little Box Theatre presents little ones and the young-at-heart with their first full-length multimedia production; The Lost Island acted by a group of five to 12 year olds. The comical production tells the story of nine strangers who find themselves on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Unbeknownst to them they’re actually part of a new reality TV show and the whole thing is just a set-up to see who can figure out how to get home. Every child has a creative mind. Little Box Theatre lets them explore this creativity. They’re not interested in making your children into stars, but rather unearthing the unique qualities each of them have to offer, and teaching them methods of developing these qualities. Facilitated by Eleni Cosma, who has a Master’s degree in Applied Theatre, the children’s creative minds are encouraged through complete artistic freedom. “I started the year by giving each of the kids a blank piece of paper,” Cosma explains. “Then I asked them to draw who they wanted to be in a play. So we ended up with

nine original characters, which we then developed and filmed, to form the film part of our production.” Cosma goes on to say, “I can’t understand why anyone would hand them a script and tell them (children) who to be – kids are bursting with scripts, overflowing with ideas. What we do at Little Box Theatre is very simply to channel those ideas using games and activities, and ultimately teach the kids how to make them into art.” The initiative behind the company is to let the kids lead the way. The children have the opportunity to learn about both film and theatre in one, and to create a final piece at the end of the year that not only incorporates both mediums, but that is entirely their own creation. Children come away with a newfound appreciation for the arts. The talented Little Box Theatre group will be waiting to wow children and adults alike with The Lost Island for a one-night only performance on Friday. While entrance is free, donations are welcome. The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks (made by the kids, naturally). The show is in Greek but an English group is currently being put together, so get in touch if you’d like to sign up your kids (any age from 4-18 is welcome). Little Box Theatre workshops take place on Saturdays at the French School (near IKEA). The Lost Island Little Box Theatre presents a hilarious production incorporating both film and theatre, written, devised, filmed and acted by the kids. April 19. Melina Mercouri Theatre, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia. 7.30pm. Entrance is free (donations welcome). The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks. Free, donations welcome. In Greek. Tel: 99-832370. www.littleboxtheatre.com

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Early morning entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Cookery show.

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Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

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Apo Mera Se Mera Lottery Draw Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

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

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

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The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

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NRG Zone A Touch Of Frost: Near Death Experience

Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season. ‘Run Baby Run’. Saul takes offence at Nora’s offer of help with the taxes, while Kitty considers a career in the Senate when Robert grows disillusioned with politics. Sarah goes on a date with a man she met at Paige’s science fair, but discovers his opinions differ from hers on children’s rights.

Local period drama, based on true events.

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Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Kato Apo Ton Idio Ourano News In English News In Turkish Megastructures

The irascible copper ﬁnds his methods are called into question when a colleague is seriously injured during an attempt to thwart a suicide. The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, and it isn’t until a forensic psychologist joins the team that they realise a serial killer is at work.

Local cultural show.

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I Kypros Konta Sas News Repeats 23.35

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

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Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local comedy series, with village setting.

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Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy

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Oikonomahies News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

US medical drama.

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Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

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Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson

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Yia Sena

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News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt)

Current affairs show. Local talk-show.

Greek drama series.

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Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira

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Oi Vasiliades

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.20

Fifth season. ‘Yahrzei’. A jewellery valuer is murdered at an auction and tests reveal the gun that killed him dates back to World War II. Mac’s ﬁrst suspect is a neoNazi, but as the case continues, he ﬁnds the key to solving it lies in events that took place during the Holocaust.

Greek drama series. Greek comedy series.

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The Vampire Diaries US supernatural drama series.

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News ‘Til Death

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Oikogeneiakes Istories CSI: NY

US sitcom about a married couple.

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Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)

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

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Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

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Vathi Kokkino Greek drama series.

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Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

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Magikos Cosmos Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Igeia & Zou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Sto Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports News Epi Topou FILM: Everybody Wins A shady woman lures a private eye into a New England town’s pool of corruption. Drama, starring Will Patton. 1990.

Exelixeis Sti Showbiz The Closer Sixth season of detective drama. ‘War Zone’. After returning home from duty in Afghanistan, three soldiers are gunned down outside a club; Brenda’s investigation puts her on a collision course with Major Edward Dorset.

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CAPITAL

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FILM: Gladiator A tough Chicago teenager gets involved in the underground boxing scene and comes under the inﬂuence of a crooked promoter. Drama, starring James Marshall. 1992.

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FILM: Red Rock West A drifter who is mistakenly hired as a hitman intends to take the money and run, but his plan backﬁres when the real killer turns up. Thriller, with Nicolas Cage. 1993.

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Batman Begins (LTV3, 19.30)

01:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 01:40 As Time Goes By 02:10 The Weakest Link 02:55 EastEnders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Lark Rise To Candleford 04:45 Rev. 05:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 Rev. 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Silk 13:05 Lark Rise To Candleford 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Silk 18:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 After You’ve Gone 22:00 Silk 22:50 One Foot In The Grave 23:25 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:10 Spooks

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Mega World 08:40 Extreme Engineering 09:30 The History Of Singapore 10:15 Science Of The Mov-

ies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 River Monsters 13:05 Rodeo 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 1000 Places To See Before You Die 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 The Aviators 17:50 Chasing Classic Cars 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 The History Of Singapore 22:00 The Aviators 22:50 Chasing Classic Cars 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 The Aviators 02:50 Chasing Classic Cars 03:15 Chasing Classic Cars 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 The History Of Singapore 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 All Sports: Watts 11:00 Cycling: Fleche Wallonne, Belgium 12:00 Snooker: Haikou World Open 14:00 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Cycling: Fleche Wallonne, Belgium 16:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 17:30 Snooker: Players Tour Championship Ireland 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Fight Sport: Fight Club Fight Club 00:00 Snooker: Haikou World Open 01:30 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 3 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Grey’s Anatomy 9 12:50 Private Practice 6 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 2 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 19:20 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Grey’s Anatomy 9 21:50 Private Practice 6 22:40 Raising Hope 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Grey’s Anatomy 9 00:20 Private Practice 6 01:10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3

07:30 Match Point 09:35 Bruc 11:15 Dreamcatcher 13:30 Jackie Chan’s First Strike 15:00 Shattered Silence 16:45 Peggy Sue Got Married 18:30 Haunting Of Bryan Beckett 20:00 LTV Sports

News 21:00 Hangover Part 23:00 My Soul To Take 00:55 Hustler TV 02:30 Meeting Venus 04:30 Takers 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 La Liga World 21:30 Planet Speed 22:00 Barclays Premier League 201213 00:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13

07:15 2 Broke Girls 08:00 Big Bang Theory 08:30 Mentalist 09:15 C.S.I. Miami 10:00 Friends 10:30 Privileged 11:15 Closer 12:05 Luck 13:00 Gossip Girl 13:45 2 Broke Girls 14:35 Mentalist 15:20 C.S.I. Miami 16:00 Friends 16:25 Pan Am 17:10 Necessary Roughness 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 2 Broke Girls 20:30 Two And A Half Men Ix

21:00 Hawaii Five-0 22:30 Ncis: Los Angeles 23:15 Fringe 00:05 Unthinkable 02:00 Fathers And Sons 03:50 Friends 04:15 Pan Am 05:00 Necessary Roughness 06:45 Gossip Girl

Water For Elephants 13:15 Hugo 15:25 Films And Stars 15:55 The Longest Yard 17:50 John Carter 20:10 Your Highness 22:00 One For The Money 23:40 Trust 01:30 Margaret 04:00 Poker Face

07:45 Black Rain 10:00 Bonnie And Clyde 12:00 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 14:15 After.Life 16:00 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore 17:30 First Deadly Sin 19:30 Batman Begins 22:00 All Good Things 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Unnatural & Accidental 05:45 In Praise Of Older Women

19:10 Love Crime 22:45 Cine News 23:00 Game Of Thrones 00:05 Person Of Interest 00:55 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone

05:20 Rampart 07:10 Cine News 09:40 The New Protocol 11:15 Hollywood 1on1 11:50 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years 13:20 This Means War 15:00 From Here To Eternity 17:00 Cine News 17:35 Five Minarets In New York 19:35 Action Zone 20:10 Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World 22:00 Deadly Hope 23:40 Killer Elite 01:40 Turn Me On, Dammit! 03:00 Cine News 03:35 Chronicle

00:00 Pinks All Out Atlanta 0:30 Golf Central International 01:30 MLB Player Poll 02:00 My Ride Rules 02:30 NHL: New York Rangers At Philadelphia Flyers 05:00 MLB: Detroit Tigers At Seattle Mariners 08:00 Morning Drive 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 The Golf Fix 10:00 Feherty 11:00 MLB: Detroit Tigers At Seattle Mariners 14:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XIX: San Francisco V Miami 14:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XX: Chicago V New England 15:00 America’s Game: 1976 Oakland Raiders 16:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 16:30 NHL: New York Rangers At Philadelphia Fly-

05:05 Walk Don’t Run 07:00 A Far Off Place 08:50 Cine News 11:15

21:00 Mao’s Last Dancer 23:00 One Day 00:50 Chasing Amy

By Preston Wilder

The Hangover, Part II (LTV, 21.00) It’s Stu, Phil and Alan (Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis), the hapless trio from the first Hangover, once again on a wedding-related jaunt where things go terribly wrong - and Part 2 faithfully reprises all the ‘money’ moments in Part 1, albeit changing the details slightly. Part 1 had a tiger in the room, now it’s a capuchin monkey; Stu was missing a tooth in Part 1, now his face is tattooed; Mike Tyson appeared in Part 1 - and appears again in the sequel, belting out ‘One Night in Bangkok’ which is where the film is set. Still a lively comedy, with some undisputed highlights, but the slavish repetition is a bit depressing - and the Galifinakis character has been much-

weakened, turned into a standard-issue manchild instead of the singular weirdo he was in the original. It gets worse: The Hangover, Part III has already been filmed, and comes out next month. Made in 2011.

Deadly Hope (Novacinema1, 22.00) Be thankful for small mercies: this might’ve been a made-for-TV thriller about a female assassin named Hope, and thankfully it isn’t - but it is a made-for-TV thriller, our heroine (not named Hope) being Alana de la Garza, a successful obstetrician whose life unravels when her business partner and fellow doctor is murdered. Turns out he was stabbed through the

heart with a needle, the surgical precision of the strike making our heroine briefly a suspect - but Alana has more to worry about when she meets another man and he too is murdered in the same way. Don’t you hate when that happens? Alana was apparently the killer’s intended victim, which sounds a bit strange since he (or she) is killing these people with a small hypodermic needle - can’t (s)he see who it is before stabbing them? - but veterans of made-for-TV thrillers know not to question these things too closely. The real question is why Nova are showing such trashy obscurities in a prime movie slot - and yes, I know they often appear on Plus or Capital, but we don’t pay a subscription fee for Plus or Capital. Made in 2012.

Deadly Hope

ers 19:00 MLB: Kansas City Royals At Atlanta Braves 22:00 TBA 23:00 Lucas Oil On The Edge Swamp Buggies: Truck Figure 8s 23:30 Wrecked Two Brothers One Showdown

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 S7S Lockdown Top10 18:30 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Movies & Stars 21:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 23:00 MTV Underemployed 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits

07:00 The Devil Makes Three 08:30 The Fighting 69th 09:50 Edge of the City 11:15 The Sandpiper 13:10 Betrayed 15:00 Mutiny on the Bounty 18:05 Bhowani Junction 20:00 Now, Voyager 22:00 It! 23:40 Flareup 01:20 Blackboard Jungle 03:00 The Devil Makes Three 04:30 Beau Brummell

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2367 1

PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

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

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1 Medicos taken round Spanish coast (5) 4 Mark the startingpoint (7) 8 But one might get a sharp reply to it (5,8) 9 Australian capital ship (8) 10 Relief for an old railway (4) 12 Shooting along the line (6) 13 Dig for prey! (6) 16 Unbelievably high (4) 18 Felt a rug had been moved and was appreciative (8) 21 What one pays to join in the crowd (8,5) 22 Climbers become attached to this in training (7) 23 Jockey had spin drier (5)

1 Solid young scout in charge (5) 2 One stupefying a very attractive person (7) 3 Finally he goes in to serve (2,3,3) 4 Show distress from embarrassment and wriggle out of it (6) 5 Charge too much for the plant (4) 6 Hardship test (5) 7 Integrity of a garden plant (7) 11 He might be in the shop to cure Tom’s eccentricity (8) 12 Appropriate chaps taking ﬁrst article of furniture (7) 14 Again penalised for being genteel (7) 15 Spring ﬂower occurs at random (6) 17 In the villa there’s a shaping machine (5) 19 Better hen (5) 20 Autumn trip (4)

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Answers to crossword 2366

HOROSCOPE

CRYPTIC: Across – 6 Floating voter; 8 Library; 9 Lyric; 10 Tardy; 12 Grecian; 13 Empathy; 15 Ashet; 16 Indus; 17 Caribou; 19 Letters-patent. Down – 1 Bomb; 2 Steamy; 3 Envy; 4 Evolve; 5 Starﬁsh; 6 Fill the bill; 7 Reconstruct; 11 Rapidity; 12 Guy; 14 Tassel; 15 Abroad; 17 Cosh; 18 Bren.

QUICK: Across – 6 Burnt offering; 8 Liberty; 9 Bohea; 10 Waved; 12 Cleared; 13 Turning; 15 Flora; 16 Iliad; 17 Triumph; 19 Soapbox orator. Down – 1 Crib; 2 Stored; 3 Iffy; 4 Pebble; 5 Hitherto 6 Below stairs; 7 Grandfather; 11 Vertical; 12 Cog; 14 Indaba; 15 Friary; 17 Text; 18 Myth.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

After yesterday’s heightened feelings, you may ﬁnd yourself wanting to retreat into your shell. Venus is forging a lovely link with Neptune, and if you decide to have a duvet day, or do something healing or therapeutic, it can work out well. If you treat yourself today, something which moves your senses, like a good book or ﬁlm, can prove perfect escapism.

You probably have a knack for cultivating impeccable contacts and sparkling alliances with those you respect and admire. This talent for making the “right kind” of connections is enhanced from now. But also your personal taste is given a chance to shine, especially if you are looking at property, or making improvements. These may prove very classy.

Even if someone is not making life easy for you at the moment, you might ﬁnd yourself making some allowances for them, especially if they have a lot to deal with. If you can lend some gentle, no-strings attached support, it can be very much appreciated. This may require you to give of yourself with nothing in return, but expect the inner glow it can create.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Venus has arrived in your sign, and this can bring out the side of you which just loves all the best things in life. You may ﬁnd yourself tempted to lavish some money on a treat in the next four weeks, especially if this adds to your comfort factor. If you enjoy gardening, the next month can be good for spending any leisure time tending yours.

If you are travelling further in the next four weeks, you may ﬁnd yourself enchanted by your surroundings. You will have a greater than usual opportunity to almost totally immerse yourself, and this could prove to be a very moving experience. If you are attracted towards, or are seeing someone very different, or from overseas, this can be life changing.

If you really like someone, a great way to grow the relationship will be to go and see a good ﬁlm or play together. Watching live music can also be a fantastic way to warm relations between you. You can also ﬁnd that you can wax lyrical at this time. This may also see you burning the midnight oil as you discuss something deeply meaningful to you.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You can become more acutely attuned to the deeper undertones and vibes in your closest relationships now. Unspoken stuff is important too. If you see a friend who is going through a tough time, you may do something very caring and thoughtful to support them. Unfortunately, this location of Venus in your solar horoscope can see weak ties end.

Your appreciation of fine merchandise, foods and wines, will be very high at this time. However, you may also be drawn toward ethical forms of finance or investment. If you would like to sponsor an overseas project, or even one nearer to home, which brings some kind of material benefit and yet is also caring, this too can see you engaged.

If you love cooking or enjoy the caring side of entertaining guests, this would be a ﬁne time to invite friends, family or even a love interest around to indulge them. The little thoughtful touches you make to help them feel at home, relaxed and pampered could make for a very special evening. Home alone? A luxurious soak in the bath may appeal.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Are you a creative Cancer? Have plenty of ﬂair? The next four weeks can be a pivotal time, a period when people can become more receptive to your talents. Then again, if your love of art, the theatre, or performance comes from being a spectator, you can gain sublime pleasure from seeing exhibitions and shows, and surrounding yourself with all this.

Someone can enter your life, or your imagination, with the real ability to dance on your senses. A very special connection can be made which could be romantic, but just as easily totally platonic, yet inspirational all the same. You can be especially receptive to someone with values that you admire, perhaps through their ideas or interests.

Words may be simple things that convey our thanks and our needs, but they can also be used in much more subtle ways, conveying messages of tenderness, or of indifference. At present, you have a wonderful opportunity to say something important, perhaps to someone important, and the chances are you can pick just the right words needed.

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MISCELLANEOUS ***************************** HELP WANTED and commission paid for advice regarding purchase of surplus Russian military items from Cypriot military. Please reply your details to info@rme-ltd.eu ***************************** STAGE ONE THEATRE, PAPHOS AUDITIONS at 7pm on 16 & 23 April for STEEL MAGNOLIAS. Director Cathy Aseter, performances October. Also THE VICAR OF DIBLEY, Director Peter Sandwith, in June. Performances December. Call Peter 99984035 for information. Auditionees must advise intention to audition in advance. ***************************** WANTED: COUPLES OF EU CITIZENS LIVING IN CYPRUS We are currently conducting research as regards European families living in Cyprus. If both you and your spouse come from the same or a different country of the EU (except Cyprus and Greece, e.g. both from Germany, or Germany and France), if you have children over 6, and if you are interested in taking part in some research ﬁnanced by the University of Cyprus please contact us 96530033. Participants will complete a questionnaire and participate in a faceto-face interview. They will also receive a symbolic amount of money. ***************************** ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CYPRUS Is drink costing you more than just money? AA could be the

***************************** GERMAN MAN, 50 years, searching a nice women. Mobil:00491736590562 *****************************

LESSON ***************************** PRIVATE TUITION Experienced, UK-qualiﬁed teacher offers full/ part-time private home tuition in Maths, English, Science, I.C.T.,Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS2 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. 9 years experience in Cyprus; references available. Telephone 99318796 *****************************

HEALTH & FITNESS ***************************** FOR PRETTY WOMAN: anticellulite treatment, reﬂexology, aromatherapy massage against stress, back pains, headache. Also spa for nails. Tel: 99986991 Nicosia area near Hilton *****************************

SERVICES ***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. FREE STAIN GUARD FOR LIMITED TIME For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) info@rcs-cyprus.net / www.rcs-cyprus.net ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD. We manufacture top quality slid-

Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385 ing screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol ***************************** 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 All areas *****************************

PETS ***************************** RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK Quality pedigree puppies for sale, Kennels club registered. An excellent hunter, a good family dog, as well as a good guard dog. Lovely to have around, both parents can be seen. Price €500 for more info pls call 99046966 ***************************** HONEY is a 3 month old pincher/ terrier mix. She is very small sized and very sweet and playful. Honey is looking for a loving family to be hers forever! She will remain small sized so she is ideal for a family with an apartment! For adoptions call 99 520 511 Monday-Friday between hours 10-2 or email ndsadoptions@gmail.com *****************************

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE: British ex-pat leaving Cyprus. Excellent quality goods for sale. Solid wood patio furniture; modern dining room furniture; glass/metal ofﬁce table; beds and mattreses, solid wood bookcases; standard lamps, oak arm chairs and cabinet etc. Contact: 99678180 ***************************** FOR SALE: Electric Cooker, Bosch 4 ceramic hotplates and oven, used 1 1/2 year, €300 For further information contact phone 99757511 ***************************** FOR SALE – PAPHOS CATERING EQUIPMENT 1. Industrial freezer – CORECO

Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

Height 200cm, width 68cm, depth 58cm 2. Electrolux Freezer, model EUC3109X, width-595mm, height-1800mm, depth623mm, freezing capacity-24kg/24hours, energy class A 3. CONVOTHERM OVEN modelOBG 6.10Combi Oven-Steamer with Gas Steam Generator Extra: Stand with stainless steel shelving, extractor fan, water supply system and gas installation connections, PLUS CHAFING TRAYS & THERMO BOXES, ALL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AT REDUCED PRICES. PLEASE CALL: 99622678 *****************************

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ***************************** FOR SALE plot of land with sea view. In Chlorakas area. Very quiet and private location. Title deed. Tel. 99519370. ***************************** LAND FOR SALE MITSERO. 7 skalas. 10% build. South facing, unobstructed views. Access road, water, electricity. Fenced compound with 48sq.meter timber framed 2 bedroom unit, septic tank, grey water system, storage, workshop. €135,000 mobile 99594205 pumpitch@ hotmail.com ***************************** PLOT FOR SALE IN KATO PLATRES in a pine tree area. It comes with title deeds, 1095 square feet. Tel. 99881051. ***************************** FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554. *****************************

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PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FOR RENT: 2 bed-room ﬂat in Nikis Avn in Nicosia. Completely renovated, with electric supplies. Excellent for ofﬁce or

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flat. With furniture or not. 3 bedroom flat in Nicosia near Central Bank, 140 m. Completely renovated like new. Mob : 99 460 860 ***************************** 3 BEDROOM ground floor apartment for rent in blind school area, Nicosia, with c/h, a/c and front and back garden. €550 p/m. References required. Call 97852977. 4 BEDROOM ground floor apartment for rent in blind school area, Nicosia with c/h, a/c and front and back garden. €650 p/m. References required. Call 97852977. HOUSE FOR RENT 1st floor, 2 levels, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, spacious open plan sitting room, dining room, veranda and Italian kitchen. Fully a/c, c/h. Place: Ayios Dometios. For information mobile no. 99510244 ***************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio Makarios Av. €300, Kennedy furnished €300, 1 bdrm Str/ los €400, Hilton €400, 2 bdrm Lycavitos €480 fully equipped, Ag. Dometios ground floor + garden €450, Ag. Paylos rear house newly built €390, Acropolis furnished €450, 3 bdrm Ag. Omologites garden €700, Nikis Av. Furnished €500, Archangelos detached with pool €1,200, Acropolis independent ideal for office/residence €750, 4 bdrm Kwsta Theodorou new house €1,100, Mosfiloti unique villa with pool/landscaping €2,500. 99474839, 99646822. 21 PROPERTY FINDER LTD. Licenced & Registered Estate Agents A.M.627 A.A.108/E ***************************** FOR RENT a spacious two bedroom apartment, near Hilton and Central Bank. Living/dining room, sitting room, large veranda, kitchen, c/h, s/h, covered parking. Title deeds. Tel. 99519370. ***************************** HOUSES/FLATS 2 bedr. lux. flat, Ayioi Omoloyites, wooden floors €800, 3 bedr. Acropolis c/h a/c wooden floors €650, Mak/ssa 3 bedr., modern, open plan €1000 f/f €1200, Nicosia 3 bedr., f/f, luxury €1000 f/f, Latsia 2 bedr., pool €430, Strovolos f/f house 4 bedr €1300, Mak/ssa ground floor house detached €850 Photos www.markidesestates. com Markides 22- 378898 / 99464764 Reg.No. 487 E 16 ***************************** TO LET 1 bedroom upper floor house, large veranda near restaurant Periyiali in Acropolis 5 Aeantos Street €300 call 99680208 ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3/4 of a plot, office space, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, separate big kitchen with family room and all

Larnaca - tel: 99 634725

classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 22 Employment Miscellaneous 22 Pets 22 Lessons 22 Health & Fitness 22 Personal 22 Services 22 For Sale Miscellaneous 22 For Sale Land/ Property Business 22 For Sale Motor vehicles 22 Properties Wanted -To Let Nicosia 22 To Let Limassol 25 To Let Larnaca 25 To Let Paphos 25 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -For Sale Nicosia 27 For Sale Limassol -For Sale Larnaca -For Sale Paphos 27 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras 27 For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads -Churches 26

abbreviations bdrm c/h a/c s/pool f/f apt pm pw sw nw st rd p/s c/l swb r/cass e/w

bedroom central heating air conditioning swimming pool fully furnished apartment per month per week south west north west street road power steering central locking short wheel base radio cassette electric windows

Please note tel nos. that begin with: 22 = Nicosia 23 = Paralimni/Protaras 24 = Larnaca 25 = Limassol 26 = Paphos

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA the electrical appliances, blinds and curtains on all windows, aluminium shutters, big garden with grass, 3 wc, covered parking, in a quiet area – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10051-R), (photos in the website) 2. 3 bedr luxury terraced house, 210sq.m,central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor on stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website). 3. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office, 250sq.m, central heating independent, 4 a/c, big renovated kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fireplace, 1 bathroom, 2 shower, 3 wc, 2 covered parking, double glazed windows and shutters in bedrooms, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street IN the central part

FOR RENT 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment in Larnaca near new hospital. €400 per month including service charge and refuse collection Call 99358916

TO LET NICOSIA of Makedonitissa – €1100 (H3MAK0004-R) (photos on the website) 4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fireplace, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrigerator, nice mature garden with flowers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighbourhood. Available middle of January. Agios Andreas €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos on website). 5. 3 bedr luxury house, office space, attic room, with central heating, full a/c, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 verandas, in a quiet area – Lakatamia €680 (H4LAK009-R), (photos in the website). 6. 3 bedr + attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with central heating, a/c, fireplace, modern kitchen open plan with expensive electrical appliances, blinds, garden

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TO LET NICOSIA with grass, over flow swimming pool, covered parking in a quiet area. – Makedonitissa €1600 (H4MAK0023-R), (photos on the website). 7. 4 bedr luxury detached house with big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, separate big kitchen with family room and all the electrical appliances, small garden with grass and bbq area,3wc, central heating, full a/c, covered parking, in a very quiet neighbourhood – Archangelos €1200 (H4AR0017-R), (photos in the website). 8. 3 bedr +office space partially renovated detached ground floor house, 280sq.m, central heating with oil, full a/c, 3wc, separate TV room, big sitting and dining area, big verandas around the house, bbq area, covered parking, private yard near the parking.– Strovolos €1200 (H4ST10048-R), (photos in the website). 9. New modern luxury very good quality finished semi detached house built in 3 levels. Upstairs 1st level 3 bedrs all en suite+

TO LET NICOSIA laundry room, 2nd level big attic room which can be used for office space or bedroom. Ground floor with 2 sitting areas ,dining area and breakfast area, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, central heating, full a/c units. Basement with kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher, microwave and 2 refrigerators, sitting room with fireplace, and 2 bedrooms with one bathroom. Outside private fenced garden with artificial grass, bbq area and covered veranda. The house has blinds and shutters on all windows, false ceiling with spot lights throughout house, pressure system, covered parking, satellite dish, central music and network system, storage room, very good double glazed windows. Behind General flooring in the centre of Makedonitissa - €2000 (H4MAK0001-R), (photos on the website). 10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos

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TO LET NICOSIA street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website). 11. 4 bedr new luxury ﬁnished detached house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big kitchen with cooker oven, dishwasher and big family room, aluminium shutters in all the house, separate big sitting and dining room with parquet ﬂoor, 2 covered parking, alarm system, big covered patio, SWIMMING POOL, in a newly built area near Falcon school – Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website). 12. 3 bedrs luxury 2 storey, FULLY RENOVATED LISTED HOUSE with high ceilings in the centre of Nicosia, 260sq.m, 2 small attic rooms, big sitting room upstairs, big sitting room and

TO LET NICOSIA dining area downstairs, wooden floor, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, 2 bathrooms (one en suite),3wc,CH independent, A/C, big garden – Nicosia Centre €1400 (H4NIC0002-R), (photos in the website). 13. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedrooms in the basement luxury detached house (all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which also has separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor throughout house, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big over flow, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA bar (bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H5PAG0002-R). 14. 4 bedr very big luxury semi detached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Consists of big sitting and dining areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 showers, 1 bathroom, central heating, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios football stadium. CAN BE RENTED FURNISHED, PARTIALLY FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED - Makedonitissa €1500 (H4MAK0032-R), (photos in the website) 15. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc,

TO LET NICOSIA office space/maid’s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6wc, 2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC (RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-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 22422225/96-422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr luxury finished spacious floor apartment with very big sitting and dining areas with family room with fire place, solid parquet floor all through, central heating independent, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, 4wc, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all windows,

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TO LET NICOSIA covered parking and big over ﬂoor heated covered swimming pool on the ground ﬂoor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website)

big covered veranda, covered parking, big storage room, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Andreas- €1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on website). 2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website). 3. 2 bedr penthouse apartment, 100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with flowers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website). 4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heatingindependent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace,

6. 1 bedr new luxury apartment in a modern building (TSENTAS), with central heating ind, 2 a/c, cooker and oven, refrigerator and washing machine in the kitchen, parquet ﬂoor, NICELY FURNISHED big covered veranda, big sitting room off Kyriakou Matsi street, 1 km from the centre €460 (A1AOM0002-R), (photos in the website). 7.

1 bedr cozy luxury apartment,60sq.m,parquet ﬂoor, nicely furnished ,all ﬁtted electrical appliances (cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge), roman blinds, provisions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital. – Dasoupoli €470 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website)

8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €500 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website) 9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 ﬂats only. Central heating

TO LET NICOSIA independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE end of March – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) . 10. New luxury finished 1 bedr penthouse apartment with big verandah with nice view, in a small modern building,55sq.m,storage heaters,2 a/c, blinds on the windows, expensive electrical appliances (cooker, oven, extractor, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer), covered parking and storage room, off Kalippoleos street opposite Dessange Day Spa near the University – Lykavitos €420 (A1LYK0002-R), (photos in the website). 11. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse one floor apartment in a small building with 3 apartments,250sq.m plus big covered verandas, fire place, solid parquet floor,2 bathrooms, 3 wc, cooker, oven, fridge, washing machine and dishwasher in the kitchen, CH independent, full a/c, big reception areas opening to the verandas, pressure system and 2 covered with remote control entrance, walking distance to the centre very close to Debenhams €1300 (A3NIC0028-R), (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical ap-

TO LET NICOSIA pliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighbourhood off Kallipoleos Street Lykavitos €700 (A2LYK0024-R) (photos on the website) 13. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building - €650 (A3ST10014-R) (photos on the website) 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol, full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse,165sq.m+80sq.m verandah with bbq, central heating ind, full AC, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with dining area, fully MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Athalassa Avenue near Stephanis Electrinics and English school – Strovolos €800 (A3ST10013-R) (photos in the website) 16. New luxury finished 4 bed PENTHOUSE apartment in a small modern building, 186sq. m+90sq.m big veranda with nice view, separate floor heat-

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA ing, fully air conditioned, 4wc, 2 en suite bedrooms with shower,1 bathroom, solid parquet ﬂoor all through, big sitting and dining areas with electric modern shutters opening to the veranda, fully equipped kitchen with expensive electrical appliances, 2 parking places (1 covered), in a very quiet neighbourhood ,near the Russian Embassy. AVAILABLE END OF MARCH –Engomi €1900 (A4ENG0005-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 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 2 BDRM ﬂat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

LIMASSOL ***************************** THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO RENT AN OFFICE! The Rent package includes: fully furnished office, receptionist, internet connection, conference room, electricity, aicondition, cleaning, all utilities. Call 25365046 ***************************** FOR RENT office of around 85m2, with partitions, kitchenette and parking in a peaceful, green yet central area at Helladion House (off. 302; 3rd floor), 5 Andrea Kalvou Str. For

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viewing, please call Ms. Jenny on 25-340987(3rd floor of building; office hours). For further details, please call 25-521873 after 8:00pm. ***************************** UN-DETACHED HOUSE for rent in Apshiou village, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, sitting room, bathroom with solar water heater. A/C, satellite, 15mins to roundabout. €350. Tel 25369219, work 10.30-17.30 25542968 home 99773151 ***************************** TO LET Large 4 bedroom unfurnished house in the village of Asomatos nr Akrotiri Limassol. Fully A/C & Heating (storage heaters). 5 wc’s, large kitchen/ diner, lounge and sitting room. Large loft with own shower/wc (suitable for office/playroom/ gym). Carport - prominent position in cul-de-sac - lots of parking. €850 pcm (negotiable). Available from April 2013. Tel. 99831431

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TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/ Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/C-toilet in main bedroom. Semi/full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/ shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800. GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775

LARNACA ***************************** TO LET 3 bedroom house, 100m from beach, Dekelia road Oroklini area. 1 bed ﬂat Makenzie near sea and Petros supermarket. tel: 96693375 ***************************** FOR RENT fully furnished 1 bedroom ﬂat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel 99202543 1

BEDROOM ﬂat in Ermou Square area Larnaca - 2 bedroom ﬂat in Phaneromenis area Larnaca. Call 96693375 ***************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom detached unfurnished property set on a fantastic development in the village of Tersefanou. Available for immediate occupation. Ref. TLL973. Tel 24815926 2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment, nr the Metro/American Academy Larnaca. Ref. TLL1654 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926 3.

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PAPHOS ***************************** 1. Sea Caves Paphos, luxury 3 bed unfurnished villa with private pool on a big plot. One bed downstairs, kitchen white goods include dish washer. Spacious bedrooms, dressing room, balconies, separate outdoor storeroom, enclosed garden. €1000 2. Secret Valley, 3 bed un/furnished villa with private pool on a big plot. Spacious living space, good sized bedrooms. Pool and garden maintenance included in rent. Lovely sea and country side views. €700 3. Peyia, Beautiful 3 bed un/furnished villa with amazing sea views. Private pool, lovely garden, double bedrooms, master en suite. €500 4. Koili, brand new 4 bed unfurnished villa. Finished to a very high quality in a very quiet location. Italian kitchen, fire place, under floor heating, shutters, fly screens, pool, one bed downstairs. €850 PAPHOS TO RENT Tel: 99389198. For listings and many other properties please visit our web www.paphotorent.com and give us a call. ***************************** PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double

TO LET PAPHOS bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, €550 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents 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 & Kissonerga Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at our website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus CHLORAKAS: 3 Bedroom unfurnished villa private swimming pool, utility room, walking wardrobes, en suite shower 180 m2 covered area fenced garden fully a/c, € 575 p/m For more information’s phone 99400697 ***************************** TREMITHOUSA- Modern 2 Double Bedroom Townhouse with Stunning Sea views, Large Secluded Terrace with Open Views, Roof Garden, Fitted Kitchen, A/C, U/F 350 Euros or F/F 400 Euros TREMITHOUSA- Superb Detached 3 Bedroom Villa with Large Pool, F/F to a very High Standard, Mater En-Suite, Family Bathroom with Jacuzzi, Beautifully Fitted Kitchen, Utility, Separate Shower room, Spectacular Mountain and Sea views, Quite Cul-De-Sac location 700 Euros KISSONERGA- Beautiful Detached U/F 3 Bedroomed Villa, Large Pool,2 Bedrooms Upstairs Master En-suite, Family Bathroom, modern Fitted Kitchen, Downstairs Bedroom with

TO LET PAPHOS En-suite Shower room, Low maintenance Garden, Large Terraces and Separate Storage Room 600 Euros TREMITHOUSA- Purpose Built Ground and First Floor 1 and 2 Bedroom Apartments U/F and F/F, A/C, Parking From Only 150 Euros URGENTLY WANTED – 3 Bedroom U/F Detached Villas 600/700 MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** LOW COST, long term 3 bedroom bungalow, Polis area, Gialia village, on 3 acres of property, large variety of fruit trees, extremely private with panoramic mountain and sea views, unfurnished, swimming pool, a/c and ﬁreplace, fence around the property €550 per month ono – available from 1st of April For more info call: 99 442485 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. PEYIA €500 PRICE REDUCED FOR QUICK RENTAL. Modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated in a quiet residential area offering stunning sea views. Low maintenance garden with private pool and off street parking. Available unfurnished. Photos to be added to the website

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS shortly. 2. SECRET VALLEY €750 spacious modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a peaceful residential area. Offering large private pool with a low maintenance lovely garden with sea views. Off street parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture and includes gas central heating throughout. Modern ﬁtted kitchen with granite worktops. One bedroom on ground ﬂoor with bathroom. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_561 3. UNIVERSAL AREA €750 spacious 4 bedroom detached villa situated on a quiet com-

TO LET PAPHOS plex offering well kept gardens & communal pool. Spacious living accommodation with one bedroom on ground ﬂoor plus bathroom. Available fully furnished. Allocated parking at side of property. A great central location close to all amenities. website reference number: RTL_663 4. LOWER CHLORAKA €750 spacious detached 3 bedroom modern villa offering stunning unobstructed views of the sea. Situated in a quiet residential area, opposite orange groves. Gated entrance, a good size enclosed low maintenance mature garden with shrubs & fruit trees. a private pool with sea views. Spacious living

Fun for all the family! Join us at our ‘May Fayre’ on Wednesday 1st May 2013. From 10.00 a.m. to 1 p.m.

May Fayre St Barnabas’ Anglican Church. 153 Leontios ‘A’ Street, Limassol Tel: 96413775

Morris Dancers, lots of stalls with: cakes and bakes, plants, books, brica-brac, raffle prizes, CDs, clothing, games, crockery, refreshments, crafts and more. See our website for further information. www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com

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area with real ﬁreplace. Downstairs guest wc. Master bedroom with ensuite. Available fully furnished. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_550

of sitting rooms. Perfect for those who require something completely different from the norm. Available furnished or part furnished. website reference number: RTL_673

5. KAMARES TALA €850 a stunning detached villa offering 4 bedrooms plus office in a quiet & private residential area with large parking bay for numerous cars and covered off street parking. Offering spacious living accommodation and breathtaking views of the sea. This property includes a lift to all 4 floors. Luxury modern fitted kitchen with appliances. Lovely garden with spacious veranda & private pool. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_669

7. PEYIA €950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & fittings. Offering spacious accommodation with breathtaking sea views. Furnishings & fittings are of a very high quality. Spacious living area with modern fitted kitchen & utility area. One bedroom on ground floor with ensuite & kitchenette. Guest wc. Private infinity pool & enclosed low maintenance garden. A must to see! website reference number: RTL_670

6. KAMARES TALA €900 a unique property combining modern and traditional. Situated in the sought after area of Kamares on a large plot with mature gardens & stunning private pool, offering total privacy and breathtaking sea views. Separate annex with modern shower room & separate kitchen. Guest room offering bedroom & shower room at pool level. Large modern ofﬁce. Main house offering 2 further bedrooms plus a number

8. CHLORAKA €2000 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq metres), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fitted kitchen, living room with working fireplace. Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our web-

WINNERS OF THE SWINGING JAZZ COMPETITION PAPHOS Congratulations to :

1. John Frederick 2. Jennifer Theodoris

TO LET PAPHOS site for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos. net **************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS : Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST. KONIA PAFOS 4 bedroom villa in Konia on 3 floors. Four spacious bedrooms with nice veranda views of mountains. Middle floor has sitting/dining area all with classic furniture and fireplace and lovely big kitchen. Downstairs is a selfcontained annex with bedroom and kitchen area/bathroom wc. Private pool BBQ area and outside sink. REF 1232 €1300 AYIA MARINOUDA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow in lovely quiet complex with communal pool. Property has fire place, off street parking, nice stone features, character property. REF 1224 €500 KOLETRIA PAFOS 4 bedroom house with 3 bathrooms offered unfurnished, central heating and flyscreens throughout 3 bedrooms upstairs, master bedroom has ensuite. Large shower room. Fourth bedroom downstairs with shower room. Lovely large kitchen and sitting room. Covered area for car and back garden REF 1234 €500 SEA CAVES PAFOS Modern Bungalow offered furnished or unfurnished, 3 bedrooms, master en suite shower, family bathroom, kitchen, sitting area, flyscreens. Private pool, roof garden, outside showertoilet, nice location with great sea views. REF 1213 €750

TO LET PAPHOS PANO PAFOS Large 3 bedroom house on ground floor on large plot with lovely garden and private pool with BBQ area with outside utility room and shower in a residential area that is within walking distance to shops government offices, school, pharmacy and near to bus stop. REF 1231 €700 SECRET VALLEY A 3 bedroom bungalow in a peaceful location, fully furnished with central heating, airconditioning private pool and beaufiful sea views. Offstreet parking. REF 1228 €800 ANARITA 3 bedroom villa in Anarita in a nice quiet location with outside fenced area with gates, private pool, great seaviews. Unfurnished, airconditioning, fireplace in living room. Modern kitchen with granite worktops, guest WC. Nice garden and offstreet parking. REF 1229 €700 CORAL BAY 3 bedroom villa offered furnished or unfurnished in a lovely private and peaceful location. Property is cosy with a small kitchen, sitting room and dining area with a fireplace, airconditioning, guest WC, 3 bedrooms master ensuite, family bathroom. Nice views. Ref 842 €750 Please call for a free viewing on Office 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more properties on our website at www. flowron.com - Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!! **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

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

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

Open Door Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

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

St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Byron Avenue, Nicosia, 22 445221/22 677897 www.st-pauls-nicosia.com

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

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS modern quality furniture and ﬁnishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, inﬁnity pool and stunning 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 €340 p.m. Tel 99403261 *****************************

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or any other business. Centrally located, off Arch. Makarios Avenue, in the Commercial Centre of Nicosia, near Hilton. Also mezzanine, basement, small kitchen, a/c, parking. Title deeds. Tel. 99519370. ***************************** STROVOLOS, Symi street, Tseriou new one bedroom apartment, 55 sqm, large sunny balcony, air-conditioned, pri-

vate parking, lift, title deeds, reduced price €95.000 (including VAT) (no offers) tel: 99266282 (no agents) ***************************** FOR SALE upper ﬂoor house 210 sq.m built on 301 sq. m land, Lapatsa area, Pereous 1a. 4 bedrooms with attic room (not ﬁnished), c/h ,4 a/c, aluminium doors& window, covered parking and storage room. Price

€310.000 pm call 22431095 99330632. ****************************

built-in bookcases, electrical shutters, a/c, swimming pool, garden, patio, garage, store room. Option for second ﬂoor. Title deed. Adjacent to above. Sold separately plot of land, with sea view. Title deed. Tel. 99519370. **************************** 2 BEDROOM top ﬂoor apartment built in 2006, 75 sqm, large sunny balcony with sea views, 2 bathrooms (en-suite), communal pool, air conditioning. Small block of 9 apartments, located behind Darmart store, near the Debenhams roundabout, underground private parking,

storage room and lift, reduced price: €98.000 (including VAT) with title deeds (no agents) please call: 99266282 *****************************

UK House Offered in Exchange for Apartment or House in Cyprus

PAPHOS ***************************** FOR SALE large, beautiful, nice designed, sea view house. In Chlorakas area, very quiet and private location. 4 en-suite bedrooms. Spacious living - dining room, sitting room, kitchen with all electrical appliances, breakfast room, two ﬁreplaces,

NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL VILLA, Nicosia, Strovolos 550sqm build in two lots 1250sqm. 6 bds, 6 bath, under floor heating, A/C, basement, two car garage, beautiful landscape, well, pool, quiet area, great for families. Motivated seller. Price reduced 1.500000.Call 99432074 mpapadmd@gmail. com **************************** FOR SALE a very nice, large, two bedroom apartment near Hilton and Central Bank. Living, dining room, sitting room, large veranda. Spacious kitchen, c/h, s/h, covered parking. Title deed. Tel. 99519370. ***************************** FOR SALE OFFICES, ground floor space, suitable for offices

A 100 sq. m. four bedroom Semi Detached house in the East Midlands, with a market value of £120,000, is offered in exchange for a 2 bedroom (minimum) apartment or house anywhere in Cyprus. My house has been recently renovated at a cost of over £25,000 and is situated within less than three miles from Clumber Park. If interested, please email Natalia at nzah50@hotmail.com for a detailed description of my property and please include the internal size in square metres and photos of what you are offering in exchange.

PROTARAS FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 ﬁrst ﬂoor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941.

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FRESH VILLAGE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES WATCH REPAIRS & JEWELLERY POTTED FLOWERS NEW & USED HANDBAGS & CLOTHES SECOND HAND BOOKS COMPUTERS & TELEPHONE ACCESSORIES SECOND HAND FURNITURE & ANTIQUES INDIAN TAKE AWAY HOME MADE FRESH CAKES & PIES

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

Sport Triumphant Reds too strong for Phillies

Pietersen crossing fingers for Ashes

BEN Revere’s catch was the highlight of the game - but it could not bring the Philadelphia Phillies a victory as they fell to a 4-2 defeat against the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night. The Phillies outfielder produced an impressive full-length dive to deny Todd Frazier an extra-base hit - but the Reds finished strongest to secure the win. Elsewhere on Jackie Robinson day, Mike Napoli hit a walk-off double for the Red Sox in the ninth inning to seal Boston’s sweep of Tampa Bay Rays, 3-2. The Washington Nationals were far too strong for the Miami at Marlins Park, winning 10-3, while Mark Buehrle returned to haunt former club the Chicago White Sox as the Toronto Blue Jays beat them 4-3 at Rogers Centre. A 7-0 second innings did most of the damage as the St Louis Cardinals won 10-6 at the Pittsburgh Pirates. Joe Mauer had four hits and three RBI as the Minnesota Twins snapped a five-game losing run with an 8-2 win over the Los Angeles Angels. A 6-0 first innings set up the Oakland Athletics for an 11-2 win over the Houston Astros. Eric Stults threw six solid innings and smashed a threerun homer - his first career home run - to help the San Diego Padres sink his former club the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 at Dodger Stadium. The New York Mets’ match against the Colorado Rockies was cancelled because of snow in Denver.

KEVIN Pietersen is keeping his “fingers crossed” to be fit for England’s Ashes defence after he was ruled out of the Investec Test series against New Zealand. Pietersen is recovering from “significant bone bruising” to his right knee and he will have a scan next week to determine when he is able to resume training. England launch a busy summer of cricket with two Tests against New Zealand in May followed by three one-day internationals against the Black Caps and the ICC Champions Trophy. After two Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand, England will then enter the climax of the summer with the first Ashes Test against Australia at Trent Bridge starting on July 10.

IN BRIEF

Ben Revere’s catch could not save the Phillies

No quarter given: Jeremy Evans #40 of the Utah Jazz drives to the basket against Chris Johnson #20 of the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday at Target Centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Utah Jazz keep their playoff hopes burning THE Utah Jazz kept their hopes of reaching the NBA play-offs alive, winning their must-win contest against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The visitors won all four quarters at Target Centre in Minneapolis to wrap up a 96-80 victory and maintain the pressure on the LA Lakers, who did not play. The Charlotte Bobcats, who have the worst record in the NBA, have recorded a second successive victory. The 106-95 success over the New York Knicks at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte improved their form this season to 20-61. Gerald Hend-

Visitors triumph in must-win game against Timberwolves erson led the way for the victors with 27 points but Knicks’ Chris Copeland topped the scoring charts with 32. The Chicago Bulls snapped a two-game losing streak with a 102-84 victory over the Orlando Magic. Carlos Boozer led the scoring for the victors with 22 points, with teammate Luol Deng pouring in 18. Several of the Miami Heat’s big guns sat out

their match against the Cleveland Cavaliers - and their replacements made sure of a 96-95 success. A 33-24 ﬁnal quarter enabled the Brooklyn Nets to sink the Washington Wizards 106-101 at Barclays Center, while the Detroit Pistons saw off the Philadelphia 76ers 109-101. Kevin Durant’s 29 points was the highlight of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 104-95 win over the Sacramento Kings.

India’s Singh cleared in an Under-pressure Pirelli drop out-of-competition drug test soft tyres for Bahrain race INDIA’S boxing pin-up boy Vijender Singh, who had been accused of taking heroin, has been cleared in an out-of-competition drug test, the country’s sports ministry said yesterday. Singh, who won a middleweight bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was ordered by the ministry to take a test after local police accused him of using heroin on several occasions amid allegations from a fellow boxer. “Vijender Singh ... along with four others (underwent) an out-of-competition test for banned substances,” the sports ministry stated, adding “none of the boxers were found to have used any banned substances in the recent past”.

FORMULA One tyre suppliers Pirelli have decided against using their soft tyres at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix after concern about how quickly they wear out. A spokeswoman said the decision was made after last month’s Malaysian Grand Prix, where the track is similar to Bahrain, to bring the hard and medium compounds rather than hard and soft. The medium and soft options were used in China last weekend, with some drivers doing the minimum number of laps in the faster but far less durable softs. Seven laps in the race was the longest anyone did on the soft tyres.

Monta Ellis poured in 38 points for the Milwaukee Bucks - but the Denver Nuggets edged them 112111 to secure home-court advantage in the ﬁrst round of the play-offs. The Memphis Grizzlies turned an eight-point half-time deﬁcit into a six-point victory over the Dallas Mavericks, winning 103-97. The Phoenix Suns were the night’s top scorers, seeing off the Houston Rockets 119-112. But the Golden State Warriors were not too far behind Stephen Curry racking up 35 points in their 116-106 win over the San Antonio Spurs.

‘NIGHTMARE’ Pietersen tweeted: “Injuries are a sportsman’s worst nightmare! This one is hurting me the most.” In response to supportive messages he received on the social networking site, Pietersen wrote he was “trying” to be fit for the Ashes series and that he had his “fingers crossed”. The 32-year-old batsman first felt pain in his right knee early in England’s tour of New Zealand. Pietersen played through the pain in the first two Tests but flew home before the third Test for further investigation. A brief statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board said: “England and Surrey batsman Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out of the upcoming Investec Test series against New Zealand as he continues his recovery from significant bone bruising to his right knee. “Pietersen will have a repeat scan next week to determine when he is able to resume training.”

Baghdatis to make his return to play in Munich MARCOS Baghdatis, who was forced to skip the reverse singles in the recent Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II playoff clash between Cyprus and Benin as a precaution, having recently been sidelined with a shoulder injury, will probably miss most of the action on tour in April. It seems the 27-year-old Limassol native will be absent from the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy in Bucharest where he featured last season, and return to tennis at the end of the month by taking part in the BMW Open in Munich, where he reached the quarterﬁnals in 2012.

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Sport

Masters victor Adam Scott reveals pivotal role played by Presidents Cup in his career

Conﬁdence boost: Scott’s game was in a rut until he received a captain’s pick for the International Team in 2009

IT may always play second fiddle to the Ryder Cup, but Masters champion Adam Scott has revealed the pivotal role the Presidents Cup has played in his career. Scott’s game was in a rut when he received a captain’s pick from his idol Greg Norman for the International Team in 2009, the Australian having missed the cut in three of the year’s four majors. And although the United States won by five points in San Francisco and Scott claimed just one win, the 32-year-old received a major confidence boost from Norman and team-mate Angel Cabrera - the man he beat in Sunday’s play-off at Augusta. “Angel is a great man and I’ve gotten to know him a fair bit through Presidents Cups,” explained Scott, who won his first major and became the first Australian victor at Augusta with a birdie on the second playoff hole. “I played with him a couple of times in them and have spent some time

with him, and he said a great thing to me in 2009. I was on a captain’s pick there and my form was struggling, but he pulled me aside and he said, ‘You’re a great, great player.’ “It’s something I didn’t forget and was really nice of him. “That Presidents Cup was a big moment for me. It was kind of gutcheck time. “My game was in a bit of a rut and I wasn’t enjoying it so much. But Greg as the captain had a lot of faith in me and belief that I could win a point for his team. “He gave me a pick and I didn’t want to disappoint him. “To think back to it, what that did was automatically put me into a world-class situation of playing. “There’s no hiding in a Presidents Cup. You have to go out there and you’re playing against the best players in the world, and I used that as a real motivator and also a way to make myself believe that I’m a great player again. “If you don’t have that opportuni-

ty, sometimes it’s very hard to play yourself out of a rut back up to the top of the leaderboard in a tournament. But I got put in that situation of pressure all over again and I needed that. “I took the ball from there and ran with it. It was a big boost for me and then shortly after that, I was playing well again.” It still took Scott until Sunday night to turn that good play into a major title, with his most famous near-miss coming in the Open at Royal Lytham last year when he led by four with four holes to play, bogeyed them all and lost to a lasthole birdie from Ernie Els. At the time Scott insisted he would take the positives from his play over the ﬁrst 68 holes at Lytham, and speaking after slipping on the Green Jacket on Sunday night, he added: “Everything I said after the Open is how I felt and I meant it. “It did give me more belief that I could win a major. It proved to me, in fact, that I could.”

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Ecclestone is willing to meet with protesters Responds to rights activists before Bahrain GP By Alan Baldwin BERNIE Ecclestone has assured protesters in Bahrain that he understands their grievances and is willing to meet opposition ﬁgures ahead of the most controversial Formula One race of the year this weekend. However, in comments that could antagonise rights campaigners and pro-democracy activists, the F1 commercial supremo also compared civil unrest in the Gulf island kingdom to threatened protests against today’s funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London. “I’m happy to talk to anybody about this, as I did before,” he said in comments to British reporters published yesterday, mentioning he had met members of the opposition group al-Wefaq last year in London and Bahrain. “We don’t want to see trouble. We don’t want to see people arguing and ﬁghting about things we don’t understand, because we really don’t understand ... Some people feel it’s our fault there are problems.” The 82-year-old British billionaire has said he has no cause for concern ahead of a race that had to be cancelled in 2011 after an uprising and bloody government crackdown and that went ahead last year against a backdrop

of petrol bombs and teargas. If some of his past comments have made light of the unrest, he made clear this time that he understood both sides of the argument and was not insensitive to the opposition. “We are extremely sympathetic to them,” he said. “Don’t forget, I was the one, when we had the apartheid in South Africa, who pulled the race.” Formula One personnel and race drivers have begun arriving in Bahrain after the weekend’s grand prix in Shanghai, with protests picking up as the fourth race of the season approaches.

EXPLOSIONS The local Gulf Daily News reported four explosions, including one in Manama’s ﬁnancial centre, on Sunday night with one caused by a gas cylinder placed in a stolen car in the Bahrain Financial Harbour parking area. A radical opposition group, the Coalition of February 14 Youth, claimed responsibility and warned it would continue similar ‘operations’. The computer hacker group Anonymous has threatened to target the ofﬁcial Formula One and Bahrain Grand Prix websites. There is a visible police presence in Manama and daily clashes still erupt between protesters and security forces in a Sunni-ruled country

where the Shi’ite majority complains of discrimination. The grand prix puts Bahrain in the global spotlight - as well as some $40 million in the F1 coffers in annual hosting fees - and authorities are keen to use it to showcase the country. It also gives opponents an opportunity to highlight their grievances. The opposition and government resumed reconciliation talks in February for the first time since 2011, when protests were crushed and at least 35 people died, but little progress has been reported. The opposition puts the death toll at more than 80. Ecclestone added: “I don’t think the people who are arguing about their position are bad people, and I don’t think they’re trying to hurt people to make their point. “We’ve had all sorts of protesters - look at those complaining about Mrs Thatcher. This happens all the time. People use these things when there is an opportunity.” Ecclestone’s comments at least addressed a concern within F1 that the sport’s leading figures risked making the situation in Bahrain worse by appearing uncaring and unaware of the social problems. Britain’s 1996 world champion Damon Hill has criticised the governing FIA for saying nothing to distance the sport from “things it would find distasteful and upsetting”.

The Bahrain GP had to be cancelled in 2011 after an uprising and bloody government crackdown, and went ahead last year against a backdrop of petrol bombs and teargas

JONNY Wilkinson has officially signed his new oneyear deal with Toulon. Wilkinson revealed earlier this month he had decided to play on for another season and yesterday put pen to paper on a new contract. The former England fly-half has led Top 14 leaders Toulon into the Heineken Cup semi-finals, where they will play Saracens at Twickenham. Wilkinson had contemplated retiring in the summer, when his current contract expires, because a persistent groin problem was preventing him training fully. “From November through to January, I was thinking: end of career,” Wikinson told The Times recently. But a minor procedure in January fixed the problem and a reinvigorated Wilkinson began to re-think his future. Wilkinson also spoke to his team-mates, particularly Toulon’s scrum-half Frederic Michalak and inside centre Matt Giteau. “These are guys who play inside and outside me and both play in my position too, so there is no better opinion to have to see if they think I am doing a good job,” he told The Times. “They were really honest and I got the impression that they wanted me there.” Wilkinson proved he still has the ability with a magnificent individual performance as Toulon beat Leicester 21-15 in the Heineken Cup quarter-final. That display strengthened speculation that Wilkinson could force his way onto the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia.

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Inter coach Stramaccioni confident his job not on the line ahead of Coppa Italia semi-final against Roma INTER Milan coach Andrea Stramaccioni is conﬁdent his job is not on the line in tonight’s Coppa Italia semi-ﬁnal against Roma - the club’s last remaining chance of silverware in a disappointing campaign. Yesterday, club president Massimo Moratti publicly absolved Stramaccioni of blame for recent results which have dropped Inter to seventh in Serie A, nine points off the Champions League spots with six games remaining. A lengthy injury list was instead cited by Moratti, which was added to on Monday with fresh problems for Walter Gargano and Yuto Nagatomo. Stramaccioni stopped short of echoing that view, but has clearly taken

conﬁdence from Moratti’s comments. “We’ve had this injury crisis for a while now, we’ve never used it as an excuse and we won’t start now,” he vowed. “In fact, I’m sure we’ve taken it as added motivation to get a result which some people think is beyond us.” Asked about Moratti’s comments, Stramaccioni said: “He has faith in the whole club at the moment, not just the coach. “We all need to give it everything, right down to the groundstaff. Then we’ll see where we are, but I don’t think my future will be decided by tomorrow’s result, but rather what I’ve done over the course of the season.

“Tomorrow’s match is very important, but I don’t think it will make or break the coach’s future or decide other issues. The president has made clear to us that this is a bad situation, a storm, and we’ll ride it out together.” Inter’s problems make Roma the favourites tonight, but midﬁelder Danielle De Rossi - himself recovering from a sprained ankle - is not underestimating the opposition. “They’re having a hard time with injuries, but we cannot take anything for granted,” he said, speaking to novarachannel.tv. “Apart from the very bad game against Palermo (a 2-0 Roma defeat last month) we are in pretty good form, the next round is in our hands.”

Inter have dropped to seventh in Serie A, nine points off the Champions League spots with six games remaining

‘Brazilians are most traded players’

PSG manager Ancelotti plays down rumours of Rooney deal

BRAZIL’S reputation as a source of top football talent was underlined yesterday by a report showing that Brazilians were the most heavily-traded players on the international transfer market last year. Clubs spent a total of $2.53 billion on recruiting players from other countries, down 10 per cent on the previous year, according to a study by FIFA’s Transfer Matching System (TMS). It was too early to say whether the global economic crisis or pressure on clubs to curb losses was dampening the market, TMS General Manager Marc Goddard said, adding the TMS survey of the market was only in its second year. Teams from England were the biggest net spenders, paying out $314 million in 2012. The next three highest spenders were less predictable - Russia ($256 million), Turkey ($78 million) and China ($49 million) - showing the growing influence of these fast-developing economies on the football world. English teams also paid out the highest fees to middlemen involved in brokering transfers. Where agents were involved in deals, the average commission paid by clubs around the globe was 28 per cent. Brazilian clubs were the biggest beneficiaries of transfer spending, reaping $121 million. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times and the country has a history of exporting top players.

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PARIS St Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti has played down reports that the club could sign Wayne Rooney in the summer. Reports yesterday suggested the Manchester United striker was on another ambitious shopping list being prepared by the big-spending Parisiens, who appear destined to win their ﬁrst Ligue 1 title in 19 years this season. However, Ancelotti has responded by saying he could not imagine the England striker being for sale. “Wayne Rooney is one of the best strikers in the world,” the former Chelsea boss said in comments reported by L’Equipe. “I think he is impossible to buy. He is an idol for Manchester United.” Ancelotti’s comments come after the club’s director of football Leonardo told Gazzetta dello Sport that no offer had been made for Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and he was unaware of any plans to sign either Rooney or Napoli’s Edinson Cavani. “On Ronaldo, there has never been an offer,” Leonardo said. “I’ve never heard anything about (Wayne) Rooney or (Edinson) Cavani either. I do not rule out big signings, but only if there is a suitable opportunity. “We do want a larger squad with adequate cover in all areas in order to avoid the sort of problems we had in Janu-

Unlikely capture: Paris St Germain manager Carlo Ancelotti said he could not imagine Manchester United’s talismanic striker Wayne Rooney (elevated) being for sale ary in midﬁeld with all the injuries and suspensions.” PSG have pulled nine points clear in Ligue 1 to put themselves in line for their third domestic title, and also put together an impressive Champions League run, exiting the competition after being knocked out by Barcelona on the away goals rule at the quarter-ﬁnal stage. That success has come on the back of major investment from the club’s Qatari owners, and further spending is expected this summer ahead of another assault on Europe’s premier club competition. Most of PSG’s big-money

signings last summer came from Italy, highlighted by the deal for Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva from AC Milan, as well the acquisition of Ezequiel Lavezzi from Napoli and Thiago Motta from Inter Milan, among others. However, Leonardo - the former AC Milan and Inter coach - said he could cast a wider net this year. “The market is opening up,” he said. “We may look in Spain or England.” Even if no deal for Ronaldo emerges, one obvious target at Real Madrid would be France striker Karim Benzema, and Leonardo admitted he was keen to bring some

French stars into the PSG line-up. “The idea of seeing the great French players here is something I like,” he said. “I’m not necessarily talking about Benzema, but maybe (Samir) Nasri, (Franck) Ribery or (Yohan) Cabaye. “But I do not know if it is feasible and I have not had contact with any of them.” Other players to have been linked with Inter are Juventus midﬁelder Arturo Vidal and Toulouse midﬁelder Etienne Capua, with the latter claiming he had already been in contact with PSG. Ancelotti said he admired the player but was unaware

of any move to acquire his services. “Etienne Capua may be in contact with the club’s leadership,” he said. “He is a good player with many qualities. We talked about him in January. But I have not yet talked about the summer transfer window with the board. We will wait until the end of the season.” Regarding Vidal, Ancelotti appeared to pour cold water on the speculation. “40million euros is the sort of sum you only spend on a striker,” he said. “It is too much for a player like Vidal, even if he has many qualities.”

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Manchester City unsurprised by absence of Aguero action

Injured Chelsea duo set to return

‘The rules are the rules. We don’t make them, we adhere to them’

CHELSEA are set to receive a major boost in time for the hectic climax of their season with injured duo Ashley Cole and Gary Cahill due to return to the first-team squad. Rafael Benitez has been short of options at the back in their absence but they are both about to resume training. Cahill hasn’t played for Chelsea since their 2-0 victory over West Ham a month ago after having an operation to cure a troublesome knee injury. Cole sustained a hamstring strain in the FA Cup quarter-final win over Manchester United just over two weeks ago, but is also making a rapid recovery. It is unlikely either will be fit enough to face Fulham at Craven Cottage tonight. However, Cole could be back to face Liverpool on Sunday while Cahill may also be in contention for a place on the bench if he comes through training unscathed. News of their return will provide a major lift to interim boss Benitez as Chelsea could end the campaign playing up to 10 more games in less than five weeks. The match against Fulham is the first of seven vital League games which will decide whether they finish in the top four and qualify for next season’s Champions League. They are currently fourth but are only above Tottenham on goal difference. Chelsea, who lost the FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City on Sunday, still have one trophy they can win this season and play the first leg of the Europa League semi-final at Basle next week.

By Andy Hampson MANCHESTER City striker Sergio Aguero was not likely to be banned for his tackle on David Luiz, assistant boss David Platt believes. Aguero will not face retrospective action over his two-footed challenge on the Chelsea defender in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final victory at Wembley. With referee Chris Foy having awarded a free-kick at the time of the incident, the Football Association considers the matter to have been dealt with. Some pundits have said the tackle warranted a red card but the FA does not like to ‘re-referee’ incidents which have been seen by officials. Platt said: “I wasn’t surprised, based on the rules the FA has put in place if the officials have seen it. “There have been precedents set, and not only have precedents been set, they’ve actually gone on record and said if that’s the case - I wasn’t surprised. “The rules are the rules. We don’t make them up, we adhere to them.” Aguero, the club’s record

Action man: Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero (left) collides with Chelsea’s David Luiz during their FA Cup semi-ﬁnal match at Wembley Stadium on Sunday signing at £38million, has considerably enhanced his reputation for scoring vital goals in the past week after his efforts against United and Chelsea. The man who struck the

dramatic title-clinching goal in the ﬁnal game of last season said: “I try to do the best for the team and give the most I can in every game, that’s all.” For his part, City manager

Roberto Mancini has felt his team have suffered from some poor decisions this season, most notably when captain Vincent Kompany was sent off against Arsenal in January.

The defender’s red card was later overturned on appeal. Platt has dismissed a suggestion that luck has evened itself out. He said: “I don’t know if it’s luck and whether we’ve had it. What is luck? I am not sure. “It is a situation that has gone. I am not surprised he has got off. They are the rules, the officials saw it.” Platt was speaking on Mancini’s behalf at a press conference to preview the midweek Barclays Premier League game against cup final opponents Wigan. Playmaker David Silva, who missed the game at Wembley with a hamstring injury, has all but been ruled out and is more likely to return against Tottenham this weekend. Platt said: “The game on Sunday was a bit too early for David. “I think if we had pushed we probably could have got him ready for tomorrow evening but it would still be a risk. “I think we will probably be pragmatic about it. We will see how he feels today but I think we’ll probably give him a full week’s training before the game at the weekend.” Right-backs Micah Richards and Maicon are both back in contention after knee injuries. The pair are both in training and Richards, who has been out since October, was a member of the group that went down to Wembley. Maicon did not travel due to illness. Midfielder Jack Rodwell, sidelined for the past month with the latest in a series of hamstring injuries, is also in contention.

Pardew eyes redemption after derby humbling Allardyce has FFP regulations worries ALAN Pardew has set Newcastle the task of recovering derby pride after tasting defeat by Sunderland for the first time. The 51-year-old was stunned by Sunday’s capitulation at St James’ Park as his run of four positive results against the Black Cats came to a spectacular end. However, he is urging his players to use a humbling 3-0 defeat to fuel them for their final five games of the season, and then into another battle for the title of the north-east’s top dogs. Pardew told the Chronicle: “Next year, we have to prove that we are a bigger and better club. “That’s in terms of our Premier League position by finishing well above them. That’s what we are going to try to do next year. “But first, we have got to make sure we play well in the last five games with good, solid performances.” Pardew’s hopes for revenge presuppose the continued presence of the Tyne-Wear rivals in next season’s Barclays Premier League, something which is currently far from certain. Despite Sunday’s famous victory, Sunderland remain only three points clear of the drop zone with Newcastle just two points better off, and both still have a significant amount of work to do. The Magpies head for West Brom on Saturday, where a repeat of last season’s

3-1 victory would be more than welcome in the circumstances. However, the Baggies, who have taken just a single point from their last three games, will be keen to address that situation in front of their own fans. Pardew will at least have a week to work with his players having seen many of them head off on international duty last month, and then have to balance the demands of their Europa League quarterfinal double-header against Benfica with league games against Manchester City, Fulham and Sunderland. That could prove particularly important for men such as Mathieu Debuchy, Cheick Tiote and Hatem Ben Arfa, who have missed out in recent weeks through injury. Indeed Ben Arfa’s appearance as a substitute at the weekend was his second inside four days after just one in four months. In addition, Pardew will hope to be able to bring a new energy to the legs of Yohan Cabaye, Moussa Sissoko and Papiss Cisse, whose weariness has become increasingly apparent. Pardew said: “We certainly can do a week’s work with Hatem and Debuchy, who had his first game, and Cheick. We will do more work with him. “We will give a rest to some of the other guys.”

MANAGER Sam Allardyce has warned the bumper £3billion television income from next season’s Barclays Premier League does not mean clubs like West Ham will automatically be able to make marquee signings such as England forward Andy Carroll. Top-flight clubs last week voted through new Financial Fair Play regulations which will limit how much of revenue from broadcasting deals can be spent on wages - and there could even be points penalties for severe breaches of those guidelines. On-loan Liverpool striker Carroll netted his fourth goal in his last five appearances for the Irons in Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Southampton but a permanent deal for a man who cost parent club Liverpool £35million now looks further away than ever. Allardyce believes the influx of broadcast money might improve overall standards while also making one-off, big-name captures such as Carroll’s harder to achieve.

A permanent deal for Carroll looks far off for now “At the end of the day, that overall (television) expenditure will probably improve everybody. I have no doubt about that, but when you need one big player, you can’t do it,” said Allardyce, whose side host Premier League

leaders Manchester United tonight. “Financially you are restricted to be able to do it. So in one fell swoop the financial restrictions mean Andy Carroll can’t sign for us from Liverpool because it’s too expensive, even if he wanted to. “Somebody will have a bigger budget than us somewhere, I tell you that is what’s going to happen. I might not be able to afford Andy Carroll, full stop, even if I wanted him, even if the chairmen wanted him, even if we all wanted him, which we do, it will not be allowed to happen.” Allardyce admits he is not an expert on the finer details of FFP, but is clear about how he feels it will affect his job. “I understand everything about the financial restrictions, where all the owners are coming from and I understand why they have voted it in because it is sensible, yes, but in my life (as a manager) it makes it a whole lot more difficult.”

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Friday night fixtures to return for Six Nations By Alex Lowe FRIDAY night ﬁxtures will return to the RBS Six Nations championship from next season, tournament organisers have announced. Defending champions Wales will tackle France at the Millennium Stadium on Friday, February 21 in their third game of the 2014 championship. The 2015 tournament will open with a Friday night ﬁxture, when Wales host England in Cardiff. Wales will launch the defence of their title at home against Italy on February 1 next season while England travel to France, with Ireland then

hosting Scotland the following day. The final round of matches will once again be played on the same day with staggered kick-offs, with Italy against England, Wales hosting Scotland and Ireland travelling to France. The Six Nations committee also announced the full fixture list for 2015, Rugby World Cup year. The opening round will see Italy host Ireland and France tackle Scotland the day after the Fridaynight curtain-raiser in Cardiff. Scotland captain Kelly Brown welcomed the early announcement of the fixtures. He said: “I’m pleased that the Six Nations council have been able to

conﬁrm the dates for the next two seasons today because that will help our supporters plan ahead and as a player anything that makes it easier for the supporter is something that I applaud. “Looking at the ﬁxtures in their entirety, every country has one Sunday match in each year. “For us, both our home games next year will kick-off at 5pm on the Saturday. “We’ll need to maximise our recovery time after our opening game in the 2014 Championship with a tight six-day turnaround, but every country will face that scenario at some point over the two years, so that seems fair enough to me.”

Champions Wales will launch the defence of their title at home against Italy on February 1 next season

London marathon will go ahead as scheduled Event to occur in shadow of Boston terror

he London Marathon will go ahead this weekend with the support of the police and the city’s mayor, organisers have confirmed. Security measures for the event on Sunday are being reviewed in light of the atrocities in Boston but the race and associated events will proceed as planned. London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel said: “The support we have been offered by our stakeholders and the wider running community has been outstanding. We have the full support of the Metropolitan Police, the mayor’s office and other authorities. “We want to reassure our runners, spectators, volunteers and everyone connected with the event, that we are doing everything to ensure their safety and that the Virgin London Marathon 2013 is an outstanding success.” Commander Christine Jones from the Metropolitan Police said the force is working with organisers to make sure “we have all the tactics in place that we need”. The London Marathon route passes some of the nation’s most recognisable landmarks such as Big Ben and Parliament Square and attracts half a million spectators each year. The flat and fast course, starting in Blackheath and

Runners advance to the ﬁnish of the 32nd London Marathon on the Mall in London on April 22, 2012 ﬁnishing in front of Buckingham Palace, takes in other top tourist sights including Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf - one of the largest single business developments in the world. On Monday night chief superintendent Julia Pendry, the event commander for the marathon, said security would be reviewed for the event, which draws spectators from all over the world. She said: “A security plan is in place for the London Marathon. We will be reviewing our security arrangements in partnership with London

Marathon.” Sports Minister Hugh Robertson insisted he was “absolutely confident” that the race event could be kept safe. Asked if he believed it should still go ahead, he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Yes, I do. These are balance of judgments but we are absolutely confident here that we can keep the event safe and secure.” London mayor Boris Johnson said: “The bombings in Boston are shocking, cowardly and horrific, and the thoughts of all Londoners this morning will be with the

victims. Boston is a proud city built on history, tradition and a real sense of community. “These attacks were aimed at its core, at innocent men, women and children enjoying a spring day out at a major sporting event. “We do have robust security measures in place for Sunday’s London Marathon but, given events in Boston, it’s only prudent for the police and the organisers of Sunday’s race to re-examine those security arrangements.” The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine

Diack branded the explosions a “mindless attack” and stressed they would “stand ﬁrm” in support of the Boston Marathon race organisers, the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races and the people of Boston. He said: “This ghastly and cowardly attack strikes at the very core of the freest of human activities.” He added: “What makes this incident so vile and its planning so incomprehensible is that marathons the world over are about selﬂess acts of human generosity.”

Anniversary Games would snub Pistorius OSCAR Pistorius will not take part in this summer’s London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium because of fears his appearance would turn the event into a “media circus”. The six-time Paralympic champion is on a charge of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead at his home in Pretoria on February 14. Pistorius denies the allegation and is on bail but can compete outside of South Africa before he goes on trial. The Anniversary Games will run from July 26-28 with the third day dedicated to Paralympians. However, the event will not feature Pistorius, who in London last summer became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympics. “I don’t want to see the Sunday of the Anniversary Games turning into a media circus,” UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner told BBC Radio 4 yesterday. “It’s not about innocent or guilty, it’s about how you handle an individual with a difficult moral situation hanging over them. “Anything might change. He is in court before then, but based on what I know at the moment, it would be a no if he rang this morning.” The first two days will be a Diamond League meeting and will see Britain’s three Olympic gold-medal winning athletes return to the scene of their triumph. Heptathlete Jess Ennis, middle distance star Mo Farah and long jump champion Greg Rutherford all captured their titles during an amazing hour at the Olympic Stadium last August.