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Violent scuffles at Paphos site Police clash with building workers who tried to stop strike-breakers By George Psyllides

IOLENCE erupted in Paphos yesterday when police confronted striking builders who tried to stop strike-breakers who were brought in to take over the work at a hotel construction site. Three people were arrested during the trouble on Posidonos Avenue, which began at around 9am when some 50 strikebreakers tried to enter the site, which was being guarded by construction workers on day nine of an islandwide strike. Police intervened in a bid to restore order, arresting two striking workers and a female union official in the process as both police and builders pushed and shoved each other. Television footage showed one police officer shouting abuse at the striking builders as he moved to push them out of the way. Another officer used pepper spray against builders who were trying to prevent him from making an arrest, police said. A man was treated in hospital for breathing problems and was later released. The unions accused police of using excessive force. “The police tried to disperse strikers violently and with excessive zeal,” PEO representative Neophytos Assos said. Assos also charged that police offic-

ers had provoked striking workers, telling them they did not know how to hold a strike properly. Giorgos Christodoulou, the District Secretary of SEK, suggested that police could have told the employer not to go ahead with any work because of the large number of strikers outside. Because of this, there were scufﬂes and police used violence, Christodoulou said. “Are we living in a dictatorship where people are not allowed to do anything?” he added. “Police wouldn’t even let us on the pavement.” Police said the striking workers had blocked the road for hours, disrupting trafﬁc. Paphos police Deputy Director Nicos Sophocleous defended the force’s actions. “Police did their duty,” he said. Police spokeswoman Lefki Solomontos echoed his comments on CyBC later in the day. “As the police, we have an obligation to enforce the law and maintain order,” she said, adding that though the right to strike was “completely respected” the police were obliged to intervene in this case and any other similar ones. Also commenting on the incident, head of the employers and industrialists’ federation (OEV), Michalis Pilikos said: “No one

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Screen grab from CyBC, which depicts an angry police ofﬁcer approaching the strikers at the building site in Paphos yesterday morning. Strikers and unions claim police used excessive force to try and clear them from the area

Red wine, green tea could aid dementia fight By John von Radowitz CHEMICALS in red wine and green tea may block the brain damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease, an early study suggests. Scientists targeted a process that allows harmful clumps of protein in the brain to kill off neurons. Using puriﬁed extracts of the chemicals EGCG in green tea and resveratrol in red wine, they were able to stop nerve cells from being harmed. The ﬁndings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, could pave the way for new drugs to treat Alzheimer’s, say the researchers. Lead scientist Professor Nigel Hooper, from the University of Leeds, said: “This

is an important step in increasing our understanding of the cause and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. “It’s a misconception that Alzheimer’s is a natural part of ageing; it’s a disease that we believe can ultimately be cured through ﬁnding new opportunities for drug targets like this.” Alzheimer’s is characterised by a buildup of amyloid-beta protein in the brain which clumps together to form toxic, sticky balls. The amyloid balls latch on to molecules called prions on the surface of nerve cells. As a result, the nerve cells start to malfunction and eventually die. “We wanted to investigate whether the precise shape of the amyloid balls is essential for them to attach to the prion receptors, like the way a baseball ﬁts

snugly into its glove,” said Dr Jo Rushworth, another member of the Leeds team. Previous research had shown that the red wine and green tea compounds are able to reshape amyloid proteins. When they were added to amyloid balls in a test tube, the toxic clumps of protein no longer harmed human and animal brain cells. Dr Simon Ridley, from the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK which part-funded the study, said: “Understanding the causes of Alzheimer’s is vital if we are to ﬁnd a way of stopping the disease in its tracks. “While these early-stage results should not be a signal for people to stock up on green tea and red wine, they could provide an important new lead in the search for new and effective treatments.”

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ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 6 1820

25 years ago, Saturday February 6, 1988

Largely through the work of the American Colonisation Society, the ﬁrst organised immigration of freed American slaves departs from New York for West Africa.

Foreign Ministry Director General Andreas Mavromatis has supported the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state, as well as the right of every state in the Middle East to exist in safe and internationally recognised boundaries.

1918 Victory for the Suffragettes as the ‘Representation of the People Act’ (1918) gives all women over 30 and all men over 21 the vote.

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Anastasia Tschaikovsky arrives in America, claiming to be the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. DNA tests taken in the 1990s proved that she was not.

35 years ago, Monday February 6, 1978 The White House report to Congress on human rights violations in Cyprus is characterised by an evident attempt to exonerate Turkey from its heavy responsibilities for the invasion and continuing occupation and the atrocities of Turkish troops in the island, Foreign Minister John Christophides said yesterday. The report was submitted to Congress on human rights in 107 countries receiving American aid.

1958 Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed when their plane crashes in snow and ice during its take-off from Munich Airport.

2005 In Britain, Tony Blair becomes the longest serving Labour prime minister.

45 years ago, Tuesday February 6, 1968 President Makarios made it clear yesterday that his government would oppose any new round of talks on Cyprus between Greece and Turkey. He also declared that the government had no intention of disbanding the National Guard, as demanded by Turkey, and that any such dialogue would bind the Cyprus government, which would feel free to take up any initiatives of its own.

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Stranded ship stuck in limbo ‘No move being made to solve the problem by either the owner or the Russian insurers’ By Bejay Browne FOLLOWING questions raised in parliament concerning the ship which remains stranded on rocks in Paphos, the department of merchant shipping has conﬁrmed that no further progress has been made to remove it. Nicos Attas, a marine surveyor of the department of merchant shipping told the Cyprus Mail that so far, no agreement has been reached with the ship’s owners or insurers to remove the vessel, which ran aground off Paphos over 14 months ago. “We [the department of shipping] have done as much as we can within the limits of the law,” said Attas. The issue was highlighted when deputy George Perdikis raised the question with Efthymios Flourentzos, the minister of com-

The Sierra Leone-ﬂagged EDRO III has been stranded near the rocks in the sea caves area since December 2011 munications and works, in parliament. The Sierra Leone- ﬂagged, EDRO III, has been stranded on the rocks in the sea caves area since December 8, 2011. According to the minister, in April 2012 a salvage company reached an agreement with the ship’s owners to remove the vessel. He said: “One of the terms of that contract stated that the company was obliged to secure insurance covering the risks, prior to the commencement of the contract.” The state set out

guidelines concerning the methods to be employed to ensure the safe removal of the vessel from the rocks and its complete removal from the territorial waters of Cyprus. Flourentzos noted that on May 24, 2012, the salvage company was ready to begin work on moving the ship but said that they had failed to secure costeffective insurance cover. “They requested the state take on this responsibility and accept the ship being towed without insurance

cover. This was contradictory to what had been agreed with the owner,” said the minister. “They tried to include the state into a contract which we were not party to and force us to take responsibility which is not ours to take. “They said that if we did not agree, despite favourable conditions at sea, they would leave the area and refuse to remove the ship. This is blackmail.” Attas said the shipping department had now contacted the Attorney-gen-

eral for advice “offering a number of various options to rectify this situation, which I can’t divulge now,” he said. “Obviously, we don’t want the ship to remain where it is for a long period of time. Strictly speaking, the vessel still belongs to somebody and not to Cyprus. Therefore we aren’t allowed to go on board or do anything further.” Attas conﬁrmed that the department of shipping had hoped an attempt to remove the vessel from

the rocks when the seas were ‘favourable’ could have been made in October or November last year. According to Attas, large waves would aid the process. “We have now realised though, that no movement to solve the problem by either the owner, or the Russian insurers of the ship have been made.” The Albanian-owned cargo vessel, built in the late 1960s, was leaving Limassol port in early December, bound for Rhodes. It encountered technical problems with the engine during bad weather, and was forced onto rocks off the coast of Paphos, where it has remained stranded ever since. In April last year, efforts were made to clear and discharge waste and pollutants. All pumpable and oily waste such as lubricants, fuel and solid waste were removed. According to the marine surveyor the ship is beyond economic repair, although theoretically it could be repaired - but the bill would be more than the ship’s original cost. It is most likely that it will be taken for scrap. The ship weighs about 2,345 tonnes and is over 80 metres in length. The EDRO III is stranded 15 metres from shore near the sea caves area, and has become a bit of a tourist attraction. Despite its beleaguered state, the EDRO III has not been ofﬁcially declared a wreck. Attas said that this was an important factor for maritime insurance cover.

Russian boost for Paphos sports tourism as footie teams fly in FIVE teams from the Russian football championship will take part in a friendly tournament in Paphos between February 9 and 19 according to a statement released by Paphos’ Tourism Development and Promotion Program (ETAP). Travel Agency, Tecoma Services Limited took the initiative in co-operation with the Russian Football Association and was given the backing of the Cyprus Sports and Football Associations and the Cyprus Tourism

Organisation. “These are very important developments with regards to attracting sports tourism and especially football teams to Paphos over the winter months,” the statement said. The matches will be played at the Yeroskipou and Paﬁakos stadiums. It is the ﬁrst time the tournament is being held in Paphos with the matches being transmitted via the internet on the Football National League website. The site will also be

updated with photographs of the teams’ stay on the island. The tournament has been approved by both UEFA and the Cyprus Football Association and along with the teams, members of the Football National League as well as the Russian Football Association will make their way to Cyprus to watch the games. “There are many opportunities with the infrastructure in place to put the area back on the world map as a sporting destination,”

ETAP’s statement said. “In particular, Paphos, Yeroskipou and Peyia have the required hotels and sporting facilities and with the involvement of the different organisations could achieve great results according to ETAP.” They estimate that in the coming years, the number of football teams arriving on the island could increase, but other sports such as track & ﬁeld, golf, water sports and tennis could also draw in tourism, re-invigorating Paphos’ tourist industry.

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State defends filling post of CB deputy A government is elected for five years, not four years and eleven months, says the spokesman By Elias Hazou THE government yesterday defended President Christofias’ decision to appoint a deputy Central Bank governor, a position kept vacant for the last 50 years. The move has sparked a storm of controversy, with the opposition crying foul over the appointment, and accusing Christofias of seeking to fill key positions with his own people just days before leaving office. DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades also said the move contravened the Constitution, and pledged to revoke the appointment if elected president. Responding to the criticism, government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said yesterday the idea to fill the post belonged to Central Bank chief Panicos Demetriades. The appointment was made to ensure the smooth running of the regulator, given its anticipated increased workload, he said. “A government is elected for five years, and not for four years and 11 months,” Stefanou commented, noting that an administration has

The new deputy Governor Spyros Stavrinakis the right to operate until the very end of its term. He argued that in February 2003, then outgoing President Glafcos Clerides convened a session of his Cabinet, and there were some 80 items on the agenda. This was just a few days before the Clerides government was set to hand over power, Stefanou said. Deputy governor Spyros

Stavrinakis now holds a position that no other governor or administration deemed necessary to ﬁll in the past 50 years. Stefanou also denied rumours that Stavrinakis was an AKEL sympathiser. The Attorney-general meanwhile seemed to wash his hands of whether the appointment was legally valid. “This is not a legal matter,

but rather a purely political one,” Petros Clerides said, adding: “To me, it is a question of political responsibility and political culture.” Clerides told newsmen that the Office of the Presidency had not sought legal consultation from him, although “we had a chat about this”. The deputy attorney general and deputy auditor general positions have also been filled in the past by invoking the principle of the doctrine of necessity. This was made possible after a law that was passed after the Turkish Cypriots abandoned parliament and their positions in the government in the 1960s, basically to enable the state to function properly even if certain acts conflicted with the constitution. Article 118 of the Constitution, drafted in 1960, states: “The President and Vice-President of the Republic shall jointly appoint two capable and suitable persons as Governor and deputy Governor of the Bank of Issue, in compliance with the rule that the Governor and deputy Governor shall not hail from the same community.”

‘Doctrine not for use in a sweeping fashion’ By Elias Hazou THE DOCTRINE of necessity cited by the government cannot be invoked in this case and should not be employed in a “sweeping fashion”, lawyer Pavlos Angelides told the Mail yesterday. The doctrine emerged in 1964 due to the trial of Mustafa Ibrahim, a Turkish Cypriot accused of the attempted murder of a Greek Cypriot. During the intercommunal strife at the time, Turkish Cypriots had abandoned the public service and the judiciary.

At the time the law stated that a criminal court must include judges hailing from the community of the defendant. But without Turkish Cypriot judges, the trial could not proceed. Parliament, then controlled by Greek Cypriots, passed the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Law of 1964. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court after a prominent Turkish Cypriot lawyer challenged it. To paraphrase one of the Supreme Court judges ruling on the matter at the time: “the state cannot vanish for the sake of the Constitution.”

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Angelides explained: “The duality in the 1960 Constitution was intended as a means of checks and balances between the two communities. The subsequent doctrine of necessity emerged to ensure the smooth functioning of the state due to the absence of the Turkish Cypriots. In other words, it was an ad hoc measure. “But in the case now before us with the deputy governor of the Central Bank, is the operation of the bank in jeopardy if the position remains vacant? I think not. “You can’t employ the socalled law of necessity in a sweeping fashion,” said Angelides. Neither does the government’s argument that the Central Bank has increased monetary duties hold water, sources told the Mail. Under the banking union proposed by the European Commission for 2014, a single supervisory

mechanism (SSM) will give the European Central Bank (ECB) ultimate responsibility for speciﬁc supervisory tasks related to the ﬁnancial stability of all euro area banks. National supervisors will continue to play an important role in day-to-day supervision and in preparing and implementing ECB decisions. National supervisors would remain in charge of tasks not conferred on the ECB, for instance in relation to consumer protection, money laundering, payment services, and branches of third country banks. That aside, the Central Bank here has less on its plate than what it used to a few years back. The regulator no longer deals with offshore companies, which became a nonissue upon the island’s accession to the EU, and moreover national debt management has since passed over to the Finance Ministry.

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Nicos Anastasiades surrounded by supporters last night

Supporters rally round WITH presidential elections less than two weeks away, main candidates have been rallying up their supporters in a big way. In Famagusta’s Paralimni, DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades and leadership from supporting party DIKO held a rally last night for enthusiastic supporters. “Our proposals will be turned into law after we are elected,” Anastasiades said. “People will be proud of their choice,” he said. Speaking over people chanting slogans, Anastasiades assured people he would be vindicated against critics while DIKO leader Marios Garoyian appealed to patriotic duty. “Patriotism is the deﬁning characteristic of our ideology,” he said. At a packed Eleftheria stadium in Nicosia late on Monday, AKEL-backed candidate Sta-

vros Malas walked alongside President Demetris Christoﬁas and party brass. People applauded as Malas walked in, kissing and shaking hands with supporters. AKEL head Andros Kyprianou criticised candidate Nicos Anastasiades as a scaremonger. “Will the crisis not be an excuse to privatise for Anastasiades everything if he is elected?” Kyprianou said. Malas promised a sound policy “to represent Cyprus’ interests and not that of foreigners”. Meanwhile, EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas met with chartered accountants yesterday. Education, research and innovation can encourage entrepreneurship and create a research-driven culture, he said. The state has to stop treating the private sector as a competitor and start treating it as a partner.

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Violence erupts in Paphos OEV boss: no one has right to enforce law of the jungle (continued from front page) has the right to enforce the law of the jungle against anyone else. Just as someone has the right to strike, so does someone else have the right to work,” he said. The trouble came on the ninth day of the construction sector industrial action with no signs yesterday that the dispute would be resolved soon. Builders have gone on strike over job losses and insecurity in the sector. Their unions have taken issue with the roughly 10,000 foreign EU workers in their sector, who were not part of collective agreements that guarantee better beneﬁts for employees. They have threatened a general strike if employers did not show readiness to compromise. Labour Minister Sotiroulla Charalambous has been trying to bring the two sides closer but without any positive result so far. “The distance has grown and the conclusion is that the employers’ side is not trying to ﬁnd bridges of communication but it is trying to exploit the economic situation to win everything,” said Yiannakis Ioannou, the head of SEK’s construction branch. Ioannou said builders have already agreed to cuts of around 8.0 per cent but contractors also wanted to reduce provident fund contributions by 3.0 per cent, cut Christmas bonuses by 50 per

cent, and take away one day from the Easter holidays. “The bridges of communication that some people are trying to build have found no response because contractors have run amok, they have shown their true colours,” Ioannou said. Charalambous has cancelled a trip abroad to continue efforts to break the deadlock, which is doing more damage to the island’s stalled economy. Builders receive some form of financial help from the unions’ strike funds. President Demetris Christofias said he was saddened by the use of violence, which he condemned. “We do not accept such behaviour. I want to express my solidarity with the people who were beaten and suffered injuries and call on the chief of police to put an end to this behaviour,” Christofias said. AKEL also condemned the violence, criticising the police for being quick to blame the striking workers without listening to their version of the events. The incident was criticised by presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades whose spokesman urged the government to seek an immediate end to the dispute. Labour minister Charalambous said last night she would continue her efforts to find a compromise between workers and employers despite criticism stemming from “petty politics and electoral interests”.

Woman’s banner reads: bread and work, not hunger and unemployment

Casual workers protest job losses By George Psyllides CASUAL government workers who lost their jobs in austerity-related cuts yesterday protested outside the ﬁnance ministry and warned they would not vote in this month’s presidential elections. The protesters, who demanded the reversal of the decision, were among 992 seasonal government employees who will not be rehired as part of the conditions of a preliminary bailout agreement between Cyprus and international lenders. The cuts will save the state €9.6 million a year. One man who was literally in tears shouted: “What can we do? Where can we go?” “When your child wakes up asking you for a glass of milk and you have none to give? I’ve had enough. How much can we take?” he added. “We ask for a plate of food to eat, nothing more,” he screamed with his hands raised up in the air, adding that beneﬁts for large families have been cut and he had nowhere left to go. Speaking on their behalf, Maria Michael said they wanted a positive response by the

Labour ministry says it’s started clamping down on benefit cheats By Peter Stevenson THOUSANDS of euros are being scammed from the office of social security by EU residents who despite having lost their jobs in Cyprus and returned to their country of origin still fraudulently claim unemployment benefit here. The scam was revealed by Labour Minister Sotiroulla Charalambous in a letter to parliament after Green Party MP, Giorgos Perdikis had asked for clarification on the matter on November 19, 2012. In her letter, Charalambous gave assurances that the measures were being taken to combat the problem. “Social Insurance has already located cases of applicants who sign-on for unemployment benefit and then leave the island

on the same day returning a month later to sign-on again,” she said. “The law for social insurance clearly states that unemployment benefit would not be given to applicants if they are abroad as they are classed as unavailable for employment,” she added. Charalambous revealed that additional measures were also being taken, with the Office for Social Insurance sending out a written letter to those registered as unemployed, informing them they could be called at any time to sign in order to ensure their availability. “The new procedure has been adopted and in the cases where the unemployed have continually avoided phone calls they will be considered unavailable for work and will not receive benefits during that period,” she said.

“If it is ascertained that the person is abroad then their name is immediately removed from the registry,” she added. “In cases where unemployment benefit was given mistakenly, a letter will go out to the recipients demanding the return of the amount,” she concluded. In her detailed account, Charalambous revealed that between December 4, 2012 and January 15 of this year, a total of 315 calls were placed islandwide to check the authenticity of unemployment benefit claims. From those calls, 62 were found to be working, abroad or did not answer their phones. Those 62 have been reexamined and depending on the outcome, those peoples’ benefits have been terminated or reduced accordingly.

15th of this month otherwise they would not vote in the elections two days later. “A huge injustice has been done; we want our jobs,” she said. The casual staff worked for six months a year in various state sectors. The protesters held a large banner that read: “Give us work not unemployment benefits” while smaller ones said “Don’t throw us out on the street.” “We have a need to work, to raise our children, to educate them. We will not vote,” Michael said. The protest was supported by the DEOK trade union, which is affiliated with socialist party EDEK. Its chief, Diomedes Diomedous said the money saved from the cutbacks were a drop in the ocean. “Nine million they will eventually pay in unemployment benefits, public allowances and buying services from the private sector,” he said. Diomidous said they had ample arguments to prove that the social benefit from these people returning to work was much more than being on the dole. He vowed to fight on until everyone returned to their job.

(Christos Theodorides)

ALMOST 46,000 ARE NOW JOBLESS LATEST DATA SHOWS THE JOBLESS rate rose 23.8 per cent year on year in January, almost reaching 46,000, the statistical service said yesterday. The number of registered unemployed on the last day of January this year reached 45,933, the service said. Compared with January 2012, there was an increase of 8,831 persons mainly observed in the sectors of trade – an increase of 2,023, accommodation and food services, 1,426, construction, an increase of 1,057, public administration, 850, manufacturing, 730, as well as to newcomers in the labour market where an increase of 786 jobless people was recorded.

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Deal with Total due to be signed Concessions are for offshore blocks 10 and 11- part of second licensing round By Elias Hazou THE GOVERNMENT will today sign a deal granting French oil giant Total two concessions to explore and drill for hydrocarbons in Cypriot waters. The concessions are for offshore blocks 10 and 11, and are part of the second licensing round initiated last year by Cyprus. The signing ceremony is to take place at the commerce ministry around 11am. Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou made the announcement shortly after a meeting of the Cabinet which sanctioned the contract concluded with Total following weeks of talks. Stefanou said the agreement was the outcome of a dozen rounds of “intensive” negotiations that began on November 13 last year. During the talks commerce minister Neoclis Sylikiotis was assisted by an advisory committee including the minister of agriculture, the deputy accountant-general and the director of the Energy Service. According to Stefanou, the Cypriot side succeeded in achieving improvements on Total’s initial ﬁnancial and technical proposals. Details of the concession agreement are expected today, but in all likelihood the deals with Total are similar to those concluded last month with an Italian-Korean consortium on blocks 2, 3 and 9. The respective percentages for Cyprus and the companies in the production-sharing

contract are not made public due to a conﬁdentiality agreement between the parties. In comments made 10 days ago, energy chief Solon Kassinis intimated that the French multinational would be prospecting directly for oil, given their proposal for deepwater drilling at 7400 feet. Kassinis hinted also that a deepwater drillship leased by Noble might be used to prospect for oil in Cypriot waters. The ‘Atwood Advantage’ rig, built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, will be capable of drilling in water up to 12,000 feet deep. Following its anticipated delivery in the fourth quarter of 2013, it will then transit to a deep water ﬁeld in the Eastern Mediterranean.

SUB-CONTRACT It is conceivable that once the rig is done in Israeli waters, Noble could sub-contract it to prospectors in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone. The government says there would be synergies from the licensing to ENI-KOGAS, since two of the blocks (2 and 9) run in the path of a pipeline planned to transport gas from the Noble Energy’s concession to a terminal which will convert gas into its liqueﬁed form onshore. Noble meanwhile has pushed back the start of appraisal drilling in its Block 12 concession because the rig has been tied up in Israel’s Leviathan ﬁeld. According to the government, construction of the LNG is expected to begin late

in 2014 or early 2015. The aim is to have it ready by 2019. Authorities have already completed the land development plan for the project, which will be located at Vassilikos near Limassol. The plan envisages the construction of three LNG trains (liquefaction and purification facilities), making the terminal one of the largest in the world. The gas fields are only likely to come on line in 2018 for domestic consumption and 2019-2020 for export. Energy officials say Cypriot waters could hold up to 60 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Israeli website Globes reported recently on an apparent thawing in relations between Israel and Turkey. In a lecture at a cleantech conference, Israel’s energy chief Shaul Tzemach hinted that Turkey could be an anchor customer for Israeli gas, and that there is room to consider including foreign powers and multinationals in a project to export Israeli gas to Turkey. Although Tzemach did not mention Turkey by name, it’s understood he was referring to that country. His remarks seemed to be in response to recent signals by Turkey. A Turkish diplomat said that Turkey believes an undersea gas pipeline to Turkey might be the most economical way for Israel to export gas. That could be of great interest to Cyprus, which wants to cooperate with Israel on gas exports via the LNG facility that it is building on its southern coast.

Police, in cooperation with European Transport Police, TISPOL, have organised a campaign to check trucks and lorries as part of an annual European campaign to prevent accidents. It began on Monday and will end on February 17, aiming to prevent multiple-death accidents involving trucks. Trafﬁc Department chief Demetris Demetriou revealed yesterday that 137 checks had been carried out on the ﬁrst day,

with 46 write-ups for various violations. As part of the campaign Demetriou also said that breathalyser tests were being carried out on Fridays and Saturdays in an attempt to prevent drink-driving. Finally, Demetriou said that police would be especially vigilant over the next two weeks for people who were speeding, not wearing their seat-belt, drink-driving or riding a motorcycle without a helmet

Former Christofias aide testifies at trial By Elias Hazou FIVE months before the July 11, 2011 blast, senior ofﬁcials did not believe the munitions cargo at Mari naval base posed any imminent danger, the former head of the President’s diplomatic service said yesterday. Leonidas Pantelides was testifying as a witness for the prosecution in the ongoing criminal trial, where six persons face charges of causing death by want of precaution and homicide by gross negligence. Referring to a February 2011 meeting held at the Defence Ministry to discuss the state of the cargo, Pantelides said: “The phraseology was the same. “I knew that it [the cargo] was a potential risk. I did not hear anything to worry me, nor did I leave the meeting thinking that a massive explosion was impending.” At that meeting, Pantelides said, he suggested the government contact the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee to propose separating the inert materials from the explosives within the containers, with a view to carrying out a controlled destruction. According to Pantelides, then Defence Minister Costas Papacostas agreed with the proposal, whereas

Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou did not. However, Pantelides did not later brief the President about his own participation in the meeting, nor about the meeting’s outcome. “I believed that they [Papacostas and Kyprianou] would turn to the President for a solution,” he said. As he saw it, the ﬁnal decision regarding the cargo would be made jointly by the President and his two ministers. He said he was not briefed on the swelling of one of the containers, documented a week before the blast. Pantelides claimed the government had done all it could to avoid seizing the munitions from the Monchegorsk ship that was en route to Syria in January 2009, but that Cyprus was forced to comply with UN Security Council resolutions on the arms embargo on Iran.

ALTERNATIVES “From the outset, we did not want it. We even hoped that the captain of the ship would ignore our request that he anchor at a Cypriot port for inspection. Our instructions to him were so politely worded that we hoped he wouldn’t comply,” Pantelides told the court. He said the government explored alternatives, such as transporting

the cargo to Malta or to UNIFIL’s naval station in Lebanon. But due to the lack of a straight response from the Security Council, as well as US pressure, the President was “forced” to agree to the seizure by Cypriot authorities. Subsequent to the seizure, Pantelides said, on 22 occasions Iranian and Syrian officials asked Cyprus to hand over the cargo. During a meeting Pantelides had with the Iranian ambassador to Cyprus in September 2010, it appeared the Iranians had softened their stance and were positively disposed toward a controlled destruction of the munitions. The diplomat said he personally informed President Christofias of this development. Christofias did not say anything at the time, and Pantelides took this as a tacit consent by the President to proceed with destroying the cargo. In subsequent meetings with military brass and Defence Ministry officials, Pantelides said, he encouraged them to press ahead with destroying the munitions. From then on, he assumed that the military would take over and get the job done: “They told me that they would dig ditches and burn the munitions.” The trial continues.

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Home Cabinet appoints board to oversee Menoyia’s new immigrant centre By Poly Pantelides A COMMITTEE appointed by the cabinet yesterday will oversee the Menoyia detention centre, which became operational only last week. The committee, falling under the auspices of the justice ministry, will visit the centre at least eight times a year to check on safety and security, as well as documentation and electronic data, said government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou after the cabinet session. There are now two centres in the Larnaca district, one in Menoyia and another nearby in Koﬁnou, and the state rents two hotels in Larnaca and Paphos to accommodate migrants, including asylum seekers who are waiting for their application to be reviewed, Stefanou said. The Menoyia centre will only hold illegal migrants, including failed asylum seekers, rather than placing them in the notorious Block 10 holding cells on the grounds of the Nicosia central prisons. Security will be provided by special constables, an is-

sue of contention between parliament and government that has delayed the centre’s operation. The justice ministry was eventually given ﬁnal say, going with the state’s original plan of using police, including hiring about 100 special constables at a cost of €2.8 million. Block 10 and the Lakatamia police detention centre have been overpopulated for years, holding people in subpar conditions, according to the 2011 report by the independent authority on torture prevention. Stefanou said the new centre creates the necessary infrastructure for “an immigration policy”, which includes better policing of illegal entry points from the sea or the north. He said fewer illegal immigrants now cross the buffer zone. In 2008, 3,395 asylum seekers came to Cyprus, including 2,545 through the north. In 2009, there were 2,795 – 1,505 through the north and 1,290 through other ports of entry- and by 2010, some 2,498 people sought asylum, only 956 of whom came from the north, according to the latest complete police data. In 2005, there were about 11,500 pending asylum ap-

Until now, the Koﬁnou detention centre (above) has been the only one operating in Cyprus plications but there are fewer than 1,000 today, Stefanou said. Although Stefanou did not clarify whether he was referring to all asylum applications, it is understood that there are roughly 2,000 pending appeals before the reviewing authority. Illegal migrants try to gain entry to Cyprus because it is an external EU border,

EU puts squeeze on ‘dirty money’ New rules will go beyond global standards THE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday adopted two proposals to reinforce the EU’s existing rules on antimoney laundering and fund transfers. The threats associated with money laundering and terrorist financing are constantly evolving, which requires regular updates of the rules, according to the Commission. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said: “The Union is at the forefront of international efforts to combat the laundering of the proceeds of crime. “Flows of dirty money can damage the stability and reputation of the financial sector, while terrorism shakes the very foundations of our society. In addition to the criminal law approach, a preventive effort via the financial system can help to stop money-laundering. Our aim is to propose clear rules that reinforce the vigilance by banks, lawyers, accountants and all other professional concerned.” Home affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said: “Dirty money has no place in our economy, whether it comes from drug deals, the illegal guns trade or trafficking in human beings. We must make sure that organised crime cannot launder its

funds through the banking system or the gambling sector. To protect the legal economy, especially in times of crisis, there must be no legal loopholes for organised crime or terrorists to slip through. Our banks should never function as laundromats for mafia money, or enable the funding of terrorism.” Yesterday’s package includes a directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing and a regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds to secure “due traceability” of these transfers.

TARGETED Both proposals fully take into account the latest Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) the world anti-money laundering body, and go further in a number of fields to promote the highest standards for antimoney laundering and counter terrorism financing. More specifically, both proposals provide for a more targeted and focused risk-based approach. In particular, the new Directive improves clarity and consistency of the rules across member states by providing a clear mechanism

for identification of beneficial owners. In addition, companies will be required to maintain records as to the identity of those who stand behind the company in reality. The new rules will go beyond FATF regulations, the Commission said, in particular by reducing the ‘suspicious amount’ threshold for transactions to €7,500 or more from the current €15,000 or more. Member states can go below the new threshold if they wish, the Commission said. Although no mention was made of Cyprus, which has been at the centre of EU money laundering discussions in recent month, it would not be a stretch to make the link. The island’s European partners have been clamouring for Cyprus to tighten its rules on ‘dirty money’ although Cyprus is in full compliance with FATF regulations. The new rules are clearly aimed at imposing even further controls, which if Cyprus satisfies, could smooth the path to a bailout and address the concerns of several of the island’s EU partners, including paymaster Germany, which has balked at approving financial aid after a spate of negative articles about allegedly dodgy Russian money coming into the island.

Stefanou said. He said that by policing ports of entries and expediting procedures to review asylum applications, Cyprus has reduced the number of “migrants passing through” and decreased expenses stemming from obligations to provide support – including ﬁnancial beneﬁts.

From spending €23.5 million in 2010, the state spent €10 million last year to provide for the needs of asylum seekers and people protected for political or humanitarian reasons, Stefanou said. The state is also looking to switch from providing ﬁnancial help to handing out goods and gave parties

a draft plan to consider in October last year, Stefanou said. The committee supervising the Menoyia centre will include ofﬁcials from the police, the migration department, social services, the ﬁnance ministry and the health ministry, Stefanou said.

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Tory split as gay marriage vote passes Revolt comes amid talk of leadership challenge BRITAIN’S parliament voted heavily in favour of legalising gay marriage last night, but Prime Minister David Cameron’s authority in his own party took a blow as his Conservatives split in two over the measure he had championed. In the ﬁrst of several votes required for its passage, the lower house of parliament backed the legislation by 400-175, but more than half of Cameron’s 303 lawmakers voted against or abstained, signalling deep unease with it and his leadership. During a debate that lasted more than six hours, many Conservative MPs denounced the legislation, saying it was morally wrong, not a public priority, and unnecessarily divisive, threatening a corrosive legacy of bitterness. Conservative lawmaker Gerald Howarth told parliament that the government had no mandate to push through a “massive social and cultural change”. “This is not evolution, it’s revolution,” added Edward Leigh, another Conservative member of parliament, saying marriage was “by its nature a heterosexual union”. Although the vote went Cameron’s way, many analysts believe he will now have to address a deep seam of discontent running through his party. He made a last minute televised statement ahead of the vote, arguing gay marriage would make society stronger. “I’m a big believer in marriage. It helps people to commit to each other, and I think that’s why gay people should be able to get married too,” he said. He later hailed the result of the vote as “a step forward for our country”. Amid talk of a possible leadership challenge to Cameron, many Conservative lawmak-

ers say the prime minister is sacrificing core party values on the altar of populism. “He hasn’t got a lot of political capital left in the bank,” Stewart Jackson, a Conservative MP who opposes the gay marriage bill, said before the vote. “He has to deliver some authentic Conservative policies very soon.” Such talk is rife among some Conservative lawmakers and follows a spate of articles in the British press in which a handful of MPs raised the possibility of ousting Cameron, a prospect most commentators regard as far-fetched before the next election in 2015. The gay marriage initiative has infuriated rank-and-file party activists and a protest letter signed by 25 past and present chairmen of local Conservative associations warned that members were starting to resign over the issue. Justin Welby, the newly elected Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the world’s 80 million Anglicans, used his first comments after being confirmed on Monday to reiterate his own opposition to gay marriage. The new law proposes legalising same-sex marriage in 2014. It would also allow civil partners to convert their partnerships into marriages. Gay marriage supporters say while existing civil partnerships for same-sex couples afford the same legal rights as marriage, the distinction implies they are inferior. In a sometimes emotional debate yesterday, several gay MPs took to their feet to commend the bill, describing the prejudice they had suffered growing up. “Millions will be watching us today,” said Nick Herbert, a gay Conservative MP. “Not just gay people but people who want to live in an equal society.”

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Wife ruined minister’s career over affair, court hears THE wife of a cabinet minister plotted with newspapers to wreck his career because she wanted revenge after he left her for another woman, a London court heard yesterday. Vicky Pryce, 60, went on trial for perverting the course of justice over a 2003 incident in which she took the penalty for a speeding offence committed by her then husband, Liberal Democrat politician Chris Huhne, to allow him to avoid a driving ban. Huhne, 58, pleaded guilty to a charge of perverting the course of

justice on Monday in connection with the same events in 2003. He is likely to be sentenced to a term in jail. Huhne resigned as energy secretary a year ago when he and Pryce were charged. He had been seen as a possible successor to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as Liberal Democrat party leader but his guilty plea has ruined his political career. Prosecutor Andrew Edis said the incident had come to light in 20102011 because Pryce had told the

story to two newspapers, the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times, in the hope that they would publish articles that would destroy Huhne’s ministerial career. “There is no doubt at all that she was not only distressed but extremely angry and she wanted some revenge,” Edis said. Pryce said in an email to a Sunday Times journalist in a similar vein: “I have no doubt as I deﬁnitely want to nail him. More than ever, actually, and I would love to do it soon.”

Face of ‘king in the car park’ revealed By Michael Holden WITH a large chin, a prominent slightly arched nose and delicate lips, the “face” of England’s King Richard III was unveiled yesterday, a day after researchers conﬁrmed his remains had ﬁnally been found after 500 years. A team of university archaeologists and scientists announced on Monday that a skeleton discovered last September underneath a council parking lot in Leicester was indeed that of Richard, the last English king to die in battle, in 1485. Devotees of Richard, who have long campaigned to restore his reputation, proudly revealed a 3D reconstruction of the long-lost monarch’s head yesterday, introducing him as “His Grace Richard Plantagenet, King of England and France, Lord of Ireland”. They said the face appeared sympathetic and noble - not that of a man cast by William Shakespeare as a villainous, deformed monster who murdered his nephews, the ‘Princes in the Tower’.

“I hope you can see in this face what I see in this face and that’s a man who is three-dimensional in every sense,” said Philippa Langley of the Richard III Society, who led the four-year hunt to ﬁnd the king’s remains. A 3D computer image of the face was ﬁrst created based on a scan taken of Richard’s skeleton after it

A plastic facial model made from the recently discovered skull of King Richard III (AFP) was found in a shallow grave in the remains of a friary church, now located under Leicester City Council’s social services department car park in central England. The image was then made into a plastic model. The reconstruction is faithful to an anatomical assessment of the skull, and about 70 per cent of the

YORK JOINS BATTLE FOR RICHARD’S BONES CITY leaders in York are to write to the Queen to get Richard III’s remains returned to his “spiritual home”, it emerged yesterday. Experts say historic evidence suggests he wanted to be buried in York Minster, and not Leicester where his remains were found near the site of his death in battle. Kersten England, chief executive of City of York Council said: “Richard III had - as now - very strong support in the city. “His self-identification with the north and York is reflected in his plans for a chantry of 100 priests in York Minster where he wished to be buried. City of York Council and all its political leaders are united in the belief that York is the most fitting burial place for Richard III, one of the city’s most famous and cherished sons. “To this end, we will be writing a letter of representation to the Ministry of Justice and the Crown to invite their consideration of the views of Richard of York’s own people.” Richard, the last monarch of the House of York, grew up at Middleham Castle in the Yorkshire Dales and visited York several times during his 26-month reign. Known as Richard of York before his coronation, he also funded part of the city’s Medieval gated walls.

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face’s surface should have less than 2mm of error, according to the professor of craniofacial identification who created it. No portraits of Richard were used for the main facial reconstruction, although the clothing, wig, and some features such as eyebrows, eye colour and skin colour were based on paintings of the dead king. The final outcome does bear a strong resemblance to some portraits of Richard - but without some of the less flattering traits that appeared during the reign of Henry VII, his conqueror at the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, and the Tudor dynasty that followed. Langley said it was a face without the Tudor caricatures: “No slanty eyes, no mean mouths, no clawed fingers beneath it.” His body is due to be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral next year while the bust reconstruction will take pride of place at a visitors’ centre to be opened close to the site where the body lay in a small, irregular grave for more than five centuries.

Delia: I’ve served up last TV show DELIA Smith has called time on her television career and said programme makers were now sacriﬁcing education for entertainment. The cook, who ﬁrst appeared on television more than 40 years ago and has sold millions of cookbooks, said she will continue teaching people to cook using online lessons. She told the Daily Telegraph: “This is the future for me and the population. It’s miles ahead. If you do a TV programme now, it’s got to entertain. “When I started, there was further education in the BBC; now you have to entertain. You have someone telling me I haven’t got time to show this or I haven’t got time to show that.” Smith said she had turned down a recent approach from the BBC which marked “the end” of “Delia on the telly”. Her lengthy career has seen her acquire the nickname “Saint Delia” for her reliable and easy-to-follow recipes that have proved a hit at dinner tables across the country.

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World India gang rape trial starts with testimony from victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Commission proposes minimum jail term friend as â&#x201A;Ź20 and â&#x201A;Ź50 notes most common fakes

EU gets tougher on euro forgery

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THE trial of ďŹ ve men charged with gang-raping and murdering a young woman on a bus in New Delhi opened yesterday with closed-door testimony from her friend who appeared at court in a wheelchair, still bearing the scars of injuries from the attack. The 28-year-old software engineer, who may not be identiďŹ ed, is the prosecutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star witness in a case that has triggered nationwide protests, an intense debate about rampant crime against women in India and tougher anti-rape laws. The ďŹ ve accused are Vinay Sharma, a gym assistant, Ram Singh, the bus driver, his brother Mukesh Singh, bus cleaner Akshay Kumar Singh and fruit vendor Pawan Kumar. They have pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and murder. A sixth accused is being tried separately as a juvenile. Police allege the six attacked the 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist and her friend on the bus as the couple returned home from watching a movie on December 16. The woman was repeatedly raped and tortured with a metal bar. The couple were also severely beaten before being thrown onto a road. The woman died of internal injuries in a Singapore hospital two weeks later. In his statement to police after the assault, the friend said their attackers had asked â&#x20AC;&#x153;where are you going with a girl so late at night?â&#x20AC;? before launching a furious assault in which he was beaten with a metal rod and his clothes were ripped off. While he was being beaten, the woman was repeatedly raped, he said, according to a police charge sheet seen by Reuters.

THE European Commission stepped up its ďŹ ght against counterfeiting of euro notes and coins yesterday, proposing a minimum six months in jail for serious offences and steps to take fakes rapidly out of circulation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We must make sure that crime doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay,â&#x20AC;? said Algirdas Semeta, the European commissioner in charge of ďŹ ghting fraud. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A more harmonised approach to sanctions and better cross-border cooperation will help us to come down hard on currency counterfeiting,â&#x20AC;? he said. The measures, which must be approved by EU member countries, would impose common criminal penalties for producing and distributing forged notes and coins. Punishments currently

vary across the 27 countries in the European Union. Bulgaria and Austria, for example, have no minimum sanctions for anyone caught distributing fake currency. And in Lithuania and Ireland, those involved with counterfeiting may escape with just a ďŹ ne.

PROPOSALS The proposals would tighten rules in EU members such as Bulgaria, identiďŹ ed by pan-EU policing agency Europol as one of the foremost countries for euro forgery, alongside Italy. They would also speed up analysing seized counterfeits during ongoing court cases, to remove fake notes and coins from circulation. The â&#x201A;Ź20 and â&#x201A;Ź50 notes are those most commonly forged, according to the European Central Bank, together making up about

four in ďŹ ve of the 280,000 fake notes withdrawn from circulation in the second half of last year. The steps would complement additional security features, such as new watermarks on the new â&#x201A;Ź5 note the ECB launched last month. A Europol investigation found organised crime groups in countries such as Italy, Bulgaria and Colombia had set up a sophisticated network for printing and distributing fake euros. The single currency is used in the euro zoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 17 European Union members, with 330 million people. It is also legal tender in several other countries and territories outside the currency union, including Montenegro and Kosovo. There are â&#x201A;Ź913 billion in notes circulating globally and â&#x201A;Ź16 billion euros in coins.

Rebel ďŹ ghters check the ammunition for their heavy calibre weapon as they prepare to ďŹ ght against pro-Syrian regime forces on the Jabal al-Turkman mountains in Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern Latakia province (AFP)

Paris police arrest suspected Islamists in Mali rebels probe By GĂŠrard Bon FRENCH police arrested four suspected Islamist militants near Paris yesterday as part of an investigation into the recruitment of volunteers by al Qaeda insurgents in Mali, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said. Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intervention in Mali to rid its former colony of Islamist ďŹ ghters has prompted the authorities to increase security against possible reprisal attacks on its interests in mainland France and abroad. A police source said three of the four men arrested were Franco-Congolese and one was Malian. Valls said the arrests had come after a long investiga-

tion into al Qaeda recruitment rings led by anti-terrorism judge Marc Trevidic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is an operation ongoing in the Paris region, conducted by the DCRI (domestic security service), which comes after the arrest of an individual a few months ago on the border between Mali and Niger,â&#x20AC;? he told BFM TV. That man was a FrancoCongolese social worker named Cedric Lobo, 27, who was arrested in Niamey, the capital of Niger, while trying to reach the historic Malian city of Timbuktu to join al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the source said. He was subsequently extradited to France, where he was charged with planning attacks and remanded in custody.

Girl star shaves head in apology A MEMBER of a hugely popular Japanese girl band has shaved her head and issued a tearful video apology for breaking the megagroupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no-dating rule. Her actions have sparked a national debate over whether the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s management exerts too much control over its performers. Pictures of Minami Minegishi in closelycropped hair have been splashed across Japanese newspapers and triggered heated discussion on Twitter and talk shows. The 20-year-old made the video, posted on the group AKB48â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, after she was caught by a gossip magazine leaving a boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home. AKB48, made up of more than 90 girls and young women divided into several teams, forbids its members from dating to project a clean image and signal their devotion to the group and their mostly male fans. Minegishi belonged to one of the top teams, but her manager announced her demotion to the bottom-ranked â&#x20AC;&#x153;research studentâ&#x20AC;? status. In her nearly four-minute video, a tearful Minegishi, shorn of her silky black hair, sobbed hard and pleaded with her fans to let her stay

with the band. She said she shaved her head as an act of contrition to her â&#x20AC;&#x153;thoughtless and irresponsible behaviourâ&#x20AC;?. She lowered her head for a long eight seconds in the video, which has since been removed from the AKB site. AKB is arguably Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular pop group. It performs almost every day at its own theatre in Tokyo and has spawned afďŹ liates across the country and in Indonesia, China and Taiwan. The singing and dancing are not always perfect, and the ever-changing members are hard to keep track of. But fans view them as friends or sisters, not out-of-reach superstars who date other celebrities. Minegishi damaged that myth when a magazine reported she had spent the night with a 19-year-old member of a boy band last month, and published photos showing her leaving his apartment wearing a baseball cap and mask. Traditionally, head shaving is a way of showing contrition, though rare among women. She is reportedly the ďŹ rst girl idol to do so in Japanese entertainment, where dating and love scandals are taboo.

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WORLD TODAY Tourists held TWO German men kidnapped by Colombian rebels are tourists, Germany’s foreign ministry said yesterday, after their captors suggested they were spies. The National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s second-largest guerrilla group, said on Monday it had captured two men believed to be from Germany and considered them to be intelligence agents because the pair could not explain why they were in the area. “We have to assume two German citizens are being held against their will in Colombia,” a spokeswoman for the German foreign ofﬁce said yesterday. “The German citizens are pensioners who were travelling in the region as tourists,” she said. The ministry has set up a crisis group to deal with the abduction, she said.

Seamen strike THE Greek government invoked emergency legislation yesterday to order striking seamen back to work, threatening to arrest them unless they ended a walkout that has cut off dozens of islands from the mainland and caused shortages on grocery shelves. This is the second time in a week that the government has taken such action to break a strike as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras tries to show his resolve to stick with unpopular reforms and wage cuts demanded by international lenders. “Unfortunately, there is no room for further discussion,” Shipping Minister Costis Mousouroulis said. The seamen, who are demanding months of unpaid wages and the repeal of a draft law that weakens their union, said they would extend the six-day strike by 48 hours.

Soldier kills A TURKISH soldier shot dead three of his colleagues yesterday, opening fire with an assault rifle at a military base in south eastern Turkey, security officials said. The motive and identity of the soldier, who also wounded himself, was not immediately known. The incident took place in the Pervari district of Siirt province, a volatile area near the border with Iraq. Similar incidents have taken place in Turkey over the past few years with officials and media citing the pressures of military life at a time of increased violence as the main cause. Fighting between Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and Turkish security forces increased last summer to levels not seen since the 1990s.

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A worker at the al-Hussein mosque wears a banner supporting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his ofﬁcial visit to Cairo yesterday. Ahmadinejad held talks on Syria as he kicked off the ﬁrst visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since 1979 (AFP)

Irish state had role in Magdalene Laundries Prime Minister says sorry for women’s harsh ordeals By Padraic Halpin MANY of the women and girls subjected to harsh discipline and unpaid work in Ireland’s now-notorious Magdalene Laundries were sent there by the Irish state, an official report said yesterday. The laundries, run by Catholic nuns, have been accused of treating inmates like “slaves” for decades of the 20th century, imposing a regime of fear and prayer on girls sometimes put in their care for simply falling pregnant outside wedlock. Irish governments had in the past denied blame, emphasising the laundries were private institutions, but the 1,000page report concludes there was “significant state involvement” in them, with one in four inmates sent there through various arms of the state. The laundries, depicted in the award-winning film The Magdalene Sisters, put 10,000 women and girls, as young as nine, through an uncompromising regime from the

foundation of the Irish state in 1922 until 1996. The report’s ﬁndings follow investigations into clerical sex abuse and state-abetted cover-ups that have shattered the once-high authority of the Catholic Church in Ireland and rocked the church’s reputation worldwide. “Many of the women who met with the committee experienced the laundries as lonely and frightening places. For too long, they have been and have felt forgotten,” said the report, compiled by an inter-departmental committee established in 2011. “None of us can begin to imagine the confusion and fear experienced by these young girls, in many cases little more than children, on entering the laundries - not knowing where they were, feeling abandoned.” Groups representing survivors of the Laundries - named after Mary Magdalene, the ‘fallen woman’ of the gospels - had asked Prime Minister Enda Kenny to apologise on behalf of the state and want

a compensation scheme to be established. Kenny stopped short yesterday of the full apology demanded by opposition politicians for state negligence. “To those residents who went through the Magdalene Laundries in a variety of ways, 26 per cent of the time from state involvement, I am sorry for those people that they lived in that kind of environment,” he told parliament. No allegations of sexual or physical abuse were made against the nuns at the laundries, the report said. However former inmates described the atmosphere in the laundries as cold, with an uncompromising regime of physically demanding work and prayer enforced by scoldings and humiliations. The report found that a majority of women spent less than a year in one of the 10 laundries, run by four religious orders. But almost one in 10 died inside, the youngest being 15. Many women ﬁnd it difﬁcult or even impossible to share

their stories, the report said. The committee was only able to survey 100 “survivors”. Some, like Mary Currington, were sent to the laundries after being brought up in Ireland’s now defunct Catholic-run industrial schools, themselves the subject of a 2009 report that labelled them places of fear, neglect and endemic sexual abuse. Born to an unmarried mother, Currington spent much of her youth in a children’s home before returning to the nuns for help, only to be sent to a laundry where her name was changed, her long hair was cut and she was put to work sewing clothes. “They locked me up for six whole years in that place. I lost my youth,” the motherof-two said from her home on the outskirts of London. “All your life was about prayer, what did it do for us? They enslaved us, some of the nuns were okay but most were very horrible people. I don’t know how they said they were people of God, they were not people of God.”

PRESIDENT Barack Obama plans to visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this spring, the White House said yesterday, raising the prospects of a new US push to restart longstalled Israel-Palestinian peace efforts. Obama’s trip, his ﬁrst to Israel since taking ofﬁce, signalled that he intends to make the volatile Middle East - where Iran remains locked in a nuclear standoff with the West and Syria is caught up in a bloody civil war - a top priority in his second term. While the White House gave no exact dates for the trip, Israel’s Channel 10 television station cited unnamed sources in Washington saying Obama would visit the Jewish state on March 20.

FRACTIOUS The choice of Israel for Obama’s first foreign travel since his January 21 inauguration will give the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a chance to repair their notoriously fractious relationship and seek common ground on confronting the region’s troubles. Netanyahu is now occupied with the task of forging a new governing coalition after centre-left challengers made surprising gains in last month’s elections, something that Obama’s aides believe could strengthen his hand with the hawkish prime minister. Obama and Netanyahu discussed the president’s coming trip in a January 28 telephone call, the White House and the Israeli prime minister’s office said. “The start of the president’s second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including Iran and Syria,” the White House said. Netanyahu’s office said only that the leaders had discussed a visit timed for after the formation of a new Israeli government.

Argentina ‘will control Falkland islands in 20 years’ By Gavin Cordon ARGENTINA will control the Falkland Islands within 20 years, the country’s foreign minister claimed yesterday. Visiting London for the ﬁrst time, Hector Timerman ruled out a military solution to the long-standing dispute over sovereignty, but said Britain was internationally isolated in its claim to the islands. He denounced the British as “fanatics” and said they were only interested in the islands because of

their oil reserves. “The United Kingdom has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to ﬁnd a solution for the Malvinas (the Argentine name for the islands),” he said. “I don’t think it will take another 20 years. I think that the world is going through a process of understanding more and more that this is a colonial issue, an issue of colonialism, and that the people living there were transferred to the islands. “We have been trying to ﬁnd a peaceful solution for 180 years. I think the fanatics are not in Bue-

nos Aires (but) maybe in the United Kingdom because they are 14,000km away from the islands. “And I think they are using the people living in the islands for political (reasons) and to have access to oil and natural resources which belong to the Argentine people. I think we are not fanatical at all.” Timerman defended his refusal to meet Foreign Secretary William Hague during his visit after the Foreign Ofﬁce insisted on representatives of the Falklanders being present at the talks. “There is not one single country in

the world which supports the right of the United Kingdom to govern over the Malvinas. Not one,” he said. “According to the United Nations, there are only two parties to the conﬂict - the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina. It is an issue that has to be resolved by Argentina and the United Kingdom,” he said. “By introducing a third party (the Falklanders), the United Kingdom is changing more than 40 resolutions by the United Nations, which call the two countries to negotiate.”

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Galliano claims €14m from Dior after slurs sacking

€14m claim: John Galliano

FASHION designer John Galliano has launched a €14 million compensation claim against Christian Dior after being sacked for making anti-Semitic remarks. The 52-year-old’s lawyers told a Paris employment tribunal he should not have lost his job as the label’s creative director in March 2011. Galliano had been with Dior for 15 years before being accused of drunken outbursts which included derogatory comments about Jews. His barrister, Chantal Giraud-van Gaver, told the Paris tribunal that he was dismissed “without a seri-

ous or real cause”. She said that Galliano was addicted to alcohol, Valium and sleeping pills when he made the remarks and that it was illegal to sack an em@ ployee for health reasons under French law. In September 2011 Galliano was ﬁned for his behaviour during two incidents, in February that year and in October 2010. He had faced a maximum of six months in jail on the charge of making anti-Semitic insults, but received a minimal sentence because of his health. Galliano had been renowned for his work at Dior,

Rescued bunker boy ‘laughing, and joking’

as well as for his personal label, but the outburst brought his career to a halt. He apologised for his conduct, saying he could not remember the evenings in question, blaming a “triple addiction” to drink, sleeping pills and painkillers for his behaviour. The designer also told the court he had undergone two months of rehab in Arizona and Switzerland. At the hearing in the conseil de prud’hommes, Dior’s lawyer Jean Neret said the designer’s contacts were too complicated for an employment tribunal.

He added: “John Galliano was no ordinary employee. In fact, I would go as far as saying he wasn’t an employee at all. “The complexity of his various contracts is sharply at odds with the image of a poor, defenceless employee which the opposing party is trying to project.” But the prud’hommes (wise men) ruled they were perfectly entitled to hear the case. Dior now has 15 days to contest the decision. Galliano was contracted to Dior with an annual salary of a million euros plus bonuses.

An FBI bomb technician prepares to walk to the bunker to process the crime scene in Alabama yesterday (AFP)

AUTHORITIES used a hidden camera to watch a man holding a boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural Alabama and moved in to rescue the child after the suspect was seen holding a gun and looking agitated, according to news reports yesterday. The nearly week-long standoff with Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, began after he gunned down a school bus driver and snatched the boy. It ended on Monday with Dykes’ death and the safe recovery of the kindergarten student, identiﬁed only as Ethan. The boy, who turns six today, was taken to a hospital for treatment, but appeared physically unharmed, law enforcement ofﬁcials said. “He’s laughing, joking, playing, eating,” said FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson, who had visited the child. Authorities released few details about their extended negotiations with Dykes or their decision to storm the

homemade bunker on his property near Midland City, in southeastern Alabama. They also declined to say how Dykes died. At a news conference on Monday, Richardson said talks had deteriorated in the 24 hours ahead of the rescue, and Dykes was seen holding a gun. NPR reported that officials monitored Dykes with a camera they had managed to get into the underground shelter. Dykes initially attended to the boy’s needs and seemed to sleep peacefully, but later appeared agitated and ignored the child, sources told NPR, which cited unnamed law enforcement officials. To prepare for the rescue, FBI agents trained using a mock bunker officials had created near the site, according to ABC News, citing unnamed sources. The end of the hostage situation brought a collective sigh of relief in the southeast corner of Alabama where it played out. Several local schools reopened yesterday for the first time since the

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Bus probe THE Obama administration yesterday said the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah must be held to account for a bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria last July, and urged Europe and others to pursue an investigation into the incident. “We call on our European partners as well as other members of the international community to take proactive action to uncover Hezbollah’s infrastructure and disrupt the group’s ﬁnancing schemes and operational networks to prevent future attacks,” said John Brennan, a top national security adviser to President Barack Obama. Bulgaria yesterday accused Hezbollah of carrying out the attack, which killed ﬁve Israeli tourists, their Bulgarian driver and a bomber.

Ship attack GUNMEN ambushed an Indian-owned oil barge yesterday as it was being escorted by the military through Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, killing two soldiers and one crew member on the ship, a security forces spokesman said. The ship belonging to Sterling Global Oil Resources, part of the Sandesara Group conglomerate, was ﬁred on in the Angiama area of the delta, according to Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesman for mixed military and police brigades in the Niger Delta region. He added the gunmen were repelled by return ﬁre.

FBI used camera to monitor Alabama kidnapper, child By Verna Gates

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Cannibal menu shooting a week ago. “If I could, I would do cartwheels all the way down the road,” Debra Cook, identiﬁed as the boy’s great aunt, said on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’. “I was just ecstatic. Everything just seemed like it was so much clearer. You know, we had all been walking around in a fog, and everybody was excited. There’s no words to put how we felt and how relieved we were.”

The drama captured national attention amid heightened US concerns about gun violence and school safety after the December shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school. Dykes, a retired trucker who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, had been due to appear in court last Wednesday to face a menacing charge involving

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one of his neighbours. On the eve of his trial before a judge, Dykes boarded a school bus carrying more than 20 children home and demanded that the driver let a student off the bus, according to authorities. When the driver, Charles Albert Poland, 66, refused, Dykes shot him four times with a 9mm handgun, killing Poland, and ﬂed with the boy, ofﬁcials said.

A NEW York policeman charged with plotting to kill and eat women hinted in an online chat that his wife might have been on the menu. Federal prosecutors said that Gilberto Valle engaged in a grisly internet chat with a man who said he was in India. They said the other man asked if the wife was vegetarian and Valle said yes. Prosecutors said the man told Valle her meat would be lower quality.

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Business Barclays ducks Qatar questions, takes $1.6b mis-selling hit BARCLAYS bosses ducked questions yesterday over funding for its rescue by Qatar four years ago, as a big charge for mis-selling showed how past problems continue to dog the British bank. UK authorities have been investigating the bank’s fundraising from Qatar at the height of the 2008 ﬁnancial crisis since July. The Financial Times reported last week that they were looking into whether Barclays had lent Qatar money to buy shares in the bank itself. Asked if there was anything linked to the Qatar fundraising that could cause embarrassment in the future, Barclays Chairman David Walker told lawmakers that he could not comment due to the continuing investigation. Walker and his chief executive Antony Jenkins faced a grilling during a sometimes tetchy 2-1/2 hour session before a parliamentary inquiry into banking standards. Lawmakers accused the bank of aiding “industrial scale tax avoidance” and said it needed to shake up its board, including getting a new head of its remuneration committee. “It doesn’t seem to matter what the scandal is, Barclays seems to have a ﬁnger in each pie, quite a big one,” said Andrew Tyrie, the inquiry’s chairman. Barclays earlier set aside a further £1 billion, including an extra 600 million to compensate customers for payment protection insurance. PPI mis-selling alone has now cost UK banks over 12 billion and could end up more than double that, industry sources estimate. Unlike Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, which had to take government bailouts during the crisis, Barclays avoided a rescue funded by British taxpayers after Qatar bought its stake.

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France’s Hollande calls for stable euro policy By Mark John FRENCH President Francois Hollande urged the euro zone yesterday to set a mid-term target for its currency’s exchange rate and to forge a jobs policy to ﬁght voter disillusionment. But Hollande’s call, in a keynote speech to the European Parliament, ran into immediate opposition from Berlin which opposes intervening on currency markets and says the bloc should instead focus on making its economies more competitive.

Speaking two days before an EU summit where the bloc will seek to overcome a stalemate on its budget, Hollande said that European countries should agree on a “realistic” medium-term exchange rate for the euro. “The euro zone must, through its heads of state and government, decide on a medium-term exchange rate,” he said. Hollande’s call echoes growing fears in some European states and within his Socialist government that fresh gains in the euro could hurt exporters and snuff out the recovery France

needs to restore its public ﬁnances. “If there are trends like this (Hollande’s call today), the Slovak government is ready to support any proposals which will help economic growth and Europe itself,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in Bratislava. However, concerns about euro strength were unlikely to win over countries such as Germany, which is strongly opposed to any form of currency intervention and keen to limit its ﬁnancial contributions to Europe in an election year. German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, questioned about the euro in

Paris shortly before Hollande’s comments, told journalists: “The objective must be to improve competitiveness and not to weaken the currency.” Growing conﬁdence that the 17-nation euro zone is past the worst of its debt crisis has helped strengthen the euro to around $1.35 in recent weeks, although some analysts see those gains as easily reversed. “This is not about externally setting a target for the European Central Bank, which is independent, but about engaging the essential reform of the international monetary system,” Hollande said.

US service sector grows, Europe more optimistic Euro zone economy starting to recover, Germany leads way By Steven C. Johnson THE vast US services sector expanded again last month, extending a three-year run of growth, while European business optimism hit an eight-month high, suggesting the euro zone economy was starting to recover. Rising corporate conﬁdence also helped China’s services sector grow at its quickest pace in four months, providing more evidence of a gradual rebound in the world’s second largest economy. The data yesterday bolstered the view that things were looking up for the world economy, a sentiment that has lifted stock markets around the globe and pushed the US benchmark S&P 500 to ﬁve-year highs. “I think people are optimistic right now,” said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at BNY Mellon in New York. “The view is you want to buy risky assets on good data and ignore the bad data.” While the Institute for Supply Management’s service sector index eased slightly in January, it still showed the sector continued to grow for a third straight year.

Business optimism in Europe hit a high: new Renault Capturs during the inauguration of a production line in Spain (AFP) A report from data analysis ﬁrm CoreLogic said US home prices rose for a 10th straight month in December, with the year-on-year jump the biggest since May 2006. The outlook in Europe was more subdued, though surveys yesterday offered evidence that the worst of the downturn in the 17-country euro zone may have passed. Markit’s Eurozone Composite PMI, based on business activity across thousands of companies, and a good gauge of economic growth, rose in

January to a 10-month high of 48.6 from 47.2 in December. While still below the 50 mark that divides growth and contraction, its rise in January was its third straight. Private industry makes up nearly two-thirds of the euro zone’s economy. Germany, the euro zone’s biggest economy, took the lead, with the PMI chalking up its biggest one-month rise since August 2009 to soar to its highest level since June of 2011.

The reading for the bloc’s second-biggest economy France, however, plummeted to its lowest in nearly four years, below readings from perennial laggards Spain and Italy. “That’s a really worrying sign. It’s going to cause more tensions between Germany and France... on various aspects of euro zone management,” said Jennifer McKeown, economist at consultancy Capital Economics. “France will continue to call for more supportive policy,

not just for the periphery but the euro zone as a whole. Germany is taking a much more hard-line stance.” The euro zone economy probably contracted 0.4 per cent at the end of last year, notching up its third negative quarter, and is likely to stagnate in the current period, according to a Reuters poll published last month. Activity rose among Britain’s services ﬁrms, which account for more than threequarters of gross domestic product.

Dell to go private in landmark $24.4 billion deal US slams S&P with $5 billion fraud lawsuit MICHAEL Dell will take Dell Inc private for $24.4 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis, a deal that allows the billionaire chief executive officer to revive the fortunes of his computer company without Wall Street scrutiny. The deal - announced yesterday and financed with cash and equity from Michael Dell, cash from private equity firm Silver Lake, and a $2 billion loan from Microsoft Corp - will end a rocky 24-year run on public markets for a company conceived in a college dorm room.

To many investors, Dell’s decline in market share since its peak in the early 2000s symbolises the rapidly dwindling prospects of the personal computer industry. The world’s No. 3 PC maker, which Michael Dell began in 1984 as a computer-sales outﬁt while he was still a 19-year-old pre-med student at the University of Texas, is now going through a painful transition from a pure PC maker to a one-stop provider of enterprise computing services. Sales of PCs still make up the majority of its revenue.

THE US government is seeking $5 billion in its civil lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s, accusing the ratings service of defrauding investors, in one of the most ambitious cases yet from the Justice Department over conduct tied to the ﬁnancial crisis. The US said S&P inﬂated ratings and understated risks associated with mortgage securities, driven by a desire to gain more business from investment banks that issued those securities. S&P also falsely claimed its ratings were objective, the lawsuit said. “Put simply, this alleged conduct is

egregious - and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. The 119-page suit, filed late Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, is the first from the government against a ratings agency, a sector that has generally shielded itself from liability by citing First Amendment protection. No individuals were charged in the suit, and it was not immediately clear why the government focused on S&P instead of rivals Moody’s Corp or Fimalac SA’s Fitch Ratings, which were also major raters of such securities.

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Opinion

Bondholders unlikely to get anywhere collectively IN CYPRUS, the rule seems to be that those who make a lot of noise, usually, get what they demand. The holders of Contingent Convertible bonds of Laiki and Bank of Cyprus are hoping the rule applies to them as well, which is why they have held protest gatherings, put pressure on politicians and held meetings with bankers and ministry officials. Last Thursday they demonstrated outside the banks, eventually storming the Bank of Cyprus headquarters in Nicosia, loudly demanding to see the chairman. The investors bought the high-yield Coco bonds (earning higher interest rate than was paid on bank deposits) in 2010 and 2011, but were outraged when interest payments were suspended, after the Greek haircut inflicted big losses on both banks, and value of the bonds fell. Ever since, they have been claiming that they had been duped by the banks, asking for their money back and threatening legal action; they rejected a Bank of Cyprus offer to pay 4 per cent interest on the Cocos, but the bank now plans to pay bond-holders a premium to mitigate the loss. After a meeting on Monday between representatives of the bondholders and of the two banks, all sides, reportedly, agreed to the setting up of a mediation committee that would examine complaints of people who felt they had been misled by the banks. All bondholders would be entitled to take their complaints to the committee which the Bank of Cyprus, supposedly, prepared to pay compensation if the committee found it had misled a buyer. How the mediating committee would establish whether an investor had been misled is another matter. While there may have been some people who were encouraged to invest in Cocos without being informed of the risks, it is very difficult to believe that people who bought several hundreds of thousands euro worth of these bonds did not read the prospectus. The prospectus on the 2011 Bank of Cyprus issue contained more than 10 pages listing all the potential risks of investing in Cocos. It even mentioned that if core tier one capital fell below the trigger point of 5 per cent, the bonds would automatically be converted to shares. Perhaps if the Central Bank was not so keen on maximising the provisions for bad debts of Laiki and the Bank of Cyprus for 2012, the core tier one capital would not have fallen below the trigger point and the conversion into shares would not have been necessary. But that is another matter. For now, no matter how much noise they make, the bondholders are unlikely to get anywhere collectively, because hundreds of millions are at stake. Their only hope, if they could prove they had been misled by a bank employee, is to take legal action, individually, against the bank.

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Austerity in small places: one size does not fit all Comment Daniel Gros

NTEREST in small countries’ economic policies is usually confined to a small number of specialists. But there are times when small countries’ experiences are interpreted around the world as proof that a certain policy approach works best. Nowadays, Greece, the Baltic states and Iceland are often invoked to argue for or against austerity. For example, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman argues that the fact that Latvian GDP is still more than 10 per cent below its pre-crisis peak shows that the “austeritycum-wage depression” approach does not work, and that Iceland, which was not subject to externally imposed austerity and devalued its currency, seems to be much better off. Others, however, have noted that Estonia pursued strict austerity in the wake of the crisis, avoided a financial crisis, and is now growing again vigorously, whereas Greece, which delayed its fiscal adjustment for too long, experienced a deep crisis and remains mired in recession. Both sides in these disputes usually omit to mention the key idiosyncratic characteristics and specific starting conditions that can make direct comparisons meaningless. For starters, Latvia, like the other Baltic states, was running an enormous currentaccount deficit when the crisis started. This implies that the precrisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in excess of 20 per cent of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms. Thus, when the inflows stopped at the onset of the financial crisis, it became inevitable that GDP would contract by double-digit percentages. Seen in this light, it is not at all surprising that Latvia’s GDP is now still more than 10 per cent below its pre-crisis peak; after all, no country can run a current-account deficit of 25 per cent of GDP forever. Any comparison of the Baltics with the Great Depression (or the United States today) is thus meaningless. The Baltics simply had to adjust to a sudden stop in external financing. That was not the problem of the US during the 1930’s; nor is it America’s problem today. A better way to judge postcrisis performance is to look at the output gap – that is, actual GDP relative to potential GDP. According to a European Commission estimate, Latvian GDP was almost 14 per cent above potential at the peak of the boom, then fell to 10 per cent below potential when the boom went bust. The recovery, however, was equally rapid, with GDP now back to potential (albeit be-

Differing experiences in small countries show that austerity can work, or not work low the unsustainable peak of the boom). Latvia’s government increased taxes during the bust to keep revenues roughly constant as a share of GDP, but a sizeable fiscal deficit emerged nonetheless as social-security expenditure, such as unemployment benefits, soared while demand and output collapsed. With a V-shaped recovery, however, this expenditure fell again, reducing the deficit rapidly. The recovery could only be partial, because the previous level of output was unsustainable, but it was enough to allow the government to balance its books again. Thus, Latvia today enjoys

ed potential and continues to fall. Does Iceland constitute a counter-example to Latvia? After all, its GDP fell much less, although it ran similarly large current-account deficits before the crisis – and ran much larger fiscal deficits for longer. In contrast to Latvia, Iceland let its currency, the krona, devalue massively. But, the devaluation was much less important than is widely assumed. While exports did indeed perform very well, Iceland’s main exports are natural resources (fish and aluminium), demand for which held up well during the post-2008 global crisis.

‘One must be careful when attempting to draw lessons from the experience of small countries that sometimes have very particular characteristics. Shunning austerity does not allow one to avoid the problem of achieving both fiscal and external sustainability’ a sustainable ﬁscal position, with output close to its potential and growing. Austerity might have worsened the slump temporarily, but it did deliver ﬁscal sustainability without permanent damage to the economy. By contrast, output in Greece, which was slow to adopt austerity, is still 12 per cent below its estimat-

That sustained demand provided an important stabilizer for the domestic economy, which the Baltic states did not have. Indeed, Latvia was particularly hard hit by the slump in global trade in 2008-2009, given its dependence on exports. Iceland’s superior economic performance should thus not be attribut-

ed to the devaluation of the krona, but rather to global warming, which pushed the herring farther North, into Icelandic waters. Nor is Iceland a poster child for the claim that avoiding austerity works. In small, open economies, higher deficits are unlikely to sustain domestic output, because most additional expenditure goes toward imports. So it is not surprising that, despite its large devaluation, Iceland continues to run a high current-account deficit, adding to its already-large foreign debt. Moreover, Iceland’s public debt/GDP ratio now stands at 100 per cent, compared to only 42 per cent in Latvia. Part of the difference, of course, reflects different starting conditions and the cost of bank rescues. But there can be no doubt that, by keeping deficits under control, Latvia’s public finances are in much better shape today, with debt sustainability no longer a problem. By contrast, Iceland’s debt has become so large that it is likely to constrain future growth. One must be careful when attempting to draw lessons from the experience of small countries that sometimes have very particular characteristics. The one conclusion that appears to hold generally is that shunning austerity does not allow one to avoid the problem of achieving both fiscal and external sustainability. Daniel Gros is Director of the Center for European Policy Studies. Project Syndicate, 2013 www.project-syndicate.org

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Showbiz

Robert De Niro cements his place in acting history

Affleck wins another award as Argo hurtles to Oscars

Hands, feet placed in concrete in front of iconic Hollywood venue

By Mary Milliken

By Jill Serjeant DOUBLE Oscar winner Robert De Niro cemented his place in acting history yesterday by placing his hands and feet in concrete in front of Hollywood’s historic Chinese Theatre. De Niro, 69, gave a short thank you speech with a few punchlines of his own. “(Actor) Joe Pesci always said I’d end up with my feet in cement. I don’t think this is what he had in mind,” said De Niro, referring to the many gangster movies he has filmed over his 40-year career. “They say everyone in the film industry has three homes - the home where they live, the home where their first wife lives, and Hollywood. I love New York, and I’m proud to be a citizen of Hollywood. Thank you for this honour and thank you for making me feel at home here,” he said. De Niro, who founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 in a bid to revive lower Manhattan after the September 11, 2001, attacks, is in the running for a third Oscar this month for his supporting role in comedy Silver Linings Playbook. Billy Crystal, who played therapist to De Niro’s insecure mob boss in the 1999 film Analyze This, praised the New York actor for his ability to bridge comedies like Meet the Parents and dramas such as GoodFellas and Taxi Driver. “Even in his darkest performances, even in Raging Bull ... he could make you laugh, and that he did in

Getting dirty: the double Oscar winner took part in the famous ceremony at the historic Chinese Theatre spades in Analyze This. ... I’m not used to playing straight for anybody, but it was a thrill of a lifetime to be on the opposite side of that genius,” Crystal said. Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell praised De Niro’s sensitivity in taking on the role of the father of a bipolar son in the

movie. “When we ﬁrst read the script together he cried because he has known people who struggled with PTSD or bipolar disorder. ... Many families are no stranger to these challenges and they have to ﬁnd the magic and the love that Bob brought in his soul, and he did bring his soul to

this movie,” Russell said. De Niro won Oscars for his lead role in Raging Bull and his supporting turn in The Godfather: Part II. His handprints and footprints in the courtyard of the Chinese Theatre are near those of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

‘Thank you for this honour and making me feel at home’

Action hero Stallone backs Hoffman: men the weaker sex ban on assault weapons SYLVESTER Stallone has said that despite his Rambo image and new shoot-’em-up film Bullet To The Head, he is in favour of new US gun curbs. The actor, who supported the 1994 ‘Brady bill’ that included a now-expired ban on assault weapons, said he now hoped it could be reinstated. “I know people get upset and go, ‘They’re going to take away the assault weapon’. Who...needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you’re carrying out an assault...You can’t hunt with it...Who’s going to attack your house, a (expletive) army?” The 66-year-old actor, writer and director said he also hoped for an additional focus on mental health to prevent future mass shootings. “It’s unbelievably horrible, what’s happened. I think the biggest problem, seriously, is not so much guns. It’s that every one of these people that have done these things in the past 30 years are friggin’ crazy. Really crazy! And that’s where we’ve dropped the ball: mental health,” he said. “That to me is our biggest problem in the future, is insanity coupled with isolation.” Stallone, meanwhile, is now in production on his next project, pairing up with former Raging Bull star Robert De Niro for Grudge Match, about two ageing boxers. “People think it’s going to be some geezer brawl. Really? OK, they’re in for a surprise. I’m telling you. I’ve been working on the fight, the choreography. He’s taking it deadly serious. Because no-one wants to be shown up,” Stallone said of De Niro. “It’s going to be like a Rocky fight. This will be Rocky 7, with me fighting - with Rocky fighting the Raging Bull.”

Dustin Hoffman claims men live a more limited life

DUSTIN Hoffman thinks men are the weaker sex. The Quartet director claims men live a more limited life than women and thinks they suffer for it. He explained to the February/March issue of AARP The Magazine: “I think men are the weaker of the genders and live a more limited life than women. For whatever reasons, men run from intimacy. If you run from intimacy, you’re running from what life can give you.” However, the 75-year-old actor is embracing getting older and says he has never been happier. He said: “I wouldn’t trade now for anything. “What we all want is to continually grow and expand. I’ve discovered that as the body becomes more limited, the soul expands.” Dustin also revealed working on Quartet made him more aware of his mortality but also gave him hope for the future.

Actor-turned-filmmaker Ben Affleck won the top honour from his peers at the Directors Guild of America for the movie Argo, cementing the Iran hostage drama’s frontrunner status for the Oscars. The Hollywood directors’ recognition for Affleck, however, is an awkward result for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which failed to nominate him for Best Director in what is considered one of the biggest snubs of this year’s Oscars. Since 1948, there have been only six occasions when the Directors Guild of America (DGA) winner has not gone on to win the Oscar for Best Director. “I have nothing but respect for the Academy,” Affleck said after collecting his first DGA award. The Hollywood star, a producer of Argo, said he was thrilled the film was nominated for the Oscars’ Best Picture award. “You are not entitled to win anything,” he said. Argo has picked up the three top awards from the industry’s guilds, whose members are also often members of the Academy. The film was the victor at both the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild awards, leaving Steven Spielberg’s Civil Warera epic Lincoln in its wake. The Oscars will be held on February 24. It has been a particularly tough awards season for Spielberg, nominated by the DGA for the 11th time with Lincoln and a twotime winner for Schindler’s List in 1994 and Saving Private Ryan in 1999. “What an incredible year for movies,” said Spielberg. “Maybe I’ve had moments when I wished it wasn’t such an incredible year.” Affleck also beat out Kathryn Bigelow, nominated for Osama bin Laden-manhunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Ang Lee for his 3D adaptation of the bestselling novel Life of Pi, and Tom Hooper, for his screen adaptation of the hit musical Les Miserables. In Argo, which is based on a real account, Affleck also plays the lead role of a CIA agent entrusted with extracting six Americans from revolutionary Iran after the US embassy is stormed. The agent, with help from Hollywood, creates a fake film and makes the Americans part of the crew. “There was a point in my life where I was really down and really confused ... didn’t know what was going to happen and I thought ‘I could be a director’,” Affleck told a high-powered Hollywood crowd over the weekend. “I don’t believe this makes me a real director, but I think I am on my way,” he said.

CYPRUS MAIL Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Education

A drama trip to remember

Victoria wouldn’t be amused

By Anastasia McCammon THE AS/A2 drama trip to London was my second year travelling as a drama student. I was ecstatic to revisit the amazing monuments we had explored last year, as well as opening my eyes to all the new plays, exhibitions and learning experiences. Our first play was The Woman In Black. Walking into the intimate Fortune Theatre we were surrounded by stands selling T-shirts saying ‘I dared to watch the Woman In Black’. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and the spooky atmosphere and haunting music definitely added to my unease. Even though I had nightmares for days afterwards, it was an absolute treat to watch and I was completely immersed in the story. The next day we visited the informative Shakespeare exhibition ‘Staging The World’ at the British Museum, where we were transported to another time, and made ready for the play we were to watch later on that day. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Indian version of Much Ado About Nothing was definitely one of the most amazing plays I’ve ever seen in my life, from the extravagant, multicoloured sets and dazzling costumes - making

Britain’s longest reigning monarch among figures wiped from history under new plans for schools By Anna Davis BRITAIN’S education minister Michael Gove was yesterday accused of planning to “airbrush” Queen Victoria from history lessons after a leaked draft omitted her from the country’s new primary school curriculum. The draft of the new programme of study makes no reference to Britain’s longest reigning monarch. Other key figures including Florence Nightingale, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Alexander Graham Bell were also not mentioned. Stephen Twigg, shadow education secretary, said parents would be “flabbergasted” at the omissions. The leak caused a flurry of activity at the Department for Education and a spokesman insisted that Queen Victoria would be included in the final history curriculum, which is due to be published shortly. He said that the leaked copy of the curriculum was one of a number of drafts and added it would be “ludicrous” to suggest such notable figures would be left out. But Twigg said: “Parents will be flabbergasted that Michael Gove was planning to airbrush Queen Victoria from the history curriculum. The Tories used to claim to be the party of Victorian values, but now it seems they wanted to ignore this key part of our country’s past.

Health cuts: Florence Nightingale also missing “The Victorian era was a key period in the development of Britain’s industrial and economic power. We need to ensure that children get the full facts about Britain’s past, not some narrow view of our history.” The leaked draft also makes no mention of aviator Amy Johnson, television pioneer John Logie Baird or the Festival of Britain. Fears were raised that the new history curriculum will be skewed towards white men after reports that Jamaican born nurse Mary Seacole was to be dropped. Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said it is important that children learn about the roles of both men and women, as well as different religious and ethnic groups, for a

Cold shoulder: Queen Victoria was omitted from the new school curriculum rounded education. Teachers in maintained state schools must ensure they cover all the areas in the new curriculum but can add any other material they wish. Academies and free schools do not have to follow the curriculum.

A Montessori gem in Nicosia LITTLE Gems Montessori Nursery has gained accreditation under the Montessori Evaluation and Accreditation Board (MEAB) scheme, UK. The scheme offers support and guidance to Montessori schools in order to ensure that Montessori provision is of a high quality. The scheme also seeks to reassure parents that their Montessori school meets all the requirements of the UK’s Early Years Foundation Stage. Building on the success of the MEAB scheme since it began in the summer term of 2008, a total of 145 schools have been accredited. The accreditation lasts for three years and in the autumn of 2012, 18 schools were re-accredited, of which Little Gems Montessori Nursery was one. These schools represented a variety of Montessori settings, and the assessors that visited Little Gems felt that it followed the Montessori ethos and was certainly worthy of accreditation. “It made me very proud reading the

report from MEAB,” said Carola LångHoward, the owner and head of the school. “The main goals I set out with when starting Little Gems in 2007, are today stated as our main strengths in the report, that is, our excellent partnership with parents, close and effective working relationship between all members of staff, and most importantly, our commitment to the Montessori philosophy, which is evident in our little gems’ conﬁdence and joy for learning. My team and I are absolutely delighted”. Little Gems Montessori Nursery is based in the Engomi/Makedonitissa area of Nicosia, and provides for children between the ages of 2 to 6 years old. For more information about Little Gems Montessori Nursery, please contact Carola Lång-Howard at littlegemsmontessori@ gmail.com, or phone 22 351319/99 950070, or visit www.littlegemsmontessori.com.

you feel you were in the middle of Delhi - to the hilarious acting and the heart warming, ethnic music performed by a live band. I also found I could understand a Shakespearean play better with Indian accents than in its original format! On day three we visited the Tate Museum of Modern Art where my A2 class got many ideas for our focus play Lysistrata. That night we watched the play Damned By Despair at the National Theatre where we again got inspiration for staging our end of year play. After so many amazing experiences we still had even more to explore. The tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre gave us a place to picture where these plays were first performed. We then headed to the education centre to start our Shakespeare workshop. Our hilarious tour guide was our teacher for the day, and definitely turned a normal workshop into a whirlwind of laughs and crazy exercises, leaving us in stitches by the end of the day. The drama trip this year was full of exciting and diverse plays, workshops and tours, and was undeniably a highlight of my year. Definitely a trip I will remember for years to come.

London: perfect theatre desitnation

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The politicss of pollutio Haze: cars on a heavily polluted day in Beijing

China’s oil giants take a choke-hold on power as environment ministry has little power to enforce fuel standards report Sui-Lee Wee and Hui Li

HE SEARCH for culprits behind the rancid haze enveloping China’s capital has turned a spotlight on the country’s two largest oil companies and their resistance to tougher fuel standards. Bureaucratic ﬁghting between the environment ministry on the one hand and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Sinopec Group on the other has thwarted stricter emission standards for diesel trucks and buses a main cause of air pollution blanketing dozens of China’s cities. To be sure, many sources contribute to air pollution levels that hit records in January, but analysts say the oil companies’ foot-dragging and disregard of environmental regulations underscore a critical challenge facing a toothless environment ministry in its mission to curb air pollution. With widespread and rising public anger changing the political calculus, it also poses a broader question of whether the incoming administration led by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping will stand up to powerful vested interests in a country where stateowned enterprises have long trumped certain ministries in the quest for economic growth at all costs. “I think the Communist Party’s new government should weaken CNPC and Sinopec,” said Wang Yukai, a professor from the National School of Administration. “These interest groups have too much power.” Delays in implementing

stricter emission standards are rooted in money - chiefly, who should pay for the price of refining cleaner fuels? By some estimates, auto emissions contribute as much as a quarter of the most dangerous particles in Beijing’s air. To supply cleaner diesel, the oil firms must invest tens of billions of yuan (billions of dollars) to remove the sulphur content, said Xiaoyi Mu, a senior lecturer in energy economics at the University of Dundee in Scotland. PetroChina, the listed arm

was not because fuel failed to meet standards but rather because fuel standards were not sufﬁcient. The bureaucratic tug-of-war has been going on for years. Frustrated by the repeated delays in enforcing existing environmental standards, China’s Deputy Environment Minister, Zhang Lijun, called a meeting in late 2011 with ofﬁcials from the country’s two biggest oil companies. In unequivocal statements, he sought to lay down the law: the ministry was not going

With media focusing on a sudden worsening of the air quality in Beijing at the start of 2013 - 21 days in January recorded ‘heavily polluted’ levels or worse - urban residents are increasingly impatient with the political wrangling of CNPC, said in a statement that all automotive diesel produced by PetroChina in 2012 met existing Chinese emissions standards. It added PetroChina would “push forward upgrading of fuel quality, and supply clean, good quality and diversiﬁed products”. Sinopec chairman Fu Chengyu, quoted in state news agency Xinhua last week, acknowledged that China’s reﬁneries are one of the main parties that should bear responsibility for air pollution. Even so, he added that

to further delay the cleaner China IV emission standard for trucks and buses, despite reluctance by CNPC and Sinopec to supply the fuel that would cost more to produce. “If the sulphur content in your oil is too high and does not meet the standards, and if cars break down, it’ll be your responsibility. The environment ministry will have nothing to do with it,” Zhang said, according to Tang Dagang, director of the Vehicle Emission Control Center, who was present at the meeting. The ofﬁcials from the oil

companies responded by promising to supply the cleaner fuel after the Lunar New Year in 2012, a traditional holiday that fell in January that year. But a few months later, a spot check by the environment ministry showed the companies were still supplying ordinary diesel, said Tang, whose policy research group is afﬁliated with the ministry. With media focusing on a sudden worsening of the air quality in Beijing at the start of 2013 - 21 days in January recorded “heavily polluted” levels or worse - urban residents are increasingly impatient with the political wrangling. “The air pollution is terrible,” said Beijing resident Zhang Shuqing on a recent very polluted day. “They need to sort it out, the department responsible needs to sort out the environment.” The environment ministry, however, faces formidable odds in the face of China’s complex bureaucracy and weak enforcement of laws. At least 10 government entities such as the powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) shape policies that affect the environment. Unlike the US Environmental Protection Agency, the environment ministry has no power to set fuel emission standards, and sometimes it is not even consulted on decisions taken by other government departments that would affect the environment.

For example, when the MIIT and the NDRC held a meeting to deliberate on a policy subsidising energy-saving cars, they never contacted the environment ministry, said Ding Yan, Deputy Director of the Vehicle Emissions

Control Center. As it turns out, some of these cars are actually relatively heavy polluters. In 2008, China promoted the State Environmental Protection Administration to a full ministry in a bid to give it

Clearing weather: combination of photos shows Beijing’s s and a downtown street (top left) and during clearer weather

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more weight in the country’s ﬁght against pollution. Yet the ministry still lacks the authority to force big state-owned enterprises and local governments to toe the line. The ministry did not respond to a request for com-

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Beijing residents have taken to wearing face masks to move around during the most polluted days

ment. “Even a powerful environment minister is of no use,” Ding said. “You need the highest leaders like Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang to really value the work of the environment ministry.”

econd ring road during heavily polluted weather (top right) later last week

Excessive pollution levels have already prompted the Beijing government to roll out a series of temporary emergency measures such as shutting down 103 heavily polluting factories and taking 30 per cent of government vehicles off roads, but the capital’s air has remained hazardous. It remains unclear whether Xi will restrain the influence of the oil firms, but with public anger rising, and with a normally compliant media joining in the calls for action, political pressure is growing. The problem for oil firms such as PetroChina, the listed arm of CNPC, and Sinopec is that central planners set prices at the pump, even when global energy costs remain high. Tang said both CNPC and Sinopec have told the environment ministry that they would have supplied the fuels “if they had got a reasonable price”. Jiang Kejun, research professor at the NDRC’s Energy Research Institute, says it is unreasonable to demand that CNPC and Sinopec bear the cost of refining cleaner fuels. “I’m an environmentalist and I also hate the actions of CNPC and Sinopec,” Jiang said. “But we have to tell the public: energy prices will rise significantly. To enjoy both low energy prices and also fresh air, there’s no way you can have both.” With no supply of cleaner diesel fuel, Beijing had to delay the implementation of the China IV emission standard for diesel trucks and buses twice - first in 2011 and then

later in 2012, when it was extended to this July. The new standard aims to cut emissions of particulate matter and nitrogen oxides two key components of urban smog - from trucks and buses by 80 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively, said Vance Wagner, a senior researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation. “Diesel vehicles, especially trucks and buses, are a disproportionately large source of emissions,” Wagner said in emailed comments. He cited environment ministry data that showed large trucks comprise only about five per cent of China’s vehicle fleet, but emit over 60 per cent of particulate matter emissions. In response, China’s finance ministry has stepped in to negotiate preferential tax policies with the oil firms to help offset the higher costs of producing cleaner diesel fuel, say people close to the environment ministry. Chinese media reported last week that new cleaner diesel fuel standards, similar to Euro IV standards that restrict sulphur content, could be issued soon in addition to the existing emissions standards. Even the new requirements, however, could give oil companies a two-year window for full compliance. Without intervention at a higher level, the delays are likely to go on. Yue Xin, head of the vehicle fuels and emissions lab at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, has spent more than three years sparring with CNPC and Sinopec on a committee that sets fuel standards. Yue is one of two members representing the environment ministry on the panel while about 70 per cent of the representatives are from the oil firms. Now, Yue, whose group is affiliated with the environment ministry, is lobbying for the oil firms to put “detergents” in its gasoline, which will burn fuel cleanly. The oil firms oppose it because of the costs, Yue said.

LESS BANG FOR BEIJING NEW YEAR DUE TO SMOG CHINA’S notoriously smog-bound capital Beijing has asked residents to set off fewer fireworks over this month’s Chinese New Year period as it battles a persistent air quality crisis. Air quality in Beijing has mostly stayed above “very unhealthy” and “hazardous” levels for about two weeks, though strong winds cleared the haze away last Friday. Chinese New Year, which begins on February 10, is marked by riotous firework displays traditionally thought to bring good luck for the year ahead, which turn cities into near war zones and blacken the skies with thick smoke for hours on end. “To improve the air quality and create a favourable environment for you and your family members, please set off fewer fireworks or no fireworks, in order to reduce emissions of pollutants,” the official Xinhua news agency cited an unnamed official with the Beijing Office of Fireworks and Firecrackers as saying. The city’s three main fireworks retailers have reduced to 750,000 the number of cartons of fireworks in stock for this year’s festivities, down from 810,000 last year. The number of shops approved to sell fireworks has also been cut to 1,337 from 1,429, Xinhua added. Pollution in Beijing regularly exceeds 500 on an index that measures particulate matter in the air with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers. Above 300 is considered hazardous, while the World Health Organisation recommends a daily level of no more than 20. Last month pollution hit a record, 30-45 times above recommended safety levels, blanketing the city in a thick, noxious cloud that grounded flights and forced people indoors, and prompted emergency measures such as factory closures.

Bright lights: New Year ﬁreworks in Beijing

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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

NICOSIA Flight (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm Gambit (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm

Les Miserables (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7pm Jack Reacher (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.15pm. An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 7.55pm Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25 and 7.45pm, weekends also at 3pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm

Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at Times are subject to 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of change, so check first Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) with cinemas before you at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.15pm and 3.30pm head out

Telephone no: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383

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

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

LIMASSOL Flight (N/A) Rio 1 at 7.40 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm Gambit (N/A) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 3.30 and 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 1 (in Greek) at 5.45pm, weekends also at 2.20 and 4pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm This is 40 (18) Rio 3 at 7.35pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm Django Unchained (15) Rio 2 at 7.30pm; Rio 3 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 7pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 2 at 10.30pm

Django Unchained (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.05pm

Les Miserables (K) Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 10.05pm

Rio Limassol: 25-871410 Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at Rio Paphos: 26-207000 10.05pm

Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 10.05pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm House at the End of the Street (15) Rio 6 at 10.25pm An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 7.55pm Life of Pi (K) Rio 5 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.20pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 5.45pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 3.20pm Beginners Rialto Theatre, tonight only at 8.30pm

LARNACA Flight (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Gambit (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Music The Zilla Project Four-piece band playing blues/rock and electrifying sounds. February 6. Blue Bar, Classic Hotel, 94 Rigenis Str, Nicosia. 9.30pm. Tel: 22-664006

Theatre Antigone THOC presents Sophoclean tragedy. February 6 - 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday to Saturday 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300 The Elephant Man Theatro Ena presents a play by Bernard Pomerance. February 6-8. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena). 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203

Tomorrow Theatre The In-laws from Tirana Comical play by Satiriko Theatro. February 7-8. Markideion Theatre, Paphos. 8.30pm. €15/10. In Greek. Tel: 26-932571/22-312940

Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy. February 7. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959

Dance Wet A solo performance choreographed & performed by Petros Konnaris. February 7-8. Casteliotissa Hall, Agiou Marona, Paphos Gate, old Nicosia. 8.30pm. €5. The performance contains nudity. Entrance is not allowed to people under 17 without adult supervision. Tel: 99-439088

Other Events Fostering Innovation with an Impact: The MIT Experience in Creating Entrepreneurial Success Lawrence B. Evans will discuss the success factors and how others can benefit from the lessons learned. February 7. Lecture Hall B108 in the University House Anastasios G. Leventis at the New University Campus. 7pm. Simultaneous interpretation from English to Greek and vice versa. RSVP: 22-894335/22-894305

Vagina Monologues Eight artists will each perform a monologue through their own art form, based on the renowned, awardwinning play by Eve Ensler. February 7-10. Myloi Cultural Center, 4 Constantinoupoleos Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia. Friday: 7pm. Saturday-Sunday: 11am1pm and 4pm-7pm. Theatre piece in Greek. Admission is free. Any possible income will be donated to charity: the Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA). Tel: 99-743055/99-695669 The Life and Work of Stelios Votsis The Visual Artists Association of Cyprus’ on-going monthly series of lectures, today commemorating the late local artist. February 7. To Phytorio, 2 Nehrou, Nicosia Municipal Gardens. 7pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-681088

Ongoing Other Events Screenings at the Shoe Factory An extraordinary selection of rare eclectic films. Until March 29. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str, Nicosia. 8pm. Free. Films shown in original language with English subtitles where applicable. For more information: www.pharosartsfoundation.org

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This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm

Gambit (N/A) Rio 7 at 7.45 and 9.45pm

Django Unchained (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Les Miserables (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.05pm Jack Reacher (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 7.55 and 10.15pm Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25 and 7.45pm, weekends also at 3pm Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 3.20pm Vincere (in Italian, with Greek subtitles) Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society. Tel: 99-658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org

Flight (N/A) Rio 1 at 7.30 and 10pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 1 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. This is 40 (18) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm Django Unchained (15) Rio 6 at 7.30pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 6 at 10.30pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 7 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4pm Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm An… (12) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 10.30pm Life of Pi (K) Rio 3 at 5, 7.30 and 10pm The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12) Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 6 (in Greek, in 3D), weekdays only at 5.40pm, weekends only at 3pm

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Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Theatre Spring Awakening THOC presents work by Frank Wedekind, about sexual and spiritual awakening of teenagers. Until February 9. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. The performances on February 8 & 9 will be with Greek and English surtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300 The Whore from Ohio Black comedy by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, directed by Panagiotis Larkou. Until February 12. Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue. Tuesday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek Tel: 25-877827 Kali-Kantzar & Co A musical directed by Lea Maleni with music by Dimitris Zavros. Until February 10. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 6pm. In Greek. The performances on February 9 and 10 will be with Greek and English surtitles. Tel: 22-864300 Misery Stephen King’s psychological thriller staged by Satiriko Theatre. Fridays and Saturdays until February 13. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22421609

Nursing Home the Cherubim Comedy by Nearchos Ioannou. Until March 17. Anemona Theater, Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 8pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031 Sheer Madness Popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides with an adaptation of one of the longest-running non-musical plays in the world. Until March 17. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 22-675787 God of Carnage Dionysos Theatre presents multiaward winning comedy by Yasmina Reza. Until March 17. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6.30pm. In Greek. €20/15. Tel: 99-621845 The Switch Theatro Ena presents play by Argiro Toumazou. Until March 28. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203 Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents theatrical comedy directed by popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides. Until March 29. Pantheon Art Cinema, Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910

Exhibitions A Century of Struggle: for Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy Photographic exhibition. Until February 6. Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia. 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-445332 ...For Another Space and Another Time... Solo art exhibition by Athina Antoniadou. Until February 9. During the exhibition there will be a series of lecturers and presentations. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-754009. www.argogallery.org Paraskeva Pappagelli Solo sculpture exhibition. Until February 15. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Mindscapes Solo painting exhibition by Thekla Papadopoulou. Until February 28. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109

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Vagina Monologues with a twist IN 1996, Eve Ensler shocked the world with her play The Vagina Monologues. The mere mention of the word ‘vagina’ has the tendency to evoke strong emotional reactions in just about everyone, whether of disdain or arousal. Creating a whole performance piece based on the stories of women from around the world, well that is taking it to a whole other level. Banned in some circles, The Vagina Monologues has become infamous in both the theatrical and feminist communities, and precipitated the founding of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls around the world. First performed in New York in 1996, some of the stories are funny and outrageous, while others are brave and poignant. The West End and Broadway hit is perhaps best known for the host of well-loved women who have starred in it over the years, including Jane Fonda, Oprah Winfrey, Cyndi Lauper, Whoopie Goldberg and many more. Fourteen years on, it remains one of the world’s biggest theatre phenomenons. This week, it returns to Cyprus over three years after it was ﬁrst staged in Greek by theatre group Contact and followed up by an English production a year later by ACT (Anglo Cy-

priot Theatre). But, rather than have actresses recall facts and information from the interviews and surveys gathered by Ensler, eight artists will each perform a monologue through their own art form ranging from photography to fashion design, based on the awardwinning play. The idea being that a different approach to the monologues will be presented, shifting beyond conventional theatrical performance. The monologues are used as a means of expression for the artists involved, and are turned into exhibits. Monologue topics vary widely. Obviously some address assault and domestic violence, but there are also themes of sexuality, body image and the journey of empowerment. A big part of the piece is different women’s experiences and journeys. Prepare to be moved to tears, to laughter and to action as these women present alternative monologues that will inspire audiences. The participating artists are Anna Apostolou - Fashion Design, Artemis Aifotiti - Musician, Anna Zaphiri artist, Eleonora Antoniadou - architect, Ismini Chacholiadou - photographer, Constantina Andreou - set designer and Maria Gregoriou - graphic designer. The exhibition-performance will be curated by the

director and theatre practitioner Maria Varnakkidou. The opening will take place tomorrow at Nicosia’s Myloi Cultural Center and the perfomances will continue on the following three nights. Don’t forget that after exploring the exhibits by each artist, you can also enjoy a 15-minute theatrical performance by actress Soso Xatzimanoli, which will be in Greek. In addition, it’s important to take note that while admission is free, any possible proceeds raised are welcome, will be and donated to the Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA) a voluntary, non-governmental and non-proﬁt organisation founded in 1971. Vagina Monologues Eight artists will each perform a monologue through their own art form, based on the renowned, award-winning play by Eve Ensler. February 7-10. Myloi Cultural Center, 4 Constantinoupoleos Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia. Friday: 7pm. Saturday-Sunday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Theatre piece in Greek at 6pm except on opening night which is at 8pm. Admission is free. Any possible incomes will be donated to charity: the Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA). Tel: 99-743055/99-695669 By Ledha Socratous

Eight artists, eight different ferent art forms, eight monologues

and work of Votsis. They will portray his role in the arts and the impact of his legacy, not only from a historical standpoint but also from the personal perspective of accounts and anecdotes about the renowned Cypriot artist. After the lecture a discussion will follow. Please note that due to limited seating all those interested in going to the lecture must conﬁrm their attendance prior to arrival.

Tomorrow Other Events Legacy of local artist THE VISUAL Artists Association of Cyprus’ on-going monthly series of lectures at the Phytorio continues tomorrow evening with a tribute to the late Cypriot artist Stelios Votsis. The lecture series entitled ‘In the Footsteps’ of the Artist’ not only aims to give artists the opportunity to speak about any ﬁeld of study in the visual arts, art history and art theory, but also to provide them with a forum in which to share and discuss their own body of work. The lecture series also endeavours to build a dialogue between artists and audience, so that the existing verbal and visual discourse in Cyprus pertaining to the arts may be enriched by a continuous exchange of ideas and thoughts. The second cycle of this lecture series, which will take place tomorrow, is a presentation of particular signiﬁcance as it is a commemoration of an important artist who died just three months ago. Votsis was one of the founders of the Cyprus Chamber of

Fine Arts, and played an important role in the direction and development of Cypriot art. Born in Larnaca in 1929, he studied ﬁne arts at Central Saint Martin’s School of Arts, the Sir John Cass College and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He graduated from the Slade School of Art of the University of London in 1955. His work has been exhibited in numerous art galleries in Cyprus and abroad, in countries such as England, Italy, Greece, Germany and the US. The two speakers of the evening, researcher and art historian Dr Eleni Nikita and artist Andreas Chrysochos, will discuss the life

The Life and Work of Stelios Votsis The Visual Artists Association of Cyprus’ ongoing monthly series of lectures. today commemorating the late local artist. February 7. To Phytorio, 2 Nehrou, Nicosia Municipal Gardens. 7pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-681088

Coming Up Dance An exploration of the voice TRADITIONAL songs and fairytales come alive on the Rialto stage this Friday, in the theatrical performance ‘Fevgousa Kori’. The production is based on the novel by Alexandros Papadiamantis and contains two traditional fairytales, lullabies

and stories of lamentation. The director, Mirka Yemendzakis, was responsible for the vocal training and formation of the Chorus in Peter Stein’s famous Oresteia, she is a long time collaborator of the German theatre of Schaubuhne, and has cooperated with directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Oskarson and Bob Wilson. The performance of ‘Fevgousa Kori’ is the result of Yemendzakis’ collaboration with actress Rinio Kyriazi, who was also her student. The exploration of voice and body is a key element in the performance. The peculiar prose of Papadiamantis and the

dialect in which the tales are spoken suggests their expression in a melodic way and leads the actress in the art of narration. The poetry and the melody are common foundations that both Greek tradition and the fabulous writing of Papadiamantis share. A rare performance, drawn from the tradition, honoured in Greek and foreign festivals, be prepared to be moved by these forgotten sounds and ways of narration. Fevgousa Kori A rare performance, drawn from the tradition, honoured in Greek and foreign festivals. February 8. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 77-777745

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Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka

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Desperate Housewives Seventh season. ‘Where Do I Belong’. Preston and Porter reluctantly move out of the Scavo family home, and Susan is given cause to regret abusing her status as a dialysis patient. Meanwhile, Keith plans to relocate to Florida to be closer to his son, Paul confronts Beth about her mother, and Gabrielle tries to come to terms with her past.

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Comedy, with Eddie Murphy in multiple roles. Also starring Thandie Newton. 2007. See Pick Of The Day.

Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

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NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx Kati Psinetai (rpt) Kato Apo Ton Idio Ourano News In English News In Turkish Doctor Who (rpt) Fifth season. ‘Vincent and the Doctor’. The Time Lord and Amy travel to 19th-century Provence, where they join forces with Vincent Van Gogh to battle an alien only he can see. As well as combating the terrors that lurk in the cornﬁelds, they try to restore the sad and lonely painter’s happiness.

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Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

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Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Classic Cartoons To Kleidi Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz The Closer (rpt) Fifth season. ‘Make Over’. Provenza’s retired partner George Andrews returns to help the team when a case from seven years ago is reopened, but threatens to disrupt the investigation when he refuses to testify in the new trial.

Las Vegas First season. ‘Nevada State’. An escaped murderer comes to the Montecito looking for revenge against Sam, who testiﬁed against him in court - but Ed and Danny suspect an ulterior motive for his arrival. Meanwhile, Nessa has a trio of rowdy soccer fans to contend with.

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Forty years after World War II, an ex-German soldier returns as an American to a French village in which atrocities were committed, during which his then French lover was murdered. War drama, starring Christopher Plummer. 1989.

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FILM: Premonition A widow ﬁnds herself shifted back and forth in time and tries to prevent the tragedy of her husband’s death. Supernatural thriller, starring Sandra Bullock. 2007.

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By Preston Wilder

Norbit (CyBC2, 21.00) Not a good film, but I’m intrigued by CyBC’s description of it as a “black comedy”. Admittedly it blackened Eddie Murphy’s career, and may have cost him an Oscar - he was allegedly a front-runner for Dreamgirls, then this film came out and allegedly put the voters off him - plus of course Mr. Murphy is, ahem, black, but that doesn’t seem enough to justify the tag. He prosthetically plays Mr. Wong, a Chinese gentleman who adopts a little black baby - and the baby grows up to be Norbit (also Murphy), a meek little man married to the monstrously obese Rasputia (also Murphy) who forced herself on him in childhood and never let go. Most of the ‘jokes’ come from how fat and gross

Rasputia is, the plot having to do with Norbit’s attempts to escape this hag and hook up with sweet Thandie Newton - and even a viewer calling himself ‘BlackFilm’ at the Internet Movie Database is unimpressed: “I cringed from early in until the movie was over,” he reports. “And even though I watched to nearly the end, I demanded my money back.” Black comedy? No, just stupid comedy. Made in 2007.

Meskada (Novacinema1, 22.00) “He’s about to discover that towns have secrets, that families have demons ... and that some people will do anything to survive!” proclaims Mr. Trailer Man. It all happens in Meskada County, where a burglary gone

wrong in a rich town has resulted in the death of a young boy - a tragic event but a straightforward case, at least till detective Nick Stahl decides to look closer, extends his investigation to a poorer neighbouring town, and uncovers things he wasn’t supposed to uncover. Don’t know much about this obscure thriller, but critics were generally kind: “Small in scope, but smart in the way it shows how cosy communities react when something rotten surfaces in their world,” wrote Time Out. Sounds like a solid little number - unlike Stahl himself who’s gone off the rails in the past year, going missing for days on end then arrested last month in LA for “committing a lewd act”. Sounds like actors too have secrets and demons. Made in 2010.

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Came to Dinner17:25 Ice Station Zebra 19:50 The Prize22:00 The Formula23:55 Bhowani Junction 01:45 Pink Floyd - The Wall 03:20 The Barretts Of Wimpole Street 05:05 Robin And The Seven Hoods

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2304 1

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

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2 Welcome Henry about lunchtime (4) 3 Let oneself go to this built-up area (4) 4 Promise that one emphatically will make a definite decision (6,7) 5 Obvious material for making shoes (6,7) 6 Throw out eggs or I’d get upset (8) 7 Salad food absorbs it with speed (8) 11 Silver in mad desire will dispute the matter (8) 12 Nudge girl I included who was wasteful (8) 17 Rum, bothersome part for boss (4) 18 Eager to behead a giant (4)

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Answers to crossword 2303

HOROSCOPE

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Rarity; 4 Sketch; 9 Man of iron; 10 Lei; 11 Decayed; 13 Dared; 14 Enhancement; 18 Trust; 19 Midterm; 21 Pit; 22 Condenser; 24 Parade; 25 Global. Down – 1 Remedy; 2 Ran; 3 Tufty; 5 Kingdom; 6 Tolerance; 7 Hairdo; 8 Predicament; 12 Conductor; 15 Antacid; 16 Step up; 17 Amoral; 20 Dwell; 23 Sob.

QUICK: Across – 1 Flabby; 4 Lawful; 9 Chrysalis; 10 Rat; 11 Laconic; 13 Newel; 14 Prevaricate; 18 Clear; 19 Cowered; 21 Tut; 22 Overpower; 24 At rest; 25 Brayed. Down – 1 Fickle; 2 Ayr; 3 Bison; 5 Arsenic; 6 Firewater; 7 Lately; 8 Electric eel; 12 Carpenter; 15 Various; 16 Scotia; 17 Adored; 20 Wiper; 23 Way.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

You might have to work hard at not bottling your emotions up over the next ten weeks, as Mercury moves back and forwards through the most secretive, but also sensitive, part of your horoscope. This can provide some opportunities, but also can see you worrying over things you wouldn’t normally be inclined to do. Don’t believe all you hear!

You might ﬁnd yourself coming up with some inspiring ideas around money making and your ﬁnances in general for a couple of days, but if you are looking for formal advice, I’d suggest that you shop around. If someone or something seems too good to be true, then be especially careful. You might encounter a trickster of some kind.

You are someone with quite ﬁrm views, but it may be difﬁcult to be so forthright over the next days. The reason is that Neptune, the planet of illusion, is being passed by Mercury, the planet of talk and thought. The problem is that neither is in a very chatty location. This can see you pondering life more, but also suffering with some self doubt or confusion.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

You can be very inspired today when it comes to ideas for your future. However, inspiration does need to be matched by realism. If you come up with plans that others ﬁnd hard to relate to, or feel are unrealistic, they may accuse you of being wool gathering. However, anything of a spiritual or philosophical nature can stand you in good stead.

If you meet someone for the ﬁrst time, either today or later this week, there may be something particularly mysterious but equally fascinating about this person. They may well turn out to be of great value to you, but just as easily, be someone you never really get to know or understand. First impressions may count for nothing on this occasion.

You can express yourself in quite a lyrical way now. Even if you don’t see yourself as anything other than a regular type of communicator, you can ﬁnesse your message if you want to make a point, and this can help you in any situation where goodwill is key. However, it is also important to be honest in your approach, and say what you mean.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Mercury combines with Neptune for the next few days, and this can make you idealistic about the type of role in life that you would like to have. More challengingly, it can also make you less grounded about what your options are. However, if you are someone who feels you have untapped creative or artistic talent, this is the time to free it up.

If you are someone who enjoys a role which practically helps people, or are a caring friend, you can come up with some ingenious ideas. Yet there is a thin line between this, and getting trapped in a situation where your goodwill is abused or you feel you can’t say no. Then again, you can feel drained by the constant demands of work or heavy situations.

The next few days are a time when anything concerning your values can seem a little hazy. If you are someone who tends to be very ﬁrm in what you will or will not do, this will have less effect. However, it is important you don’t get subtly manipulated by anyone over money or possessions. Keep your boundaries strong, and be cautious.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

This would be a marvellous day to think about holidays, faraway places or people, or to download a wonderful and inspiring piece of music. If you are particularly keen on creative writing or poetry, you can be especially inspired. Your thinking can be agile, ﬂuid and ﬂexible. In fact, over the next few nights you may enjoy some stunning, even epic dreams.

You can be very sensitive now. And if you go on a new date, the mood music and the atmosphere between you can be very romantic. You may even be able to get into this kind of mind set in an existing tie. Yet if you spend time with someone who is earthier, and prefers more prosaic conversation, you may ﬁnd their grittier take on life hard going.

As Mercury enters your sign, as it just has for you, ordinarily plans that have been on the backburner can start to power forwards. Yet because your dreamy ruler Neptune lies in wait, it may be harder than usual to be clear about what you want, or how you feel. It may be best to accept that certain situations, and your responses to them, can be ﬂuid.

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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 €500 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website) 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 €550 (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 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 neibourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE middle of February – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) . 10. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment, 85sq.m, big sitting room,

TO LET NICOSIA big fully equipped kitchen, nicely modern furnished, storage heaters, full a/c, big bedrooms, covered veranda with nice view,covered parking, off Prodromou streeet. – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0017-R)(photos in the website) 11. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment on a small modern building with central heating independent(with petrol), full a/c, solid parquet floor, big bedrooms, big sitting room with open plan kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Makarios Avenue in a quiet area near the centre - Nicosia €800 (A2NIC0030-R) (photos in the website) 12. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating 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 middle of February.– Acropolis €800 (A2ACS0002-R) (photos in the website)

TO LET NICOSIA 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 – Stovolos €800 (A3ST10013-R) (photos in the website) 16. 3 bedr new luxury ground floor apartment, with separate big TV room or guest room, 225sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances and breakfast area, 4 bathrooms, 4 wc, 2 bedrs with en suite bathroom, floor heating independent, full a/c, blinds on all the windows, marble and parquet floor, big veranda with bbq, small garden, closed 2 covered parking with remote control, in a very quiet area very close to

TO LET NICOSIA Junior school and 50 metres from the park. FULLY NICELY FURNISHED – Agioi Omologites €1200 (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 ****************************** FOR RENT new big furnished studio, in Katraki building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia, in Neapoli area. Price €400 (including common expenses). Tel. 99406415 Andreas, Fax: 25-582963. ****************************** FOR RENT big 3 bdrm furnished or unfurnished house, with big balcony, big garden, 3 wc, airconditioning, in Pareklisia area,

1000 metres from the sea and beach hotels. Price €800. Tel. 99406415 Andreas. ****************************** 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/Ctoilet in main bedroom. Semi/ full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800. ****************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 ******************************

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WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE THE ENGAGEMENT OF NEOFYTOS KYRIAKOU ID NO 1026391, TO LIZA IAKOVOU, ID NO 942621, AND THE MARRIAGE WILL BE ON THE 31ST OF AUGUST 2013.

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Whole floor of approx. 400m2 available for rent on corner building in prominent position (Limassol Avenue & Costa Anaxagorou, Nicosia) Rent €3.500 pm/ono depending on size of organization & duration of contract

Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!! PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496. To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details. PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783. PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

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300m2 inside area & outside balcony 200m2 (approx) on 2nd floor available for rent in Galaxias Building, centre of Nicosia Luxurious renovations Suitable for office or café/bar Rent €3.000 pm/ono Centrally located shop, off Makarios Avenue (Aphrodite Street), total area 100 sqm Rent €1.200 pm/ono CLARION BUSINESS CENTRE – off Makarios Avenue (Aphrodite Street, Nicosia) Fully serviced offices with luxurious renovations Suitable for foreign companies which require a Cyprus base Reasonable charges depending on size of offices and services required 3 bedroom fully furnished (140m2) apartment. Hilton area (opposite BOC Head Office) with air condition. Rent €750 pm/ono For further information please contact 22361313/22761660/22479302

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Advertiser TO LET LARNACA tion In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 ****************************** FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom ﬂat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543

PAPHOS UNIVERSAL: 1bed ground ﬂoor apartment fully furnished, airconditioning, fridge, beds common swimming pool , leather sofas, €260 p/m. For more information phone 99400697 €

380 /MONTH UNIVERSAL AREA a 2-bed house, beautiful location, in cul-de-sac, 10 years old, 90 sq. mts, furnished, openplan lounge/kitchen, front carport, garden, 2-ﬂoors, 2 w.cs/bath and part air-conditioned. Call 99632388.’

PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, euro 650 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents FOR LONG TERM RENT: 2 bedroom modern apartment, recently renovated-fully furnished, Chloraka- Melanos, quiet neighbourhood, communal pool, 2 covered parking space, security burglar bars throughout, 2 balcony. Sea view, central to shops. Communal fees included. 380.00eur/month. Call Maria 99 371 874 ****************************** PAPHOS RENTALS SECTION TALA - modern 2 and 3 bedroom apartments U/F, P/F and F/F,

TO LET PAPHOS some with communal pool , A/C, separate storage and own parking €325 TREMITHOUSA - traditional spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, and large mature enclosed garden, open fireplace, beautiful fitted kitchen, a/d, wonderful family home €400 EMPA - immaculate, spacious 2 bedroom, u/f, corner house, large kitchen, patio, quiet location, must be seen €300 TALA - Luxurious 3/4 bedroom villas, f/f to a very high standard, 2 bathrooms, 2 en-suites, own swimming pools, landscaped gardens with spectacular sea views, €700. URGENTLY WANTED – Bungalows 2/3 Bedrooms MORE PROPETIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ****************************** 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. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 2 bedroom townhouse situated in great central location, not on a complex, with enclosed garden & Jacuzzi hot tub. Fully furnished with good furniture. Private drive for off street parking. Also available 1, 2 & 3 bedroom modern apartments please see our website for further information. 2. PEYIA €450 brand new modern 2 bedroom townhouse situated on a quiet complex. Master with ensuite, family bathroom & downstairs guest wc. Fully furnished with modern furniture including fly screens & plasma TV. Enclosed

TO LET PAPHOS rear garden. Private undercover parking & storage space. Pets allowed at owners discretion. website reference number: RTL_658 3. MESOGI €700 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. One bedroom on ground floor. Plus separate office or play room. Available unfurnished with gas central heating. Enclosed garden with private pool. Covered veranda with garden furniture. Pets allowed at owners discretion. website reference number: RTL_618 4. TALA €725 modern 3 bedroom detached villa located in a peaceful residential area between Tala & Kamaras offering sea & mountain views. Separate kitchen with top brand appliances inc dishwasher. Includes central heating, flyscreens & sky satellite. Private pool & enclosed garden with storage. Available unfurnished or furnished. website reference number: RTL_566 5. PEYIA €750 modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on private road. Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout, pressurised water & security alarm system. Modern fitted kitchen & bathrooms. Roof terrace with sea views & private pool. website reference number: RTL_572 6. CHLORAKA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom 3 bathroom villa with ground floor bedroom & bathroom. Beautifully furnished with good quality modern furniture includes sky satellite, fly screens & feature fireplace with modern gas fire. Private pool offering views of the sea. Off street parking. Situated within walking distance of bus routes & shops. website reference number: RTL_611 7. MESOGI €1250 luxury detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom vil-

TO LET PAPHOS las. One bedroom & ensuite on ground floor. Spacious kitchen with separate utility room. Available unfurnished though includes gas central heating plus real fireplace in living area. Enclosed garden & private pool offering stunning views. Gated entrance with undercover parking. Situated on a private road. website reference number: RTL_628 8. CHLORAKA €2,200 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fitted kitchen, living room with working fireplace. Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos. net email: info@mrrent-paphos. net

****************************** LONG TERM RENTALS 1. GEROSKIPOU a large 2 bed apartment with large balcony facing the sea, covered parking, a/c, communal pool. €330 pcm 2. TALA 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Stunning sea views, large balcony, well kept gardens, communal pool, and quiet area. €340 pcm 3. CHLORAKAS ﬁrst ﬂoor 2 bed apartment, new kitchen and bathroom, very well furnished, two parking spaces, a/c, quiet area, easy access to town centre and a communal pool. €370 pcm 4. EMBA un-furnished 3 bed 2 bathroom villa, private gated parking, a/c, large kitchen with white goods, cul-de-sac. NO POOL. €445 pcm THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELCTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON info@unique-consultancy.

TO LET PAPHOS eu LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT. ****************************** KILI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom villa, with swimming pool and garden, unfurnished, gas central heating, large verandas, lovely mountain views, very quiet and tranquil area, €500 per month o.n.o. Call: 99479006 PAPHOS / PEYIA VILLA, villa for rent in Peyia, 4 bedroom, 4 bathrooms, large sitting-dining area, fully airconditioned and heated, unfurnished, panoramic views, large parking, low rent contact: 99490953, 26815534 FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi, Chlorakas & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus

****************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS: Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST. Armou 2 bed Townhouse on a small complex of Townhouses in a lovely quiet and peaceful location, with small back garden, great views, communal pool, 2 bedrooms with en suites + guest WC. Pets welcome. Offered unfurnished Ref: 1204 €370 AYIA MARINOUDA a 3 bedroom villa with an additional loft room conversion with en suite. Property has a downstairs bedroom, sitting/dining area, separate utility area with granite work tops, 2 bedrooms on the top level master en suite. Central heating, AC, ﬂy screens, private pool, enclosed and fenced garden. Ref: 1199 €900 Mesogi 4 bedroom villa with private pool, nice quality ﬁxtures, granite work tops, separate utility room, downstairs bedroom with en suite,

TO LET PAPHOS fireplace, ac, 3 upstairs bedroom master en suite, separate bath, nice views, pets welcome, offered unfurnished Ref 783 €700 CHLORAKA 4 bedroom large villa with quality fittings , furnished to a very high standard, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suites, bathroom, private pool, decking, fantastic sea views, near Tombs of the Kings Ref: 806 €850 SECRET VALLEY 2 bed villas furnished or unfurnished with private pool, downstairs bedroom, kitchen , sitting/dining area, guest wc, upstairs large master bedroom with en suite bath, large veranda. Nice location with sea views and off street parking: Ref: 1198 €450 PEGEIA 4 bed villa unfurnished, 2 downstairs bedrooms, large sitting/dining area, Italian kitchen with white goods, 2 bedrooms upstairs with outside large veranda. Property is of a high standard with central heating, full AC, off street parking, private pool, stunning views, quiet location. Ref: 765 €900 Mesogi Large 3 bedroom apartment with full AC, bathroom, kitchen, separate utility room, clean and tidy building with without communal area, walking distance to all local amenities. Offered unfurnished Ref: 818 €400 Sea Caves 2 bedroom town house, furnished with central heating, fire place, nice sea views, walking distance to Paphos the sea Ref 819 €300 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 modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call: 99389426 ****************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Posei-

British High Commission announces the sale of a duty free diplomatic vehicle FOR SALE AT A RESERVED PRICE OF €5100 Toyota Hilux Double Cabin Pickup Truck. Registered - November 2006. Reg No - KPB 040 Cubic Capacity - 2494cc. Miles/Kms 83470 Manual Gearbox. Colour - Silver This is a tax free vehicle! Unless you are tax exempt, duty will be required to be paid before taking delivery. The vehicle can be viewed by appointment by calling the following Tel No: 99221449 Closed bids (double sealed) including contact details, delivered to the address below, by 1230pm on the 20th February 2013. Bids will be opened and the successful purchaser informed on the 21st February 2013. Transport Manager (PSM), British High Commission, PO Box 21978, Nicosia 1587, Cyprus

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****************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double, bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool. €425.00 or near offer 2 EMBA 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa in handy location close to the shopping areas. Property also has separate 1 bed apartment on the lower level. Large open plan living area and dining area. Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances. Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Separate 1 bed apartment on lower level. Perfect for dual living. Small garden & and parking. €550.00 a month. 3. GIOLOU – 5 bed unfurnished villa consisting of 3 bed, 2 bath main house (bungalow) with self contained 2 bed apartment with own entrance. Main house, open plan living area, beamed ceilings with feature fireplace. Dining space and kitchen. 3 bedrooms, master with en-suite and family bathroom. Covered balcony with sea and rural views, swim-

ming pool and garden areas. Lower level apartment reached via the main house or separate entrance. Large open plan living area, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. €850.00 per month 4. TALA – 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space. Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bed room with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seating area with adjacent balcony. Pool and off street parking. Lnadscaped gardens €750.00 per month or close offers only 5. TRIMITHOUSA – 4 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa set in quiet location. Open plan living area. Fully fitted kitchen. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite shower. Guest WC. Stairs to 3 more bed-

rooms, one with en-suite and family bathroom. Garden areas, large terraces and feature BBQ area and pergola. Private pool, garage. Never been occupied. Available 1 Feb. €725.00 per month OVNO. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA – 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, ﬁtted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area. Comm pool and parking. €375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at €250per month. 7. LOWER PEYIA – 3 bed, 2.5 bath part furnished villa situated in quiet cul du sac. Open plan living and dining area with doors out the to pool and garden.. Very large breakfast ﬁtted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms. Master bedroom very large with en-suite shower. Family bath-

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Sport Murray: Nadal’s aura may take time to return

IN BRIEF LeBron’s hot shooting lifts Heat LEBRON James was at his deadly accurate best and scored 31 points to help the Eastern Conference-leading Miami Heat shoot down an inspired Charlotte Bobcats 99-94. James made 13 of his 14 field goal attempts and added eight assists and eight rebounds as he flirted with a triple double in a red-hot display that allowed the Heat to prevail in a surprisingly competitive test against the struggling Bobcats. “I knew how important this game was, just as important as any game on our road trip,” James told reporters after the Heat had played their 10th game in the last 12 away from home. “For me as a leader, I cannot ever have a night off.” Miami were never able to build a double-digit lead against the visitors and were ahead just 89-87 in the final minute and a half before a 6-0 run by their three All Stars put the game away. Dwyane Wade finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Heat (31-14) while Chris Bosh added 23 points. Ramon Sessions had 18 to lead six double-figure scorers for the Bobcats (11-36), who lost their fourth straight.

Rafa ready for eagerly-awaited comeback By Martyn Herman THE aura Rafa Nadal usually carries on court may take a while to return when the Spaniard finally begins his comeback in Chile this week, according to world number three Andy Murray. Injury-hit Nadal has not played a match since a shock defeat by outsider Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon last June but will test his suspect knee in Vina del Mar today when he takes on Argentine Guido Pella or a qualifier in the claycourt event. World No. 92 Pella is the kind of player usually trampled into the dirt by the 11time grand slam champion but Murray believes Nadal could be vulnerable until he gets up to speed. “He might not have the same aura straight away and you would expect people in the first few months while he is not back to his highest level and think they could possibly upset him,” Murray told reporters at London’s Queen’s Club. “But over time, and if Rafa wins his first three tournaments back that changes everything and people will be worrying about him again.

People fearing you brings winning and conﬁdence.” Despite just returning from a knee injury which still causes him pain, the public will be expecting Spaniard Nadal to get back in the groove quickly. Murray, however, urged caution, although he expects Nadal to be challenging strongly for an eighth French Open title in June. “The expectation will be high and people will expect him to do things straight away but it could take a number of weeks and months before he’s back to his old self again,” Murray said. “But he’s been practising for a month and a half and was pressing for the Australian Open before he got sick. “Providing his knee doesn’t have a setback he will win some matches in south America and if he’s physically okay by the French Open he will be in good shape.” Should Nadal, who has slipped to world number ﬁve, struggle initially for form and match-sharpness, Murray will emerge as a real title contender at Roland Garros. “I believe I have a chance of winning the French Open,” said Murray, whose best re-

sult there was a semi-final in 2011 when he lost to Nadal. “But to do that I need to prepare and use every single day as best as I can. I have an opportunity there and I have a chance. Stranger things have happened in tennis than a player in the top four or five winning the French Open.” Spain meanwhile have found themselves in the unusual position of contemplating a Davis Cup playoff tie to secure their status in the elite world group after the weakened top seeds were dumped out in the first round by Canada on Sunday. Milos Raonic, the world number 13, sealed Canada’s first passage to the quarterfinals with victory against 82nd-ranked Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, drafted into the Spain side in the absence of Nadal, David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro. Spain captain Alex Corretja, in his second campaign in charge after inheriting a team that had won the cup three times in five years and were losing finalists last year, said he respected players’ desire to recuperate rather than add to their packed calendars.

I’m ready: the Spaniard practises in Chile ahead of his tournament comeback today

Lancaster ready for Dublin storm By Duncan Bech

England beat Scotland 38-18 in their Six Nations opener

STUART Lancaster insists last summer’s tour to South Africa has prepared England for the storm that awaits in Dublin on Sunday. Just two weekends into the 2013 RBS 6 Nations and the Aviva Stadium showdown with Ireland is shaping up to be an early title decider following France’s shock opening-round defeat to Italy. Two years ago England arrived at Lansdowne Road hoping to complete the Grand Slam, only to face a performance of controlled ferocity from the Irish that ﬂattened them 24-6. Lancaster is eager to distance his side from that result - there are likely to be only ﬁve survivors in England’s starting XV - but believes they are well equipped to deal with an emotionally charged occasion “This is a completely dif-

ferent team going to Dublin from 2011, with a completely different mentality,” he said. “That said, playing the Irish in Dublin is a unique challenge. We’ve got to be able to deal with the emotion of the occasion and still think clearly, making good, accurate decisions. “That will be the true test of our maturity. It’s a great challenge for us. “Experiences like Johannesburg have definitely made us stronger. In all three of the Tests in South Africa the players learned some lessons about what it takes to get there - we all did. “Mentally, we’ve got to be in the right place but that comes from the confidence we build in training.” England name their team on Thursday, with the centre partnership once again the source of greatest discussion following Manu Tuilagi’s return to fitness after four weeks out with an an-

kle injury. Lancaster hinted that he will restore Tuilagi to the starting XV, forcing him to drop either Billy Twelvetrees or Brad Barritt. Twelvetrees enjoyed a fine Test debut in Saturday’s 38-18 victory over Scotland, adding a new dimension to the midfield, while Barritt offers defensive steel that the management are reluctant to lose. “I watched Manu through the course of last week, I could see he was back to running and changing direction,” Lancaster said. “He has missed a few games, but I’m confident we’ll be able to use him after a full week’s training. “Billy played well against Scotland and Brad’s contribution as always was positive, but Manu brings a unique set of skills and attributes to the game and the team, as we saw in his performance against the All Blacks.”

Broad takes hat-trick ENGLAND’S Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad dispelled all doubts over his ﬁtness with a hattrick in a warm-up match against a New Zealand XI yesterday. The lanky all-rounder, who returned from the tour of India in December with a bruised heel, took three wickets in the last over of his spell to lead the tourists to a comprehensive 46-run win at the Cobham Oval at Whangarei. Put in to bat ﬁrst, England reached 186 for three wickets in their 20 overs. The New Zealand XI were bowled out for 140 in the last over with Broad, Chris Woakes and Jade Dernbach picking up three wickets apiece. Broad removed Andrew Ellis, Ian Buttler and Matt Henry to complete his hat-trick. England will play three Twenty20 internationals and as many one-dayers and tests during their two-month tour of New Zealand.

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Need for speed: Lewis Hamilton (left) and team-mate Nico Rosberg are hoping the 2013 Mercedes has more pace than last year’s predecessor

Hamilton shows off new Merc By Alan Baldwin LEWIS Hamilton was all smiles as he showed off his new Mercedes Formula One car, even if the 2008 world champion was clearly still adjusting to life after McLaren and may have to wait a while to win again. “When I ﬁrst drove in, I stopped by a McLaren and I thought it was just strange to see it and not be going to it this time,” he told reporters after unveiling the F1 W04 car on the Jerez pit straight with team mate Nico Rosberg. Hamilton said he had been so excited that he could not sleep the previous night, although the Briton looked relaxed and refreshed enough as he chatted to reporters in the Jerez sunshine. “I’d already seen the car in

Briton excited about upcoming F1 season the wind tunnel, so I’m not surprised or anything like that, but it’s beautiful. I love the paint job,” he said. “It won’t be until after the next couple of days that we can start to get a feel for it and I can see what direction I want to push the guys in,” added the winner of 21 races. “I’m heading into this with an open book, a blank sheet and I really don’t know what to expect. I just hope it has lots of downforce.” The 28-year-old, whose ties with Mercedes go back to his teenage years in junior series, had no doubt that he was in the right place with the German manufacturer and that the future was looking bright.

“I have worked with Mercedes-Benz for a very long time now, and I learned one thing most of all: MercedesBenz doesn’t know how to lose,” Hamilton said in prepared comments. “We are playing a long game here but I know we will have success together and I’m excited to be a big part of making it happen.” Hamilton, winner of four races with McLaren last season, was team-mates with Rosberg before both entered Formula One and the Briton said their renewed pairing was a dream come true. In a press release, he also gave a nod to his illustrious predecessors at the ‘Silver Arrows’.

“It is an honour for me to tread in the footsteps of legends like Juan Manuel Fangio, Sir Stirling Moss and Michael Schumacher,” said the man who has replaced the seven-time champion. The new car had already completed its ﬁrst laps before the formal unveiling, with Rosberg at the wheel to start a 100km shakedown allowed by the regulations before ofﬁcial testing begins this week. An evolution of last year’s car, the F1 W04 has an aggressively packaged rear end while the front makes use of a ‘vanity panel’ to smooth out the ‘broken nose’ characteristic of the 2012 version. The car also carries promi-

nent new sponsorship from Blackberry. Team principal Ross Brawn said it marked “the start of a second era” for the works team, whose victory in China last year was their ﬁrst since the carmaker bought thenchampions Brawn GP in 2009. “The restructuring we undertook at the team over the past 18 months is now growing in maturity and this is reﬂected in the F1 W04, which is a clear step forward in design and detail sophistication over its predecessor,” he added. “Many thousands of hours of work have been invested by our technical teams in Brackley and Brixworth to ensure that the new car delivers a step change in performance compared to last season.”

McIlroy must avoid Duval-like nosedive, says Lyle By Tony Jimenez

Rory McIlroy missed the cut in Abu Dhabi - his ﬁrst tournament using his new Nike clubs

TWICE major champion Sandy Lyle is hoping world number one Rory McIlroy’s decision to switch golf clubs does not result in the same sort of ‘kamikaze dive’ in form that David Duval suffered when he made a similar move. Duval appeared to have the world at his feet when he was ﬂying high at the top of the rankings in 1999 and won the British Open two years later. The American, like 23-year-old Northern Irishman McIlroy, also agreed a switch to Nike clubs and Lyle said that was the moment which sparked a sudden decline he was never able to reverse. “That move hurt the momentum of David’s career,” the 1985 British Open champion and 1988 US Masters winner told Reuters in an interview. “He wasn’t driving the ball well which put the pressure on his putting and that in turn put pressure on him making cuts. “David then started on a horrible spiral of missing cuts. It could be that all stemmed from his problems with his new driver and it could be the same thing for Rory now. “Rory’s momentum was very good last year but it can be very dangerous to change clubs,” added Lyle, referring to the world number one’s ﬁve worldwide wins in 2012 and his mon-

ey-list victories on both sides of the Atlantic. “David never got out of his spiral. He deﬁnitely took a huge kamikaze dive and never really got it back.” Last month McIlroy put pen to paper on a 10-year contract, that according to media reports is worth around $250 million, to swap from Titleist to Nike clubs and suffered an instant setback by missing the cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship. Co-incidentally, the 54-year-old Lyle has just signed an agreement to use Bridgestone Golf clubs and balls on the senior circuit and his game is also a work in progress as he tries to get used to his new equipment. Lyle was one of Europe’s ‘big-ﬁve’ in the 1980s along with Nick Faldo, Ian Woosnam, Seve Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer. While arch-rival Faldo had to work like a trojan to perfect the swing that won him six majors, Lyle had a sublime natural gift for golf. McIlroy once hit a 40-yard drive at the age of two and, like Lyle, was viewed as a special talent from his earliest years. “Rory plays with a freedom that is nice to see,” the Scot added. “He doesn’t get too tight or too frustrated. “I’m watching his progress with interest. To have already won two majors, and he should have won the Masters in 2011 as well, by his age is great to see.”

THE San Francisco 49ers came close to a record Super Bowl comeback but were left distraught after failing to convert three times from the five-yard line with the Lombardi Trophy within their grasp. “Five yards short, all the work we did in the offseason, the whole entire season, everything came down to five yards and we weren’t able to get it done,” said dejected 49ers tackle Joe Staley. The 49ers, searching for a sixth Super Bowl title, trailed 28-6 before a 35minute power outage but roared back to find themselves down 34-29 on what was likely to be their final possession. Colin Kaepernick drove San Francisco down to the Ravens’ seven but, after a two-yard run by LaMichael James, the second-year quarterback threw three straight incomplete passes to hand the ball back to Baltimore with less than two minutes remaining. After coming back from a 17point deficit against Atlanta to win the NFC Championship game, the 49ers believed they could produce another remarkable turnaround. “We felt we were going to win the football game. We got all the way down to the five-yard line. With the offense that we have and the quarterback we have, I would think that we probably will punch it in,” said safety Donte Whitner. The defeat was the first in a Super Bowl for the franchise that had won all five previous appearances in the NFL’s championship game. The inquest will inevitably fall on how Kaepernick failed in the red-zone at the crucial moment and on the decision of offensive coordinator Greg Roman not to let him or powerful running back Frank Gore run the ball, at least once, from the five. “All I could think of was maybe running a different play but that is a player mentality,” said tight end Vernon Davis. “Greg Roman, he calls the shots, we have to go with it, we have to respect what’s called. He believed in it, we believed in it, but it just didn’t work,” he added. Three times Kaepernick tried to reach receiver Michael Crabtree in the endzone but failed. Davis said he was surprised that on the fourth down, Crabtree, who had 109 yards on five catches and one touchdown, was again the intended target. “A little surprised but it’s coach’s call,” said Davis. “I guess they wanted to get the ball to Crabtree. It’s tough for the coaches in that situation because if it works, you are a genius and if it doesn’t you messed it up. “It is a tough situation for the coaches.”

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Sport UEFA will not let clubs flout financial rules By Keith Weir

Nigeria (left) have only won twice before, the last time in 1994, while Ghana are seeking to end more than three decades without success in the tournament

Spoilers threaten dream Ghana versus Nigeria final showdown Underdogs Mali and Burkina Faso hoping to spring a surprise in semis By Mark Gleeson GHANA and Nigeria hope they are headed for a heavyweight clash in the African Nations Cup final but Mali and Burkina Faso could well emerge as the spoilers in today’s semi-finals. For the first time in Nations Cup history, all four semifinalists are from the west African region and while Ghana and Nigeria have the pedigree, Mali appeared to have the most depth while Burkina Faso proved the surprise package. Mali and Nigeria meet in the first semi-final in Durban on Wednesday, followed by

the match between Burkina Faso and Ghana in Nelspruit later on. Ghana are seeking to end more than three decades without success at the Nations Cup since their last tournament victory while Nigeria have only won twice before, the last time in 1994. Both teams have admitted they are in a rebuilding phase, as inexperienced youngsters with bright futures dominate their selection as they seek to use the tournament in South Africa to aim for future success. However, having progressed this far, both countries suddenly have a chance to fulﬁll potentials ahead of schedule

and also restore reputations lost in recent times. Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi is basking in the satisfaction of seeing his controversial selections pay off. “Somehow, the Nigeria fans don’t appreciate their players. But I know my team, I know their mentality. I know the boys I picked were right, I have conﬁdence in them,” he said. Blocking the two heavyweights’ passage to Sunday’s ﬁnal are two countries with far less resources but peaking on the back of talented crops of players. Mali’s charge is being led by 33-year-old Seydou Keita and augmented by a team

full of players with European league experience, particularly Ligue 1. They have proven to have a powerful midfield and in Mamadou Samassa, coach Patrice Carteron claims to have the best goalkeeper in the competition. Samassa is likely to return from suspension to replace Soumbeyla Diakite, who was the hero of Saturday’s penalty shootout win over hosts South Africa in the quarterfinal. Burkina Faso’s progress has come on the back of keeping a clean sheet in their last five-odd hours of action, plus the strength of skipper Charles Kabore in midfield

and Jonathan Pitroipa’s wing play. They have overcome the loss of key attacker Alain Traore to injury, but not before he had scored three times in the first two matches. “I’m the happiest coach of this tournament now as all we worked on in training came to play,” said Burkina Faso’s Belgian coach Paul Put. Burkina Faso only previously made the semi-finals when they hosted the tournament in 1998. The losers in today’s semifinals play for the bronze medal in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.

New boss Michel eager to lead Olympiacos to new heights

Welcome to Athens: former Real Madrid star Michel (right) is presented to the media

OLYMPIACOS Piraeus unveiled Michel as their new coach this week with the Spaniard pledging to make the Greek champions and league leaders more competitive in Europe. The 49-year-old former Sevilla coach put pen to paper on a two-and-a-half year contract after witnessing their ﬁrst defeat of the season at the weekend when Atromitos came away from the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium with a 3-2 win. Olympiacos have assembled a plentiful haul of domestic trophies down the years - including 39 league titles - but despite regularly competing in the Champions League since its inception in 1992, European success has eluded them. They have managed one appearance in the quarter-ﬁnals in 1999 and been beaten in the last 16 in 2008 and 2010. Michel, who replaces Leonardo Jardim after the Portuguese surprisingly left last month, feels he can help the club make the step up to

becoming a more prominent European force. “I have made the commitment to make Olympiacos a more international team as beﬁts a club which has enjoyed so many successes domestically,” Michel told a news conference. Despite the defeat to Atromitos, Michel has inherited a team which is already seemingly running away with yet another Super League title with the Red and Whites leading secondplaced Asteras Tripolis by 13 points. Olympiacos are also through to the last 32 of the Europa League where they will meet Spanish club Levante. Antonis Nikopolidis, who had taken temporary charge after Jardim’s sudden departure, will remain on the coaching staff. It is the ﬁrst time that Michel, who made over 400 appearances for Real Madrid in a glittering playing career, has coached outside Spain following spells with Rayo Vallecano, Real Madrid B and Getafe before his 11-month stint at Sevilla.

UEFA will vet sponsorship deals struck by clubs such as Paris St Germain and Manchester City to ensure they are not flouting new rules designed to force clubs to clean up their finances, European football’s governing body has said. European clubs made record losses of 1.7 billion euros in 2011, UEFA said in an annual analysis of club accounts, underlining the scale of the problem that its Financial Fair Play rules are designed to tackle. Clubs which fail to move towards break-even face exclusion from European competition from 2014-15. Critics say that clubs will circumvent the rules through generous sponsorship deals with companies linked to team owners. English Premier League champions Manchester City have an Abu Dhabi owner and are sponsored by the country’s Etihad Airlines, while Qatari-owned PSG are reported to be on the verge of a 200-million-euro deal with the Qatar Tourism Authority. “Everyone including Paris Saint Germain or any other club, they know the rules, they know when they kick in and they know what they have to demonstrate,” UEFA General-secretary Gianni Infantino said. Infantino added that clubs had to show they could bring costs and revenues into balance “without cheating”. “A related party cannot just inject money into a club directly or indirectly though different systems,” he said, adding that sponsorship deals would be scrutinised to ensure they represented fair value. UEFA agreed in 2010 to phase in a raft of measures to try to stop European clubs from getting into financial trouble. The figures for 2012 will be the first ones to be assessed as part of the break-even requirement. UEFA said owners of 46 lossmaking clubs would have had to invest in more shares to improve their balance sheets had the rules been in force between 2009 and 2011. Infantino said he believed the rules were beginning to bite, noting that the gap between revenues and costs had begun to close, albeit marginally. Financial Fair Play is dominating the thoughts of executives at leading European clubs who must try to ensure their teams stay competitive while mindful of budget constraints. Showing it was serious about enforcing the rules, UEFA said in December that it was banning Spanish club Malaga from future European competition for at least a season over unpaid bills.

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Ronaldo says Real have better team than Man United

By Martyn Herman and Tom Pilcher FORMER England midﬁelder Paul Gascoigne, who has lapsed in his battle with alcoholism, will receive treatment in the United States after “willingly” travelling there, his management company said on Monday night. “Paul has been extremely touched and overwhelmed by the generous offers of help and support over the past few days,” GamePlan Solutions said in a statement, adding that Gascoigne was an alcoholic with “complex issues”. “He is motivated to fully understand and control his addiction problem under guidance.” No details about the location of the clinic were given. Players’ union chief Gordon Taylor said earlier on Monday that Gascoigne needed 24-hour attention. The 45-year-old’s agent, Terry Baker, said at the weekend that Gascoigne needed “immediate help” and called on the English Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) to intervene. “He sounds as if he needs almost a 24-hour watching brief at the moment,” PFA boss Taylor told BBC Radio 5 live.

‘I’ve wanted to face them for some time’ CRISTIANO Ronaldo believes “Real Madrid have a better team” than Manchester United ahead of the two sides’ clash in the Champions League. Ronaldo will come up against his former club for the first time since trading England for Spain, in a world record £80 million move in 2009, when United visit the Bernabeu in the first leg of the last 16 next Wednesday. The reigning Primera Division champions are struggling domestically this season and lie 16 points behind fierce rivals Barcelona, while the Red Devils are currently cruising at the top of the Barclays Premier League. Despite the teams’ contrasting forms, Ronaldo will be in a positive mood against Sir Alex Ferguson’s men although he was quick to sound a note of caution. “I believe things will go well. In my opinion Real Madrid have a better team, but we have to show that on the pitch because United are a very united team and always have been in recent years,” he said to the official UEFA Champions League magazine. “They’re a team that always do well, every year they’re at the top and therefore a team we respect a lot. It will be an extremely dif-

The Portuguese spent six seasons in Manchester and still speaks fondly of Sir Alex ﬁcult match, especially in Manchester.” It promises to be an emotional occasion for Ronaldo, who spent six years at Old Trafford. “I actually said beforehand that I believed we would draw Manchester United,” he said. “I’ve wanted to face them for some time. I have great memories from my time there. “It will be a match in which I will feel a lot. I was there for six years. I have a lot of friends there, people I will see with great pleasure, it will be a match with a lot of emotions.”

Ronaldo, who stated he would not celebrate should he net against United, still has much admiration for former boss Ferguson. “He taught me the basis of football. I arrived in Manchester when I was only 18. He managed my career in the best possible way and for me he is one of the most important people in football,” he added. “I still have an excellent relationship with him and it will be nice to see him again.” Phil Jones, meanwhile, is likely to be ruled out of the encounter with Real after being struck down by a bout of shingles. Jones missed United’s Barclays Premier League win at Fulham on Saturday and 24 hours later was withdrawn from the England Under-21 squad for tonight’s encounter with Sweden in Walsall. No reason was given by the Old Trafford outﬁt for the absences. However, England Under21 coach Stuart Pearce has conﬁrmed Jones is suffering from shingles. “Jones picked up shingles and there’s not a lot we can do about it,” said Pearce to several national newspapers. “It’s a shame because it makes us stronger when Phil’s here, that’s for sure. But it gives someone else a chance.”

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Cristiano Ronaldo has banged in the goals since moving to Madrid for a world record £80m from Old Trafford

Newcastle aiming to settle score against Spurs By Damian Spellman

New boy Moussa Sissoko scored twice against Chelsea for Newcastle, who have turned their poor form around

NEWCASTLE manager Alan Pardew is hoping a little je ne sais quoi will help his team gain revenge on Tottenham as they attempt to ease further clear of trouble. The Magpies head for White Hart Lane on Saturday having given their Barclays Premier League survival hopes a significant boost with backto-back victories over Aston Villa and, in spectacular style, Chelsea with new boys Mathieu Debuchy, Yoan Gouffran and match-winner Moussa Sissoko having added a little Gallic flair to the mix. They will do so determined not only to collect another three precious points, but also to make amends for a 5-0 thumping in the corresponding fixture last season. Pardew said: “Tottenham is a difficult one, but we are going to go there with renewed vigour - we have some je ne sais quoi in the team and hopefully get something there. “Last year when we were fly-

ing, it was a real disappointment for us that day. We were well beaten, so we need to put that right.” Victory over Chelsea edged the Magpies six points clear of the drop zone but, perhaps more importantly, helped to re-establish a measure of confidence in a squad which has been painfully short of that particular commodity in recent months. In addition, it presented the Toon Army with a potential new hero as Sissoko turned in an energetic individual display capped with the two goals which first pegged the Blues back and then condemned them to defeat. The former Toulouse midfielder was one of five Frenchmen to join the club during last month’s transfer window in the wake of Demba Ba’s departure for Chelsea, and Pardew was thrilled to see him take up the baton so quickly. He said: “You lose great players - you lose Andy Cole, you lose Alan Shearer, Gary Speed, people like that. “They come through the

door, you love them and unfortunately for whatever reason, money or the end of their career, they drift away. “But new stars emerge. Demba was one for us - he has gone away now and Sissoko has announced his arrival.” New Tottenham midﬁelder Lewis Holtby meanwhile says he is on cloud nine since arriving in the ‘motherland of football’ just a week ago. Holtby has already played twice for Spurs since joining from Bundesliga club Schalke, and says his feet have not touched the ground since he arrived in London. “I have been living my dream,” he said. “I am playing at an absolute top club in the Premier League.” Holtby, whose father is English, had never made a secret of his desire to play in England, although his transfer came sooner than he had expected, but not soon enough for his liking. “It has been overwhelming since arriving in the motherland of football,” he wrote in his blog published on www. fussball.de.

“It seems as if he needs somebody with him all the time just to make sure that he’s looked after and is not going to do anything silly.” Taylor said he had spoken to Gascoigne after the PFA paid for the former Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio and Rangers player to attend a detox programme at a well-known clinic for sportsmen suffering from addictions. “I’ve spoken to Paul over the weekend and he’s said it’s just a blip. But it really is down to him. We just don’t want this to be another George Best tragedy,” he said. “He does need a big support system and he’s got it from lots of friends. But there is a frustration that when things look to be improving, it all goes off wire.” Taylor refuted suggestions by former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel on Twitter that the PFA had not done enough to help Gascoigne. “There isn’t a player we’ve done more for over my time at the PFA,” he said. “In fact, we’ve been criticised for doing as much as we have, because he has not made the improvements that some of our other members have.” Former Manchester United great Best died in 2005 after a long struggle with alcoholism.

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Liverpool: no contact with Europol By Martyn Ziegler LIVERPOOL yesterday said they have had no contact from Europol or any other body in connection with match-ﬁxing allegations surrounding their 2009 Champions League match against Debrecen. The European law enforcement agency said one Champions League match played in England is under investigation. According to Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, Europol is looking at Hungarian side Debrecen who lost 1-0 to Liverpool at Anﬁeld in 2009. There is no suggestion that anyone at Liverpool was involved in any wrongdoing. Vukasin Poleksic, the Debrecen goalkeeper that night, was banned for

two years in 2010 by UEFA for failing to report match-ﬁxing activities involving a different game. A Liverpool spokesman told the Press Association: “We have had no contact from Europol or any other organisation over this.” Europol has not revealed which Champions League match in England is under investigation but that it took place “in the last three to four years” and is one of 380 games being studied. However it has also emerged that neither the Football Association nor UEFA were aware of any such probe. A spokesman for the FA said: “The FA are not aware of any credible reports into suspicious Champions League ﬁxtures in England, nor has any information been shared with us. “While the Champions League

comes under UEFA jurisdiction, The FA, alongside the Premier League, Football League and Conference, monitor markets for the top seven leagues and three major cup competitions in England and take matters of integrity in football extremely seriously.” Rob Wainwright, director of Europol - the European Union’s law enforcement agenc - told a news conference that a total of 425 match officials, club officials, players, and serious criminals, from more than 15 countries, are suspected of being involved in attempts to fix matches. FIFA’s head of security Ralf Mutschke has called for tougher prison sentences for match-fixing. Mutschke said football could ban perpetrators for life - but that the courts need to crack down harder.

Liverpool’s Dirk Kuyt scored the only goal against Hungarian side Debrecen in the match under investigation

Big Phil meets favourite customers on Brazil return England face fivetime world champions at Wembley By Brian Homewood

EAMS who lose regularly to the same opponents are known as customers in Brazilian football and Luiz Felipe Scolari could not have picked more reliable ones for his comeback with the ﬁve-time world champions. The man known as Big Phil kicks off his second stint as Brazil coach against England, a team he saw off in three major tournaments in a row between 2002 and 2006, at Wembley tonight in one of around 40 international friendlies being played this week. The match has been organised as part of the English FA’s 150-year birthday celebrations. Other heavyweight clashes include world and European champions Spain against South American champions Uruguay in Qatar, France’s meeting with Germany at the Stade de France and Netherlands against Italy at the Amsterdam Arena. Elsewhere, Lionel Messi, who last year equalled Gabriel Batistuta’s calendar year scoring record of 12 goals for Argentina, will take aim

Ashley Cole is expected to win his 100th cap tonight at Wembley, where Luiz Felipe Scolari kicks off his second stint as Brazil coach against England - a team he saw off in three major tournaments in a row between 2002 and 2006 ile Portugal at Sweden while are hoping for a reversal of fortune against in-form Ecuador. ular Spain is a popular venue with Chile facing Egypt at Madrid’s Vicente Calderon a and stadium, Russia g in MarIceland clashing nia taking bella and Romania on Australia in Malaga. h-heraldBelgium’s much-heraldn host ed new generation Slovakia but willl be ed without injured nt defender Vincent

Ko Kompany. S Scolari, who led Br Brazil to their ﬁfth w world title in 2002 an and was called b back in Novemb to lead their ber a attempt to win a sixth on home so next year, has soil b brought back R Ronaldinho and g goalkeeper Julio C Cesar for his ﬁrst gam game back in the

hot seat. The charismatic coach has replaced Mano Menezes who was surprisingly ﬁred in November just as he seemed to be making progress in his efforts to rebuild the side following their 2010 World Cup failure. Scolari enjoyed a quarterﬁnal win over England as coach of Brazil at the 2002 World Cup and also eliminated them as coach of Portugal at the same stages of

Brazil have recalled former World Player of the Year Ronaldinho to their squad for the glamorous friendly

Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup. England’s last win against Brazil was at Wembley in March 1990, with Brazil winning four of the eight meetings since then. Scolari is expected to give his side a more rugged style than Menezes, who had been trying to create a Brazilian version of Spain and Barcelona’s tiki-taka. Menezes had even dabbled with the idea of playing without a recognised striker, something Scolari quickly reversed by naming Fred and

Luis Fabiano in his squad. “I always like to have a stronger type of player in the penalty area but it doesn’t mean to say we can’t change in the future and not have a ﬁxed striker,” Scolari said. England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce meanwhile believes Ashley Cole is “the best left-back that’s ever played for England”. Cole is expected to win his 100th cap tonight and if selected, the 32-year-old Chelsea player will become only the seventh Englishman to reach a century of appearances. “In my mind, he’s the best left-back that’s ever played for England. That’s a fact, in my eyes. said Pearce. “To play 100 times for his country is an amazing achievement. “It shows not just a consistency of ability, it shows a dedication to want to turn up week in, week out, month in, month out for your country.” Pearce, a left-back who won 78 caps and was part of the England team that came close to reaching the ﬁnal of both the 1990 World Cup and Euro ‘96, also believes the Chelsea defender isn’t shown the appropriate appreciation for his high level of performance. “I don’t think Ashley gets enough credit for being as professional as he actually is around the place,” he said. “People outside the squad don’t realise how professional he is.”