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‘In the hands of the voters now’ Whoever wins will have the difficult task of negotiating a bailout deal By George Psyllides

YPRIOTS are voting today for a new president who will have to swiftly negotiate a bailout agreement that will bring the country back from the brink of bankruptcy but not without the pain of austerity. It is the second time in one week in which voters go to the polls, as no candidate managed to secure the required majority of over 50 per cent last Sunday. The choice will be between DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, who gathered 45.46 per cent of the vote in the ﬁrst round against 26.91 per cent for his opponent, AKELbacked Stavros Malas. Whoever wins will have the difﬁcult task of negotiating a bailout agreement with international lenders in time to provide the cashstarved state a lifeline. Anastasiades told Reuters in an interview that various parties, including “governments and funds” which he did not identify, had been “sounded out” for a short-term loan to keep Cyprus going until the bailout. “This would be in order to complete the

(bailout) loan agreement with some comfort, without the threat or the fear of collapse,” Anastasiades said. The 66-year-old lawyer declined to say whom he had contacted. It was the ﬁrst time a presidential candidate in Cyprus has disclosed talks to secure a loan ahead of a bailout rescue - talks which have dragged on for eight months. Malas, who is pro-bailout but anti-austerity, has been trying this week to woo the people who voted for Giorgos Lillikas, who came third with 25 per cent of the vote last Sunday. Malas has promised to include the forces who back him in a coalition government, but publicly at least, both Lillikas, and his backers EDEK, chose to sit on the fence during the runoff vote. Campaigning ended on Friday night with a televised debate between the two contenders mostly focusing, as the rest of the long election campaign, on the economy. It was the ﬁrst time after the 1974 Turkish invasion that something other than the island’s political problem was the focus of a

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‘LIMASSOLGRAD’ SIMPLE OR SINISTER?

Two women outside a Limassol mini-market that depicts Kremlin onion domes IN THE seaside town of Limassol, an image of the Kremlin’s onion domes adorns the doors of a local mini-market, Ferraris stand ready for hire by wealthy Russians and shops selling mink coats line streets drenched in warm Mediterranean sunshine. Home to over 30,000 Russians who began ﬂocking to Cyprus after the Soviet Union’s

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collapse and catering to more tourists each year, locals jokingly refer to the town, complete with Russian signs and schools, as “Limassolgrad”. “Cyprus is a fantastic place to do business from - people are friendly and for Russians it’s very convenient because every single person in Limassol

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Golf reaches new heights with the creation of professional golfers’ association THIS THURSDAY, February 28 is an important date in the golﬁng calendar as it marks the inauguration of the PGA Cyprus (Professional Golfers’ Association Cyprus) and highlights the proactive approach by golf pros in Cyprus to grow golf on the island. A not-for-proﬁt organisation, the PGA Cyprus will become a member of the PGAs of Europe whose core mission is “to represent, promote and provide advice to develop professional golf ”. Once established, the PGA Cyprus is very much an independent body with effectively a free range when it comes to how, where, and with whom it will promote the sport, provided it is agreed upon amongst the members. Junior competitions, free lessons, tournaments and fun events are some examples of what have been

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used by the PGAs of other countries in the past and are likely to also occur in Cyprus. Its efforts will be kickstarted with the ﬁrst ever competition in Cyprus between Cyprus pros and local amateurs. Although a prize is offered, the true prestige of the event is the opportunity for local amateurs to play against the pros - namely, Andrew Darker, Karl Morgan, David McKibben, Paul Dyer, Giles Johnson, Danny Heard, Adam Collinson and Neil Sweeney (who only works in Cyprus during winter). The eight qualifying amateurs are chosen according to the National Order of Merit, which is determined by a series of six to seven amateur open tournaments held throughout the year at the various local golf courses. Scores are combined for all competitions and players ranked accordingly. All amateurs need to be registered as a member of the Cyprus Golf Federation in order to qualify. The new list of competitions which comprise the National Order of Merit will be posted on the new PGA Cyprus website, www.

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pgacyprus.com, also to be launched this Thursday. Chairman of the PGA Cyprus, Andrew Darker, who is currently also the operations manager at Aphrodite Hills Resort, is very excited about the move forward and has big plans to place sunny Cyprus on the world golﬁng map. “Cyprus is an emerging market when it comes to golf. The potential for growth - especially with the development of so many new golf courses planned within the next decade - is phenomenal. We, the pros, all agree that a centralised approach for promotion is necessary. So our plan is, together with a golf marketing company, to contribute to increasing international awareness of Cyprus as a preferred golf destination and in turn, boost tourism and the economy as well.” The pros versus amateur competition will begin at 9am at the Elea Golﬁng Resort in Paphos on Thursday 28th February. Entrance is free. For further enquiries about the PGA Cyprus or the competition contact Andrew Darker on AndrewDarker@ pgacyprus.com

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CYPRUS TODAY Police investigating sudden death of boy, 13, at martial arts class POLICE were yesterday investigating the sudden death of a 13-year-old boy who collapsed during training on Friday at a martial arts gym in Athienou. A port-mortem did not shed any light as to the causes of Kyriacos Parpas’ death. Police said Parpas fell unconscious while training at a local Taekwondo school at around 7pm. One witness said the boy had complained to his coach during the warm up that he felt tired and he had been sent to take a rest when he collapsed. People tried to revive the 13-year-old but to no avail. “He was rushed to a (local) doctor’s ofﬁce where it was determined that he was dead,” a police spokesman said. State pathologist Eleni Antoniou, who performed the post-mortem yesterday, said it was inconclusive as to the cause of death. “Unfortunately we do not have a diagnosis. We need to wait for the results of the histological examination,” Antoniou told reporters. The funeral took place yesterday.

Hand grenade explodes at the entrance to a Larnaca nighclub A HAND-GRENADE exploded in the early hours of yesterday at the entrance of a Larnaca night-club, which had been closed at the time, police said yesterday. The incident happened at 3am. The club is located near the port roundabout. “There was no one inside the building during the explosion,” Larnaca police spokesman Christos Andreou said. Damage to the property was minimal, he added. The area was cordoned-off by police who scoured the scene for evidence. Explosives experts determined that the blast had been caused by a hand-grenade, police said. Andreou said the grenade was of a different type from one hurled at the ofﬁces of a company last Thursday, but did not give any other details. “The case is being investigated in combination with other cases we’ve had in the recent past,” Andreou said. The owner of the club told police he did not suspect anyone.

Four Syrians remanded over fake passports and illegal entry FOUR Syrians – two men and two women – were yesterday remanded in custody for four days in connection with impersonation and illegal entry into the Republic, Larnaca police said. The four were arrested at Larnaca airport at 2am while trying to board a ﬂight to Stockholm via Warsaw. Police said ofﬁcers at passport control got suspicious of the suspects’ passports while the photographs on the travel documents did not match the holders. The suspects told police that they had procured the passports in Turkey and then entered the governmentcontrolled areas through the Turkish-occupied areas. A police spokesman said the passports appeared genuine and the owners were Swedish nationals. Police were trying to determine whether the documents had been stolen or secured through a third party.

Today will be the second time in the space of one week that voters have to go to the polls,

‘It’s in the hands of the voters now’ ‘We said what we had to say and now the people will have to decide’ (continued from front page) presidential election campaign. On Friday, the European Commission slashed its economic outlook for Cyprus, doubling its recession forecast. “Projections of the economic outlook for 2013 and 2014 point to a prolonged recession, due to further declines in domestic demand and investment activity,” the Commission said. The island will see its €17.9 billion economy contract by 3.5 per cent this year, the Commission said in its winter economic forecast. The previous autumn forecast released in November had output contracting by 1.7 per cent in 2013. The economy was expected to contract by a further 1.3 per cent in 2014. The two candidates spent the day yesterday relaxing in Limassol, ahead of the big day today. Anastasiades visited volunteers who worked on his campaign and he also said he went to see his 89-year-

old mother who wished him all the best. “The people will decide tomorrow and the people will have the right to judge the person they elected with as much strictness as they saw ﬁt,” the DISY leader said. Malas, who strolled around the port city’s shops, said he was waiting for the people’s decision. “We will wait for the people’s judgment. We said what we had to say and now the people will have to think and decide freely,” Malas said. The 1,139 polling stations will open at 7am and are scheduled to close at 6pm with a one-hour lunch break between 12pm and 1pm. The results are expected to be known by 7pm and the declaration of the new president taking place at 10pm at the Eleftheria stadium. Authorities said only 8,000 people will be allowed in the stadium. Large televisions screens have been placed outside for those who will not make it in.

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(δ) Σημειώσατε τo ovoματεπώvυμov,τo επάγγελμα και τηv διεύθυvσιv πoρoσώπoυ τιvός εvτός τωv δημoτικ[πωv oρίωv της πόλεως ή τoυ χωρίoυ έvθα κείται τo Πρωτoκoλητείov εις ό κατεχωρήθη η αγωγή, παρά τω oπoίω πρoσώπω δύvαvται vα αφεθώσιv έγγραφα πρooριζόμεvα δια τov Εvάγovτα. (ε) Η ημερoμηvία δέov vα συμπληρωθή υπo τoυ Πρωτoκoλλητoύ. (στ) Απαλείψατε τας λέξεις “Δικηγόρoς δι’ Εvάγovτα” εάv κιvήτε τηv αγωγήv πρoσωπικπώς και πρoσθέσατε τηv λέξιv “Εvάγωv”. (ζ) Δηλώσατε τηv πόλιv ή τo χωρίov εις ό κείται τo Πρωτoκoλλητείov τo περιγραφόμεvov εις (δ) αvωτέρω. Σημείωσις: Κατά τηv σύvταξιv κλητηρίoυ δέov vα δίδεται πρoσoχή εις τας πρovoίας της Διατάξεως 2 και τας πρovoίας τάς διoεπoύσας oπισθoγραφήσεις απαιτήσεως. Σημείωσις δι’ Εvαγόμεvov: Εvαγόμεvoς κλητευθείς δι’ αξίωσιv υπερβαίvoυσαv τας Λ.Σ.25, όστις επιθυμεί vα χρησιμoπoιήση τας υπηρεσίας δικηγόρoυ, δέov vα έχη υπ’ όψιv τoυ ότι, εκτός τη αδεία τoυ Δικαστoύ, δικηγόρoς δεv δύvαται vα καταχωήρηση εμφάvισιv δι’ αυτόv εκτός εάv oύτoς έχη έγγραφov εvτoλήv δoθείσαv εις αυτόv υπo τoυ Εvαγoμέvoυ κατά τov Τύπov 12Α. Οπισθογράφησις Απαιτήσεως Οι Ενάγοντες αξιώνουν: (Α) Γενικές αποζημιώσεις εναντίον των Εναγομένων 1 -7 για δόλο και/ή απάτη και/ή συνομωσία και/ή για παράβαση συμφωνιών και/ή προσπάθεια των Εναγομένων 1 - 7 να εξαπατήσουν και/ή να κλέψουν και/ή να αποστερήσουν από τους Ενάγοντες χρηματικά ποσά που ανήκουν στους Ενάγοντες και/ή να προκαλέσουν τον αθέμιτο πλουτισμό των Εναγομένων 1 - 7 εις βάρος των Εναγόντων και/ή για ποσά που παράνομα και/ή δόλια και/ή για ποσά των Εναγόντων που κρατούνται παράνομα και/ή δόλια και/ή σε συνομωσία από τους Εναγομένους 1-7. (Β) Ειδικές αποζημιώσεις ύψους τριών εκατομμυρίων και πεντακόσιων χιλιάδων Ευρώ (€3.500.000) εναντίον των Εναγομένων 1-7 για δόλο και/ή απάτη και/ή συνωμοσία και/ή κλοπή. (Γ) Οποιαδήποτε άλλη θεραπεία που το Δικαστήριο ήθελε κρίνει ορθή και δίκαιη υπό τις περιστάσεις. (Δ) Νόμιμος Τόκος (Ε) Έξοδα πλέον Φ.Π.Α Πιστόν Αντίγραφον (Υπογρ.) ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΝΕΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ & ΣΙΑ ΔΕΠΕ Ενάγοντες Πρωτοκολλητής α) Απαλείψατε τας λέξεις «Δικηγόρος δι’ Ενάγοντα» εάν κινήτε την αγωγήν προσωπικώς, και προσθέσατε την λέξιν «Ενάγων». (Form J. 190G) No.1.- Writ of Summons (Ο.2.1.) SCALE OF COSTS: Over €2.000.000 In the District Court of Limassol Action No:758/2013 Between ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO LLC, from Limassol Plaintiff and 1. OLGA MICHAILOVA, from Limassol 2. KYRIAKOS GEORGIADES, from Limassol 3. MARINELLA KILIKITAS, from Limassol 4. M. KILIKITAS & CO LLC, from Limassol 5. RVZ LTD, from Belize 6. ZORAN RATKOVICH, from Serbia, permanent resident of Cyprus 7. NIKI THEOCHAROUS, from Limassol Defendants The above Defendants are from (a) 1. Spyrou Kyprianou 15, Matrix Tower II, Limassol, 2. Spyrou Kyprianou 15, Matrix Tower II, Limassol, 3. Spyrou Kyprianou 15, Matrix Tower II, Limassol, 4. Spyrou Kyprianou 15, Matrix Tower II, Limassol, 5. Belize, 6. Spyrou Kyprianou 15, Matrix Tower II, Limassol, 7. Spyrou Kyprianou 15, Matrix Tower II, Limassol. You are ordered with the present, within ten days from the service of the present writ, to ﬁle an appearance in the action raised against you by the above Plaintiff. from (a) Arch. Makariou III Avenue 195, Neocleous House, Limassol. The prayer of the Action of the Plaintiff is endorsed at the back side of the present writ. The address for service of the Plaintiff is (d) The Law Firm of Messrs ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO LLC, Arch. Makariou III, 195, Neocleous House, Limassol. It is acknowledged to you that if you omit to ﬁle an appearance according to the below described manner, the Plaintiff is entitled to proceed in his Action and a Judgment may be issued in your absence. Filed and Sealed on (e) 19/02/2013

Registrar Note.- An appearance may be filed either personally or by a lawyer by submitting at the Registrar in (g) Nicosia a notice of appearance, and by submitting on the same day, in the address for service of the Plaintiff, a copy of such notice dated, signed and sealed by the Registrar. Write the full address, including street and number, if it exists. Mention the occupation of the Defendant, if it is known. Mention the occupation of the Plaintiff. Write the full name, occupation and address of the person who is situated within the town or village where the Registry of the Court, in which the Action has been filed, is located and the person which can receive the relevant documents which concern the Plaintiff. The date must be filled up by the Registrar. Erase the words “Lawyer of the Plaintiff” if you raise this action personally, and add the word “Plaintiff”. Mention the town or village where the above described, in point (d) above, Registry is located. Note: During the drafting of the writ attention should be paid to the provisions of Order 2 and the provisions concerning the proper endorsement of the claim. Note for the Defendant: A Defendant which has been called for a claim over the amount of C.P. 25, who wishes to use the services of a lawyer, should know that, unless such permission is granted by the Court, no lawyer is entitled to file notice of appearance unless he has obtained from the Defendant a Retainer, according to Schedule 12A. Endorsement of the Claim The Plaintiffs claim: (A) General damages against Defendants 1-7 for deception and/or fraud and/or conspiracy and/or breach of contracts and/or the effort of Defendants 1-7 to defraud and/or to steal and/or to deprive from the Plaintiffs monetary amounts which belong to the Plaintiffs and/or to cause the unjust enrichment of Defendants 1-7 against the Plaintiffs and/or for monetary amounts which unlawfully and/or deceitfully and/or for amounts of the Plaintiffs which are unlawfully and/or deceitfully and/or in conspiracy are held by Defendants 1-7. (B) Special damages of the amount of three millions and five hundred thousand Euros (€3.500.000) against Defendants 1-7 for deceit and/or fraud and/or conspiracy and/or theft. (C) Any other remedy that the Court may deem just and fair to grant under the circumstances. (D) Legal Interest (E) Costs plus V.A.T. True Copy (sign) ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO LLC Plaintiffs Registrar Delete the words “Plaintiff’s Lawyer” if you pursue this Action personally, and add the word “Plaintiff”. ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΚΟ ΔΙΚΑΣΤΗΡΙΟ ΛΕΜΕΣΟΥ ΕΝΩΠΙΟΝ: Μ. Μαυρονικόλα, Α.Ε.Δ. Αρ. Αγωγής: 758/2013 ΜΕΤΑΞΥ: ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΝΕΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ & ΣΙΑ ΔΕΠΕ, από τη Λεμεσό ΕΝΑΓΟΝΤΩΝ και 1. OLGA MIKHAILOVA, από τη Λεμεσό 2. ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΑΔΗΣ, από τη Λεμεσό 3. ΜΑΡΙΝΕΛΛΑ ΚΙΛΙΚΙΤΑΣ, από τη Λεμεσό 4. M. KILIKITAS & CO LLC, από τη Λεμεσό δ. RVZ LTD, από Belize 6. ZORAN RATKOVICH, από τη Σερβία μόνιμος κάτοικος Κύπρου 7. ΝΙΚΗ ΘΕΟΧΑΡΟΥΣ, από τη Λεμεσό ΕΝΑΓΟΜΕΝΟΙ ΜΟΝΟΜΕΡΗΣ ΑΙΤΗΣΗ ΥΠΟ: ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΝΕΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ & ΣΙΑ ΔΕΠΕ, από τη Λεμεσό ΕΝΑΓΟΝΤΩΝ /ΑΙΤΗΤΩΝ Μετά από Αίτηση χωρίς ειδοποίηση του κ. Χρ. Μελίδη με κ. Π. Νεοκλέους για κ.κ. ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΝΕΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ & ΣΙΑ ΔΕΠΕ, δικηγόροι για τους Ενάγοντες-Αιτητές και μετά από ανάγνωση της Ενόρκου Ομολογίας η οποία κατατέθηκε προς ενίσχυση της Αιτήσεως αυτής και αφού κατατέθηκε εγγύηση ύψους €200.000,00 υπό ή εκ μέρους των Αιτητών, για να καλύψουν οποιαδήποτε ζημιά προκληθεί στους Καθ’ ων από την έκδοση του διατάγματος, Το Δικαστήριο αυτό ΔΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΟΝΤΟΣ ΔΙΑΤΑΤΤΕΙ ΟΠΩΣ: 1. Εκδοθεί και δια του παρόντος εκδίδεται παρεμπίπτον απαγορευτικό διάταγμα το οποίο απαγορεύει στους Εναγόμενους αρ. 1-7 από του να αποξενώσουν από τους τραπεζικούς τους λογαριασμούς που διατηρούν σε τράπεζες εγγεγραμμένες στην Κύπρο ποσά συνολικά ύψους €3,500,000 μέχρι την τελική εκδίκαση της παρούσας υπόθεσης και/ή μέχρι νεωτέρας διαταγής του Δικαστηρίου. Εννοείται πως οι Εναγόμενοι αρ. 1-7 θα δικαιούνται όπως χρησιμοποιούν ποσά ύψους €3.000,00 μηνιαίως για σκοπούς πληρωμής δικηγορικών και άλλων εξόδων. 2. Εκδοθεί και δια του παρόντος εκδίδεται παρεμπίπτον διάταγμα το οποίο απαγορεύει στους Εναγόμενους αρ. 1-7 όπως οι ίδιοι και/ή μέσω των αντιπροσώπων τους και/ή των υπηρετών τους και/ή μέσω των συνδεδεμένων προς αυτούς εταιρειών από του να εκμεταλλεύονται για δικό τους συμφέρον ή για συμφέρον άλλων οποιαδήποτε πληροφορία σχετικά με το πελατολόγιο ίων Εναγόντων απέκτησαν κατά τη διάρκεια της εργοδότησης των Εναγομένων αρ. 1-3 με τους Ενάγοντες, χωρίς την προηγούμενη γραπτή συγκατάθεση των Εναγόντων, μέχρι τη πλήρη εκδίκαση της υπό τον ως άνω αριθμό και τίτλο αγωγής και/ή μέχρι νεωτέρας διαταγής του Δικαστηρίου. 3. Το εκδοθέντα διατάγματα ορίζονται για επίδοση στις 26.02.2013 και ώρα 9:00 π.μ. για να εμφανιστούν οι Καθ’ ων η Αίτηση και να δείξουν λόγο γιατί αυτά να μην συνεχίσουν να ισχύουν. 4. Τα διατάγματα υπό τις παραγράφους 2 και 4 ορίζονται για επίδοση στις 26.02.2013 και ώρα 9:00 π.μ. ΕΚΔΟΘΗΚΕ ΤΗΝ: 19.02.2013 ΣΥΝΤΑΧΘΗΚΕ ΤΗΝ: 19.02.2013 (Υπ.) Μ. Μαυρονικόλας, Α.Ε.Δ. ΠΙΣΤΟΝ ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΟΛΛΗΤΗΣ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΓΡΑΦΗΣΗ: Εάν εσείς οι πιο πάνω Εναγόμενοι αρ. 1 OLGA MIKHAILOVA, αρ. 2 ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΑΔΗΣ, αρ. 3 ΜΑΡΙΝΕΛΛΑ ΚΙΛΙΚΙΤΑΣ, αρ. 4 M. KILIKITAS & CO LLC, αρ. 5 RVZ LTD, αρ. 6 ZORAN RATKOV1CH και αρ. 7 ΝΙΚΗ ΘΕΟΧΑΡΟΥΣ και/ή μέσω των αντιπροσώπων σας και/ή των υπηρετών σας και/ή μέσω των συνδεδεμένων προς εσάς εταιρειών, αμελήσετε να υπακούσετε στο αναφερόμενο διάταγμα σεις μεν υπόκεισθε σε σύλληψη η δε περιουσία σας σε κατάσχεση. ΠΡΩΤΟΚΟΛΛΗΤΗΣ DISTRICT COURT OF LIMASSOL BEFORE: M. MAVROLICOLAS, SDJ Action No.: 758/2013 BETWEEN: ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO LLC PLAINTIFFS And 1. OLGA MIKHAILOVA, from Limassol 2. KYRIACOS GEORGIADES, from Limassol 3. MARINELLA KILIKITAS, from Limassol 4. M. KILIKITAS & CO LLC, from Limassol 5. RVZ LTD, from Belize 6. ZORAN RATKOVICH, from Serbia permanent resident of Cyprus 7. NIKI THEOCHAROUS, from Limassol DEFENDANTS EX PARTE APPLICATION BY: ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO LLC, from Limassol PLAINTIFFS/APPLICANTS Following en ex-parte application by Mr Ch. Melides with Mr P. Neocleous for Messrs ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO LLC, lawyers for the Plaintiffs/Applicants and having read the Affidavit filed in support of this Application and following a guarantee in the amount of €200,000.00 being lodged by or on behalf of the Applicants, to cover any damage may be caused to the Respondents from the issuance of the order. This Court WITH THIS PRESENT ORDERS: 1. Be issued and with this present is issued an interim prohibitory order which prohibits Defendants no. 1-7 from alienating from the bank accounts they maintain with banks registered in Cyprus the total amount of €3,500,000 until the final trial of this present case and/or until further order of the Court. Provided that the Defendants no. 1-7 shall have the right to use amounts up to €3,000.00 per month for the purpose of paying legal and other expenses. 2. Be issued and with this present is issued an interim order that prohibits Defendants no. 1-7 whether themselves and/or through their representatives and/or through their servants and/or through companies connected to them from exploiting to their benefit or the benefit of others any information with respect to the clientele of the Plaintiffs they acquired during the employment of Defendants no. 1-3 with the Plaintiffs, without the prior written consent of the Plaintiffs, until the full trial of the above numbered and titled action and/or until further order of the Court. 3. The issued orders are set for service on 26.02.2013 and at 9:00 a.m. for the Respondents to appear and show reason why these should not continue to remain in force. 4. The orders under paragraphs 2 and 4 are set for service on 26.02.2013 and at 9:00 a.m. ISSUED ON: 19.02.2013 DRAFTED: 19.02.2013 (Sign.) M. Mavronicolas, S.D.J. TRUE COPY REGISTRAR ENDORSEMENT: If you the above Defendants no. 1 OLGA MICHAILOVA, no. 2 KYRIACOS GEORGIADES, no.3 MARINELLA KILIKITAS, no. 4 M. KILIKITAS & CO LLC, no.5 RVZ LTD, no.6 ZORAN RATKOVICH and no.7 NIKI THEOCHAROUS and/or through your representatives and/or through your servants and/or through companies connected to you, fail to obey to the said order you are subject to arrest and your assets to confiscation. REGISTRAR

Universities are attracting increasing

Green issues new careers’ By Poly Pantelides

T THE environment commissioner’s office, staffed by the commissioner himself, a secretary and the odd volunteer, parents - usually mothers - have been asking whether studies related to the environment might boost their children’s career prospects. “It is very interesting how much the number of young people who want to study something related to the environment has climbed,” environment commissioner Charalambos Theopemptou said. Academic departments at the University of Cyprus (UCY) and the Technological University of Cyprus (TEPAK) have also confirmed a growing interest in fields relating to the environment. The head of UCY’s civil engineering and environmental engineering department, associate professor Symeon Christodoulou, said that applications for postgraduate degrees have increased in the current academic year. A master of engineering or master of science spanning various departments has garnered some 100 applications this year for 20 available positions compared to roughly half that number of applications three years ago, Christodoulou said. The degree incorporates civil and environmental engineering, mechanical and

Optimistic: Charalambos Theopemptou

manufacturing engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and architectural engineering, Christodoulou said, all subjects that touch directly or indirectly on environmental matters. “There is an increased interest,” Christodoulou said, although he added that this may just mean that more students are becoming aware of these degrees as a possible option. Cyprus’ 2004 entry in the European Union has created a need to harmonise legislation with environmental policies in the bloc creating the need for people who can conduct studies on the impact of major works on the environment, Christodoulou said. He said that more jobs should be created over and beyond the more “traditional” subjects dealing for example with water management. There are renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power, or measuring buildings’ energy performances.

PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES Private universities are now offering post-graduate degrees in oil and gas and offshore engineering, while the University of Nicosia has been advertising a master’s in business administration focusing on oil, gas and energy management, all capitalising on the discovery last year of substantial natural gas reserves south of Cyprus. And Nicosia municipality launched last year the bio vernacular project to map buildings’ energy performance in order to encourage sustainable development and cut down on energy consumption. TEPAK’s Alexandros Charalambides, an environmental scientist who has created ENERMAP, an award winning concept to map online the energy consumption of buildings across the EU, said that TEPAK has been seeing both higher numbers but also higher quality applicants interested in environmental science and technology. About 150 people applied for a master in energy resource management this academic year, compared with some 30 to 40 applying in the year before that, Charalambides said. The applicants applying now have better school-leaving certiﬁcates, getting a higher average of 18 out of 20 versus the average of 16 out of 20 that used to be closer to the norm, Charalambides said. The degree has been available for ﬁve years. Both TEPAK’s Charalambides and UCY’s Christodoulou said part of the increase may be because the construction industry is in recession, encouraging people to specialise in other areas. But Theopemptou, the environment

‘EU sold out to vested interests’ CONSERVATIONIST group BirdLife Cyprus has joined other European groups in accusing EU leaders – mainly those of Germany, France and Britain – of abandoning all support for sustainability, and of selling out to vested interests. In cutting the EU budget last week, the EU Council, under the guise of cost-cutting, delivered a heavy blow to any hopes of greening the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and to investments in Europe’s sustainable future, the group said. “The budget deal agreed by EU leaders is a disaster for Cyprus just as it is for every other EU member State and all EU citizens. It spells victory for ‘fat cats’ across the EU and disaster for the environment and for those in real need of support,” said Dr Clairie Papazoglou, Executive Director of BirdLife Cyprus. BirdLife Europe said refocusing the economy on sustainability was the best way to exit the crisis. “Instead, Europe is offered a budget that scales back investment in the environment and caters for

the usual fat cats that have been milking the system until now,” said Ariel Brunner, the Head of EU Policy at BirdLife Europe. The budget cuts affect rural development, which holds the biggest potential to support small-scale, sustainable farming and rural communities in Cyprus. In the current programming period, around half of all direct farm subsidies in Cyprus go to just 10 per cent of farmers, the biggest farm businesses (2008 ﬁgures). The part of the EU budget that included the LIFE Programme, which is the only upfront investment in the environment, was reduced despite its already marginal budget allocation, BirdLife said. The LIFE programme has made a significant contribution to nature conservation in Cyprus, e.g. through the LIFE Oroklini and Plant-net cy projects. On a broader scale, development aid was also reduced, signalling the EU defaulting on its international obligations, the group said.

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the move commissioner, put a different spin to this. “An extremely important point that we need to bear in mind are the EU’s policies on reducing carbon emissions, being proactive against climate change, increasing efficient energy use and creating buildings with nearly zero energy use,” Theopemptou said. This should bring about a “revolution in the construction industry in Cyprus”, he said. An architect can work in bio vernacular projects and on designing energy efficient buildings. A mechanical engineer can specialise on renewable energy sources, cooling and heating systems for buildings, the commissioner said. Electrical engineers are needed to design power management systems including those in the renewable energy field and “of course it is they who produce electricity by specialising in production, energy transfer and renewable energy sources,” he added. Those interested in specialising in environmental management or public health can choose to do a number of environment-linked degrees, Theopemptou said. “There is a wealth of choices for people with first degrees in some-

The Nicosia municipality has launched a bio vernacular project to map buildings’ energy performance thing that is at ﬁrst blush unrelated to the environment,” Theopemptou said. “Some may be surprised over postgraduate degrees offered to

economists for environmental economics or dealing in carbon emissions markets, to psychologists for environmental psychology, or to lawyers in relation to environ-

mentally related legislations,” he said. “The more (environmentally conscious) scientists we have, the easier it should be to promote a green economy.”

Paphos shop owners protest SHOP owners in the Tombs of the Kings area in Paphos yesterday protested plans to build a dual carriageway, which they said would put them out of business. Entrepreneurs, who blocked the road brieﬂy, said their demands had been ignored by the municipality. “We cannot consent to our destruction for the sakes of a project,” said Michalis Michael, chairman of the area’s tourist businesses. Michael said the plan was for construction of a dual carriageway with a dividing strip and a roundabout. Antonis Hadjicostis, the owner of a restaurant, said the project had been planned 25 years ago when there was nothing in the area. Paphos Mayor Savvas Vergas tried to reassure the entrepreneurs. “I understand that the shop owners’ interests are affected but they will realise its positive effects when the project is completed,” Vergas said. The project will modernise and improve an area that is faced with many problems and it was a road with the most fatal trafﬁc accidents, the mayor said. The shop owners vowed to continue their mobilisation until the local authority changed its position on the issue.

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Limassol jokingly refered to as ‘Limassolgrad’

(continued from front page) speaks some Russian,” said Vadim Romanov, a 28-year-old Russian property developer who says he also has business interests in restaurants in the town. “It’s like I never left Russia.” Limassol, in the Greek speaking Cypriot south, epitomises the love affair between two Orthodox Christian nations that can be traced back to Byzantine times and is now underpinned by deep financial ties. But those ties are coming under unprecedented scrutiny by European policymakers who question whether Cyprus is a hub for Russian money laundering, while pressing Moscow to extend its €2.5billion loan to help the island avoid bankruptcy. Eye-popping amounts of cash wash between the two countries every year - several times Cyprus’ €18-billion national income - as Russians take advantage of a treaty that lets them pay the island’s low tax rates but also raising suspicions among some EU states that complex transfers are used to launder money that was illegally earned or on which more tax should be paid. Cyprus is still waiting on EU aid eight months after asking for help, with a bailout held up partly on German fears that the eurozone could inadvertently be bailing out wealthy Russians who have parked their money in financial institutions in Cyprus. Eurozone finance ministers commissioned a private report this month into the island’s anti-money laundering

ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS 2013-2014 The English School Entrance Examinations for 1st Year candidates for 2013-2014 entry, will take place on Saturday 6th April 2013. The following places will be offered: 96 places for 1st Year Greek speaking candidates 24 places for 1st Year English speaking candidates Registration of candidates will open on Tuesday 19th March and continue until Friday 29thMarch 2013. Application forms can be downloaded from our website, www.englishschool.ac.cy. Hard copies of the application forms will also be available from the school main office for candidates without access to the internet. The office will be open, for lodging applications, from 8.00a.m.-1.30 p.m., 19th-29th March inclusive. Completed application forms must be accompanied by a copy of the candidate’s birth certificate, two recent passport-sized photographs, and the fee of 120 euros. Specimen material and further details are available on our website. www.englishschool.ac.cy There will be a Prospective Parents’ Information evening at 7p.m. on Thursday 7th March in the school hall.

A high-end residential complex in Limassol safeguards but the suggestion of illicit money ﬂowing through Cyprus provokes reactions ranging from perplexity to fury in Limassol, where some think the EU is looking for excuses not to help out. “They are making a very big injustice against Cyprus,” said Andreas Neocleous, a top Cypriot lawyer who has been involved in Russian deals since setting up a Moscow ofﬁce in 1991. “In this very small neighbourhood and very small society, even a transfer of an amount of half a million (dollars) is known to everybody. So where is the money-laundering?” Cyprus has dismissed the idea, aired in international media, that losses may be imposed on banks as a condition for EU aid. But Neocleous said some Russians saw a “red lamp” and began pulling money out, although others saw no sign of an exodus. Like many on the island, Neocleous accuses fellow Europeans of hypocrisy, saying

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Europe and the United States take a much bigger share of Russian business than Cyprus. “Russian business is a very big cake. Cyprus takes out of this cake ... nothing,” he said. “It’s not even sitting at the table - it takes some rubbish that falls on the ground.” European misgivings focus on why tiny Cyprus is such a big magnet for Russian money. Russian banks held $9 billion of their deposits abroad in Cyprus at end-2011. Over the last ﬁve years Cypriot entities accounted for $60 billion, or 23 per cent, of foreign direct investment into Russia, while 30 per cent of Russian investment abroad was in Cyprus, according to Russian central bank data. That means Cyprus - which accounted for 28 per cent of the FDI stock in Russia at the end of 2011 - astonishingly invests ﬁve times the size of its economy in Russia, the central bank data, cited this month in a report by Morgan Stanley,

showed. In reality, the links are more virtual than real, and the ultimate owner of most of Russian FDI tends to be Russian since many Russian owners simply structure firms as a Cypriot parent owning a Russian unit, Morgan Stanley said. In other words, few Russians are investing in physical assets in Cyprus - beyond some villas and yachts - and few Cypriots are investing heavily in Russia. The figures simply reflect the flow of cash from Russia to Cyprus and back again. Both sides say there is nothing dubious about it. The use of such vehicles is driven by factors like a 1998 Russia-Cyprus tax treaty that lets Russians pay a low 5-per cent rate on dividends, the former British colony’s use of English law, a reputation for “light touch” regulation and Russian political risk. By parking assets on the island, Russians still wary of the state after 70 years of communism can also hope to shield their savings from the risk of future confiscation, analysts say. But complex transfers cloud the origins and ownership of funds in a way familiar to money laundering investigators the world over and has fueled suspicions among wealthier EU states that Cyprus’s appeal for Russians is not entirely healthy. In his glass-walled office decked with large flat screens, Russian businessman Romanov says Cyprus’ appeal is more simple than sinister. Tax efficiency, sunny weather, a short four-hour flight from Moscow, ease in getting a visa - or permanent residency if one buys property for over €300,000 - and an established community that includes four Russian schools and two radio stations, all put Cyprus ahead of other centres, he says. “From the time I step out of the door of my apartment in Moscow to the time I walk in my office here, the total trip is about 5-6 hours,” he said. “It takes longer for me to drive from my apartment in Moscow to my country house.” Romanov said his Russian clients continued to show

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Home Left: A fur shop where minks and fox fur coats retail for up to €3,000 and whose clientele is ‘one hundred per cent Russian’ (R) Right: ‘Cyprus has the best climate, the sea is very near’ Below left: Russian tourists like to drive luxury cars (R)

strong interest, expecting the euro zone to keep Cyprus afloat, and expressed confusion over the fuss about possible money-laundering. If any Russians evaded tax by bringing money here - and he says he is convinced his clients do not - it is an issue for Russia, he says, rather than for Cyprus or for Germany, whose taxpayers will have to pay for the bulk of any EU bailout. At any rate, most of the Russians buying properties here are middle-class, he says, with a budget of between €250,000€500,000, rather than wealthy oligarchs. “So what money-laundering are we talking about? Of €300,000?” the fresh-faced entrepreneur says with a laugh. “If they want to go after the rich Russians - go to London or Germany.” London in particular is a favoured destination for Russia’s super-rich, seeking homes worth tens of millions of dollars. The influence of Russian money is plainly visible in Limassol, where large billboards in Russian advertise seaview apartments and villas with infinity pools. At his fur shop near the seafront where minks and fox fur coats retail for up to €3,000, Andreas Charalambous proudly describes his clientele: “One hundred per cent Russian”. Further down the road, a car rental agency two years ago began offering Ferraris and Porsches for €1,500 a day, mainly to Russian tourists, whose numbers have more than doubled from three years ago to over 474,000 last year thanks to an online visa process. “There is huge tourism from Russia and they want supercars. Many of them have supercars at home in Russia but don’t get the chance to use them,” said Savvas Savva, its marketing manager. “We combine sunshine, nice routes and of course an open roof - they always want the roof down because they can’t

at home.” Many of the swanky yachts docked at Limassol’s marina are owned by Russians, who have also snapped up luxury seaview condos in high-rises where prices start at over €1 million. Gated communities - a novelty for a country with low crime levels - have also begun popping up around town, many with private pools and central heating - all unusual for Cypriots. “For the same amount of money for an apartment in Moscow you can buy a villa near the beach here,” said Christos Panagi, a Cypriot high-end property developer who showed off freshly painted townhouses with tidy gardens. Like many Cypriot men, he is married to a Russian and employs Russian speakers. “The Russian community here feels itself a part of Cyprus,” said Natalia Kardash, editor of the Vestnik Kipra weekly, one of two Russian newspapers in Cyprus. “You can’t ﬁnd a Cypriot who doesn’t know at least one word of Russian.” Many of the Russian families in Limassol are like those of Svetlana Vasileva, a 42-yearold former accountant from Moscow. Her husband does business in Russia but moved his family here so their three children could enjoy an English school education in the former British colony, where English remains widely spoken. “Cyprus has the best climate, the sea is very near, and Cypriots are Orthodox Christians like Russians,” said Vasileva, as she sat in her seaview apartment adorned with black and white family photos from Russia. She has found Cypriots to be friendly, enjoys concerts and picnics with other Russians here and attends Russian services at a Greek Cypriot church. “Life in Cyprus is like in a village - it’s very slow,” she said with a chuckle. “I’m planning to stay here all my life.” (R)

8 February 24, 2013 • SUNDAY MAIL

World Vatican slams ‘false’ reports

Osborne pledge after Moody’s ratings blow

THE Vatican lashed out at the media yesterday for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election. Italian newspapers have been rife with unsourced reports in recent days about the contents of a secret dossier prepared for the pope by three cardinals who investigated the origins of the 2012 scandal over leaked Vatican documents. The reports suggested the revelations in the dossier were a factor in Benedict’s decision to resign. The pope himself has said only that he is too trail to carry on. The Vatican secretariat of state yesterday said the Catholic Church has for centuries insisted on the independence of its cardinals to elect their pope. Now, it said, the “pressures of public opinion” are in play in a bid to influence the vote. “It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave ... that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions.”

Chancellor insists that UK debt problem being tackled

Osborne said the Government would not change course in the wake of the credit rating cut

By Arj Singh, Martha Linden and James Tapsﬁeld CHANCELLOR George Osborne yesterday insisted the Government was delivering on its commitment to tackle the UK’s debt problem after ratings agency Moody’s downgraded the country’s AAA credit rating. Osborne said the Government would not change course in the wake of the move, which shadow chancellor Ed Balls described as a “humiliating blow”. But the Chancellor said “our situation would get very much worse” if the Government abandoned efforts to reduce the UK’s debt mountain. In an interview at 11 Downing Street, Osborne said: “I think we’ve got a very clear message, a loud and clear message that Britain can-

not let up in dealing with its debts, dealing with its problems, cannot let up in making sure that Britain can pay its way in the world. “What is the message from the ratings agency? Britain’s got a debt problem. I agree with that. I’ve been telling the country for years that we’ve got a debt problem, we’ve got to deal with it. “What do they also say? That if we abandon our commit-

ment to deal with that debt problem, then our situation would get very much worse and I’m absolutely clear that we must not do that.” Asked if he had broken his commitment to protecting Britain’s credit rating, he said: “I’ve consistently argued that Britain has a debt and deﬁcit problem, that we’ve got to tackle that head on, that we’ve got to take tough measures to do that and I think people understand that. “In the end, the test of our credibility as a country is there every day in the markets when we borrow money on behalf of this country from investors all

around the world. “At the moment we can do that very cheaply with very low interest rates precisely because people have conﬁdence that we have got a plan, we’ve got to stick to that plan and we are going to deliver that plan.” Explaining its decision to cut the UK’s rating by a notch to AA1, Moody’s warned that “subdued” growth prospects and a “high and rising debt burden” were weighing on the economy. It said it now expects the “period of sluggish growth” to “extend into the second half of the decade”.

Son-in-law of Spanish king quizzed in court THE Spanish king’s sonin-law appeared before a judge on the island of Mallorca yesterday to respond to charges of tax fraud in a six-million-euro embezzlement case that has eroded public support for the oncepopular royal family. The scandal and other corruption cases in which politicians are accused of taking millions of euros in bribes have enraged Spaniards at a time when unemployment has soared to 26 per cent in a deep recession. Inaki Urdangarin, a former Olympics handball player who is married to the king’s daughter, the Infanta Cristina, is accused of using his powerful connections to win public contracts to put on events on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca and elsewhere in Spain. His Noos Foundation is suspected of overcharging for organising conferences about the business of sports and hiding the proceeds abroad. In a statement before the judge’s questioning, Urdangarin, 45, distanced the royal house from the foundation’s business. “The royal house had no opinion, didn’t advise on, authorise or back any activities for which I was responsible at the Noos Foundation,” he said, according to sources in the courtroom. “On the contrary, when the

WORLD TODAY North Korea warning to US NORTH Korea has warned the top U.S. military commander stationed in South Korea that his forces would “meet a miserable destruction” if they go ahead with scheduled military drills in March with South Korean troops, North Korean state media said. Pak Rim-su, chief delegate of the North Korean military mission to the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, gave the message by phone to Gen. James Thurman, the commander of the US Forces Korea, KCNA news agency said. It came amid escalating tension on the divided Korean peninsula after the North’s third nuclear test earlier this month, in deﬁance of UN resolutions, drew harsh international condemnation.

Abe econ vow JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Americans on Friday “I am back and so is Japan” and vowed to get the world’s third biggest economy growing again and to do more to bolster security and the rule of law in an Asia roiled by territorial disputes. Abe had ﬁrm words for China in a policy speech to a top Washington think-tank, but also tempered his remarks by saying he had no desire to escalate a row over islets in the East China Sea that Tokyo controls and Beijing claims.

Pistorius may ‘suffer alone’

Urdangarin’s plight has eroded public support for the once-popular royals accusations arose, the royal house recommended I cease any activity not considered appropriate for my institutional status, which I did.” Dozens of police ofﬁcials guarded the courthouse in Palma for the closed-door hearing where Urdangarin was being questioned by Examining Magistrate Jose Castro. Near the courthouse, a few hundred protesters chanted and held up signs reading “Down with the monarchy” and “They call this a democracy but it isn’t”. In Spain’s legal system, lengthy pre-trial investigations are carried out by an examining magistrate, or judge. Urdangarin is charged with fraud, forgery, embezzlement and corruption. If convicted, he could face a prison sentence and ﬁnes.

THE father of Oscar Pistorius’s girlfriend has told a South African newspaper the athlete will have to “live with his conscience” if he is lying about how he killed her. Barry Steenkamp said the medal-winning Paralympian will “suffer” alone if his assertion that he shot 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp accidentally is false, according to the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper. Steenkamp said he might be able to forgive Pistorius one day if the double-amputee is telling the truth. Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder over the Valentine’s Day killing of his girlfriend.

Tanks leaking SIX underground storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington state were recently found to be leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, state and federal ofﬁcials said on Friday.

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World Main Syrian opposition spurns US, Russia invites

Egypt opposition leader demands election boycott ElBaradei: polls under Mursi a ‘deception’ By Alexander Dziadosz AN opposition leader called yesterday for Egyptians to boycott elections due to start in April, saying the process under Islamist President Mohamed Mursi would be “an act of deception”. Islamists, who have won every election since the 2011 overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, dismissed any suggestion that the parliamentary polls would lack credibility and predicted a strong turnout. While divisions between the Islamists and opposition remain deep, Mursi appeared ready to soothe anger

among the Christian minority over the election schedule. The speaker of Egypt’s upper house said Mursi would change the dates to avoid Coptic Christians having to vote during their Easter celebrations. Mursi called the lower house elections on Thursday, aiming to conclude Egypt’s turbulent transition to democracy. However, liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei drew comparisons with the last parliamentary polls to be held under Mubarak in 2010, a vote which was widely seen as rigged. ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear agency chief, noted

he had called for a boycott in 2010 “to expose sham democracy”. “Today I repeat my call, (I) will not be part of an act of deception,” he said on his Twitter account. The Muslim Brotherhood, which backs Mursi, rejected any call to boycott the voting which has been scheduled in four stages from April 27 to June. Essam Erian, a senior member of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, said the polls would be carried out under “complete judicial supervision” as well as being followed by Egyptian, regional and international media. Voting would be monitored

Egyptian protesters bang pot covers while shouting slogans during an anti-government demonstration in the canal city of Port Said on Friday (AFP) by Egyptian and foreign civil society and human rights organisations, he said on his Facebook page, adding that he expected wide participation. Egyptian elections have

been supervised by judges since the revolution. The relatively small numbers of judges have required the drawnout process, allowing them to oversee voting in different regions on different days.

Iran announces uranium finds, days before resuming talks over disputed nuke programme DAYS before resuming talks over its disputed atomic programme, Iran said yesterday it had found signiﬁcant new deposits of raw uranium and identiﬁed sites for 16 more nu-

clear power stations. State news agency IRNA quoted a report by the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) which said the reserves were discovered in northern

and southern coastal areas and had trebled the amount outlined in previous estimates. The timing of the announcement suggested Iran, by talking up its

reserves and nuclear ambitions, may hope to strengthen its negotiating hand at talks in Kazakhstan on Tuesday with the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

THE main Syrian opposition grouping has said it turned down invitations to visit Washington and Moscow to protest what it described as international silence over destruction of the city of Aleppo by Syrian missile strikes. A statement late on Friday by the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group of opposition political forces, said it also had suspended participation in a Friends of Syria conference of international powers due in Rome next month to protest the attacks it said have caused many civilian casualties. “Hundreds or civilians have been killed by Scud missile strikes. Aleppo, the city and the civilisation, is being destroyed systematically,” the statement said. “The Russian leadership especially bears moral and political responsibility for supplying the regime with weapons.” it added, referring to Moscow’s status as a leading ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “In protest of this shameful international stand, the coalition has decided to suspend its participation in the Rome conference for the Friends of Syria and decline the invitations to visit Russia and the United States.”

‘YGIA’ POLYCLINIC: Serving Mankind’s Most Valuable Gift On September 12th 2012 and after 3 years of signing the agreement for participation in the Accreditation Programme for the Accredited British Quality Unit CHKS, YGIA Polyclinic was awarded the dual award of Accreditation & Certification to ISO 9001: 2008. YGIA Polyclinic now ranks among the finest international Hospitals that implement quality programs. The acquisition of this dual distinction is clear proof that YGIA Polyclinic operates within a framework of sound and safe procedures with a focus on patient care. YGIA POLYCLINIC is the largest private hospital in Cyprus and being one of the largest employers in the island, aims at portraying an example of an Institution. Ensuring the provision of high quality healthcare services, YGIA Polyclinic’s primary target is the patient and his safety. Simultaneously with the above, YGIA Polyclinic after a long and demanding process was awarded a fiveyear contract with the British Ministry of Defence to provide secondary health care to the population of the British Bases in Cyprus, after the decision of the British Ministry of Defence to close down its own hospital, at Akrotiri. This agreement honours YGIA Polyclinic and Cyprus as well, since the British Authorities have entrusted their secondary medical care in a Cyprus Institution. Their decision was reached after serious study and huge checks, medical, qualitative, legal and financial. Mr. Socratis E. Socratous, Managing Director of the company, mentioned: “We are all very happy and proud because two enormous long-term objectives have been concluded successfully. We put the bar high and this was the result of teamwork and vision that creates further responsibilities and obligations. Accreditation is not just an award but a way of life, so that there are procedures and protocols for how we operate. We grow fast and therefore we must all maintain a common language and high quality level of service, because we deal with people and their health. At the same time, the contract with the British Bases is something we all worked very hard towards achieving. We have been very committed in trying to combine two different in many ways, medical cultures and the confidence shown in our organisation by a mature health system like the British is an honour to us. We have learned a lot through this process. We are delighted about the outcome not only for our Institution but also for Cyprus, because we believe that the health sector is one of the pillars that will help our country to move out gradually from today’s financial crisis and problems to a much better and promising era.“

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Slain model spoke out against gender violence Pistoriusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; girlfriend sought role in anti-rape campaign By Stella Mapenzauswa THE DAY before her Paralympics star boyfriend Oscar Pistorius shot her dead, Reeva Steenkamp publicly proclaimed her support for a campaign against the violence that kills thousands of women in South Africa each year. On her Twitter page on February 13, Steenkamp posted her support for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Fridayâ&#x20AC;? campaign urging South Africans to wear black in honour of thousands of women raped and killed in the country, often by their partners. The 29-year-old, who died in the early hours of Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day, wanted to use her rising proďŹ le as a model and girlfriend of one of South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recognised sportsmen to

raise awareness of the scourge, her best friend, Gina Myers, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A couple of days before she passed away, she was saying how people were so ignorant of the fact that (violence on women) is going around,â&#x20AC;? Myers told Reuters on Thursday. Steenkamp lived with Myers and her family in the ďŹ ve months before her death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was starting to do these talks to women. It was something she felt strongly about and she wanted to do something with it.â&#x20AC;? Raised in the eastern city of Port Elizabeth, Steenkamp regarded the Myers as her â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johannesburg familyâ&#x20AC;? and she featured in many framed pictures scattered around the house house. Her b bedroom, spartan with white linen and black curtains, still bore the eerie evidence Ste of Steenkampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s occupancy on Thursday, with a handbag lying half opened on the bed w while her cosmetics were dotted on a dresse dresser. Pisto Pistorius, a double amputee dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blade Runnerâ&#x20AC;? because of his carbon ďŹ bre racing blades, faces life in prison if convicted of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp. d He denies the charge, saying he mistook her for an intruder in his high-security suburb urban home.

Many South Africans believe Oscar Pistoriusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; celebrity status could tilt the odds in his favour

State lawyers believe Pistorius shot Steenkamp after an argument, with neighbours telling police they heard â&#x20AC;&#x153;non-stop shoutingâ&#x20AC;? prior to the gunďŹ re. Steenkamp became another statistic in what has been described as one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most violence-ridden countries outside a war zone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I woke up in a happy safe home this morning. Not everyone did. Speak out against the rape of individuals,â&#x20AC;? she tweeted on February 10 in the wake of the gang rape, mutilation and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen near Cape Town. A recent survey by gender violence group Gender Links in four South African provinces found that one in two women experienced some form sexual or physical violence at least once in their lifetime, including within intimate relationships. Despite her concerns about the often violent crime in her homeland, Steenkamp, a law graduate-turned-model, had hopes for the future and wanted to make a positive impact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reeva had a voice and she wanted to stand up for the things she believed in. She wanted to change peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives,â&#x20AC;? Darren Fresco, another of her closest friends, said this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a pretty face. If you looked at her, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think she was your typical â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dumb blondeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, but she was anything but that.â&#x20AC;? Steenkampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death has deeply divided

Steenkamp wanted to use her rising proďŹ le to speak out against violence against women South Africans, with some backing Pistoriusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; assertion that the shooting was accidental, and others believing Steenkamp was just another victim of domestic violence that often goes unpunished. Many believe Pistoriusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; celebrity status could tilt the odds in his favour. Steenkampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends were cautiously optimistic justice would prevail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to trust in the process, that there will be justice,â&#x20AC;? Myers said.

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11 SUNDAY MAIL • February 24, 2013

News Review

War of the words as election fever front and centre The race THE RACE between DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades and AKEL-backed Stavros Malas to see who could garner enough support to be declared the next President of Cyprus was on Monday focused on who could mop up the votes from the losing candidates. After Anastasiades attracted over 45 per cent of the vote last Sunday, just ﬁve percentage points short of outright victory, and Malas 27 per cent, taking them both into the runoff election, all eyes were on the 25 per cent of the population who voted for EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas plus the 17 per cent undecided. By week’s end neither side succeeded in ﬁnding major backers.

Dirty money A FINANCIAL rescue package for Cyprus must be accompanied by close and continuous monitoring of its progress in implementing anti-money-laundering policies, the European Central Bank chief said on Monday. Mario Draghi told European lawmakers that it was not sufﬁcient to put all relevant laws on the books, adding the crucial part was implementing them. A ﬁnal deal should provide for “close monitoring” of anti-money laundering mechanisms on the island, he said.

Remaining two candidates face off during the ﬁnal TV debate on Friday night

A 49-year-old business man was caught doing 213km per hour on the LimassolNicosia highway in his Ferrari and fined €1,200

Acquitted NICOSIA Criminal Court on Monday acquitted all the defendants in the trial for the 2005 Helios aviation disaster, spelling the end of legal

proceedings here more than seven years after the crash which claimed the lives of 121 people. The court dropped the charges as a matter of routine after the Attorney-general moved to suspend the prosecution of all ﬁve defendants. The state prosecution cited “insurmountable difﬁculties” posed by a recent court decision in Greece.

Toxic lionfish THE FISHERIES Department warned fishermen, fish-eaters and even bathers to take note of the fact that the somewhat toxic ‘common lionfish’ or ‘devil firefish’ has found its way to the Eastern Mediterranean. An announcement by the Fisheries Department informed the public that the eye-catching lionfish has been found in the coastal waters of Cyprus. The fish belongs to the species pterois miles, which belongs to the family of the Scorpaenidae and has probably reached the waters of Cyprus by travelling via the popular Suez Canal. While impressive and colourful, the fish has poisonous spikes, loaded with toxin.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK “When I go to vote… I greet the Pentadaktylos mountain where I come from – because Dikomo (village) lies in the foothills of Pentadaktylos – and hand in heart I vote for resistance, democracy and progress” Outgoing President Demetris Christofias (below, after voting last Sunday) “This result means that Cypriots have not quite decided if Anastasiades is the man to get them out of the crisis. It will be a tough second round” Analyst Fiona Mullen “This will be a first step towards the recognition and ratification of gay couples in Cyprus law and society in general, in the context of egali-

tarianism, and equal treatment before the law” LGBT group ACCEPT “With all due respect to (AKEL leader Andros] Mr Kyprianou, listening to him reminds me of the likeable Pinocchio” DISY spokesman Tasos Mitsopoulos “Cyprus cannot take another ﬁve years of (incumbent President Demetris) Christoﬁas policy from politicians who served and defend it” DISY candidate Nicos Anastasiades “You say I will bring about an-

other Mari. You are telling me that I will become a murderer through an accident if I am President” AKEL-backed Stavros Malas to his election rival Anastasiades during the ﬁnal TV debate “Risks remain important and tilted to the downside” European Commission’s winter forecast for Cyprus “The tone and content of the attorney-general to the mass media … are considered inappropriate, completely out of place and unfortunate, to say the least” The Supreme Court after the AG criticised a decision allowing bailiffs to seize state property, which they tried to do on Thursday “I think it should be the other way around. The court’s announcement is inappropriate, completely out of place and unfortunate” AG Petros Clerides in response

‘Dunno’ EUROPEANS are broadly aware of their rights as EU citizens but do not always know what these entail, according to a new Eurobarometer survey published by the Commission yesterday. Some 81 per cent of respondents to the survey know that they are EU citizens on top of their own nationality. However, only 36 per cent feel well informed about the rights that EU citizenship entails. In Cyprus, 62 per cent said they did not feel well informed of their rights as an EU citizen while 16 per cent said they were not familiar with the term ‘EU citizen’, and 37 per cent said they had heard the term but did not know what it really meant.

PIMCO war THE firm that conducted a due diligence on bank portfolios to determine their recapitalisation needs said it had used the inputs given to it by a steering committee – made up of foreign and Cypriot officials – sparking fresh criticism that the government and the Central Bank had deliberately allowed the amount to be inflated. The issue came up after daily Politis published the contents of a confidential letter sent by investment managers PIMCO to Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades earlier this month, in response to his letter regarding the methodology used.

Slurs THE CAMPS of the two presidential candidates continued their war of words on Wednesday in an effort to undermine each other’s bid to crown the next President of Cyprus as major support was not forthcoming. A majority at EVROKO did offer to back DISY boss Anastasiades after a party meeting last night but the forces that supported the failed bid of Giorgos Lillikas - representing 25 per cent of last week’s voters- are increasingly pushing for a blank vote today. The AKEL camp got ﬁred up over DISY’s paid ads in the media equating a Stavros Malas victory to another ﬁve years of the present government.

Back home JAILED Turkish Cypriot Asil Nadir who was ordered by a UK court in November to pay back £5 million of the money he stole from his Polly Peck

business empire, has reportedly come up with the money despite telling British judges he was broke. According to UK reports, the payment will pave the way for him to secure a prisoner transfer to Turkey and from there back home to the north of Cyprus for ‘house arrest’. Nadir, 71, was told in November to come up with the £5 million or face another six years in jail.

Bailiffs COURT bailiffs armed with a warrant issued in connection with unpaid state debts attempted to seize a ministerial car outside the ﬁnance ministry on Thursday but were prevented by the car’s driver, a policeman, who drove the car into the basement parking and out of reach. The bailiffs reported the ofﬁcer to the police for obstructing efforts to execute a court-approved seizure warrant. The Attorney-general, who incidentally gets to decide on state prosecutions, argued the attempted seizure was wrong and unfair.

Aunt remand A 35-YEAR-OLD woman was on Thursday remanded in police custody on suspicion of being involved in last week’s abduction of 18-monthold Stavros Styllis. The woman, the toddler’s aunt (she is married to his father’s brother) is the subject of an ongoing investigation into child abduction and exposure, and conspiracy to commit a felony. A Limassol court yesterday ordered that she be remanded for seven days. The woman is the prime suspect in the case; based on forensic evidence, authorities believe she was working with accomplices.

Church blessing NICOS Anastasiades’ presidential candidacy on Thursday got another endorsement, albeit this time from a non-secular – yet highly political – source. Archbishop Chrysostomos publicly lent his support to Anastasiades following a meeting with the DISY leader. “The country needs a strong government, and we shall stand by the government and Mr. Anastasiades,” the prelate told newsmen. The top cleric went on to wish Anastasiades success, even addressing him as “Mr. President.”

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Opinion Anastasiades needs a strong mandate from voters FOR MANY, today’s election result is a foregone conclusion. After all, Nicos Anastasiades, had secured an almost unassailable lead with his impressive 45.4 per cent of the vote last Sunday, his rival today, Stavros Malas taking only 26.9 per cent. Opinion polls conducted even before last Sunday’s vote suggested that Nicos Anastasiades would easily win a run-off election against Stavros Malas by a very big margin. Logically, the allegedly independent candidate backed by AKEL should not have a chance in hell today. Despite his alleged independence, he is the candidate of the party whose discredited government leaves a scorched earth behind it – a bankrupt state excluded from the markets, record unemployment, record number of people living below the poverty line, soup kitchens, record number of businesses closing down, banks that cannot give credit, etc. With such dismal record of abject failure, we would have

thought AKEL’s presidential candidate would have had trouble receiving 10 per cent of the vote last Sunday, but communist voters are nothing if not blindly loyal to the party. It was astonishing that 118,000 people voted for the man chosen by the AKEL Central Committee, the candidate who used his campaign to defend the catastrophic five-year term of Demetris Christofias. Malas looks certain to lose but an upset cannot be completely ruled out. Under normal conditions, we would have compared the positions and the qualities of the two candidates but we are not living in normal conditions. We are in desperate need of financial assistance because the state will run out of cash by April and the problems facing the banking sector are mounting. To make matters worse, our potential lenders are dragging their feet over the bailout and there is even talk in EU quarters about the possibility of a hair-cut of bank depos-

SundayMail its, which has been ruled out by European Commission ofﬁcials, for now. How wise would it be to vote for the candidate of the party that put us in this position with its poor judgment, prevarication and fear of responsibility? How wise would it be to elect the candidate of the party whose discredited government is deemed so untrustworthy that the EU has given up talking to it? It was the AKEL president who thought he could take the EU and the troika for a ride, trying their patience with his ﬁlibustering and populist brinkmanship, turning public opinion against our potential saviours at every opportunity. Malas, whom we are supposed to believe is an independent candidate, has been repeating the same vacuous AKEL/Christo-

ﬁas rhetoric against the troika. Malas, like his backers, has been attacking our potential lenders and their neo-liberal policies which, he claims he would resist and pursue policies aimed at growth and development (with what funds he would do this he has not informed the voters, especially as he plans to take a hard line with the troika). There is another question that has never been answered – what political experience does Malas have to see Cyprus through the most critical phase in its history? Is this the time to have a man with next to no political experience and no political contacts in the EU leading a country that is on the brink of total meltdown? He is a decent and honest man, but does this make him eligible to lead the country facing Cyprus’ colossal problems? The truth is that he is an apprentice politician, with only a year’s experience as health minister, and therefore totally unsuitable for the most demanding job

in the country. This is no time for experiments or for giving a chance to an inexperienced and unproven politician like Malas. For all these reasons, there is no choice in today’s elections. Nicos Anastasiades has his detractors, but he is an experienced politician who has proved his leadership qualities over the years. At this critical time, Cyprus needs strong and decisive leadership that would mend fences with the EU, restore relations of trust with our partners and eventually end the uncertainty that has been plaguing the country for the last year. Only Anastasiades can do this and it would be a big boost if the voters give him a strong mandate today, because he will have many tough and unpopular decisions to take in the next few weeks. A big share of the vote will also show our sceptical lenders that the new president has the public backing to sign and implement the memorandum.

Letters to the Editor

Rehn has painted ECB into a corner According to generally accepted accounting practices, Cyprus bank assets have to be transferred to the European Central Bank balance sheet in return for the €10b loan to banks, to be agreed under the terms of the bailout memorandum. These assets are used as collateral in case the Cypriot banks default on the ECB loans. If the banks default, the ECB will sell these assets to PIMCO, who will trade them on the bond market through various stock exchanges. It is in both the ECB and PIMCO’s interest to understate the value of the mortgage bonds held by the Cyprus banks as it will make it easier to re-sell them if Cyprus defaults on the loan. Similarly, it makes business sense for PIMCO to price in as many fairly low risk Cyprus bank bonds as possible into the €10b valuation. That is why PIMCO has tried to knock the value of the Cyprus mortgage bonds down by an extra 25 per cent to half their book value. The Bad Bank that Cyprus will have to set up, as have Spain and Ireland, will have all the junk bonds on its Balance Sheet. So in the event that Cyprus Banks cannot repay the €10b within the given four years, the ECB and PIMCO will make good the loans without carrying too much risk. The ECB knows how much PIMCO would be

able to get if it tried to sell Cyprus government junk bonds, in spite of their book value of €7.5b. In the case of Greek government junk bonds, it should be possible to re-sell them at 20 per cent of their book value if Greece defaults on some of its loan. This assumes Greece will be able to buy back its bonds at some stage in the longer term when it returns to the ﬁnancial markets, as Ireland has now done. In the case of Cyprus, Olli Rehn has painted the ECB into a corner by saying there will be no haircut on Cyprus government bonds. Hence the need to raise additional capital by offering shares in Cyprus state utilities. This additional capital will be used to pay down Cyprus government bonds to their true worth. I believe that Central Bank Governor Mr Demetriades and his colleague, Mr Stavros Malas, do not understand the rules of accounting and will unknowingly take Cyprus down the path of ruin if they retain control of the economy. I believe Mr Lillikas is the only one who properly understands what Cyprus must do to avoid the debt trap. Let us hope that Mr Lillikas becomes leader of the opposition and that Mr Anastasiades becomes President and that they can work together. John Morgan, Oroklini

Not seen for two thousand years Like most people, I have watched many of the political debates and listened carefully to the promises of the presidential candidates, but what will stick in my mind for years is the kiss that Nicos Anastasiades gave to Marios Garoyian to seal their agreement for electoral support for Nicos. And what a kiss that was. We have not seen a kiss like it for 2000 years. Since 33AD to be exact. John Mylonas

EAC does not oppose Faster on photovoltaic systems a donkey I refer to your article titled ‘PV systems clearly threaten EAC monopoly’ which was published on February 16, 2013. The, article is not signed, therefore I assume that its content constitute positions of your newspaper. In your article you claim that EAC opposes the implementation of net metering and the production of power using photovoltaic panels in general. This claim is completely wrong. To start with I must clarify that EAC does not enjoy any kind of protectionism as the electricity supply industry in Cyprus has been liberalised since 2004. Ever since, the industry has been open to competition, and the fact that a competitor to the EAC has yet to appear is most likely due to the fact that there is no attractive proﬁt margin on the EAC’s tariffs, given that oil is the only fuel available. I believe that the above clariﬁcation is necessary, because in your article you repeatedly refer to ‘EAC’s monopoly’.

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus does not oppose photovoltaic systems or any other form of renewable energy source. Neither does the EAC oppose net metering. In fact the EAC in co-operation with the Cyprus Energy Agency has recently initiated a pilot programme for the introduction of net metering in Cyprus. The EAC also participates with the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) and the ministry of commerce, industry and tourism, in a Committee for implementing net metering in Cyprus. In addition, the EAC itself is involved in a number of projects involving renewable energy sources and your claim that the EAC opposes the expansion of photovoltaic systems in Cyprus is arbitrary, erroneous and not supported by the facts. You state in your article that “the biggest obstacles to the installation of photovoltaic systems are the government and Electricity Authority of Cyprus which control approv-

al of the systems”. The truth is that the EAC is not even part of the approval of photovoltaic systems. Therefore the above statement is another arbitrary and erroneous claim of yours. The EAC deﬁnitely does not feel threatened by photovoltaic systems. It believes that renewable energy sources should be promoted in Cyprus and abroad for environmental reasons. In fact, I do not believe that any utility worldwide is threatened by renewable energy sources, which complement the electricity supply generated by conventional means. Of course this is a matter of opinion and you are deﬁnitely entitled to believe otherwise. But you are not allowed to make false claims regarding the behaviour and actions of EAC. I therefore request that you publish this letter and reverse your erroneous statements regarding EAC. Costas Gavrielides, EAC Spokesman

No one asked us what we want The truth is I don’t know much about politics. But all I know is that today there are so many people without jobs, without houses, without hope and without a future. We’re saying that we have democracy. Up to a point yes. But that’s not what we asked for and nobody actually asked us what we want. So yes, I believe democracy is important because I think what we all want is for us and for our children to have a future. I also thought that with democracy everything was going to be ok. Now I’ve understood that democracy has to work. I’m only 14 years old and they say I cannot vote. But if I could, believe me, I wouldn’t because I don’t believe there is a

worthy person for our country. There was once someone when things were better and that’s why we were ﬁne for all these years. I’m looking at our people’s lives and I’m wondering, what is going to happen to us? Are we going to have a job after university? Are we going to have bread to give to our families? Are we even going to have the basic needs to live? And that’s why we need a working democracy. Melpo Napoleontos: Age 14, Cambridge PET year student at David Green English Language Institute, Limassol

I am writing about the abysmal state of our national post. Perhaps, by now, we should have grown accustomed to the institutionalised incompetence in this place, but it never fails to surprise me how efficiency and an interest in the public’s well-being continue to elude those in a position of service. A few examples to illustrate: In November 2012, I was sent a parcel with a tracking number from Germany. The parcel arrived in Larnaca two days after it was posted. Yet it took our postal services ten days to send me an official notification of its arrival. On January 21, 2013, a book was posted to me from France. After a month, it has yet to arrive. On February 6, 2013, two pieces of important mail were sent to me from London. After exactly two weeks I have yet to receive them. When I asked a Nicosia postal worker, working in the post office boxes department what the average time was for a piece of mail from the UK to arrive here, I was told between six to seven working days. I remember the good old days when I used to receive mail posted from the UK in two days. I was also told by the same employee that they are under-staffed and overworked and yet whenever I pass by a major post office there are anything between three to eight postal workers standing outside smoking and chatting. The answer probably lies in how mail is processed after it gets to the island. It’s high time something was done to turn this situation around as it is more than an inconvenience for the public – in fact it is a national embarrassment. Name and address withheld

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13 SUNDAY MAIL • February 24, 2013

Opinion Jobs that we now think of irreducibly human may be the next casualties of change

The rise of the robots Comment Robert Skidelsky

HAT impact will automation the so-called “rise of the robots” - have on wages and employment over the coming decades? Nowadays, this question crops up whenever unemployment rises. In the early nineteenth century, David Ricardo considered the possibility that machines would replace labour; Karl Marx followed him. Around the same time, the Luddites smashed the textile machinery that they saw as taking their jobs. Then the fear of machines died away. New jobs - at higher wages, in easier conditions, and for more people - were soon created and readily found. But that does not mean that the initial fear was wrong. On the contrary, it must be right in the very long run: sooner or later, we will run out of jobs. For some countries, this long-run prospect might be uncomfortably close. So, what are people to do if machines can do all (or most of) their work? Recently, automation in manufacturing has expanded even to areas where labour has been relatively cheap. In 2011, Chinese companies spent ¥8 billion ($1.3 billion) on industrial robots. Foxconn, which build iPads for Apple, hopes to have their ﬁrst fully automated plant in operation sometime in the next 5-10 years. Now the substitution of capital for labour is moving beyond manufacturing. The most mundane example is one you will see in every supermarket: checkout staff replaced by a single employee monitoring a bank of selfservice machines. (Though perhaps this is not automation proper - the supermarket has just shifted some of the work of shopping onto the customer.) For those who dread the threat that automation poses to low-skilled labour, a ready answer is to train people for better jobs. But technological progress is now eating up the better jobs, too. A wide range of jobs that we now think of as skilled, secure, and irreducibly human may be the next casualties of technological change. As a recent article in the Financial Times points out, in two areas notoriously immune

to productivity increases, education and health care, technology is already reducing the demand for skilled labour. Translation, data analysis, legal research - a whole range of high-skilled jobs may wither away. So, what will the new generation of workers be trained for? Optimists airily assert that “many new types of job will be created”. They ask us to think of the lead drivers of multi-car road trains (once our electric cars join up “convoy-style”), big data analysts, or robot mechanics. That does not sound like too many new jobs to me. Imagine a handful of technicians replacing a fleet of taxi drivers and truckers, a small cadre of human mechanics maintaining a full robot workforce, or a single data analyst and his software replacing a bank of quantitative researchers. What produces value in such an economy will no longer be wage labour. We can see hints of that future now. Twitter, the social-media giant, is an employment minnow. It is valued at $9 billion, but employs just 400 people worldwide - about as many as a medium-size carpet factory in Kidderminster. It is not true that automation has caused the rise of unemployment since 2008. What is noticeable, though, is that structural unemployment - the unemployment that remains even after economies have recovered - has been on an upward trend over the last 25 years. We are finding it increasingly difficult to keep unemployment down. Indeed, the days when Britain thought it was normal to have an unemployment rate of two per cent have long since passed. It was considered a great achievement of the last government that it brought unemployment down to five per cent at the height of an unsustainable boom. And it only succeeded in doing so by subsidising a lot of unnecessary jobs and useless training schemes. No doubt some of the claims made for ro-

‘Twitter, the social-media giant, is an employment minnow’

Foxconn, which build iPads for Apple in China, hopes to have their first fully automated plant in operation sometime in the next 5-10 years bots replacing human labour will prove as far-fetched now as they have in the past. But it is hard to resist the conclusion that “technological unemployment,” as John Maynard Keynes called it, will continue to rise, as more and more people become redundant. The optimist may reply that the pessimist’s imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up. But perhaps the optimist’s imagination is too weak to imagine a different trajectory - toward a world in which people enjoy the fruits of automation as leisure rather than as additional income. During the Industrial Revolution, working hours increased by 20 per cent as factories replaced feasting. With our post-machine standard of living, we can afford to shed some of the Puritan guilt that has, for centuries, kept our noses to the grindstone. Today we ﬁnd a great deal of work-sharing in poor countries. It is the accepted means of making a limited amount of available work go around. Economists call it “disguised unemployment”. If escape from poverty is the goal, disguised unemployment is a bad thing. But

if machines have already engineered the escape from poverty, then work-sharing is a sensible way of “spreading the work” that still has to be done by human labour. If one machine can cut necessary human labour by half, why make half of the workforce redundant, rather than employing the same number for half the time? Why not take advantage of automation to reduce the average working week from 40 hours to 30, and then to 20, and then to ten, with each diminishing block of labour time counting as a full time job? This would be possible if the gains from automation were not mostly seized by the rich and powerful, but were distributed fairly instead. Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible. But, to do that, we ﬁrst need a revolution in social thinking. Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University © Project Syndicate, 2013

Presidential success hinges on courageous decisions Comment Loucas Charalambous POLITICS and football have one thing in common - springing surprises. Let us turn the clock back, some 3,200 days to April 2004. This was when the DISY chief Nicos Anastasiades was being attacked from all directions, persecuted for his referendum sins in the hell of demagoguery, populism and political dishonesty that was rampant at the time. Immersed in the mud that was shovelled upon him by friends and foes alike, he was betrayed by most of his associates because he had dared to speak the language of truth. He had attempted to stem the tide of political charlatanism,

petty-mindedness and irrationality, a tide that swept everything before it including the last chance for a solution of our national problem. Everyone, friend and foe, considered him politically dead, and were awaiting, from day to day, the conﬁrmation of this death. If anyone, back then had dared to suggest that in 2013 Anastasiades would be elected president of the Republic, he or she would have been the object of merciless ridicule and advised to visit a shrink. Whichever way you look at it, today is the day of Anastasiades’ vindication. That persecuted, reviled and scorned man of 2004 will today, barring a super-freak election result, take the country’s highest ofﬁce. The political leper of 2004 will today wash in

the Pool of Siloam like the blind man of the bible and enter the presidential palace. But fate has played a cruel game. Today, as he celebrates the most successful day of his political life will also be the start of the most difﬁcult period of his career. Circumstances have brought this about. Success was achieved under the most difﬁcult conditions imaginable. The country is facing huge problems. It is now economically bankrupt having become politically bankrupt in 2004, when the demagogues wreaked their havoc. Will he be able to lead the country to better days? That is the big question. Anastasiades is an intelligent man and will have realised that he is in the starting block of a race and, just like an athlete, is faced with two possi-

bilities - success and failure. If he succeeds in this extremely difficult challenge he will leave feted as a national hero. If he fails he will be chased from office like Christofias: humiliated, reviled and ridiculed. How can he leave as a national hero? He should, from now on, always remember a very simple thing: that he has five years to put the country back on track. If it crosses his mind, even once, that he should take decisions geared towards securing re-election in 2018, he will fail spectacularly. This is what happened to Christofias. To save the country, difficult, tough, daring and courageous decisions that will be unpopular are desperately needed. And the decisions need to be taken tomorrow because the day after tomor-

row would be too late. He knows what decisions are needed. But these decisions cannot be taken if he does not first shut his ears to the reactions that will certainly be provoked. All the interest groups should be crushed. For some it will be painful, but they are the ones best-equipped to handle the pain. As they say, no pain, no gain. The populism and demagoguery of the last 40 years have brought on all of today’s problems. Anastasiades has the opportunity to take a different road from tomorrow. If he does not dare to and spends his term telling people what they want to hear, wallowing in the praise of his courtiers, he may enjoy his presidency more, but after five years he will end up like Christofias. I wish him success.

14 February 24, 2013 • SUNDAY MAIL

Opinion

Promises made to be broken In addition to ‘our own’ who have been duped by ‘our own’ there is the appallingly treated silent minority

IX thousand ‘savers’ invested a total of 1.4 billion euros in bank bonds - that’s an average of 233,333 euros per saver with banks ‘promising’ 7 to 8 per cent interest annually ahead of savers recouping their capital intact at the end of the five year term. Then our banks went broke along with their promises. Rowdy demonstrations both in and outside the House of Reps, the Central Bank, Popular Bank, Bank of Cyprus and outside RIK 1 studios on the night of the final presidential candidate ‘debate’ have served little purpose in the advancement or justification of bondholder claims. They have been told that they must await the outcome of the troika memorandum, and if and when sufficient funds are made available to our banks, savers might receive something in the way of compensation. On TV we have seen them in tears, screaming and shouting at bankers and politicians, saying they have lost their life savings, no longer able to feed their families, up to their necks in debt. The bankers, meanwhile, insist that the promises savers say were never kept, were in fact never made. Yet I ask myself, what percentage of these savers correctly declared these huge amounts for tax purposes prior to investing? Did some borrow at six per cent to earn eight? Do all own the concrete palaces in which they live, the flash motors they drive, the clothes on their backs even? Evidently not, or some wouldn’t now be stretched screaming between a rock and a hard place! Bernie Madoff was jailed for 120 years for his 60 billion dollar Ponzi scheme and Allen Stanford 20 for his eight billion scheme. Russell Wasendorf Sr pleaded guilty last September to embezzling 215 million dollars from more than 13,000 customers of a commodities futures firm. He was jailed last week for 50 years - a death sentence like Madoff ’s. Tell me; what jail sentence should be imposed on those responsible for a 1.4 billion euro heist here - a mere couple of weeks in an open prison or fat-pensioned off and forgotten? I compare bondholder plight and mistreatment to the injustices meted out for years to the ‘silent minority’ - those who

A taste of their own medicine

Comment Hermes Solomon were ‘duped’ by certain property developers, bankers, lawyers and ‘jerry’ builders, mischievously supported by the government and land registries. Over the years, little if any sympathy for this minority has been forthcoming from our press and media. Why? Is it because the duping was aimed mainly at non-Cypriots, who have had to ﬁght heroic battles for justice unaided? Unsung heroes, Nigel Howarth and Denis O’Hare of the Cyprus Property Action Group, have spent the past 12 years seeking delivery of those long-awaited title deeds, the waiting caused by one of the most criminally conceived property frauds ever concocted and aimed speciﬁcally at foreign buyers only. And why do I say foreign buyers only? Well, my compatriots and I do not seek title deeds since none of us intend to sell or move from our homes foreseeably. We expect to die where we sit. Of the 130,000 outstanding title deeds, over 100,000 will never be sought, and that’s just one of the reasons the government has done absolutely bugger all about it. Anyway, let’s move on to an even more si-

‘The duping was aimed

mainly at non-Cypriots, who have had to fight heroic battles for justice unaided’

lent minority, those permanent residents who are refused the right by certain councils to buy a burial plot at local cemeteries in anticipation of that ‘interminable silence’. Fortunately, unsung hero Clive Turner has, this past ten years, politely and persuasively cut his way through our impenetrable jungle of a bureaucracy, finally receiving the go-ahead from this government to apply for the construction of where I’d prefer to go at the appropriate time - a crematorium! Sending me back to England will cost a bomb and I just hate the idea of flying in a sealed box, dead or alive! Until the troika get their hands on our artless government and administration, many will continue living in a ‘sealed box’, shut out from equality and justice for the individual, accountability of the malefactor, from the elite making ‘hay in the rain’ while the silent minority soak, shut out from saving what’s left of the island’s natural environment, from cartels exploiting medications and from the right to vote and receive fair representation at local and national level. I could go on ad infinitum about the Republic’s ‘sealed box’, and also mention other equally deserving unsung heroes, but the point of this article is to highlight the justified disgust displayed by disgruntled bondholders who are, in the main, made up of ‘our own’ duped by ‘our own’, and are now tasting that same bitter medicine spooned out for years to the silent minority!

You see, the silent minority are regarded as inconsequential, their voices those of a whisper, their rights those to be abused. The silent minority knows this and that’s why the majority of them remains silent, wanting as little as possible to do with our cankerous administration, wheeler dealer politicians and one-sided (we sleep with the Republic’s elite only) judiciary. Twenty three per cent of the Republic’s residents belong to this minority, that’s 150,000 voices without the right to vote at presidential or parliamentary elections. As a combined force they would, in a true democracy, be entitled to representation and eleven seats at the House of Representatives - that’s one in ﬁve. Unless and until all residents of this EU member state are given the right to vote, Cyprus is doomed to remain just another grave of democracy, whether pseudocommunist, socialist, pseudo-democratic, or what some are calling the next government, fascist, who are attempting to close ranks in the second round, promising a ‘national government’ made up of all political parties! Over the forthcoming presidential term, I fear a furtive tightening rather than a visible turning of that same undemocratic screw. The Cyprob is not the problem; the Cypriot voters are, since they are made up of ‘our own’ perpetually, and willingly it would seem, duped by ‘our own’.

India looks to the US, not Britain, to help it grow Comment Amol Rajan AS RECENTLY as the 1930s, the ofﬁcial view of Britain’s ruling class towards India bordered on fascism. In those last, sepia-tinged days of the Raj, Winston Churchill, who once called Gandhi a “seditious fakir”, said that if the British departed “India will fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages”. For the British “to abandon India to the rule of Brahmins would be an act of cruel and wicked negligence”. The idea of Indian independence, he added, was “not only fantastic in itself but criminally mischievous in its effects”. About the mischief Churchill was right; but, over six decades on from the bloody vivisection of partition, the secular republic of India is doing rather well. So

much so, in fact, that when one of Churchill’s successors as PM visited the former colony this week, he found the old imperial relationship inverted. Now the question is not what Indians can do for the British but what the British can do for Indians. Unfortunately, David Cameron, the answer is: not much. He knows it is wise to make a strong ally of India, because this century belongs to her, and for two reasons: democracy and demography.

UNNATURAL EXPERIMENT India is the most unnatural experiment in any form of government that’s ever been tried. But the success of that experiment gives it a stability that other emerging superpowers lack. Several of India’s neighbours - Pakistan and Sri Lanka, for instance - are not so much countries with armies but armies to which countries have been attached.

As Ramachandra Guha, author of India After Gandhi, reminded me, most of those neighbours are accustomed to the election of generals, while Indians put their trust in general elections. In the long term, this makes India, which has a strong civic society and a weak state, more likely to remain a cooperative and prosperous friend than, say, China, which has a weak civic society and strong state. An extraordinary facet of modern India is the size and sophistication of its youth bulge. Any visitor notices that the thing about Indians is there are a lot of them (mostly, it seems, related to me by blood and intent on coming to my wedding). Increasingly, they are middle-class, urban-dwelling, speak exquisite English and work in the growth industries of the future, focusing on research and innovation. What’s more, they’re young; unofﬁcial estimates suggest that whereas the average Chinese is 38, the average Indian is 28. This demographic dividend will

pay off ever more handsomely in coming decades. Mr Cameron, conscious Britain has 1.5 million voters of Indian origin, its largest ethnic group, has taken the biggest ever trade delegation with him. But the brutal fact is that, even if bilateral trade between the two nations doubles as he wishes, Britain will still export more to Belgium than India. For India’s rising middle class, America, not Britain, is the more attractive foreign destination for study, investment or a family life. A sudden tightening two years ago of visa requirements for Indian students wishing to study in the UK may have been justiﬁed but deep offence was taken. Now, more than ever, when Indians feel the future belongs to them, the old imperial visitors seem like a delegation from the past, ambassadors of a nation whose relevance is dwindling fast. Alas for him, that is the inescapable irony of Mr Cameron’s jolly passage to India.

David Cameron in India

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Opinion The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s influence might be limited, but Turkish diplomatic gains must still be challenged

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Comment Andrestinos Papadopoulos

T THE Twelfth Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) held in Cairo (February 6-7) Turkish diplomacy was again very active in promoting its positions on the Cyprus problem. In the final communiqué support was declared for a solution based on “the inherent constitutive power of the two peoples, their political equality and co-ownership of the island”. “We express our solidarity with the Turkish Cypriots and our appreciation for their constructive efforts to attain a mutually acceptable settlement and call on member states to strengthen effective solidarity with the Turkish Cypriot State,” the text said. We retain the expressis verbis reference to the “Turkish Cypriot State” and the appearance for the first time of the concept of “co-ownership of the island”, which prompted Dervis Eroglou to state that all the points proposed by Turkey were adopted in the final communiqué. Time and hard work by Turkey resulted in these extreme positions, a negative development for our side. It should be mentioned that after the illegal declaration, in November 1983, by the Turkish Cypriots of their pseudostate, Turkey upgraded her participation in the workings of the OIC. For the first time, at the Fourth OIC Summit held in Morocco (January 1984) Turkey was represented by her president, General Kenan Evren. She wanted to show the importance she was attaching to the OIC, playing the Islamic card, but also working for the gradual change of the inimical climate prevailing in the Arab countries towards her and promoting her positions on the question of Cyprus. It should not be forgotten that under the Ottoman empire the Arabs were economically, politically, racially and otherwise suppressed, that Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognise Israel and that, as a NATO member, she provokes the sentiments of some Arab hardliners. Time, however, has played its role and in the new environment, Turkish economic penetration and other interests influenced traditional Arab friends of Cyprus. Moreover, the change of climate in the Islamic world rendered the Turkish arguments persuasive, especially after the 2004 referenda on the Annan Plan. Initially, the expression of support was very weak. The strongest was for the full equality of the two communities and the right of the “Turkish Muslim people of Cyprus” to be heard at all international fora, where the Cyprus problem was discussed. Gradually over the years, Turkey has managed to introduce her positions into the texts of the OIC, using the arts of ambiguous suggestiveness. The following are good examples: the Turkish Cypriot proposal of August 31, 1998 was welcomed, without any mention that it was about confederation. Support was given to the declaration of the UN Secretary General of September 12, 2000, without awareness that the Turks interpreted it as recognition of their own regime. A decision was made that the Turkish Muslim people of Cyprus would participate in the works of the OIC under the name provided for in the plan of UN Secretary General, without any mention of the “Turkish Cypriot constituent state” contained therein. In this particular case, it was only natural that the uninformed participants were not aware that the UN Secretary General declared that, if the result of the ref-

“In October, 1984, when the Brighton bomb went off, I felt a surge of excitement at the nearness of Margaret Thatcher’s demise. And yet disappointment that such a chance had been missed” John O’Farrell, Labour candidate in the Eastleigh by-election

”People have too much sex, they eat, smoke and drink too much and die 20 years earlier. Everywhere else - in Europe, America or Japan - they live longer. Why should we perish?” Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a Russian politician, who says that sex in his country should be restricted to one time per quarter through issuing licences, quotas or coupons “If you are exhausted and if you are fried mentally you will be a hopeless Prime Minister” David Cameron

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi (right) greets Turkish President Abdullah Gul during the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit in Cairo

It’s time for aggressive diplomacy erenda were negative, then his plan was null and void and any reference, therefore, to its provisions invalid. The real dimensions and meaning of these texts are better understood if we take into account the following, which limit their importance. From the legal point of view, their importance is diminished, as most of them are in the preamble and not in the operative part of the communiqué. The countries which are most friendly to Cyprus register reservations, whereas those which adopt the Turkish positions vote differently in other fora (54 out of the 57 members of the OIC are Non-Aligned coun-

‘Gradually over the years, Turkey has managed to introduce her positions into the texts of the OIC’

tries). There are, also, many who consider the decisions of the OIC, which anyway are not binding, a dead letter, stressing the confusion which prevails during their adoption, as most of the participants do not know whether they are voting for a draft, an amendment or a ﬁnal text. Moreover, if we compare the texts in the ofﬁcial languages of the OIC (Arabic, French and English) we will observe that in many cases, language wise, they have different meanings. Be that as it may, we should not underestimate their importance. At our bilateral meetings with Arab countries, since we are no longer members of the Non-Aligned Movement, we should stress the pursuit of EU membership by Turkey, which entails recognition of the Republic of Cyprus, withdrawal of the Turkish troops and settlers and the opening of the Turkish ports to Cypriot vessels, etc. Moreover, taking advantage of the reaction of certain Arab countries to the ambitions of Turkey to dominate the Middle East, we should persuade our Arab friends that Cyprus, and not Turkey, is the bridge leading towards Europe. To counter Turkish gains in the OIC we need aggressive diplomacy. Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos is a former ambassador of Cyprus

“Rod Stewart did wear my underwear on stage, but only to keep the package in place” Too much information from actress and former lover Britt Ekland? “I chase him. I bite him. Bad man. He tasty. Good boy. Good boy Peach” A comment allegedly by a West Midlands police dog called Peach after the Crown Prosecution Service insisted on a witness statement from ‘Pc Peach’ having already been told that this was a dog “If a person online says you are fat or ugly or short, it doesn’t mean it’s true. If the person says you are beautiful, stunning, tall, it doesn’t mean anything. It is all fake. You can’t accept the positive and you can’t accept the negative” Hollywood actress Mila Kunis (below)

“Who thought it a good idea to give the most important man in the Church the biggest job there is but not until he was 78?” Broadcaster Chris Evans on the outgoing pope “I don’t like using the word, but I was acting like a stereotypical madman. I thought I was doomed. I thought I was going to die” TV presenter Ben Fogle (below) who underwent a psychotic episode after his drink, he suspects, was spiked with the drug LSD

“Reading Hilary Mantel’s comments on the Duchess of Cambridge, I felt like a front-row spectator at a boxing match setting Muhammad Ali at the height of his powers against Victoria Beckham at her most undernourished” Commentator Julie Burchill on the writer Hilary Mantel’s criticism of the Duchess

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World in pictures

A ﬂooded road in central Athens on Friday after a major storm caused massive gridlock (AFP)

People holding up suitcases gather in central Moravia, Czech Republic for an attempt to bring a record number of suitcases to one place. 579 people showed up (AFP)

Rows of newly-wedded brides and grooms stand and mingle at the Uniﬁcation Church’s mass wedding east of Seoul (AFP)

South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is pictured at the Magistrates Court in Pretoria. Pistorius battled to secure bail as he appeared on charges of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 (AFP)

Two women under a fountain in “Sonnenbad” swimming pool at temperatures just below 0 degrees Celsius during the opening of the pool for the new season in southern Germany

Models walk on the catwalk prior to the Etro Fall-Winter 2013-2014 Womenswear collection in Milan (AFP)

Indian participants preform exercises during the inaugural session of World Yoga Conference in Jammu (AFP)

A captive jaguar drinks water at an animal refuge in Brazil

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Coffeeshop

The black and white propaganda show ‘BLACK propaganda’ dominated the final week of the election campaign, which was no bad thing as advertising the opponent’s weaknesses is much more fun for the general public than hearing the empty promises that are misleadingly described as positive campaigning. We had enough positive campaigning and some good old fashioned dirt and negativity - of the type that only defeated candidate Yiorkos Lillikas and the newspapers used before last Sunday – was bound to lift things and stir the type of hatred and nastiness that make elections much more entertaining. The commies kicked off the negative campaigning, first thing on Monday, their chief Andros warning that the election of Nasty Nik, would lead to austerity, pay and pension cuts, restriction of union rights, lowering of the minimum wage, subservience to the troika and privatisations that would add “tens of thousands to today’s 50,000 unemployed.” Austerity, cuts and 50,000 unemployed were the achievements of the Tof government, as was the bailout commitment to privatise SGOs, so it was very peculiar that these featured in the negative advertising. THE FUHRER’S camp hit back with a negative ad on Wednesday asking voters whether they could put up with a continuation of the AKEL/ Tof policies – another Mari, another five years with 50,000 unemployed, 200,000 Cypriots below the poverty line, soup kitchens, even more business bankruptcies, more taxation etc. The virtuous comrades were livid about this unethical political behaviour by Nik’s camp and embarked on a moral crusade to save public life from being brought into disrepute by this ‘black propaganda’. Nicos Katsourides, AKEL’s bruiser and Malas minder, was disgusted with the ‘black propaganda,’ took us back 40 or 50 years and showed “ideological prejudices and fanaticism”. AKEL spokesman, the open-minded Giorgos Loucaides, who like Kats has no ideological prejudices and abhors fanaticism, also felt obliged to slam the negative advertising, which was “politically unacceptable and reprehensible.” Like his mentor Kats, the charmless Loucaides, was disgusted that Nik’s camp chose the “road of fanaticism and brutal distortion of the truth.” The morally superior Loucaides had an explanation for the unacceptable behaviour: “Lacking arguments and in an attempt to conceal their repulsive neo-liberal and authoritarian character of their policies from the Cypriot people they resort to what they know best: to black propaganda against their political opponents, distortions, intolerance, and lies.” IT SAID a lot that the Akelites were careful not to knock all types of propaganda. In the rational world it would be enough to accuse your opponents of resorting to propaganda, without giving it a colour, because the connotations are by definition negative. For the comrades, however there is also ethical propaganda, which they practise for the good of the people. This is ‘white propaganda’ which is ethically acceptable to resort to. For instance the claim that Stavros Malas was an ‘independent candidate,’ which we heard thousands of

times in the last week, is white propaganda because it does not brutally distort the truth, only gently. The accusation that the Fuhrer will lower the minimum wage down to €500 a month is a lie but is still classed as white propaganda because the source was AKEL which had noble motives for saying it – preventing the Fuhrer being elected. BY FRIDAY, however, the holier than thou commies climbed down from the moral summit they were occupying and placed some negative advertisements in the press, but this was not, I hasten to add, black propaganda that takes us back 40 or 50 years and brutally distorts the truth. The ad speculated what Nik would do as president and compared it with what the independent candidate of AKEL would do. Nik would apparently “close the Cyprob in accordance to the wishes of foreigners,” he would “cede out the hope of natural gas to the troika” and of course “exploit the crisis to lower wages.” The best question of the ad was a triumph of black propaganda as it asked whether voters wanted “a president who would send the youth of Cyprus to get killed for NATO in Afghanistan and Iraq?” The Fuhrer supports membership of the NATO affiliate Partnership for Peace so it took a great leap of the usually sterile Akelite imagination to take our youths to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. IN CONTRAST to the Fuhrer, who will “close the Cyprob in accordance to the wishes of foreigners,” Malas will “fight for a correct solution, for the liberation and re-unification of our island.” Malas also voted for the Annan plan, but he publicly repented on a TV debate, stating that he backed the plan because he had not read it. In the hope of attracting the Cyprob hard-liners who voted for Lillikas in the first round this A-plan sinner has turned tough. The proAnnan plan Alelite Takis Hadjigerogiou, the leading spokesman of the Malas camp, has taken a back seat in the last week, and has been replaced by the seasoned, Stalinist sledgehammer, Katsourides, who is a known hard-liner on the Cyprob, in the hope he would attract a few bash-patriotic votes for the independent candidate. Since last Sunday, Kats has become the shadow of the independent candidate, following him everywhere, including the polling station last Sunday and the TV debate on Friday. WHY do the commies always feel obliged to refer to AKEL as the ‘democratic and progressive forces’? What gives them the right to monopolise the ‘democratic’ adjective, as if all the other parties were undemocratic? For 45 years, the democratic forces of AKEL shamelessly supported, took money and enjoyed very close relations with the most brutal and repressive totalitarian regimes in the world. And what’s worse is that the members of the democratic forces do not behave in a very democratic way. Just ask the female radio presenter who does a current affairs show every morning. When she asks tough questions of an Akelite guest or expresses an anti-government opinion she is inundated with abusive text

messages calling her a whore, a paid agent and threatening her family. Strangely when she is tough with a member of an undemocratic party, she gets no abusive messages. YIORKOS Lillikas was ecstatic with his showing last Sunday, his impressive 25 per cent of the vote boosting his ego and arrogance. This was why he staked a claim of ownership to the 25 per cent of the voters and on Monday was declaring that his supporters would cast a blank vote today. This was bit rash, considering that his main criticism of the leadership of the parties was that they imposed their wishes on their followers. Nevertheless, he decided how his followers would vote before the meetings he was scheduled to have with them on Thursday and Friday. Did he impose his decision on them? After a productive exchange at these meetings Lillikas’ free citizens agreed that they would go to the polling stations and vote for neither candidate just as their leader had decided they should do before consulting them. Lillikas urged his voters, whom he refers to as the ‘movement of subversion and hope’ to stay united because he wants them to be members of the party he will be the leader of. The problem is that once the ambitious Paphite sets up a party he would no longer be able to claim that he is the representative of the citizens. MEANWHILE, sensing a Fuhrer victory today, hosts of arse-lickers both from within and outside DISY have been swarming around Nik in the last couple of weeks to offer their services to him. A politician’s circle of alleged friends and fanatical supporters grows exponentially when he is expected to win an election and decide the distribution of the spoils. And they are as quick to abandon a loser, as Lillikas will soon find out. A tiny fraction of his heroic citizens will stay with his movement of subversion and hope now there is no hope of a public post or a ministerial position. As for Nik, we can only express the hope that he would have his bullshit detector turned on at all times because, apart from the flattery attacks by DISY members he will also be at the mercy of Garoyian’s mob of principled courtiers who will be desperate to serve the country from a well-paid public post. PIMCO landed the Governor of the Central Bank in the merde this week, because it had the nerve to respond to his arse-covering letter, blaming the consultancy firm for the high bank re-capitalisation figure it came up with. In the letter, Pimco made it very

Nicos Katsourides, AKEL’s bruiser and Malas minder clear that the “the assumptions that were described as Pimco inputs in your letter were, in fact direct inputs from the steering committee.” It also said that “the assumption for the decline in home prices during the forecast period was an explicit assumption provided by the steering committee to Pimco.” But how would the professor know what the steering committee was doing, when he chose not to sit on it and was represented by middle-ranking technocrat. The Governor could have chaired the steering committee and influenced its decisions as these had to be taken by consensus and there could have been no consensus without the chair’s agreement. The professor, however had more important things to do, like intimidating bank directors and cultivating relations with the media, than waste his time on ensuring Pimco came up with a realistic figure for the re-capitalisation of the banks. WHO WOULD have thought that the Russian Federation would threaten a newspaper with legal action in order to defend the good name of the Soviet Union? It happened in Kyproulla this week, after an article in last Sunday’s Politis which said that “before Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 it secured the approval of the Soviet Union.” The report explained that “Moscow’s motive was the destabilisation of NATO” and added: “Moscow invested in the perpetuation of the status quo in Cyprus and benefited from the consequences the Turkish invasion had on NATO.” This is a perfectly plausible premise, unless you believe AKEL’s myth that the Soviet Union was a force for good, run by angels. Strangely, the embassy of the Russian Federation in Cyprus took offence at the remark and wrote to the paper to complain, describing it as “a blatant distortion of historical truth” The paper had to either “seriously substantiate the allegation with documents and trustworthy testimony or officially deny it,” demanded the Russian embassy press spokesman in his letter. And if it failed to do so “the embassy reserves the right solve the prob-

lem legally.” It would be a fascinating court case, having the Russian Federation, seeking damages for injury caused to the reputation of the Soviet Union, a state which ceased to exist in 1991. I suspect that threatening letter was sent by the embassy spokesman, at the request of AKEL’s commies, the only ‘democratic forces’ in the world with an interest in preserving the good reputation and standing of the Soviet Union. THE Sunday Mail withdraws the report it had on 25.10.09 in relation to Christos Clerides and apologises to him. READERS may have detected a slight bias against the independent candidate of the country’s democratic forces. This is not because Patroclos wants to be appointed a minister in the Fuhrer’s government or is angling for the chairmanship of a privatised SGO, or has a personal grudge against Malas. In fact, I agree with AKEL’s positive campaigning about Malas being a modern, trustworthy and honest man. The truth is that my greengrocer and my plumber are also trustworthy and honest men, but I would not vote for them if they were standing; my barber maybe, as long as he was not backed by AKEL. IF A BUSINESS was on the verge of bankruptcy and needed a new CEO, would the shareholders have hired someone with no experience in running a business and no business qualiﬁcations to save it? Of course not, but this is exactly what AKEL is expecting us to do with Malas. We are being told that some nobody with no political experience (he served as health minister for a year and was a failed parliamentary candidate), no knowledge of management (he was a science researcher) and with a mediocre career record would be suitable to run a country threatened with economic annihilation, because he is an honest and trustworthy man. This is the blackest of all the black propaganda we have heard during this campaign.

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International Education

A WORLD OF CHOICE For the 20th year the International Education Fair will look at opportunities for youngsters in Cyprus, Greece and further afield OR THE 20th year in succession the International Education Fair will be held next week in Nicosia. The International Education Fair offers all round information for educational matters, local and international and it assists all involved with their choices and their work. The International Education Fair since its ﬁrst year was organised and supported by the Ministry of Education. “The Education Fair has played a substantial role to the local community. It records the trend of education through these 20 years and one can see the rapid evolution of education,” commented chairman of the State Fairs Authority Loizos Constantinou. Visitors to the fair will be informed and guided from directors and academics of the schools, regarding the contemporary tendencies in education, the pre-requisites for school entry, the duration of studies and titles acquired as well as the services and other facilities offered during university studies. The upgrading and the high standard of Cyprus’ educational institutions is reﬂected in the exhibition, at which all of Cyprus’ third level education schools will be present.

This year, Cyprus is represented by eight Universities and 15 colleges and third level educational Institutions. The universities are: the University of Cyprus, the Technical University, the Open University as well as 5 private Universities: the European University, the University of Nicosia, Frederick University, Neapolis University of Paphos and the University of Central Lancashire in the Larnaca region. Among the third level educational Institutions are the Higher Hotel Institute and the Research department of the Institute of Neurology and Genetics for post graduate programmes. Especially important is the participation of the European Parliament which will provide European related information with particular interest to the students and emphasis on the European Union and European Parliament. The Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, participates once again and will inform all interested about its own programmes of vocational education. The Productivity Centre presents the National Centre Europe pass and the Department of Labour presents the Euroguidance Center and the Ploteus Web Portal.

Greece is very well represented this year, with 10 well-known universities participating and the new International University of Greece at Thessaloniki, which offers PostGraduate programmes. Participating also are Technological Institutions, two private schools and one publishing company. For the third year Egnatia Aviation will also be present, which specialises in pilot training in Thessaloniki. As for the other 18 countries, besides Cyprus and Greece, participating directly or through a representative, there are 163 Universities and 35 Colleges, the French Cultural Centre, the German Goethe Institute, the American Fulbright Commission, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Cervantes Institute of Spain. Britain will be represented by 60 Universities. In the stand of the Embassy of Netherlands there will be 14 universities. The Ministry of Education’s stand has the theme Educational Reform from theory to practice. At the 20th International Education Fair there are 290 participants covering a space of 2,200 square meters. At the fair the following 15 countries are represented: Australia,

Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the Slovak Republic, the United Kingdom, the United States of America. Apart from the exhibition aspect the Education Fair will operate as a platform for lectures and speeches in order to expand other areas of education. Celebrating the 20 year anniversary the exhibition will offer visitors the chance to take part in a competition and win gifts like tablets. The competition will take place every

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International Education Exhibitors List MINISTRIES Hellenic Ministry Of Education And Religious Affairs, Culture And Sports 513a Ministry Of Education And Culture Of Cyprus 472 Ministry Of Labour And Social Insurance:Euroguidance – Department Of Labour 425 European Employment Services Network Eures 425 UNIVERSITIES Bulgaria Bulgarian State Universities: Agricultural University – Plovdiv 460 Medical Universities – Pleven, Varna 460 Plovdiv University 460 Ruse Iniversity “Angel Kanchev” 460 Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”460 Technical University Of Sofia 460 Technical University Of Sofia (Branch Plovdiv) 460 University Of Architecture, Civil Engineering And Geodesy – Sofia 460 University Of Chemical Technology And Metallurgy –Sofia 460 University Of Food Technologies – Plovdiv 460 University Of Forestry - Sofia 460 University Of Mining And Geology - Sofia 460 University Of National And World Economy – Sofia 460 Medical University – Plovdiv 463 Medical University – Sofia 460, 461, 470 National Sports Academy “Vassil Levski” 437 Varna Free University 461 Varna Medical Universit 461 Canada Universities Of Canada 516 Cyprus Cyprus University Of Technology 518 European University Cyprus 408-409 Frederick University Cyprus 422 Neapolis University Pafos 414-415 Open University Of Cyprus 501 University Of Cyprus 519 Uclan Cyprus - University Of Central Lancashire, Cyprus 515 University Of Nicosia 407 Czech Republic Charles University Prague: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy 449, 469, 470 Masaryk University In Brno: Medicine, Dentistry 449, 469 Palacky University In Olomouc: Medicine, Dentistry 449, 469 3rd Faculty Of Medicine – Charles University In Prague – General Medicine 471 Faculty Of Medicine – Charles University In Prague – Hradec Kralove – General Medicine & Dentistry 471 Faculty Of Pharmacy Charles University In Prague – Hradec Kralove 471 Faculty Of Physical Education, Sport And Physiotherapy In Prague – Charles University

471 Institute For Language And Preparatory Studies – Charles University In Prague (Foundation) 471 Music Studies And Musicology – Charles University In Prague 471 Faculty Of Architecture In Prague – Master Program 471 University Of Veterinary And Pharmaceutical Sciences In Brno 471 Ims (International Medicine Studies) Veterinary Hygiene And Ecology 454 Denmark Aalborg University 509 Aarhus University 509 Copenhagen Business School 509 It University Of Copenhagen 509 Roskilde University 509 Technical University Of Copenhagen 509 University Of Copenhagen 509 University Of Southern Denmark 509 Finland Aalto University 509 Arcada 509 Centria University Of Applied Sciences 509 Diaconia University Of Applied Sciences 509 Haaga-Helia University Of Applied Sciences 509 Mikkeli University Of Applied Sciences 509 Laurea University Of Applied Sciences 509 Tampere University Of Applied Sciences 509 University Of The Arts Helsinki 509 University Of Helsinki 509 University Of Jyvaskyla 509 University Of Tampere 509 Vaasa University Of Applied Sciences 509 France The University Francois-Rabelais-Tours 502 The University Of Montpellier 3 502 Greece Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki 518a Athens University Of Economics & Business 518a Greek Open University 518a Ionian University 518a International Hellenic University 518a Univesity Of Patras 518a University Of Pireaus 518a University Of Thessalia 518a Hungary University Of Debrecen – Medical School 424 Mcdaniel University Of Social & Economic Science 456 Pecs University Of Medical Science 456 Semmelweis University Of Medical & Health Science 456 Szent Istvan University Of Veterinary Science 456 Szeged University Of Med. Science 456 Israel Bar-Ilan University 514 Ben-Guirion University Of The Negev 514 Hebrew University Of Jerusalem 514 Technion – Israel Institute Of Techn. 514 Tel Aviv University 514

University Of Haifa Italy Domus Academy Laba (Libera Academia Di Belle Arti) Naba (Nuova Academia Di Belle Arti)

514 438 438

438, 454 Unicusano 438 Netherlands Erasmus University Rotterdam 510 Open University 510 Radboud University Nijmegen 510 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 510 Tilburg University 510 Leiden University 510 Maastricht University 510 Technical University Delft 510 Technical University Eindhoven 510 Technical University Twente 510 Utrecht University 510 University Of Amsterdam 510 Vrije University Amsterdam 510 Wageningen University 510 Westus Academy 439 Poland Ims (International Medicine Studies) – Veterinary 454 Slovak Republic Ims (International Medicine Studies) Medicine 454 Safarik University (Kosice) 470 Slovak Medical University Bratislava 470 Technical Univ. (Bratislava-Slovakia) 470 The Comenius Med Univ Bratislava 451, 470 United Kingdom Anglia Ruskin University - Cambridge 426, 430-431 Bangor University 454 Birmingham City Univ. 429, 430-431, 455 Birmingham University 428 Bolton University, Greater Manchester 430-431 Brighton University 454 Coventry University 428, 430-431 De Montfort University - Leicester 426,428, 429 Derby University 430-431 Herriot Watt University 426 Leeds Metropolitan University 426 Liverpool John Moores Univ. 430-431 London Arts University – The Language Centre 462 London Metropolitan University 429 London School Of Bus. & Finance 432 London South Bank University 462 Manchester Metropolitan University 429 Middlesex University 430-431 Newcastle University 428 Northumbria University - Nottingham 426 Northumbria University – Newcastle 432, 454, 457 Nottingham Trent University 430-431 Portsmouth University 455, 457 Robert Gordon Univ 430-431 Shefﬁeld Hallam University 455 Southampton Solent University 429,430-431, 462 Sunderland University 429, 432, 455, Uclan – Preston 426 University Campus Suffolk 428 University Of Bedfordshire 455

University Of Bournemouth University Of Bradford University Of Buckingham University Of Central Lancashire University Of Chichester University Of Dundee University Of Durham University Of East Anglia University Of East London (Cyprus University Of Essex University Of Glamorgan – Cardiff

434 458 432 462 430-431 432 429 450 455 426, 428, 454 University Of Glasgow 426 University Of Huddersfield 426, 432 University Of Hull 457 University Of Leeds 426, 432 University Of Leicester 455 University Of Nottingham 430-431 University Of Roehampton - London 426 University Of Salford – Manchester 426, 432 University Of Staffordshire 455 University Of Stirling 426, 457 University Of Surrey 457 University Of The Creative Arts 430-431 Univ. Of The West Of England, Bristol 426 University Of The West Of England/ Alexander College 452-453 University Of Ulster 455 University Of Westminster 428 University Of Wolverhampton 457 West London University 430-431 York St John University 454 Foundation Courses Ireland Dublin Inter. Foundation College 455 Institute Of Education In Ireland 428 United Kindgom Bellerbys College (Studygroup 454 Ufp (University Foundation Program) 454 UK Foundation Course In Athens 432 University Of Liverpool 430-431 University Of London (Foundation In Medicine) 430-431 University Of Manchester 430-431 University Of Sheffield 430-431 U.S.A Alfred University, New York 430-431 Berkeley College, New York 430-431 Colorado State University 429 Concordia University, California 430-431 Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey 430-431 Florida International University 430-431 Hawaii Pacific University 430-431 Johnson & Wales University 429, 430-431 Marshall University 429 Oregon State University 429 South Florida University 429 University Of Bridgeport 430-431 University Of New Haven 430-431 Public Tertiary Educational Institutions – Cyprus Higher Hotel Institute Cyprus 418-419 Private Institutions Of Tertiary Education In Cyprus Aigaia School Of Art & Design 420 Alexander College/University Of The West Of England 452-453

Arte Music Academy 411 C.D.A. College 402-404 Casa College 461 Cyprus College 408-409 Cyprus International Institute Of Management (CIIM Business School) 412 Cyprus School Of Molecular Medicine 503 Frederick Institute Of Technology 422 Global College 413 Intercollege 407 Kes College 401 P. A. College 405 The Cyprus Institute Of Marketing 433 The Limassol College T.L.C 410 Other Private Schools And Educational Centers In Cyprus Perfect Look Ac/my Hair & Beauty 402-404 R & Z Hair & Beauty Techniques 416 Colleges And Academies – Overseas Vocational Education Institutions – Preparatory Colleges – Overseas Bulgaria Higher School Of Construction Engineering – Sofia 460 National Academy Of Arts – Sofia 460 National Academy Of Theatre And Film Arts – Sofia 460 Canada Colleges Of Canada 516 Greece Delta Institute Of Vocational Training 506 Italy Academia Italiana 454 Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri 438 Centro Studi Italinani 438 Istituto Europeo Di Design (Ied) 454 Istituto Marangoni 454 Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Language School) 454 Switzerland Swiss Education Group – Shms 468 United Kingdom Abbey Dld Group Of Colleges (Birmingham, Cambridge, London, Manchester) 462 Bellerbys College (Studygroup) 457 Cambridge Regional College 426 Chichester College 457 Colchester English Study Centre (Essex) 454 Excel College (English Language Provider At Manchester) 454 Kaplan Business School 429 Kingston College 426 Lsc (London School Of Commerce) 454 New College Manchester 432 New College Nottingham 462 Newcastle College 426 Sheffield College 455 St Giles (English Language Provider) 454 Student Centers Into: Into University Partnerships Limited (City University Of London, Queen’s University Belfast, St George’s University Of London, University Of East Anglia, University Of Exeter, University Of Glasgow Caledonian, University Of Manchester, University Of Newcastle) 426, 454 Cultural Educational Centers French Institute Of Cyprus 502

Goethe Zentrum Nicosia 504 Instituto Cervantes Of Spain 505 Academic Consultants A.A. Unilink Education Services Ltd 458a A & H Examsnet 423 Academic Agency (Czech) 449 Alpha Academic Consultants 432 Antoniano Italstydy Ltd – Studies In Italy 438 Emfasis Educational Group 470 Global S & C Educational Services 430-431 Institute Of Professional Careers’ Adviser Michael Vasiliou 427 Medical Universities Of Hungary 456 Middleton Educare 457 N & D Nicolaides Ltd 451 Saveriades C.C. Educational Organization 461 Savvides Education Counselling 455 Michalis Ch. Spyrou Education Services 448 Status Education Centre 462 Studentenquiry.Org 472 Study Abroad Education Counsellors – United Kingdom, Italy 454 Studynet Academic Consultants 426 TCS Educational Consultants 429 Zenol Education Center 428

Professional Bodies And Other Organisations Egnatia Aviation – Pilot Training College 517 European Commission Representation In Cyprus 512 European Computer Driving Licence 406 Foundation For The Management Of European Lifelong Learning Programmes 417 Horizon Cyprus – Proﬁler 508 Human Resource Development Authority Of Cyprus 421 ICT Europe – Kebe 507 Youth Board Of Cyprus 443 Embassies French Embassy 502 German Embassy 504 Embassy Of Denmark 509 Embassy Of Finland 509 Embassy Of Ireland 428 Embassy Of Israel 514 Embassy Of Italy 513 Embassy Of The Kingdom Of The Netherlands 510 Embassy Of Spain 505 Australian High Commission 428 Consulate Of Canada 516 Qualiﬁcation Exams Pearson (Lcci, Edexcel, Btec) 436 Publishing Houses/Booksellers Ion Publishing Group 446 Accommodation Services Chambers 457 Derwent Living Student Accommodation 462 Liberty Living (Student UK Acc/tion) 454 Opal Student Accommodation 457, 458a Victoria Hall Ltd 435 Internet And Telecom. Services Providers Primetel Plc 466-467 E-Learning Frontistirio.Com 464 Sponsor Cooperative Central Bank 511

Select Canada for a premier education HE Consulate of Canada, Nicosia provides general information on Canadian Universities which are members of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). Information is also provided on scholarships, distance learning, courses, and short term language courses for English and French. Information on how to apply for a student visa is also provided. The Consulate of Canada participates annually in the International Education Fair. Almost 240,000 international students selected Canada in 2011 for a premier education, access to global career opportunities and an exciting crosscultural experience. Choose from among Canada’s topranked colleges and universities for the highest quality education and return home with a globally recognised degree.

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Canada excels in language instruction given its diverse language communities. English is the language of instruction at most Canadian universities, however some teach in French and also offer bilingual options. Take advantage to perfect your language skills in a comfortable and friendly environment!

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Immigration considerations International students studying for more than six months must receive a study permit before arriving in Canada. In some cases, a temporary resident visa may also be required depending on your country of citizenship.

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Lifestyle

Out of this world: the mother ship, WhiteKnightTwo, will release the spaceship at an altitude of 15.5km

Beam me up, Branson Tickets cost €150,000 and the entrepreneur’s space tourists will cruise around the earth, enjoying views 1,600 km wide, says WIRED magazine’s Adam Higginbotham

OMETIMES, it almost seems to disappear into the desert. Conceived as a conjuring trick of architecture and topography, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space rises in a sinuous curve from the New Mexico dust, its steel surfaces weathered into a red-brown mirage on the horizon. The route that the package-tour astronauts of tomorrow will take through the building has been meticulously devised by the architects of Foster + Partners to foreshadow the journey they will make into space: a concrete ramp ascends gently towards the centre of the building - a narrow, hooded cleft that even in the blinding southwestern sunshine forms a small rectangle of perfect darkness. A magnetic tag worn by each passenger triggers heavy steel doors that will open into a narrow and dimly lit passageway, the walls curving out towards another blackened doorway, and a catwalk with views of the 4,300 square-metre hangar four storeys below, housing the fleet of spacecraft in which they will travel. And then, the finale: the last set of doors swings open into the astronaut lounge, a vast, open space filled with natural light from an elliptical wall of windows, offering a panorama of the 3km-long spaceport runway, and the sky beyond. The effect is just as the architects intended: although the building is not yet complete, when a group of prospective space tourists was brought to it, they found the experience so overwhelming they were moved to tears. Yet there remains a great deal at stake out here in the desert. There are now nine locations in the US designated as spaceports, but the New Mexico complex - Spaceport America - is the only one built from scratch and designed to accommodate a regular passenger service. It was raised from nothing on an isolated plain 30 miles from the nearest town. Creating it has not been cheap: to date, it has cost €180 million and the bill for the runway alone will be €28 million. And although the building at its centre bears Virgin Galactic’s name and was designed to the company’s requirements, it has been paid for by the state of New Mexico, whose citizens voted for a sales tax

The Gateway to Space terminal

Virgin Galactic’s CEO George Whitesides with SpaceShipTwo designed to finance its construction. On a cold November morning, Christine Anderson, the former US Air Force official now charged with bringing Spaceport America to life, stands on a wind-whipped access road near the Gateway to Space. “This is the beginning of the commercial passenger space-line industry,” she says. Anderson’s crews are on target to complete their work by the end of this year; Virgin Galactic plans a regular service - launching daily flights into space - for the start of 2014. She is optimistic about the future: daily sub-orbital passenger flights will be followed by point-topoint intercontinental travel that will traverse the globe in the time it takes to watch an in-flight movie; trips out of the Earth’s atmosphere will become as commonplace as taking a bus. “I hope,” Branson says later, “it’s the beginning of a whole new era in space travel.” But before that can happen, Virgin Galactic will have to finish building its rocket. When complete, SpaceShip Two’s cabin space will be 2.28m in diameter and 3.5m long, half the size of that in a small business jet. After a take-off, tethered beneath the mothership - WhiteKnightTwo, a twin fuselage turbojet with a 42m wingspan - the ascent to launch altitude will be the longest single part of the journey, taking more than an hour to reach nine miles high. “There’s no drinks service, no

Virgin Galactic will travel 110km up into space. The moon is another 384,000km away newspapers,” says Dave Mackay, the former RAF test pilot and Virgin Atlantic captain who will be in the cockpit for Galactic’s ﬁrst ﬂights. Once released from the mother ship, the spaceship drops away to a safe distance, where the pilot ignites the rocket motor, using two cockpit switches. With an unthrottled shriek, the rocket-plane shudders to full thrust within a tenth of a second, its nose pointed straight

up to where the air thins towards the edge of space. At the instant of ignition, the passengers are thrown back into their seats with the full force of 3G, like being hurled against a brick wall. It’s 12 seconds to the sound barrier, 30 to Mach 2; within a minute, the spacecraft is travelling at 4,800kph. “You’ll feel all the effects of what an astronaut goes through going to orbit,” says Steve Isakowitz, Galactic’s chief technical officer, an aerospace engineer and former administrator at Nasa. “The noise, the vibration, the acceleration, are almost the same as if you were sitting there in the Space Shuttle trying to go up to orbit.” In those few seconds, the sky beyond the cockpit window tumbles through the spectrum of blues, from the rich azure of southern California to navy, indigo and then - abruptly it turns black. “Not grey, black,” says test pilot Mike Melvill. “As black as black paint.” After around 80 seconds, and 110km above the Earth’s surface, the pilot cuts the engine, and the rocket-plane enters zero gravity. The passengers have now become astronauts. Releasing their seatbelts, they float around the cabin, and gaze at the view: 1,600km from horizon to horizon, the curvature of the Earth subtle but clear, the fine blue line of the atmosphere easily visible against the blackness of space.

On-board cameras will capture every second of the experience, according to Virgin Galactic’s Mark Butler, who is leading the company’s preparations to open Spaceport America: “It will be the most photographed event of their lives,” he says. It will also be one of the shortest. At the top of a parabolic arc, the rocketplane will spend only four minutes in space before it begins to fall back down to Earth. The pilot positions the “feather” for re-entry, and the six passengers will fold their seats ﬂat to enable them to cope with the 4-5G of acceleration they’ll encounter when returning to Earth’s atmosphere. After a 15-minute glide, they land on the runway. If everything goes to plan, it may, after all, be possible for the world’s ﬁrst commercial space-line to begin service from Spaceport America within a year. In the meantime, the €150,000 tickets keep selling. At the start of last year, actor Ashton Kutcher became the 500th person to sign up, joining cosmologist Stephen Hawking, designer Philippe Starck and Dallas star Victoria Principal on the list of passengers. But not all the celebrities so far reported to be planning sightseeing trips in space have reserved tickets. Virgin has been discreet about the full list; all it will reveal is that, in the interests of democracy, Branson has insisted that no one gets a complimentary ride, no matter how famous they are.

21 SUNDAY MAIL • February 24, 2013

Business & Jobs

UK inheritance tax bills are set to rise The inheritance tax nil rate band is to be frozen for several more years Investment Bill Blevins Bill Blevins is managing director of Blevins Franks International. Tel: 26-912315 UK INHERITANCE tax bills could rise, and more families dragged into the inheritance tax net, over the next six years. We have warned for some time that increasing longevity will lead to higher taxes, and the UK government has now taken the step to increase revenue as part of its reform of the cost of social care for the elderly. On February 11 Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt conﬁrmed speculation that the inheritance tax nil rate band - the amount of your estate your heirs can inherit tax free - will be frozen for several more years. This is effectively a tax rise in real terms because of inﬂation. If you are a British domi-

cile, UK inheritance tax is charged on your worldwide estate at the time of your death, plus any assets you gave away as gifts over the last seven years. Since it is based on domicile rather than residence, British expatriates continue to be liable for this tax, unless they have successfully adopted a domicile of choice in their new country of residence. UK assets are always liable to inheritance tax regardless of domicile. Changing your domicile is hard, but not impossible if you intend to live in Cyprus permanently and cut ties with the UK. You need professional guidance because getting it wrong could be very costly for your heirs. The current nil rate band is £325,000 per individual. Spouses and civil partners have a potential combined threshold of £650,000. The tax rate is then a ﬁxed 40 per cent. In the past this threshold increased each year with inﬂation but it has been frozen since April 2009 as an austerity measure. The 2012 budget it was stated that there would be no change until at least April

The current nil rate band is £325,000 per individual 2015. The Autumn Statement last December included the news that the threshold would increase by one per cent, rounded up to £329,000, from 2015. Just a couple of months

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later, however, this has been overturned. The threshold will now remain frozen until at least 2019. This is part of the government’s plans for funding care for the elderly. It proposes that from 2017 a cap

of £75,000 will be introduced on the costs people pay for care. After this the state will take over the costs. It is calculated that freezing the threshold until 2019 will bring an extra 5,000 estates into the inheritance tax net, earning the treasury an extra £1 billion tax revenues each year. If the threshold increased with inﬂation, it would reach £420,000 by 2019. This means that families could lose an extra £95,000 from their inherited estates in 2019. The government argues that this is a fair system as people will not be forced to sell their home and/or use all of their savings to pay for care. On the other hand, the chief executive of the Taxpayer’s Alliance, Matthew Sinclair, commented: “This sleight of hand from the chancellor is unfairly punishing families who simply want to leave something to their relatives when they pass on. “Inheritance tax is a double tax on assets and income that the taxman has already taken his cut of many times over.”

Longevity will continue to be a headache for governments. It will remain an issue long after the economic crisis is behind us. This means that they may still have to increase tax revenue even when the need for austerity measures is over. For advice on tax planning for today and the future, on your estate as well as on your savings and investments, seek expert professional advice from a ﬁrm like Blevins Franks which has decades of experience advising British expatriates on effective tax mitigation and wealth management strategies. The tax rates, scope and relief may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual should take personalised advice. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks. com

British shoppers may pay high price from horsemeat scandal By James Davey and Neil Maidment FOR BRITONS worried last week’s beef lasagne was in fact a helping of horse, peace of mind that such a meal will never reach dining tables again may come at a price. Livestock specialists say that contrary to some public comments by supermarkets, ensuring a chain of quality from farm to table will cost money - particularly at the cheaper, ready-made meal end. “How can you supply a meal for two people for a pound,” said Andrew Hyde, managing director of British meat supplier Traymoor. “I know what things cost and I know that if I was to put six ounces of quality mincemeat into a lasagne or a cottage pie

then I would have to charge twice that price,” he said. The horsemeat scandal, which has triggered product recalls across Europe and damaged confidence in the food industry, erupted last month when tests in Ireland revealed some beef products sold there and in Britain contained equine DNA. The British government has come under pressure to act and to explain lapses in quality control. Supermarkets, catering and restaurant firms, as well as food manufacturers, are battling to restore consumer confidence amid a welter of lurid headlines playing on a popular British queasiness about eating horsemeat. Although Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, has said raising standards “doesn’t mean more expensive food”, many

in the meat industry are not convinced. “Producing high quality, fully traceable, high welfare standard livestock costs money to put on peoples’ tables,” said Peter Garbutt, chief livestock adviser for Britain’s farmers union, the NFU. He said consumers had to be more realistic. Lawmakers are expected to respond to the scandal with further regulation to ensure an ongoing regime of product testing, quality assurance and policing of standards. With DNA testing costing up to 500 pounds ($770) per sample, creating a robust regime will not come cheap. Analysts reckon value lines, such as frozen beefburgers or spaghetti bolognese readymeals, are currently so cheap and proﬁt margins so thin that supermarkets have little room for manoeuvre. “I don’t think there’s any way that we can escape the viewpoint that the price of having guaranteed food in terms of it contains what it says it contains is ultimately higher prices,” said Neil Saunders of retail research agency Conlumino. “We might be speaking about a couple of pence on an item, because this is a game about volume.” That would add to food price inﬂation, already running at 4.9 per cent in the 12 weeks to Jan. 20 as a result of high commodity prices, according to market researcher Kantar, causing a further squeeze on the budgets of shoppers reeling from meagre wage rises and government austerity measures.

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Finding bailout wiggle room Bailout negotiations require research, standby emergency measures and alternatives Comment Costas Apostolides HE NEGOTIATIONS with the Eurogroup are not going well, and the northern block of the Eurozone is putting forward a serious of positions which cannot and should not be accepted, because they would result in extreme austerity based on Scrooge book-keeping with no relationship to economic policies that encourage an early economic recovery. Essentially the policy of the Eurogroup is that Cyprus is a small country, so let’s squeeze it by destroying the ﬁnancial system, taking over its gas reserves, killing the international companies there, throwing out dirt about money laundering and removing the obstacles to Turkey’s accession to the European Union. Essentially it is a concerted campaign directed at depleting the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus to that of a servile beggar status. It appears that at an ofﬁcial level representatives of states within the Eurogroup took the “beggars cannot be choosers” approach. That cannot be described as consistent with European solidarity, but it is the reality. In fact it is as if the Tea Party of the United States has taken over the northern states of Europe plus the Netherlands. It is this attitude that poses the real systemic risk to the eurozone.

THE BIG DELUSION The problems caused by this attitude problem within the northern Eurozone north are described very well in Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman’s book End this Depression Now!, a book which is excellent on analysis but spends less time on presenting concrete proposals for growth. Krugman calls the northern European view the “Big Delusion”, which he states is “the belief that Europe’s crisis is essentially caused by ﬁscal irresponsibility”, and that this should be dealt with by imposing “rules that will keep this from happening again”. Translated the attitude is that the debtor states are irresponsible, so why should we bail them out? This view ignores the fact that

the southern states were hit by the recession initially through loss of tourist and property markets from countries afflicted first, northern states such as the UK, but also that the recession reduces government revenues and increases costs (unemployed, social safety nets etc). Admittedly in Greece there was a lack of controls and supervision (for example, the number of blind taxi drivers etc), but the real problems arose only when the rules changed and Greece revealed the scale of its military debt. As a result Greece, which consistently has the highest military expenditure in Europe and NATO, then showed an enormous debt, way beyond the previous level of over 100 per cent of GDP (with Italy and Belgium). This military debt has also arisen from a lack of solidarity in the EU regarding the problems with Turkey including the Cyprus and Aegean issues. Krugman also highlights another problem of the eurozone, that countries that have their own currencies have greater independence in economic policy and can, if necessary, cover losses of deficit or bank recapitalisation requirements from own funds (essentially by printing money, an option similar in many ways to the respectable “quantitative easing” carried out in many such countries). Furthermore, countries with their own currencies can overcome the problem of competitiveness virtually overnight and with minimal social strife, by devaluing their currency. Admittedly it is easier to do in a relatively large economy (USA, Germany) than in Cyprus with its small very open economy, but it offers a solution if combined with other measures and low inflation rates (which are suppressed in a recession).

PROPOSED ACTIONS Given the present situation, what actions need to be taken? First it is clear that a bailout will not be agreed in the Eurogroup in March. All Cyprus’ political parties agree that the Eurogroup decision to proceed with an investigation into money laundering in Cyprus by a private company as a condition of a bailout is unconstitutional and unacceptable. This being the case, the priorities should then be as follows: The government needs to raise funds at a reasonable cost to en-

Student grants for those in state universities should be scrapped

‘At present the Eurogroup is ignoring all principles other than those of Scrooge-like austerity’ sure it can meet its payments in the short term (at least until June). You cannot play tough in negotiations and want an immediate bailout to prevent a halt on payments by the state. As stated in a previous article funds can be raised if backed by collateral (ie gold, land and other assets). The implications of a delay in the bailout on the economy and the ﬁnancial system need to be studied and emergency legal measures need to be in place in case they are required. Where there are legal or constitutional problems the “law of necessity provides a way out” in extreme scenarios. The money laundering situation should be tackled pro-actively, with a proposal that it is a universal European problem and needs to be handled that way, and by fol-

lowing up cases such as the massive money laundering by HSBC in the USA, or Deutsch Bank in Germany to see whether Cyprus banks and local companies were involved. In other words follow up, and pester the authorities throughout Europe to demonstrate that the problem is much bigger elsewhere, and to ensure that in Cyprus the regulations have been upheld. At the same time, the money laundering regulatory authorities and financial police (MOKAS) need to be strengthened and become proactive. Further measures should be taken to balance the government budget. Reductions could be achieved by ministries being forced to set their priorities, reducing the huge cost of state universities (about €75,000 per student over four years)by bringing in a means test for high income persons, eliminating state student grants for those in state universities, adopting a land tax that is not progressive and based on current values of property, and numerous other measures such as the exclusion of benefits from the state in any sector (including agriculture and university education) unless tax forms are filled in and submitted.

THE OPTIONS In all negotiations, the weaker party - in this case Cyprus - should ﬁrst ensure it has the resources to hang on until it gets a reasonable agreement. There is no point in the politicians talking tough if they need an immediate bail out, and they should have other options in case negotiations stall or fail. Furthermore the weaker

party should consistently refer to principles of negotiation, such as international law, precedents and fairness, though at present the Eurogroup is ignoring all principles other than those of Scrooge-like austerity. But most important of all, it is essential to have options and the ability to walk out of negotiations and to take a different course of action. The strongest option is known as BATNA - The Best Alternative to a Negotiated Settlement - which would really raise the issue of the systemic risk to the whole eurozone. The question then rises as to what is the BATNA of Cyprus in the present situation? More research is required, but the two most promising options would appear to be for Cyprus to leave the eurozone and re-introduce the Cyprus pound, or for a mediumto long-term loan from a source outside the EU. A return to the Cyprus pound is the more radical option, but also the one that poses the highest systemic risk to Europe, and provides immediate relief to Cyprus, while improving competitiveness. Raising the spectre of a move out of the eurozone will concentrate the minds of the Europeans, because the big systemic risk is by leaving the Eurozone Cyprus could prove that the policies of the EU are wrong, and that would be a lesson for Spain and Italy to absorb. These options will be the subject of my next article. Costas Apostolides is chairman of EMS Economic Management Ltd, (costas.a@highwaycommunications.com)

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Property

Tehran’s Azadi Tower, witness to history, victim of neglect Damage to structure that has served as a symbol of Tehran to outside world concerns many Iranians By Yeganeh Torbati

ITHIN days of the 2009 election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to ofﬁce, demonstrations engulfed Tehran and other Iranian cities, centred on the capital’s sprawling Azadi Square. The unrest’s deﬁning moment took place on June 15 around the square’s white marble monument, where photographer Hasan Sarbakhshian found himself in the early evening after walking street by street through western Tehran feeling a heady mix of hope, excitement and worry. His press card revoked by authorities weeks earlier, Sarbakhshian used a simple digital camera to record the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in silence below the monument, accessory and observer to four

decades of tumultuous political history. “As a photographer I saw Azadi Tower as a character in my pictures,” said Sarbakhshian, who also photographed pro-government rallies there and now lives in the United States. “It’s a witness, a third eye.” But the tower, having stood through Iran’s explosive revolution in 1979 and an eightyear-long war with Iraq in the 1980s, is now falling victim to neglect and shoddy repairs, and suffers from extensive internal water damage. “Azadi Tower is exposed to humidity, and still no one has paid any attention,” Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, an architect and former cultural heritage ofﬁcial, told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) recently. “The past disregard of this valuable building must be rectiﬁed.” Completed in 1971, the tower is shaped in the form of an inverted letter Y and features

A man climbs the Azadi tower during a rally in support of former presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran in this June 15, 2009 photo

London Shard group to manage 1,000m tower project in Saudi THE builder of The Shard skyscraper in London will be the project manager for the planned $1.2 billion, 1,000-metre Kingdom Tower skyscraper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Mace will manage the development in a joint venture with construction consultant EC Harris, part of Dutch group Arcadis, and the tower will be built by Saudi construction ﬁrm Bin Laden Group. The tower’s height will exceed a kilometer - precisely by how much is a secret but the structure will take over from Dubai’s 828-metre tall Burj Khalifa as the world’s tallest skyscraper. Plans were unveiled 18 months ago by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as the centrepiece to the

Kingdom City development in Jeddah, a major Red Sea port. “One of the reasons we hired them is they are going to use the same team that was on The Shard,” Waleed Abduljaleel Batterjee, chief executive of developer Jeddah Economic Company, told British trade magazine Building. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is undertaking multi-billion dollar projects to improve its infrastructure and meet its massive housing needs, spending over $400 billion in the ﬁve years to 2013 in addition to more than $130 million in social spending. Jeddah, the country’s second largest city with around four million residents, has long complained of neglect.

Public image: demonstrators in Azadi Square during a 2009 demonstration

a design inﬂuenced by both pre- and post-Islamic architecture. Iranian news organisations have published pictures of cracked stones, water dripping from ceilings and peeling walls. ISNA quoted an unnamed expert as saying repairs in 2010 to the tower and the museum complex below were to blame. “Two years ago the municipality rebuilt (Azadi), and drainage systems in different sections of the complex were destroyed,” the expert told ISNA in December. “Now, with the slightest rain, the rainwater has nowhere to go.” A committee has been formed to determine next steps, but any repairs must be delayed until the weather warms up. “Azadi Tower’s foundations and ceiling are stricken with serious problems,” municipal ofﬁcial Gholamreza Ahmadi told state news agency IRNA. “Azadi Tower has not been well cared for.” News of the damage to a structure that has served as a symbol of Tehran to the outside world concerns many Iranians, not least the monument’s creator, Hossein Amanat. A member of the persecuted Baha’i faith, Amanat

was one of many prominent Iranians compelled to leave the country during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is worried that the authorities will not address the problem urgently or competently. “I feel responsible to talk about how urgent it is for them... to correct the damage they have done themselves to this building,” he said. “They should find qualified and informed people to do it.” Amanat was 24 when he spotted a two-paragraph notice in the Etelaat newspaper in 1966 advertising a contest to design a monument to commemorate 2,500 years of Persian monarchy. A fresh graduate of the University of Tehran’s architecture school, he had planned to emigrate to the United States to continue his studies but stayed instead to work on his design. The resulting monument features two prominent arches: one a sweeping parabola reminiscent of ancient Iranian architecture, and the other more representative of Iran’s Islamic identity, evoking its many grand mosques. “It’s really an allusion to prominent periods in the history of Iran,” said Amanat, now 70 and living in Canada. “It reflects my great imaginations about the history of Iran and the fascination it

had for me since childhood. “It is the essence that I understood as a simple young boy in those days.” The completed tower was named Shahyad Aryamehr, or King Memorial, and coincided with a push by the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to encourage tourism and investment by the West. Its shape, suggesting a curtain ﬂuttering open in the wind, was an entrance to the city. “Shahyad became the perfect metaphor for the many cultural paradoxes that were the rapidly changing Tehran,” wrote Abbas Milani, an Iran expert at Stanford University, in his 2011 biography of the Shah. “Shahyad was a gateway to the future and a celebration of the past.” But by the late 1970s, the monarchy that Shahyad was built to honour was losing its grip on power. Iranians ﬂocked to Shahyad Square during the revolution to demand the return of exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who would eventually found the Islamic Republic. Grainy photos show them bearing banners with Khomeini’s picture and standing atop the gleaming monument’s base. Those images helped the tower shed its royal associations and ensure its survival under Iran’s new rulers, who

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removed other icons connected to the Shah but embraced Shahyad, renaming it Azadi, or Freedom. The square is now often used for pro-government rallies, including to mark the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 10. “This monument is not owned by me or anybody,” Amanat said. “It is something that people in Iran have some connection to.” Previous repairs to the tower used cheap substitutes in place of the original high-quality materials, ISNA has reported, raising doubts about whether future repairs, when they occur, could restore the tower to its former glory. “Not many people know the intricacies in the building,” Amanat said. “It’s a very simple building, but it is very delicate.” He said he sees the damage to Azadi as symbolic of the country’s struggles. In recent weeks, top officials have traded public accusations of corruption, and Western sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme have weighed heavily on the economy and eroded the value of its currency. “It reflects how the country is being managed,” Amanat said. “It’s still standing, but it’s not the way it should be.” DON’T miss this unique opportunity to buy a home of your dreams in Paphos. The new Leptos Coral Seas Villas comprises of three, four and five bedroom, well-presented seafront homes located between the tranquil Sea Caves and the sandy beaches of Coral Bay. These Mediterranean contemporary villas have unobstructed panoramic sea views, advantageous landscaping, exclusivity of terraces, privacy and the single residence feeling. Simple and modern architectural lines, natural materials, thermal insulation, large covered outdoor spaces, in a few words, fresh, practical, green and contemporary. Sunny days with the crescendo of the waves and breezy evenings with the moon bathing the seas, makes them the perfect place for relaxation.

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Property Debenhams, which has now closed down, was a big draw

LEGAL ISSUES WITH GEORGE COUCOUNIS

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Makarios Avenue is now dying Mr Mayor Time to do something to breathe new life into the capital By Antonis Loizou FRICS THE revival of Nicosia’s walled city at a cost (mainly) to the traditional high streets is getting more and more serious as time passes. Debenhams department store on Makarios Avenue has closed down and repercussions for other shops will be very serious. If Zara shuts down and leaves the Avenue as well, then it will be a dead street – originally a street that commanded the highest values in Nicosia. The domino effect will project onto Stassicratous and others such as Themistocles Dervis. The walled city is improving partly due to lower rents and the available moat parking,. The moat lift which was given free by the Karamondanis Group (excellent public spirited effort) never works due to vandalism and will be a problem towards its improvement. We call on Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis to set up a think tank with staff and shop owners, as well as landlords involved to try to come up with ideas for revival. What can we do for Makarios Avenue? Turn Makarios Avenue into a oneway street allowing on street parking for 30 minutes. Reduce the shop business tax to zero for a period of one year (it will hurt the Municipality’s income, but what is the alternative if vacant?). Use your own bus service and others to collect people/shoppers at very low rates to and from various Nicosia

locations and park in the middle of the avenue. Reduce, if possible, property tax for the ex-central high streets provided that 50 per cent of the saving goes to rental reduction for one year (if legally possible). Bus operators to have a reduced income tax (20 per cent) for a period of one year, emanating from operations in the ex-central area. Difﬁcult to apply since we can think of numerous ways to cheat, but let’s examine it. Hold events along Makarios Ave, Stassicratous, Themistocles Dervis streets including stand-up, music, children’s choirs, magicians and others to attract children/mothers/tourists – say three times a week. Get business people to contribute to an ongoing street party – not only for Christmas. Wine industries/bakeries, soft drinks companies and others might be interested in a say – three times a month venture. Give out Municipality medals to all givers, make a fuss over them and even think of an exhibition at the appropriate places. Invite the Police Band, the SBA Forces Band, the UN (especially the Argentineans) and have song and dance parties on pavements. Have a monthly roller skating competition (etc) from Hilton Hotel to the Capital Centre (waiter’s race, baby prams etc). Initiate a ‘love Nicosia taxi’ with a certain number of taxi companies who can pick up customers from the periphery and deliver them to Makarios

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Avenue at 50 per cent of the usual rate. Let’s discuss why and how this can work e.g. Nicosia based companies but with less ‘business tax’ – say trial for three months. Have an open market spot at one of the cental parking places. On an event day get reduced parking fee or free. Use GSP (old football ground) for weekly events ranging from donkey rides to art exhibitions, food kiosks etc. Lovely idea on the moat with the Luna Park, ice-skating – well done. Adopt a 50 per cent discount sale period for all shops and encourage those who are prepared to participate. Get in touch with tour operators, hotels and others explaining why they should visit Nicosia. Use four-seater motorbikes of the Philippino style to have a tour around, using the now unemployed tourist guides. Give licences to say two to three companies with four motorbikes each to start with and 20 depending on the success. Get Nicosia MPs to get involved and to be there at the events. Seduce the TV and radio to participate – live. These and others. We must do something about it Mr Mayor, do not let Nicosia die since time is not on Nicosia’s side. The capital cannot be left to its fate, since a comeback will be most difﬁcult. The capital depends on you. Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents, www.aloizou.com.cy, HQ@aloizou.

EVERY lawyer is obliged to follow the code of etiquette defining his rights and obligations regarding his profession and relationship with his clients, the court, his colleagues and his opponents, the Cyprus Bar Association and trainee lawyers. There are etiquette regulations which a lawyer has to follow relating to his clients and keep high professional standards, since he serves justice. The basis of his professional duty is to defend the rights of his clients to the best of his ability without any fear and in strict compliance with the Advocates Law and ethics. He is bound to honour his profession, exercise it with dignity and serve the truth and the law being free and independent. In this respect, he must always act without accepting any pressure whatsoever and not be influenced by his own interests. Moreover, the trust relationship with his client requires him to act honestly, transparently and with confidentiality. This obligation also applies to his employees and to any person co-operating with him. When a client entrusts him with information and evidence, he must not accept another client who is affected by the said information since he is bound by professional secrecy. The duty to maintain secrecy includes the protection of confidential information provided to him by a third person or arising from any conversation made in the course of an agreement either concluded or not. When a lawyer decides to become a witness in a case, he must cease to represent the client and he may refuse to answer any question which may tend to lead him to violate secrecy. He is not entitled to proceed to or allow any client hunting or use any agents to influence another person to seek his professional service. Furthermore, he must ensure he is not involved in any activities which are not compatible with the legal profession and he must abstain from participating in any commercial or other

business of economic nature. He is only allowed to manage his property and assets and those of his family and be a member of the board of directors or secretary of a company. He can also provide services as a trustee or a consultant either personally or through his firm and such activities are not considered commercial business. With regard to advertising, promotion or of a legal firm, they are permitted to a certain extent and degree but not to self-praise, not to offend, underestimate or criticise any other advocate or law firm, not to appear in posters or on advertising boards, not to contain names of clients without their written consent or to refer or make comparisons to other law firms with regard to the quality of service or the quantity of professional work or hourly fees or other methods of charge. Another duty of a lawyer is to avoid representing a client where conflict of interest arises either between him and the client or with another client. Where an advocate realises that the handling of a case may result a conflict of interest, he must abstain and avoid the risk of violation of secrecy or of prejudice to his independence. There is a duty on behalf of every lawyer, when a case is assigned to him, to disclose to his client any interest he may have in the dispute or any relation to the parties and declare if he is subject to any influence which is against the interest of his client. There is the possibility that a lawyer may withdraw from a case when reasonable cause arises affecting his reputation, dignity or conscience or when a client violates any moral or material obligation to him or if there is disagreement in the handling of the case. George Coucounis is a lawyer specialising in the Immovable Property Law, based in Larnaca, Tel: 24 818288, coucounis.law@ cytanet.com.cy, www.coucounislaw.com

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TO LET NICOSIA October street IN the central part of Makedonitissa – €1100 (H3MAK0004-R) (photos on the website) 4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fireplace, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrigerator, nice mature garden with flowers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighbourhood. Available middle of January. Agios Andreas €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos on website). 5. 3 bedr luxury detached house, 200sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 3wc, blinds and curtains, open plan kitchen with cooker, oven and dishwasher, veranda with bbq, good size garden, covered parking, storage room, alarm system, in a quiet area – Archangellos €1100 (photos in the website). 6. 3 bedr + attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with central heating, a/c, fireplace, modern kitchen open plan with expensive electrical appliances, blinds, garden with grass, over flow swimming pool, covered parking in a quiet area. Available end of February – Makedonitissa €1600 (H4MAK0023-R), (photos on the website). 7. 3 bedr detached ground floor house with separate maid’s room, with very big garden with grass (200sq.m) and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, full a/c, 180sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or NOT, 2 covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood op-

TO LET NICOSIA posite Acropolis park - Acropolis - €1500 - H3ACS0004-R (photos on website). 8. 4 bedr very big luxury semi detached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Consists of big sitting and dining areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 showers, 1 bathroom, central heating, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios football stadium. Available END of February Makedonitissa €1500. 9. New modern luxury very good quality finished semi detached house built in 3 levels. Upstairs 1st level 3 bedrs all en suite+ laundry room, 2nd level big attic room which can be used for office space or bedroom. Ground floor with 2 sitting areas ,dining area and breakfast area, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, central heating, full a/c units. Basement with kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher, microwave and 2 refrigerators, sitting room with fireplace, and 2 bedrooms with one bathroom. Outside private fenced garden with artificial grass, bbq area and covered veranda. The house has blinds and shutters on all windows, false ceiling with spot lights throughout house, pressure system, covered parking, satellite dish, central music and network system, storage room, very good double glazed windows. Behind General flooring in the centre of Makedonitissa

TO LET NICOSIA - €2000 (H4MAK0001-R), (photos on the website). 10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website). 11. 4 bedr new luxury finished detached house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big kitchen with cooker oven, dishwasher and big family room, aluminium shutters in all the house, separate big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, 2 covered parking, alarm system, big covered patio, SWIMMING POOL, in a newly built area near Falcon school – Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website). 12. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 450sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big kitchen with sitting room and fireplace and all the electrical appliances, all the sitting areas viewing the garden with grass, blinds on all windows downstairs, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, main bedroom with jacuzzi, 2 covered parking spaces near Alpha Mega supermarket and English School. AVAILABLE END OF JUNE 2013 – Strovolos €2700 (H4ST1003-R), (photos on the website). 13. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedrooms in the basement luxury detached house (all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which also has

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TO LET NICOSIA chine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website). 4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heating-independent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, covered parking and big over floor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi

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TO LET NICOSIA ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital. – Dasoupoli €500 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website) 8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €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

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 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) . 10. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment, 85sq.m, big sitting room, big fully equipped kitchen, nicely modern furnished, storage heaters, full a/c, big bedrooms, covered veranda with nice view, covered parking, off Prodromou street. – 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. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighbourhood off Kallipoleos Street - Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0024-R) (photos on the website) 13. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heat-

TO LET NICOSIA ing independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building - €650 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos on the website) 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq. m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol, full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse,165sq.m+80sq.m verandah with bbq, central heating ind, full AC, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with dining area, fully MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Athalassa Avenue near Stephanis Electrinics and English school – Strovolos €800 (A3ST10013-R) (photos in the website) 16. New luxury finished 4 bed PENTHOUSE apartment in a small modern building, 186sq. m+90sq.m big veranda with nice view, separate floor heating, fully air conditioned, 4wc, 2 en suite bedrooms with shower,1 bathroom, solid parquet floor all through, big sitting and dining areas with electric modern shutters opening to the veranda, fully equipped

TO LET NICOSIA kitchen with expensive electrical appliances, 2 parking places (1 covered), in a very quiet neighbourhood ,near the Russian Embassy. AVAILABLE END OF MARCH –Engomi €1900 (A4ENG0005-R) (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at w w w. l a n d t o u r i s t e s t a t e s . com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com

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TO LET LIMASSOL with bathroom upstairs. Central heating, air-conditioning, parking. €750. (negotiable) Tel: 99 675752 FOR RENT five bedroom villa for rent in Agios Sylas (7 minutes from town of Limassol) detached with beautiful panoramic mountain and sea views. It has large sitting dining area, separate kitchen, utility room, office, laundry shoot, four w/c, en-suite master bedroom with walk-inwardrobe. Small kitchen area upstairs between bedrooms, large bedroom balconies. Central heating, air-conditioning, barbaque area. Also has a separate apartment below the house with small kitchen and shower with WC. A nice large gargen and covered parking. €1300. 99675752 ***************************** 3 BEDROOM charming bungalow in Agios Tychonas, 900 sq m plot, 180 covered area, central heating, a/c units in all areas, open fireplace, ensuite master bedroom, alarm system, mosquito nets, very private and quiet area. Mature garden, lawn, swimming pool 4,50 x 9 m. Price: €1600 negotiable. Tel 99417253. ***************************** GROUND FLOOR house 3 bedroom, furnished, area Agios Nectarios, Limassol. Private parking. Price €550. Tel 25752987 or 96535495 ***************************** TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/C-toilet in main bedroom. Semi/full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/

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Motoring

Celebrating 50 years of the Porsche 911 ‘Only car you can drive on safari, at Le Mans, the theatre or through traffic’

OR five decades, the 911 has been the heart of the Porsche brand. It has inspired car enthusiasts the world over since its debut as the model 901 at the IAA International Automotive Show in September 1963 and is the central point of reference for all other Porsche series. Over 820,000 911s have been built, making it the most successful sports car in the world. Ferry Porsche described its qualities thus: “The 911 is the only car you could drive on an African safari or at Le Mans, to the theatre or through New York City traffic.” Many of the ideas and technologies that made their debut in the Porsche 911 were conceived on the race track. From the start it was committed to the performance principle, and motor racing is its most important test lab. It has been on circuits all over the world, and two thirds of the 30,000 race victories achieved by Porsche to date were notched up by the 911. So the 50th anniversary of this iconic sports car is Porsche’s theme for 2013. There will be all sorts of anniversary events, starting with the ‘Retro Classics’ automobile show in Stuttgart. From 7 to 10 March, the Porsche Museum will have four special exhibits: an early-model 911 Turbo Coupé, a 911 Cabriolet study from 1981, a 1997 road-going ‘street’ version 911 GT1 and the pre-series Type 754 T7. The company is also sending an authentic 1967 model 911 on a world tour. Over the course of the year, this classic car will travel to five continents where it will be shown in places like Pebble Beach, California, China, Goodwood in the UK, Paris and Australia. The Porsche Museum is celebrating ‘50 years of the Porsche 911’ from 4 June - 29 September 2013, with a special exhibition featuring the history and development of the 911. 1963 Birth of a Legend The successor to the Porsche 356, the 911 prototype was first unveiled at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in 1963 as the 901, and renamed the 911 for its market launch in 1964. Its air-cooled, sixcylinder ‘boxer’ engine delivered 128 hp, with a top speed of 131 mph. In 1966, Porsche presented the 158 hp 911 S, which was the first to feature forged alloy wheels from Fuchs. The 911 Targa, with its distinctive stainless steel roll bar, made its debut in late 1966 as the world’s first ever ‘safety’ cabriolet. The semi-automat-

A handout photograph from the German car giant shows three previous models of the iconic sports car ic Sportomatic four-speed transmission joined the lineup in 1967. The Porsche 911 became more and more powerful as displacement increased, initially to 2.2-litres (1969) and later to 2.4 (1971). The 911 Carrera RS 2.7 of 1972 with a 207 hp engine and a weight of less than 1,000 kg remains, says Porsche, “the epitome of a dream car” to this day. Its characteristic ‘ducktail’ was the world’s first rear spoiler on a production vehicle. The Second Generation Ten years after its premiere, the engineers at Porsche gave the 911 its first thorough makeover. The G-Series model was produced from 1973 to 1989, longer than any other 911 generation. It featured prominent impact-absorbing bellows bumpers, an innovation designed to meet the latest crash test standards in the United States. Occupant protection was further enhanced by three-point safety belts as standard equipment, as well as integrated seat headrests. One of the most important milestones in the 911 story was the 1974 unveiling of the first Porsche 911 Turbo with

Blast from the past: the 1964 prototype 911 Type T8 a 3.0-litre 256 hp engine and prominent rear spoiler. From 1982, fresh air enthusiasts could also order the 911 as a Cabriolet. In 1988 came the 911 Carrera 4 (964). After ﬁfteen years of production the 911 platform was radically renewed with 85 per cent new components. Its air-cooled 3.6-litre ‘boxer’ engine delivered 247 hp. The new model came with ABS, power steering and airbags, plus the option of Tiptronic automatic transmission, and it rode on a completely re-

designed chassis with light alloy control arms and coil springs instead of the previous torsion-bar suspension. In addition to Carrera Coupé, Cabriolet and Targa versions, from 1990 customers could also order the 964 Turbo. The Last Air-Cooled Models The 911 with the internal design number 993 remains the one true love of many a Porsche driver. It was the ﬁrst 911 with a newly-designed aluminium chassis. The Turbo version was the

ﬁrst to have a twin-turbo engine, giving it the lowestemission production automotive powertrain in the world in 1995. Dyed-in-the-wool Porsche enthusiasts still revere the 993 - the last 911 with an aircooled engine. The 996, which rolled off the assembly line from 1997 to 2005, represented a major turning point in the history of the 911. It was an entirely new car: the ﬁrst to be driven by a water-cooled version of the ‘boxer’ engine. Thanks to its four-valve cylinder heads, it achieved 296 hp and broke new ground in terms of reduced emissions, noise, and fuel consumption. The lines of the 996 were a result of component sharing with the successful Porsche Boxster. With the 996, Porsche launched an unprecedented product offensive with a whole series of new variations. The 911 GT3 became one of the highlights of the model range in 1999, keeping the tradition of the Carrera RS alive. In July 2004, Porsche unveiled the new generation 911 Carrera, referred to internally as the 997. It was a

high-performance vehicle, with a 3.6-litre ‘boxer’ engine that turned out 321 hp while the new 3.8 litre engine on the Carrera S developed an incredible 350 hp. The chassis was also substantially reworked, and the Carrera S came with Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) as standard equipment. In 2006, Porsche introduced the 911 Turbo, the first petrol-engined production car to include a turbocharger with variable turbine geometry. A model update in the autumn of 2008 made the 997 even more efficient thanks to DFI direct fuel injection and the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) dual clutch transmission. The 991 (2011) This car, known internally as the 991, represents the greatest technical leap in the evolution of the 911, with a totally new chassis with a longer wheelbase, wider track, larger tyres and an ergonomically optimised interior. Other innovations include Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC) and the world’s first seven-speed manual transmission.

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Sport Cook reflects on job well done after NZ victory

IN BRIEF Armstrong sued over sponsorship

Finn key as tourists bowl hosts out for 185 ENGLAND captain Alastair Cook was delighted with the character shown by his team to recover from their openinggame loss to clinch a 2-1 oneday international series win in New Zealand. Steven Finn was the driving force as the tourists bowled their hosts out for 185, with even Brendon McCullum’s third successive half-century unable to rescue a defendable total for the Black Caps in the series decider at Eden Park. England reached their victory target for the loss of five wickets and with 12.3 overs, leaving Cook to reflect on a job well done. “Those last two games, the character we showed - it must win games for us and can only bode well for us in the future,” said the 28-yearold, who struck 46 at the top of the order. “We were a little bit rusty in the first game, but the way we went about things putting it right we can really take from. We were excellent up front. The bowlers really set the tone and 180 on that wicket should never be enough.” Finn and James Anderson reduced the hosts to 11 for three by the eighth over, and Cook acknowledged that had been key. The skipper continued on

Sky Sports 1: “I think they were 20 for two in the game before, and today they were 20 for three after 10 or 15 overs. From a captain’s point of view it’s pretty easy after that. “When McCullum gets going it’s a little bit frustrating, but 180 wasn’t enough and we handled the pressure of chasing pretty well. “We probably lost a couple too many wickets if we’re being harsh, but it was pretty comfortable.” On the new-ball duo, Cook continued: “They have been magniﬁcent, these two games. I thought Finny’s pace... I think he’s up around the 90mph mark pretty much all the time, and Jimmy’s world class and he showed it again here.

‘CONTROL’ “It’s quite easy to captain in the ﬁrst few overs when you’ve got that sort of control. We’re going to have to do it again in the Test series because they’re very dangerous players, these New Zealanders, and if we’re off our game they’re going to punish us.” England head into next month’s three-Test series as big favourites, but Cook insisted there would be no complacency from his team.

“There’s absolutely no complacency,” he said. “You know how hard Andy Flower works. He’ll be desperate to get his teeth back into coaching us I’m not sure what he’s been doing for the last month or so!” New Zealand captain McCullum was gracious in defeat, admitting his team had to learn lessons from how England had handled the big moments. “We should learn a lot from this,” he said when addressing his team at the postmatch presentation. “We’ve hung in some games, worked hard. We’ve given up some opportunities, but I certainly can’t question your fight and your attitude and hard-work throughout the series.” Turning to his opponents, McCullum said: “To Alastair and the England boys, congratulations on a fantastic series. “You really showed us what it’s like to step up at big moments. Every clutch moment you guys stood up and delivered ... It hurts, but congratulations.” Finn, who earlier took three for 27 from nine overs, was delighted with England’s reaction to losing the first match. “We felt we didn’t quite get it right in the first game - maybe

As England head into next month’s three-Test series as big favourites, skipper Alastair Cook (above) insists there would be no complacency from his team we were a little bit rusty but playing these last few games we felt really good,” he said on Sky Sports 1. “We’ve set the tone early and the batsmen have been brilliant as well, so it’s been great.” On opening the bowling

with Anderson, he added: “It’s great to be bowling at the other end to Jimmy. He’s one of the best, if not the best, fast bowlers in the world. “To be able to bowl at the other end and to feed off him and learn off him is brilliant.”

Warriors bring down leaders Spurs

Jarrett Jack (L) was central in the Warriors’ victory over the Spurs, racking up 30 points and 10 rebounds

THE NBA’s leading side, the San Antonio Spurs, were beaten 107-101 in overtime as the Golden State Warriors finally won their bogey fixture. The Warriors had lost the last 16 to the Spurs but summoned plenty of heart to deprive their opponents a 45th win of the season. Jarrett Jack was central, with 30 points and 10 rebounds, while David Lee shared the spotlight with 25 points a massive 22 boards. Northwest Division leaders the Oklahoma City Thunder won a high-scoring encounter at the Minnesota Timberwolves 127-111. Russell Westbrook did plenty of damage for the Thunder with 37 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, while Kevin Durant contributed 27 points. Central Division’s leading side, the Indiana Pacers, enjoyed a handsome 114-82 win over the Detroit Pistons. Six Pacers reached double figures as the scoring was shared, with David West’s 18 the highest contribution. The Chicago Bulls are still putting pressure on Indiana, though, and had a big victory of their own - 105-75 against the Charlotte Bobcats - to celebrate. It was a low-scoring night at the FedExForum as the Memphis Grizzlies edged out the Orlando Magic 88-82. Marc Gasol was to the

fore for the winning side with 19 points and 13 rebounds. The Dallas Mavericks performed a fine smash-and-grab on the New Orleans Hornets, with a late surge seeing them to a 104-100 win. In the final minute bit Mike James and Vince Carter landed from downtown and Darren Collison converted two free throws. Al Harford (24 points) and Jeff Teague (20 points and 12 assists) were on form as the Atlanta Hawks dropped a 122-108 scoreline on the Sacramento Kings. The New York Knicks’ cool streak continued with a fourth loss in a row, a narrow 100-98 defeat to the Toronto Raptors as Rudy Gay led the way with 32 points. Seven players reached double figures and Emeka Okafor, John Wall and Bradley Beal all registered double-doubles as the Washington Wizards completed a season sweep over the Denver Nuggets courtesy of a 119113 success. The Portland Trail Blazers slipped to a 111107 defeat against the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics eased past the Phoenix Suns 113-88 as their late play-off push gathered pace. In the remaining match, the Houston Rockets led from first period to last in a 106-96 triumph over the Brooklyn Nets.

THE United States accused cyclist Lance Armstrong on Friday of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service by taking its sponsorship money at the same time he was doping and using performanceenhancing drugs in violation of cycling rules. The government joined a civil suit against Armstrong, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life from cycling in 2012 after accusations he had cheated for years. In January, he said the accusations were true in an interview with television host Oprah Winfrey. A battle with the US government over civil fraud charges threatens to sap what remains of the once-revered athlete’s reputation, and hurt his wallet. Armstrong and his teammates from Tailwind Sports wore the logo of the US Postal Service during their record-breaking wins. The sponsorship money totalled more than $30 million, the government said. Armstrong plans to contest the suit because the Postal Service was not actually damaged, his lawyer said.

Debut rugby triumph for Cyprus Uni THE students of Cyprus University have successfully come of age, given that, after only three months intensive training, they recently took the ﬁeld against a very experienced United Nations select 15 at the U.N. compound and emerged winners by 42-28. This was a singular triumph for Federation President Laurence Vasilliades, who is committed to an expansion of rugby throughout the island, and who, together with Chris Thoma, the brother of the national side’s captain, has welded together a university side that will now be competing against the best teams in Cyprus. Thoma said: “It’s great to see young Cypriots taking to the game. They will be the future of rugby in Cyprus and will continue the work of our extremely successful national side”. Vasilliades expressed his gratitude to the UN for hosting the game and for introducing his young players to the ethos of the sport.

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Sport

Wales title defence back on track with victory over Italy

‘Scotland grounded despite victory boost’

Six Nations clash plays out amid lashing rain

SCOTLAND cannot afford to get carried away with their first RBS 6 Nations triumph in two years, skipper Kelly Brown has warned. The Dark Blues beat Italy 34-10 earlier this month to record a first championship success since defeating the Azzurri back in March 2011. But the four-try triumph has raised hopes the team can bounce back from last year’s wooden spoon disaster to mount a title challenge. Brown, however, has pleaded for caution. The Saracens flanker, who will skipper Scotland for the sixth time when they face Ireland at Murrayfield today, said: “The Italy match gave us a really big lift, but it’s only one game and we need to keep on working hard. “As a player it is great that the nation are excited and proud of us and we need to take a bit of confidence from that win - but we also need to learn and keep on improving. “As a squad there is no danger of us getting carried away with one match; it was our first win in two years. So we need to bring in a bit of realism. “But as a squad we are very grounded and the boys are working hard. I just want us to keep on improving. If we can do that and nail a really high level of performance on Sunday, then we can put Ireland under pressure.” Declan Kidney, the Irish coach, has travelled to Scotland missing five of the team that pushed England so close in their 12-6 defeat in Dublin. The 127-time capped Ronan O’Gara, meanwhile, has been forced to accept a place on the bench as his form for Munster and at international level continues to disappoint, with Ulster’s Paddy Jackson taking his spot.

Italy 9 Wales 26 WALES kept on course for a second successive RBS 6 Nations title with a 26-9 defeat of Italy in Rome. The visitors shaded a ﬁrst half played in torrential rain on a treacherous surface 9-6, with a trio of penalties from Leigh Halfpenny. Kristopher Burton replied with two kicks for the Azzurri. However, the visitors were dominant in the second half, with the highlights being tries from Jonathan Davies and Alex Cuthbert. Wales arrived at Stadio Olimpico with an unchanged team following victory over France in Paris two weeks ago that kept alive their title hopes. But there were two ﬁt-again Wales captains - Sam Warburton and Alun-Wyn Jones - on the bench, while Italy were without suspended skipper Sergio Parisse. Parisse, sent off in a French league game for insulting the referee last Saturday, saw leadership duties go to Leicester prop Martin Castrogiovanni, and Azzurri coach Jacques Brunel also handed starts to half-backs Burton and Edoardo Gori following a 34-10 reversal against Scotland last time out. Torrential rain in the Italian capital meant the pitch was covered until two hours be-

Remaining on course: The visitors were dominant in the second half, with the highlights being tries from Jonathan Davies and Alex Cuthbert (above, centre) fore kick-off, but conditions showed signs of improving as kick-off approached. The initial exchanges were predictably error-strewn, given testing conditions under foot, but full-back Halfpenny kicked Wales into an eighthminute lead through an angled penalty. Wales dominated the early territorial contest, with centre Jamie Roberts promi-

nent, before Burton hauled Italy level when the visitors infringed at a scrum. The slippery surface continued to cause problems, though, underlined when Dan Biggar’s poor kick to touch was knocked on by Gori and Wales gained a penalty that Halfpenny kicked. Wales deserved their lead, yet there was a need for them to tighten up in certain areas

Donald follows McIlroy, Woods in exit FORMER champion Luke Donald was the biggest name to fall in the second round of the snow-delayed WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship after being pummelled 7&6 by American Scott Piercy on Friday. The British world number three was totally outplayed by Piercy, who was effectively seven-under par on his ball after being conceded a fourfoot birdie putt at the short 12th to seal the win. Piercy spectacularly holed out with a four-iron from 221 yards to eagle the par-four ﬁfth, then birdied the sixth, eighth and ninth to go 6up on Donald by the turn on a sunny but cool and breezy day at Dove Mountain. “Scott played very well, I played just very average,” 2011 Match Play champion Donald told reporters. “I probably didn’t drive it well enough today to put any pressure on Scott. “He was just playing ex-

Outplayed: British world number three Luke Donald tremely solid, didn’t give me really a look. I had a few opportunities on the greens, but for whatever reason I was just not making the putts today, and hence I’m going home.” Making his ﬁrst appearance in the elite World Golf Championships (WGC) event, Piercy was set to meet 2001 champion Steve Stricker who edged past fellow American Nick Watney after 21 holes.

“I played really solid today,” said double PGA Tour champion Piercy, whose 7&6 margin of victory has been eclipsed only five times at this event. “I hit every green in regulation. I got up early and tried to lean on him once I got up. It was just a solid day all around. “I think he was off a little bit,” the American said of Donald who double-bogeyed the opening hole. “From the first tee shot it didn’t look like Luke. I just tried to make some birdies and stay out ahead of him.” The stunning departure of Donald followed the premature exits on Thursday of world number one Rory McIlroy and three-times champion Tiger Woods. Northern Irish McIlroy, a losing finalist last year, was eliminated 1up by Ireland’s Shane Lowry and Woods was eliminated 2&1 by fellow American Charles Howell III.

and concentrate on wearing Italy down gradually, rather than looking to attack at every opportunity. Wales put themselves under pressure when wing Cuthbert knocked on inside his own 22, but Italy could not take advantage against a well organised defence and they resorted to a drop-goal attempt which Burton ﬁred well wide. It was a cue for the heavens

to open once again, yet Burton regained his composure and slotted a 29th-minute penalty that cut Italy’s deficit. Wales then threatened through the enterprising Biggar, who freed Cuthbert on a touchline run, only for centre Gonzalo Canale’s tap tackle to thwart the danger. Burton missed a drop-goal attempt three minutes after the restart - and Wales made them pay soon after with the game’s first try. Scrum-half Mike Phillips bamboozled the Italian halfbacks with a kick over a ruck, giving Davies a chance for a try he did not waste. Burton reduced the arrears with a 49th-minute penalty but Halfpenny made it 19-9 to the visitors with a long-range penalty of his own. Wales took control as the game entered the final 20 minutes, when the home team were penalised at the scrum, as Castrogiovanni was sent to the sin-bin. Cuthbert scampered over for his team’s second try two minutes later after Davies created space with a dummy run - and when Halfpenny converted impeccably from out wide, the visitors had a commanding 17point lead. They rejected the opportunity to kick after being awarded a penalty inside the Italy 22, before Warburton came on for Ryan Jones. James Hook came on for Biggar, then Scott Williams replaced Roberts with less than 10 minutes remaining. The final replacement was made with six minutes remaining when Craig Mitchell replaced Adam Jones. The rain had relented but Italy were unable to build up a head of steam. In fact Cuthbert would have come closest to a score in the latter stages of the game had he successfully collected an interception.

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Sport Pardew warns his players to forget Europa and concentrate on Premier League safety NEWCASTLE boss Alan Pardew has warned his players to forget about their Europa League heroics and concentrate on the task of dragging themselves to Barclays Premier League safety. The Magpies booked a last16 clash with big-spending Russian outﬁt Anzhi Makhachkala next month after a 1-0 victory over Metalist Kharkiv in Ukraine on Thursday night. However, despite his delight at the win, just his side’s second on the road in all competitions this season, Pardew swiftly turned his attention to today’s visit of former club Southampton to St James’ Park and the quest for another three points to ease themselves clear of the ﬁght against relegation. Asked if Europe now had to be put to one side for the time being, Pardew said: “Yes, for sure. “We have got two very important Premier League games and if we could get three, four points out of those two games, I would take that now. “It would give us a good angle to go into the next phase of the Europa League.”

Newcastle boss Pardew has turned his attention to Southampton’s visit today Newcastle currently sit in 16th place in the table, just four points better off than Reading inside the bottom three and Pardew is well aware that advantage could have all but disappeared by the time his side kicks off this afternoon. The game has added spice for him as he was summarily dismissed from his job as Saints manager by chairman Nicola Cortese in August 2010 after just 13 months in charge. A similar same fate befell successor Nigel Adkins

in January, although the south coast club’s fortunes have taken a turn for the better since the appointment of Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino as his replacement. Southampton have collected four of the last six points on offer, the last three from a stunning 3-1 home victory over champions Manchester City, and Pardew is under no illusions as to how difﬁcult a game it will be having seen his side lose 2-0 at the St Mary’s Stadium in November. He said: “It’s going to be dear to my heart to win this game, trust me, so I won’t be pulling any punches in my dressing room. “But that’s easier said than done. Southampton have deﬁnitely picked up and they play a high pressing game which we are going to have to combat. “He [Pochettino] has had a good start. There are some good players there and I am looking forward to seeing them. “They got the result over us the last time and they thoroughly deserved it, so we need to perform a lot better than we did at their place.”

Chelsea trail League leaders United by a massive 16 points, but the Blues’ interim manager has said knocking City off the second spot is a possibility

Benitez focused on second place Blues travel to City today, knowing a win will close gap on reigning champions to one point By Mark Bryans CHELSEA will fight to finish as high as they can in the Barclays Premier League but interim manager Rafael Benitez has conceded Manchester United look set to win a 20th league crown. The Blues travel to second-placed Manchester City today knowing a win will close the gap on the reigning champions to a single point. However, United are currently a massive 16 points clear of Chelsea - and 12 above City - and Benitez concedes it will be “difficult” for anyone to catch the league leaders “To finish as high as possible is a challenge,” he said. “So we’ll try to finish second if we can, you never know this is a massive game, so let’s see where we are at the end. Until the last week, we may be fighting each other. “My idea is to think about

this one, because it will make the difference. If you are closer to City, you have to chase the second position. “The other one (winning the league), it depends on United. If they don’t lose games and drop points it’ll be difﬁcult. We just have to concentrate on us.”

EXPECTATIONS Goalkeeper Petr Cech echoed his manager’s comments and believes City are struggling with the heightened expectations of being the defending champions. “Second place is more than possible for us, we just need to have a good run of results,” he said. “To win the league I think we are maybe a little bit too far, it would need a meltdown from Man United but everything is possible. “They (City) will be at home and need to win if they

are going to challenge Manchester United for the title, they can’t afford any more slip-ups. “It is a new situation for them, there are lots of players in their squad who have never faced the situation of defending a title. “You can see that they are behind and the pressure is on them and they have to fight with that, it is always easier when you win the first title and is worse when you defend it because you are the team to beat so it becomes tougher.” Benitez is expected to recall Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Branislav Ivanovic for the game at the Etihad Stadium after resting the trio for Thursday night’s 1-1 Europa League draw with Sparta Prague. Captain John Terry played the entire 90 minutes against the Czech outfit and is unlikely to be risked for the whole game at City.

‘No Twitter ban for Odemwingie,’ says Clarke WEST Brom boss Steve Clarke will resist banning Peter Odemwingie from Twitter despite the derogatory comments the striker aimed at the club ahead of his failed move to QPR last month. Odemwingie was disciplined by the Baggies after driving to Loftus Road without permission on transfer deadline day only to be turned away with the deal having fallen through. The striker had previously been critical of West Brom for rejecting QPR’s advances, and had made his views known in a series of tweets.

But Clarke said an outright ban on the Nigerian’s use of social networking sites would be a step too far. “We try and treat all our players like adults,” said Clarke. “I don’t think you can sit them down and say you can’t do this or that. “It has been known for some clubs to do it, but you would probably need to put something in the contract to say a player couldn’t use it.” Clarke also stressed that he has been happy with Odemwingie’s attitude in training since returning to the squad.

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Gunners’ week ends on a high as Cazorla sinks Villa Spaniard’s brace takes tally to 11 for Arsenal Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 1 By Paul Hirst ARSENAL maestro Santi Cazorla rescued Arsene Wenger from another disappointing result with a last-gasp winner against a valiant Aston Villa. Cazorla opened the scoring in the sixth minute, but Villa came back strongly and equalised through Andreas Weimann after the break. Arsenal threw everything at Paul Lambert’s man, but they could not ﬁnd a way past Brad Guzan until Cazorla found the net with ﬁve minutes remaining. Many had questioned whether Wenger had lost the plot this week with a bizarre press conference rant sandwiched in between two disappointing defeats to Blackburn and Bayern Munich. Some of those doubters will not have been convinced by this performance. Wenger’s men were often sloppy in possession, they looked edgy at the back and their propensity to want to walk the ball in to the net caused a huge amount of frustration among the home crowd at a sparsely populated Emirates Stadium. Nonetheless, there is no doubt Wenger does possess players who can turn the game with a bit of magic. Cazorla is certainly one of them. The Spaniard, who now has 11 goals for the club, drifted in and out of the game, but

A double from Cazorla (L) helped Arsenal cap a turbulent week with a win over Villa he took his two strikes brilliantly. The win puts pressure on Tottenham, who now have a one-point advantage over their rivals ahead of their game at West Ham tomorrow. Villa remain one point above the relegation zone, and on this evidence, they certainly have the players to stay up. Watched by owner Stan Kroenke, Arsenal started well. Jack Wilshere capitalised on

a poor backpass and raced at goal, but the midﬁelder ﬁred straight at Guzan. Cazorla then lifted the quiet atmosphere inside the Emirates with Arsenal’s opener in the sixth minute. Nathan Baker blocked Cazorla’s initial shot after some good work by Wilshere, but the Spaniard made no mistake with his second effort, slotting past Guzan with a beautiful curling effort. Villa looked to hit straight back. Charles N’Zogbia raced

down the right past Thomas Vermaelen and pulled the ball back for Gabriel Agbonlahor but Wojciech Szczesny saved. N’Zogbia cantered down the ﬂank moments later, but Agbonlahor was unable to keep up with him and he arrived just too late to tap the Frenchman’s cross in. Weimann was the next man to charge at the Gunners defence. He laid the ball off to N’Zogbia, but Szczesny parried well before Thomas Vermaelen hooked the ball clear.

Wigan lifted out of relegation zone By Matt Somerford WIGAN lifted themselves out of the Barclays Premier League relegation zone in spectacular style with a thumping win over 10-man Reading at the Madejski Stadium yesterday. Arouna Kone’s double at the end of the ﬁrst half was quickly followed by a rare Maynor Figueroa goal after the re-start to grab just a second win in 14 Premier League games for the visitors. Reading’s afternoon deteriorated rapidly and when Pavel Pogrebnyak was given a straight red on 55 minutes for a reckless challenge on

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Wigan clinched only their second win in 14 League games Figueroa, there was no way to climb back into a losing game. From then on it became a shooting gallery for Wigan as Roberto Martinez’s side grabbed a win to inspire belief they could yet again avoid the drop. For his part, Reading

manager Brian McDermott knows his side must improve quickly if they are to stay up, particularly as his team’s remaining 11 games include trips to Everton, Manchester United and Arsenal. They also have to host Liverpool and Manchester City.

Theo Walcott brought the Emirates fans to the edge of their seats with a teasing curler that flew inches over Guzan’s goal. Then Matt Lowton nutmegged Abou Diaby and entered the Arsenal box, but Vermaelen came to the rescue with a last-gasp tackle. Lowton caught the Belgian in his follow-through and was booked for the foul. Diaby then entered the book for a clumsy challenge on N’Zogbia. The hosts produced an impressive move just before the break, with Cazorla finding Olivier Giroud, but Guzan was equal to the Frenchman’s effort. Arsenal started to dominate the game again after the break, but again, they were reluctant to shoot on goal. Weimann went on another rampaging counter down the right and crossed for Agbonlahor, but the forward headed wide. Wenger was forced into a change just after the hour when Diaby hobbled off with another injury. Aaron Ramsey came on in his place. Villa then stunned the home side by equalising. Carl Jenkinson failed to clear a long punt down field, the ball made its way to Weimann and he went on a blistering 40yard run before beating Szczesny with a weak shot. Wenger’s troubles nearly worsened soon after when Christian Benteke found space at the back post, but Per Mertesacker got in front of the Belgian before he could head on goal. Wenger gambled, throwing Lukas Podolski on for Jenkinson. Guzan saved brilliantly to deny Giroud from pointblank range as Arsenal continued to pile forward. They got their reward five minutes from time when Nacho Monreal swung the ball into the box and Cazorla converted, much to the relief of Wenger and the home fans.

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Mancini explains dip in City’s intensity MANCHESTER City boss Roberto Mancini concedes last season’s dramatic title success may have had a draining effect on his side. City seemingly threw away their hopes of winning the Barclays Premier League a year ago, only to produce a remarkable late charge to snatch the crown from Manchester United’s grasp. This season they have struggled to match the intensity of that glorious campaign and their hopes of retaining their crown seem remote. Mancini does not put that down to any collective lack of desire on the part of his players, but accepts intensity could have dropped. The Italian said: “I think the players always play 100 per cent. “I don’t think they play just 50 per cent, but this can happen with a team like us, that for 40-odd years didn’t win a title. “The year after a team wins a title, it could be that you don’t play like when you won the championship, without the same intensity. Maybe you think, ‘Okay we are strong, it’s enough to play’. “This can be normal, but I think the players always play at 100 per cent because they want to win the title. “Until now, I think United have been better than us, but I think the only difference is that we didn’t score enough goals.” With City faltering in their title defence, and with a second successive Champions League failure still fresh in the memory, speculation over Mancini’s future has been rife. The Italian has dismissed this on a number of occasions and expressed conﬁdence in his position, based on his record of delivering FA Cup success in 2011 and the Premier League last year. He has also said ﬁnishing runners-up this year would be far from disastrous.

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Playing Today Man City v Chelsea, 3.30pm Newcastle v So’ton, 3.30pm Playing Tomorrow West Ham v Tottenham, 10pm

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Swans to deploy Michu against Bradford

Don’t get in my way: Swansea’s Spanish striker Michu is in proliﬁc form with 18 goals in all competitions

SWANSEA City are runaway favourites to net their first major English trophy today when they take on fourth tier Bradford City in a League Cup final that epitomises the romance and topsy-turvy nature of the game. If these teams had met in this final just 13 years ago, Swansea would have been the fourth-tier outsiders taking on top-flight opposition, such have been the contrasting fortunes of the two clubs over recent years. Giant-killers Bradford, who have already trampled over three Premier League teams in Arsenal, Wigan Athletic and Aston Villa to book only their second Wembley appearance, are hoping for another upset. Swansea have a one-word reply in the shape of Spanish striker Michu. Michu is in prolific form with 18 goals in all competitions, including the 15 that have propelled the Welsh side to eighth place in the Premier League, and he is not about to let Bradford get in his way of silverware. “We are determined not to let the underdog win,” he said on the club website (www.swanseacity.net). “We have had a fantastic season in the league, so to win a first major trophy for the club as well would make

it even better. “That would also mean European football for us next year, and that has always been a dream of mine.” Today’s winners will earn a place in the Europa League, the continent’s second tier club competition, and the idea of Bradford taking part will seem to many even more preposterous than this Wembley encounter. The West Yorkshire club have endured some torrid times of late with two periods in administration following their 2001 relegation from the Premier League, while the tragedy of the 1985 ﬁre that killed 56 fans at their ground lives with them. Unlike Swansea, Bradford have a major trophy to their name in the 1911 FA Cup but it will be this season’s battling displays that will inspire them today, rather than the feats of a generation long gone. “We’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain,” Bantams manager Phil Parkinson told reporters. “The bookies have written us off, they have done in previous rounds. When you look at the league positions you can understand that. “It’s a two-horse race, one of the horses is an overwhelming favourite but in a

two-horse race anything can happen on the day. In the previous rounds Lady Luck has played a part for us but also incredible desire and spirit in the team.” The only other time Bradford have played at Wembley was in the 1996 third-tier playoff against Notts County, which they won 2-0, while Swansea’s most recent appearance was a 4-2 win over Reading to earn promotion to the Premier League in 2011. Neither team are going into the ﬁnal with good results behind them with Swansea manager Michael Laudrup resting a host of regular starters in a 5-0 thumping by Liverpool last weekend while Bradford lost 2-1 to AFC Wimbledon. While the League Cup lacks the prestige of the FA Cup, with top clubs often opting to ﬁeld experimental sides, especially in the early rounds, for the players who take to the pitch today, this trophy means everything. For Bradford, whose players are still pinching themselves that it is even happening, the day itself is big enough. “It’s given the whole city a lift,” forward Alan Connell told Reuters. “Everyone has got to enjoy it and relish it really as it may never happen again in our lifetimes.”

Red Devils extend their lead Rangers’ survival hopes take further blow

United’s Ryan Giggs (left) celebrates with team-mate Wayne Rooney after scoring his side’s second goal against QPR at Loftus Road yesterday

QPR 0 Man United 2 By Simon Peach

afael’s exquisite strike helped Manchester United stay on course for the Barclays Premier League title yesterday as embattled QPR’s survival hopes took another blow. The Brazilian right-back’s first-half effort set Sir Alex Ferguson’s side on course for a victory, which was wrapped up 10 minutes from time by veteran Ryan Giggs. Only an unparalleled meltdown will now stop United winning a 20th league crown, while only the greatest of escapes will see QPR stave off relegation. Harry Redknapp’s side are still seven points adrift of safety but have only 11 matches remaining, with the twin brother of QPR loanee Fabio doing a lot of the damage yesterday. While the Rs full-back was ineligible to face his parent club, Rafael put in a fine performance in west London and rifled home in the 23rd minute. Giggs made sure of a victory that was never really in doubt late on at Loftus Road, where

the only blot for United was a knock to Robin van Persie. Proceedings got off to a slow start in west London, where it took 13 minutes for the first chance of note to be created. After being caught on the edge of the box by Jose Bosingwa - making his first appearance since December 8 - Nani connected with the resulting free-kick, only to see his flicked header go wide. Adel Taarabt fired a low shot just wide of David de Gea’s near post soon after. Julio Cesar had to be alert to tip a goalbound Javier Hernandez effort over the bar, with

the Mexican meeting a Ashley Young cross with a superb improvised header. Stephane Mbia soon gifted United another chance. The midﬁelder was dispossessed on the right ﬂank by Nani, whose driven cross just evaded Hernandez. United did not have to wait long for the opener, though, with Rafael thumping home in style after 23 minutes. Taarabt lost possession in his own half and play developed down the right, allowing van Persie to wriggle free and hit a cross. Cesar parried the acute drive but the ball fell

kindly for Rafael, who hammered a 25-yard strike into the top corner. Jamie Mackie and Andros Townsend blazed over as QPR attempted to draw parity, before Taarabt struck tamely wide when a wide ball to Townsend would have been wiser. When the Tottenham loanee did get the ball moments later, his long-range effort forced a corner from which Christopher Samba saw a header cleared off the line by Rafael. The right-back, playing superbly in Shepherds Bush, then helped United counter,

sending a fine ball over the top to van Persie, who saw a brilliant left-footed volley denied in equally impressive fashion by Cesar. It was the Netherlands international’s last contribution before he was replaced by Danny Welbeck, having appeared to pick up a hip complaint earlier in the half. United continued to dominate and almost immediately doubled their advantage as Giggs swung in a free-kick for the unmarked Nemanja Vidic to flash a header inches wide. The first period ended with Bobby Zamora, managing a

long-term hip injury, pulling up. The former Fulham striker managed to return for the second half unlike Esteban Granero, who was replaced by Jermaine Jenas after picking up a knock. After the break QPR began putting up more of a ﬁght, with Taarabt seeing penalty appeals waved away. Thereafter Hernandez saw an effort saved easily by Cesar before he was replaced by Wayne Rooney, who has been suffering with a sinus problem this week. QPR also made a change in the 61st minute, with Zamora limping off to be replaced by Loic Remy. The January signing made himself space in the box to unleash a well-struck effort that De Gea had to be alert to stop, with Samba heading wide from the following corner. United soon settled, though, and QPR captain Clint Hill did well to block a close-range strike by substitute Rooney, before Jenas put in an equally-impressively challenge to deny Welbeck. The visitors did grab a second goal 10 minutes from time as Nani played a cute ball through to Giggs, whose strike from an acute angle beat Cesar to send the 3,081 visiting supporters into raptures. Giggs saw a looped strike rattle the crossbar and a Samba header brushed the post late on, but there was to be no more goals despite the best efforts of both sides.