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Banks to open but limits set Daily withdrawals limited to €300, no cheques, and €1,000 for abroad

By Stefanos Evripidou

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FTER ALMOST two weeks with no banking system and limited ATM withdrawals, banks across the country will once again open their doors to the public today, introducing temporary capital controls for the first time in the eurozone.

Finance Minister Michalis Sarris last night signed into law a temporary decree capping cash withdrawals per person per bank per day at €300, effectively banning cheques and controlling cash outflows from the country, allowing only €1,000 per person per journey abroad.

According to sources, the decree will apply across the banking system but allows a significant amount of discretion in its application.

The thinking behind this is to allow healthy banks to get on with business while ensuring the newly restructured Bank of Cyprus will enjoy adequate protection during the first moments of its operation, as well as to prevent outflows of cash abroad.

The heads of the 26 banks represented in Cyprus were invited to the Central Bank yesterday for a briefing on the new capital controls drawn up by the finance ministry and banking supervisory authority after days of intense preparation.

Bank branches will open later than usual today amid heavy security, from 12pm until 6pm, to give bank staff time to become acquainted

with the new restrictions on money outflows.

The Legal Service worked on overdrive last night, combing over the finer details to ensure the provisions would withstand legal examination.

Meanwhile, truck loads of euro notes arrived at the Central Bank in Nicosia from the European Central Bank in Frankfurt under heavy police escort, including helicopters, ahead of today’s big opening.

The millions in hard cash is expected to be distributed among the commercial banks and cooperatives, opening today for the first time since the Eurogroup’s March 16 bombshell decision to impose a haircut on all depositors across the banking sector.

Following the uproar both within Cyprus and abroad, the Eurogroup reached a different outcome in the early hours of last Monday morning, with a new decision on the winding down of Laiki and the restructuring of Bank of Cyprus (BOC), with big depositors from both banks expected to take substantial hits.

Laiki’s uninsured depositors can expect a massive wipeout while the authorities have suggested Bank of Cyprus’ big depositors may see around 40 per cent of their savings over €100,000 converted into BoC bank shares. All insured depositors with under €100,000 will be saved, while no haircut or levy will be imposed on the deposits of any of the remaining 24 banks on the island.

According to the decree, the

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The top of Ledra Street looked almost desolate yesterday with the shuttered bank in the background

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Biggest cyber-attack in history slows internet

By Paul Sandle and Kate Holton THE internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history after an organisation blocking spam content became a target, with some experts saying the disruption could get worse.

Steve Linford, chief executive of Spamhaus, told the BBC that the company had been subjected to attacks on an unprecedented scale for more than a week.

Perpetrators of ‘distributed denial of service’ (DDoS) attacks typically target websites by flooding servers with messages from multiple systems so they cannot identify and respond to legitimate traffic.

REPORTED SCALE “Based on the reported scale of the attack, which was evaluated at 300 Gigabits per second, we can confirm that this is one of the largest DDoS operations to date,” online security firm Kaspersky Lab said in a statement.

“There may be further disruptions on a larger scale as the attack escalates.”

Paul Vlissidis, group technical director at internet security firm NCC, said the fact that lots of computers were involved made it much harder to defend against the attack.

“If you have a few computers sending large amounts of traffic you can filter them out easily. When literally thousands and thousands are involved it makes it much, much harder,” he told Reuters.

He said the volumes of traffic involved in the attack were having a knock-on effect on the rest of the internet.

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ON THIS DAY MARCH 28 1930

25 years ago, Monday March 28, 1988

The ancient city of Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul.

The Cyprus Airways strike entered its fourth day yesterday and unless efforts, which were continuing at the Labour Ministry last night, bear fruit the situation will become more chaotic today. A new development appeared yesterday when representatives of Cyprus Airways, their staff union and officials of the Ministry of Labour met members of the Labour parliamentary committees to present their views.

1939 In Spain, the Republican defenders of Madrid raise the white flag over the city, and the bloody three-year Spanish Civil War comes to an end.

1964 The Beatles surpass Elvis Presley’s seven-year record for most hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 at the same time.

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Martin Luther King Jr. leads a rally of 25,000 civil rights protesters to Montgomery, Alabama.

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35 years ago, Tuesday March 28, 1978 The UN Secretary-General is not facing any intimation from the Turkish side when they intend to present their proposals on territory and constitution to allow him to judge whether to reconvene the intercommunal talks. This was stated by the House President Alecos Michaelides on his return to Cyprus from a visit to the US where he had met American administration officials.

45 years ago, Thursday March 28, 1968 1979 A major radiation leak alert occurs at Three Mile Island nuclear station near Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, USA when the atomic core begins to melt down.

Turks would prefer Cyprus talks to be held abroad, Rauf Denktash is reported to have said on arrival in Turkey from New York, where he attended the Security Council meeting with Osman Orek and had talks with UN Secretary-General U Thant.

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A small comfort as electricity bills to be reduced

By Poly Pantelides CONSUMERS will pay at least 5.75 per cent less for their electricity from April 1 when an emergency levy is due to be dropped and may get further reductions of as much as 3.0 per cent following a commitment from the Electricity Authority (EAC) to look at where it could reduce expenses, Commerce Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said yesterday.

The crippling 5.75 per cent surcharge imposed in the wake of the Mari naval base blast in 2011 is due to be scrapped on March 31, for consumers on two-month bills, and has already been scrapped from monthly bills from February 28.

It was originally 6.96 per cent on all electricity bills to help cover costs incurred by leasing generators after the Mari explosion knocked out Cyprus’ largest power station at Vassilikos. The surcharge was reduced in mid2012 to 5.75 per cent.

Lakkotrypis told reporters after a stakeholders’ meeting on energy and electricity that the EAC had agreed to look into reducing its administrative expenses. The goal was “to be able to announce further cuts,” Lakkotrypis said.

Lakkotrypis said they were aiming for a further 3.0 per cent cut on electricity bills after they had already dropped by 5.75 per cent for all consumers. “The EAC is very positive so we hope this can take place by the end of the month, in early April,” Lakkotrypis said.

EAC spokesman Costas Gavrielides said that the EAC

has not given a definite figure yet. “We will look at all administrative expenses and see what can be cut,” Gavrielides said.

As the EAC is expected to come back with ways for consumers to pay less, so is the energy regulator (CERA) expected to come back in two weeks with a scheme to enable consumers and hoteliers to use photovoltaic panels to power their buildings, reducing costs.

“We discussed a speedier implementation of photovoltaics in the energy cycle… CERA has prepared a plan that they will present to us in about 15 days,” Lakkotrypis said.

With applications piling up, CERA stopped accepting new applications last year for installing photovoltaic panels to either sell the energy to the EAC, feeding it into the grid or else to power private units.

Worried public looks to buying safes for homes Business up say companies selling safes they claim are burglar and fireproof

By Maria Gregoriou COMPANIES selling safes have received an increase in calls asking for information, as people prepare to stash cash at home when the banks open.

They’re asking about the size of safes, the cost and the level of safety that each type of safe provides.

“We have received about twice as many calls asking about our safes in the last few days. The callers want safety and ask about safes that cannot easily be broken into,” Thimios Asiotis said, the manager of sales at Total Guard Trading Ltd in Limassol.

“Many Cypriots have lost their trust in banks and the banking system and I suspect they are looking for other ways to secure their money.”

Asiotis said there were two kinds of safes. One is a steel box that is only protected against fire and the second is protected from burglary. These ones

are tested against European standards and have a grading system of one to seven. A grade one safe can cost from around €1,600 to €1,700 and a grade five safe’s cost begins at around €4,000.

Asiotis said safes were often a better bet than security systems because the latter can be deactivated, or a homeowner may forget to activate them on the way out the door.

“People who are interested in buying safes should consider the time which someone needs to break into it. The longer it takes for a safe to be broken into, the more chance there is that a burglar will not bother with it or be caught in the act. If a safe is heavy and not easy to lift, if it is screwed to a surface or hidden and welded, it is much more difficult to get to. Our society is changing and we should change with it. The price of a safe should be leveraged against the amount of money or valuables that

will be placed within it,” he added.

“During the last two weeks we have received more calls than usual asking about the size of safes and how much they cost, but the biggest concern the callers have is about actual safety,” Christos Christodoulou, manager of Cte Enterprises Co Ltd in Paphos said.

“We bring our safes from America and we have to pay our suppliers for the products, VAT and tax so we have to accept payment upfront,” he added.

“Lots of people have contacted us lately, asking about safes that they can put in their homes,” Antia Fotiou, an employee at Kmc Shukuroglou Ltd in Nicosia said.

“If the safes are used correctly they are guaranteed for life because the ones we import from England have been tested for fire and burglary,” she added.

Most companies that sell safes are located in Limassol and Nicosia.

A poster depicting President Nicos Anastasiades cosying up to German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on display at a protest last night in Nicosia. Protestors from the ‘Citizen’s Movement’ against the privatisation of semi-government organisations

(SGOs) along with left-wing trade union PEO gathered outside EU House to protest against the troika before heading towards the Presidential Palace. Former First Lady Elsi Christofias was spotted in the crowd (Christos Theodorides)

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By Paul Carrel CYPRUS’ plan to impose capital controls threatens to test the ties that bind Europe’s monetary union and could see euros on the Mediterranean island valued differently to those in the rest of the bloc.

The capital controls, being imposed to avert a run on banks after an EU bailout, will limit foreign transactions and capital outflows but not movements of money within the country itself.

The impact the restrictions have on the Cypriot economy depends on their exact nature and whether they are applied to payments as well as capital transfers.

Restrictions on payments would be a far bigger incursion into the functioning of Europe’s internal market than controls on capital transfers, as euros held in banks in Cyprus could not be used to pay for goods and services elsewhere in the bloc.

By definition, that would make them less liquid than French or German euros and de facto, worth less.

DIFFERENT CURRENCY “If you were to impose restrictions equally on capital transfers and payments, then economically a Cyprus euro would be a different currency vis-a-vis a non-Cyprus euro,” said Kai Schaffelhuber, partner at Allen & Overy law firm in Frankfurt.

“You would have to buy nonCyprus euros to pay for goods and services in other countries,” he said. “With the rules of supply and demand, the Cyprus euro could then take on a different exchange rate.”

If capital controls are relatively short-lived, that situation would be reversible. The longer it goes on, the more it would question Cyprus’ place in the eurozone.

But with the alternative likely to be massive capital outflow, Nicosia has little choice.

A Reuters poll of economists found 38 out of 46 said capital controls were appropriate, with the alternative being an uncontrolled exodus of cash.

Thirty of 46 said controls would last months, while 13 expected they would endure a matter of weeks. Three said

they could last years.

“You can’t have Cyprus in capital control limbo,” said Sassan Ghahramani, CEO of US-based SGH Macro Advisors, which advises hedge funds. “I think it’s a question of weeks, at most. If it gets into months it’s going to be really problematic.”

The chapter on capital and payments in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union begins by prohibiting restrictions both on the movement of capital and on payments between European Union member states, and ‘third countries’.

But a subsequent article allows countries “to lay down procedures for the declaration of capital movements for purposes of administrative or statistical information, or to take measures which are justified on grounds of public policy or public security”.

This gives governments sufficient wiggle room to impose restrictions both on capital transfers and payments.

Nonetheless, Cyprus’ plan to impose capital controls will mark a first for the 17-country eurozone. “What you’ve got is a monetary and banking system which is not supposed to impose capital controls. What they are doing is creating a sub-set of rules to create a new economic area, which is unprecedented,” said David Brown at New View Economics.

Restricting capital transfers – movements of money or securities – to other countries but not payments could open up myriad ‘work around’ options for people trying to get their money out of Cyprus.

One could be to buy goods in another eurozone country, shifting funds out of the island to pay for them.

To counter such scenarios, the Cypriot government could introduce limits on such payments or require them to be approved by a licencing authority – red tape that will impede business and slow turnover.

“The longer this lasts the more it will hurt the economy, the more likely it is that businesses run out of liquidity and have to default. Then we really get into trouble,” said Berenberg bank economist Christian Schulz.

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Truckloads of cash arrived at the Central Bank yesterday under heavy guard

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Banks will open but monetary limits set The restrictions will be reviewed after four days (Continued from front page) lack of substantial liquidity and significant risk of deposits outflow posed an “immediate risk of a complete destabilisation of the financial system of the country and the collapse of the entire financial sector, which is likely to have disastrous consequences for the country’s economy and society”.

Citing the need to safeguard public order and security, the finance minister ordered the application of a number of temporary restrictive measures on transactions.

These include a maximum cash withdrawal of €300 or its equivalent in foreign currency per person in each bank. If the full amount is not withdrawn each day, the difference can be carried over to the next day and withdrawn either from an ATM or bank teller or through credit cards against the balance in a current account.

The cashing of cheques is prohibited.

However, it is believed that if a person wants to deposit a cheque in their account, this is permissible provided the money will not be drawn from the Bank of Cyprus and placed in another bank.

Again, the aim is to curb capital outflows from the newly restructured BoC. Transferring deposits or funds to accounts held abroad or in another bank is also prohibited except for normal business payment transactions of up to €5,000 per day.

Payments from €5,001 to €200,000 are subject to the approval of a special fourmember committee, due to be appointed

today. According to sources, effectively, the bank will have discretion to approve these transactions though they must send the daily total and number of such payments to the special committee which officially, will give a response within 24 hours, taking into account the liquidity buffer situation of the bank.

For payments over €200,000, the request will have to be sent to the committee for approval.

PAYROLLS Distributing company payrolls will also be permitted on the provision of supporting documents by the company.

Transactions will also be permitted for student living expenses up to €5,000 per quarter and tuition fees of first degree relatives studying abroad on the basis of supporting documents provided the money is wired to the beneficiary.

Payments and or transfers outside the Republic, via debit, credit or prepaid cards are allowed up to €5,000 per month per person in each bank.

Other payments or transfer of funds require the prior approval of the committee, taking into account the liquidity buffer situation of each credit institution in question. It will not be possible to prematurely break fixed-term deposits unless the funds are used to repay a loan within the same bank.

For as long as the temporary decree is in place, when fixed deposits reach maturity, the depositor will only have access to either €5,000 or 10 per cent of the total,

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The depositor must put that amount either in a current account or a new fixedterm deposit in the same bank, depending on his choice. As for the remaining amount of money, this will be kept in the original fixed deposit for an extra month.

For those travelling abroad, each person per journey may take with them a maximum of €1,000 or the equivalent in a foreign currency. Any extra amount requires the prior approval of the committee. The Customs Department will be responsible for ensuring implementation of this rule.

According to the decree, any financial transactions, payments or transfers not finalised before the decree came into force will be subject to the new restrictions.

Banks are warned that they must “not execute cashless transfers that facilitate the circumvention of the restrictive measures”. The measures apply to all accounts, payments and transfers regardless of currency.

Exemptions from the new set of stringent measures include: all new funds transferred from abroad; cash withdrawals or cashing cheques from foreign institutions abroad (likely aimed at tourists); payments authorised by the committee; cash withdrawals from accounts that banks hold with the Central Bank; the Cyprus Republic and the Central Bank.

Speaking on state broadcaster before the decree was issued, Yiangos Demetriou, head of internal audit at the Central Bank, said the measures would be reviewed after four days.

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Bracing for worst at the labour ministry Deeper recession and more jobless

By George Psyllides THE ISLAND’S economy will inevitably go into deeper recession, Labour Minister Haris Georgiades warned yesterday, as he announced that the government would be reviewing all allowance schemes to ensure that available assistance goes to those who need it.

“Consequently, we have an obligation to at least find ways to prioritise the real needs,” Georgiades said. “We are obliged to ensure that every euro spent on social support is directed where there is a real need or where there is a bigger need.”

The minister chaired a meeting yesterday aimed at coordinating and mobilising the various departments so as to tackle the emergency more effectively. Georgiades said the situation was bound to worsen even more.

“Our economy, which was already in recession for some time now, will be led into a deeper recession. Unfortunately, the record-high unemployment will rise even more,” the minister said.

The ministry will seek to find ways that will encourage businesses to maintain staff and later create new positions, Georgiades said, as well as to alleviate the social effects the crisis will have. “Things will be difficult for the state services. Unfortunately our capability to tackle various situations will not be the one we would have wanted due to a series of reasons related to the state’s limited financial ability,” he said.

Georgiades said he had instructed the departments to examine and record all the issues and come up with suggestions on how to deal with them. “Everything will be discussed; everything will be examined,” the minister said.

Asked whether Cyprus planned to ask

Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue was practically deserted yesterday the European Union for permission to impose restrictions on foreign workers, the minister said the matter would be discussed.

He suggested however that it would be close to impossible. Other EU countries which had restrictions in place will have to remove them by the end of this year, Georgiades said. “I do not want to give the impression there are issues that can be easily regulated, especially those that concern basic pillars of the EU like freedom of movement,” Georgiades said.

Tensions over bailout terms only underscore pitfalls ahead

By Michele Kambas and Laura Noonan THE INK is barely dry on a deal struck in Brussels to save Cyprus from bankruptcy, but rising tension between the island’s conservative president and the communist-appointed governor of the central bank foreshadow difficulties ahead.

Thinly veiled disdain for governor Panicos Demetriades expressed by officials close to President Nicos Anastasiades has reinforced the perception of a Cypriot leadership reeling under the backlash against an unpopular, last-minute accord hammered out in fraught negotiations in Brussels.

Small and so-far peaceful street protests appear to be gaining momentum, and the opposition - denied the right to challenge the deal in parliament - is calling for a referendum.

With banks closed for 10 days and capital controls being readied for when they reopen today, analysts say Cyprus’ economic contraction is likely to accelerate, potentially undermining the forecasts

that underpin the €10 billion EU/IMF lifeline. As the experience of Greece has shown, the pitfalls are legion.

Appointed in May by Anastasiades’ communist predecessor, Demetriades’ role is crucial, with the central bank overseeing the restructuring of the island’s largest bank, winding down its No. 2 lender and handling banking restrictions to avert a flight of capital when lenders reopen on Thursday.

But officials say the relationship is fraught with difficulties. “There is a complete lack of communication between the central bank and the president’s advisers,” said an expert involved in talks to resolve the island’s banking crisis. “The central bank has lost the respect of the president and the banking sector,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. A spokeswoman for the central bank did not respond to phone calls from Reuters for comment.

The two sides have clashed over the timing of highly sensitive announcements regarding the resolution of Cyprus Popular Bank, also known as Laiki, and the reopening of

banks that have been closed for 10 days to avert a run on deposits. The bailout package has put intense pressure on the relationship between the government and the banking sector, crippled by its exposure to Greece, the epicentre of Europe’s debt crisis.

Some bankers have defended Demetriades. He has more than four years left of a fiveyear post, which is independent of the government, and complex constitutional procedures make his dismissal difficult.

“The central bank governor has done an excellent job so far,” said one banker who recently left the board of a major Cypriot bank. “I’m surprised politicians are pointing the finger at him.”

Demetriades has said he has no intention of stepping aside in light of the government criticism, saying that he enjoys the trust of the European Central Bank.

Asked on Tuesday about his relationship with the governor, Finance Minister Michael Sarris told state television: “As long as the governor is in that position, it is my duty to work with him.”

(AFP)

Boards of BoC and Laiki are sacked THE CHIEF Executive of the Bank of Cyprus, the island’s largest commercial lender, said yesterday had been dismissed by the Central Bank as part of a restructuring plan.

Yiannis Kypris’ dismissal, as well as those of the lenders’ board of directors, followed the appointment of a special administrator to run the bank, which was saved from collapse this week under a bailout for Cyprus agreed with the so-called troika of international lenders – the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union.

The CEO and board of Laiki, the country’s second-biggest bank, were also dismissed.

The decision had been taken during a meeting between international lenders, the finance ministry, Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades, and the undersecretary to the president, the Central Bank spokeswoman said.

The move follows the appointment of special administrators who will oversee the enforcement of a Eurogroup decision to resolve Laiki and transfer its assets to Bank of Cyprus.

Bank of Cyprus will have to impose a hefty haircut on uninsured depositors – over €100,000 – as part of the deal.

The rate currently mooted was 40 per cent but there is nothing official so far.

Kypri said he was summoned to the Central Bank early yesterday and asked to submit his resignation.

“The reason I was given was that, based on the resolution decree recently passed by parliament and upon demands of the troika, an administrator had been appointed at the Bank,” Kypri said in a written statement.

Kypri, who has spent decades at the bank, took over last year as CEO. “The times are very difficult for everyone,” Kypri said. “The Bank of Cyprus was and should remain the mainstay of our economy and society in the effort to tackle the crisis the country is experiencing.”

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Concert to aid the island in its time of need CyprusAID asks all those who attend to bring food items to help the hungry

By Maria Gregoriou AN ALL-DAY solidarity concert, titled ‘CyprusAID – People for People’ will be held on April 1 from 4pm until midnight at the Constanza moat in Nicosia where around 50 performers from Cyprus and Greece will sing without pay but ask that all those attending bring food and necessity items to be given to community markets in all towns.

The concert is being organised by a number of volunteers who met during the recent protests against the harsh Cyprus bailout. Many Cypriot actors are among the volunteers and many organisations are also volunteering their services and products.

CyTA will be live streaming the event.

“During the last couple of days we have experienced a cold shower, lived through intense emotions and rapid reversals. The only thing we knew for sure was the uncertainty we were facing.

This common thread of frustration brought together a group of actors and friends who decided to form an event, reacting against everything that is coming our way. This was drawn from a need. A need to be united, a need for solidarity, a need for a strong, common, and a political voice to be heard by the outside world. We want to share a positive message for the future that together we can do better,” a statement from the group said.

There is no admission fee for the concert but people are asked to bring whatever they can spare in terms of food and over-the-counter medicines, which will be distributed to individuals, families and other groups who have an immediate need.

Lea Maleni, a Cypriot actress and director said: “We chose a concert because music is a universal means of communication. The concert will be held on April 1 because it is a national holiday and more people can attend. Also technicians will be working on other days. We ask people to not concentrate on the tree but on the woods, to not associate this

act with political parties.”

“We also encourage other people to organise such events in other countries.

Students abroad who cannot receive money need something to get them through this. Some people have criticised the title because it is in English. English was chosen because we want this event to be known outside Cyprus and for it to be continued elsewhere” Maleni added.

Panayiotis Larxou, a Cypriot actor highlighted the fact that “this is a common effort, not an individual one.”

“The actions of those off stage are more important than those on stage. We want people to sing along, to raise their voices so we can be heard. We want to replace the emphasis placed on the euro and place it on solidarity,” Larxou said.

The food that will be collected will be shared among the existing 16 community markets, depending on each ones needs. Reaction Cyprus will collect the food and it will be stored in municipality storage. Volunteers will then distribute the food to the markets,” said Maria Papapetrou, one of the organisers.

According to the CyprusAID facebook page, 1,596 people are going, 252 people may go and 28,767 people have been invited.

Some of the performers participating in the concert are are Lina Nicolacopoulou, Alkinoos Ioannides, Demetra Galani, Christos Thiveos, Christos Dantis, Evridiki, Antonis Mitzelos, Demetris Koryialas, Sophia Papazoglou, Ero, Alex Panayi, Christina Argyri, Marlain Angelides, Despina Olympiou, George Kalogirou, Efstathia, Argyro Kaparou, Sotos Constantinou, Demetris Markis, Eleonora Rousou, Tefkros Neocleous, Nicos Evangelou, Salina, Myrto Meletiou, Michalis and Petros Kouloumis, and Rodos Kyriacou.

Flour, long-life milk, baby food, cornflakes, olive oil, sugar, cooking oil, tooth paste, lentils, nappies, rice, pasta, shampoo, washing powder, washing-up liquid, coffee, toilet paper and juices are the suggested items to be taken to the concert.

A sign posted at the Red Cross in Nicosia yesterday where needy families can obtain food packages

Containers in limbo

By Poly Pantelides THOUSANDS of shipping containers have been accumulating at Limassol port as their recipients are either reluctant or unable to pay shipping agents for the deliveries, the acting Limassol harbourmaster said yesterday.

“About 2,500 containers are in storage, compared with the norm of between 1,000 and 1,200,” acting harbourmaster Giorgos Pouros said referring to the expected numbers of containers that are safeguarded in storage until they are picked up.

“Movement has been stagnant in recent days, as people are waiting for the banks to open,” Pouros said.

On an average day, some 200 to 250 containers of shipment get picked up by porters, Pouros said. But when shipping agents announced on Monday this week that they would only accept payment in cash when porters received a shipment, traffic dropped even further. Just 100 containers were moved out of port on Tuesday, Pouros said.

By early afternoon yesterday porters picked up about 200 containers, Pouros said but added this related to cheaper goods. “Due payments may range from a hundred euros to thousands of euros. The more expensive goods are staying

More than double the usual number are in storage in the port,” Pouros said.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (KEVE) general secretary Marios Tsiakkis said that it was vital the banking system started working again so that goods could be cleared through customs and the market can escape its inertia.

“You know that suppliers are not delivering goods any more unless they’re paid in cash. You understand that cash supply is limited and is not enough to allow transactions among business because big amounts are involved in those,” Tsiakkis said.

As a result, goods are not entering the market, he said.

Tsiakkis said KEVE did not yet receive complaints that

products had gone missing but added they were “definitely very close to supermarket stocks running out”.

There have been a number of reports from businesses that are saying their employees will not be paid at the end of the month because they are not receiving payments, the Employers’ and Industrialists’ Federation has said.

The head of Paphos’ architects and civil engineers association, Chrysostomos Italos, said yesterday that all construction activities came to a standstill about two weeks ago. The head of Paphos’ recreational centres’ association said that suppliers’ cash-only mandate had created a “chaotic” situation.

(AFP)

Shipping not affected by banking crisis THE BANKING crisis is not affecting the island’s shipping industry, Transport Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos said yesterday.

Mitsopoulos was responding to speculation to the contrary. “The Department [of Merchant Shipping] and the Registrar of Cyprus ships have been and will continue to operate as usual,” he said in a written statement.

Mitsopoulos said the current situation has no direct or indirect effect on the Cyprus tonnage tax scheme.

The date for the payment of the Cyprus registry maintenance annual fee and the tonnage tax, for the 2013 tax year, has been extended to April 15 instead of March 31, the statement said.

“Those who make payments by then will not incur any surcharges. Such payments could be effected, as always, either in Cyprus or at any one of the Diplomatic or Consular Missions of the Republic of Cyprus abroad,” it added.

The banks in Cyprus, historically, have not been active in ship financing, Mitsopoulos said.

Drugs companies seek exemption from capital controls ANY long-term capital control restrictions should not impact the pharmaceutical sector to ensure that patients continue having access to drugs, especially essential medicines and vaccines, the Cyprus Association of Research and Development Pharmaceutical Companies (KEFEA) has said.

KEFEA sent a letter addressed to Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades, and health minister Petros Petrides asking them to exempt medicines from restrictive measures in place to control capital outflow.

“We are certain you will take the particularities of the health sector and es-

pecially the issue of pharmaceuticals into serious account, in any decisions you make in the immediate future,” said KEFEA head Daan Gijbels in a letter to Demetriades. But if restrictions cannot be avoided, then “it is our earnest request that a simple and speedy procedure is followed, so as to ensure uninterrupted availability of pharmaceuticals in the market – in the public and the private sector,” Gijbels said.

KEFEA, whose members GSK, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi and Amgen Hellas hold a substantial share of the Cyprus market, has said that it will continue supplying essential medicines to the

public and handle any problems “responsibly and consistently”. No shortages have been observed so far but KEFEA’s vice-head Joanna Kozakou said they were trying to “be forward looking”.

“We want to ensure our products follow into the market as they have been, that’s the main point of the letter,” she said.

Kozakou said they hope to avoid delays in the distribution chain that may restrict patients’ access to medicines.

Many local distributors buy medicine from abroad, which necessitates a capital outflow that will be subject to restrictions that will be temporary in the best case scenario.

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It’s not all about the Russians UCY stands to lose millions in funding while local authorities are in a quandary

By Peter Stevenson MOST OF the focus of the banking crisis, at least in the foreign media, has centred on how much large Russian investors will lose, with little thought given to the millions of euros local authorities and educational institutions have tied up, or may lose in the banking fiasco, which will impact the lives of the public.

The University of Cyprus, which banks with Laiki (Popular) Bank, now have €5m remaining in their accounts as opposed to a planned €40m.

According to university rector, Costas Christofides, the previous government failed to give the university its funding of €10m for salaries in December 2012. The university also stands to lose a total of €25m from the haircut on deposits at the bank which will leave it with a total of €5m.

One of the educational institutes has been hit by the

Some of the work at Limassol Marina halted due to lack of supplies but will resume on Tuesday current crisis is The Junior School with money tied-up at both the Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus. Chairman of the board of the school, Nick Papandreou, explained that school fees were collected through accounts set-up at all of the major banks on the island and were due to be transferred to the school’s main account at the Co-op Bank on the first day banks remained shut – March 19.

“The majority of parents had paid their fees at the Popular bank, and we stand to lose one month’s worth,” he said.

He added that the school’s status would be unaffected although it was entering crisis-management mode.

“This has caused a cash-flow problem for us, which equates to one month’s worth of payroll for our 150 strong staff,” Papandreou said. “I would really like to thank the staff

for their understanding of the current situation and that they have accepted to only receive 50 per cent of their salary this month until we can sort out the situation,” he added. Papandreou said that the board of the school was planning on meeting last night to appoint members of a committee to look at the income and expenditure of the school to secure its long-term viability.

(AFP)

Limassol Municipality has money tied-up at both Bank of Cyprus and Popular Bank and it will affect when employees are due to receive their salaries. “Unfortunately municipality employees will receive their salaries slightly later than usual but the whole situation is very unclear and we don’t know what the next day will bring,” Mayor of Limassol, Andreas Christou said.

The coastal town will make necessary cuts where possible to certain events but Christou explained that major works within Limassol would be unaffected by the banking situation. “We receive 65 per cent of our budget from permit collections and 35 per cent from state grants and we are not sure whether those amounts will continue to come in or not but the most important fact is that the municipality will continue operating,” he added.

As the head of the town’s sewage board, Christou revealed that he would have to adjust the board’s budget and plans. “Our budget was originally €330m and we have carried out works valued around €200m,” he said. “Of the €130m, €30m is tied up in Bank of Cyprus and Popular bank so we will have to adjust our plans,” he added.

Nicosia’s sewage board will also suffer from the situation and Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis told the Cyprus Mail that efforts are in place to finish the board’s works.

On Tuesday the Mayor had called on the government to exempt Municipalities from any proposed haircut on deposits to avoid any complications with their operation.

Construction at Limassol Marina is continuing as planned despite reports in the local press yesterday, with work on the south eastern breakwater and the Peninsula currently in process.

“Due to a lack in supply of certain materials, some works have had to stop temporarily but these will, however, resume on Tuesday April 2,” Limassol Marina public relations officer, Sophia Paraskeva said. Limassol Marina will be ready to welcome the first yachts in a few weeks.

World’s first ‘bitcoin’ ATM pitched for Cyprus?

By Poly Pantelides AN ENTREPRENEUR has announced he is keen to introduce in Cyprus the world’s first ATM for virtual currency, bitcoin, which is not regulated by a central bank but has instead been growing via its online peer-to-peer community.

Jeff Berwick, founder of StockHouse.com and CEO of TDV Media said on his blog on dollarvigilante.com that he plans to set up the world’s first Bitcoin ATM in Cyprus to enable people to deposit flat currency into it and get bitcoins in their account, as well as put bitcoins in their account and get flat currency back.

Bitcoin, which was designed and implemented by mysterious programmer known by the pseudonym of “Satoshi Nakatomo,” is based

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on a peer-to-peer network similar to the BitTorrent protocol for sharing files over the internet, the European Central Bank (ECB)said in an October 2012 report on virtual currency schemes.

It can be used as currency for a number of transactions, from internet services and online services to buying clothes, electronic goods, while a small number of restaurants, hotels and retail stores across the world do accept bitcoins.

With restrictions likely in place when the banks do reopen, Berwick said he “began pondering what tangible solutions there (were) to bank holidays and bank runs.”

“If these people had simply bought bitcoins with their savings, not only would they currently have 100 per cent access to their funds, but also they would have enjoyed a parabolic

move to the upside over past months,” Berwick said.

The currency is not pegged, with supply and demand determining the exchange rate. People need to download a free and open-source software to start using bitcoins that can be purchased using a currency, and are then stored in a digital wallet on users’ computers or via online services. Transactions are not restricted by a Central Bank, are faster, and cheaper or free. Although users are drawn to the currency for transaction privacy and anonymity, the system has been criticised for being vulnerable to cyberattacks or for being attractive looking as alternative currencies to fund illegal activities.

The ECB said in its report that it considered bitcoin “as a high-risk system for its users from a financial perspective” citing a number

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of issues that “raise serious concerns regarding the legal status and security of the system, as well as the finality and irrevocability of the transactions, in a system which is not subject to any public oversight”.

On the other hand, Berwick said that individuals have suffered “through the confiscation and devaluation of their savings through techniques like taxes, levies and inflation” by the ECB, the International Monetary Fund, and the German Federal Government.

“I am convinced bitcoin will be the currency of the future… and all the attacks on it by governments and central banks shows they know it,” Berwick said.

Email bitcoinatm@bitcoinatm.com and visit https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade for a list of online and real world businesses accepting the currency.

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France’s Bruni comes to defence of husband Sarkozy FORMER French first lady Carla Bruni took up a passionate defence of her husband Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday, saying it was unthinkable he could have tricked an old lady out of millions of euros.

In a blitz of interviews with French media, Bruni said a formal investigation of the ex-president opened last week for allegedly exploiting the mental frailty of 90-year-old L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt was causing her great pain.

“It’s impossible to imagine that this man could have abused the frailty of a lady the age of his mother...

It’s unthinkable,” Bruni told RTL radio in a shaky voice.

Sarkozy, who retreated from front-line politics after losing his re-election bid last May, rejects accusations that he took advantage of Bettencourt, France’s richest woman, in 2007 to raise funds for his first election campaign.

He wrote on Facebook this week that the probe against him was “unfair and unfounded”.

The case could scupper any political comeback for Sarkozy, who remains a popular figure for centreright voters and has said he would consider running for president again in 2017.

His lawyer, Thierry Herzog, has said he would seek to have the case thrown out on grounds that the investigation conducted by judge Jean-Michel

Defensive: former French first lady Carla Bruni Gentil was biased against Sarkozy.

Singer-songwriter and former model Bruni played a restrained role as first lady while Sarkozy was in power but has since returned to the media spotlight, performing last week at the ECHO Music Awards in Berlin.

Her public defence of Sarkozy coincides with her promotion of a new album due for release on April 1.

Bruni’s 2008 marriage to Sarkozy after a whirlwind courtship irritated many French people who felt the high-profile romance blurred the lines between the president’s private and public lives.

Asked if she was tempted to fight back publicly against the accusations and “show her claws”, Bruni said: “Yes, I want to but I don’t dare.

“It is difficult for me to talk about this, it’s painful for my family.”

Police officers guard a construction site and sections of the East Side Gallery, while parts of the former Berlin Wall are removed in Berlin on March 27, 2013.

Workmen backed by about 250 police removed portions of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery yesterday to make way for an upmarket building project, despite demands by protesters that the site be preserved.

Police spokesman Alexander Toennies told the Associated Press there were no incidents as work began about

5am local time to remove four sections of the wall, each about 4 feet (1.2 metres) wide.

That will make way for an access route to the planned high-rise luxury apartments along the nearby Spree River.

Plans to remove part of the 0.8-mile (1.3-kilometre) stretch of wall sparked protests that developers were sacrificing history for profit.

At least 136 people died trying to scale the wall which divided communist-run East Berlin from West Berlin (AFP)

5-Star Movement will Former Bosnian Serb not back centre-left police officers jailed Snub by Italian anti-establishment group was expected JUDGES in The Hague yesterday sentenced two former Bosnian Serb police officers to 22 years’ jail for their role in war crimes and crimes against humanity during the breakup of Yugoslavia more than 20 years ago.

They ruled Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin contributed to a plan to permanently remove non-Serbs from the territory of a planned Serb state in parts of multi-ethnic Bosnia by committing acts of violence against Muslims and ethnic Croats.

Some of their crimes were committed when Serb forces took over the municipality of Prijedor in 1992, which led to the deaths of more than 1,000 people, the judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said.

Many inhabitants were taken to improvised detention camps, including a particularly notorious one at Omarska, where detainees were raped and killed. Others were held in “deplorably inhumane” conditions.

“Over 100 persons were executed in room three at Keraterm camp in one night around July 25 by Serb guards,” according to a summary of the judgment read out by Burton Hall, presiding judge.

“At Omarska camp ... mass executions were held from late July onwards.”

More than 100,000 people were killed during the war in Bosnia, the bloodiest of the conflicts that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The two men, who pleaded not guilty to all charges at the beginning of the trial in 2009, sat impassively through the judgement. Zapljanin made the sign of the cross when he heard his sentence.

“I think the sentences are too mild and too short, if you look at Prijedor alone, not to mention other municipalities,” said Mirsad Duratovic, the president of the association of camp inmates in the northwestern town of Prijedor, known for detention camps for non-Serbs.

Duratovic said that 3,173 non-Serbs had been killed in the Prijedor area and over 1,000 were still missing.

ITALY’S anti-establishment 5-Star Movement yesterday flatly rejected overtures from centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani (inset), who is trying to muster the numbers to form a government after last month’s deadlocked general election.

The refusal by the group led by fiery ex-comic Beppe Grillo to accept Bersani’s request was expected as the group had repeatedly said it would not back any of the big parties it blames for Italy’s social and economic crisis.

“There are no conditions that would allow us to give a confidence vote to a government made up of these parties because they have no credibility,” the group’s Senate leader Vito Crimi said after meeting Bersani.

The rejection means Italy remains in political stalemate after the election, in which Bersani’s alliance won a majority in the lower house of parliament but not in the Senate, leaving it unable to govern on its own.

The impasse, at the same time as the bank crisis in Cyprus, is being watched closely

by European partners and in-

vestors mindful of the market turmoil which brought down former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government in 2011.

Bersani has already ruled out forming a coalition with Berlusconi’s centre-right bloc, the second largest force in parliament, which says a broad alliance is the only way to give Italy a government.

Bersani had hoped to gain support from the 5-Star Movement for a limited plat-

form of institutional and economic reforms but prospects of any accord are fading fast.

Crimi and his colleague Roberta Lombardi, the 5-Star leader in the lower house, also ruled out indirectly supporting a government by allowing some measures to pass in the Senate without voting themselves.

Italian media and commentators have speculated that 5-Star Movement senators could agree to leave the

chamber, where under Senate rules an abstention vote counts as a ‘no’, to allow certain key votes, including confidence motions, to succeed.

“We rule out leaving the chamber,” Crimi said.

Bersani is expected to see President Giorgio Napolitano later this week to report on the meetings he has held with rival parties this week.

If he cannot reach an agreement, Napolitano may appoint a respected outsider to try to form a technocrat government or a broad cross-party coalition. If that fails, Italy faces the prospect of a return to the polls within months.

An auction of medium and long-term bonds yesterday saw less-than-stellar demand as investors reacted warily to the political confusion.

“Risks for the Italian debt remain very high in the coming weeks,” said Annalisa Piazza, a market economist with Newedge in London.

“Although Bersani’s consultations with other political leaders might lead to a grand-coalition government, markets are aware that such a government will not last long,” she said.

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Britain BRITAIN TODAY BBC apology to family THE BBC has apologised “unreservedly” to the family of a reporter who is believed to have killed himself, for the way complaints he made about harassment were dealt with.

The broadcaster yesterday admitted some aspects of the handling of complaints made by Russell Joslin, a reporter at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, were “not good enough”.

Joslin, 50, died in Warwick Hospital on October 22, 2010 after being hit by a bus three days previously.

After being taken to the hospital, he was admitted to nearby psychiatric unit St Michael’s before being readmitted to Warwick as an emergency patient.

A post-mortem examination found Joslin died from asphyxiation.

The journalist’s family claim his managers could have given him more help after he made allegations that he was sexually harassed by a female colleague, sparking an investigation.

£16.4-million pay bonanza FIVE bosses at the company that runs British Gas shared a £16.4million pay bonanza last year as millions of families faced record energy bills, it was revealed yesterday.

The six per cent rise in the salary, bonus and benefits for Centrica directors was condemned as “insensitive beyond belief” as households run up huge bills trying to keep warm in the coldest spring for 30 years.

The company’s 2012 accounts published today show Phil Bentley, outgoing managing director of British Gas, saw his pay jump from £2 million to £3 million.

That included a £635,000 base salary, a matching cash bonus and £1.5 million from long-term incentive deals that matured last year but will pay out next month.

Bentley steps down from the board in June with share awards and a pension pot worth more than £10 million.

UK loses latest bid to deport Muslim cleric Home Office: this is not the end of the road

By Mohammed Abbas THE British government yesterday lost the latest round of its legal battle to deport radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, whom it calls a security risk and may have provided spiritual inspiration to 9/11 hijackers.

The ruling comes at a bad time for Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May, who in the past week have promised to get tough on immigration and ramp up efforts to deport foreigners in Britain illegally.

Qatada, once described by a Spanish judge as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, has been in and out of jail since first being arrested in 2001 and is wanted in his native Jordan where he

was convicted of terrorism charges in 1999.

His sermons were found in a Hamburg flat used by some of those involved in the 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

Attempts to extradite him have been hampered by concerns evidence to be used in an expected retrial in Jordan may have been obtained through torture, making his deportation illegal under European law.

May’s legal team have argued he is a “truly dangerous” individual who has escaped expulsion only through errors of law, and appealed a decision by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in November blocking his deportation.

But at the Court of Appeal, three judges unanimously rejected the government’s argument.

David Miliband: Ed and I are not clones DAVID Miliband exposed policy disagreements with his brother Ed yesterday as he quit British politics for a new life in America.

“We are brothers not clones,” said the man who was beaten by his younger sibling to the Labour leadership in 2010.

His departure highlighted divisions between Labour modernisers and leader Ed Miliband. Miliband is said to believe Labour should admit to having overspent in office and to be more in favour of welfare cuts.

Tony Blair, Lord Mandelson and Bill Clinton were among a galaxy of big names who urged the former Foreign Secretary not to rule out a come-back - making clear some already see him as a “prince over the water”.

Ed Miliband, whose allies were plainly hoping for an end to the “soap opera” of the brothers’ rivalry, said politics would be “a poorer place”.

Miliband, 47, will take over as head of the US-based charity International Rescue Committee in September, forcing a by-election in South

David Miliband is departing from British politics Shields where he had a rock solid 11,000 majority in 2010, possibly on May 2.

In a letter to supporters, he spoke of “repaying a personal debt” by joining a charity that helps refugees like his own parents who fled the Nazis.

“I don’t want to be a bit-part player in a soap opera,” he said, explaining his decision.

He repeatedly refused to rule out a come-back eventually, saying: “I’m taking a job in America, not taking citizenship in America so I will continue to follow what’s going on here.”

Venables police constable jailed A FORMER police constable and a prison officer have been jailed for selling information to the Sun newspaper.

Ex-Surrey Pc Alan Tierney and Richard Trunkfield, who worked at high security Woodhill prison near Milton Keynes, were both sentenced at the Old Bailey.

Tierney, 40, sold details of the separate arrests of footballer John Terry’s mother and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, while Trunkfield passed on details about one of James Bulger’s killers, Jon Venables.

They both admitted misconduct in public office earlier this month.

Trunkfield has since resigned from Woodhill prison and Venables is no longer being held there, the court heard.

He received 16 months, while Tierney was jailed for 10 months.

Passing sentence on both men in separate hearings today, Mr Justice Fulford said: “This country has long prided itself on the integrity of its public officials and cynical acts of betrayal of that high standard have a profoundly corrosive effect.”

A second former police officer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also jailed for two years for misconduct in public office.

“The court recognises that (Abu Qatada) is regarded as a very dangerous person but emphasises that this is not a relevant consideration under the applicable Convention law,” the court said, referring to the European Convention on Human Rights.

“SIAC was entitled to conclude that there is a real risk that the impugned statements will be admitted in evidence at a retrial and that, in consequence, there is a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice,” the court added.

The Home Office, which has sought diplomatic assurances from Jordan to ensure he would receive a fair trial there, said it would continue its fight to get him deported.

“This is not the end of the road, and the government remains determined to deport Abu Qatada,” it said in a statement.

Abu Qatada (above) won a last-minute appeal against deportation last November and earlier this month was arrested and jailed again for breaching bail conditions

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‘North Korea to cut all channels with the South’

WORLD TODAY Technology flaws blamed for vote result LAWYERS challenging Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the Kenyan presidential election said yesterday new technology meant to counter fraud had broken down, leading to a manipulated vote count.

Losing candidate Raila Odinga is contesting the result in court and both sides have agreed to accept the outcome.

A disputed vote five years ago ignited tribal violence that dented Kenya’s reputation as a stable democracy but the presidential election on March 4 took place without bloodshed.

Lawyers for Odinga told the Supreme Court that the failure of an electronic system to transmit numbers from polling stations to a tallying centre and the breakdown of other equipment had undermined the chances of a transparent vote.

“The voting system was prone to manipulation in the absence of electronic voter identification,” said Odinga’s lead counsel, George Oraro.

“Tallying was manipulated to achieve certain results.”

The record 86 per cent voter turnout was also suspect, he said, likening it to an election in a communist state.

Deadly clashes in Nigeria CLASHES between rival ethnic groups in central Nigeria killed at least 27 people yesterday, witnesses said, in a region straddling the country’s largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north that is prone to civil unrest.

Witnesses said armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the villages of Da Jak and Attakar in Plateau state in the early hours, spraying residents with automatic gunfire and torching houses.

“They came at night and overran the village. They were shooting people, just murdering, and burned down the houses,” villager Dung Sati told Reuters. “Many of my kinsman have stayed away because they are homeless now.”

On his return he counted 27 bodies, he said. Another witness who fled the scene of the attack, Pam Samuel, said by telephone there were 28 bodies when he came back.

The military declined to comment, but a Plateau state legislator, Daniel Dem, told Reuters dozens had been killed.

Pyongyang: war could begin any moment

By Jack Kim and Phil Stewart

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects the landing and anti-landing drills of KPA Large Combined Units 324 and 287 and KPA Navy Combined Unit 597 at an undisclosed location on North Korea’s east coast (AFP)

RECLUSIVE North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at “any moment”, it said yesterday, days after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.

The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new United Nations sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to “hostile” military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea.

The North has already stopped responding to calls on the hotline to the US military that supervises the heavily armed Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and the Red Cross line that has been used by the governments of both sides.

“Under the situation where a war may break out at any moment, there is no need to keep north-south military communications which were laid between the militaries of both sides,” the North’s KCNA news agency

quoted a military spokesman as saying.

“There do not exist any dialogue channel and communications means between the DPRK and the US and between the north and the south.”

RHETORIC DECRIED The Pentagon condemned the latest escalation in North Korean rhetoric, with spokesman George Little calling Pyongyang’s declaration “yet another provocative and unconstructive step.”

The US military announced on March 15 it was bolstering missile defences in response to threats from the North, including a threat to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States.

Despite the shrill rhetoric, few believe North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), will risk starting a full-out war.

North and South Korea are still technically at war anyway after their 1950-53 civil conflict ended with an armistice, not a treaty, which the North says it has since torn to pieces.

The “dialogue channel” is used on a daily basis to process South Koreans who work in the Kaesong industrial project where 123 South Korean firms employ more than 50,000 North Koreans to make household goods.

About 120 South Koreans are stationed at Kaesong at any one time on average.

It is the last remaining joint project in operation between the two Koreas after South Korea cut off most aid and trade in response to Pyongyang’s shooting of a South Korean tourist and the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel blamed on the North.

Kaesong is one of North Korea’s few hard currency earners, producing $2 billion a year in trade with the South, and Pyongyang is unlikely to close it except as a last resort.

The North’s military spokesman representing its “supreme command” did not mention Kaesong, which has suffered temporary shutdowns before.

The South’s government said it would take steps to ensure the safety of the workers at Kaesong. It did not elaborate.

Pistorius brother denies car death THE brother of Oscar Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to killing a woman motorcyclist in a road crash.

Carl Pistorius denied culpable homicide or negligent killing and also two alternative charges of driving in a reckless and inconsiderate manner.

The older brother of double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius was accompanied by their younger sister, Aimee, and other relatives and friends for the first day of his trial at a court in Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg.

Oscar Pistorius, who was charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, was not present and has not been seen in public since he was granted bail on February 22. His lawyers plan to challenge his bail restrictions.

Carl’s trial was adjourned until next week to allow lawyer Kenneth Oldwadge, also part of Oscar’s defence team, to help prepare Oscar’s bail appeal at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

Carl and Aimee arrived separately at the court, but left together at the end of the hearing and declined to comment.

Carl chewed gum and spoke just once during the proceedings to plead not guilty to the main charge and the two alternative charges.

Asked by Magistrate Buks du Plessis if he

understood the main charge of culpable homicide against him, the 28-year-old Carl Pistorius replied: “I do, your worship, and I plead not guilty.”

Prosecutors say Carl Pistorius was driving a 4x4 in March 2008 when he hit a motorcyclist in Vanderbijlpark. The woman, Maria Barnard, died in hospital six days after the accident.

The Pistorius family said last month that Carl deeply regretted the incident but insisted it was a “tragic accident”. He had not been drinking, the family said.

In court Oldwadge said “the heart” of Carl Pistorius’ defence would be their claim that 36-year-old Barnard, a member of a local motorcycling club, was intoxicated at the time of the accident and had been drinking during the day. He said she was the one driving recklessly.

Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius’ trial had focused on a request by South Africa’s national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.

In opposing the application Oldwadge said the legal team for Oscar Pistorius had been “overwhelmed by the media” during his bail hearing and that similar press scrutiny would make it difficult to work in court during the older brother’s case.

A file photo taken on February 20, 2013 shows the brother and sister of South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, Carl and Aimee (AFP)

US Supreme Court signals it may strike down marriage law U.S. Supreme Court justices yesterday indicated interest in striking down a law that denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, a potential swing vote, warned of the “risks” that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) infringes upon the traditional role of

the states in defining marriage.

The 1996 U.S. law denies married same-sex couples access to federal benefits.

Several justices raised concerns about the law, indicating there could be a narrow majority to strike it down.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stressed how important federal recognition is to any person who is legally married. “It affects every area of life,” she said.

The law was the focus of a second day of oral arguments before the high court as it tackles the gay mar-

riage issue.

Conservatives also criticised the decision by President Barack Obama to abandon the legal defense of DOMA and called into question his willingness to defend other laws passed by Congress and challenged in court, several conservative justices said.

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Chance of October Egypt polls

An Israeli Jew is restrained by a fellow worshipper during a dispute with a Palestinian as they leave the Temple Mount, known to Palestinians as the al-Aqsa com-

pound, in Jerusalem on March 27, 2013.

Israeli police stopped far-right lawmaker, Moshe Feiglin, from entering the flashpoint holy site fearing a violent response

EGYPTIAN President Mohamed Mursi said yesterday parliamentary elections could be delayed until October, a postponement which could give his cash-strapped administration breathing space to negotiate an IMF deal.

Mursi’s original plan was for a four-stage election that would start in late April and put a parliament in place by July.

But the schedule fell apart this month when a court cancelled the presidential decree setting the dates. “Perhaps the elections will be held in the coming October,” state news agency MENA quoted Mursi as saying.

The postponement removes one source of friction between Mursi and the secularminded opposition that had planned to boycott the vote on the grounds that the election law had been drawn up to suit Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists.

But many tensions remain in a political landscape where divisions have deepened since Mursi was elected in June.

The acrimony will complicate efforts to build the consensus that the International Monetary Fund wants to underpin a loan deal likely to require cuts in unaffordable state subsidies.

This week Mursi’s opponents accused him of instigating a crackdown on dissent when

the prosecutor-general ordered the arrest of five bloggers alleged to have incited violence against the Brotherhood.

Mursi has in turn hardened his tone in response to recent violence triggered by protests against him and the Brotherhood. After promising on Sunday to take unspecified steps to protect the nation, Mursi vowed on Tuesday to “break the neck” of anyone who threw a petrol bomb.

The unrest is frustrating efforts to revive the economy.

Dwindling wheat stocks and shortages of imported fuel have increased the urgency of securing the IMF loan to plug the budget deficit and support foreign currency reserves that have dropped below the level needed for three months of imports.

The government has said it expects an IMF technical mission in Cairo soon to complete negotiations on the agreement.

The IMF, however, has not given a date. The planning minister said last week he expected a deal and payment of the first tranche of the loan by the end of June.

Masood Ahmed, director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia department, held talks in Cairo earlier this month, saying loan discussions would continue in the coming weeks.

Syrian opposition opens embassy in blow to Assad

Death penalty demanded for cleric

Alkhatib says world ready to see revolt fail

A SAUDI Arabian prosecutor has demanded the death penalty for a Shi’ite Muslim cleric whose arrest last summer triggered deadly protests in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, local media reported yesterday.

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, long seen as a radical leader in the Shi’ite minority, appeared in court on Monday for the first time since his arrest in July, the Saudi Gazette reported.

The prosecutor, accusing him of “aiding terrorists” and instigating unrest, said he was guilty of “waging war on God”, a crime in sharia, or Islamic law, that automatically carries the death penalty, alRiyadh daily reported.

Saudi Arabia has no written legal code and judges have wide discretion to deliver verdicts based on their interpretation of sharia and without reference to precedent.

Tension is already running high over this month’s arrest of 16 Shi’ites accused of spying for Riyadh’s regional rival Iran, a charge Tehran denied.

On Wednesday 135 Shi’ite religious and community leaders signed a statement to “reject the accusations” and call on the government to release those accused of espionage.

Police and protesters have clashed repeatedly in the past two years in the Eastern Province’s mostly Shi’ite Qatif area where 16 demonstrators and a security officer have been killed.

The government has attributed all the deaths to exchanges of fire with rioters.

Shi’ite activists say police shot the 16 during peaceful demonstrations or during attempted arrests.

Nimr was based in al-Awamiyah, a neighbourhood in Qatif that has been a hotbed of unrest. When he was arrested in July the authorities said he had rammed a police car and possessed weapons.

Local Shi’ite activists denied both accusations.

By Yara Bayoumy and Regan Doherty A SYRIAN opposition bloc recognised by the Arab League as the sole representative for Syria opened its first embassy in Qatar yesterday in a diplomatic blow to President Bashar al-Assad.

But opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib, who took Syria’s seat at an Arab summit in Doha on Tuesday, used the ribboncutting ceremony to voice his frustration with world powers for failing to do more to help in the two-year-old struggle to topple Assad.

“There is an international willingness for the revolution not to triumph,” he told reporters at the embassy, which was festooned with balloons in the red, green, white and black of Syria’s national flag.

Alkhatib, a Sunni Muslim cleric who resigned this week as leader of the Syrian National Coalition, but who is staying on as a caretaker, also alluded to internal differences plaguing the opposition umbrella group formed in Qatar in November.

“The only way to victory is unity,” he declared.

Syrian opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib (left) alluded to internal differences plaguing the opposition umbrella group formed in Qatar in November (AFP) Damascus raged against summit host Qatar for helping the opposition into Syria’s seat at the League, while Russia and Iran also criticised the move to delegitimise Assad’s rule.

Yet although the 22-member

Arab bloc lent its support to giving weapons to Syrian rebels, it is unclear how much impact the opposition’s diplomatic advances will have inside Syria.

The Cairo-based coalition’s control over insurgent groups

is tenuous at best. Some of the most militarily effective, such as the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, openly reject its authority.

Alkhatib told Reuters in an interview he was surprised by a rebuff from the United States

and NATO to his request for Patriot missiles based in Turkey to help protect rebel-held parts of northern Syria from Assad’s helicopters and warplanes. “I’m scared that this will be a message to the Syrian regime telling it ‘Do what you want’,” he said.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, speaking to students in Moscow via video link from Brussels, again said the Western alliance had no intention of intervening in Syria.

“We believe that we need a political solution in Syria,” he said, noting there was no UN mandate for NATO action there.

Disunity among Syria’s opposition in exile and the armed factions on the ground have long hindered the struggle against Assad and have contributed to Western reluctance to intervene.

Alkhatib has cited the West’s failure to do more to help the opposition, as well as the coalition’s internal divisions, as reasons for announcing on Sunday that he would quit as leader.

He offered no clarity on his own political future in his interview with Reuters. “I have given my resignation and I have not withdrawn it. But I have to continue my duties until the general committee meets,” the former mosque imam said.

The Arab summit’s support for Assad’s foes may prove more symbolic than practical, but Syria vented its wrath at Qatar for its pro-opposition actions at the annual gathering.

Russian ‘bewilderment’ at Syrian opposition being given Arab summit seat RUSSIA expressed “bewilderment” yesterday at the Arab League giving a seat formerly held by the Syrian government to a leader of the opposition seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad at a summit in Doha.

Russia, Assad’s most powerful protector in the two-year conflict

that has killed some 70,000 people, also criticised the UN Human Rights Council for putting the whole blame on Damascus and trying to hush up atrocities committed by rebels.

Opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib took Syria’s vacant seat on Tuesday at the Arab summit, which also has lent its support to giving military aid

to the rebels fighting Assad.

“In Doha, another anti-Syria step was taken,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “In fact this is about openly encouraging those powers that unfortunately continue to bet on a military solution in Syria.”

“Developments at the Arab League

summit in Doha and decisions taken there, regardless of objections by some member states, cause bewilderment to say the least,” it also said, adding the summit’s decisions contravened international law.

Russia is a long-time arms supplier to Damascus and maintains a naval facility in Syria.

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UK banks told to plug £25-billion capital hole RBS shares Limited fall, seen facing output at biggest BRICS capital summit shortfall South African Jacob Zuma

President (AFP)

AT a summit in South Africa yesterday, Vladimir Putin likened the BRICS nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - to Africa’s “Big Five” game beasts of trophy hunting lore - the lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros.

The Russian president’s comparison captures the dilemma of these muscular emerging global powers, which together present a formidable potential economic and political counterweight to the developed West, but individually could hardly be more different.

At a two-day summit in Durban, South Africa, the leaders of countries that make up more than 40 per cent of the world’s population and a fifth of global GDP seemed to have little concrete to show from their mostly closed-door deliberations.

After mooting plans for a BRICS development bank at a summit in New Delhi a year ago, the leaders in Durban were only able to announce the start of formal talks on the constitution of the bank, a lumbering pace even for a group as diverse as the BRICS. “We have decided to enter formal negotiations to establish a BRICS-led new development Bank based on our own considerable infrastructure needs, which amount to around $4.5 trillion over the next five years,” the host, South African President Jacob Zuma, told the summit.

He added the bank aimed to cooperate in the future with other emerging markets and developing countries, but revealed little about the structure of a world institution pitched as a potential complement, if not rival, to the IMF and World Bank.

Zuma also announced the group’s “resolve” to set up a $100-billion foreign exchange reserves pool, again indicating little real progress on creating another financial coordination tool.

By Huw Jones and Matt Scuffham BRITAIN’S banks must raise 25 billion pounds of extra capital by the end of the year to absorb any future losses on loans, the central bank said, less than investors had expected.

Replenishing banks’ capital buffers, decimated by the financial crisis and heavy fines for misconduct, is a crucial step for returning part stateowned lenders RBS and Lloyds to full private ownership by the 2015 general election.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the move announced yesterday to strengthen banks should also allow them to lend more and support economic growth.

He said plugging the capital shortfall was “manageable” and the banks won’t need taxpayers’ money.

But UK business minister Vince Cable said forcing banks to raise capital will prolong the time it takes for the economy to recover by further depressing already weak lending to small businesses.

The central bank said major lenders should achieve a core tier 1 capital ratio - a bank’s main benchmark of health - of

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the move announced yesterday to strengthen banks should also allow them to lend more and support economic growth (AFP) at least 7 per cent of their riskweighted assets.

RBS and Lloyds and two other banks, HSBC and Barclays, dominate the market with 74 per cent of deposits.

Banks have already announced some plans to bolster capital which, along with their expected earnings this year, should cover half of the required 25 billion pounds.

The amount they have to raise is less than investors had expected. The central bank said last year the figure could be as high as 60 billion pounds.

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Banks will have to hold a set amount of capital so they are not tempted to cancel loans to bump up their capital ratios.

Those holding large amounts of risky commercial property or are exposed to struggling eurozone countries such as Greece or Spain will have to hold even more capital above the 7 per cent target.

RBS said its capital position was strong and that it was working with regulators, while Barclays said it was “profitable, strong and well-

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Santander UK said it would continue to maintain its capital ratios above the industry average.

HSBC and Lloyds declined to comment.

Yesterday’s announcement outlined two phases: the December deadline for the minimum capital level, five years earlier than the globally agreed timetable under the Basel III accord, and regular stress testing of banks beyond 2014 that will lead to further capital increases.

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The UK stock market was down 0.1 per cent.

“You can pretty much guess HSBC is going to be in surplus and that Barclays, RBS and Lloyds have probably got a shortfall and I would guess the shortfall is probably biggest at RBS,” Shore Capital analyst Gary Cooper said.

The central bank did not give a breakdown of how much each bank needed to raise.

Banks are expected to say how they will raise the money in the next few weeks. Analysts expect them to continue with measures such as curbing

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during late trading on March 25, 2013 in New York City (AFP)

MAJOR stock markets fell and the euro slumped to a four-month low against the dollar yesterday, hit by a disappointing Italian bond auction and concern about a wider impact on the eurozone from Cyprus’ bailout.

Bleak eurozone economic data added to a sour tone in markets, driving demand for safe-haven assets. US Treasuries debt prices jumped, with benchmark yields falling to their lowest levels in three weeks and German Bunds also gained. Gold rose above $1,600 an ounce.

At a debt auction yesterday, Italy paid more to borrow over five years than it has since October as lack of progress in forming a new government and worries about Cyprus hurt demand. Cypriot banks are due to reopen today.

Cyprus is putting the final touches on capital control measures to prevent a run on banks after the country agreed to a bailout deal that will wipe out some senior bank bondholders and impose losses on large depositors.

The worry among investors is that despite attempts by some officials to dismiss the idea, the plan could become a blueprint for any future eurozone bailout.

US stocks fell after a rally on Monday propelled the S&P 500 to within striking distance of an all-time closing high. But they recovered some losses in afternoon trading.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped

23.96 points, or 0.16 per cent, to 14,535.69. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 0.79 points, or 0.05 per cent, to 1,562.98. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 2.36 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 3,254.84.

MSCI’s index of world shares, which tracks 6000 stocks in 45 countries, fell 0.2 per cent to 358.73 points. European shares dropped 0.4 per cent to end at 1,184.06 points, a threeweek closing low.

Benchmark US 10-year Treasury notes were up 16/32 in price to yield 1.854 per cent.

The euro fell as low as $1.2750, the weakest since November 21, and last traded at $1.2778, down 0.6 per cent on the day.

“Rising Italian borrowing costs and its political situation are both negatives,” said Greg Anderson, G10 strategist at Citigroup in New York. “Investors are not overly short the euro, so there is plenty of scope for the euro to test the lows of the past cycle.”

Data yesterday showed confidence in the eurozone’s economy fell more than expected in March after four straight months of gains.

Other reports showed a slump in Italian manufacturing and retail sales and contraction in France’s economy at the end of last year.

The dollar was little changed at 94.43 yen, while the dollar index, which tracks the greenback versus a basket of major currencies, rose to a more than seven-month high of 83.302.

The index was last up 0.4 per cent at 83.213.

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State needs to look at further wage cuts in public sector LABOUR Minister Haris Georgiades yesterday held a meeting with ministry officials to re-examine all the state’s welfare benefits, with a view to limiting the adverse social consequences of the deep recession we have entered. It is good to see the government is wasting no time in considering ways of facing the big social problems that would be created by the overnight shrinking of the economy.

The minister had no illusions about what lay ahead. “Our economy, which has been in recession for some time now, will go into an even deeper recession and, unfortunately, unemployment that is at record levels will rise further,” he said yesterday. He knew that “demands will increase but the state’s capabilities will be limited,” which was why the plan was to prioritise real needs and “ensure every euro that was spent went to those with the biggest needs.”

It is the correct thinking, when we consider how much money had been wasted by the previous government on untargeted benefits, a problem that was partially addressed by the bailout agreement. But no matter how successfully the system of benefit payments is rationalised it will still not cover the needs of the growing numbers of families falling below the poverty line. The number of long-term unemployed, currently at 50,000, could double over the next six months, as businesses close down or lay off workers.

At present unemployment benefits are paid only for six months, which was reasonable for an economy that enjoyed decades of full employment. But in current conditions, with endemic long-term unemployment the old arrangements are inadequate.

How is someone who has been unemployed for a year or longer supposed to feed his or her family or pay the electricity bill? The Church cannot be relied on to feed everyone in poverty.

The state needs to take a more active role.

The government needs to raise funds to support the impoverished members of our society if social breakdown is to be avoided.

As state coffers are empty the only way to raise funds to help those in need is by cutting another five or 10 per cent from public sector salaries and pensions. This money could go into a social cohesion fund that would be used exclusively to support families in need. Even after another 10 per cent pay cut, public employees would still be the best-rewarded workers.

This is the only way to deal with the problem and Georgiades should resist the misguided policies of his predecessor, who subsidised wages in order to protect jobs.

These methods did not stop unemployment hitting record levels and would be even less effective now. The only option is a social cohesion fund from monthly contributions by public employees, who have given up less than all other workers in the recession.

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Iceland: hard lesson for capital controls Analysis Alistair Scrutton and Robert Robertsson

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OR ICELAND, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus’ finance minister said capital controls would probably last “a matter of weeks”. Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island has just extended its own controls indefinitely.

When Iceland first announced those surprise plans after market hours in November 2008, the Confederation of Icelandic Employers director general rushed to parliament at night to try to persuade bleary-eyed lawmakers to reverse course.

“They were talking about lifting them in three months.

I feared they would be permanent,” said Vilhjalmur Egilsson. “But politicians had neither the energy nor intellectual capacity to realise that.”

He returned home emptyhanded. An International Monetary Fund official woke him in the middle of the night with a phone call, worried about Egilsson’s opposition to the controls.

“Everyone seemed tired with late night meetings, thrown into a state of confusion,” Egilsson said. “No one was thinking straight.”

As in Cyprus, an overblown banking sector that was 10 times the size of Iceland’s economy was behind the implosion.

The government protected local depositors but allowed the foreign operations of the banks to collapse. Foreign creditors bore the brunt of the pain.

Capital controls may have been a painful necessity to stop the Icelandic crown from collapsing, but a slide in the currency before the curbs were imposed helped the small economy return to growth quicker than many had expected.

Cyprus, by contrast, cannot devalue because it is a member of the eurozone.

Iceland appears at a loss as to how to lift the restrictions without sparking more capital flight by foreign investors.

There are worries that this is dampening investment and creating asset bubbles, such as in real estate.

“The capital controls will prove costly and be a deterrent in the long run,” said Jon Sigurdsson, CEO of Ossur, the Icelandic-based company that has made prosthetic limbs for the likes of South African “blade runner” Oscar Pistorius.

“The problem is that it is easy to justify putting capital controls on, but it seems more difficult to find a credible plan to take them off,” Sigurdsson told Reuters.

Restrictions on capital

The six-million-dollar question is how long the controls will last? movements exclude exporters and importers as well as interest payments on foreign debt.

They include foreign holdings of deposits and bonds. Icelanders going abroad are allowed to buy a limited amount of foreign currency for things like holidays.

The central bank has estimated foreign holdings of crowns at 400 billion (some $3.2 billion), more than a fifth of Iceland’s gross domestic product. Including money owed to claimants of the bankrupt banks, that could rise to 600 billion crowns.

The biggest difference between Cyprus and Iceland is the currency. Reports that Iceland was mulling adopting the Canadian dollar were not idle talk. It reflected a sense that the only way out may be to adopt another currency most likely the euro.

But there are also similarities. Both are small islands with small populations where banking and tourism have been major earners. And both were forced to move to capital controls for effectively the same reason - to safeguard the financial system.

In 2008, Iceland made it clear the controls would be short term until the currency stabilised.

The IMF said they would be lifted “near term”. The government said “as soon as possible”. In 2009, the central bank said the capital controls would be lifted within a few months.

That now seems to have been wishful thinking, at best.

“It will take longer. How much longer I don’t have a clue,” central bank governor Mar Gudmundsson told

‘Five years after imposing capital controls aimed to last a few weeks, Iceland has still not lifted them’ Reuters in an interview last month.

What may have saved the crown has become a burden for business, and executives say they hamper a nascent recovery.

The IMF had originally forecast annual growth of around 4.5 per cent in 2011-2013. The reality is less than half that figure - although still impressive by European standards.

Investment is less than 15 per cent of GDP, a record low.

Iceland has an educated workforce and firms like its biggest IT company CCP, a maker of popular computer games such as Eve with clients from Asia to the United States, say controls make foreign investment difficult and recruiting a talented workforce hard.

It was a sign of the times

when Ossur - a national icon - delisted from the Iceland stock exchange in 2011 to focus on its Copenhagen listing, although the Icelandic stock exchange later relisted the company for legal reasons.

“It is almost impossible to run an international company in a capital control environment. It has affected us in all our business,” said Sigurdsson. “Capital controls therefore also substantially limit the interest of investors.”

“The dual listing in Copenhagen has strengthened the company’s financial foundation for future growth.”

The IMF, which broke with its traditional orthodoxy by supporting the controls, has lauded Iceland as an example of recovery for Europe. The government’s decision to act quickly, allowing banks to fail, is held up favourably against prevarication and tortuous decision-making in the eurozone.

The government has tried slowly to reduce foreign funds via currency auctions, allowing foreigners to sell crowns for euros at a rate lower than the official exchange rate.

That had reduced foreign crown holdings by 70 billion crowns in the last two years.

At that rate it may take at least five years for the overhang of foreign funds to be fully removed.

“Obviously it is hampering growth of investment into Iceland and it is hampering restructuring because investors are reluctant to invest in bonds,” said Danske Bank economist Lars Christensen, well known for predicting the Icelandic collapse before 2008.

Gudmundsson says that for controls to be lifted safety, Iceland needs a combination of high foreign reserves and a budget surplus to cope with increased financing costs once foreign funds exit.

It is not all doom and gloom.

The reconstruction of the banking sector, now just twice the size of GDP rather than 10 times, has created more well capitalised and profitable lenders.

The cleanup has led to the estates of the old banks, which are in winding-up procedures and seeking to maximise returns for creditors, becoming major owners in two of the new banks.

The new banks - Arion, created from Kaupthing, and Islandsbanki, created from Glitnir - want to reach socalled composition deals with creditors, which could see the old banks’ estates having direct control of the new banks.

Though owners, the estates currently have little say in running the new banks.

So while there may be an end in sight, it could still be years away. In the meantime frustrations grow.

“We are now in a vicious circle. We need inflows, but while you have capital controls people don’t want to invest,” said Hafsteinn Gunnar Hauksson, an economist at Arion.

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Skyfall director Sam Mendes finally had his moment of glory scooping three gongs, while Dame Helen Mirren was queen of the night, receiving the Empire Legend award

Bond director Sam Mendes wins three Empire awards SKYFALL director Sam Mendes finally had his moment of glory scooping three gongs at the Jameson Empire Awards 2013.

The latest James Bond film, though a box office hit, was overlooked at the Oscars and the Baftas in the best film and best director categories.

But at the star-studded ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, Mendes took home the best director and best film awards for his 007 effort Skyfall, along

with the Empire Inspiration award.

Mendes said: “The whole inspiring thing I take very seriously. Me, if I feel like my films have inspired a couple of people, a couple of kids who are sitting in the back of a dark auditorium, then it’s been worth it.”

Mendes has already ruled himself out of directing the next Bond film, but admitted he had not chosen his next project. He said: “It probably won’t be quite as

big as Bond. But I want to do something ambitious in a different way.”

Dame Helen Mirren was queen of the night, receiving the Empire Legend award.

The 67-year-old actress was hailed for her screen career spanning five decades, including notable performances in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover, Gosford Park, The Queen and this year’s Hitchcock.

Dame Helen joked she had planned to dye her hair

green to match the Jameson Empire logo. The Oscar-winning star dyed her hair pink for the Bafta ceremony last month, and laughed: “It’s so easy. You just wash it in, wash it out. I was going to go green for tonight, but I didn’t get round to it.”

Danny Boyle - who along with Mendes has already ruled himself out of directing the next Bond film - was also celebrated for his film career, presented with the Empire Outstanding Contribution

award.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was named this year’s Empire Hero, while his film The Woman In Black won the award for Best Horror. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey notched up two wins - Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film and the Best Actor award for star Martin Freeman.

Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for her performance in The Hunger Games.

Cave-dwelling Croods settle at top of box office

By Lisa Richwine and Andrea Burzynski

Actress Emma Stone is pictured at the film’s premiere

ANIMATED prehistoric adventure The Croods, about a family of cave dwellers fighting for survival, claimed the top spot on movie box office charts with $44.7 million from weekend ticket sales in the United States and Canada.

The 3-D children’s comedy from Shrek and Madagascar creator Dreamworks Animation added $63.3 million from international markets, the studio said on Sunday, for a global total of $108 million.

Croods dethroned twotime box office champ Oz the Great and Powerful, which slipped to third place on domestic charts. The Walt Disney Co prequel to The Wizard of Oz earned $22 million during its third weekend, according to studio estimates.

In between the two family films, thriller Olympus Has Fallen, about a White House under terrorist attack, took in $30.5 million at North

American (U.S. and Canadian) theatres.

The performance of Croods provided a solid opening for Dreamworks, which needs a hit after the disappointment from November’s Rise of the Guardians.

Box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co. Jeff Bock said the opening bodes well for Dreamworks, which he said is in the process of establishing new films ripe for sequels.

“It’s a great start for a spring film, especially one that’s animated,” he said.

Bock predicted that the film will gross between $175 and $200 million over the next two months or so.

Croods tells the story of a Stone Age family that is uprooted after its cave is destroyed and forced to search for a new home. Nicolas Cage provides the voice of an overprotective father, while Emma Stone voices his rebellious daughter. The movie cost $135 million to make, plus tens of millions more for marketing.

Ahead of the weekend, Wall Street analysts said Croods needed a domestic opening around $40 million to ease investor concerns following the weak results from Guardians, which opened with $24 million and grossed $303 million total during its global run.

The poor performance of the holiday-themed Guardians forced Dreamworks to write down $87 million and contributed to 350 layoffs taking place this year, the company said in February.

Dreamworks Animation Chief Operating Officer Ann Daly said she expects the film to do “phenomenally well” over the next few weeks, pointing to its A CinemaScore rating and the fact that many US children will be off from school and more likely to head to the movies.

“This time period is a big opportunity for us,” Daly said, citing How to Train Your Dragon as a past example of a family film that benefited from a release during a similar time frame.

Liam Gallagher mocks brother Noel LIAM Gallagher has mocked his brother Noel for performing with Damon Albarn at the weekend.

The outspoken Beady Eye singer has ridiculed his sibling’s decision to join Damon and his Blur bandmate Graham Coxon on stage at a Teenage Cancer Trust concert on Saturday, ending their near 20-year Britpop rivalry.

Liam seemingly believes Noel’s rendition of Tender with his former Blur foes is as bad as his acceptance of an invitation to meet former British Prime Minister Tony Blair - who was responsible for sending Britain to war with Iraq on a false premise - at Number 10 Downing Street in 1997.

Comparing Blur to boy band Blue, the former Oasis frontman wrote on Twitter: “Don’t know what’s worse RKID sipping champagne with a war criminal or them backing vocals you’ve just done for BLUE ! LG x (sic)” Liam, 40, and Noel, 45, have barely spoken since the guitarist quit Oasis in August 2009 following a fight with his younger brother and they have continued to publicly trade insults ever since.

Noel, Damon and Graham were joined by Paul Weller for their performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Noel’s appearance on stage provoked rapturous applause from the audience.

Oasis and Blur had a famous chart battle in August 1995 when Blur released Country House and Oasis brought out Roll With It in the same week - with Blur ultimately claiming the UK number one spot.

Keanu Reeves reassured over turning 40 KEANU Reeves was reassured that turning 40 wasn’t so bad by his friend Dustin Hoffman.

The 48-year-old actor hated reaching the milestone age but was thankful his older pal was able to point out that life could be even better as he gets older and that things would work out for the best in the end.

He said: “When I reached 40, I remember hanging out with Dustin Hoffman and said to him, ‘Being 40 is a bitch’.

“He said, ‘No, it’s not, being 40 is great.’ He then went on to list all the changes he’d had in his life around that time - he was divorced around 40 - but that I had to hang on in there and things would work out for the best.

“It’s nice to have another older male pat you on the back and tell you everything is going to be OK.” Reeves has suffered tragedy in his life, with his daughter Ava tragically still-born in 1999 and the tot’s mother, Jennifer Syme, dying in a car crash in 2001.

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Noticeboard Ten FameLab Cyprus competitors go to final

Gan Direct launches new app SmartAssist GAN Direct Insurance yet again lead the way in Cyprus by launching their new SmartAssist app, the first 24-hour assistance app.

Gan’s SmartAssist app has been developed to provide customers faster and more effective assistance in the case of motor breakdown or accident, property and health emergencies, as well as a unique free SOS emergency function.

Should you urgently need one of the public emergency services (ambulance, fire, police), you can press the ‘SOS’ button and the app will not only call the services for you, but will also notify your pre identified friends and family, by SMS and email, that you are in need of help.

Another benefit of the SmartAssist app is the real-time GPS mapping which, as a Gan policy holder, will show exactly where you are, and how close the Gan Direct taskforce is to assist you in case of motor breakdown or accident or property emergencies. The app will also automatically update the service's estimated time of arrival.

This offering is part of Gan Direct’s belief in total service quality and in helping to make people’s lives simpler, easier and more affordable.

To find out more, and to benefit from the free SOS emergency function, download the SmartAssist app from the Gan Direct website at www.GanDirect.com

MTN announces its new COO MTN, as part of its strategy to continuously upgrade its services, strengthens its team with a new Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Anwar Soussa. Mr Soussa will be heading the MTN Stores & Customer Experience Division and support customer experience and quality of service.

Mr. Soussa’s more than 14 years of experience in the telecoms sector in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Pacific will contribute significantly to the company's effort to offer even more to its customers.

Anwar Soussa has worked with companies like Digicel and Orascom Telecom – Vimpelcom as Commercial Director in Oceania and Africa.

FAMELAB Cyprus, a national talent competition to find the best new talent in science communication, its semi-final successfully on March 13. The following ten finalists are set to participate in the national FameLab Cyprus final on April 28.

1. Stelios Andreou 2. Maria Lena Demetriou 3. Anastasia Giourgouli 4. Marios Isaakides 5. Andreas Kamilaris 6. Nicos Constantinou 7. Alexandra Michael 8. Giorgos Olympiou 9. Loutsia Protopapa 10. Phivi Stavride The first three winners of the national final will receive prizes of €2,000, €1,000 and €500 respectively. The big winner will represent Cyprus at FameLab International Final which will take place on June 7 in Cheltenham, United Kingdom.

The jury team consisted

of Dr Petros Matsas, Chief Medical Executive Officer, Nicosia General Hospital, Dr Vassilios Tsakalos, Director General, Research Promotion, Dr Nicos Peristianis, Executive Dean, University of Nicosia, Mrs Lina Zeniou Papa, Actress/Director & owner of a theatre school for children and Dr Despo Fatta Kasinou, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus.

Organisers of the competition are the European Office of Cyprus and the British Council and co-organiser the Research Promotion Foundation. Sponsors are the University of Nicosia, the University of Cyprus and Top Kinisis Travel.

Media sponsors are the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and Politis newspaper.

The competition is under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Cuervo ties with Sauber F1 continue

KEANITA and Green Dot recently raised €4,650 for the Pancyprian Association of Spastic and Handicapped Children ANEMONI through the initiative “3 but why?”, carried out in ecological schools across Cyprus.

This amount was raised from the sales of ecological bags and collectible boxes via KEANITA’s environmental competition “3 but why?”, in

which hundreds of children created paintings inspired by the environment.

KEANITA Brand Manager Ms. Maria Odysseos, Green Dot Cyprus Commercial Manager Mr. Sakis Theodosiou and Green Dot Cyprus General Manager Mr. Kyriacos Parpouna handed over the funds to ANEMONI foundation representative Mr. Polyvios Mylona

JOSE Cuervo International is very proud to confirm the continuation of the partnership with the Sauber F1 Team for the FIA Formula One World Championship 2013.

The brand looks forward to an exciting Formula One World Championship 2013 as a Premium Partner of the Sauber F1 Team, with the Cuervo Tequila logo appearimg on the sidepods of the car above the air inlets, as well as on the drivers’ and team’s uniforms.

People can 'like’ Cuervo’s Official Facebook page www.facebook.com/CuervoCyprus to be the first to hear about your favourite tequila’s latest news.

The official distributor of Cuervo Tequila in Cyprus is Photos Photiades Distributors Ltd.

MetLife Alico honours its leading partners in Cyprus Local excellence celebrated despite econ challenges METLIFE Alico’s glamorous awards ceremony took place on March 1 in Nicosia, with the event aimed at bringing all the Cypriot MetLife Alico partners together, making them feel part of a special global family. Above all the event was a celebration and an acknowledgement of all those who, despite the challenges of our times, achieved excellence.

Present at the event was Mr. Michael Hadjidemetriou (Regional Head of Eastern and Southern Europe), Mr. Nikos Daskalakes (Regional Agency Director), the General Manager of MetLife Alico in Cyprus, Mr. Antonios I. Karpasitis, Bank Executives, Insurance Superintendent, the President of AmCham association Mr. Miltos Miltiadous and media representatives.

Mr. Hadjidemetriou and Mr. Karpasitis congratulated the

The event was a celebration and acknowledgement of MetLife Alico Cypriot partners' excellence awarded partners who managed to distinguish themselves despite today’s financial environment, and proved that, with hard work and methodical thinking, they can surpass any obstacles.

In a very impressive atmosphere, the company honoured all of its distinguished partners for the year 2012.

Members of the Manage-

ment and Production System who for more than 25 years have been contributing to the Company’s success. Special Insurance Consultants were also awarded, P.P.G.A’s Team and Store Managers (in both local and East and Southern European level) as well as the best of Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The excitement was at its

peak when Michael Michael (Agency Manager), took to the stage to accept his award for his 30 years with the Company. Mr. Michael was awarded for his team’s results, which he managed on several scales and levels.

He has also been part of many of the Company’s conferences and has trained numerous partners for both the

Company and the Insurance Institute LUTC. The awards ceremony ended with the most important award of 2012: the honouring of Mr. Pambos Charalambous (P.P.G.A.) for his 50-year contribution to the company. Mr. Charalambous has been widely associated with MetLife Alico’s history from its first years in the Cypriot market.

Cyclists continue to raise funds for Paphos needy DURING February and March, Cycling Cyprus and members of the Paphos Cycling Club continued their fund-raising activities outside a variety of venues in the Paphos area, collecting much-needed supplies for the less fortunate Paphos residents affected by the economic downturn.

On behalf of the increasing number of Paphos families that have benefitted from the generosity of the various store owners and the unfaltering generosity of members of the public, a HUGE thank you.

Special thanks to the owners and staff of

Kolios Butchery & Delicatessen, Nick and all the staff of E&S Supermarket on Mesogi Avenue, The chairmen of Mesogi & Tremithousa villages for their generous cash donations, Stavros and the staff of the €uro Shop on Mesogi Avenue and Michalis Vladimerou and the staff of Vladimerou supermarket on the Polis Road.

For more details and for the very latest news from the world of cycling go to www.cyclingcyprus.org. For more information about The Paphos Cycling Club go to www.paphoscyclingclub.com or contact Kim on 99 320 213

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T THE height of an investigation into a group of Islamists plotting al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain in 2004, British spies analysed more than 4,000 telephone contacts to build up a picture of what they were planning and with whom.

The security services say the information was crucial in helping to thwart what could have been one of the deadliest attacks on Britain and to bring the cell to justice.

But a decade on, the police and intelligence agencies warn they have fallen behind those they are trying to track, as advances in technology

and the growth of services like Skype and Facebook increasingly put criminals beyond their reach.

In response, Britain is seeking to bring in what critics say are the West’s most farreaching surveillance laws that could change the international landscape in this area. The proposals would force communications firms to collect and store vast reams of data about almost every click of British online activity.

By doing so, ministers have provoked the wrath of human rights campaigners, sown division within the coalition government and alarmed major corporations such as

Google and Microsoft.

“Nobody wants to live in a tyranny. I certainly don’t and I don’t want people snooping on what I do,” said Gary Beautridge, the lead chief British police officer on the issue.

“This is about maintaining capability. It’s not increasing capability, it’s maintaining it in the face of change in technology,” he said, rejecting talk of an Orwellian scheme.

Beautridge and all those involved in law enforcement say they are now unable to see about 25 per cent of all communications data, hindering the secret war against bomb plotters, drug lords and paedophiles.

Liberal democrat Julien Huppert

Conservative MP Stephen Mosley

A bus destroyed in the London 7-7 terror attack

Costs of system not thought necessar report Michael Hold Almost everyone, from lawmakers to privacy campaigners, accepts something needs to be done. But trying to find a solution that is technically possible, will not cost billions and is not overly intrusive is proving a challenge.

Politicians across the world are grappling with the same problem but privacy cam-

paigners say Britain is going further than any other democratic state.

Some countries such as France and Denmark are interested in new laws but campaigners said most other states had so far steered clear.

“The UK is the first mover in this. If the UK is successful, they will have changed the landscape for the rest of the world,” said Gus Hosein, Executive Director of Privacy International.

Currently, if British authorities want to find out details about who has been talking to who they make a request to a senior police or intelligence officer who can approve the application without the need for a warrant.

British mobile and landline telephone providers must retain records for 12 months, in line with an EU directive, and figures for 2011 show some 494,078 applications were made.

Now Britain’s Home Office, or interior ministry, plans to expand these powers to include online activities, such as which websites

Now Britain’s H interior ministry, these powers to activities, such as were looked at and to who on so were looked at and who was talking to who on social networks.

The new law would force British Internet service providers (ISP) and mobile operators to store data they would not normally keep for

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Home Office, or plans to expand o include online s which websites d who was talking cial networks The government insists it does not want to look at the content of the exchanges, but merely the details of the contact.

“All we’re talking about is keeping the communications log of actually who owns that

account, when a call was made and to whom or from whom and that is it,” Beautridge said.

“It’s not the content, it’s never the content. Fishing expeditions should not happen. The processes have been designed to ensure that.”

However, last December a draft version of the bill was heavily criticised by a parliamentary committee, which said it was too sweeping in its remit, would give ministers too much power and was likely to be too expensive.

The government is now expected to outline an amended bill in weeks with many of the same powers, according to sources familiar with discussions, having made it clear it cannot wait.

“Technical experts are clear that everything in the bill is feasible and we are continuing to consult with communications service providers on our proposals,” said a Home Office spokeswoman,

adding the aim was to bring a law forward “at the earliest opportunity” along with its cost implications.

Unlike the original plans which placed huge powers in the hands of the home secretary, the new proposals are likely to give parliament a greater say in what is permissible.

But privacy campaigners warn that might just put a gloss on something still unpalatable, putting in place a system which could be extended at a later date.

“If the police want to investigate me, they should be able to ask any company that has data on me to disclose that information. That’s generally not a problem,” said Hosein from Privacy International.

“The problem is the Home Office want much more than that. They want these companies to record these activities just in case at some point in the future I may become a suspect. That’s not the way

things work in a democratic society.”

Among the concerns are proposals that service providers keep weblogs - records of websites people have visited - and a “filter” system which would ask them complex questions and filter data accordingly, something Hosein describes as mass surveillance.

“Having a list for 12 months of every single website you go to, that’s quite a lot of information about yourself, very personal information,” said Julien Huppert, who speaks on the issue for the Liberal Democrats, the junior members of Britain’s coalition government.

But it’s not just the rights or wrongs of the system at stake, there are also concerns it will not work in a world of mass communications provided by firms located across the globe.

One of the main sticking points will be how the authorities get information from so-called third party service providers based outside British jurisdiction, such as Google’s Gmail, Facebook and Microsoft’s Skype.

British-based mobile operators have told Reuters they are happy to cooperate with

the government, but they insist that the same rules must apply to the likes of Facebook.

“From a security point of view, you need to be able to have access to the full pool of communication otherwise you’re fishing in a sub-set of a sub-set,” said Ronan Dunne, the chief executive of O2 UK. If internet groups based outside Britain do not comply, the Home Office envisages forcing the British Internet Service Providers who carry their services to access the data instead, through a process known as deeppacket inspection.

But, it is not clear if this will be technically possible.

Google has said it would not allow another service provider to decrypt its information on its Gmail service, and Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has said he would not cooperate.

“If we find that UK ISPs are mandated to keep track of every web page that someone reads on Wikipedia, I am almost certain... that we would immediately move to a default of encrypting all the connections to the UK,” Wales said.

The government, which has

already spent £400 million so far on the scheme without it getting off the ground, has estimated that it would cost £1.8 billion over the 10 years until 2020-1, a figure that has been disputed. The Treasury has also said the funds have not been approved.

“We got widely divergent estimates of the cost and none of them were lower than the Home Office suggestion,” said lawmaker Stephen Mosley, a member of Prime Minister David Cameron’s ruling Conservative Party who sat on the parliamentary committee which scrutinised the draft bill.

Polls indicate that the majority of Britons do not like the plans, think they are a waste of money and do not have faith that the information will be secure.

Mosley, co-chairman of the Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum, warned it was vital that any law could not give succour to draconian regimes which sought to censor their citizens activities.

“We as a country do want to be a beacon for freedom and liberty. We’ve got to make sure that legislation we introduce can’t be misused elsewhere,” he said.

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What’s on

films

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

Times are subject to change, so check first with cinemas before you head out

Telephone nos: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 Rio Limassol: 25-871410

NICOSIA

Mama (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.10pm

Jack the Giant Slayer (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.40, 7.55 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.40, 7.55 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.10pm and 3.25pm

Warm Bodies (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.05pm

Hitchcock (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.10am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm

The Last Stand (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.40, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Identity Thief (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.55 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.55 and 10.15pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11am and 3pm

Rio Paphos: 26-207000

Lincoln (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.15pm

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm La vie d’une autre (in French, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy

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

LIMASSOL Jack the Giant Slayer (12) Rio 2 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.20pm, Monday also at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.40, 7.55 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm Hitchcock (12) Rio 1 at 7.45pm; Rio 4 at 10pm, weekends and Monday also at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm The Last Stand (15) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends and Monday also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Identity Thief (12) Rio 3 at 7.45 and 10pm; KCineplex (Screen 2) at 7.55 and 10.15pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 3 and 5.20pm, Monday only at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3pm Mama (15) Rio 1 at 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm Warm Bodies (12) Rio 4 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

Lincoln (12) Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends and Monday also at 4.30pm

Identity Thief (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.55 and 10.15pm

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm

Oz the Great and Powerful (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3pm

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 1 (in Greek), weekends only at 3, 4.30 and 6pm, Monday only at 6pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

Mama (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm

A Good Day to Die Hard (15) Rio 6 at 10.10pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

LARNACA Jack the Giant Slayer (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.40, 7.55 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm

Warm Bodies (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.05pm Lincoln (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.15pm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Hitchcock (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

PAPHOS

The Last Stand (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.40, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

Jack the Giant Slayer (12) Rio 1 at 5.45, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends and Monday also at 3.30 and 5.45pm

Hitchcock (12) Rio 7 at 6, 8 and 10pm The Last Stand (15) Rio 4 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends and Monday also at 3.30pm Identity Thief (12) Rio 5 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends and Monday also at 3.30pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 6 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends and Monday also at 3pm Mama (15) Rio 2 at 9.45pm Warm Bodies (12) Rio 3 at 5.30 and 7.30pm Lincoln (12) Rio 3 at 9.45pm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends and Monday at 5.30pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends and Monday only at 3 and 4.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends and Monday only at 3.30pm

listings Today Exhibition Uninterrupted Stare Solo art exhibition by Nina Sumarac.

March 28, 7.30pm until April 6. Rouan Gallery, 28 Dodekanisou, Limassol.

Monday-Saturday: 10.30am-1pm and 4.30pm-7.30pm. Tel: 25-350845 The Incomplete Circle Solo art exhibition by Giorgos Erotokritos. Opens March 28, 7.30pm until April 13. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia.

Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Atrapos Solo art exhibition by Mikella Psara.

Opens March 28, 7.30pm until April 17. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-754009

Below Zero Drama directed by Photis Georgidis.

March 28 & 30-31. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue. 8.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 70-007410/99-308232 How to Rob a Bank Skala Theatre presents a three act comedy by Samy Fayad. March 28.

Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. In Greek. €12/7. Tel: 77-777745

Other Events ENGAGE – on the Move Limassol Join ENGAGE – on the Move for a day of useful giveaways and handouts, music compilations, activities for the children, public awareness campaign on gender-related issues and more.

March 28. Dikoitirion Square in the town centre, Limassol. 11am-5pm.

Tel: 22-875099. kristy@ngo-sc.org

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Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation presents afternoon family concert especially for children between 7-15 years old and their parents.

March 28. Pallas Theatre, old Nicosia.

6pm. €5 /free. Tel: 22-410181

Theatre

People – National Theatre Live The UK’s National Theatre live broadcast via satellite of Alan Bennett’s latest play. March 29. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €8/5. With Greek and English Subtitles Tel: 77777745. Online ticket: www.rialto. com.cy. Transportation for viewers from Nicosia until March 28 midday.

Tel: 22-674920/99-388160

The Harley Jacket THOC’s New Stage presents play

by Vasilis Katsikonouris. March 28.

Larnaca Municipal Theatre. 8.30pm. €12/10. In Greek. In Greek. Tel: 77772717/ 24-665795

The You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Tour The Classic songs of Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand with Ross Neil, Tina Chester & Andrew Oliver.

March 29. Pyla Village Tavern, Larnaca. 7pm - Showtime 8.30pm. €20

inc. buffet dinner. Tel: 99-975863/ 99-070168 Kyau & Albert Trance music producers and DJs from Germany play live. March 29.

Occhio Lounge, 23, Alkeou Street, Engomi, Nicosia. 11pm. €17/12. Tel: 99-399769/22-255111 Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation presents afternoon family concert especially for children between 7-15 years old and their parents. March 29. Markideion Theatre, Paphos. 6pm. €5 for adults/free for children. Tel: 26- 932571 Nava Local band presenting world music with various flavours from different cultures. March 29. Palio Xydadiko, Limassol. 9pm. Tel: 99-206353

Theatre How to Rob a Bank Skala Theatre presents a three act comedy by Samy Fayad. March 29.

Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. 8.30pm. In Greek. €12/7. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 Tone Clusters The Second Stage of ETHAL presents work of famous American author Joyce Carol Oates. March 2930. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. 8.30pm.

In Greek. Tel: 22-0480300

Dance E-motional Bodies and Cities Performance exchanges and residencies within the framework

of a two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme. March 29. Dance House Lemesos, 17 Andrea Drousioti Street, Heroes’ Square, Limassol. 7pm. Free Entrance to all performances and presentations of works in progress.

Tel: 77-777798/25-340618. info@ dancehouselemesos.com

Ongoing Theatre Dream On… An event that combines music, dance and theatre. March 27-28. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Latsia, Nicosia. 8.30pm. The net proceeds of the performances will be given to charity. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688/ 96-277101 Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents a theatrical comedy directed by popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides. Until March 29. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910 The Children of Cain Theatro Ena presents the psychological thriller by Andreas Thomopoulos.

Until March 31. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203 How to Rob a Bank Skala Theatre presents a three act comedy by Samy Fayad. Until March 31. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek.

Tel: 99-490102

The Harley Jacket THOC’s New Stage presents play

by Vasilis Katsikonouris. Until April 5. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Performances at the exterior spaces of THOC’s New Theatre Building. Every two weeks Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. €12/10. In Greek.

Tel: 77-772717 The Firebird Theatro Versus presents drama based on the play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. Until April 7. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena), Limassol.

Wednesday, Fridays and Sundays.

8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 96-458399 Pinocchio Theatre Maskarini unique adaptation of well-known tale. Until April 14. Russian Cultural Centre, 16 Alassias Street, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-761607/22-270420 The Eulogy A black comedy that breaks the mold on what we consider a typical monologue by Greek poet, playwright Iakovos Kambanelis. Until April 20. Epigoni Theatre, Kyriakos Karaolis Square, Old Aglantzia. Every Saturday at 8.30pm.

In Greek. €8. Tel: 99-222974 Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatro presents comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. Until April 28.

Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609 The Dispute The Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux.

Until May 17. THOC New Theatre

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

Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6pm. In Greek.

The performances on March 30 and 31 with Greek and English surtitles. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717

Exhibition Art is not a Luxury, Cypriot Artists in Silkscreen Limited edition, numbered silkscreens signed by the artists and with a certificate of authenticity. Until March 30. Loukia and Michael Zampelas Art Museum, 27 Arch. Makarios III Avenue, Kaimakli, Nicosia. Monday to Thursday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-7pm.

Friday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm.

Saturday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 22456099 info@zampelasart.com.cy. www.zampelasart.com Constantinos Partsilis Solo painting exhibition. Until March 30. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm.

Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Pathways in Blue Exhibition by Earth Art group of the Nicholas Panayi Art Studio from their trip Greece. Until March 30.

Famagusta Gate Cultural Centre. Visiting hours: 10am-1pm, 4pm-8pm.

Saturday 4pm-8pm. Tel: 99-511509. www.artlessonscyprus.com www. nicholaspanayi.com Asia Minor, 90 Years of Memory Exhibition of relics, records and works of art from Asia Minor. Until March 31. The Cultural Centre of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, Archbishop Kyprianos Plazza, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 9am-4.30pm, Saturday: 9am-1pm. Tel: 22-430008

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Coming Up Other Events A fashion-worthy orthy cause The latest looks for spring/ tersummer, live entertainment, child re skaters and more are all in store for those attending the first Nicosia Street Fashion Show, benefiting the Hope Forr C Children UNCRC Policy Centre.

The event will be held Sunday at et located in Sokratous Street one of the little narrow streets between Ledra and Onasagorou in old Nicosia. Despite a period of economic uncertainty prevailing in Cyprus, supporters of Hope For Children UNCRC Policy Centre have decided to proceed with the organisation of the first Nicosia Street Fashion Show, which is hoping to establish itself as an annual institution, in a continuous effort to support the centre’s work in helping children.

The idea is to bring people from the fashion industry, designers, models and passers by together in a friendly and lively environment for a day of networking and charity.

Your hosts for the day are Andreas

Falas and Evelyn Kazantzoglou.

Tickets are available at the price of 5 euros, with all proceeds from the event going towards to Hope For Children.

The HFC Hope for Children– UNCRC Policy Centre (previously known as HFC Hope For Children Office for Children’s Rights ) is a n non-profit independ dependent institution based in Nicosia, Cyp Cyprus, having it its field offices in India and H Hungary.

Everyone and anyone is encouraged to attend this ev event and show soli solidarity towards Hope For Children. ins The institution is ess tablished on standards and principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and European Union Law. It works on humanitarian and development policy relevant to the defence and promotion of children’s rights. It does so through research, grassroots programme design and implementation and advisory services offered to governments and international organisations.

Nicosia Street Fashion Show Charity event in aid of Hope For Children bringing together people from the fashion industry, designers and models. March 31.

Sokratous Street, Nicosia. 3pm. €5. Donate €2 by calling at 90-032210 and win four tickets for the show. Tel: 22-103234

NIGHTLIFE Reeps One brings his human beatbox skillz to the peeps Is that Optimus Prime transforming? A wicked bass line, synth or drum machine? No, it’s Reeps One. If you’re stuck for something to do in Nicosia this Holiday weekend, head over to Club Nuovo this Sunday, as one of the world’s best beatboxers showcases his awarding-winning skills to locals.

He’s performed in Cyprus before, but for those unfamiliar this walking, breathing sound system, Harry Yeff better known by his stage name Reeps One, is a force to be reckoned with. Not only is he an acoustic instrument, but a human that speaks electronic music that can stand up to the highest energy DJ’s in the world.

His ability to rock crowds and have venuess shaking with his vocal skills alone is a feat unmatched. The purity of his skill is what placess him above many.

Reeps One developed his skill, ther people, when like many other he first saw Michael Winslow in the Police Academy movies as a youngster and amoured with the became enamoured y the end of 2010 art form. By Reeps was playing along side ggars, had finished Foreign Beggars, a UK tour with the mighty d won UK BeatProdigy and ionships twice box Championships h a sound that in a row with truly made people dance, ingle loop ever without a single needed or desired.

Last year alone lone Reeps toured stralia showcasing UK and Australia

a new show with DJ QBERT, hit New Zealand with Skism, Zomboy, Wilkinson and TC and now back in the UK to showcase his unique and dance driven show.

Expect a spectrum of music from Hip Hop, Electro, Dubstep to jazz and jungle grooves. A diverse journey that can rock any show and give something unique to any crowd. In and/or around the headline act you will have the aural delights of dubstep delivered to you from nJoey, Snneakyy, Jenia and Phat Finxxx is planning to finish things off with some Drum & Bass.

Reeps One Mix FM & Rave Monster proudly present p g beatboxer live. March British prize-winning 31. Club Nuovo, 11 Stasinou Street, Engomi, Nicosia. 11.45pm. €25/20. Tel: 99-079599 Ticket Outlets - Nicosia: Octagono, Limassol: Musical Paradise.

Larnaca: Café Amalfi.

Paphos: Calypso Music St

Emotional motional exchanges xchanges

Fearghus Ó Conchúir’s macho duet, Match Dance House Lemesos, the home of dance in Limassol, is a place where audiences, professionals and enthusiasts can make, see and join in high-quality dance experiences.

They host a year-round programme of performances, performance exchanges, classes and other dance activities. And from tomorrow, Dance House Lemesos hosts a twoday event of residencies and performances involving artists from members of the E-motional Bodies and Cities network.

For those not in the know, E-motional Bodies & Cities is a two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom and Turkey. It consists of a series of five cross-border working periods organised alternatively in Dublin, Riga, Limassol, London and Bucharest to question the emotional body and its relation with these cities.

Two different artistic teams embark upon a co-authorship process to explore the relation between the human body, the urban and geo-political context and new technologies. Each artistic team is composed of five artists, one from each country, who may also come from different disciplines.

The groups have the chance to interact, work and benefit from the support of three local dancers or other associated artists. Each research period also includes a number of workshops and video-lectures open to local participants and artists, and concludes with a presentation open to the local audience in the respective city.

So, if you would like to discover the evolving international dance scene head for Dance House Lemesos tomorrow. Entrance is to all performances and presentations of works in progress are free.

The evening will begin with a residency presentation of a work in progress. Once again Dance House Lemesos welcomes artists Fearghus Ó Conchúir (Ireland) and Olga Zithulina (Latvia) for a residency under the frame of the EU project E-Motional Bodies and Cities. The two artists met this week in order to extend their research and develop

their collaboration that was initiated through the artistic research programme earlier in November in Limassol.

The residency presentation will then be followed by the performance In Realia (Bucharest/Beirut) by Farid Fairuz, which questions the frail limit between reality and fiction, thus emphasising a discourse based on the construction of multiple identities. His approach underlines the ability of today’s culture to impose unreal and fictional notions as realities.

Saturday’s residency presentation brings together Cypriot choreographer Marina Poyiadji with the Romanian dancer Virginia Negru.

They will present their work in progress at the end of their reunion, which will be followed by a performance, wherein a choreographer invites a set designer to be her teacher in movement. Two young, up-and-coming artists Kristine Vismane and Rudolfs Baltiiš met for the first time and created the performance entitled What is Zeir? where they talk about dance.

The evening concludes with Fearghus Ó Conchúir’s somewhat homoerotic macho duet, Match. Please note that this performance is site-specific and will be presented at the Fitidio Athletic Centre in Limassol.

Based around Gaelic sport, two bare-chested men grapple with each other in a contest of masculine ability. It was originally created for a film set in a sports’ stadium. Brutal and stately, it elegantly draws parallels between sport and warfare, concluding in the moving defeat of one dancer and the other’s dignified victory.

E-motional Bodies and Cities Performance exchanges and residencies within the framework of a two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme. March 29-30. Dance House Lemesos, 17 Andrea Drousioti Street, Heroes’ Square, Limassol. March 29, 7pm & March 30, 6pm.

Performance of the Match at Fitidio Athletic Centre in Limassol 9pm. Free Entrance to all performances and presentations of works in progress. Tel: 77777798/25-340618. info@dancehouselemesos.com

By Ledha Socratous

For a full listing of the day’s events, see facing page

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

11.00 11.30

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00

12.00 15.30 16.00

Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC

18.00 18.15

News Kaftes Piperies

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

18.45

Paizoume Kypriaka

20.00 21.00

New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20

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

20.00 21.15

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

22.00

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

22.30 23.30 00.45

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Passage To Malaysia (rpt)

22.30 23.00

05.30 06.30 06.50 07.00 07.50 08.40 09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

Documentary that explores some of the threads that weave the rich fabric that is modern Malaysia.

Local talk-show.

Live cookery show.

Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Greek version of reality show featuring a group of amateur chefs each staging a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

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

ANTENNA

NRG Zone Lennon Naked

14.50

Drama focusing on the most turbulent and intense period of John Lennon’s life, chronicling the beginning of his relationship with Yoko Ono, which ended his first marriage, and the re-establishment of contact with his estranged father.

The story also follows the events that led to the end of the Beatles and Lennon’s move to America in 1971.

Starring Christopher Eccleston.

15.45

Motor Sports Repeats

Proektaseis News Repeats

16.40

MEGA

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local comedy series, with village setting.

17.30 17.40

Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

06.00 06.15 07.00 10.00

Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

12.45 14.00 15.00

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi Eilikrina News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Klemmeni Zoi (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Enimerosi Tora Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson Local investigative show.

16.00

Yia Sena Local talk-show.

18.00 18.20 19.30

News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Oi Vasiliades Daily family comedy based on the Argentinian sitcomtelenovela Los Roldan.

20.20 21.15

07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.45 19.30 20.20 21.15 23.20

22.10

News Klemmena Oneira FILM: Jackie Chan’s The Medallion Two police officers are transformed into turbocharged warriors by the power of a magic medallion. Comedy thriller, starring Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Julian Sands and Claire Forlani.

00.00 00.10

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Pame Paketo CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘The Party’s Over’. Stella attends a fundraising event, but proceedings are interrupted by the death of the deputy mayor, whose body plummets from the ceiling in full view of everyone. The team realises he had been strangled before the fall, and evidence points to the involvement of his son.

Two episodes of Greek drama series.

With News at 18.00.

18.40 19.30 20.15 21.15 22.10 23.15 00.00 00.05 00.20 01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Nea Mera Proino Mou

SIGMA

00.00 00.05

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt)

PLUS TV 07.20 08.30 09.05 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40 21.15 22.00

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV Berdema Fotis Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fringe Third season of action sci-fi series. ‘Firefly’.

An Observer makes contact with the team in a bid to rectify a mistake. Walter strikes up a friendship with Roscoe Joyce - one of his musical heroes.

22.45

LTV Sports News

News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt)

11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.20 15.30 16.20 16.50 17.40 18.15

Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Homeland Security Story following the formation of the US Government department after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Fact-based drama, starring Scott.

2004.

22.45

FILM: Misery Thriller, starring Kathy Bates. 1990. See Pick Of The Day.

00.45

FILM: My Name Is Modesty A woman running a casino engages in a battle of wits with a bandit leader who has taken the customers hostage. Crime thriller, starring Alexandra Staden. 2003.

Local drama series.

01.00 03.00 04.30

09.00 09.30 10.00

FILM: Spooner A used-car salesman falls in love with a woman who is leaving the country in two days. Dramatic comedy, starring Shea Whigham and Matthew Lillard. 2009.

00.15

CAPITAL

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

The Iron Lady (Novacinema1, 17.35)

01:35 Beautiful People 02:05 EastEnders 02:35 Doctors 03:05 Casualty 03:55 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 04:30 Little Britain 05:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 05:45 One Foot In The Grave 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Fimbles 07:30 Boogie Beebies 07:45 Tellytales 07:55 Tweenies 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Fimbles 08:45 Boogie Beebies 09:00 Tellytales 09:10 Tweenies 09:30 Little Human Planet 09:35 Bobinogs 09:45 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 10:15 One Foot In The Grave 10:45 The Weakest Link 11:30 EastEnders 12:00 Doctors 12:30 Casualty 13:20 Great Expectations 14:10 Outcasts 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 Casualty 17:35 Great Expectations 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 Spooks 22:50 Beautiful People 23:20 Dad’s Army 23:50 The Stephen K Amos Show 00:20 How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American

Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Rides 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Extreme Fishing 22:00 Outlaw Empires 23:00 Inside The Gangsters’ Code 00:00 Trouble In Paradise 01:00 Kidnap And Rescue 01:55 Extreme Fishing 02:50 Outlaw Empires 03:50 Inside The Gangsters’ Code 04:50 Trouble In Paradise 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Snooker: China Open Beijing 13:30 Football: Brazilmania 13:45 2014 Fifa World Cup Qualifiers 14:30 Snooker: China Open Beijing 18:30 Cycling: 3 Days Of The Panne/France 19:30 2014 World Cup World Tour 20:30 Snooker: China Open Beijing 22:00 Fight Sport: Fight Club 00:00 Poker: European Poker Tour 01:00 2014 World Cup World Tour 02:00 Fia World Touring Car Championship-Magazin : Inside Wtcc

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 07:35 Scrubs 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 11:35 Scrubs 12:00 Scandal 12:45 The Hour 13:45 Grey’s Anatomy 14:30 Masterchef 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Scrubs 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 18:30 Masterchef 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Scandal 21:50 The Hour 22:45 Raising Hope 23:10 Scrubs 23:35 Scandal 00:20 The Hour 01:15 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Raising Hope 03:10 Scrubs 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 04:50 Masterchef

07:30 First Deadly Sin, The 10:00 Corruptor, The 12:00 Dark City 14:00 Ye Olde Times 16:00 Adventures In Babysitting 18:00 Battle Los Angeles 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Splice 23:00 Vincere 01:05 Hustler TV 02:35 New York Stories 04:40 Simple Twist Of Fate, A 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice

League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Volvo Ocean Race 17:30 K9 Nation 18:00 Pba Us Open 19:30 2010 World’s Strongest Man 20:00 Planet Speed 20:30 K9 Nation 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 2012-13 22:00 Grand American Series 2012 23:00 Espn Films 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 2010 World’s Strongest Man 04:15 2009 Us Figure Skating

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 Eastbound & Down 08:30 Hawaii Five 10:00 Friends 10:30 Gossip Girl 11:15 Fringe 12:50 Closer, The 13:40 According To Jim 14:30 Hawaii Five 16:00 How To Make It In America 16:30 One Tree Hill 17:20 Strike Back 19:00 Closer, The 19:45 Privileged 20:30 Friends 21:00 Closer, The 21:55 Luck 22:55 Ncis: Los Angeles 23:40 Supernatural 00:25 Taking Lives 02:15 Special 03:40 How To Make It In America 04:05 One Tree Hill 04:50 Strike Back 06:30 Closer, The

08:15 Biutiful 10:45 Magic Men

Post Game 21:30 Snapshots Cyprus Football 22:00 Pass Time

12:30 Red (2010) 14:30 Love In The Time Of Cholera 16:50 Deception (2008) 18:45 Il Ciclone 20:20 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure 22:00 Faces In The Crowd 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Crackie 06:00 Brighton Rock

05:00 Kill Bill: Vol.1 06:55 Wings Of The Dove 08:40 Anonymous 10:50 Action Zone 11:25 The Descendants 13:25 Tooth Fairy 2 15:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 17:00 Cine News 17:35 The Iron Lady 19:25 Mad On Novacinema 20:05 Contraband 22:00 Demeni Kokkini Klosti 00:00 Big Miracle 01:50 Cine News 02:20 Drive 04:00 Polisse

05:25 The Son Of No One 07:05 The Bone Collector 09:05 Good

Morning Vietnam 11:10 Cine News 12:00 Rio 13:40 Jack And Jill 15:15 Hollywood 1on1 15:50 To Tango Ton Christougennon 17:40 The Jackal 19:50 Sagan 22:00 My Super Ex-Girlfriend 23:45 The Change-Up 03:25 Kill Bill: Vol.2

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 McCafé Music Project 19:30 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Young and Married 21:00 MTV Underemployed 23:00 MTV Flash Prank 0:00 MTV Jersey Shore 1:00 Only Hits

23:00 TheFollowing 23:50 Cine News 01:00 After Party Bitches

19:05 A Little Bit Of Heaven 21:00 Taxidi Sti Mitilini 23:00 Management 00:40 Majority

15:30 European Tour Trophee Hassan Ii Rd. 1 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 201213:Apollon Vs Olympiacos 20:45

07:00 The Women 09:10 Ninotchka 11:00 Dial M For Murder 12:45 The Charge Of The Light Brigade 14:40 How The West Was Won 17:10 The Three Musketeers 19:15 Grand Prix 22:00 Ryan’s Daughter 01:10 Ninotchka 03:00 How The West Was Won 05:30 The Charge Of The Light Brigade

By Preston Wilder

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (LTV3, 20.20) If you watch the first 15 minutes of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure you’re likely to give up in disgust - and eccentric manchild Pee-Wee Herman (a.k.a. Paul Reubens) is a bit of an acquired taste, with his foppish mannerisms and creepy high-pitched voice. You may wonder how the film got such good reviews - it’s an 80s classic, as well as a star-making debut for director Tim Burton - but it gets better once the initial shock wears off, and some of the jokes are immortal. Need I say ‘Large Marge’? ‘Amazing Larry’? The tour of the Alamo? “I’m a loner, Dottie, a rebel”? Or how about this one: “Everyone I know has a big ‘but’ in their lives.

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

C’mon, Simone, let’s talk about your big ‘but’.” The plot - such as it is - has Pee-Wee going on a quest to find his stolen bicycle, but it’s all about the jokes, brilliantly zany production design, copious film-buff references and random non sequiturs. “Why? What’s the significance? I DON’T KNOW!”. Made in 1985.

Misery (Capital, 22.45) “I’m your No. 1 fan,” said Kathy Bates (as Annie Wilkes), and won an Oscar for saying so - maybe because Hollywood types are especially sensitive to the notion of fixated fans who turn psychotic when snubbed.

Nowadays, of course, Annie would be stalking Paul Sheldon (James Caan) and leaving endless messages

on his Facebook page - but back in the 80s (when Stephen King wrote the original novel) all she could do was stay in her mountain cabin in the middle of nowhere and devour the ‘Misery’ books, her favourites.

She’s beyond thrilled when she rescues her idol from a car crash and nurses him back to health, especially since Paul has the manuscript for the new ‘Misery’ but Annie’s excitement turns to indignation when she reads the pages; the No. 1 fan demands a rewrite, and the scene where she uses a sledgehammer to drive the point home made an entire audience gasp in unison when I watched it in the cinema. A potent suspenser, though the way Annie’s evil is conflated with her physical ugliness is rather dubious. Made in 1990.

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10 Twice finished, it is too ornate (8) 12 Limited it in excellent surroundings (6) 13 Daft to dispose of capital (6) 16 Ward for an accidentprone child? (8) 18 Port that’s a credit to the east (4) 20 Anticipating store falling over (12) 21 Do not admit from the garden yet (4) 22 Dispute many on 9 across (7)

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8 Oppressive burden pall-bearers have to carry (4-6) 11 Try stage directions in plan of action (8) 14 Rest from another liner going round city area (7) 15 Amongst the worst at ice-hockey still (6) 17 Wrap acquired illegally? (5) 19 Tribe from a Gaelic land (4)

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Cased; 4 Forfeit; 8 Pointed remark; 9 Ninefold; 10 Polo; 12 Warmer; 13 Bogart; 16 So-so; 18 Well-bred; 21 In so many words; 22 Halogen; 23 Ruled. Down – 1 Capon; 2 Spinner; 3 Duty-free; 4 Fiddle; 5 Rued; 6 Erato; 7 Take out; 11 Follower; 12 Waspish; 14 Auroral; 15 Pennon; 17 Sisal; 19 Dosed; 20 Smog.

QUICK: Across – 1 Alarm; 4 Laconic; 8 Television set; 9 Choirboy; 10 Sync; 12 Reduce; 13 Muscle; 16 Cowl; 18 Contrast; 21 Unprecedented; 22 Tartlet; 23 Tarry. Down – 1 Attic; 2 All told; 3 Maverick; 4 Lesson; 5 Chop; 6 Nasty; 7 Cuticle; 11 Quotient; 12 Racquet; 14 Chapter; 15 Molest; 17 Wiper; 19 Teddy; 20 Veil.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

There’s an abundance of energy today, and putting it to good use may be the best way to guarantee that it doesn’t degenerate into petty arguments or restlessness. A meeting with sparkle may light up your day - perhaps you’ll want to take a romantic risk. Yesterday’s gregarious Libra Moon may give rise to a need for new faces and fresh outlooks.

You may want to divert shared resources into your home, perhaps as an investment. Whatever the scale of the project, it’s a good time to make a start. However, your feet may be itching to be on the road - or is that on a plane or a boat? Far horizons and the fun you can have exploring new places and cultures may encourage a lively determination to get a plan.

The fun potential can be high today, and so might your success rate - especially if you’re romantically inclined and have your eyes on a certain someone. If they have been playing hard to get, you may get a pleasant surprise. You might also be in the mood to gamble. You could do well, but don’t dish out more than you’re prepared to lose.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

There’s room for a business meeting with perks as Mars and Saturn connect, encouraging practical talks and serious intentions. Be sure to lay your cards on the table and avoid hidden agendas. You might feel more nervy than usual with a fizzy line-up in your spiritual zone. Later, a reduced schedule and quiet reflection may bring inspired answers.

You might hear of an investment opportunity that could improve your financial position. However, there could also be a few financial surprises on this day, when anxious money matters are likely to pop up. Money making opportunities are out there - but if you have an impulsive desire to get rich quick, you might miss a good one. Slow down!

Disruptions at home may come in the form of DIY projects or major renovation work. You might feel inconvenienced if things are less than well ordered. If you’re thinking of entertaining, it could be high-spirited and quite boisterous.

Inviting work pals or associates around may start out as serious, but could end up being jolly good fun.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You could get involved in a rowdy scene if out and about, so avoid places with dubious vibes and go somewhere more intellectually stimulating for a fun and rewarding time. Besides, you’ll need to be able to hear what you’re saying as you won’t want to miss a delightful conversation that could have either business or romantic potential.

The social meter may rise a notch or two as you seem to be in demand. A full house in your relationship zone suggests you may get a few invites. Get ready for a surprise though, as one of them may be from someone you thought might never be interested in you. Moneymaking opportunities are also a possibility, and look potentially rock solid.

You’re entitled to your opinions, and so are others, but make sure you get your facts straight or you could end up in an uncompromising tangle. You could also be on communication overload, with today’s telephone calls, emails and comings and goings, you’ll naturally thrive on this high pace. You might also welcome some news that breaks.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Your personal magnetism seems to be amped up by current dynamic influences that are also bringing you plenty of opportunities career wise. Quieter mood and mode may be replaced by a feisty determination to make progress by hook or by crook. You may want to obliterate obstacles that could have floored you previously. World watch out!

You seem to be buzzing today, and may want to get up early to work out or go jogging. With so much energy at your command, exercise is a sure fire way to help you feel good and relaxed for the rest of the day. An inspired idea may get your creative juices really bubbling. An informal chat might get you wondering about romance.

Imagination is usually a good thing, but perhaps not today when it comes to working on your financial situation with a view to improving it. Current influences reveal that you may be in the mood to shop for those little luxuries. One may be calling out to you especially loudly. Will you resist or will you give in and indulge a fond desire?

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ites, wooden floors €800, 3 bedr. Acropolis c/h a/c wooden floors €650, Mak/ ssa 3 bedr., modern, open plan €1000 f/f €1200, Nicosia 3 bedr., f/f, luxury €1000 f/f, Latsia 2 bedr., pool €430, Strovolos f/f house 4 bedr €1300, Mak/ssa ground floor house detached €850 Photos www.markidesestates. com Markides 22- 378898 / 99464764 Reg.No. 487 E 16 *************************** LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOR RENT - A luxurious one floor apartment situated in central Nicosia in an area of exceptional Beauty at 3 Museum Street, is available to let. It has been recently renovated and consists of four bedrooms, two bathrooms, big dining and sitting rooms, kitchen and a huge veranda.

Approximate covered area 250 sqm. Tel: 99622370. *************************** TO LET 1 bedroom upper floor house, large veranda near restaurant Periyiali in Acropolis 5 Aeantos Street €300 call 99680208 *************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT Ag. Andreas studio €290, Kennedy €300, 1bdrm Str/ los €400, Makarios av. €500, 2 bdrm European University furnished top floor €600 Ag. Dometios ground floor + garden €450, Lycavitos furnished €530, Ag. Paylos rear house newly built €450, 3bdrm M/ssa ground floor €700, Archangelos detached with pool €1,200, 4bdrm Kosta Theodorou new house €1,100, Ag. Andreas g/f €900, Ag. Omologites colonial traditional house pool €2,500. 21 property Finder Ltd. 99474839, 99646822, A.M.627 A.A.108/E *************************** LUXURY HOUSES:

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2. 3 bedr luxury terraced house, 210sq.m,central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor on stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website).

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3. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office, 250sq.m, central heating independent, 4 a/c, big renovated kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fireplace, 1 bath-

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classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 22 Employment Miscellaneous 22 Pets 22 Lessons 22 Health & Fitness -Personal 22 Services 22 For Sale Miscellaneous 22 For Sale Land/ Property Business 22 For Sale Motor vehicles 22 Properties Wanted -To Let Nicosia 22 To Let Limassol 24 To Let Larnaca 25 To Let Paphos 25 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -For Sale Nicosia 27 For Sale Limassol 27 For Sale Larnaca -For Sale Paphos 27 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras 27 For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads --

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

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room, 2 shower, 3 wc, 2 covered parking, double glazed windows and shutters in bedrooms, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street IN the central part of Makedonitissa – €1100 (H3MAK0004-R) (photos on the website)

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. – Makedonitissa €1600 (H4MAK0023-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).

7. 4 bedr luxury detached house with big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, separate big kitchen with family room and all the electrical appliances, small garden with grass and bbq area,3wc, central heating, full a/c, covered parking, in a very quiet neighbourhood – Archangelos €1200 (H4AR0017-R), (photos in the website).

5. 3 bedr luxury house, office space, attic room, with central heating, full a/c, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 verandas, in a quiet area – Lakatamia €680 (H4LAK009-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr + attic room with shower and wc luxury detached

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

8. 3 bedr +office space partially renovated detached ground floor house, 280sq.m, central heating with oil, full a/c, 3wc, separate tv room, big sitting and dining area, big verandas around the house, bbq area, covered parking, private yard near the parking.– Strovolos €1200 (H4ST10048-R), (photos in the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA 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 - €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, electri-

TO LET NICOSIA cal 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. 3 bedrs luxury 2 storey, FULLY RENOVATED LISTED HOUSE with high ceilings in the centre of Nicosia, 260sq.m, 2 small attic rooms, big sitting room upstairs, big sitting room and dining area downstairs, wooden floor, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, 2 bathrooms (one en suite),3wc,CH independent, A/C, big garden – Nicosia

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TO LET NICOSIA Centre €1400 (H4NIC0002-R), (photos in the website).

13. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedrooms in the basement luxury detached house (all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which also has separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor throughout house, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big over flow, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar (bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H5PAG0002-R).

TO LET NICOSIA 14. 4 bedr very big luxury semi detached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Consists of big sitting and dining areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 showers, 1 bathroom, central heating, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios football stadium.

CAN BE RENTED FURNISHED, PARTIALLY FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED - Makedonitissa €1500 (H4MAK0032-R), (photos in the website) 15. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs,

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6wc, 2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225/96-422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com

***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr luxury finished spacious floor apartment with very big sitting and dining areas with family room with fire place, solid parquet floor all through, central heating independent, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, 4wc, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all windows, big covered veranda, covered parking, big storage room, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Andreas- €1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on website).

2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank

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floor, NICELY FURNISHED big covered veranda, big sitting room off Kyriakou Matsi street, 1 km from the centre €460 (A1AOM0002-R), (photos in the website).

headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedr penthouse apartment, 100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with flowers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website).

4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heatingindependent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, covered parking and big over floor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website) 6. 1 bedr new luxury apartment in a modern building (TSENTAS),with central heating ind, 2 a/c, cooker and oven, refrigerator and washing machine in the kitchen, parquet

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1 bedr cozy luxury a p a r t m e n t ,6 0 s q.m,p a r q u e t floor, nicely furnished ,all fitted electrical appliances (cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge), roman blinds, provisions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital. – Dasoupoli €470 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website)

8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €500 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website) 9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE end of March – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. New luxury finished 1 bedr penthouse apart-

TO LET NICOSIA ment with big verandah with nice view, in a small modern building,55sq.m,storage heaters,2 a/c, blinds on the windows, expensive electrical appliances(cooker, oven, extractor, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer),covered parking and storage room, off Kalippoleos street opposite Dessange Day Spa near the University – Lykavitos €420 (A1LYK0002-R), (photos in the website).

11. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse one floor apartment in a small building with 3 apartments,250sq.m plus big covered verandas, fire place, solid parquet floor,2 bathrooms,3 wc, cooker, oven, fridge, washing machine and dishwasher in the kitchen, CH independent, full a/c, big reception areas opening to the verandas, pressure system and 2 Pcovered with remote control entrance, walking distance to the centre very close to Debenhams €1300 (A3NIC0028-R), (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighbourhood off Kallipoleos Street - Lykavitos €700 (A2LYK0024-R) (photos on the website) 13. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered

TO LET NICOSIA veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building - €650 (A3ST10014-R) (photos on the website) 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol, full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website).

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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 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)

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***************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

LIMASSOL ***************************** FOR RENT office of around 85m2, with partitions, kitchenette and parking in a peaceful, green yet central area at Helladion House(off. 302; 3rd floor), 5 Andrea Kalvou Str. For viewing, please call Ms. Jenny on 25340987(3rd flloor of building; office hours). For further details, please call 25-521873 after 8:00pm. ***************************** UN-DETACHED HOUSE for rent in Apshiou village, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, sitting room, bathroom with solar water heater. A/C, satellite, 15mins to roundabout. €350. Tel 25369219, work 10.30-17.30 25542968 home 99773151 ***************************** TO LET Large 4 bedroom unfurnished house in the village of Asomatos nr Akrotiri Limassol.

Fully A/C & Heating (storage heaters). 5 wc’s, large kitchen/ diner, lounge and sitting room.

Large loft with own shower/wc (suitable for office/playroom/ gym). Carport - prominent posi-

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tion in cul-de-sac - lots of parking. €850 pcm (negotiable).

Available from April 2013. Tel. 99831431

***************************** TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/ Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/C-toilet in main bedroom. Semi/full furnished.

Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/ shower. €550pm negotiable.

Tel 96891800.

GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms.

Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS cious bedrooms. Master with ensuite. Family bathroom and storage cupboard. Stairs up to roof garden with panoramic views. Outside there is a feature pergola, swimming pool and landscaped gardens. Euros 700.00 a month.

3. OLYMPUS ESTATE, NR TSADA – 3 bed, 2.5 bath furnished bungalow set on this prestigious estate. The house has central heating, A/C, fireplace, shutters & flyscreens. Spacious open plan living area with dining space. Large “L” shaped kitchen. 3 double bedrooms all leading to pool and gardens.

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Sport Relieved England head home after wake-up call for Ashes Team can ill afford any further lapses

By Greg Stutchbury ALASTAIR Cook’s team return to England under no illusions they pulled off a great escape against New Zealand and can ill afford any further lapses in intensity ahead of back-to-back Ashes series later this year.

The world’s second-ranked Test side were expected to win comfortably over a New Zealand team skittled for 45 runs by South Africa in January and rocked by the clumsy demotion of former captain Ross Taylor.

Instead, despite benign pitches and patchy weather, they found a New Zealand side intent on ensuring that whatever advantage they gleaned on the field, they were made to earn it.

The hosts bowled them out for under 200 twice and but for a dropped catch and a set of bails that refused to drop on the final day of the final Test, Cook’s team could well have lost their first series to New Zealand since 1999.

“We have to give a lot of credit to New Zealand,” Cook told reporters after the tense third Test at Eden Park ended in a draw and the series 0-0.

“They have played well and we haven’t played as well as we can do. They put us under

England captain Alastair Cook, who throughout the tour denied his side were taking the hosts lightly, struggled to take too many positives out of the drawn series with New Zealand a lot of pressure ... at certain times, we have just about managed to respond and hold on.”

Cook, who throughout the tour denied his side were taking the hosts lightly, struggled to take too many positives out of the series, other than their ability to save two of the matches.

In the first Test in Dunedin, Cook and Nick Compton both scored centuries in England’s second innings to resurrect their side after they were bowled out for 167 in the first.

The Wellington weather

probably saved New Zealand in the second Test but most concerning for England was how comprehensively they were outplayed in the deciding Test in Auckland.

Shoulders slumped and discipline flagged as England struggled in the field.

Cook, at one point, seemed so bereft of ideas on how to stop opener Peter Fulton and captain Brendon McCullum feasting off their bowlers ahead of a third innings declaration, that he scattered all nine fielders to the boundary.

Matt Prior’s match-saving century at Eden Park will

have restored some morale ahead of a busy home summer that includes a return series against New Zealand, the Champions Trophy oneday tournament and the first of their Ashes series against Australia.

The result also showed that with wicketkeeper Prior, who scored 73 in the first innings at Eden Park, anchoring the lower middle order, they can fight their way out of trouble.

“We are disappointed that in this series we haven’t played as well as we can,” Cook said.

“We haven’t been beaten, and I think that’s an important thing to have for a side, to have that toughness when you are behind the eight-ball to fight and make yourself a very difficult team to beat.”

There are further positives on the horizon for Cook and his team, with spinner Graeme Swann and paceman Tim Bresnan expected to return from elbow surgery for the international programme at home.

World class batsman Kevin Pietersen, pending tests on his knee, should also be back to strengthen the squad.

Deans will consider Wallabies legend Smith for Lions Tests

By Nick Mulvenney

Former captain George Smith has been capped 110 times

by Australia and could be set for a dramatic recall

WALLABIES coach Robbie Deans will consider selecting George Smith for the British and Irish Lions series later this year if the 110-cap forward’s eligibility is resolved, the New Zealander told Reuters yesterday.

Former Test captain Smith has been in spectacular form at openside flanker for the Canberra-based ACT Brumbies in Super Rugby this year after returning to Australia from playing in France and Japan.

Deans had earlier said the 32-year-old was not under consideration, largely because he was still under contract to Japanese club Suntory and therefore ineligible under Australian Rugby Union (ARU) rules.

Brumbies coach Jake White is now seeking to extend the player’s loan from Japan, however, and Deans said that would open the door for a Wallabies return.

“If the Brumbies seek permission, that’s the logical progression for sure,” Deans told Reuters by telephone.

“It’s always good to have a longer queue

of players, there’s no doubt about that, so it would be great to be able to consider him.”

If Smith were to make the Wallabies team for the three matches against the Lions in June and July, he would be facing the tourists in a second series having played in all three of the matches in Australia’s 2-1 win in 2001.

“Experience is a valuable asset in cauldrons like Lions series, they are the reason the word cauldron developed,” Deans said.

Calls for Smith’s recall have intensified since the hammer blow of a season-ending knee injury to his Brumbies team mate and the man who replaced him in the Wallabies number seven shirt, David Pocock.

“David’s been an integral part of our programme for a long time now, which is remarkable for such a young player,” Deans said of the 24-year-old.

“And he is a remarkable player. He’s had his share of misfortune. It’s a tough pill for him to swallow. Really tough for him and it’s not ideal for us, clearly.”

IN BRIEF Olympic great ‘King Happy’ dies NORWEGIAN speedskating great Hjalmar Andersen, who won three gold medals in three days to become the most decorated athlete at the 1952 Oslo Olympics, died yesterday only days after celebrating his 90th birthday, his family said.

Known affectionately as ‘King Happy’, Andersen died in an Oslo hospital after suffering a fall in his home on Monday.

Two weeks previously he had said he hoped Norway would win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and he would be there to watch.

Andersen - the only triple gold medallist at the Oslo Games - had achieved international renown in 1951 when he won the European 10,000 metre title, despite taking a fall and having to repeat the race after just a brief rest.

Already a world and European champion, Andersen opened a huge lead but fell 7,000 metres into the race when a photographer’s flash, set up near the track, blinded him.

Although he got up and tried to continue, the fall damaged his skates and race officials pulled him from the ice.

Getting just one hour rest, Andersen raced again, easily winning the 10,000 and receiving his trophy from Norway’s King Haakon, who delayed an official programme so he could watch the repeated race.

Andersen went on to win the 1500m, 5000m and the 10,000m - the latter by a record margin of 24.8 seconds - in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Selby misses black for 147 MARK Selby missed the final black on a maximum 147 attempt but still breezed past Mark King 5-1 to reach the second round of the China Open.

The UK and Masters champion, leading 2-0, appeared set for only the second competitive 147 of his career after a superb positional shot on the last red.

But the final black stayed out as he missed out on a probable £23,500 bonus.

Having compiled breaks of 111 and 82, Selby followed his 140 with 91 and 104 to seal a meeting with Ricky Walden.

World number three Neil Robertson was also in clinical form, thrashing Jimmy Robertson 5-0.

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Sport F1 chief Williams promotes daughter as his deputy

Pressure mounts on McIlroy to oust in-form Woods

By Alan Baldwin

Northern Irishman can reclaim top ranking ATTENTION will turn back from Tiger Woods to Rory McIlroy this week as the Northern Irishman attempts to ensure his rival’s stay at the top of the rankings will be the shortest possible one.

Woods returned to world number one on Monday for the first time since October 2010 after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational, his third tournament victory of the year.

This week will be his 624th at the top but, with Woods not playing again until the Masters on April 11, McIlroy has the chance to take the position back straight away with victory at the Shell Houston Open.

The 23-year-old’s struggles this season have been well documented but there are signs McIlroy is rediscovering his form, as evidenced by his seven-under-par 65 in the last round of the WGC Cadillac Championship earlier this month.

Woods’ elevation ends a period of European dominance in the rankings, with Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Luke Donald and McIlroy all topping the standings since the American’s fall.

Woods admitted after his victory it has been “a few years” since he felt as good heading into the Masters and he is a clear favourite to win his first major since the

US Open in 2008.

The 37-year-old told reporters: “Over a period of time it’s been years since I’ve hit the ball this consistently day in and day out.

“I’m getting there. I’m very pleased that some of the shots that I struggled with last year are now strengths.

One of the things that we need to continue to work on is getting it more refined.

“Because my good ones are really good. It’s just making sure the bad ones aren’t that bad, whether it’s a driver, three wood, long iron, wedge, whatever it is, that I’m missing the ball in the correct spots.

“That’s getting way better.

I can still continue to improve and clean up my short game.”

Putting has been Woods’ major Achilles heel in the five years since he won a major and the improvement in that part of his game provides the main source of optimism for the Masters and beyond.

He said: “The three events that I’ve won, I’ve putted well. It certainly helped me out there at Doral and got me into position where I felt like I was now putting like I did at Torrey.

“And I’ve basically carried that on in the last couple of weeks that I’ve played, and that feels good, especially when the wind is blowing

like this.

“To be that steady and hit the ball that solidly, that flush into the grain where the wind is blowing and you can’t miss and get away with it.

“You’ve got to hit it pure and I’ve been able to do that and I’ve made my share of putts. Especially some really key putts.”

Woods’ high-profile personal problems and a serious knee injury contributed to him dropping as low as 58 in the rankings, but his gradual rise back to the top is now missing only a major title.

Describing the process, he said: “You’ve got to be able to do it at home first. That’s where it all starts and do it consistently.

“Then it feeds into coming out here and being able to do it Thursday, Friday and maybe a Saturday afternoon - and then ultimately down the stretch on Sunday of a tournament. Then you’ve got to do it in a major championship.

“So that process has been evolving and you can see the stepping stones. Throughout my career when I’ve changed my game and have made changes you can see the incremental progress I’ve made.

“Then eventually I get to a point where I start winning golf tournaments.”

Rory McIlroy (top) has struggled badly this season, while Tiger Woods has won three tournaments

Radcliffe: my career may be over

The 39-year-old world marathon record holder is suffering from ongoing complications with a foot injury

WORLD marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe is facing up to the very real possibility she may never compete again because of ongoing complications with her foot injury.

The 39-year-old was forced to pull out of the 2012 Olympics shortly before the Games, despite having had specialist treatment in Germany in July.

Radcliffe underwent surgery in August when it emerged her foot problems were more serious than first thought and it was then she entertained a future without competition.

However, she still had hopes of participating in a 10 kilometre race, as well as the 2014 London Marathon, but now she knows she may never again compete.

Radcliffe told BBC Sport: “Targets have gone out of the window.

“I’m very much in that limbo where I know and accept that realistically it may not be possible.

“But at the same time I have a little window of hope

and I would rather be able to finish my career in a race, rather than a race I can’t actually get to the start line of.”

The 39-year-old has endured severe pain and complications in her left foot for 18 years, but despite that she became world marathon champion in 2005 and twice won the world cross-country title.

Next month marks the 10th anniversary of her world record, a mark which still stands today, when she completed the London Marathon in two hours 15 minutes 25 seconds.

However, Olympic success has eluded Radcliffe, fourth in the 10,000m in Sydney in 2000 the closest she has come to a medal.

Following the heartbreaking decision to withdraw from London only days before the marathon, Radcliffe targeted the World CrossCountry Championships which took place in Poland last weekend.

In December, that was revised to a 10km race in the

spring, but she admitted yesterday she feared then she may never run again, even recreationally.

She said: “I’ve not even been able to run after the kids in the last few months, and you start to think about the first goal - to get back and be able to have a normal active life and then worry about if I can get back to competing.

“In all honesty with me, it was probably always going to be something going wrong with my body that would make my career start to wind down because I am always going to want to keep competing and keep getting out there.

“I would love to be able to run a couple more marathons before I finish, even if it’s just another half marathon.

“At the same time I would still like to have a healthy foot in 20 years’ time.

“It certainly has been a long process and a lot longer than I thought it was going to be back in August.

“When I do start running, I want it to be something that I can keep doing.”

THE Williams Formula One team laid out their succession plans yesterday by appointing Claire Williams as deputy principal to her father Frank.

The former world champions said in a statement that Williams, 36, would work with the 70-year-old team founder, who remains at the helm, in a ‘pivotal role’ in the day to day running and long-term development of the business.

“The position will strengthen the future of the team and create a clear succession path for Williams,” the statement added.

Williams said they had planned to make the announcement before the start of the season in Australia on March 17 but decided to delay it after the death of her mother Virginia earlier this month.

“Her knowledge of the sport and passion for the team is unquestionable and I’m proud to say that during her time here she has proven herself to be one of our most valuable assets,” Frank Williams said of his daughter.

“With Claire being appointed Deputy Team Principal, I know the future of Williams is in extremely safe hands.

“This appointment also had Ginny’s blessing who I know would have been incredibly proud to have seen Claire taking on this position by my side,” added the Briton, who has been confined to a wheelchair since breaking his neck in a car accident in 1986.

Claire Williams has been director of marketing and communications for the past year, responsible also for developing the team’s commercial strategy and generating new revenue, after starting as a press officer in 2002.

The team said she would start her newly created role with immediate effect while retaining the position of commercial director.

Williams, who will effectively be running the team at those races the principal does not attend, looked forward to working more closely with her father after growing up in the sport.

“I understand the commitment that every person within the team gives each day to see our car out on the track and I am determined to see us back at the top,” she said.

Williams, winners of nine constructors’ and seven drivers’ world championships between 1980 and 1997, have yet to score a point in two races this season with Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado and Finnish rookie Valtteri Bottas.

The team finished eighth overall in 2012.

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Coleman concedes Welsh World Cup hopes over after Croatia loss Wait for a place at first major finals since 1958 will go on

By Tom Pilcher

By Andrew Gwilym WALES manager Chris Coleman conceded his side’s slim hopes of reaching the 2014 World Cup finals are over after their 2-1 defeat to Croatia at the Liberty Stadium.

Wales had looked set to give themselves hope of reaching Brazil when Gareth Bale put them ahead from the spot with his fifth goal in six internationals.

But defender Dejan Lovren’s fierce strike and Eduardo’s smart finish condemned Coleman’s side to a loss which leaves them 10 points adrift of Group A pacesetters Belgium and Croatia, with just 12 points left available.

Coleman had targeted six points from the double header against Scotland and Croatia, and Wales’ failure to meet that goal means the wait for a place at a first major finals since 1958 will go on.

He said: “We are gutted, even though we knew before the game we would be up against a very good team.

Scottish fans no closer to being repaid for loyalty

Dejected: Wales are left to look back on what might have been after Croatia fought back from a goal down to win in Swansea

“We felt we could have come in 2-0 up, but we could not get that elusive second goal.

“We then probably defended too deep too early in the second half, because it is human nature to protect your lead against such a good team.

“We needed the three points if we were going to do anything in the group and give us an outside chance really. We are not going to qualify now.”

While stung by the defeat Wales will be able to take plenty of positives from their performance. One of those plus points was the promising display of Crystal Palace youngster Jonathan Williams on his full debut.

The 19-year-old, nicknamed ‘Joniesta’ by one of his youth-team coaches at Palace, was a lively presence in midfield, and his lovely exchange with Joe Ledley led to the latter being brought down for Wales’

penalty.

“In the next couple of trips you will be asking me about Johnny as much as you do about Gareth Bale,” Coleman said. “He will go to another level and you can see why everyone is so excited.

He’s still got a lot of work to do but he’s certainly a gifted player.”

Having been pleased by the way his team have performed over the course of this international window, Coleman has demanded

they go on to finish third in the group to give themselves a better chance of a good draw for the next European Championship.

“We are in our own minileague now with Serbia and Macedonia and we need to finish top of that to put us in a better position for the next qualifiers,” he said.

“We have to be heartened looking ahead. We have four games where we can get good points. We have a lot of good young players.”

Trap still focused on qualification despite late heartbreak

By Damian Spellman

The Republic of Ireland came within seconds of beating Austria before conceding an injury-time equaliser

GIOVANNI Trapattoni insists the Republic of Ireland remain firmly in the hunt for World Cup qualification despite suffering a heartbreaking setback against Austria.

The Republic came within seconds of climbing into second place in Group C and giving themselves a genuine chance of claiming a play-off spot when Austria midfielder David Alaba snatched a draw with an injury-time equaliser at the Aviva Stadium.

However, Trapattoni is refusing to give up on his hopes of guiding Ireland to the finals in Brazil next summer after the 2-2 draw.

He said: “There is a long way to go and we have the same possibility we had. This team can grow more in confidence and personality.

“Obviously, I am not satisfied with this draw, but I have got to accept that we were missing a bit of experience.

“But we hit the post through Shane Long and the last goal was a deflection, so I can say we have been a little bit un-

lucky - a little bit, but not much.”

Alaba’s last-gasp strike was all the more dispiriting for Trapattoni and his players after they had fought their way back from a losing position to take the lead and preserve it until the game’s final throes.

The visitors took an 11thminute lead when Zlatko Junuzovic caught defender Ciaran Clark in possession and fed Martin Harnik, whose deft finish gave David Forde no chance.

But Ireland were handed a lifeline when Emanuel Pogatetz brought down Long and Jon Walters converted from the penalty spot with 25 minutes gone.

Walters headed the Republic into the lead in first-half injury time and they were to maintain their advantage until the dying seconds, when Alaba’s long-range effort clipped substitute Sean St Ledger and flew past Forde to deny Trapattoni’s men victory.

As a result, it is Austria who will head into the next round of matches in June sitting in second behind leaders Ger-

many, although only on goal difference from Sweden, who have a game in hand, and the Republic.

Trapattoni had targeted four points from this month’s double-header and Friday night’s draw in Stockholm had set them up perfectly.

However, the late blow added fuel to the fires of the 74-year-old’s detractors, and amid speculation that former Reading boss Brian McDermott has been lined up as a potential replacement, rumours of his impending demise are unlikely to go away.

But the veteran Italian, who survived in the aftermath of October’s 6-1 home defeat by the Germans, was remaining defiant once again.

Asked if he would still be in the job when the Faroe Islands arrive in Dublin in June, he said: “Why not? We are the same in the table. It has not changed.”

Opposite number Marcel Koller left the Aviva Stadium the happier, but he refused to concede that the draw had handed the advantage to his side’s next opponents, Sweden.

THE sight of Scotland’s fans going out of their way to support their uninspiring national team only to witness a 2-0 World Cup qualifying loss and miss out on another major tournament is nothing new.

Bare-chested supporters shovelled snow off the pitch to ensure Tuesday’s qualifier against Serbia could go ahead before Scotland became the first European team to be eliminated.

When he was appointed in January manager Gordon Strachan said it was time the players repaid the loyalty of their worldfamous ‘Tartan Army’ fans by qualifying for a first big tournament since the 1998 World Cup in France.

Strachan and his side were left to face the harsh reality that their next opportunity will not be until Euro 2016.

“I’m always disappointed after the games but I can see the picture clearer now. I don’t think anyone has a problem with the fact that we have to rebuild and start again,” Strachan told the BBC.

WHERE WE ARE “That’s not because of any manager that has come before, it’s just the state of Scottish football and where we are at the moment,” added the former Scottish international.

In Strachan’s favour as he attempts to guide Scotland to Euro 2016 in France is the fact 24 teams, not 16, will compete.

The former Manchester United player was also upbeat about the young players coming through the ranks.

“We’re going to have to rebuild and find a new group of players along with the ones who have done well here,” said Strachan.

“It’s a hard job but tonight there are loads of things I think I can work with. The fact is we’ve had young players coming in over the last couple of games and doing well.

“If we put together the younger players coming through with the experienced ones we have a strong squad.”

Strachan mentioned defender Grant Hanley and debutants Liam Bridcutt and George Boyd as names to watch in the future, especially with more established names like Charlie Adam struggling to get on the pitch.

The fight for places bodes well for the future said Strachan.

“Charlie Adam is not getting a game and he came on and I thought he did really well. So there are some positives.”

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Sport WORLD AND EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS TAKE CONTROL OF GROUP AFTER WIN IN PARIS

Balotelli brace strengthens Italy’s grip

By Kevin Azzopardi

The main man: Pedro (third left) is congratulated by his Spanish team-mates after scoring the only goal of the game at the Stade de France

Del Bosque lauds dynamic Pedro

By Iain Rogers SPAIN coach Vicente del Bosque praised Pedro’s dynamism after the Barcelona forward struck in a 1-0 win against France in Paris on Tuesday that put the world and European champions back in charge of World Cup qualifying Group I. Pedro has been in fine form for his country in recent months and his 58thminute effort in a tight game at the Stade de France was his 10th goal in his last six starts.

He collected the ball on the right, cut inside and lifted a pass out to Nacho Monreal on the left before surging into the penalty area to bundle Monreal’s low cen-

tre past France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

“Pedro is very important for us because he compliments the passing of Xabi Alonso, Xavi and Sergio Busquets with his explosive, dynamic movement,” Del Bosque told a news conference.

“We still have three matches to go when both France and ourselves could slip up but we are definitely in an advantageous position,” he added.

“The three points were the important thing and also that the players passed this test of their maturity.”

Spain were under pressure after Friday’s 1-1 draw at home to Finland left them two points behind France, who held Spain to a 1-1

stalemate in Madrid in October, with four games left.

Xavi for the visitors and Franck Ribery for the home side had excellent chances in the first half before Pedro edged Spain ahead and they were able to shut the game down with some controlled possession.

“It was crucial to win here,” Pedro said in an interview with Spanish television.

“We could not slip up and I am pleased with the way everything turned out,” added the 25-year-old, who now has 12 goals in 26 appearances for Spain.

“I arrived on the run, touched the ball and it went in but I am not really sure how I did it.”

Spain now begin their preparations for the Con-

federations Cup in Brazil in June. Their next World Cup qualifier is away to Finland in September and they play their final two games at home to Belarus and Georgia in October.

For their part, France’s narrow defeat exposed Les Bleus’ desperate need for a striker with a killer instinct should they qualify for next year’s World Cup. Coach Didier Deschamps blamed the reverse on France’s lack of efficiency in a pulsating clash where his side had more chances than their visitors.

Misfiring striker Karim Benzema reached 1,000 minutes without scoring for France, having netted his last goal in 12 appearances in a 4-0 win over Estonia last

June.

Real Madrid striker Benzema was booed off the pitch when substituted in the 82nd minute after yet another dismal performance.

“I will not say that I don’t care. But if there are people whose only occupation is booing, it is their problem,” a defiant Benzema told reporters.

“There are periods like this.

This one is long but I will continue to work to score. I hope it will come soon.”

Team mate Mathieu Valbuena thought the reception Benzema got was unfair.

“It is harsh because he moved a lot in the first half, after the interval, too. He was very motivated,” he said.

Messi struggles in thin air of La Paz

By Rex Gowar

Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi wasted a great chance to win the game for Argentina away to Bolivia

LIONEL Messi struggled in the thin air of La Paz, fluffing a gilt-edged chance to end his goal drought against Bolivia, while Colombia marksman Radamel Falcao was kept scoreless in Venezuela.

However, with a rampant Ecuador crushing Paraguay 4-1 in Quito, South America’s top three teams remain in charge of their World Cup qualifying chances as the race for the region’s fourth direct ticket to the 2014 finals in Brazil hotted up.

Uruguay, Copa America holders and the region’s best-performing team at the 2010 World Cup, lost 2-0 in Chile and sank below the qualifying line as their opponents and Venezuela climbed above them into fourth and fifth.

Argentina managed well in the thin air at nearly 4,000 metres in La Paz to draw 1-1 with Bolivia, putting behind them the 6-1 defeat suffered by Diego Maradona’s team four years ago.

But they might have won had Messi made the most of a late chance.

Messi stole the ball from a defender and came face to face with Sergio Galarza but a moment’s hesitation cost him dear and al-

lowed the goalkeeper to block his shot.

That preserved Bolivia’s record as the only South American team to have denied the little ace a goal.

“That’s another point we have added and this result strengthens the squad but we deserved all three,” Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella told reporters.

“Obviously we have good chances of qualifying, we’ve gone from moderate optimism to greater optimism,” he said after taking four points in four days following Friday’s 3-0 win over Venezuela in Buenos Aires.

Colombia went to Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela seeking a fifth win in a row after their 5-0 rout of Bolivia at home on Friday but they came away empty-handed as striker Jose Salomon Rondon scored the only goal for the home side.

Ecuador made it six wins out of six home matches in their Atahualpa stronghold nearly 3,000 metres up in the Andes mountains, with two goals from striker Jefferson Montero.

Musical chairs for the top three places has Argentina at home to Colombia on June 7 and visiting Ecuador in Quito four days later after the Ecuadoreans’ trip to Peru. Colombia host the Peruvians on their return from Argentina.

MARIO Balotelli extended his rich vein of scoring form as he hit a brace to inspire leaders Italy to a 2-0 win at a spirited Malta team in a World Cup Group B qualifier.

Italy strengthened their grip on top spot by moving onto 13 points from five qualifiers while Malta, who slumped to a heavy 6-0 defeat by Bulgaria in Sofia last Friday, remain bottom with no points from five outings.

Buoyed by his outstanding goal in the 2-2 friendly with Brazil on Thursday, Balotelli again delivered the goods for Italy who survived two scares in the first half before applying the killer blow with a second goal in the dying minutes of the opening half.

“We have to treasure the fact that when we come up against a well-organised team we have to be quicker with our play,” Italy coach Cesare Prandelli said.

“We were well prepared for the match... I urged the players to approach the match with the right attitude.

“The great performance against Brazil and the three points tonight are paramount.”

Spot kick specialist Balotelli gave Italy a sixth-minute lead with a well-taken penalty after Malta defender Luke Dimech floored Stephan El Shaarawy in the penalty area.

Despite conceding so early in the game, Malta refused to lie down.

Their bold reaction unsettled Prandelli’s men whose struggles were laid bare when, on 16 minutes, goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon brought down Malta midfielder Andre Schembri in the box after an intelligent pass from Roderick Briffa.

Michael Mifsud marched towards the spot but his low effort was stopped by Buffon.

The Malta captain threatened to make amends in spectacular fashion minutes later when he sped past Leonardo Bonucci but his screamer from distance cannoned off the crossbar after taking a slight deflection off Andrea Barzagli.

With the lively Schembri shadowing Andrea Pirlo, Italy’s midfield schemer, and all the Malta players pressing hard all over the pitch, Italy were knocked off their stride as the hosts, spurred on by 17,000 fans, pressed for an equaliser.

Italy made the hosts pay for their missed opportunities though as Balotelli volleyed past Malta goalkeeper Justin Haber on the stroke of halftime after a surging run by right back Mattia De Sciglio.

The second half was less eventful as Italy seemed content to keep possession and protect their two-goal lead.

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Haas ends Djokovic dominance in Miami

By Amlan Chakraborty GERMANY’S Tommy Haas recorded the upset of the tournament when he stunned two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-4 in the fourth round of the Sony Open in Miami.

Haas, who turns 35 next week, needed just 80 minutes to end Djokovic’s 14match winning streak at the tournament and consign the world number one Serb to just his second loss of the season.

“Playing against someone like Novak and coming out on top at this time of my career, it’s unbelievable,” Haas told reporters.

“These are the moments I appreciate the most, going on those big stadiums,

big stages, playing against the best people in the world.”

Haas’ win was his second over a world number one, some 14 years after felling Andre Agassi in the quarter-finals of the 1999 Grand Slam Cup. “All the credit to him. He played a great match and he was the better player, no question about it,” said Djokovic, who won a third successive Australian Open title in January.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s definitely the worst match I have played in a long time.”

The victory carried Haas into his first quarter-final in Miami while improving his head-to-head record against Djokovic to 3-4.

The German played Gilles Simon in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Djokovic’s defeat opens the door for

second seed Andy Murray, who eased into the last eight with a 6-2 6-4 win over Italy’s Andreas Seppi, to replace Roger Federer as world number two should he win the Miami title.

Third seed David Ferrer also cruised into the quarters with a 6-4 6-2 win over Kei Nishikori.

In the women’s tournament, Serena Williams continued her bid for a sixth Sony Open title with a hard-fought 6-3 7-6 victory over Li Na to book a place in the semi-finals.

Williams shook off six double-faults and rallied back from 5-2 down in the second set.

“I realised I was down. It was just one point at a time after that,” said the world number one Williams.

“The tiebreak was good, it just came down to one point at the end.”

Well played: the world No.1 congratulates the German veteran who ended his 14-match winning streak at the tournament

Hodgson: fate still in our hands England’s World Cup qualification to go down to the wire

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NGLAND boss Roy Hodgson insists his side’s World Cup fate remains in their own hands despite the 1-1 draw in Montenegro.

After a sparkling first-half display, during which Wayne Rooney had given England a sixth-minute lead, the visitors were made to pay for a shoddy performance after the break as they continually gave away possession.

Joe Hart made a couple of excellent saves before Dejan Damjanovic grabbed Montenegro’s leveller.

The result leaves England second in Group H, still two points behind their opponents. However, that gap may well have grown to five before Hodgson’s side are next in competitive action in September, and they are still to beat any of the major opponents in the group.

“It is still in our own hands,” said Hodgson.

“We still have to play Montenegro at home, Poland at home and Ukraine away.

You are bringing it back to the result against Ukraine at home, when we would have liked to win but we drew.

“I suppose you could say Ukraine away will be crucial, but we still have three of our four games at home, so we will try to make certain we keep it in our hands by winning those matches.”

The difference between England’s first and secondhalf performances could not have been more marked.

Yet the outcome might well have been different had

Same old story: England threw away a lead in a competitive match for the fifth time in almost three years after Wayne Rooney (below) had given them a dream start. Coach Roy Hodgson (waving) says the Three Lions will qualify for Brazil

the visitors been awarded a penalty for a foul on Danny Welbeck by former Manchester City defender Stefan Savic which referee Jonas Eriksson saw as a dive by the forward.

“I have not seen a replay but I don’t think Danny would have wanted to go down in that situation,” said Hodgson. “We had several opportunities in the first half when we got behind

their defence but it didn’t quite come off for us.”

Montenegro coach Branko Brnovic admitted it should have been a penalty, although he argued Rooney had fouled one of his own players in the build-up to his 35th England goal.

“It is possible that there y but did was a penalty you see Rooney before he scored the goal?”” said Brnovic. “I like an attacking stratgainst egy, but against England itt was y the not totally way to go and wed they showed in the first half rong how strong they are. If we n comhad been ur line-up plete in our we would have been

even more successful.”

Captain Steven Gerrard meanwhile admitted England paid the penalty for lacking the killer instinct.

It left the midfielder acknowledging that his side may have to win all four of their remaining matches to ensure they top the table p and book a place in the 2014 Brazil finals in Brazil.

Gerrard said said: “We’re still den we can finconfident ish top of the gro group.

“W need to win “We all our games, we cer certainly need to improve on tha second-half that p performance, and play like we did first half.

“We certainly need

to get three points when we go to Ukraine and we need perfect results at home.”

Gerrard concedes England cannot afford to switch off in the manner they did during the second period when Montenegro dominated possession.

He said: “I think there was a lot of experience out there and I think during the first half we showed that. We controlled the game.

“The problem is at 1-0 you’re always vulnerable.

You’ve got to go on and get the second goal to get complete control and we never did that.

“We stopped playing after the break for 20 or 30 minutes and, away from home, you just can’t afford to do that.

“We stopped passing the ball, and that’s when we lost control, and I think they deserved the equaliser.”

Gerrard provided the cross for Rooney’s headed goal and he became the first England player to score in four qualifiers on the trot since David Beckham in 2003.

It was a happier scenario than when Rooney was sent off on his last appearance in the stadium 17 months ago.

Joe Hart hailed Rooney’s prolific scoring record for England and saluted the player for handling the jeers of the crowd.

“It would be nice for people to realise that (his scoring record) about Wazza because he gets a lot of criticism when he plays for England,” he said.

“He is scoring goals for us and is our main man up top. He had one chance, six yards out and he was never going to miss. He is a great player.”