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All calm as banks open their doors Many who waited patiently in line were the elderly who did not have cards to use ATMs

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HE FEARED stampede on banks when they reopened yesterday after two weeks of crisis never materialised with queues remaining moderate and the public waiting calmly and patiently for up to an hour to enter the guarded premises.

Long queues formed early although the banks were not due to open until noon but by early afternoon the queues were gone. The banks closed at 6pm with not a single incident reported islandwide.

Private security at each branch were only allowing up to five people inside the banks at a time and early on, priority was being given to the elderly.

Bank staff turned up for work early as cash was delivered by armoured trucks.

According to Reuters, the European Central Bank flew €5.0 billion to the island late on Wednesday.

An ECB spokesman said the bank notes came from its logistical reserves, which were stored by Germany’s Bundesbank on behalf of the ECB. The fact that temporary capital restrictions were in place as of yesterday also helped prevent a run on deposits as withdrawals were limited to €300 per person per day.

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gency rules imposed to limit withdrawals and prevent a bank run would be temporary, initially for seven days.

Later yesterday however Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said the capital controls might not be fully lifted for a month.

“A number of restrictions will be lifted and gradually, probably over a period of about a month according to the estimates of the central bank, the restrictions will be fully lifted,” Kasoulides told reporters.

A police source told Reuters that passengers leaving the island’s airports were subject to extra searches due to the €1,000 limit on taking cash abroad.

Notices at Larnaca airport warned travellers of the new restrictions and officers had orders to confiscate cash above the limit.

Most of the morning before opening their doors yesterday, bank staff carefully studied the capital controls so customers could be correctly informed. Yiannos Louras, a cashier at Laiki (Popular) Bank said that although nothing was clear yet, he was preparing himself for a very long day.

“We hope the public understands we are doing our best to serve them,” he

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A manager unlocks the door at a Nicosia bank yesterday where priority was given to the elderly

(Christos Theodorides)

Lindt loses German case over Easter bunny trademark SWISS premium chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli has lost a court battle to protect its gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies from imitation by a German rival.

Lindt, which traces its origins to a Zurich confectionery shop set up in the 1840s, has been fighting German chocolate maker Confiserie Riegelein since 2000 to try to stop it producing similar chocolate bunnies.

But Germany’s Federal Court of Justice rejected a final appeal by Lindt & Spruengli yesterday.

“We are very glad that this case has found a happy ending for us after some

12 years,” Peter Riegelein, head of the family-owned German business, said in a statement.

HALF-CENTURY INCLUSION “The sitting gold-wrapped bunny has been a firm part of our offering for at least a half century,” he said. “Now it is finally clear that it can stay as it is.”

Lindt will respect the decision even though it does not share the court’s judicial interpretation, a spokeswoman said.

“Lindt & Spruengli invests substantial amounts into advertising and promo-

tion to further increase the degree of brand awareness,” she said. “We will continue to defend our Lindt gold bunny in the future whenever necessary.”

Last year, the European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) upheld a decision of the EU trademarks agency OHIM, which rejected Lindt’s application for a trademark of its sitting bunny shapes wrapped in gold foil with a red ribbon bow tie.

Earlier last year, however, an Austrian court ruled that family-owned rival Hauswirth could no longer produce Easter bunnies that look like those made by Lindt.

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ON THIS DAY MARCH 29

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25 years ago, Thursday March 29, 1988

Dr John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cyprus police used tear gas and clubs to disperse a crowd of about 200 Palestinians and Cypriot supporters who flocked to the Israeli Embassy in Nicosia yesterday in a demonstration marking the anniversary of Land Day. According to a police statement, five policemen were injured and a Lebanese man, 26-year-old Israeli was detained for interrogation.

1971 My Lai massacre: Lt William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

1971 Charles Manson and three members of his hippy cult are sentenced to death in Los Angeles.

1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.

2004 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

35 years ago, Friday March 29, 1978 President Kyprianou last night said everybody must realise that a fresh military adventure by Turks in Cyprus would not be a mere promenade. The President who was addressing officers of the National Guard at Larnaca, as part of his plan to keep in touch with the security forces, said Cypriots attached considerable importance to defence.

45 years ago, Sunday March 29, 1968 Secretary-general U Thant today urged the Security Council to authourise the stationing of UN observers on the Jordan-Israel ceasefire line following fierce clashes between the two nations yesterday. US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg warmly endorsed the suggestion and called on members to implement it if they did not want another round of last year’s Middle East war.

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House puts off vote to sack CB chief Attorney-general warned MPs of the legal intricacies, and possible fallout from the European Central Bank

By Elias Hazou THE HOUSE last night decided to postpone a vote on a motion calling on the President to sack the governor of the Central Bank, with MPs asking for more time to ensure such a move was legally airtight.

The motion was tabled

by Greens deputy Giorgos Perdikis, but 49 MPs voted to postpone discussion to a later date.

Initially it was designed to ask for the resignation of Central Bank chief Panicos Demetriades; it was then amended calling on the President to initiate procedures for the termination of the governor’s services.

However, during a parliamentary debate before the plenum, the Attorneygeneral warned MPs of the legal intricacies, one of which could be that the European Central Bank might have something to say about it.

European Party leader Demetris Syllouris cited the reasons for postponing the vote. First, if the resolution did not pass, it could

be construed as a vote of confidence in Demetriades. Also, Syllouris said, moving to dismiss Demetriades now could backfire on parliament, which in the meantime has asked the governor for a list of people who transferred large sums money out of Cyprus ahead of the Eurogroup deal.

Demetriades, who took charge of the banking regulator in May of last year, has been caught in the eye of a storm, with politicians, bankers and commentators alike demanding his removal.

The CB governor has already been criticised by President Nicos Anastasiades for not revealing the true picture of the banking sector’s demise any sooner and relations have been known to be sour among the two.

Even communist AKEL, which campaigned for Demetriades’ appointment, has turned against him, saying the central banker is to blame for the chaos that has ensued with banks shut for two weeks, payments halted and hundreds of businesses on the

Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades: caught in the eye of the storm verge of closing.

Demetriades sparked a furore on Tuesday after telling a parliamentary committee hearing that Laiki Bank was purposely kept afloat for nine months, despite enormous liquidity problems, because the bank had to stay alive until the presidential elections in February.

It has also emerged that Demetriades had intended to let the banks – other than troubled Laiki and Bank of Cyprus – re-open on Tuesday, without consulting the Presidential Palace which, fearing a run, was strongly against the idea.

Among other things, yesterday’s motion to remove the central banker – an independent official – from office noted that Demetriades “has lost the trust

of the Cypriot people and political parties” through his “inadequate handling of matters under his jurisdiction.”

It called on the President to act on article 118 of the Constitution, which states: “The President and Vice-President of the Republic acting jointly may, at any time, terminate the appointment of either the Governor or the DeputyGovernor of the Issuing Bank of the Republic or both as such Governor or Deputy-Governor, as the case may be.

“Any disciplinary matter in connection with the exercise of the functions of the Governor and the Deputy-Governor of the Issuing Bank of the Republic shall be within the competence of the Supreme Constitutional Council

[Supreme Court].” Should parliament pass the motion at a later date, the President would ask the Attorney-general to file an application to the Supreme Court for the dismissal of the central banker.

The application would presumably draw on Article 18 Central Bank Law, which states that the Central Bank governor may be removed from office if the Supreme Court finds that he “no longer meets the requirements for executing his duties or has committed a serious offence.”

However, these two conditions for termination are not fleshed out in the above article, so the House would have to pass a special law on this.

The bill could be tabled by either the government or parliament.

SAVERS from other euro zone countries withdrew 18 per cent of the cash they held in Cyprus in February, amid concerns the island would impose a tax on bank deposits.

Figures from the Central Bank released yesterday showed deposits from other eurozone states fell €860 million to €3.9 billion, making them the fastest category to leave the stricken banking sector.

Deposits from non-eurozone countries actually rose, by less than 1 per cent to €21 billion, while deposits from local residents fell less than 1 per cent to €42.6 billion.

Overall, deposits were down almost €1 billion to €67.5 billion. Overall outflows in February were considerably less than in January, when €1.73 billion left the island. Year-onyear (February 2012) deposits fell by 3.1 per cent. But an even sharper fall than January is expected for this month, with significant outflows reported in the days after the March 15 announcement that Cyprus would levy a 6.75 per cent tax on all banks on all deposits under €100,000 and a 9.9 per cent levy on deposits above the €100,000 mark.

The levy was rejected by Cyprus lawmakers, leading to a subsequent accord for the winding down of Popular Bank, which will see large depositors will lose about 80 per cent of their cash and big depositors in Bank of Cyprus will lose 30 to 40 per cent.

Households’ deposits (residents) in February dropped to €26.263 billion compared to €26.290 billion in January, and business deposits fell by €634.7 million.

At the same time loans rose by €281 million reaching a total of €72.402 billion. By contrast, January had witnessed a drop of €345 million compared to December 2012.

Loans to local residents came to €54.058 billion, a slight increase on February, and business loans dropped by €52.3 million.

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‘What would be the point in causing any trouble?’

People willing to stay calm as long as no more cuts

By Peter Stevenson FOREIGN media gathered en masse at Eleftheria Square early yesterday anticipating trouble outside the island’s two major banks when they reopened at noon, while inside heavily-guarded employees thought they would be facing the most daunting day of their careers.

But as it turned out, in some instances, the number of reporters was far greater than those queuing up at the banks.

Bank managers appeared just before the doors were to be opened at noon to plead with people to remain calm, not to push, and that up to five people would be permitted inside the bank at a time.

“I’m calm, like the others around me, we know that it’s neither the person in front of me’s fault neither is it the bank employees’ fault,” Giorgos Theodorou, a 48-year-old said.

“We realise that they could be without jobs soon and we feel for them,” he added.

Theodorou said despite the calm, he felt a strong sense of desperation at recent events and hoped those responsible for putting Cyprus in its current position would be found and punished.

“Queuing up to be served at the bank isn’t particularly a problem, the problem will be what does the future hold for our economy and for our jobs,” 30-year-old Andreas told the Cyprus Mail. “Now the banks have re-opened we will see what real problems we will be faced with,” he said.

“The banks have been closed for a long time so it’s perfectly understandable that there are queues and upset people, but everyone is calm and there won’t be any problems because we are civilised people,” he added.

Giorgos Antoniou, 52, believed there would only be one or two days of large queues and then everything would go back to normal. “If there are no more cuts on our deposits then I don’t think anyone will react angrily while queuing but if they make more cuts then that’s when violence could potentially break out,” he said. “I came to pay my bills and withdraw some cash to pay my dentist who I owe some money to as I had run out of cash,” he added.

For 58-year-old unemployed Savvas, queuing up outside Bank of Cyprus was unfamiliar and although he was angry at the whole situation he felt it would not achieve anything if he caused trouble. “I have been unemployed for around four months now and I came to deposit two cheques into my account and withdraw €300 to survive,” he said.

“The politicians and the banks have a lot to answer for as they did not put the correct measures in place to protect people’s money,” he added.

“Everyone here in the queue knows that the employees aren’t to blame and so there’s no point in showing any animosity towards them so we might as well just get on with our business,” he concluded.

For customers at Hellenic, USB and Co-op banks there were hardly any queues but

By Peter Stevenson

Foreign media swarming all over Eleftheria Square the Mail did manage to talk to a customer outside the French giant Societe Generale. “I’ve not had to live through wartime like some of my older compatriots but this certainly does feel like we are at war of some kind,” 24-year-old architect, Constantina Hadjicosta said. “We will just have to get used to queuing up outside the banks until the capital controls are removed,” she

added. For the staff of Laiki however, the future is uncertain. “We keep hearing about different scenarios... we’ll end up on the unemployment line or at Bank of Cyprus if the two banks end up merging,” said Patroclos Pantelas, 40, “There is a general panic in Cyprus right now and my thoughts are with my colleagues who will have to deal with the public in the coming

(Christos Theodorides) days and all we can hope for is that everyone will stay calm and understand the situation,” he added.

Due to the banks being closed since March 15, state pensions, payments from social insurance and seasonal governmental employee wages will be transferred into accounts on April 2. Civil servant wages and pensions will be transferred on April 3.

An atmosphere of quiet resignation in Paphos

By Bejay Browne BRANCHES of Laiki and Bank of Cyprus in Paphos saw queues forming about an hour before opening, but for most other banks including Hellenic and Societe Generale, it was business as usual.

“The atmosphere was generally one of resignation,” said one Piraeus bank employee adding: “I’m very relieved as I have to admit I had been feeling anxious.” According to Paphos police, there were no reported problems.

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remain anonymous said: “We have been preparing for reopening since the closure so everything went smoothly.

And as we are not subject to a ‘haircut’ our position is clearthe bank is solid.”

He added: “We have no crisis for the time being but we will all have to wait and see what the future will bring. The psychology of the people is not good, as the situation is recent and is on people’s minds.

Everybody will feel the change though- we need to return to normal as quickly as possible.

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but also market sentiment and psychology.”

British ex pat Matt Kendall said the queue at the main Laiki Bank was quite long and they didn’t open until 12.30pm. But apart from a tense atmosphere, there wasn’t any trouble. “All of the staff had a good attitude and were helpful,” Kendall said.

Maria Stavrou, a Bank of Cyprus customer had queued since 11am. “We showed everyone today that we are a dignified nation and that we can remain calm even in these difficult times,” she said. “The

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world’s media seem to want us to riot and behave like animals and although we are shocked and we face difficult times ahead, Cyprus is strong and we will rebuild.”

Paphos businesswoman Mandy Greenhall says she was now unsure of who to trust. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t think that I will pay any more money into my account than I have to, also suppliers are now being asked to be paid in cash, so I will have to hold it back to pay them anyway.

I will wait and see what happens in the coming days.”

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades expressed his gratitude and deep appreciation towards the public yesterday for the maturity and high level of responsibility shown during a critical point for the stabilisation of the Cypriot economy.

“The stance of maturity and responsibility that the people have shown today at the banks gives out a clear message of optimism and confidence for the future,” he said in a statement. “The people proved that we not only want to but that we can succeed in getting the country out of this difficult situation,” he added. Anastasiades went on to say that the banking system on the island would survive the crisis and it would grow.

President of EVROKO, Demetris Syllouris, speaking on the state broadcaster had earlier expressed his gratitude towards the Cypriot public in an emotional interview where he choked up on air. “I’d like to express my pride and that I am touched by the people’s sense of duty towards their country,” he said.

Central Bank spokesperson Aliki Stylianou also expressed her gratitude towards the people of Cyprus for keeping calm and keeping order outside the island’s banks. “Everyone at the Central Bank who has been receiving news about events outside and inside banks has been touched by people’s behaviour after they had to wait several days for them to open,” she said.

“I want to thank the people for their patience and understanding as we feared Thursday was not going to go well and after hearing the way people have acted I am confident we have all the qualities to make it through the crisis,” she added.

Minister of Justice Ionas Nicolaou attributed the smooth running of the day down to the co-operation and responsibility shown by the public while they waited patiently to be served.

“We would like to offer the public a safe route towards banks and to deal with any type of danger which might occur,” he said.

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All calm as banks open up to public ‘This is what’s been imposed on us and we must live with it’ (continued from front page) told the Cyprus Mail. The capital controls decree was taped to the windows of bank branches and staff handed out copies to customers.

Many of those waiting in line were elderly people, who said they had run out of cash because they did not have bank cards.

Pensioner Froso Kokikou, waiting in line at a branch of Laiki told Reuters: “I feel a sense of fear and disappointment having to queue up like this; it feels like a Third World country, but what can you do? This is what they imposed on us and we have to live with it.”

For 63-year-old, Stamatia Kyrillou it was a matter of staying positive and working harder to get out of the crisis. “We have accepted the situation and the controls that have been put in place apply to everyone so all we can do is hope they are sorted out as soon as possible,” she told the Mail. “Cyprus has been in

difficult situations before and the only way to get out of it is to work harder and hope not too many people will be laid off,” she added.

President Nicos Anastasiades, party leader and the banks lauded the “maturity and responsibility” shown by Cypriots in the face of the crisis, and especially the calm dignity they displayed yesterday.

“We have shown that not only do we want to drag our country out of this difficult position, but that we will do it,” a statement Anastasiades’ office said.

Also yesterday the government said it had appointed a panel to investigate the banking meltdown and look into claims of junior bondholders. “It will have a broad mandate,” said Constantinos Petrides, undersecretary to the Cypriot president. “It will investigate criminal, civil and political responsibilities.”

The cabinet said that in addition to the fact that Anastasiades had taken a 25 per cent pay cut, minis-

A security guard stands at the door as people queue up ters’ pay would go down by 20 per cent, and they would not be paid a 13th salary.

It also emerged yesterday that a lot of money had already left the island in February.

Figures published by the central bank showed that savers from other eurozone countries withdrew 18 per cent of their deposits from the island in February, as talk of a tax on bank accounts gained ground.

Decision on BoC shares hits snag after constitutional aspect arises

By George Psyllides AUTHORITIES were yesterday trying to find an alternative solution to a Eurogroup decision to wipe out all Bank of Cyprus (BoC) shares as part of the island’s bailout, as the Church secured an injunction halting the move.

The Eurogroup decision provides that current shareholders will lose their shares without compensation and ownership of BoC will fall to uninsured depositors who will see around 40 per cent of their cash go towards rescuing the lender.

“We are in contact with various legal experts as some people have expressed doubt whether this provision is constitutional,” Central Bank spokeswoman Aliki Stylianou said.

“If there are signs it is unconstitutional then the government must renegotiate this at the Eurogroup.”

INJUNCTION However, the Church of Cyprus, a large shareholder in BoC, yesterday secured an injunction halting the decision.

The request had been filed on behalf of the Archbishopric, their lawyer, Charilaos Velaris said.

The finance ministry and the Central Bank now have the right to appear before the Supreme Court and present their case on whether the injunction should be left

in place until the courts adjudicate on the essence. Velaris’ partner, former attorneygeneral Alecos Markides, told state radio that the Eurogroup decision effectively meant that the shares were being seized without compensation.

Markides said this was unconstitutional as it clashes with Article 23, which defines an individual’s right to property.

One legal expert suggested that the problem could be overcome by issuing more shares without touching the existing ones.

The island’s stock market remained closed yesterday pending the decision on the BoC shares.

General manager Nontas Metaxas complained that the bourse had been left in the dark over the matter.

According to the Eurogroup decision, the island’s second-largest lender, Laiki, will be resolved and its assets transferred to BoC, which will be recapitalised through a haircut on deposits over €100,000.

Deposits under €100,000 in Laiki have been secured but a large chunk of those above could be lost.

The government said yesterday it had succeeded in securing the biggest part of provident and pension funds deposited in Laiki while government, local authorities and university deposits have been exempted from any write-down.

The government has also decided to create a special arbitration body to deal with bondholders who claimed they had been misled into buying them.

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THE government yesterday appointed an investigating commission to look into the reasons of the island’s economic collapse, it was announced yesterday.

The commission is made up of former Supreme Court and International Criminal Court judge Giorgos Pikis, and former Supreme Court judges Panayiotis Kallis and Yiannakis Constantinides.

Undersecretary to the president Constantinos Petrides said the committee would have broad terms of reference to cover all decisions, actions or omissions on all levels.

“From political decisions, to the decisions made by bank boards and regulators and anyone else the committee deems fit to investigate,” Petrides said.

The commission will investigate possible criminal, civil and political offences.

It is likely the commission would include legal and financial experts.

The appointment came amid simmering public resentment over the impact of a bailout deal that will see thousands of bank jobs lost and a knock-on effect on the business world.

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Pissarides says troika’s decisions are baffling

By Stefanos Evripidou THE HANDLING of the Cyprus economic crisis by the Eurogroup of finance ministers highlighted that not all nations are equal in the eurozone where large nations’ interests come first, said Nobel economics prize winner Christopher Pissarides.

In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times, Pissarides argued that the troika’s decisions on Cyprus were “baffling”, and made a “mockery” of the vision of the founding fathers of the single European currency.

The head of the advisory body to the president, the national economic council, noted that the troika believed Cyprus’ banking sector to be unsustainable because deposits were about eight times the gross national product.

“This figure, however, is still smaller than Luxem-

‘Decision-making in the eurozone has reached a new low,’ Nobel winner says bourg’s and not too different from that of Malta and Ireland,” he said. The troika, supported by the German finance minister, decided that Cyprus’ business model had to change, effectively demanding that its banks shrink by 50-60 per cent in the next five years.

Pissarides noted that the initial plan was to hit Russian depositors and impose a levy on all deposits, despite the fact deposits under €100,000 were insured.

When parliament rejected this proposal, the troika wanted the recapitalisation of the two biggest banks to be taken on by the ailing bank’s uninsured depositors.

“Some individuals or institutions lost virtually all their savings overnight, a matter of no concern to the troika,” he said.

His current employer, the University of Cyprus had all its research grants, gifts and donations deposited with the two banks,” Pissarides said.

NATIONAL INTERESTS “The way Cyprus has been treated by its eurozone partners shows that far from the currency bloc acting as a partnership of equals, it is a disjointed group of countries where the national interests of the big nations stand higher than the interests of the whole. Meanwhile, the hap-

hazard decision-making in the eurogroup continues,” he wrote.

When Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem declared that this would be a template for the future, panic spread in the eurozone, the value of the euro dropped, although later Dijsselbloem backtracked somewhat.

Pissarides notes that on the same day, the Dutch finance minister tried to claw back what he said, claiming the remarks were taken “out of context”.

“Cyprus is a ‘special case’, apparently. We wait to hear what is special about it,” said the Nobel prize winner. “Decision-making in the eurozone has reached a new low. Regardless of

whether the deal for Cyprus is good or bad, observing the way that decisions were made, contradicting one week what was said the week before, designing templates and withdrawing them overnight, pushing Russian investors away from Cyprus one day and wooing them elsewhere in Europe the next, casts serious doubts on the ability of this group to make the decisions to push Europe forward to financial stability and economic growth,” he argued.

Pissarides said Nicosia has become an “eerie place” with deserted streets as people sit in front of their TV screens for the latest news. Regarding hopes of developing the energy industry, he said “they” might even take Cyprus’ gas reserves away too.

“The future is indeed bleak. It is not clear what is coming next and from where,” he said.

Bildt: Cyprus’ economic problems should have been dealt with earlier

By Stefanos Evripidou SWEDISH FOREIGN Minister Carl Bildt remains a steadfast supporter of Swedish entry to the euro, arguing that the “obvious” mistake made in Cyprus was not dealing with the country’s financial problems earlier.

Speaking after a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides in Nicosia yesterday, Bildt said: “The big question I have is why wasn’t the issue dealt with earlier, because (the financial system) was clearly in an unsustainable situation which should have been dealt with earlier.”

He added: “It was left to be unsustainable for quite some time.”

Asked whether Cyprus was treated harshly by having money taken away from savers, Bildt said the effort was to save Cyprus, and avoid a complete meltdown, hence the €10 billion bailout package, which other non-eurozone countries in trouble, like Iceland for example, did

not get. “It’s not for me to judge,” he said, noting that Cyprus had to find a way to contribute to the package through the bail-in demanded by the troika. “You can’t find €6 billion without finding €6 billion.”

The Swedish minister argued against the tendency to think that everything done in Cyprus’ financial sector was wrong.

“I don’t think that’s fair. I think there are good bankers and good financial people in Cyprus as well. I have met competent, good people here that have been running bank... Things, for a number of reasons, went wrong. We’ve seen that in a couple of other European countries and you need to deal with that early, and that was not done here.”

Sweden is not a member of the eurozone. In 2003, the Swedish public rejected the idea of joining the common currency in a referendum. Bildt says he’s still a supporter of the euro, arguing that it would provide an anchor of stability for his country’s economy. He does not rule

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out another referendum in the future.

“I think it will be on the agenda at some point of time”, he added.

For his part, Kasoulides noted that as a non-member of the eurozone, Cypriots could not hold Sweden responsible for the recent battering of the Cyprus economy and bleak prospects now in place for the near future.

However, the Cypriot minister expressed the country’s “disappointment” and “bitterness” with the abrupt way the country’s economic system was dealt with to his Swedish counterpart.

The two ministers also discussed the Cyprus problem, Cyprus’ relationship with Turkey, and developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, including Syria, Lebanon and Israel, as well as in the Western Balkans.

At another briefing yesterday Kasoulides said the overwhelming majority of foreign businesses operating in Cyprus wished to stay, Speaking at an international press briefing, Kasoulides said that Cypriot businessmen who have contacted their colleagues not only from Russia but also from other European countries have said they want to stay and continue their operations.

He said that apart from the fact that Cyprus was a financial services centre, companies chose to use the country for their operations also because of the good business environment it provides and its legal system.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (left) with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides yesterday (PIO)

Local authorities begin fact finding

By Poly Pantelides THE municipalities’ union is on a fact-finding mission to collect financial data and establish how its members will be impacted as the banking crisis continues unfolding, the union’s head said yesterday.

Already hit by austerity measures and a series of budget cuts, the 39 municipalities (including the nine occupied municipalities) that collectively employ about 3,000 people have been vocal about their financial plight and even issued a number of warnings last year over their growing debt and difficulties in coping.

But the union’s head Alexis Galanos said yesterday that they were dealing with new uncertainties.

Taking a break from an ongoing meeting, Galanos told reporters that among the issues to be clarified were the unions’ abilities to pay electricity and water bills, meet debt obligations (the unions owe some €150 million), or their access to development funds.

A number of municipalities have accounts in the Bank of Cyprus and Laiki (Popular) Bank, both of which have been appointed administrators, with Limassol mayor Andreas Christou warning that wage payments may be delayed and Nicosia mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis saying they might be unable to meet obligations. Both those municipalities have money tied up in the BoC and Laiki.

Galanos said yesterday he did not yet have the full briefing from all municipalities.

But he added that with problems now shared across the board with the whole of the economy facing financial collapse, Cypriots needed to display solidarity and leave differences behind.

The unions had previously mulled legal action after the government reneged last year on a pledge to reimburse them for the loss of a professional tax they stopped collecting in 2002.

But Galanos did not mention any of that yesterday, focusing instead on the need for a more earnest collaboration to tidy up finances and support the local residents.

In a news release, the union said they had requested meetings with the ministers of interior and finance and President Nicos Anastasiades to see how they could support local government.

The goal is to meet in April to devise an action plan and a legal framework to restructure municipalities, and make them less dependent on central government.

“The municipalities’ union expresses its optimism that the Cypriot people can overcome today’s problems and be gradually led to better financial conditions of welfare and progress by displaying a spirit of unity, togetherness and solidarity,” the municipalities’ union said in a statement.

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Hezbollah man gets four years over attack plot Limassol court says it took into account defendant’s age and his conversion at 19 A MEMBER of Lebanese militant group and political party Hezbollah, was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison for participating in a plot to attack Israeli citizens in Cyprus.

Hossam Taleb Yaccoub, 24, a dual Lebanese-Swedish national, had been found guilty a week ago on five charges including participation in a criminal organisation and participation in committing a crime.

“There is no doubt they are serious offences since committing them potentially endangers the safety of Israeli nationals and targets within the territory of the Republic of Cyprus,” the Limassol Criminal Court said.

Yaccoub was arrested in Limassol last year, two weeks before a suicide bomber killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in July.

The attack was blamed on Hezbollah, a charge the group denied.

Prosecutors said Yaccoub tracked the movements of Israeli tourists on the is-

land, noting arrival times of flights from Israel and registration numbers of buses ferrying visitors to hotels.

The defendant, whose code name was Wael, had been receiving orders from another Hezbollah member, Ayman.

The court said it had taken the defendant’s age in consideration, and the fact that he had been converted at the age of 19.

His cooperation with police and clean record were also considered.

Yaccoub was arrested in July last year.

He had been told to pose as a businessman interested in trading Cypriot products but in reality he had been recording the movements of buses carrying Israeli tourists and flights.

The EU has so far resisted pressure from the United States and Israel to blacklist Hezbollah, arguing this could destabilise Lebanon’s fragile government and contribute to further instability in the Middle East.

Turkey sees three alternatives for Cyprus, all involving gas scenarios

By Stefanos Evripidou TURKISH Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has proposed three alternatives to end the stalemate in Cyprus, all involving the exploitation of natural gas around the island.

According to Turkish channel NTV, the Turkish minister said he has proposed three alternative endings for the Cyprus problem.

Either the two communities form a united Cyprus state and jointly exploit the natural resources around the island, or, in parallel to ongoing peace negotiations, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots form a joint committee to exploit and market natural gas.

The third option is a twostate solution on the island.

According to NTV, the minister said all three proposals were formulated within the framework of how to make use of the natural resources in the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

Turkey has strongly objected to Cyprus’ early development of its energy sector in its EEZ through the awarding of ex-

Ahmet Davutoglu ploratory licences to French, Italian, South Korean and American energy companies.

The Turkish government argues the natural resources belong to both communities on the island and, as a nonsignatory to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, even claims parts of Cyprus’ EEZ for itself.

As Cypriot leaders recently scrambled to find €5.8 billion to unlock a €10 billion troika

bailout, the idea of borrowing money in lieu of future gas revenues triggered an immediate response from Turkey.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry released a statement saying: “It is not acceptable that the Greek Cypriot side uses the economic crisis it is facing as an opportunity to create new fait accompli.”

It added that the “only way to exploit the natural resources of the island” is “the clear consent of the Turkish Cypriot side regarding the sharing of these natural resources”.

Having seen their economy pummeled in the last two weeks, with talk of recession and a massive drop in GDP in the coming months and years, many Greek Cypriots are now resting their hopes on the plentiful natural gas reserves believed to be sitting in Cyprus’ EEZ. Some commentators have argued now that Cyprus is under the economic gun, and in desperate need of proceeding rapidly with gas exploration, international efforts should focus on nudging or perhaps even pushing the Cypriots towards a solution to the island’s division.

Robbers steal, then abandon safe with €8,500 A BOTCHED robbery took place in Anthoupolis yesterday during the early hours when a safe containing €8,500 from a supermarket was stolen and later recovered by police.

A police spokesman said the manager of the supermarket reported to police at around 3.30am that the store’s alarm system had sounded.

“After receiving the call, members of the police arrived on the scene and found that burglars had entered the supermarket and removed a

safe containing €8,500 which was screwed to the floor,” the spokesman said. A witness reported to police that a pick-up truck was seen leaving the scene with a safe being dragged behind with a wire. Police searched the surrounding area and found both the wire and the safe.

“Police pursued the vehicle without success but it was later found on a side road in the village of Paliometoho,” he said.

Police are continuing their search for the burglars.

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Pope tells Catholic priests to help poor BEGINNING a busy programme of Easter events, Pope Francis yesterday urged Catholic priests to devote themselves to helping the poor and suffering instead of worrying about careers as Church “managers”.

Francis’ homily at his first Holy Thursday service as Roman Catholic leader was the latest sign since his surprise election two weeks ago of his determination that the 1.2 billion-member Church should be closer to the poor.

“We need to go out, then, in order to experience our own anointing (as priests) ... to the outskirts where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters,” he said during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

The 76-year-old former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina has inherited a Vatican rocked by a scandal in which documents leaked to the media spoke of alleged corruption in its administration

and depicted prelates as fighting among themselves to advance their careers.

At the Mass, the start of four days of hectic activities leading up to Easter this Sunday, Francis said priests should not get bogged down in “introspection” but step outside of themselves and concentrate on those who need their help.

“Those who do not go out of themselves, instead of being mediators, gradually become intermediaries, managers.

We know the difference: the intermediary, the manager ... doesn’t put his own skin and his own heart on the line, he never hears a warm, heartfelt word of thanks,” he said.

In the next few weeks, Francis is expected to start making changes in the Curia, the central bureaucracy that was at the heart of the so-called “Vatileaks” scandal.

The new pope delivered his appeal for priests to live simply and closest to the needy on the day when the Catho-

lic Church commemorates when Jesus founded the priesthood at the Last Supper on the night before he died.

Speaking to about 1,600 priests from Rome who attended the Mass, he said those who did not live in humility close to the people risked becoming “collectors of antiques or novelties - instead of being shepherds living with ‘the smell of the sheep’” The pope took the name Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, who is associated with austerity and helping the poor. The new pontiff has already set a clear tone for a humbler papacy and Church.

Later yesterday, he was set to wash and kiss the feet of 12 young inmates at a youth prison on the outskirts of Rome, at a Holy Thursday ceremony commemorating Jesus’s gesture of humility towards his apostles on the night before he died. All popes in living memory have held the service either in St. Peter’s or the Basilica of St. John in Lateran.

Pope Francis waves at the end of the Chrismal mass in Saint Peter’s basilica at the Vatican yesterday

Putin orders Black Sea exercises

French police probe death threats after Sarkozy ruling

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin ordered the launch of largescale military exercises in the Black Sea yesterday, projecting Russian power towards Europe and the Middle East in a move that may vex its neighbours.

Officials suggested the surprise drills were designed to test the reaction speed and combat readiness of Russian forces, but Putin’s order also seemed aimed at sending a signal to the West that Russia is an important presence in the region.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin triggered the manoeuvers as he flew back overnight from South Africa after a summit of the BRICS emerging economies.

Peskov said 36 warships and an unspecified number of warplanes would take part, but did not say how long the exercises would last.

Putin has stressed the importance of a strong and agile military since returning to the presidency last May. In 13 years in power, he has often cited external threats when talking of the need for reliable armed forces and Russian political unity.

Late last month, Putin ordered military leaders to make urgent improvements to the armed forces in the next few years, saying Russia must thwart Western attempts to tip the balance of power. He said manoeuvres must be held with less advance warning, to keep soldiers on their toes.

Putin, 60, has also used his role as commander-in-chief and calls for military might to cast himself as a strong leader for whom the country’s security is foremost. State media emphasised that he had given the order for the exercises from an airplane in the dead of night.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, whose main base is in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, was instrumental in a war with ex-Soviet neighbour Georgia in 2008 over the Russian-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Empty cartridge, death threat sent to magistrate

By Gérard Bon and Claude Canellas PARIS prosecutors launched an anti-terrorism probe yesterday into death threats against a judge who put expresident Nicolas Sarkozy under formal investigation in a party funding case, and into similar threats against several journalists.

Investigating magistrate Jean-Michel Gentil’s decision about Sarkozy last Thursday raised hackles on the political right.

Many conservatives question the impartiality of judges given wide powers to conduct secret proceedings to investigate important criminal cases.

Sarkozy has rejected as unfounded the basis of the probe - that he exploited the mental frailty of France’s richest woman to raise election funds.

His former speechwriter Henri Guaino has said Gentil has “dishonoured the justice system” and “be-

The scandal for which former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured) is being investigated revolves around alleged payments made to his 2007 election fund smirched France”.

A letter addressed to Gentil containing a large-calibre blank cartridge and a threat to “get you personally” arrived at the prosecutor’s office in Bordeaux, where he

is based, on Wednesday.

Yesterday, that office said it had opened a probe into the unknown group that signed the letter, the “Interaction of the Forces of Order”.

The Paris prosecutor’s of-

fice then ordered judicial police who focus on antiterrorism cases to investigate, prosecutors told Reuters.

Without naming Sarkozy nor the funding scandal, the

letter said Gentil was driven by ideology that had caused “irreparable harm”.

The author said the group would “get you personally or, failing that, a member of your entourage”.

“The bullets are blanks, until we take our action up a notch.”

Two political journalists and the president of France’s broadcasting regulator (CSA) also received threatening letters which will be part of the anti-terrorism investigation.

The letters sent to private radio Europe 1’s Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, Michael Darmon of private television station iTele and the CSA’s Olivier Schrameck also contained empty cartridges or blanks, a legal source said.

Although Schrameck was cabinet secretary to former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, the choice of the two other journalists appeared to muddy suspicion that the group behind the letters was targeting leftist sympathisers.

The scandal for which Sarkozy is being investigated revolves around alleged payments made to his 2007 election fund.

Sarkozy has denied taking campaign funds from Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman who was declared to have dementia in 2006, but members of her staff questioned by Gentil and other magistrates have offered contradictory testimony.

Attempt to end Italy political crisis fails, president mulls next move CENTRE-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has failed in his attempt to find a way out of Italy’s intractable political crisis and President Giorgio Napolitano will now try to find another solution, the president’s palace said yesterday.

Bersani reported back to Napolitano yesterday night after being given a mandate almost a week ago to see if there was a way to form a government after an inconclusive election in February which plunged Italy into deadlock.

A statement from Napolitano’s office said Bersani had told him his talks

with other parties “did not have a successful result”.

The president would personally examine other possible solutions without delay, the statement said. Officials said Napolitano would start a new round of consultations with political parties this morning.

Bersani said he had told Napolitano, 87, of the problems he had faced in the negotiations, in which he failed to reach any agreement with either of the other two main forces in parliament - Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right and Beppe

Grillo’s populist 5-Star Movement.

A spokesman for Bersani’s Democratic Party (PD) said he had not given up hope of forming a government, but the centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party poured scorn on the centre-left leader and said he had wasted a month in a fruitless search for support.

The centre-left fell short of the majority Bersani would need to govern after last month’s election and made no headway in five days of talks with the rival parties aimed at winning sufficient support for a vote of confidence.

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Parents killer gets 40 years in prison

BRITAIN TODAY William speaks of his ‘calling’ THE Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his “calling” to save lives as a helicopter pilot in a TV documentary to be screened next month.

In an interview for the BBC Wales programme Helicopter Rescue, which features footage of William in action as a search and rescue captain, he says: “There’s no greater feeling than when you’ve actually done some good and saved someone’s life.

“I don’t think there’s any greater calling in life... to be able to see a son or daughter’s face when you bring their mother or father back from the edge of death - it’s quite powerful.”

In one rescue in the fourpart series, the Duke captains an aircraft called to save a boy who has fallen off an old railway bridge and on to rocks.

He describes his role once the call comes in: “As captain, you’re trying to play out the entire rescue, the transit to the rescue and back again in your mind, and pick up any circumstances or problems you can foresee, and try and fix them on the ground before you get airborne.”

The programme will be the first to show extensive footage of the Duke’s work as a search and rescue pilot, a BBC spokesman said.

Captors free Brit A BRITISH man kidnapped in Nigeria has been released, police say.

Lagos state police spokeswoman Ngozi Braide said the man had been freed by his captors on Tuesday.

She did not know whether a ransom had been paid.

A spokesman for the British High Commission in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, confirmed the man had been released but offered no details.

Kidnappings of foreigners remain common in Nigeria, either for political reasons or for cash ransoms.

However, such kidnappings rarely occur in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. The abduction came as Nigeria faces increasing insecurity with extremist attacks across its north.

Police officers stand outside Windsor Coroner’s Court before the start of the inquest into the death of Boris Berezovsky, in southern England yesterday

A chance Berezovsky’s death might be murder

By Maria Golovnina BRITISH police believe foul play cannot be completely ruled out in the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found at the weekend with a piece of material around his neck, an inquest heard yesterday.

Berezovsky, a sworn enemy of President Vladimir Putin, was found dead last Saturday in a luxury mansion in Ascot, an affluent English town near Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle, west of London.

He survived years of intrigue, power struggles and assassination attempts in Russia, but had to flee to London in 2000 after a bitter row with the Kremlin leader.

Police have said there was

no sign of a struggle and that the 67-year-old’s death was “consistent with hanging”, suggesting that he probably killed himself.

Asked however whether any third-party involvement was possible, Detective Inspector Mark Bissell told the inquest: “That cannot be completely eliminated.” But he added that at this stage there was nothing to support that suspicion.

The inquest was adjourned to a date yet to be fixed and toxicology tests on the body, which was formally identified by Berezovsky’s daughter

Elizaveta, are still under way.

Test results are likely to take several weeks.

Bissell said Berezovsky had been found with a “ligature” around his neck and a piece of similar material on the shower rail above him. He did not say what kind of material it was.

Berezovsky, who was last seen alive at around 2230 GMT on Friday, was the king-maker behind Putin’s ascent to power in Russia, but later became his number-one enemy.

Britain gave him political asylum in 2003 on the grounds that his life would be in danger if he went back home.

His associates have hinted he was depressed after losing a $6 billion court case last year against another Russian tycoon, Roman Abramovich, when a judge humiliated him publicly by saying he was an unimpressive and unreliable witness.

“He was depressed. He said so himself,” said Alex Goldfarb, a friend of Berezovsky.

“But it was under control. I was not worried about him in that respect.”

Other people close to Berezovsky have said they are not convinced by the official account.

“He was such an optimistic man and none of his friends and associates can possibly believe that he committed suicide,” said Andrei Sidelnikov, an opposition figure.

Lawyers for former chief constable Bettison question IPCC’s finding LAWYERS for a former chief constable have questioned the fairness of a police watchdog investigation which concluded that he tried to manipulate his police authority following the publication of a damning report into the Hillsborough disaster.

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A CONMAN has been jailed for life and told he will serve at least 40 years before can be paroled after the coldblooded execution of his parents to collect his £230,000 inheritance.

Convicted fraudster Stephen Seddon, 46, continued to deny his guilt, shaking his head and shouting “I’m an innocent man!” as he was told he will be 86 before he will be eligible for release.

He had tried to murder his father, Robert Seddon, 68, and mother, Patricia, 65, by driving into a canal with them strapped in the back seats in a faked road accident.

Seddon then “played the hero” in the aftermath of the “accident”, boasting of his supposed rescue attempts after aborting the murder plan when bystanders went to their aid in the submerged car.

But after that plan failed, four months later the fatherof-three blasted the couple to death with a sawn-off shotgun at their suburban home in Sale, Greater Manchester.

His parents had made him sole beneficiary of their £230,000 estate in their will and paid with their lives.

Seddon was given a mandatory life sentence for two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder after being convicted by a jury at Manchester Crown Court yesterday.

Passing sentence, Mr Justice Hamblen told the defendant that in Greek mythology men who killed their own parents suffered eternally “throughout time... it being recognised as a terrible crime”.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said yesterday Sir Norman Bettison would have had a case to answer for gross misconduct if he had still been a serving officer.

It said he interfered with the West Yorkshire Police Author-

ity’s process of referring him to the commission in the wake of the Hillsborough Independent Report - a finding which would justify his dismissal if he had not resigned.

But lawyers for the former West Yorkshire chief constable said yesterday the way the

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Sir Norman faces a broader IPCC inquiry into his conduct following the 1989 disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans died at Sheffield Wednesday’s ground in South Yorkshire.

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Nelson Mandela is responding to medical care

WORLD TODAY Bladerunner allowed to travel abroad OSCAR Pistorius, charged with murdering his girlfriend, was granted permission to travel abroad by a South African judge yesterday.

“The applicant is entitled to use his passport to travel outside the Republic of South Africa,” Judge Bert Bam said.

The 26-year-old Olympic and Paralympic track star, a double amputee since infancy, also no longer needs to report to a probation officer.

Yesterday’s decision eased bail conditions that were initially very strict for Pistorius, who is charged with the Valentine’s Day murder of Reeva Steenkamp, 29.

His case has stunned a nation that holds him up as hero who triumphed over adversity to compete with able-bodied athletes at the highest levels of sport.

Recurring lung infection sees former South African president hospitalised overnight

By Ed Stoddard

Thai jailed over royal footage A THAI court jailed a man for three years and four months yesterday for selling video CDs showing sections of an Australian news series that contained content deemed offensive to Thailand’s royal family.

Akachai Hongkawan, 37, was also fined 66,666 baht ($2,300) under Thailand’s strict lese-majeste law after he was found guilty of distributing the segments from a 2010 Australian Broadcasting Corporation series, translated into Thai, that discussed the future of the monarchy.

Thailand’s 85-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej is seen as semi-divine by many Thais but he told an audience in 2005 that he should not be above criticism.

Rhinoceros poachers shot THREE suspected rhinoceros poachers were killed in a shoot-out with rangers in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a park official said yesterday.

The killing of rhinos for their horns, worth more than their weight in gold, is rampant in the park.

So far this year, 188 rhinos have been poached in South Africa, 135 in Kruger alone, according to government figures released this week.

“Our rangers were on patrol and they came across these suspected poachers.

Shooting ensued and the three were fatally wounded,” said Kruger spokesman William Mabasa.

Mandela was in hospital briefly earlier this month for a check-up, and spent nearly three weeks in hospital in December with a lung infection and after gallstone surgery

FORMER South African President Nelson Mandela is “responding positively” to treatment for a recurring lung infection after being admitted to hospital overnight, the government said yesterday.

“He remains under treatment and observation in hospital,” it added in a statement, without giving further details about the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.

Mandela, who became South Africa’s first black president in 1994, has been mostly absent from the political scene for the past decade, but nonetheless remains an enduring and beloved symbol of the struggle against racism.

He is renowned at home and abroad for spending 27 years in prison fighting the last bastion of white rule in Africa and then promoting the cause of racial reconciliation.

“Black Americans look up to him because he fought oppression and his bravery is something

that doesn’t happen often,” said Yau Williams, an American tourist, as he walked through Johannesburg’s financial district of Sandton.

Mandela has been frail and in poor health for several years.

“He will come out fine, let’s just have faith in God,” said Samson Ndlovu, speaking in Zulu as he walked out of a Johannesburg taxi rank.

Mandela was in hospital briefly earlier this month for a check-up, and spent nearly three weeks in hospital in December with a lung infection and after surgery to remove gallstones.

That was his longest stay in hospital since his release from prison in 1990 after serving almost three decades for conspiring to overthrow the white-minority apartheid government.

Mandela has a history of lung problems dating back to when he contracted tuberculosis as a political prisoner.

As he has receded from public life, critics say his

ruling African National Congress (ANC) has lost the moral compass he bequeathed it when he stepped down as president in 1999.

Under such leaders as Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo, the ANC gained wide international respect as it battled white rule.

Once the yoke of apartheid was thrown off, the ANC began ruling South Africa in a blaze of goodwill from world leaders who viewed it as a beacon for a troubled continent and world.

Almost two decades later, this image has dimmed as ANC leaders have been accused of indulging in the spoils of office, squandering mineral resources and engaging in power struggles.

Mandela spent much of last year in Qunu, his ancestral village in the poor Eastern Cape province.

But since his release from hospital in December he has been at his home in an affluent Johannesburg suburb, closer to sophisticated medical facilities.

Bollywood star will return to jail BOLLYWOOD actor Sanjay Dutt said yesterday that he will return to jail for his conviction linked to the 1993 Mumbai bombings, giving up a long-running legal battle for his freedom.

The high-earning actor has been on bail since 2007 when he appealed against an original sentence of six years for the illegal possession of weapons in a case linked to the attacks that killed 257 people.

Last week India’s Supreme Court rejected his final appeal against his conviction but reduced his sentence to five years and ordered him to return to custody within four weeks.

Dutt, 53, said he would no longer fight and would not try to seek a pardon.

“Right now I am a shattered man, my family is shattered,” an emotional Dutt told reporters in Mumbai, breaking down and hugging his sister, Priya, who sat beside him.

“I am not going for pardon, there is no debate about it ... The honourable Supreme Court has given me time to surrender and I will surrender at that time.”

Dutt had already spent 18 months in prison before being released on bail so he is expected to serve another 3.5 years.

Dutt was the most high-profile of 100 people involved in the Mumbai bombings trial which

ended with 12 people receiving the death penalty and 20 others given life sentences.

In 2007, he was cleared of conspiracy charges in the attacks but found guilty of illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle and a pistol which he claimed were to protect him and his family during a period of rioting in Mumbai.

The court’s five-year sentence handed down last week prompted a debate on whether the actor was judged too harshly, with many in the Bollywood film industry and Press Council of India chief Markandey Katju calling for him to be pardoned.

Projects worth more than 2.5 billion rupees ($46 million) and the fate of various Bollywood movies hang in the balance with Dutt heading back to jail.

The actor has four films in the pipeline, including Peekay, Policegiri, Unglee and a remake of Zanjeer.

Dutt, popular for his role as a do-good gangster in the Munnabhai films, requested the media and well-wishers to leave him “in peace” in his final days before returning to prison.

“I have a lot of work, I have to finish all that work. I have to spend all this time with my family, so I, with folded hands, tell you all that just let me be in peace till the time I go in,” he said.

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt (right) embraces his sister Priya Dutt after breaking down during a news conference outside his residence in Mumbai yesterday

US flies stealth bombers over South Korea in warning to North THE United States flew two Stealth bomber practice runs over South Korea yesterday, in a second show of force to North Korea after a B52 bomber made a similar run earlier this week amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The flights came after North Korea said it would attack American bas-

es in the Pacific following a US-led drive to impose sanctions on North Korea for its third nuclear weapons test.

The North has also threatened US “puppet” South Korea with war and the US mainland with nuclear attack.

“This mission by two B-2 Spirit

bombers assigned to 509th Bomb Wing...demonstrates the United States’ ability to conduct longrange, precision strikes quickly and at will,” the United States Forces in Korea said in a statement.

North Korea has put its armed forces on readiness to fight what is says are “hostile” war drills by the

United States and South Korea.

The US says the annual drills are defensive.

Pyongyang has also cancelled an armistice agreement with the United States that ended the 1950-53 Korean War and cut all communications hotlines with US forces, the United Nations and South Korea.

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Jamaica told: prepare for big quake

Jamaica’s capital of Kingston was destroyed and around 1,000 people killed in a 6.5-magnitude quake in 1907

A US seismic expert has urged Jamaica to start long-term efforts to prepare for another major earthquake on the island, where the seaside capital was mostly destroyed by a huge tremblor just over a century ago.

It is impossible for scientists to determine if the next big quake will hit in days or decades, but geophysics professor Eric Calais of Purdue University is urging the island’s government and various stakeholders to understand that the threat is very real based on the area’s history and active seismic activity.

Prof Calais, visiting the island over four days during a mission with the United Nations Development Programme, said most scientists agreed Jamaica would most likely be exposed to a quake with a magnitude of 7 or 7.5.

An earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale is considered “major” and capable of widespread, heavy damage.

Jamaica’s southern capital of Kingston was destroyed and around 1,000 people killed in a 6.5-magnitude quake in 1907.

Researchers with the University of the West Indies have said that if Jamaica were to be hit by a quake like that one now the island could suffer a £4.3 billion loss, nearly half of the island’s gross domestic product.

“A 6.5 in the harbour by the capital could be a tremendous threat,” said Prof Calais during a visit to Port Royal, a town just outside Kingston which was the island’s main city in the 17th century until an earthquake and tsunami submerged two-thirds of the settlement in 1692.

His call is especially sobering because in March 2008 he was among a group of scientists who warned officials in Haiti that their country was ripe for a major earthquake after detecting worrisome signs of growing stresses in a fault.

Two years later, that fault unleashed a 7.0 quake that devastated the Caribbean nation, with the government putting the death toll at 316,000 people.

Jamaica has a “good foundation” to tackle risks, especially when compared to nearby Haiti, the professor said. The island is situated along the same seismically active plate boundary as Haiti and experiences about 200 earthquakes per year, most of them small.

“But at the same time, I think it’s important to realise the foundation is not at the level that’s sufficient to face a challenge of a possible magnitude seven or seven-and-a-half,” said Prof Calais, adding that he does not believe that the level of hazard has changed in Jamaica since the 2010 quake that levelled Port-au-Prince.

Turkey denies it deported hundreds of Syrian refugees Witnesses say Syrians bussed to border after camp unrest

By Hamdi Istanbullu TURKEY denied yesterday it had rounded up and deported hundreds of Syrian refugees following unrest at a border camp, highlighting the strain the exodus from Syria’s civil war is placing on neighbouring states.

Witnesses said hundreds of Syrians were bussed to the border after Wednesday’s clashes in which refugees in the Suleymansah camp, near the Turkish town of Akcakale, threw rocks at military police, who fired teargas and water cannon.

The Turkish foreign ministry denied any Syrians had been forcibly expelled, saying around 50-60 people had returned to Syria overnight and that some of them may have been involved in the unrest, but that they left voluntarily.

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR voiced deep concern at reports of deportations and said it had taken up the issue with Turkey. Such deporta-

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres (C) enters a tent as he visits Syrian refugees in Nizip in Turkey’s southern Gaziantep province on March 10, 2013 tions would be against UN conventions governing the treatment of refugees.

“There has been a big deportation operation here, they got rid of lots of people.

They kicked out two of my boys and three of my brother’s sons. They came for my boys last night and told them to get their bags,” one refugee at the camp told Reu-

ters by telephone, giving her name as Saher.

“Today, a large number of guards came in with shields and they went around the camp forcing people out. I think around 300 families left today,” she said.

One official at the camp said 600-700 people had been deported including those identified from security cam-

era footage as being involved in the violence, along with their families.

“The security forces are still looking at the footage, and if they see more they will deport them,” the official said.

A second Turkish official in the region put the number lower, saying about 400 had been sent home.

Turkey’s foreign ministry

said forcible deportation would be contrary to the rules Turkey has set for temporarily sheltering Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war.

Since the revolt in Syria began two years ago, more than 1.2 million Syrians fleeing violence and persecution have registered as refugees or await processing in neighbouring countries and North Africa, the UNHCR says. They include 261,635 in Turkey, mostly staying in 17 camps, many of them teeming.

“UNHCR is very concerned with reports of a serious incident and allegations of possible deportations from Akcakale tent city in the past 24 hours,” Melissa Fleming, chief spokeswoman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told Reuters.

Its office in Turkey was seeking further information about Wednesday’s incident and the alleged deportations.

Dozens of protesters threw stones and smashed the windows of a fire truck during Wednesday’s unrest.

Camp residents said young men started the protest against living conditions there after faulty electrics set a tent on fire which injured three brothers aged seven, 18 and 19.

But a Turkish official said the unrest was triggered when guards turned away around 200 Syrians trying to get into the site, which is already full, home to 35,000 people and one of the largest such camps in Turkey.

Don’t forget shooting victims, President Barack Obama reminds lawmakers PRESIDENT Barack Obama has urged US lawmakers to remember the children gunned down in America and not get “squishy” in the face of powerful forces up against gun control legislation, as supporters struggle to win over moderate Democrats before a Senate vote expected next month.

Obama, flanked by grim-faced mothers who have lost their children to guns as early as last month, said Washington must do something after the tragic mass shooting in Con-

necticut three months ago. He called out to the families of four children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School sitting in his audience.

“Shame on us if we’ve forgotten,” Obama said. “I haven’t forgotten those kids.”

Obama’s event comes as gun control legislation faces an uncertain future, even though more than 80 per cent of Americans in polling say they support expanded background checks.

Backed by a $12-million (£8-million) TV advertising campaign financed

by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, gun control groups scheduled rallies around the country today aimed at pressuring senators to back the effort.

Obama said the upcoming vote is the best chance in more than a decade to reduce gun violence. He encouraged Americans, especially gun owners, to press lawmakers home from a congressional spring break, to “turn that heartbreak into something real.”

“Don’t get squishy because time

has passed and it’s not on the news every single day,” he said.

Among the powerful forces opposing gun control is the National Rifle Association, a gun advocacy group that can put pressure on senators seeking re-election should they vote for restrictions the NRA opposes.

“We have a politically savvy and a loyal voting bloc and the politicians know that,” said Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the NRA, which claims nearly five million paying members.

Mortar strike kills 15 at Syria capital uni FIFTEEN Syrian students were killed when rebel mortar bombs hit a Damascus University canteen yesterday, state-run news agency SANA said, as attacks intensify in the centre of the capital.

A bastion for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, the city is a crucial prize in a two-year-old uprising that has developed into a war in which more than 70,000 people have been killed.

Insurgents trying to end four decades of Assad family rule have formed a semicircle around the capital and have intensified attacks from positions on the outskirts this week to try to push towards strategic areas and break into the centre.

SANA said the mortar rounds had landed in a canteen at the College of Architecture in Baramkeh, a central district near several government buildings, including the Defence Ministry, the headquarters for state media and Assad’s official residence.

Pro-government Al-Ikhbariya television showed images of doctors trying to resuscitate at least two young men and blood splattered on the floor of what appeared to be an outdoor canteen. One young woman was shown walking in a hospital and bleeding heavily from her face.

SANA quoted the president of Damascus University as saying the death toll, initially put at 12, had risen to 15 in what state and progovernment media called a terrorist attack.

The United Nations said on Monday it would withdraw about half its international staff from Damascus after a mortar bomb landed near their hotel.

The Syrian military has responded to rebel attacks with artillery shelling and air strikes on suburbs where rebels are entrenched among thousands of civilians trapped in crossfire.

Opposition activists said yesterday that rebels had taken the main bus station in northeastern Damascus.

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Business Eurozone corporate loan gains offer hope

US jobless claims rise, but labour market still healing

LENDING to eurozone businesses rose on the month in February for the first time since July, showing patchy and fragile gains that offer a glimmer of hope for the eurozone’s crisis-hit economy.

Banks granted non-financial firms 2 billion euros ($2.56 billion) more of loans in February than in the previous month, European Central Bank data adjusted for sales and securitisations showed on Thursday.

February’s increase in the flow of loans, which came after an 8 billion euro fall in January, was however far smaller than any of the falls in the prior six months.

“A positive spin would be that the marginal increase in lending in February could be a sign that matters may be starting to improve ... but it is still a very weak underlying lending picture,” IHS Global Insight economist Howard Archer said.

A breakdown of the ECB data showed lending to households and companies continued to weaken in the eurozone periphery, where banks demand higher interest rates for loans than in the eurozone core countries.

Private sector lending was down in Spain for the fifth straight month, while Portugal, Greece and Slovenia have recorded falling loan data for over a year now.

In a sign of the eurozone’s woes, confidence in the bloc’s economy worsened in March, falling after four straight months of gains and suggesting a hard route out of recession, European Commission data showed on Wednesday.

Eurozone M3 money supply - a more general measure of cash in the economy - grew at an annual pace of 3.1 per cent in February, slowing from 3.5 per cent in January and below the consensus of 3.3 per cent among analysts polled by Reuters.

GDP figures revised to show further growth in Q4

By Jason Lange THE number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, but not enough to suggest the labour market recovery was taking a step back.

Other data yesterday showed the economy expanded more in the fourth quarter than the government had previously estimated.

The reports reinforced the view that the economy perked up in the first quarter, although it still appeared vulnerable to fiscal austerity measures that kicked in early in the year.

“The underlying growth trend is showing some encouraging signs, but the key risk is how much fiscal tightening we’ll see this year,” said Laura Rosner, economist at BNP Paribas in New York.

While jobless claims increased more than expected last week, they have trended lower this year and remain near five-year lows. Last week, initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 16,000 to a seasonally adjusted 357,000, the Labour Department said.

The four-week moving average for new claims, a better measure of labour market trends, rose 2,250 to 343,000.

Still, for many economists a trend reading below 350,000 level points to a firm pace of

United States job seekers adjust their paperwork as they wait in line to speak with potential employers at a job fair in New York on February 28, 2013 hiring in March.

“The improvement in the underlying pace of layoffs during the first three months of 2013 has been meaningful,” RBS analysts said in a note to clients.

A drop in layoffs doesn’t necessarily signal an increase in the pace of hiring, but Gennadiy Goldberg, an analyst at TD Securities in New York, said the trend in claims was consistent with employers adding about 195,000 workers to their payrolls in March.

That would be a slower pace of hiring than during the prior month but still suggestive

These Bank of Cyprus rates for telegraphic transfer transactions (spot deals) apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s value against the euro.

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market outlook improved substantially.

A rash of recent data has shown the economy gathering strength. Retail sales have been stronger than expected, manufacturing output has picked up and employment growth has quickened, with the jobless rate dropping to 7.7 per cent last month from 7.9 per cent in January.

A report on business activity in the US Midwest ran counter to this trend, with the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago business index falling to 52.4 in March.

That was below analysts’ ex-

pectations and pointed to slower growth.

The US Commerce Department said gross domestic product expanded at a 0.4 per cent annual rate in the last three months of 2012 as a big gain in business investment and higher exports of services led the government to push up its previous growth estimate.

The growth rate, which was the slowest since the first quarter of 2011 and far from what is needed to fuel a faster drop in the unemployment rate, was just below the 0.5 per cent gain forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll.

BlackBerry posts surprise profit

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of a labour market recovery that is gaining traction. The government is due to publish its estimate for job growth during the month on April 5.

US Treasuries prices held steady at lower levels following the data, while stock prices rose in morning trading.

Despite an acceleration in hiring since mid-2012, the Federal Reserve has appeared worried that budget tightening by the government could dampen progress in the labour market, and policymakers last week renewed a pledge to keep buying bonds at a monthly pace of $85 billion until the labour

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A BlackBerry Z10 is displayed at a store in Toronto in this February 5, 2013 file photograph.

BLACKBERRY reported a surprise quarterly profit yesterday and said it shipped 1 million of its all-new Z10 smartphones in the period, but the company has yet to convince some investors that its turnaround plan is succeeding.

The Canadian smartphone maker’s shares were up nearly 2 per cent in early trading, but had jumped of more than 10 per cent immediately after the results came out. Some investors focused on a decline in the company’s subscriber base, a possible threat to its long-term growth prospects.

Still, the results offered solace to both bulls and bears on BlackBerry, which virtually invented on-your-hip email, but has lost market share to iPhone maker Apple and smartphones using Google Inc’s Android software.

“I think the 1 million units is a nice start,” said Morningstar analyst Brian Colello. “I think the encouraging thing is that BlackBerry was still able to sell a good portion of older models and generate solid service revenue during the transition. I think that will be important in terms of cash balance and profitability.”

The touchscreen Z10, which uses an allnew operating system, is key to BlackBerry’s revival. Its introduction a month before the end of the quarter received a warm reception in Canada and a few other countries, but the initial US launch, just last week, was muted.

Some analysts said revenue missed expectations and that the decline in subscriber numbers to 76 million from 79 million during the fourth quarter ended March 2 clouded BlackBerry’s long-term turnaround prospects.

The stock was up 1.9 per cent at $14.83 (9.79 pounds) in early trading on Nasdaq.

BlackBerry said Mike Lazaridis, who cofounded BlackBerry nearly 30 years ago, would step down as vice chairman and director. Lazaridis was co-chief executive officer until last year.

The company also surprised investors by saying it believes it will approach break-even financial results in its first quarter, based on a lower cost base, more efficient supply chain and improved hardware margins.

Analysts on average had expected a loss of 10 cents a share in the first quarter, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. BlackBerry said net income in the fourth quarter was $98 million, or 19 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $125 million, or 24 cents a share.

Excluding one-time items, the company reported a profit of 22 cents a share. Analysts had expected a loss.

Yet the company is not out of the woods.

Quarterly revenue fell to $2.68 billion from $4.2 billion a year earlier, below analysts’ estimates of $2.84 billion.

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No angry mobs, and no riots as the public acted very responsibly FOREIGN film crews that had their cameras positioned outside several branches of Bank of Cyprus and Laiki since 9am must have been rather disappointed with the lack of incident when banks finally opened their doors to the public at noon yesterday. There was no angry mob, no riot and no stampede of customers. In fact it was just another day of normal business and by 2pm there were hardly any people going into the banks.

Most people had stocked up with cash, withdrawn from ATMs the previous 10 days, and saw no need to go to the bank yesterday. The €300 limit on withdrawals and other controls imposed by the Central Bank also worked as a disincentive to visiting the bank. More importantly though, because the very difficult situation had been explained to people everyone co-operated and acted responsibly yesterday.

The controls, which a Central Bank official hoped would be in force only for a few days, served their purpose, allowing an orderly opening of the banks. It seemed however over-optimistic of the Central Bank to believe the controls would be lifted after a four or five days, as it would take a bit longer for the banks to regain public trust and confidence. The emergency regime may cause small difficulties to businesses, but nothing that would seriously hamper their operation. It would therefore be more sensible to wait a bit longer, for the situation to normalise rather than have a situation whereby the controls are lifted and imposed again a day later.

Then again, sensible decisions have not been the forte of the Central Bank in the last couple of weeks. It suffices to say that the Governor Panicos Demetriades wanted the banks to open on Tuesday, March 19, immediately after the first Eurogroup decision, giving no thought to the very real possibility of a bank run. President Anastasiades stopped him and did so again on Monday night when Demetriades wanted the banks, except Laiki and Bank of Cyprus, to open the next day without any controls.

His justification – this was what the ECB wanted – was a shameful abrogation of responsibility. Are we paying the Governor to protect what is left of our banking system, or to act as the agent of the bureaucrats of the ECB? Demetriades has proved a monumentally inept Governor and it is a relief the president has blocked several of his potentially disastrous decisions. And the president should make sure Demetriades does not take it upon himself to lift the controls in a few days because the ECB might ask him to do so.

The government must be confident that things have returned to normality before such a decision is sanctioned.

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Chancellor Merkel’s Mediterranean game Comment Christos Manoli

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yprus’ contemporary drama has in fact little to do with Cyprus and much more with the great geopolitical changes happening over the last few years.

Germany experienced unprecedented growth after reunification. The common market, zero taxes, and heavy industry have all allowed it to dominate Europe as a financial power.

Following the global financial crisis, the weak countries of the European south did not manage to adjust to the fast pace of the north and soon fell into disarray. The result was their strategic choking by Germany and the memoranda from which they have yet to recover. Having escaped communism and despite the great growth that followed, eastern and Balkan countries never managed to reach the prosperity achieved by their western neighbours.

Meanwhile, under Francois Hollande, France is unable to follow Germany. The FrancoGerman axis is now history and all continental European countries have started revolving around Germany.

At the two extremities of Europe, two players are watching with angst and great interest. Despite its own financial problems, the United Kingdom would really like to challenge Germany but cannot because it is out of the eurozone, while further to the east, rising Russia is observing with proverbial calm while measuring reactions.

To make Germany’s primacy official, satellites must prove that they align themselves.

Any refusal to conform will result in their punishment, either through the cancellation of the next bailout installment or through some other type of monetary retaliation, and Cyprus was the perfect battleground.

Having committed tragic mistakes in managing its own economy and as a eurozone member, Cyprus is completely dependent on German policies. Given the important political and economic ties between Russia and Cyprus, Cyprus’ submission – perhaps the last important Mediterranean country without a bailout memorandum — is a necessity for several reasons: Firstly, a tough approach on Cyprus will prove who is the real “boss” in Europe.

Further, it is an opportunity to impose the German economic model on the whole of Europe. Cyprus’ banking system is eight times the size of its economy, the same as in Malta and Ireland. In Luxembourg, that multiplier is an incredible 26, but nothing is said about these countries – so far.

Secondly, an exceptional, yet risky experiment. A haircut on deposits in an un-

Monetary retaliation is the name of the game heard-of solution for addressing financial crises, but if it works, then why not apply it tomorrow to Greece, Italy and Spain? Spain has already announced a similar tax of 0.10.2 per cent on the deposits of healthy banks to “stabilise the system”. Further, the decision that overseas branches of Cypriot banks are not subject to a haircut was not accidental. If the move causes fire, then this should be contained to Cyprus and not spread to Europe. This way, one can better examine the results of the experiment. There are certainly risks, but if one does not take them, one will not be able to know.

Thirdly, natural gas and oil. The difference of €5,8 billion between the Eurogroup and Cyprus is a ridiculous amount, when €130 billion has already been made available to Greece and Spain has proportionally similar needs. The aim is to destroy the Cypriot economy overnight and break

‘Cyprus is an opportunity to impose the German economic model on the whole of Europe’

ties with Moscow. Why? Because Cyprus has significant natural resources and is going ahead with its own plans for exploiting them without asking anyone.

The US-inspired Nabucco pipeline was designed to carry natural gas to Europe from Azerbaijan and Northern Iraq via Turkey and Bulgaria, thus reducing European dependence on Russia.

On the other hand, Russia is planning to build its own South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea. The problem is that South Stream has enough gas to go ahead with construction soon while Nabucco does not. But if we add Cypriot and Israeli gas to Nabucco, then this pipeline definitely becomes viable. A weak Cyprus that is also cut off from Russia would have less resistance to this plan.

And Russia knows it.

The effort to weaken or destroy the Cypriot economy becomes very evident when one looks at the position taken by the US-controlled International Monetary Fund.

Even though the IMF’s contribution to Cyprus’ rescue package is estimated to be very small (€1-1.5 billion), it is the one that sets the most extreme demands during Cyprus’ talks with the troika, adopting all the worst-case scenarios and ignoring any positive impact that the exploitation of gas reserves may have.

What is interesting is that Germany and its satellites are the ones insisting on the IMF’s participation, adding to the pressure on Cyprus. In reality, the IMF’s philosophy and the results of its policies have always been known, but in this case, Merkel’s geopo-

(EPA) litical game favours the IMF’s involvement even more.

Russia may not wish to help Cyprus now. After all, it does not like to show weakness by rushing to extinguish fires that others have lit. However, it knows and understands the game and will be the one to choose the next fight. This may be on some other battleground, but it may also take the form of increased natural gas prices on Europe and especially Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea. This prospect would hurt Germany which needs a cheap and steady supply of energy for its factories, especially given that the contribution of nuclear factories and renewable sources of energy are very small. Russia will weigh its relationship with the European Union and act solely based on its own interests.

And what is the US doing with its deafening silence? The answer is America accepts the appointment of Germany as the leader in Europe and is comfortable with the weakening of Cyprus to promote the Nabucco pipeline.

The recent “cruises” of Turkish exploratory ships in the Eastern Mediterranean and Israel’s apology to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara incident show the game goes far beyond Cyprus. The scene very much looks like that of WWII and players have already assumed their positions. Will they continue working in the background using the markets or will things evolve into something much worse? Stay tuned for the answer.

Christos Manoli is an MBA student at McGill University in Canada

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The Rolling Stones to play at Glastonbury THE Rolling Stones have finally confirmed as headliners for this summer’s Glastonbury Festival after months of rumours, with Mumford And Sons and Arctic Monkeys.

Primal Scream, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and Elvis Costello are also among the big names, alongside chart acts such as Professor Green and Dizzee Rascal.

The full line-up was announced on the Glastonbury website. As ever it has thrown up a few surprises, including country star Kenny Rogers who is among the figures playing the main

Pyramid Stage.

The Stones have not played Glasto before but their name became linked to the event late last year when it emerged they were getting together for 50th anniversary shows. They will play the festival on Saturday June 29.

This year’s Glastonbury, being staged over the final weekend of June, is already a sell-out with around 135,000 tickets going in the space of less than two hours. However there will be some resales next month.

Also appearing on the Pyramid will be Rita Ora, Jake Bugg, Rufus Wainwright

and festival veteran Billy Bragg.

Big names on the Other Stage include Portishead almost 20 years after they released their debut album Dummy - along with Smashing Pumpkins, Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J and John Lydon’s band PiL. The xx, The Lumineers, Alabama Shakes and Foals are included on the bill.

Elsewhere on the huge rural site in Somerset there will be performances by 1970s’ disco pioneers Chic, Tom Tom Club, rap stalwarts Public Enemy, Dinosaur Jr, The Horrors and Johnny Marr.

Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger told fans via Twitter: “Can’t wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt.”

But while his band is playing on the main stage, former bass player Bill Wyman is on the bill for the acoustic stage with his group Rhythm Kings.

The Stones a series of miniconcerts in London and the United States in November and December that sold out quickly, as well as marking 50 years of hits like Honky Tonk Women and Angie with a documentary, photograph book and greatest hits album.

Band members pose as they arrive for the opening of the exhibition Rolling Stones: 50 last July

Justin Bieber flies back to LA and into more trouble

Dress in white for Psy, rapper tells fans

Neighbour claims singer assaulted him

SOUTH Korean rapper Psy wants his fans to turn up in white at his April concert where he will launch a new song that he hopes will cement the success of his Gangnam Style Youtube hit.

“See this pic and let’s be white on 0413”, Psy tweeted on his @psy_oppa Twitter feed this week, referring to the April 13 concert to be held in the South Korean capital of Seoul.

The chubby rapper, who shot to fame with over a billion Youtube hits in 2012, subsequently poses in a variety of white clothing, ranging from a spacesuit to tennis whites and even a bridal gown and skimpy figure-skating dress.

His stylist says the 35-year old is more likely to reprise a concert style based on the suit used in Gangnam Style than anything more racy.

Psy has not yet revealed what song he will release.

By Jill Serjeant and Dagmara Leszkowicz POP sensation Justin Bieber flew from Europe back to his Los Angeles area home and into an argument with one of his neighbours the latest in a series of odd incidents involving the teen singer.

Deputies were called to the 19-year-old’s house in Calabasas, California after a neighbour claimed that he had been threatened and struck by Bieber, said Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.

A police report alleging battery and threats by Bieber had been filed and was being investigated, Whitmore said. No charges have been filed against the Canadian pop star and Whitmore declined to give details, citing an ongoing investigation.

Under California law, a misdemeanour battery charge can include unwanted touching or spitting.

The alleged altercation took place after the Boyfriend singer flew overnight from Poland, where he paraded through a Polish airport shirtless before flying out of the country, adding to a string of peculiar incidents that have plagued his European tour.

The Canadian singer had previously been spotted wearing a bizarre gas mask on a night out in London, where he turned up late for one concert and collapsed on stage with shortness of breath during another.

After a sold out concert

Minaj didn’t realise she was ‘a bit strange’ Bizarre behaviour: Justin Bieber is caught on camera walking to a private jet without his top on a freezing night in Lodz, central Poland, he took off his shirt in a car as it drove up to the airport late in the night.

He then walked topless to the airport building - in temperatures of about -10C (14F) - and then on to his gate, only to get dressed again before boarding a private jet.

“He wasn’t told to take off his clothes. He had no metal objects on him.” a spokeswoman for Lodz Airport told Reuters. “He’s quite skinny so I assume he was probably freezing.”

The concert’s organisers put the incident down to a Bieber eccentricity.

‘He paraded through a Polish airport shirtless before flying out of the country, adding to a string of peculiar incidents that have plagued his tour’ The show in Lodz was the 19th European concert of Bieber’s Believe tour. The next one is due to take place in Munich, Germany, on March 28.

Bieber’s publicist did not return calls for comment.

A source close to the star said the Calabasas dispute stemmed from a neighbour who came by to complain

about parties at the house while Bieber was away.

Words were exchanged but no physical altercation took place, the source said, citing the singer’s security detail.

Celebrity website TMZ. com said the dispute was provoked by Bieber driving a newly delivered Ferrari up and down the street at high speed early in the morning.

The Bieber source disagreed with that claim.

Discovered on YouTube in 2008, Bieber is one of the pop world’s biggest stars and has built up an online following of tens of millions of fans.

NICKI Minaj didn’t realise she was ‘a bit strange’ until she worked on American Idol.

The Starships hitmaker has been bemused by the odd reactions to some of the comments she has made as a judge on the show, insisting she is exactly the same on the panel as she is in real life.

She admitted: “I guess I didn’t realise that maybe I am a bit strange because, like the way people react to what I say to the contestants. It’s like, that’s really how I act, but people think it’s kind of strange.

“Like when I asked Kree Harrison to marry me, I didn’t think that was strange but I guess looking back at it now, maybe no Idol judge has ever asked a contestant to marry them on live TV. “I guess in general I’m just surprised at the way people react to things that I see as very normal.”

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Cold sore ‘link’ to memory loss COLD sores may increase the risk of impaired memory and thinking skills, research suggests.

The herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores was one of a number of infectious agents associated with reduced mental ability.

Scientists tested the thinking and memory of 1,625 people from New York City with an average age of 69.

Participants had their blood tested for five common lowgrade infections: oral and genital herpes, cytomegalovirus, the respiratory form of chlamydia, and the stomach bug Helicobacter pylori.

Those with higher levels of infection were 25 per cent more likely to deliver low score results in a standard mental function test.

Repeated tests over an average of eight years showed no sign of the effect worsening with time.

Study leader Dr Mira Katan, from Columbia University Medical Centre in New York, said: “We found the link was greater among women, those with lower levels of education and Medicaid or no health insurance, and most prominently, in people who do not exercise”.

Health risks of obese mothers-to-be OBESE or overweight women are more likely to develop life-threatening health complications during pregnancy, new research has revealed.

Their risk of gestational diabetes was increased four-fold and they were also three times as likely to have a stillbirth; premature delivery, or a newborn requiring neonatal care as women of normal weight.

Consequently overweight women are more likely to need costly, specialist medical care when pregnant.

“Obesity rates have doubled in the last 30 years. This largescale study clearly demonstrates that being overweight or obese during pregnancy increases the risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes,” said Dr Valerie Holmes from the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast who co-wrote the report.

The team from Queen’s University and the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust monitored more than 30,000 mothersto-be over an eight-year period.

“By having obesity in sub-classifications, we were able to

highlight the relationship between increasing BMI and the increasing risk of adverse outcomes, with women most at risk in obese class III requiring specialist medical care during pregnancy,” added Dr Holmes.

In overweight and obese women there was also an increased likelihood of postnatal problems, such as unsuccessful breastfeeding.

Conversely, underweight women risked developing anaemia and were more likely to have a low birth weight baby.

Scientists develop safer vaccine BRITISH scientists have developed a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and easier to manufacture, an advance they believe should greatly increase production capacity and reduce costs.

The technology behind the livestock product might also be applied to make improved human vaccines to protect against similar viruses, including polio.

The new vaccine does not require live virus in its production - an important consideration as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is extremely infectious and vaccine facilities handling virus samples are difficult to secure.

A 2007 outbreak of FMD in southeast England, for example, was traced to a nearby vaccine site. The same facility, ironically, is home to some of the researchers behind the new vaccine.

EU in ‘denial’ that sick economy is costing lives

Genes ‘linked to heavy smoking’

Financial crisis takes heavy toll on health, experts say

By John von Radowitz People in crisis hit countries are leaving it longer to seek medical attention

By Ben Hirschler EUROPE’S financial crisis is costing lives, with suicides and infectious diseases on the rise, yet politicians are not addressing the problem, health experts said this week.

Deep budget cuts and growing unemployment are tipping more people into depression, and falling incomes mean fewer people can see their doctors or afford to buy medicines.

The result has been a reversal since 2007 of a longterm decline in suicide rates, coupled with worrying outbreaks of diseases including HIV - and even malaria - in Greece, according to a major analysis of European health in The Lancet journal.

Countering these threats requires strong social protection schemes, researchers argue. But the austerity measures imposed after a string of crises in southern Europe - most recently in Cyprus - has shredded such safety nets.

“There is a clear problem of denial of the health effects of the crisis, even though they are very apparent,” said lead

researcher Martin McKee of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a group backed by the World Health Organisation.

“The European Commission has a treaty obligation to look at the health effect of all of its policies but has not produced any impact assessment on the health effects of the austerity measures imposed by the troika.”

The so-called troika of the European Commission, Eu-

ropean Central Bank and International Monetary Fund is the group of lenders responsible for a series of economic bail-outs.

McKee said the failure of European governments and the European Commission to face up to the health consequences of their policies was reminiscent of the “obfuscation” of the tobacco industry over curbs on smoking.

The case of Iceland, however, suggests there is an al-

ternative.

Despite a devastating financial crisis, Iceland rejected austerity, following a referendum, and instead continued to invest in its social welfare system. As a result, the researchers found there had been no discernible effects on health since the crisis.

Iceland’s economy has now returned to growth, but the recovery is patchy and inflation has remained stubbornly high.

By contrast, McKee and colleagues reported that healthcare systems were now under strain in many European countries, including Spain, Portugal and Greece, with a series of negative consequences.

In particular, there is a growing trend for patients to seek care at a later stage, even though this will mean worse outcomes for individuals and higher costs for the healthcare system in the long term.

Hospital chiefs in UK back use of velcro suits instead of traditional gowns NEW velcro suits for UK hospital patients could spell the beginning of the end of the traditional backless gown, according to its designers.

Health chiefs at Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust unveiled the bespoke-designed suits being used on a handful of its

wards.

The Dignity Giving Suits for patients are the first of their type to be used in British hospitals.

They have been universally welcomed by the hospital’s doctors, surgeons, nurses and also patients, who have been trialing them.

The wrap-around suits, designed and made by a UK company, have Velcro button fastenings along the seams, doing away with the flimsy tie-backs of the backless gowns used in every hospital up and down the country.

Michelle McLoughlin, the hospital’s chief nurse, said

she had wanted the hospital’s young patients to feel “protected, safe and secure”, and the old gowns were failing to do that, so hospital chiefs authorised a replacement.

When it became clear there was no off-the-shelf solution, they “started from scratch”,

she said. The entire process from idea to manufacture had taken 18 months.

McLoughlin said the suits were proving so popular children have been asking to take them home while parents have been bemoaning the fact they are currently only available to children.

GENES rather than feeble will power may be letting down people who try and fail to give up smoking.

Scientists have identified genetic variants that increase a person’s likelihood of becoming a lifelong heavy smoker.

Those affected are more easily hooked as teenagers and quickly progress to smoking 20 or more cigarettes a day.

As adults, they find it harder to quit the habit than individuals with a different genetic make-up.

Researchers studied almost 1,000 New Zealanders from birth to the age of 38 to identify those at a greater genetic risk of smoking.

Participants with a high-risk genetic profile were more likely to smoke every day as teenagers. At 38, they had smoked heavily for more years, were more susceptible to nicotine addition, and were more likely to have failed in attempts to quit.

“Genetic risk accelerated the development of smoking behaviour,” said study leader Dr Daniel Belsky, from Duke University in Durham, US. “Teens at a high genetic risk transitioned quickly from trying cigarettes to becoming regular, heavy smokers.”

Genetic make-up did not affect whether or not a person would try smoking for the first time. But for individuals who did try cigarettes, having high-risk variants increased the chances of heavy smoking and tobacco dependence.

The results, reported in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, are based on genetic risk scores derived from previous studies that scoured the whole genetic code for associations with smoking.

Alterations in the DNA in and around genes that affect the brain and body’s responses to nicotine were more common in the heaviest smokers.

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SUMMARIES G.I. Joe: Retaliation (See page opposite) Our rating:

The Sessions See page opposite) Our rating:

Zarafa A grandfather tells his grandchildren the story of Maki, a young boy who escapes from slave traders, befriends a giraffe (the title character), crosses the desert, meets a pirate, and a few other things on a trip that takes him from Africa to Paris. Directed

by Remi Bezancon and JeanChristophe Lie. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 78 mins.)

Our rating: N/A

Jack the Giant Slayer Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a hapless farm boy who finds a pouch of magic seeds and inadvertently grows a gargantuan beanstalk that pierces the clouds and extends all the way up to a sky world populated by giants. When the beanstalk grows, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), the heir to the realm of King Brahmwell (Ian McShane), is in the wrong place at the wrong time. She is caught in the vines and carried into the sky. Jack, along with Isabelle’s protectors Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and Crawe (Eddie Marsan) and her would-be groom Roderick (Stanley Tucci), head off in pursuit. Unfortunately, Roderick has an agenda that doesn’t involve rescuing Isabelle. In 3D. Directed by Bryan Singer. (Fantasy adventure, 114 mins.)

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Hitchcock When Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) buys the film rights to Robert Bloch’s novel ‘Psycho’, he is a highly regarded filmmaker at Paramount. But this choice for his next film is questioned by the studio – and just about everyone else. They don’t finance it – but he decides to make it anyway, and Paramount agrees to distribute it. Hitch and his wife Alma (Helen Mirren) have a somewhat

stormy and sometimes uneasy relationship, even though Hitch recognises the enormous help he gets from her. Determined but troubled, Hitch pushes on – with Alma’s help – even as the strain on his various relationships threatens to become intolerable.

Also starring Danny Huston, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel. Directed by Sacha Gervasi.

(Drama, 98 mins.)

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The Last Stand Diabolical drug-cartel boss Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega) busts out of FBI custody and heads for the Mexican border. His plan is to cross over near the small town of Sommerton, and there’s only one man who can thwart him: the town’s pencil-pushing sheriff Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger), armed with nothing more than years of experience as an LA narcotics cop and a team of inexperienced sidekicks. Also starring Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville and Peter Stormare.

Directed by Kim Jee-woon.

(Action thriller, 107 mins.)

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Identity Thief Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) travels from the Colorado home he shares with his wife Trish (Amanda Peet) and two daughters to Florida. His goal is to track down the woman who stole his identity, trashed his credit rating, and cost him his job. She’s Diana (Melissa McCarthy), a fat, foul-mouthed cartoon creature who wallows in excess as she adds to Sandy’s debt – but, having confronted his nemesis, Sandy soon finds various events (including two mob enforcers and a bounty hunter) conspiring to force them on a road trip together.

Also starring John Cho. Directed

by Seth Gordon. (Comedy, 111 mins.)

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Oz the Great and Powerful Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a travelling circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

of Oz. At first he thinks he’s hit the jackpot: fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he’s the great wizard everyone’s been expecting as per the prophecy. Nonetheless, he’s all they’ve got – and, as their new king, he’s expected to save them from evil. He is after all, the great and powerful Oz. Also starring Zach Braff. Directed by Sam Raimi. In 3D. (Adventure fantasy, 130 mins.)

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Mama A man, having shot his ex-wife, kidnaps his two young daughters (aged one and three), and wanders with the kids through the woods till they come to a dilapidated cabin. Once inside, he prepares a double murdersuicide – but something emerges from the dark to snatch him away. Five years later, the girls, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nelisse), now eight and six, have been discovered living on their own in the cabin.

Feral, and frightened of people, they’re eventually released into the custody of their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his goth rocker girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain). But the girls don’t come on their own: they bring with them “Mama”, their ‘friend’ from the cabin. Directed

by Andres Muschietti. (Horror, 100 mins.)

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Warm Bodies R (Nicholas Hoult) is a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world where the few remaining humans shelter behind a wall in a ruined city. They include Julie (Teresa Palmer), part of a team sent into zombie territory to retrieve medical supplies. Zombies and humans clash and R kills Julie’s boyfriend Perry (Dave Franco), eating his brains and absorbing his memories of their relationship.

Somehow, this jump-starts R’s transformation back to the land of the living. His heart begins to beat.

He starts speaking words. And he protects Julie from the other zombies. In short, R is in love – but can it ever work out between a girl and a zombie? Also starring John Malkovich and Rob Corddry.

Directed by Jonathan Levine.

(Horror with romantic comedy elements, 98 mins.)

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Once upon a time, as children, they were in deadly danger from a witch – but Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and his sister Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have grown up to be bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.

Also starring Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare. Directed by Tommy Wirkola. (Action fantasy, 88 mins.)

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Barbie in the Pink Shoes Barbie is Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams.

When she tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend Hailey are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world where Kristyn discovers she must dance in her favourite ballets in order to defeat an evil Snow Queen.

Directed by Owen Hurley. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 75 mins.)

Our rating: N/A

of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own.

That is when little Ricky and Ella arrive, determined to break in to rescue them. Directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen.

DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 92 mins.)

Our rating: N/A

Et si on vivait tous ensemble?

Annie (Geraldine Chaplin), Jean (Guy Bedos), Claude (Claude Rich), Albert (Pierre Richard) and Jeanne (Jane Fonda) have been friends for over 40 years. But they are growing old and old age tends to be synonymous with reduced autonomy, loss of memory, illness, retirement homes and, worst of all, separation. One day, however, one of the five friends suggests a way of saying no to isolation and loneliness: what if they all lived together? Also starring Daniel Bruhl. Directed

by Stephane Robelin. In French, with Greek subtitles. (Comedy, 96 mins.)

Our rating: N/A

Sister At a posh ski resort in the Swiss Alps, 12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) has procured a season pass to a winter ski lodge.

Each day he rides up the giant lifts to the top of the mountain, where he swipes skis, poles, boots, gloves, and other paraphernalia, selling them to other kids in the town below. He does this to support his irresponsible older sister Louise (Lea Seydoux) who wanders aimlessly from man to man, looking for a possible guy to take them both into his life.

Also starring Martin Compston and Gillian Anderson. Directed by Ursula Meier. Mostly in French, with Greek subtitles. (Drama, 97 mins.)

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Moonrise Kingdom On a peaceful island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, two 12-year-olds, Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward), fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the forest – just as a huge storm is brewing offshore.

Scoutmaster Ward (Edward Norton) and the island’s

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Sammy’s Great Escape Sammy and Ray, a pair of leatherback turtles, are captured by a poacher and shipped off to a spectacular aquarium show in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists them in his plans for a great escape – but, with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet octopus and a whole family

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NEW FILMS G.I. Joe: Retaliation Directed by: Jon M. Chu Starring: Dwayne Johnson, D.J. Cotrona, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis US 2013, 110 mins.

In 3D. Showing from today at the K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex (Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia, the Rio and K-Cineplex in Limassol, the K-Cineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

THE PLOT

Police Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis) urgently organise a search party. But the youngsters are resourceful – and committed to being together. Exiles from their homes in different ways, they defy the world and find their private kingdom on a beautiful, unspoilt beach. Directed by Wes Anderson.

(Comedy-drama, 94 mins.)

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After a deadly surprise attack on a team of G.I. Joes in the field near North Korea, the survivors swear revenge.

The attack seems to emanate from the highest levels within the government itself.

Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrienne Palicki) and Mouse (Joseph Mazzello) enlist the help of retired Col. Joe Colton (Bruce Willis) to track down the threat, facing off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Anti: “When you’re making a film based on 4-inch-tall bits of plastic there’s no duty to produce a piece of lasting cinema or redefine the landscape. Nobody’s comparing anything to any Oscar winners here. It just needs, in keeping with its source, a high degree of simple fun. Mindless as you like, but a feeling of being a little more uplifted on leaving than you were when you arrived. G.I. Joe: Retaliation, more so than its dead-eyed pred-

ecessor, wears the lightness e a lead of its premise like vest… r“Retaliation overnpromises and une der-delivers.

We are introduced to ck’ Johnson’s ‘Roadblock’ as he pals around with Channing Tatum, the only m the first major holdover from film. They’re given a lot of rk around ugly dialogue to work but they’re a fun pair; an edy with action buddy comedy them would pass happily.

But Tatum exits quickly and then it’s Johnson alone, being morose. Johnson’s a terrific blockbuster actor, but he needs a foil and he needs laughs. So later we get Bruce Willis as the original Joe and another chance for sparky buddy comedy. And again, Willis spends barely any time on screen. It’s an odd choic e to repeatedly remind the audience how much fun things could have been.

“Chu’s direction is lifeless.

He draws nothing from his cast and his action sequences are confused and flailing. But it’s the lack of joy that’s bizarre. The first film you could at least laugh at. This takes all its silly ingredients and smushes them down flat.”

Olly Richards, Empire (UK) “G.I. Joe: Retaliation is the second instalment of a movie franchise based on a kids’ toy, so it’s fitting that it feels like it could have been written by a seven-year-old, albeit one with an unusual interest in global politics and heavy artillery. After the relative box-office disappointment of 2009’s daft but enjoyable The Rise of Cobra, it looks as though some bright spark at Joe HQ decided that what the series needed was to lose its fun, post-Team America self-awareness and replace it with un-ironic jingoism, military-fetish hardware and heavy-handed nods to real world events.”

Tom Huddleston, Time Out London (UK)

The Sessions Directed by: Ben Lewin Starring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy US 2012, 95 mins.

Showing from today at the K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex (Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia, the Rio and K-Cineplex in Limassol, the KCineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

THE PLOT

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

At the age of 38, San Francisco poet and journalist Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), who has been confined to an iron lung since childhood polio, decides he wants to lose his virginity before he dies.

With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-

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Greene (Helen Hunt), a professional ‘sex surrogate’ – but otherwise a typical mother with a teenager, a house and a husband. An unusual relationship evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey. Based on a true story.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Pro: “An entertaining parlour game to play after you’ve seen The Sessions – after you’ve dried your eyes and let the aura of profound tenderness dissipate – is to imagine the many ways the film could have gone wrong. A man in an iron lung hires a sex surrogate to help him lose his virginity? It sounds like a bad joke or a worse [comedy] sketch. At the very least, such a story would have to steer equally clear of exploitation and sentimentality, resisting both the urge to gawk and the path of easy pity. One way lies sleaziness, the other saccharine, and either would sink this project.

“Anyway, all movies are manipulative – that’s their pleasure, when done right – and The Sessions is no exception.

But the achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul in an inert body. There was a real Mark O’Brien – a Boston-born poet and journalist who was the subject of a 1996 Oscarwinning documentary short (Breathing Lessons) – and the film is derived from an article he wrote for a San Francisco newspaper. By moving in close and listening to the spaces between the words, the movie explores a yearning – for love, for connection, for experience – that’s the essence of the human journey…

“The writer-director, Ben Lewin, isn’t much of a stylist,

The Sessions and the film has the stolid, unadorned look of a TV movie. That actually helps, since a more cinematic approach might tip the film into melodrama … The Sessions flirts with pathos but mostly stays true to its low-key honesty; only Marco Beltrami’s score tries to sneak in and tug our heartstrings from time to time. By the final scenes, all that restraint may have you in a soggy heap on the theatre floor, just as Cheryl has a terrible moment in her car where her defenses finally give way. But the great grace of this movie isn’t that we’re crying for all that Mark O’Brien missed out on in life.

We’re crying for everything he had.”

Ty Burr, Boston Globe (US) “Lewin, who also suffered some of the debilitating effects of polio as a child, knows this material from the inside.

The sex scenes with O’Brien and surrogate Cheryl Cohen Greene (Helen Hunt) are handled with rare delicacy and blunt, bubbling humour.

‘Nice shirt,’ Cheryl tells the painfully vulnerable Mark as he lies in bed awaiting her first touch. Hunt plays the role full-out, no nonsense about her nudity or the intri-

cacies of a job she must reconcile with being a wife and mother. Hunt is spectacular in every way, finding just the right balance between tough and tender. William H. Macy also scores mightily as Father Brendan, the priest who helps O’Brien reconcile sex surrogacy with devout Catholicism in ways you won’t see coming. OK, no more spoilers about The Sessions.

Just see it. This movie will take a piece out of you.”

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (US) Pro/Mixed: “Ben Lewin’s The Sessions is a sweet-natured comedy in which reflex sentimentalism and too-cute-to-be-true characters are balanced out with an interestingly candid portrayal of something most movies squeamishly avoid, however sexy they profess to be – the actual messy sex act itself…

“We are all used to un-adult coyness about sex in the cinema, and perhaps it’s strange that sex and nakedness can only be tackled (reasonably) frankly in a movie about disability. The Sessions can be sugary, but it’s likable.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

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Identity Thief (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.10pm and 3.20pm

Oz the Great and Powerful (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 2D) at 7.40pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in 2D) at 7.40pm

The Sessions (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.15pm and 3.30pm

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm

Jack the Giant Slayer (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) 7.55 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) 7.55 and 10.15pm

Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (in French, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, Sunday at 8pm, Tuesday and Thursday at 9pm. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy

Hitchcock (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 8pm The Last Stand (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.10pm

LIMASSOL G.I. Joe: Retaliation (N/A) Rio 1, weekdays at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends and Monday at 6, 8 and 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm

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The Sessions (15) Rio 6 at 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30 and 5.30pm, Monday also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm 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 2) at 7.55 and 10.15pm Hitchcock (12) Rio 4 at 10pm, weekends and Monday also at 5.30pm; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 8pm

The Last Stand (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm

Mama (15) Rio 3 at 10pm Warm Bodies (12) Rio 4 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 1 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 4.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) weekends only at 5.35pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5), weekends only at 5.35pm

LARNACA G.I. Joe: Retaliation (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm

The Last Stand (15) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends and Monday also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.10pm

The Sessions (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm

Identity Thief (12) Rio 3 at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm

Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 3 and 5.20pm, Monday only at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 2D) at 7.40pm

Hitchcock (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.30pm Jack the Giant Slayer (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.55 and 10.15pm

Identity Thief (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 2D) at 7.40pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm Moonrise Kingdom Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society.

Tel: 99-658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org

PAPHOS G.I. Joe: Retaliation (N/A) Rio 1 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends and Monday also at 3.30pm The Sessions (15) Rio 2 at 5.45, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends and Monday also at 3.45pm

Hitchcock (12) Rio 4 at 6, 8 and 10pm The Last Stand (15) Rio 3 at 9.45pm Identity Thief (12) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 6 at 5.15 and 7.30pm, weekends and Monday also at 3pm Mama (15) Rio 6 at 9.45pm Warm Bodies (12) Rio 3 at 5.45pm (weekends and Monday at 6pm) and 7.30pm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) Rio 5 at 5.45pm, weekends and Monday at 3.45pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 4 (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 and 4.30pm

Jack the Giant Slayer (12) Rio 7 at 5.45, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends and Monday also at 3.30pm

listings Today Music 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 29-30.

THOC THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. 8.30pm.

In Greek. Tel: 22-0480300 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: 77-777745.

Online ticket: www.rialto.com.cy.

Transportation for viewers from Nicosia until March 28 midday. Tel: 22-674920/99-388160

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

Tomorrow Exhibition Constructions + Abstractions An exhibition of paintings and three dimensional constructions by British and Cypriot artists. Sculpture garden also open to the public. Opens March 30, until April 7. Cyprus College of Art, 6 Eleftherias Street, Lempa, Paphos. Open daily: 11am-5pm. Tel: 99-452757

Music 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 30. King Solomon Tavern, Coral Bay, Paphos. 7pm - Showtime 8.30pm. €20 inc. dinner. END OF TOUR PARTY. Tel: 99-577247/99826919/99-832538 The Firebirds America’s 1950s greatest hits played live. March 30. Pine Bay Club, Pissouri.

1.30pm - Showtime 3.30pm. €20 inc. lunch. Tel: 97-788574/99-832538 A Journey through Two Continents Music programme travelling from Europe to Latin America. Presenting among others, soundtracks of Greek and foreign films, Argentinean Tango and fragments from the opera Carmen.

March 30. Rialto Theatre, Limassol.

8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 77-777745

Theatre

Other Events

The Snow Queen Interactive theatre production of fairy tale

by Hans Christian Andersen for children aged 5 and above. March 30. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. 10.30am & 12.30. €5. In Greek. Tel: 99-429638/99849598 eidekanou@gmail.com

The Easter Bazaar Approximately 30 stalls with handmade and imported crafts. March 30. Coral Star Restaurant Coral Bay, Paphos.10am-3pm. Tel: 99-387311

The True Women Show An interactive play mocking female perceptions towards men and society.

March 30-31. Scarabeo Bar, 4 Nikokreontos Street, Nicosia. On Saturdays and Sundays at 9pm. In Greek. €7. Tel: 96-349216/99-386898 Below Zero Drama directed by Photis Georgidis.

March 30-31. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue.

8.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 70007410/99-308232

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

6pm. Performance of the Match at Fitidio Athletic Center in Limassol 9pm.

Free Entrance to all performances and presentations of works in progress.

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

Faneromeni Festival – Response against Poverty Festival about our response and alternative proposals to the crisis, with music, food, kids’ corner, workshops, screenings, discussions and more.

March 30. Front of Faneromeni Church, old Nicosia. 11am-11.30pm Battle of the Year Balkans – Cyprus Qualifications 2013 Pancyprian break-dance competition to participate in championship in Greece, also includes dance battles and morning workshops. March 30. Retro Metropole Club, 6 Ifigenias Street, Limassol. 5pm. €15 including 1 drink.

Morning workshop at Tsirio Gymnasium, in Agia Fyla. 10am-3.30pm. €12/ free. Tel: 25-357676/99-521331

Ongoing Theatre 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

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

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 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

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

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Tomorrow Other Events Get to your battlestations!

BREAK-dancing really hasn’t had many moments to shine on a public stage here in Cyprus, not at the fault of the performers, but more for the lack of locations and events.

Most of the time you’ll see a group showing their skills off at random parties and themed club nights but tomorrow break-dancing fans are in for a special treat with the 2013 instalment of the now legendary pumped-up clash for supremacy at the Battle of the Year Balkans – Cyprus Qualifiers.

For the seventh year in a row Motion Blue dance organisation is hosting the Pancyprian qualifications of the popular break-dance competition Battle of the Year Balkans.

Crews from all over Cyprus compete for the coveted title of the best break-dance crew and the chance to win prizes and represent Cyprus at the Balkan Championship which will be held

Don’t Forget Other Events Bazaar treats at the Coral THE LADIES of In Any Event are busy making the final preparations for a special Easter themed Bazaar.

The unique shopping event is taking place at the Coral Star tomorrow. There will be over 30 individual stalls for people to browse with the best of handmade and high quality imported gifts on show.

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in Thessaloniki, Greece in May, and culminates in the Battle of the Year International, the world finals event which is held in Montpellier, France.

This year the event features a Hip Hop Summit, the first hip hop battle competition in Cyprus. Crews from Cyprus battle each other for the title of the best hip hop crew in Cyprus with more cash and prizes to be won.

Top names from the street dancing world will judge competitors with likes of Cico from Italy (Red Bull BC One All Stars member), Airdit from Germany and Saspens, Matthew and Bimboy from Greece, all making an appearance in Cyprus.

In addition, Motion Blue are hosting three morning workshops at Tsirio Gymnasium, in Agia Fyla, the last of which is free.

Battle of the Year Balkans – Cyprus Qualifications 2013 Pancyprian break-dance competition to participate in championship in Greece, also includes dance battles and morning workshops. March 30. Retro Metropole Club, 6 Ifigenias Street, Limassol. 5pm. €15 including 1 drink. Morning workshop at Tsirio Gymnasium, in Agia Fyla.

10am-3.30pm. €12/free. Tel: 25-357676/99521331

happen in Paphos. During the past year they have organised Birthday Parties, Craft Fairs and Festivals, Wedding Exhibitions, a Diamond and Jewellery Exhibition, The Paphos Health and Well Being Festival to name but a few.

The Easter Bazaar on Saturday will offer a diverse selection of interesting stalls, celebrating and showcasing an array of crafts-people and small businesses from abroad, including cakes, pastries, clothes and much more.

The Easter Bazaar Approximately 30 stalls with handmade and imported crafts. March 30. Coral Star Restaurant Coral Bay, Paphos.10am-3pm. Tel: 99-387311 dox Easter is commemorated on May 5. Break your devout food drought in style this year by paying the Caprice Restaurant at the Londa Hotel in Limassol a visit. The Caprice Jazz lunch is well worth a trip restaurant any time, but especially this Sunday, as it rings in spring with a gourmet lunch spread, and a celebration for friends, family and guests that also features featur a sensational live jazz th Leonid with the Neste Nesterov Trio.

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A stand for solidarity

IT’S MOST definitely not all doom and gloom in old Nicosia when it comes to culture and human spirit. The area is filled to the brim with vibrant resident artists who are culturally diverse and locally engaged. Even though it may seem paradoxical, it is in times of crisis when we detect an increase in solidarity within society and tomorrow, for one day only, Faneromeni Square will play host to a festival entitled Response against Poverty. With all the decisions taken regarding the future of Cyprus, the festival is about the people’s response and alternative proposals to the current crisis.

Cyprus secured a deal with the troika on Monday for a 10-billion-euro bailout, which will see large deposit holders at its two biggest banks losing much of their savings. The tough ‘rescue’ package with international lenders may have helped avert the country’s bankruptcy but most Cypriots are uncertain about their economic future and are feeling betrayed by the EU. Furthermore, banks in Cyprus reopened yesterday, after being shut for nearly a fortnight, with capital controls in place which will include a total ban on cheques and a €300 daily limit on cash withdrawals. The measures, which are supposed to be in effect for only a week, could be extended in a bid to stem panic and curb the rush to withdraw money.

Perhaps more disconcerting to Cypriots than the freezing up of the country’s banking sector is what’s expected to follow when it thaws.

While many Cypriots are concerned about the economy and angry at their own government, people in the capital have been trying to supless mimosas and make a beeline for the buffet as jazz tunes are belted out. Popular and accomplished jazz trio, Leonid Nesterov on piano, Andreas Stefanou on drums and Chris Pound on double bass, will once again accompany diners enjoying a delicious Sunday buffet in the Caprice Restaurant’s cool Italian styled interior.

With its stunning floor to ceiling picture windows offering views to the shimmering blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the Caprice Restaurant takes the cake for the most generous views in Limassol and is the perfect backdrop for a leisurely and indulgent Easter Sunday lunchtime treat.

The ensemble jazz musicians are well respected virtuoso instrumentalists in their own right.

Nesterov began his music career

port local businesses and prepare for a recession.

Traumatic events crush some people but liberate others, jolting them out of comfortable routines and disaster can be the best time to make radical moves. In light of all the socio-economic and political turmoil Cyprus has come to experience lately, words such as collectiveness, solidarity and self-reliance hold profound significance with concerned residents keen to keep their own destiny in their hands. In response, a group of friends of the Faneromeni area have come together to host an artist led, community focussed festival which invites people of all walks of life to take part.

The day out will include plenty of music, a documentary screening of Solidarity as an Antidote to Poverty, a bazaar, graffiti, juggling and live connection with Radio Manolis. A kids’ corner offers an array of fun and activities for kids of all ages, while adults can explore ways to creatively weave your insights in a number of workshops. If you’re craving a snack, choose something nutritious from the vegetarian cuisine collective that will satisfy your hunger pangs.

There will also be a discussion in regard to the title and theme of the festival at 5pm.

Faneromeni Festival – Response against Poverty Festival about our response and alternative proposals to the crisis, with music, food, kids’ corner, workshops, screenings, discussions and more. March 30. Front of Faneromeni Church, old Nicosia. 11am-11.30pm

at the tender age of eight in his home town of Indra, Latvia and regularly performs on the European jazz circuit. Andreas Stefanou, graduate of Rotterdam Conservatory, is one of Cyprus’ most renowned home grown musical talents, performing with celebrated stars including Nelson Faria, Kiko Freitas and Anna Ellis de Jong. While Chris Pound, who began learning the double bass at a very young age, is a native Australian, he has a great following as one of the finest young double bass players currently on the jazz festival circuit, collaborating with such luminaries as The Reuben Lewis Quintet, the Pollen Trio and the Austin Benjamin Trio.

All three performers will bring their unique talent to the Londa for a fine afternoon of classic and

By Ledha Socratous contemporary jazz sounds. General Manager of the Londa Hotel, Jochen Niemann, said “The Londa’s Caprice restaurant has to be one of the most delightful settings for live music performances. We’re looking forward to this year’s Catholic Easter Sunday festivities especially with Londa’s celebrated Italian Chef Giovanni Caracciolo preparing the delicious lunchtime buffet; impossible to resist.”

Reserve your table now to avoid disappointment.

Easter Sunday Jazz Brunch A day of fine food, stunning views and smooth live jazz music with the Leonid Nesterov Trio. March 31. Londa Hotel, Caprice Restaurant, Limassol. 1pm-3.30pm. €35 per person. Reserve your table Tel: 25-865540

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

Friday, March 29, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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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

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

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CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show.

18.45

20.00 21.00

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

20.00 21.15

News Patates 8

22.30

Tete A Tete Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebrities from the world of showbiz.

23.00 23.30 23.45

Local Sketch (rpt) News Repeats

07.50 08.40

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Surviving Alaska (rpt)

09.30 10.25 11.15

Les Stroud travels to Alaska and demonstrates how to survive avalanches, blizzards, icy waters and hungry polar bears.

12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

NRG Zone Vera

14.50

Top Gear Sixteenth season.

Episode 5: Jeremy Clarkson gets behind the wheel of a Jaguar XJ and races against the rotation of the Earth, James May travels to America to drive Nasa’s latest Space Exploration Vehicle and Richard Hammond tests two of the most famous supercars of the 1980s.

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

22.00

05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00

First season of detective drama.

‘Telling Tales’. DCI Vera Stanhope sets out to retrospectively solve the mystery of a case, exposing the secrets and lies of a small community that continues to be rocked by the crime.

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

19.20

Eurones Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

Current affairs show.

15.30

ANTENNA

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Repeats

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Panselinos (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) Lefta Sto Lepto Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.30

Greek drama series.

07.00 10.00

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Enimerosi Tora Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson

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Yia Sena

01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

06.10 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.40

Local talk-show.

18.00 18.20 19.30

News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Oi Vasiliades

19.30 20.20 21.20 22.20

Greek music show.

00.00 00.10

News Klemmena Oneira Greek drama series.

22.20

00.20 00.25

Mousiko Kouti - Live Greek musical game show.

01.20

News Gymnoi Angelloi (rpt)

02.10 03.30

Local drama series.

01.30 03.30

Yia Sena (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia FILM: The Other Woman A dying mother attempts to gain the acceptance of her two young stepdaughters.

Made-for-TV drama, starring Rosemary Forsyth. 1995.

Daily family comedy based on the Argentinian sitcomtelenovela Los Roldan.

20.20 21.20

Anna Paola (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Latin American telenovela.

Current affairs show.

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Spring Wipe Out Laikes Paraskeves News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoulo Klemmeni Zoi (rpt) Angigma Zois (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Nea Mera Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, a cookery segment with the winner of the first Greek Master Chef, music and more.

Hosted by real life couple Giorgos Liagas and Fay Skorda.

With News at 18.00.

18.40 19.30 20.20 21.25 22.20

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire (rpt)

SIGMA

04.00 04.30

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

PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 08.30 09.05 10.00

Kid’s TV Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40

Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

21.15 22.00

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: Synecdoche, New York The line between fantasy and reality blurs for an ailing theatre director, who builds a replica of New York City and instructs his actors to live out constructed lives within it. Drama, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener.

2008.

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LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 09.00 09.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.20 16.15 16.45 17.35 18.15

Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele Milagros Kids’ TV 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: Fire From Below An industrialist threatens to bring about devastation when he unearths a source of lithium. Sci-fi adventure, starring Kevin Sorbo. 2009.

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FILM: Malevolent When a detective is implicated in a string of grisly murders, he embarks on a frantic mission to prove his innocence. Thriller, starring Lou Diamond Phillips. 2002.

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FILM: Hitters A businessman with ties to the Mob questions where his loyalties lie when war brews with a rival crime syndicate. Crime thriller, starring Robert Davi. 1996.

Margin Call (Novacinema1, 23.55)

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 EastEnders 02:25 Doctors 02:55 Keeping Up Appearances 03:25 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 04:15 Gavin & Stacey 04:45 The Stephen K Amos Show 05:15 Beautiful People 05:45 Keeping Up Appearances 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 09:25 Keeping Up Appearances 09:55 Mastermind 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:10 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 13:00 How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin 13:50 Gavin & Stacey 14:20 Mastermind 14:50 The Weakest Link 15:35 EastEnders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 17:25 Gavin & Stacey 17:55 Keeping Up Appearances 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 The Old Guys 21:30 The Stephen K Amos Show 22:00 Famous, Rich & In The Slums 22:50 Lead Balloon 23:20 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 23:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:30 Mad Dogs

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 Fifth Gear 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 One Car Too Far 22:00 Bear’s Mission Everest 23:00 Werner Herzog’s Death Row 00:00 Ultimate Cops 01:00 Banged Up Abroad 01:55 One Car Too Far 02:50 Bear’s Mission Everest 03:50 Werner Herzog’s Death Row 04:50 Ultimate Cops 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Snooker: China Open Beijing 13:30 Fitness: The Box 13:45 2014 Fifa World Cup Qualifiers 14:30 Snooker: China Open Beijing 18:30 Football: Next Gen Series 23:00 Boxing 01:00 Football: Brazilmania 01:15 Football: Next Gen Series 02:00 Snooker: China Open Beijing

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 Happy Endings 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 12:50 Glee 13:40 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 Happy Endings 21:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 21:50 Glee 22:40 Raising Hope 23:05 Scrubs 23:30 Happy Endings 23:55 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 00:20 Glee 01:10 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 Black Sunday 10:00 Ghost Writer 12:15 Hangover Part Ii, The 14:00 Insignificant Harvey, An 15:20 Cold Creek Manor 17:20 Funny Bones 19:30 Hollywood Buzz 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Unnatural & Accidental 23:00 Kick-Ass 01:05 Hustler TV

03:00 Unthinkable 04:45 Horrible Bosses 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 La Liga Show 201213 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 Nba Action 19:00 Volvo Ocean Race 19:30 2010 World’s Strongest Man 20:00 Volvo Ocean Race 21:00 2013 Indy Car Series 23:30 Barclays Premier League Preview 00:00 K9 Nation 00:30 Winter X-Games 15 02:30 Nba 2012-13 05:00 2009 Us Figure Skating

07:15 08:30 10:20 Back

Privileged 08:00 Friends Closer, The 09:15 Luck One Tree Hill 11:15 Strike 13:00 Closer, The 13:45

Privileged 14:30 Closer, The 15:15 Luck 16:15 Big Bang Theory The 16:40 According To Jim 17:25 Mentalist The 18:10 Southland 19:00 Closer, The 19:45 Gossip Girl 20:30 Friends Vi 21:00 Fringe 22:30 Ncis: Los Angeles 23:15 Supernatural 00:05 Henry’s Crime 01:55 Miss Congeniality 03:45 Big Bang Theory The 04:10 According To Jim 05:00 Mentalist The 05:45 Southland 06:30 Closer, The

08:00 Dealing: Or The BostonTo-Berkeley Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues 09:30 Shelter 11:30 Evita 14:00 Men In Black (1997) 16:00 Lionheart 18:00 Fork In The Road, A 20:00 Bad Boys 22:00 Bonfire Of The Vanities, The 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Battle Los Angeles 06:15 Strictly Sexual

05:45 A Happy Event 07:35 Azur Et Asmar 09:15 Take Shelter 13:10 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn 15:00 She’s The One 16:50 From Prada To Nada 18:40 Hollywood Buzz 19:15 Brake 21:00 Ncis 22:00 Welcome To The Sticks 23:55 Margin Call 01:45 Cine News 02:15 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 04:55 Another Earth

05:40 Cold Mountain 08:15 Air Force One 10:20 Cine News 10:40 My Week With Marilyn 12:20 Happy Gilmore 13:55 No Reservations 15:40 Uranya 17:20 Action Zone 17:55 Frida 20:05 The Three Musketeers 22:00 Haywire 23:45 Source Code 01:25 A Better Life 03:05 The Ides Of March 04:45 Cine News

18:40 TheHit List 20:20 Stolen Lives 22:00 Game Of Thrones 01:50 Pornochic 17: Tarra 03:35 Animal Kingdom

19:25 Dirty Girl 21:00 The Deep End Of The Ocean 22:55 My Future Boyfriend 00:20 Illegal 02:00 On The Inside 03:40 Cine News 04:25 White Material

15:30 European Tour Trophee Hassan Ii Rd. 2 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13:Aep Vs Omonoia 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Snapshots Cyprus Football 22:00 Props 7 Brutal Crashes 22:30 Props 7 Slilck Tricks 23:00 Car Warriors 2 Cutlass

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By Preston Wilder

Unnatural & Accidental (LTV, 21.00) Do Canadians make serial-killer movies? They do indeed - but they make them from acclaimed stage plays with ‘First Nations’ heroines (First Nations being their term for Native Americans, a.k.a. Injuns), which is very Canadian of them. The trailer makes this look like a horror film, with a suitably evil killer - “He is listening. He is watching. And, in his darkness, he sees himself as a hunter” - but in fact it’s more of an arty drama, based on the true story of 10 First Nations women who died “unnatural and accidental” deaths in a rough Vancouver neighbourhood in the 1980s.

The women were homeless alcoholics, and alcohol poisoning was assumed to be the cause - but in fact

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they’d been murdered, which our heroine (Carmen Moore) discovers as she goes looking for her mum and tangles with the killer. She also finds herself guided by the ghosts of the killer’s victims, a typical touch in a film that tries to merge fantasy and reality - and some will call it hopelessly pretentious (it was never released to cinemas) but it does have a certain style.

Don’t expect Hannibal Lecter, though. Made in 2006.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (LTV3, 22.00) Not a great Friday night, at least in prime-time - and Bonfire of the Vanities, based on a vivid satirical bestseller that defined the late 80s, has long been a by-

word for disastrous mega-flop. There’s even been a book about it, The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon - yet it has its moments, especially 23 years later when we’re no longer bothered by the miscasting of Tom Hanks as a Wall Street trader. He’s a ‘Master of the Universe’ with New York at his feet - but his perfect life falls apart when his mistress (Melanie Griffith) hits a black kid while driving his car and a tabloid reporter (Bruce Willis) fans the flames of racial anger. “Merely a mediocre yuppie nightmare movie,” wrote Time Out at the time - which is probably true, but a yuppie nightmare with a good cast and veneer of 80s nostalgia isn’t the worst thing you can watch on a slow Friday night. Made in 1990.

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2 On which one has a stretch in prison? (4) 3 Last word in steam engines (4) 4 Like in the football club, one has a panel (6) 5 Smart tree (6) 6 Wound completely in a painful way (9) 7 Doll’s home for drama fans (9)

10 Met tyrant trapping artist (4) 13 Bit this French tart first (5) 15 Fair game (6) 16 Portuguese settler (6) 17 “A top is spinning” in dialect (6) 19 Change planes in Italy (6) 20 Alluring bird (5) 21 50 amp light (4) 24 Angry words! (5-4) 25 Tense whilst being given instructions, we hear (4) 26 Dot rushes out for the stallion (9)

11 Not much of a banger (9) 12 Upside down toast? (7,2) 13 Spent £1 in obtaining tartan cloth (5) 14 Literary attempt (5) 18 It is of untold value (6) 19 Soon ’e’d become caught (6) 22 German bespectacled abstainer (4) 23 Additional cross (4)

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Fevered; 5 Cole; 7 Concentrated; 9 Test; 10 Overdone; 12 Finite; 13 Madrid; 16 Casualty; 18 Acre; 20 Forestalling; 21 Deny; 22 Contest. Down – 1 Face-to-face; 2 Venison; 3 Reek; 4 Dative; 5 Chairman; 6 Lie to; 8 Dead-weight; 11 Strategy; 14 Recline; 15 Static; 17 Stole; 19 Clan.

QUICK: Across – 1 Mimetic; 5 Jock; 7 Denunciation; 9 Time; 10 Alliance; 12 Tomato; 13 Tossup; 16 Vibrated; 18 Scan; 20 Thunderstorm; 21 Bald; 22 Diagram. Down – 1 Meditative; 2 Minimum; 3 Tone; 4 Chilly; 5 Jettison; 6 Crown; 8 Keeping mum; 11 Strained; 14 Succour; 15 Beheld; 17 Bohea; 19 Asia.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

There remains plentiful astral goodness in the sky, but as the Moon passes over the restrictive energies of Saturn, it asks us all to be more attuned to conservation, whether it be our personal energy, money or resources. Then again, we may encounter obstacles. This could be true for you too. Shared finances, insurance or business deals are a clue.

You have a natural radiance which draws so many good things your way, but you might feel just a bit off form for part of today. This could see you think more soberly about your own self, seeing you being self critical, or someone close to you may irritate. Yet if you can, try to push this away. There is so much good stuff available to you if you go for it.

There’s been such a lot of positivity this week, and yet you can find yourself suddenly losing momentum, or letting little annoyances get in the way of progress. A link with the past may have something to do with this. Something may stir in your consciousness which requires you to think again about certain perspectives you have on life.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Someone may have proved to be more unpredictable this week, and you could still be getting your head around this.

Then again, the days may have passed by smoothly, but today may see a pinch point around relationships. You may feel less inclined to give someone the benefit of any doubt, or perhaps in love, your options can seem limited.

Your talent for observation is boosted today, and you can notice the microscopic details that others often miss. You can also explain things in a crisp and succinct way. Yet if you do offer a critique of anyone from a personal perspective, be careful not to be too harsh. Someone may find your comments a bit too acerbic and be offended.

It may seem a curious thing to say, insofar as astrology is said to be linked to the future, and some strands of it can be. But for most of us, an awareness of daily trends helps us to better order our everyday lives, and manage the events that come up. And this is where I think you can find yourself today, when a change of plan may be needed.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Whatever your situation or circumstances, you may find yourself feeling more pessimistic about your prospects.

Then again, someone can be hypercritical. However, the Moon/Saturn link that can activate this is not long lasting, and the bounce factor you have experienced this week can quite literally bounce back. So, do keep the faith Gemini.

This week may have provided some mixed responses, but with Mars and the beneficial Libra Full Moon urging you on, you may have found the mix of spark and charm to make a really big impression. So why might you be feeling less worthy today? If you do, it’s important not to forget the things that have gone well earlier on. Don’t be hard on yourself.

You are one of the most free spirited members of the zodiac despite the traditional, and sometimes fixed sides to your nature. But today, you may find that the demands of an organisation, the government, co-workers or even a parent, really bring you down. Count to ten, and continue with the silky communication that’s been such a feature of this week.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Really concentrating and applying attention to detail, can prove very positive today. Others may feel you are being too full on, but by knuckling down you can achieve a lot.

Someone may also be discreetly helping you. Then again, perhaps you will use your knowledge, contacts or influence helpfully. Good causes can benefit from your assistance.

You might find life a bit frustrating today Scorpio. Little tasks or obligations that you usually fulfil without too much fuss or effort can appear giant size. Try to limit the pull others have on your time. Of course, this may be easier said than done, but you need to do all you can to minimise the impact life has on your energy and resources.

If you have been in spend mode, the arrival of a bill or invoice, or even a reminder of an existing debt, could see you recoil today. It may seem that almost straight away life and pressure is closing in on you. This can be worse if you have actually been keenly watching your expenses. However, this can help you to develop a new plan of action.

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 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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2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

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

4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heatingindependent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, 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

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

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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

TO LET NICOSIA windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE end of March – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. New luxury finished 1 bedr penthouse apartment with big verandah with nice view, in a small modern building,55sq.m,storage heaters,2 a/c, blinds on the windows, expensive electrical appliances(cooker, oven, extractor, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer),covered parking and storage room, off Kalippoleos street opposite Dessange Day Spa near the University – Lykavitos €420 (A1LYK0002-R), (photos in the website).

11. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse one floor apartment in a small building with 3 apartments,250sq.m plus big covered verandas, fire place, solid parquet floor,2 bathrooms,3 wc, cooker, oven, fridge, washing machine and dishwasher in the kitchen, CH independent, full a/c, big reception areas opening to the verandas, pressure system and 2 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 Ka-

TO LET NICOSIA llipoleos Street - Lykavitos €700 (A2LYK0024-R) (photos on the website) 13. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building - €650 (A3ST10014-R) (photos on the website) 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol, full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website).

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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

TO LET NICOSIA modern shutters opening to the veranda, fully equipped kitchen with expensive electrical appliances, 2 parking places (1 covered), in a very quiet neighbourhood ,near the Russian Embassy. AVAILABLE END OF MARCH –Engomi €1900 (A4ENG0005-R) (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com

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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

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Advertiser TO LET LIMASSOL Asomatos nr Akrotiri Limassol.

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

Large loft with own shower/wc (suitable for office/playroom/ gym). Carport - prominent position in cul-de-sac - lots of parking. €850 pcm (negotiable).

Available from April 2013. Tel. 99831431 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.

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stairs, 1 bedroom downstairs with en-suite, airconditoned throughout, garage for 2 cars, storage room, swimming pool, with established garden, quiet area, beautiful mountain and sea views, euro 600 p/m – o.N.O call: 99553741 ***************************** FOR RENT a selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi, Kato Paphos & Kissonerga Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at our website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** 3 BEDROOM luxury house for rent, 2 bathrooms, furnished, fire place, central heating, a/c, panoramic view, large kitchen and sitting room in Paphos, Armou village. €500 per month.

Tel: 99613556 ***************************** CHLORAKAS: 3 Bedroom unfurnished villa private swimming pool, utility room, walking wardrobes, en suite shower 180 m2 covered area fenced garden fully a/c, € 575 p/m For more information’s phone 99400697 ***************************** KISSONERGA - Beautiful Detached U/F 3 Bedroomed Villa, Large Pool, 2 Bedrooms Upstairs Master En-suite, Family Bathroom, modern Fitted Kitchen, Downstairs Bedroom with En-suite Shower room, Low maintenance Garden, Large Terraces and Separate Storage Room €600.

2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment, nr the Metro/ American Academy Larnaca.

Ref. TLL1654 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926 3.

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Garden,Patios,Gazebo, Pavilion. €550 euros pcm. Tel 99935294 www.improdiavilla.com/jr486

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Call 96693375 ***************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom detached unfurnished property set on a fantastic development in the village of Tersefanou. Available for immediate occupation. Ref. TLL973. Tel 24815926

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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nance manicured garden & private pool €1100 pm

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MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** TOK’s – 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, Immaculate, very high spec top floor apartment, Luxury furnished with Flatscreen TV’s in living room and bedrooms, lift, pool, beautiful development, fantastic location €425 pm Lower Peyia – 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom Modern Unfurnished Villa with beautiful sea views. Spacious villa with wood burner, utility room, white goods, storage area, alarm system, low mainte-

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TO LET PAPHOS rooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, euro 650 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents

***************************** KILI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom villa, with swimming pool and garden, unfurnished, gas central heating, large verandas, lovely mountain views, very quiet and tranquil area, €475 per month o.n.o. Call : 99479006 ***************************** LOW COST, long term 3 bedroom bungalow, Polis area, Gialia village, on 3 acres of property, large variety of fruit trees, extremely private with panoramic mountain and sea views, unfurnished, swimming pool, a/c

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS and ďŹ replace, fence around the property â‚Ź550 per month ono – available from 1st of April For more info call: 99 442485 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, the leading property rental agency in Paphos ofďŹ ce: 26271858 (00357) if you have a property to rent we are the rental agency to contact offering full property management & rent collection service 1. Anarita â‚Ź375 beautifully furnished modern 2 bedroom townhouse situated on a quiet complex with air conditioned spacious gym also communal pools & well tended gardens.

Townhouse offers modern quality furniture & ďŹ ttings. Guest wc and small patio garden. Viewings highly recommended. Website reference number: RTL_667 2. Tombs of the Kings â‚Ź400 spacious 3 bedroom ground oor apartment (120 sq meters) conveniently located close to bus stop. Less than 10 minutes walk to tomb of the kings road & old town. Beautifully presented, fully furnished with yscreens & a/c throughout. Enclosed garden.

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Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_662 3. Peyia â‚Ź550 modern detached 2 bedroom villa, situated on private road. Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout, pressurised water & security alarm system. Modern ďŹ tted kitchen & bathrooms. Roof terrace with sea views & private pool. Website reference number: rtl_447. Also available modern detached 3 bedroom villa on this private road. Website reference number: RTL_572 4. Mesogi â‚Ź700 spacious 4 bedroom villa plus playroom or ofďŹ ce including gas central heating. One bedroom & bathroom on ground oor. Available unfurnished. Enclosed low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy & views over countryside. Situated in a quiet residential area. Website reference number: RTL_618 5. Lower Chloraka â‚Ź750 spacious detached 3 bedroom villa offering stunning views of the sea.

Situated in a quiet residential street opposite orange groves.

Gated entrance, enclosed good

sized low maintenance mature garden with fruit trees & private pool. Spacious living area with real ďŹ replace. Downstairs guest wc. Master bedroom with ensuite. Available fully furnished.

Website reference number: RTL_550 6. Kamares Tala â‚Ź850 a stunning detached villa offering 4 bedrooms plus ofďŹ ce in a quiet & private residential area with large parking bay for numerous cars and covered off street parking. Offering spacious living accommodation and breathtaking views of the sea. This property includes a lift to all 4 oors.

Lovely garden with spacious verandah & private pool. Available unfurnished. Website reference number: RTL_669 7. Peyia â‚Ź950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & ďŹ ttings. Offering spacious accomodation with breathtaking sea views. Finished to a very high quality. Spacious living area with modern ďŹ tted kitchen & utility area. One bedroom on ground oor with ensuite & kitchenette. Guest wc. Private inďŹ nity

TO LET PAPHOS pool & enclosed low maintenace garden. A must to see! Website reference number: RTL_670 8. Chloraka â‚Ź2,200 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail.

Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern ďŹ tted kitchen, living room with working ďŹ replace. Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area.

Available unfurnished. Website reference numer: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 tel: 99133422 ofďŹ ce: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos.net

***************************** MANDRIA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow within walking distance of the village. Large bedrooms, kitchen, sitting room/ dining area with ďŹ re place, large bathroom. Outside gated area and fenced off, pets welcomed Ref: 1217 â‚Ź450 AYIA MARINOUDA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow in lovely quiet complex with com-

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Pets welcome. Ref: 1206 â‚Ź800 PEGEIA PAFOS 3 bedroom unfurnished villa with great sea and mountain views. Property has sitting/dining area, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, master en suite, private pool, covered parking. Ref: 1214 â‚Ź550 CORAL BAY PAFOS 3 bedroom Villa offered furnished or unfurnished in a lovely private and peaceful location. Property is cosy with a small kitchen, sitting room and dining area with a ďŹ re place, ac, guest wc, 3 bedrooms master en suite, family

bathroom. Nice views Ref: 842 â‚Ź750 CHLORAKA PAFOS 2 and 1 bedroom apartments in a lovely modern complex offered furnished or unfurnished with y screens, nice large kitchen, bathroom, communal pool, nice location. Ref 1219 from â‚Ź300 Please call for a free viewing on OfďŹ ce 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more properties on our website at www. owron.com - Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!! ***************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and ďŹ nishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, inďŹ nity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views â‚Ź700 per month, call: 99389426 BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from â‚Ź340p.m.Tel 99403261

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen.

2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room.

Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates..

Comm swimming pool. Euros 400.00 per month 2 FYTI 3 bed, 3 bath furnished villa in a very quiet location.

The property offers stylish accommodation and has many luxury features. Open plan living area with feature fireplace.

Dining area. Large fully fitted L shaped kitchen with appliances and breakfast bar Doors out to rear garden and pool. Guest WC. Stairs up to 3 very spacious 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.

Master with en-suite. Covered patio with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas. Feature outside dining area.

Breakfast area to the side of the property. Easy care gardens.

Pool with Roman steps. Parking for 3 cars. Bargain price!!! Euros 800.00 per month furnished, unfurnished by arrangement at

TO LET PAPHOS lower cost.

4. TALA - 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space. Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bedroom with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seating area with adjacent balcony.

Pool and off street parking.

Landscaped gardens Euros 650.00 per month 5. AYIOS DEMITRIANOS (POLEMI) – 3 bed, 2 bath furnished villa (bungalow style) set in a private and quiet location.

Open plan living area with fireplace. Fully fitted kitchen with quality appliances. Utility room and storage. Master bedroom with adjacent shower. Two more double bedrooms with family bathroom with Jacuzzi bath.

Garden areas, large terraces with outstanding views. Private pool 10x5, Covered parking.

Euros 700.00 per month furnished, 650 unfurnished.

6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed, 2 bath fully furnished penthouse apartment. Living area with dining space. Doors out to massive balcony area overlooking the pool and gardens. Fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms, master bedroom has ensuite shower. Family bathroom. A/C, Comm pool and parking. Euros 450.00 a month or offers.

7. LOWER PEYIA - 3 bed, 2.5 bath unfurnished villa situated in quiet cul du sac. Open plan living and dining area with doors out the to pool and garden. Very large breakfast fitted kitchen.

TO LET PAPHOS Doors out to garden and pool.

Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms. Master bedroom very large with en-suite shower. Family bathroom. Private pool, gardens, shutters.

Euros 550.00 per month or close offers only.

8. CHLORAKAS – 2 bed 1 bath large furnished apartment in quiet area. Spacious open plan living area with doors out to balcony. Good sized modern fitted kitchen and breakfast area.

Small balcony off the kitchen.

Two double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Off-street parking, comm pool. Euros 380.00 per month.

FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLAS, PLEASE SEE www.rentalpointpaphos.com ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL WITH DETAILS PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com

FOR SALE NICOSIA FOR SALE OFFICES, ground floor space, suitable for offices or any other business. Centrally located, off Arch. Makarios Avenue, in the Commercial Centre of Nicosia, near Hilton. Also mezzanine, basement, small kitchen, a/c, parking. Title deeds. Tel. 99519370.

***************************** STROVOLOS, Symi street, Tseriou new one bedroom apartment, 55 sqm, large sunny balcony, air-conditioned, private parking, lift, title deeds, reduced price €95.000 (including VAT) (no offers) tel: 99266282 (no agents) ***************************** FOR SALE upper floor house 210 sq.m built on 301 sq. m land, Lapatsa area, Pereous 1a. 4 bedrooms with attic room (not finished), c/h ,4 a/c, aluminium doors& window, covered parking and storage room. Price €310.000 pm call 22431095 99330632. *****************************

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

PAPHOS ***************************** FOR SALE large, beautiful, nice designed, sea view house. In Chlorakas area, very quiet and private location. 4 en-suite bedrooms. Spacious living - dinijng room, sitting room, kitchen with all electrical appliances, breakfast room, two fireplaces, builtin bookcases, eletrical shutters, a/c, swimming pool, garden, patio, garage, store room. Option for second floor. Title deed. Adjacent to above. Sold separately plot of land, with sea view. Title deed. Tel. 99519370. ***************************** 2 BEDROOM top floor apartment built in 2006, 75 sqm, large sunny balcony with sea views, 2 bathrooms (en-suite), communal pool, air conditioning. Small block of 9 apartments, located behind darmart store, near the debenhams roundabout, underground private parking, storage

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

GERMANY GERMANY INVESTMENT PROPERTY FOR SALE. Block of 33 apartments. Rental income 85000 euros per year (7%) with further potential. Price 1.2M euros. Call owner for more details: +358 703 711 405

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Semi-detached house in Archangelos area split level on a hill, no houses in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms and TV room big lounge & dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar.

***************************** FOR SALE a very nice, large, two bedroom apartment near Hilton and Central Bank. Living, dining room, sitting room, large veranda. Spacious kitchen, c/h, s/h, covered parking. Title deed. Tel. 99519370. *****************************

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ARIS EMPIRE BINGO Address: Paphos street 207, next to Carrefour Kato Polemidia, Limassol Email: arisempire@yahoo.com

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A new and very different place has opened its doors today to the bingo world, inviting people to come and try their luck. Aris Empire Bingo is impressively and luxuriously decorated and can host up to 1000 people providing all the comforts for a night of fun or relaxation.

Visitors can have fun, playing bingo, trying to win one of the big money prizes that are handed out each time. People can also choose from the large choice of food on the menu, which is reasonably priced. The meticulous work done by the owner is apparent at every corner, even in the kitchen which is HACCP certified, with everything designed by the CTO. Bingo has now taken-on a different character of being more enjoyable and of more quality for all those who love the game but have kept their distance as they could not find a place that expressed them. The spacious hall has good ventilation and Aris Empire Bingo has a large parking, making it easier for any visitors.

Opening hours is from 8pm till 2am Restaurant hours from 8pm Bingo starts at 9pm

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Sport IN BRIEF Webber and Vettel overtaking Beale row now settled, say Red Bull indefinitely suspended

World champ had been ‘distressed’ by situation

RED Bull boss Helmut Marko says the row between Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel is now “settled”.

Marko said the two shook hands after a post-race discussion of Vettel’s decision to ignore team orders and pass Webber to win the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Marko added that Vettel had been “distressed” by the situation, adding: “I don’t think he will do that again.

“They don’t have to be completely on the same page but it must be a solid working partnership,” Marko said.

“Sebastian apologised in the press conference, and that’s the first correct step to take.

“In the debrief afterwards there was the relevant discussions about the race and then there was a handshake between the two drivers.

“For us, now, the issue is settled.”

Marko, who is the right-hand man of Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz and a backer of Vettel within the team, said he believed the triple world champion had learned an important lesson.

“He doesn’t have to change as a whole,” Marko said, “but I think Sebastian was distressed, he was surprised by his radical way of tackling it and I don’t think he will do that again.”

And he insisted the team had been helpless to intervene during the race to stop

The body language says it all: Mark Webber (left) can’t hide his anger on the podium after Sebastian Vettel ignored team orders to overtake him in the closing laps of their Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday Vettel disobeying the order to stay behind Webber.

“We told Sebastian to hold his position because we didn’t know what the tyre situation was and both drivers need to bring home a good finish for the team,” Marko said.

“But then came the attack against that strategy and it got out of control. You couldn’t control it over radio or anything like that. Sebastian the racer came out and

took the lead.”

According to Italian Flavio Briatore, the two team mates will not stay together at Red Bull after this season.

Briatore, the former Renault team boss who has been part of Webber’s management throughout his grand prix career, told Italy’s RAI radio that he had spoken to the Australian by telephone this week after the Malaysian Grand Prix.

He said Webber was still furious.

“I don’t think the relationship can be sewn together again,” added Briatore.

Asked if he expected one of the two to leave the team at the end of 2013, the Italian replied: “For sure. Last year already there were problems.”

Webber, who will be 37 this year, is out of contract at the end of the season while Vet-

tel is tied to Red Bull until at least the end of 2014.

He and Vettel have had several flare-ups since the start of their pairing in 2009, including a collision at the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix that cost Webber a victory and sent the German out of the race.

Webber has long maintained that the team favours Vettel, despite their insistence that the two have equal status.

Returning Haye aiming for title

By Mark Bryans

The ‘Hayemaker’ announced his return to the ring on June 29 in Manchester. He has not fought since last July

FORMER WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has grown tired of waiting for a challenge from either of the Klitschko brothers to arrive.

Haye, 32, announced his comeback at a press conference in London yesterday and will fight an as-yet-unnamed opponent at Manchester Evening News Arena on June 29.

He also expects to fight again later this year to put himself in a mandatory position to face either Vitali or Wladimir Klitschko for their respective titles at some stage in 2014.

“Instead of sitting around and waiting another year I want to get back in there,” Haye said.

“I’m happy to be back - a year

is long enough time to wait for someone to phone you.”

Haye’s own promotional company, Hayemaker, will promote his comeback fight in June and his trainer Adam Booth confirmed talks are ongoing to find a suitable opponent.

“David will fight an opponent who I am yet to secure, but who will be highly ranked,” said Booth.

“He wants to fight twice this year against highly-ranked contenders to put himself in an unavoidable position to be the mandatory contender to one of the brothers. He is not waiting anymore. He is fighting his way into position.”

Haye was last in the ring last July when he defeated fellow British heavyweight Dereck Chisora at Upton Park, a bout he thought would lead to an

encounter with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.

Vitali’s brother Wladimir beat Haye in Hamburg in 2011 to add the WBA title to his IBF, WBO and The Ring crowns and now Haye wants another shot at one of the Ukrainians.

“I want that heavyweight title back,” he said.

“I was hoping Vitali would be a man of his word and fight me after I did what he and his team wanted me to do and beat Dereck Chisora.”

“We have been sitting around, waiting for the phone to ring but that hasn’t happened. We have sent some emails but they have fallen on deaf ears.”

Vitali will face unbeaten Manuel Charr in September, with Francesco Pianeta next up for Wladimir.

AUSTRALIA flyhalf Kurtley Beale, who was sent home from South Africa after a brawl with Melbourne Rebels team mates, has been indefinitely suspended, the Super Rugby side said yesterday.

The incident on the team bus came in the wake of a record 64-7 drubbing for the Rebels by South Africa’s Sharks in Durban on Saturday and both Beale and team mate Cooper Vuna were stood down after an club investigation.

Beale, who did not play in the Sharks match due to injury, has agreed to undergo counselling, the Rebels said.

“We sincerely hope that Kurtley will now embrace the assistance required to beat the issues that have been plaguing his life over the last period of time,” Rebels chief executive Steven Boland said.

“We will fully support Kurtley through this process and hope that there is a time not far down the track when he can rejoin his team mates at the Rebels.”

The Australian Rugby Union said that the Wallaby back had admitted he was at fault and accepted a substantial fine.

“The ARU feels an obligation to assist in ensuring, regardless of rugby, that he moves forward in a positive manner,” ARU Chief Executive Bill Pulver told Australian media.

“The unfortunate matter in South Africa was not an isolated incident for Kurtley. He understands it was unacceptable and, most critically, acknowledges he needs to make changes.”

Papachristou has grant suspended GREEK triple jumper Voula Papachristou has had her financial benefits suspended by the Greek athletics federation (SEGAS) until further notice, the organisation said.

The 23-year-old was withdrawn from Greece’s team for the London Olympics last July after posting a racist tweet and has yet to return to top-level competition.

The athlete, a popular figure in Greece, is the national champion.

Papachristou later apologised for the “unfortunate and tasteless joke” which she said did not reflect her beliefs.

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Battle-scarred Haas still turning back the clock

By Tom Pilcher

German loving his return to the big time

By Martyn Herman JUST shy of his 35th birthday with a battle-scarred body after numerous careersaving surgeries, Tommy Haas produced the shock of the year so far by outclassing world number one Novak Djokovic in Miami on Tuesday.

The German’s 6-2 6-4 victory at the Sony Open proved again the widely held belief that but for chronic injury problems and bad luck, grand slam titles would surely have come his way.

Yesterday, Haas backed up his upset of Djokovic with a quarter-final victory over Gilles Simon to advance to a semi-final against David Ferrer .

Haas produced a strong encore performance in his 6-3 6-1 victory, when he produced an outstanding return game, breaking Simon once in the first set and three times in the second.

Ferrer overcame a sloppy start to defeat Austrian Jurgen Melzer 4-6 6-3 6-0 in their quarter-final.

Haas’s classical, easy-onthe-eye, style took him to world number two in May 2002 and for a while he looked like the natural adversary for the emerging Roger Federer.

His progress was stalled, however, first when his parents were in a serious mo-

torcycle accident that left his dad in a coma for weeks and then when two shoulder surgeries kept him off the court for more than a year.

He has been playing catchup ever since, but rather than any bitterness, Haas’ previous misfortune has taught him to enjoy moments like this week’s masterclass against Djokovic - a player who has become almost unbeatable on hard courts.

“Playing against Novak and coming out on top at this time of my career, it’s unbelievable,” Haas, who missed 11 months after hip surgery in 2010, told reporters.

“It goes up as one of the best wins of my career.

“There were times when I wouldn’t have believed that I could get back to this level, no way.

“When I came back after my hip surgery it was gruelling. It was nine months, 12 months before I actually felt like I could train again and get in better shape and sort of maybe feel like I can move and give myself a chance to at least try to go for some victories again that I would enjoy.”

Watching Haas beat Djokovic, and the way he beat Federer in the grasscourt final at Halle last year, it is impossible to understand how the German has never

reached a grand slam final.

Semi-finals at the Australian Open in 1999 and 2007 and a similar run at Wimbledon in 2009 are his best attempts and while his chances of bettering that may be over, Haas is clearly enjoying making up for all the lost time.

Back at 18th in the world, having less than two years ago held no ranking whatsoever, Haas believes he is playing some of the best tennis of his career.

“Somewhere in the middle of last year, sometime in April, May, my body sort of adjusted a lot and I could train,” said Haas, who has career wins over nine of the last ten players to hold the world number one ranking although before Djokovic not a current one since Andre Agassi in 1999.

“Luckily I’m a guy that likes to work out and get in the best shape that I possibly can, my body allowing. Right now I feel pretty good, as good as I have in a long time, and, you know, I just never give up.”

Haas has now reached the semi-final of a Masters Series event for the first time since Paris in 2006.

“This is what I keep playing for,” he said. “These are the moments I appreciate the most, going on those big stadiums, big stages, playing against the best people in the world.”

Tommy Haas has now reached the semi-final of a Masters Series event for the first time since Paris in 2006

Istanbul 2020 Olympic bid leaves ‘excellent impression’

By Daren Butler

Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan (right) gives a present to the chief of the IOC evaluation commission Craig Reedie

ISTANBUL’S presentation of its bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games left an “excellent impression” the head of the evaluation commission said this week.

Turkey’s largest city, which is competing with Tokyo and Madrid for the 2020 Games, presented its candidacy to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) commission, headed by IOC vice president Craig Reedie.

Turkish officials highlight the bid as offering the first opportunity for a secular Muslim democracy to host the Games, which would also be the first staged on two continents - Europe and Asia.

“These visits have been extremely well organised and we have an excellent impression of the skills and enthusiasm of the bid committee,” Reedie told a news conference.

Keen to avoid indicating a preference for any of

the three candidate cities, he added: “Excellent impression in my world is exactly the same as ‘hugely impressed’ or ‘greatly impressed’,” referring to his comments about Tokyo and Madrid.

Istanbul’s projected infrastructure budget of $19.2 billion is vastly higher than the figures touted for Tokyo and Madrid, but the IOC’s Olympic Games executive director Gilbert Felli said most of this sum was not tied to the Games.

Reedie said the commission was impressed by the strong government and business community support for the Istanbul bid.

Sports minister Suat Kilic highlighted this as well as the country’s young population and dynamic economy as assets of the bid.

Prime minister Tayyip Erdogan has transformed Turkey during his decade in power into the fastest-growing economy in Europe and raised the country’s profile as a regional power in the

Middle East.

The country has also enhanced its sporting profile over the last decade, with increased sporting success and growing experience in hosting international events.

Istanbul, like Turkey as a whole, is a major tourist destination, used to handling large numbers of visitors.

In 2012, the total number of foreign visitors to Turkey rose 1.04 per cent to 31.8 million people, according to official statistics.

Istanbul was the third most visited city in Europe after London and Paris, and the fifth most visited city in the world last year, bid organisers said. With over nine million guests in 2012, the number of visitors increased by 16 per cent from the previous year.

Istanbul is bidding for the fifth time in the last six votes.

The decision on who will host the 2020 Games will be taken by the IOC in September.

SPAIN’S Rafael CabreraBello leads a host of top European names hoping to qualify for the first major of the year at the US Masters next month when the European Tour travels to Morocco for the Hassan II Trophy this weekend.

Cabrera-Bello put the theft of his personal possessions behind him en route to last week’s weather-hit Malaysian Open to finish tied-22nd and with a ranking of 65 he is closing in on a Masters’ debut with a place in the top 50.

“The main reason I am here is to try to win this tournament and get into The Masters,” the Spaniard told the European Tour website (www.europeantour.com), with the April 11-14 Masters looming large on the horizon.

“This is my last chance to do it this year, the last bullet in the chamber if you like, and I am going to give it my best shot,” added the twice European Tour winner.

“Hopefully, I can continue to play well and if the door opens a little bit on Sunday afternoon here then I can take my chance.”

The other four names who can book their Masters place with victory in Morocco are Scots Stephen Gallacher (64), Richie Ramsay (73) and Scott Jamieson (74) plus German Marcel Siem (72) The course at the Golf du Palais Royal has similarities to the Augusta National course and is rarely seen due to its positioning within the royal palace grounds.

“The golf course is just in immaculate condition,” Cabrera-Bello said.

“We are very lucky to be invited to come and play this golf course because not a lot of people will have played here before.

“You can tell from the conditioning of the course that we are in the King’s garden - it is very beautiful and is just in immaculate condition so we cannot complain about the course this week.”

Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari will also compete for the trophy alongside the last three winners, Michael Hoey (2012), David Horsey (2011) and Rhys Davies (2010).

England’s David Howell and Tommy Fleetwood will also look to continue their good form in the event.

Last year’s winner Hoey admitted he has been struggling to recapture the form which saw him claim victory on the pristine course last year.

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Dazzled Japan irked by laser beams in shock loss to Jordan Coach also hits out at ‘insults’ from opposition players

By Brian Homewood

By Amlan Chakraborty THE Japan Football Association (JFA) will complain to FIFA that two of their players were targeted by laser beams from the crowd during their shock loss to Jordan in a World Cup qualifier, local media reported yesterday.

A draw in Tuesday’s match in Amman would have been enough for the Blue Samurai to become the first team to qualify for the 2014 finals in Brazil but Yasuhito Endo missed a second half penalty as the Asian champions crashed to a 2-1 defeat.

According to Kyodo news agency, a laser trained on Endo when he was preparing to take the penalty while goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima was also targeted at the King Abdullah International Stadium.

“We will make a complaint,” Kyodo quoted JFA chief Kuniya Daini as saying.

Endo said he was dazzled even before he stepped up for the penalty kick in the 71st minute.

“It wasn’t just the penalty, there were other times in the game, too, but it (the laser beam) didn’t really affect me,” the 33-year-old midfielder told the news

Brazilians leave their opponents seeing double in number ploy

Dirty tricks: Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima has a laser shone into his right eye in this image taken from YouTube

agency.

“I was focused and tried to place the ball where I wanted to put it, but the goalkeeper read it.”

Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni was also angry after two Jordan players made provocative gestures toward him, the report said.

“I’m not the kind of coach that likes to be provoked and threatened,” Kyodo quoted him as saying.

Despite the defeat, Japan, on 13 points, are still six clear at the top of their group ahead of Jordan who leapfrogged Australia into

second spot.

Japan host Australia at Saitama on June 4 and wrap up their campaign with a June 11 away match in Iraq.

A deeper gloom descended on the Australian camp after Holger Osieck’s side rallied to salvage a 2-2 home draw against Oman to complicate their passage to Brazil.

Osieck fielded a side that lacked experience and urgency against Oman, leaving forward Tim Cahill slightly concerned over the remaining matches in the

campaign.

“I asked for a high-tempo game. I don’t want the ball thrown into the box all the time,” said the 33-year-old New York Red Bulls striker, scorer of Australia’s first goal and a constant aerial threat as the hosts piled on the pressure late on.

“So we’ll learn as we go along but overall this is going to take time because there’s a lot of young players and inexperience.

“I’m happy for the youngsters that they’re getting the experience but it’s going to be a difficult run in to

the campaign.”

In Seoul, a winning goal deep into injury time helped South Korea overcome Qatar 2-1 to revive their Group A campaign after managing just one point from their last two matches.

“It was a dramatic victory,” Korean coach Choi Kang-hee said. “Because of the manner of victory, that gives the camp a lift going into the final games.”

Korea occupy second spot in the group on 10 points from five games as they chase an eighth straight finals appearance.

Suarez banned for vital Venezuela game, could face action over punch

By Rex Gowar

Naughty boy: Uruguay and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez punched a Chile player in an incident to be examined by FIFA

STRIKER Luis Suarez will miss South American champions Uruguay’s crucial World Cup qualifier in Venezuela, the upstarts threatening to deny them a place in next year’s finals in Brazil.

Suarez, who has scored eight goals in the qualifying campaign, picked up a second booking during Tuesday’s 2-0 loss to Chile in Santiago and is suspended for Uruguay’s June 11 visit to Venezuela.

However, Suarez got away with punching Chile’s Gonzalo Jara as they tussled in the penalty area at a corner and could face further disciplinary action if FIFA acts on the incident which Argentine referee Nestor Pitana missed.

A spokesman for South American body Conmebol said any such incident would only be dealt with by FIFA should it be mentioned in the fourth official’s report.

Suarez, often embroiled in controversy playing for English club Liverpool, was booked in September’s 1-1 draw with Ec-

uador in Montevideo during a run in which Uruguay have taken two points from six matches, a paltry return for the 2011 Copa America winners and 2010 World Cup semifinalists.

However, the twice world champions who have so often punched above their weight have become accustomed to barren World Cup years as much as scraping into the finals in playoffs against teams from other confederations.

“What we have closest is a fight for fifth place so that’s why the match with Venezuela has defining circumstances,”Uruguay coach Oscar Washington Tabarez said.

“I’d say we’re a bit surprised to have given away avoidable goals,” he was quoted as saying in the Uruguayan daily El Pais (www. ovaciondigital.com.uy) referring to a defensive mistake that allowed Chile to take an early lead.

“No question that the defensive error of the first goal played a bigger part than the refereeing (in the defeat),” he added. Captain Diego Lugano complained that Pitana had missed four penalties.

UNIAO Barbarense fielded two players with the same number in the second half of their match against Linense in a deliberate attempt to confuse their opponents.

Midfielder Britto, who wore the number seven shirt in the first half of yesterday’s Paulista (Sao Paulo state) championship match, returned from the halftime break with the number five, the same as defender Rafael Silva.

The referee only noticed the ruse 26 minutes later when he ordered Britto to change his shirt and gave him a yellow card.

“They were on the attack and we used all the tricks we could to keep them at bay,” Britto, who finished the match wearing number 17, told the Sportv cable channel after Barbarense’s 3-2 win.

“It was a strategy and it worked.”

Elsewhere, former South American champions Palmeiras suffered a humiliating 6-2 defeat at Mirassol with all the goals coming in an incredible first half.

NIGHTMARE START Palmeiras debutant Marcos Vinicius made a nightmare start as he headed into his own goal after only 40 seconds and Mirassol added two more before the 15th minute.

Palmeiras pulled two back only to concede another three in a seven-minute spell before halftime. The result is bound to lead to speculation over the future of coach Gilson Kleina.

Striker Luis Fabiano scored both goals as Sao Paulo won 2-0 at Paulista while world club champions Corinthians were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Penapolense.

Nineteen-year-old striker Michael scored a first-half hat-trick to give Fluminense a 3-1 win over Macae in Rio de Janeiro’s Carioca championship.

He opened his account in the 23rd minute by winning possession and slotting the ball past goalkeeper Luis Henrique, then swept home a low cross from Wagner four minutes later.

The teenager completed his hat-trick with an impressive finish after the ball was back-heeled to him on the stroke of halftime.

Vasco da Gama were held to a goalless draw by Olaria in their first match under former Qatar and Peru coach Paulo Autuori.

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Title race is over, says Manchester City boss Mancini

By Brian Homewood

Italian: this is different to last season

By Toby Davis MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini threw in the towel for his club’s Premier League title challenge yesterday, saying the motivation for the rest of the season was to keep the teams below them at a safe distance.

Defeat to Everton in their last Premier League outing left City trailing leaders Manchester United by 15 points with nine games remaining.

United have shown no signs of wilting under the pressure of wresting the English title back from their near neighbours and have won their last six league matches.

“It’s over but this doesn’t change anything because we should do our best from now to the end,” Mancini told reporters.

“Every top team, when they can’t win a title, should still try to play well and win all their games.”

Mancini made the same assessment last season when City trailed United by eight points with six games to go before they rallied to snatch the title on the final day on goal difference.

“This is different to last season,” Mancini added. “I don’t know how we will finish this season, because we have Chelsea four points behind us and Tottenham five points behind.

“We have nine games left and for this reason it’s im-

portant we keep working hard and well.”

A seemingly crucial part of City’s decline in recent weeks has been the absence of captain and defender Vincent Kompany who has been out with a calf injury since January 26.

In that period, City have dropped ten points, losing twice and drawing twice, to further cement United’s lead at the top of the table.

Kompany made his return to action with Belgium in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday, a decision that annoyed Mancini who had carefully nurtured the defender back to fitness over the last two months.

“He didn’t play for us for 60 days and then he went to play for the Belgium team,” Mancini said.

“I did not agree with this.

I think sometimes some managers of national teams should understand the situation.

“This player plays for the club, and the club, every month, pay his salary. I don’t know if he is okay or not.

One week before the international break he was not fit to play for us.”

Mancini hopes Kompany will be fit to return for his side in tomorrow’sPremier League clash with Newcastle at the Etihad Stadium.

Mancini added that striker Sergio Aguero is fit and could make his comeback.

The 24-year-old has missed City’s last three games with

a knee injury.

He returned to Argentina for treatment during his lay-off, and linked up with the national squad, but did not play and has been back training at Carrington for the past week.

Mancini said: “Sergio is okay. I think he could be ready for Saturday.”

Mancini was also asked about the latest speculation concerning his own future and that of midfield talisman Yaya Toure.

The Italian has grown used to recurring stories linking him with other clubs or suggesting the City hierarchy could bring his tenure to a premature end.

A new report has claimed Monaco - who it was claimed made an approach last season - are again preparing to move for the 48-year-old as a potential replacement for Claudio Ranieri.

Mancini said: “No. Monaco, for me, are one of the best teams in France now. Now they are in the second division.

“They have a good manager and I stay here for a long time, like Yaya.”

Speculation over Toure has arisen after his agent expressed frustration about what he sees as a delay to discussions over a new contract.

But 29-year-old Toure has more than two years left on his current contract and Mancini feels there is enough time to resolve the issue.

This wasn’t in the script: Roberto Mancini has seen his champions fall a massive 15 points behind Man United

Too much is expected of Wilshere, says Wenger

By James Olley

Great expectations: the Arsenal manager says England are placing too much pressure on Jack Wilshere

ARSENE Wenger yesterday claimed England are placing too much pressure on Jack Wilshere and says the Arsenal midfielder cannot carry the nation’s hopes alone.

Roy Hodgson was left to rue Wilshere’s absence with an ankle injury once again as England were held to a 1-1 draw in Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier against Montenegro.

The 21-year-old is regarded as England’s brightest prospect despite only earning seven caps. His latest outing in last month’s friendly win over Brazil raised expectations over his ability to help bridge the gap between England and the world’s best sides but Wenger sought to play down any such thoughts after confirming Wilshere will remain sidelined for another two weeks.

“The country doesn’t depend on one player, no matter how good he is,” said Wenger. “I believe what is the quality of a country is the number of good players they have.

“Jack is a fantastic player but it would be too much pressure on him to say England’s future depends on him.

The other night, David Silva didn’t play for Spain in France and on the bench you had Juan Mata, Santi Cazorla, Cesc Fabregas and that is what you want to see from big football countries: that it doesn’t depend just on one player.

“What people forget about Spain, and what they do not talk enough about, is the big advantage of a good national team is when it is based on two club teams.

“In the starting line-up of Spain, many times you have seven players from Barcelona, three or four from Real

Madrid. The other night Nacho Monreal was the only player who was not from Barcelona or Real Madrid.

That is a massive advantage when you go into a game like that, because you can play like a club.

“One of the advantages of Spain is their national team are built on two clubs, if we can have four, five or six England players at one club, it will become a massive advantage for England.”

Wilshere will miss tomorrow’s Premier League game at home to Reading and next weekend’s trip to West Brom but could return to face Norwich on April 13.

“We deferred a little bit his rehab by one week,” said Wenger. “We gave him more rest because it was wise medically to do it.

“We will rest him when needed. He has regular scans and as soon as we have an alert we will respect it no matter what is at stake.”

UEFA has recommended that referees stop matches when there are incidents of racism and says it will “fully support” them if they follow its advice.

In a resolution issued in conjunction with the European Clubs Association (ECA) and the world players’ union FIFPro, European football’s governing body reminded referees that they had been authorised four years ago to stop matches in case of serious racism incidents from the stands or on the pitch.

The resolution also called on coaches and players to speak out “even if it meant criticising their own players and fans”.

The resolution was drawn up by the Professional Football Strategy Council (PFSC) and ratified by UEFA’s executive committee, meeting in Bulgaria, yesterday. The PFSC is composed of representatives from UEFA, the national leagues, European clubs and the players.

The resolution “recommends and fully supports referees to stop matches in cases of racism and calls on national associations and leagues to do the same”.

In 2009, UEFA outlined a three-step procedure for abandoning games.

It said the referee should first stop the match and ask for announcements to be made over the public address system. The second step would be to suspend the match for a given period of time and, finally, abandon it.

So far, no UEFA-organised match has ever been abandoned and, despite the guidelines, there have been several games where play has continued despite racist chanting, including a recent match between Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League.

AC Milan’s Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off in disgust having been racially abused by fans during a friendly with Italian lowerdivision side Pro Patria in January and the game was abandoned.

The resolution also called on UEFA, national associations and leagues to provide new regulations which allow for stricter sanctions in cases of racism.

“The resolution calls on the players and coaches - namely those with most influence on the perpetrators of racist acts - to speak out, even if this may mean criticising their own fans or players.

“Finally, the PFSC acknowledges that racism is one form of discrimination, but that, unfortunately, other forms of discrimination also manifest themselves from time to time in football.

“It expresses its full and unconditional opposition to any form of discrimination.”

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Sport Heat’s quest for history over as Bulls end 27-game winning streak THE Miami Heat’s quest for history fell short, but it didn’t end quietly.

The Chicago Bulls stopped the second-longest win streak in American professional sports history, beating the Heat 101-97 in the early hours of yesterday morning at a raucous United Center.

The Heat streak ended at 27.

Only the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers, who won 33 in a row, had a longer winning sequence in any of America’s professional sports, and after the loss, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra reflected on a remarkable accomplishment.

“I had everyone come in and put a hand on each other,” Spoelstra said. “It was the first time I had mentioned the streak.

“It was a heck of an experience to have together. Its significance will mean much more to us later in our careers. I asked them all to share the moment with each other.”

Playing without centre Joakim Noah, guard Marco Belinelli, guard Richard Hamilton and injured superstar Derrick Rose, the Bulls got 28 points from Luol Deng, while Carlos Boozer compiled 21 points and 17 rebounds.

Boozer came up with the biggest basket for Chicago, fighting off two opponents to grab an offensive rebound, then following it in to make the score 96-89 with 57 seconds remaining.

Nate Robinson put the game out of reach with a drive down the lane and a floater with 30.2 seconds on the clock, while LeBron James hung on the rim after trying to block the shot.

“It didn’t matter who they were playing, everyone was following the streak,” Deng said. “So it’s great. It’s a good feeling to say we’re the ones who ended their streak be-

fore they broke the record.”

James led Miami with 32 points, while Chris Bosh scored 21 and Dwyane Wade had 18.

The game was physical throughout. James was called for a flagrant foul against Boozer, his former Cleveland teammate, with 3:52 remaining.

After leading by as many as 13 points in the first half, Chicago clung to a 69-68 edge heading into the fourth quarter. The Bulls created some space with a 6-0 run, then added a pair of 3-pointers from Deng and a corner 3-pointer by Jimmy Butler to take an 86-79 lead with 5:13 remaining.

“We were much more competitive in that second half,” Spoelstra said.

“However, we were in a make or miss situation in the fourth quarter and just couldn’t do it. Give them credit, though, they made big plays at the end.”

James has obliterated the rest of the sport in victory upon victory, but the Bulls had left the game’s greatest player exasperated at the end of this historic pursuit, left him flustered with a flurry of ferocious physicality.

These Bulls had come hard for James. “I know that a lot of my fouls are not basketball plays,” James said after the loss. “Kirk Hinrich basically grabbed me with two hands and brought me to the ground. Taj Gibson was able to collar me around my shoulder and bring me to the ground. Those are not basketball plays.

“I’ve been able to keep my cool and try to tell the coach, ‘Let’s not worry about it too much.’ But it’s getting to me a little bit. Because every time I try to defend myself, I’ve got to face the consequences.

“It’s tough. It’s very tough.”

It’s over: Miami saw the second-longest win streak in American professional sports history ended by the Chicago Bulls, who beat the Heat 101-97

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Get well soon: Jesse Ryder reportedly sustained a fractured skull and collapsed lung during his assault in Christchurch

Ryder in coma after ‘sinister’ bar attack

By Greg Stutchbury

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EW Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder is in an induced coma at a Christchurch hospital after suffering serious head injuries in an altercation outside a local bar, police said yesterday.

New Zealand Police said Ryder, 28, had been rushed to hospital after suffering the injuries early on Thursday morning and remained there in a critical condition.

“It appears that Jesse has been the victim of a serious assault and suffered head injuries as a result,” Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Archer told a nationally televised news conference.

“Jesse was taken to hospital where he remains in intensive care in a critical condition in an induced coma after suffering multiple injuries.”

Local media reports said Ryder had suffered a fractured skull and a collapsed lung. Archer would not confirm if the injuries were lifethreatening.

Ryder, who had been drinking at the bar with team mates from Wellington, had been involved in two incidents, the first outside a bar

with three other people.

Two of the three then followed him across the road to a nearby fast food restaurant, where one of them apparently assaulted the cricketer, Archer said. It was unclear whether the assault had been provoked.

Police were examining closed-circuit video footage.

“At this stage we have not identified the people involved in the incident but are following positive lines of inquiry,” he added.

Ryder, one of the most gifted batsmen in New Zealand, was in Christchurch playing for Wellington against Canterbury in the semi-final of the domestic one-day competition on Wednesday.

He had been in a self-imposed exile from international cricket after a series of alcohol-related incidents, however.

Despite having publicly sworn off alcohol, Ryder had begun drinking again in recent weeks, New Zealand Cricket Players’ Association chief executive Heath Mills told reporters.

“We have been dealing with Jesse for ten years and there have been numerous issues documented in that time,” Mills said.

“Jesse has been fighting some demons over the last few years and he has struggled with them. It will be an ongoing struggle for him but we are doing all that we can to help him.

“It shouldn’t be a surprise in the future if we have to deal with isolated issues.”

In 2008, Ryder needed stitches in his hand after he punched a window in a Christchurch bar, an injury that kept him out of the game for several months.

He has also been in trouble for turning up to training still affected after a heavy drinking session and was reprimanded by governing body New Zealand Cricket last year after he and fellow New Zealand international Doug Bracewell were involved in a verbal altercation with bar patrons in Napier.

Following the Napier incident, Ryder voluntarily stood down from international selection to address his issues with alcohol.

“There are some alcohol protocols around the Wellington team but my understanding was that those protocols were being met so from that point of view the organisation does not have any direct concerns,” Wel-

lington chief executive Peter Clinton told reporters.

Archer said he did not think that alcohol was a “contributing factor” in the altercation yesterday.

Ryder had been expected to travel to India for the lucrative Twenty20 tournament with the Delhi Daredevils today.

He was not expected to return to international cricket until New Zealand’s tour of England in May-June, following their 0-0 draw in the recently completed home series.

An aggressive batsman with a superb eye and delicate touch, Ryder has made 1,269 runs in 18 Tests at an average of 40.93 with a highest score of 201 and 1,100 runs in 39 one-day internationals at 34.37.

The attack has been condemned by Prime Minister John Key, who expressed his shock over the “sinister” incident.