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Bundestag ‘yes’ to Cyprus bailout Schaeuble warns German MPs of contagion risk if island was allowed to go bankrupt

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ERMANY’S lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday to grant Cyprus a €10 billion bailout that is designed to avert bankruptcy and keep the island in the eurozone.

“We must avoid turning the problems in Cyprus into new problems for other euro countries,” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told lawmakers in a speech before the vote.

“Cyprus is in a dramatic situation. If we don’t help Cyprus, then Cyprus inevitably faces sovereign default.” Schaeuble warned lawmakers that a failure to offer Cyprus aid would unleash contagion across the 17-nation single currency bloc.

“Step by step we are winning back confidence. If you look at the markets, there is still nervousness and uncertainty. But it is considerably less than three years, two years or one year ago,” Schaeuble said in his speech.

“The aid for Cyprus secures the successes we’ve already achieved in the eurozone. We must prevent the problems in Cyprus from unleashing new problems in other eurozone countries.”

Of the 602 lawmakers in the Bundestag chamber, 487 backed the rescue, under which Cyprus has agreed to impose major losses on depositors, shut-

ter its second largest bank and raise its corporate tax rate. The Cyprus vote was not in doubt given widespread support from within German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition and backing by many opposition lawmakers from the Social Democrats and Greens.

After the vote, Schaeuble said in an email statement: “We aren’t over the hump, but after comprehensive reforms Europe and the euro are in better and more stable shape than ever before.

“The gap between north and south is closing.”

Responding to Schaeuble, the leader of the centre-left Social Democrats in parliament, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his party would support the bailout, but attacked the government for initially backing a plan to hit small savers in Cypriot banks.

That proposal was scrapped after being rejected by the Cyprus parliament, and subsequently re-negotiated with international lenders to leave deposits under €100,000 untouched. “Mr. Schaeuble, whether you asked for this or simply joined others in supporting it, it was a huge mistake. It stoked fear and insecurity in Europe,” said Steinmeier.

Separately, German parliamentarians also backed seven-year loan extensions for bailout victims Portugal and Ireland.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble chat at the German Bundestag, the parliament, in Berlin yesterday where the Cyprus bailout was being debated (EPA)

Message in a bottle finally arrives ... 28 years later A CANADIAN man’s message in a bottle honouring his promise to write to a woman named Mary has finally washed ashore 28 years later in Croatia.

Surfers cleaning the debris from a beach at the mouth of the Neretva river in the southern Adriatic came across a half-broken bottle with a piece of paper inside, Croatian newspaper Dubrovack Vjesnik said on its website this week.

A 23-year-old local surfer, who gave her name as Matea Medak Rezic, nearly threw the bottle away when she spotted a wet piece of paper in-

side, which contained a message from ‘Jonathon’ in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, which lies on Canada’s eastern coast.

IDENTITIES UNKNOWN “Mary, you really are a great person.

I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write. Your friend always, Jonathon, Nova Scotia, 1985,” said the message, which the daily carried in English.

It’s not known where Mary is from, or how the two knew each other 28

years ago. The letter contained no last names, so Jonathon’s identity is also unknown.

According to CBC News, Rezik posted a photo of the letter to her Facebook account and said she hopes to find out what happened to Jonathon and Mary.

If the bottle was launched in Nova Scotia, it would have travelled about 6,000 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean before likely squeezing into the Mediterranean Sea between southern Spain and northern Morocco. It would have then drifted up the Adriatic Sea before washing up on the beach.

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ON THIS DAY APRIL 19 1956 Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries film actress Grace Kelly in a religious ceremony at the Cathedral of Monaco.

1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.

1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.

1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.

1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

WHAT THE MAIL SAID 26 years ago, Sunday April 19, 1987 The Soviet Union carried out its third nuclear test yesterday since ending a self imposed 19-month freeze that failed to persuade the US to agree to a complete ban on nuclear weapon tests. The underground detonation was carried out at the test site near Semipalatinsk in the central Asian Republic Kazakhstan.

36 years ago, Tuesday April 19, 1977 The UN special representative for Cyprus Perez de Cuellar has started his round of meetings to pave the way for intercommunal talks in Nicosia next month. He saw yesterday the Greek Cypriot negotiator, Tassos Papadopoulos, and is planning to see the Turkish Cypriot negotiator Umit Suleiman Onan today.

46 years ago, Wednesday April 19, 1967 South Vietnam today proposed pulling back from the sixmile buffer zone dividing Vietnam as a first step towards ending the war. The pullback was proposed in a Foreign Ministry communiqué issued today. It was South Vietnam’s response to a four-point peace plan put forward by Canada’s External Affairs Minister, Paul Martin.

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Home Taxman chases sports organisation KOA over travel expenses

By Peter Stevenson THE ISLAND’S tax authorities will begin contacting people hired between 1999 and 2004 by the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) as they attempt to recoup around €200,000 in unpaid taxes.

KOA paid the individuals between CYP£200 and CYP£300 a month depending on their travel costs but never declared it to the taxman.

“KOA had the responsibility of paying income tax on travel expenses between 1999 and 2004 for people not on the organisations books, although it was merely an oversight and not done

knowingly,” KOA accountant and deputy-head Vassos Koutsiountas said. He told the Cyprus Mail that individuals were hired by KOA to visit clubs that had received sponsorship from the organisation to ensure the money was not squandered elsewhere, and were compensated for their travel expenses, although Koutsiountas revealed that the majority had full-time jobs elsewhere.

“The tax authorities contacted us and informed us that they were owed around €200,000 in pay-as-you-earn income tax from KOA, which had covered travel expenses for certain people,” he said. “The amount of money is still outstanding from those persons involved and tax authorities will be contacting each individ-

Two bike deaths in separate accidents ANASTASIOS Terizi, 41, from Greece died yesterday after crashing his motorbike in Oroklini at around 6am, police said. Terizi arrived in Cyprus two weeks ago in search of work and would have celebrated his birthday today. He was living in the nearby village of Ormidia.

The 41-year-old was found more than three hours later by a passerby who informed police. Terizi’s body was found next to his high-powered motorbike which did not have a licence-plate and had not been registered since 2007.

Larnaca police spokesman Christos Andreou said that after initial investigations, and after obtaining an eyewitness report, the police believe Terizi, was thrown from his motorbike after losing control on a bend. He was thrown 100 metres.

“It would appear the man died instantly and police investigations indicate he was not wearing a helmet,” Andreou said.

Another man, Neophytos Georgiou, 52, died on Wednesday night when his motorcycle collided with a car in Limassol. The accident occurred at around 9pm on Archbishop Makarios III Avenue.

The car driven by a Limassol man collided with the motorbike causing it to overturn.

Georgiou died instantly.

The driver of the car was arrested and breathalysed but had not been drinking. The exact cause of the collision is being investigated.

ual in their attempts to recoup the amount,” he added.

Koutsiountas explained that despite reports in the local media, KOA had not initiated legal action against anyone. He said that KOA had changed its procedures since 2004 and had begun paying income tax on travel expenses, deducting it from the salaries it was paying.

This appears only to be the tip of the iceberg as sources within KOA were more scathing of the Organisation’s policies regarding the hiring of already employed personnel. Wanting to maintain his anonymity, the Mail’s source revealed that knowingly, KOA has been hiring civil servants who were employed elsewhere.

“KOA is a Semi-Governmental Organisation

(SGO) and knows the law regarding civil servants and that they can only have one job but still proceeded in giving high-ranking jobs to people who were already working in the government,” he said. He revealed that there is a high level of back-scratching going on within the organisation with one case in particular seeing an inspector from the education ministry receiving a large salary from KOA also.

“With the vast numbers of unemployed, KOA could have easily hired someone to fill positions within the organisation but because of the relationship of certain high-ranking individuals with others within the government, they decided to give big salaries to people who were already well-paid,” he added.

Airport fees still a thorny issue in tourism industry Hermes Airports says that a general cut in charges would be difficult and ineffectual

By George Psyllides

CTO believes that if more incentives and lower fees were offered to airlines, it would boost tourism to the island

INCENTIVES and liberalisation of flights could increase the tourist flow to Cyprus by 400,000 people per year, the House Commerce Committee heard yesterday.

Lawmakers and the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) asked for a reduction in airport fees in a bid to attract more airlines to Cyprus but airports operator Hermes said a general cut would be difficult and ineffectual.

Airport fees were not decided arbitrarily by Hermes; there was a specific timeframe and pricing policy, Hermes spokesman Adamos Aspris said.

“This is an integral part in the concession agreement, which has been approved by parliament,” he told reporters.

Commerce Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said airport fees must be reduced, adding that his Lebanese counterpart had told him that charges in Cyprus were double than in Lebanon.

CTO director Marios Hannides said a way must be

found to reduce fees.

Hannides said the CTO had a study that said Larnaca and Paphos airports charged double the fees airports in Spain, Turkey and Athens did.

The communications ministry however, said that imposing a reduction would mean the state footing the bill.

And an across-the-board reduction could be considered a state subsidy and land Cyprus in trouble with the European Union.

Hermes representatives pointed out that targeted incentives and liberalisation would be much more effective.

Maria Kouroupi, Hermes marketing manager, said Cyprus could increase its tourist flow by 400,000 a year.

She said companies like Easyjet, Wizz Air, and Germanwings had already expressed an interest in bringing more passengers to Cyprus provided that certain agreements were struck regarding central and eastern Europe.

Some destinations remained closed, reserved through bilateral agreements for Cyprus Airways (CY),

which does not even have scheduled flights for those countries.

Those destinations included UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

A bilateral agreement with Russia allows only two companies – one from each country – to carry out scheduled flights to Moscow and Saint Petersburg while two airlines service eight other destinations.

A similar agreement is in place with Israel – one airline from each country – carried out scheduled flights, although the neighbouring country’s skies will be opened in 2017 when an agreement with the EU will come into effect.

Communications ministry official Iakovos Demetriou said 80 per cent of passenger traffic in Cyprus came from the EU – the rest from third countries.

Hermes officials stressed that any effort to increase tourist arrivals must be collective and focused in the same direction – the operator for instance cannot strive to strike a deal with a German airline while the CTO campaigned in Poland.

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Vgenopoulos fails to show at court in Paphos

By George Psyllides CITING what appeared to be a technicality, former Laiki strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos failed to show up in a Paphos court yesterday to answer charges that he had misled investors into buying high-risk securities.

Vgenopoulos and former Laiki CEO Efthimios Bouloutas, both Greek nationals, argued through their lawyers that the charge sheet had not been delivered to

them in the correct manner.

Their lawyers raised a pre-trial objection suggesting that the papers had been delivered under the provisions of the Schengen Agreement, which Cyprus had not ratiďŹ ed.

Joining Schengen entails eliminating internal border controls with the other Schengen members, while simultaneously strengthening external border controls with non-Schengen states.

The island’s division is the

reason why Cyprus has not yet joined Schengen.

Claiming he was defrauded of â‚Ź108,000, a Paphos-based man has ďŹ led a private criminal case against the Laiki as a legal entity, the bank’s former brass, and former Central Bank (CBC) governor, Athanasios Orphanides.

The plaintiff ’s lawyer countered that the summons had not been delivered under the provisions of the Schengen Agreement but in accordance with a relevant bilateral agreement between Greece

and Cyprus. The Paphos district court is expected to issue its decision on the matter on Monday.

Three other Laiki ofďŹ cials named in the suit were scheduled to appear in court on May 16.

Former CBC governor Orphanides has not yet received a summons. The plaintiff, Stavros Mavrosavvas, is one of hundreds of depositors who claim they were misled by the banks into putting their savings in high-yield securities.

Mavrosavvas claims the de-

fendants had falsely stated that the securities would fetch highyields knowing that this was untrue.

Thousands of people were affected when the island’s two biggest lenders, the Bank of Cyprus and Popular Bank, stopped paying interest and blocked access to the investors’ capital following losses on a Greek sovereign debt write-down in late 2011.

The total amount put in securities is said to be around â‚Ź1.4 billion.

Question mark over parliament and bailout deal Key tax bills passed related to loan deal but several issues were put on hold

By Elias Hazou ALTHOUGH the House yesterday passed more tax bills deemed key for Cyprus to qualify for a foreign aid package, a question mark still hung over whether a fractious parliament would sanction the actual loan agreement to be concluded soon between the government and international lenders.

The plenum last night gave the nod to a series of government bills designed to raise state revenues: a corporate tax rate hike by 2.5 points to 12.5 per cent; doubling the tax rate on interest and dividend income (capital gains tax) to 30 per cent, via the defence contribution tax; and an increase in the bank levy on deposits raised by banks and credit institutions from 0.11 per cent to 0.15 per cent with 25/60 of the revenue earmarked for a special account for a Financial Stability Fund, applying retroactively as of January 1 of this year.

A revised tax on immovable property – aiming to ensure additional revenues from

property taxation of at least ₏70m by updating 1980 prices through application of the CPI index for the period 1980 to 2012 – was not brought to the plenum yesterday but is expected next week.

Implementation of the IPT is one of the preconditions set by international lenders for the release of a â‚Ź10bn loan.

Parliament postponed a vote on a bill for additional scaled pay cuts (from 0.8 per cent to 2 per cent) in the broader public sector.

Also delayed was an item containing further restrictions to those entitled to free public healthcare. Under the bill, to be eligible a person must have made contributions to the relevant fund for at least three years, and must have submitted a tax declaration prior to applying for free care. It also provides for a 1.5 per cent contribution to the fund by civil servants.

The House meanwhile passed an amending law whereby any future changes to excise duties would need parliament’s approval; so far this required only a decree issued by the ďŹ nance minister.

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by DISY freezing all promotions in the public sector during 2013 passed by a majority vote, with AKEL abstaining.

Cyprus this month struck a memorandum of understanding with the troika of international lenders – European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The MoU is not the same as the actual loan agreement, which is akin to an international treaty between the Republic and foreign governments.

Under the constitution, the treaty is subject to parliament’s approval. Once the loan agreement is drafted, it will be reviewed by the cabinet, which will then forward it to parliament for discussion and the vote. It’s understood the MoU and the loan agreement would be bundled into a single document as a ratiďŹ cation law.

But a shadow has been cast over whether the loan deal will muster enough votes in the House: so far only ruling DISY and junior coalition partners DIKO have come out openly in support of the loan agreement. Combined, the two parties do not have the required majority in the House.

The rhetoric from AKEL and socialists EDEK has been hostile to the troika. It’s been suggested, however, that the two parties could abstain rather than vote against.

Much of the rhetoric from MPs towards the troika and bailout is still hostile The loan still has to be approved by the national parliaments of some eurozone nations, with Germany’s Bundestag taking the lead by backing the bailout yesterday.

Reports yesterday suggested the loan agreement could be brought before Cyprus’ parliament late next week, for tactical reasons. “It’s probably a wise move‌ should our parliament do the unthinkable and reject it

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ďŹ rst, why should the foreigners then bother with it at all?â€? commented one MP belonging to the government camp.

At a news conference yesterday, new DISY leader Averof Neophytou sent out a warning shot to dissenting quarters.

The choice before Cyprus is clear, he said: either accept the bailout or face bankruptcy.

He added: “Those who want to get rid of the troika should tell us how we can come up

with â‚Ź30bn; if they do that, we will be the ďŹ rst to kick the troika out.â€?

Asked to clarify, Neophytou said the cost of leaving the euro would be â‚Ź30bn, because in addition to its â‚Ź23bn ďŹ nancing needs, Cyprus would also need to pay back the some â‚Ź10bn its banks have borrowed from the Emergency Liquidity Assistance. The ELA is underwritten by the government.

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BoC’s viability ‘a priority’ DISY leader calls for board’s appointment

By George Psyllides THE viability of the Bank of Cyprus (BoC), the island’s biggest, is a national priority, new ruling DISY leader Averof Neophytou said yesterday, as he called for the immediate appointment of a board to oversee the lender’s restructuring following a Eurogroup decision to impose hefty losses on its uninsured depositors.

The Cypriot economy’s salvation goes through the rescue of BoC, Neophytou said.

“Everyone must understand this. The new BoC, after the merger with Laiki, has a local share that exceeds 60 per cent,” Neophytou said.

The majority of businesses were BoC customers, he said, adding that the absence of a leadership at the lender had cost the economy a lot.

The lender’s board and CEO had resigned and an administrator was appointed after a Eurogroup decision to impose a haircut on deposits over €100,000 to pay for the BoC’s recapitalisation.

The decision also called for winding down Laiki, Cyprus’ second biggest, with certain assets to be taken over by

By Elias Hazou PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades is today likely to announce his government’s formal policy decision to press ahead with the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the island.

Sources told the Mail the decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, but was not immediately made known as the President intended to announce it today along with a raft of planned measures designed to jumpstart the economy.

A decision for an LNG facility had been taken by the previous administration of Demetris Christofias; the current DISY-led administration was understood to also support the project, but an official announcement was pending.

A clear commitment from the government would now allow US energy firm Noble Energy to move forward with plans to extract the gas from its offshore licence and declare commerciality on the project.

If Noble deems the project commercially viable – following appraisal drilling slated for this summer - it will undertake the cost of the subsea infrastructures (including the pipeline) to bring the gas ashore.

However it all hinges on the existence of an LNG plant, which will process and store the gas for export.

The LNG plant itself is to be financed by the government and other partners.

Officials say natural gas could be brought ashore for domestic consumption in late 2018, and for exports in 2019.

Earlier this week, a senior executive with Noble Energy said one option being considered by the company was to channel through Cyprus the gas to be extracted from Israel’s massive Leviathan prospect. Gerald Peereboom, Director of LNG development at Noble Energy, made the comments at the ‘LNG 17’ gas conference held in Houston, Texas.

Israel is yet to decide its gas export policy, and there is opposition by environmental groups there against an LNG facility. At the same time, the recent thaw in Turkish-Israeli relations has seen increased talk of a gas pipeline connecting the two countries.

Speaking at an energy conference in Limassol yesterday, Charles Ellinas, the chairman of the Cyprus National Hydrocarbons Company (CNHC), said that by 2025 the island could generate 25 million tonnes of LNG a year, covering nearly 50 per cent of the EU’s additional energy needs and making Cyprus an important player on the global energy market.

The two-day Annual Cypriot-Greek Oil & Gas 2013 Summit is organised by International Research Networks.

Bank is still under an administrator, not a board

International Day of Monuments and Sites “Educating Heritage in Nicosia during the Period of British Administration” Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Guided tours by students in the museum in English and Greek Light refreshments in the open courtyard American International School in Cyprus in collaboration with ICOMOS Cyprus Cyprus Department of Antiquities Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia On Saturday, April 20 from 11:00 to 1:00, our AISC Middle School and High School students will give guided tours at the Leventis Museum focusing on the history and architecture of the period of the British Administration of Cyprus. Our students have been preparing for this leadership role for several weeks. Tours are geared towards adults, families and elementary-aged children.

Every year, countries around the world celebrate the International Day of Monuments and Sites through a variety of events. The American International School in Cyprus, along with our parents, is committed to “International Mindedness.” As such, our community celebrates the history and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean.

In preparation, middle school students studied Nicosia during the period of British Administration. They visited the Leventis Museum and prepared research presentations on the history of two of the buildings that house the museum: the Main Building and the Constantine Leventis Wing. Constructed in 1882, these buildings reflect changes in Nicosia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Grade eleven International Baccalaureate students focused on the British galleries of the museum. Over the past few weeks, they visited the exhibitions, chose objects on display, and read primary texts. Their tours will begin with a discussion of the transition from Ottoman to British Administration and continue with an examination of the text Cyprus: Our New Colony.

The museum is located within the walls of the old city at 15-17 Hippocrates Street.

BoC. The Central Bank had said that the administrator would only be in place for several days but it has now been several weeks and the rate of the haircut has not been decided yet.

Uninsured deposits in BoC – over €100,000 – currently face a €37.5 per cent cut although an additional 22.5 per cent, which have been frozen, could also suffer the same fate.

Of the remainder, the CBC has only released 10 per cent.

The government had decided to exempt various entities from the scheme, such as municipalities, charities, schools, and insurance companies, but Finance Minister Harris Georgiades told parliament recently that the list would be reviewed.

Various groups have also demanded their provident funds be exempted.

Officials have warned that more exemptions would mean a deeper haircut on deposits.

If the state wanted to exempt certain entities “we have the humble opinion that it should not do so at the expense of depositors at Laiki and BoC,” Neophytou said.

“It is unfair for depositors in the two banks to be saddled with additional burdens. For

every €100 million exempted, you add (a loss of) 1.0 per cent on BoC depositors.” Neophytou said he understood the systemic nature of insurance companies and the workers’ concerns over their provident funds, but “I think it is socially unjust to put our hand deeper in the pocket of depositors.”

Cyprus introduced curbs on money movements when banks reopened on March 28 after a two-week shutdown while the government negotiated a €10 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. Its capital controls are a first for the eurozone, introduced in an effort to prevent a cash drain.

Neophytou said restrictions must be lifted as soon as possible because the market was near paralysis.

He said BoC could be protected while controls were lifted in the rest of the sector.

The new DISY leader cautioned other banks to refrain from taking advantage of the BoC’s predicament.

“They should forget that it is the time for them to increase their (market) share,” Neophytou said. “They too must respect and support the BoC.”

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Private schools caught up in crisis

By Bejay Browne

Many private schools are now offering discounts

By Maria Gregoriou THE ECONOMIC crisis will force some parents to remove their children from private schools while new enrollments are expected to drop.

Many private schools are offering discounts and renegotiating fee payment structures in an attempt to stem the flow.

Even the island’s most famous fee-paying school, The English School in Nicosia, is “facing vast economic difficulties”, according to Andreas Lordos, a member of the board of governors.

A recent letter from the parents association to The English School board and headmaster urged the board to press for a reduction in fees.

“Certain measures must be taken now to provide the necessary support to parents that will enable them to continue to send their children to the English School next year.

We have been the recipients of numerous letters and phone calls requesting your immediate actions as regards reductions in school fees,” the letter said.

The English School’s chairman Antonis Valanides was more upbeat, saying it was too soon to tell if parents would have problems paying tuition fees next year. “Students have already taken the entrance exam and classes have been organised. Up until now we have not heard of parents who

are thinking of taking their children out of the school,” he said.

But he added the school had allowed an extension for fees to be paid. “Fees that should have been paid by the end of March can now be paid at the end of April,” he said.

The Pascal English School was one of the first private schools to announce the reduction of fees due to the economic crisis.

“The school will offer a reduction of €2,000 for students who will enter the first class next year and this reduction will continue until they graduate,” said Pantelis Andreou, executive chairman of the Pascal English School.

“If parents are having problems paying fees, we will offer them a ten per cent discount for the school year,” he added.

Despite the discounts, Andreou said he did expect the number of new enrollments to fall as a result of the crisis.

A teacher at another private school in Nicosia, who did not wished to be named, said their school did not have actual figures yet for registrations for next year but many parents were thinking of taking their children to public schools because they cannot pay the fees.

“Students have not left during the year, but we have heard that parents with two children in the school will be removing the youngest. Students who are towards finishing school are more likely to stay on and their younger siblings will be

Even the island’s most famous fee-paying school, The English School in Nicosia, is ‘facing vast economic difficulties’, according to one board member taken out,” said the teacher.

Emilios Hadjipetris, director of the GC School of Careers said that his school is also taking measures to help parents with any financial difficulties.

“We will give an increased discount to families that have more than one child in the school. Also, we will deduct some extra charges from certain subjects such as, science,” he said. Chairman of the Junior School and Senior School board Nick Papandreou said the board is currently reviewing what they can do to reduce school fees.

“We have to be wise about how we will reduce fees as we are a non profit organisation.

It is a balancing act situation as any cuts we make to the school budget will have an effect on the students and may

reduce their learning experience,” Papandreou said.

The school was hit particularly hard as it had deposits of above 100,000 euros in Laiki Bank and was originally subject to a haircut under the terms of the island’s bailout.

The government has said educational institutions were to be exempt from the haircut but, according to Papandreou, the school has received no confirmation of this.

At tertiary level, the future of private education is less bleak, though universities are still taking precautions.

Fees for private universities in Cyprus are not cheap, averaging around €9,000 per year (though some charge as little as €6,000). Universities in Britain, for example, charge only a little more, £9,000 or €10,500.

But the cost of rents and other living expenses pushes the overall bill for those studying abroad much higher, and this is to the advantage of local private universities.

“Before they would send them to a university abroad without going over the budget in detail but now this will all change. Many students will prefer to stay in Cyprus because the overall expenses are cheaper,” said managing director of the European University Cyprus, Christoforos Hadjikyriacou.

He said fees at the university have stayed the same for the last four years but in response to the crisis, the university board is to meet and discuss how fees could be reduced or paid in smaller intervals. (see editorial page 13)

A COMMUNITY garden which will produce vegetables to help feed the poort looks set to get underway in Yeroskipou in Paphos.

The initiative has the support of the Green Party, the Environment Commissioner and Yeroskipou municipality.

The idea will see volunteers working on donated land to grow produce which will go towards helping the needy families and individuals residing in the municipality.

Mayor of Yeroskipou, Michael Pavlides, who is backing the scheme, told the Cyprus Mail : “Following a recent discussion on food selfsufficiency, saving seeds, alternative currencies and feeding the poor, we have decided to start a food allotment programme to grow food for the needy on municipal and government land or land donated by the community.”

Pavlides said that a local woman had already donated a piece of land measuring about 7,000 square metres.

He expressed his thanks, adding: “we would like to have around another four of a similar size.”

In addition, the mayor will meet with the minister of the interior on April 29 to request that some of the government owned fields in the area be given to the scheme so that the land may be tilled and planted.

Pavlides added that the municipality would sponsor any irrigation which may be required at the fields.

He said: “This is a practical and solid way in which we can all help the people who are suffering as a result of the economic crisis.”

According to the Green Party these community gardens have been established in other European countries for quite some time.

There are around 60 city gardens for the poor in Barcelona in Spain. They are hoping to expand the initiative to the whole of Cyprus.

If you would like further information about the community garden please contact Nicos Palios :- 26 962 324 or email info@geroskipou-municipality.com

Nicosia municipality joins eight others in new barter system

By Maria Gregoriou NICOSIA municipality has joined eight others in the new barter system being launched by the Nicosia District Development Agency (ANEL) The programme is also aimed at helping the unemployed to become a part of society again.

Nicosia municipalities are supporting their citizens by creating a social solidarity programme,” Latsia Mayor and President of ANEL, Panayiotis Kyprianou said.

Kyprianou stressed that the programme was based on exchanging products and services rather than money. “When we think about these kinds of programmes we can’t help but remember the past when everyone lent a helping hand when someone was building a house in a village. These kinds of values, this

kind of solidarity is what we are trying to bring back to our society. We do not expect to solve the economic crisis but to help citizens through these difficult times,” Kyprianou said.

The programme promotes equality, a collective effort, solidarity, collaboration and healthy human relationships. “We believe the programme will harvest positive results and bring many people back to the job market, while also contributing to the family unit,” Kyprianou added.

The barter programme is open to anyone who is a resident of the Latsia, Strovolos, Engomi, Aglandjia, Lakatamia, Tseri, Yeri, Dali and Nicosia municipalities.

The Nicosia municipality joined the effort yesterday. People who are interested can register on the website free of charge. Registrations will remain pending until

proof of residence is established through presenting an ID card and a utility bill to either their municipality or to ANEL. “The programme is based on similar ones that were used in Greece.

It works on a points system. Once a registration has been approved a credit figure of 300 points will be deposited into the individual’s account.

“We estimate that this figure will be enough for a starting point. If we see the need to increase or decrease this amount we will do so after we inform members. Anyone who is a part of the system can then ask for bids on something they need or advertise services or goods they are offering for a certain amount of points,” said Panayiotis Mountoukos, financial director at ANEL. The website will be monitored by a system administrator on a daily basis to make sure members are

not being taken advantage of, or the system is not being misused.

Members who have accumulated points but have not exchanged them for goods or services for some time, will also be monitored. They will be asked to use up their points in order to keep the system running properly.

Because the system does not use money as an exchange rate, members do not have to pay tax for services or goods given. “We have asked for legal advice on this matter,” Kyprianou said.

“The idea behind this is that people’s everyday needs will be met.

So we urge members to advertise products or services that may be a necessary need. For example, a family may not have enough money to buy their children a computer for their studies and another member may have an old computer that they are not using. Also, there are

many educated individuals who can currently not find work. They can use their knowledge to give lessons,” Mountoukos said.

“As more people use the system, more goods and services can be exchanged. This will attract more people, more different types of services, and a feeling of trust will be created,” Mountoukos added.

Flyers will be distributed to homes and as of Monday anyone interested can visit their local municipality and receive help on how to register for the programme.

After a six-month period all criteria from the website will be collected and examined. Any necessary changes will then be made.

For further information call the Nicosia district development agency on 22489105 or send an email to info@anel.com.cy. A working link to the website has not yet been provided.

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CING marks another year of scientific accomplishment Important discoveries made in research into genetics

By Peter Stevenson TO MARK International DNA Day on April 25, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) announced ten of its most important achievements in the last year, including the discovery that Cypriot women are more susceptible to breast cancer if they do not follow the Mediterranean diet.

The research for this discovery was done by Professor Kyriacos Kyriacou and was published in the Biomed Central Cancer magazine.

“2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick and the 10th anniversary of the first sequencing of the human genome,” chief executive Medical Director, Professor Philippos Patsalis said.

International DNA Day commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. On the same day in 2003 it was declared that the Human Genome Project was very close to completion.

The Human Genome Project was the international, collaborative research programme whose goal was the complete mapping and understanding of all the genes of human beings. All our genes together are known as our “genome”.

Patsalis went on to reveal the other major discoveries the institute had made including the start of gene therapy to cure inherent neuropathy and encephalopathy with the use of virus’ that can replace the missing genes.

The study was developed by

Professor Kleopa Kleopa.

“Dr. Savvas Papacosta and his team worked on pain relief for Parkinson’s Disease sufferers. They completed the first two operations in Cyprus to implant electrodes into the brain to combat pain which cannot usually be cured with the use of pharmaceuticals,” Patsalis said.

A team of doctors headed

by Dr Marios Pantzari have internationally patented a pharmaceutical supplement which helps battle multiple sclerosis, with their research published in the British Medical Journal.

“Dr. Marina Kleanthous team applied a prenatal cure for the prevention of thalassaemia by replacing faulty genes with genes taken from the mother’s umbilical cord of a previously born child.

They also managed to apply the non-operational diagnosis of thalassaemia in pregnant women,” Patsalis added.

Their work was published in the European Journal of Human Genetics.

By using the molecular technique, array-CGH, Dr. Carolina Sismani’s team managed to detect chromosomal defects in unborn children, proving more effective than pathological diagnosis of such defects. Biomedical Research International published their work.

Professor Leonidas Fylaktou’s research team found genes in the blood linked with muscle degeneration that are linked to muscular dystrophy. This discovery will help doctors diagnose the problems earlier and will help sufferers deal with it more effectively.

A team from the department of neurogenetics headed by Professor Kyproulla Christodoulou have recently finished a study on Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome,

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics in Nicosia counts ten important achievements in the past year which is a genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system characterised by progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across various parts of the body.

Their research on the incurable syndrome was published in the European Journal of Medical Genetics.

Patsalis’ team recently finished their clinical trial on non-invasive the prenatal diagnosis of Down’s Syndrome, with 175 cases and almost a 100 per cent success rate.

Their work was published in Prenatal Diagnosis and Nature Medicine.

“Only through better knowledge will we be able to make quick and exact diagnoses to prevent or radically cure the diseases which are the scourge of mankind,” he concluded.

‘Refugee was driven to suicide’

By Poly Pantelides A REFUGEE who left behind his wife and four children in Syria was driven to suicide on Wednesday, in what migrant support group KISA said was just another example of the inability of Cypriot authorities to respond to desperate calls for help.

Mohammed, a Kurdish resident of Syria, fled from Syrian authorities and sought asylum in Cyprus some three months ago. He lived in the Paphos village of Arodes and was given the run-around by the labour office and the social welfare department, KISA said.

“What seems to have led the unfortunate refugee to suicide was the heartlessness to which Cypriot authorities responded to his desperate call for help, but also his intense worry for his life and his family’s fate,” KISA said.

Asylum seekers do not have access to the labour market for the first six months of their stay in Cyprus, but are instead entitled to benefits, according to KISA’s information guide to asylum seekers. After six months in the country, they are allowed to work in farming and agriculture.

But KISA said some people have to wait for months to receive benefits payments because of Parliament’s “racist decision” to examine the list of refugees receiving benefits, including those whose asylum applications have been accepted.

The migrant support group said Mohammed’s suicide was indicative of the situation for refugees and asylum seekers in Cyprus, especially the Syrians who are often forced to flee their country and “are the most vulnerable of all social groups in (Cyprus)”.

The state is making it increasingly hard for people to obtain asylum in Cyprus, KISA added, claiming that the authorities try in various ways, not all of them legal, to prevent assigning people with asylum status.

People such as Mohammed become isolated, humiliated, and desperate, KISA said.

Many are eventually forced to leave to seek protection in other countries in Europe, KISA stared.

KISA said they understood the financial and social situation in Cyprus, but said that democracy and human rights was in danger from racism and discrimination splitting groups into two: Cypriots and all others.

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Britain BRITAIN TODAY Nomination for Marie Colvin VETERAN American war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria last year was nominated yesterday for the Orwell Prize, a British literary award for political writing.

Colvin, a US reporter for Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper, was killed alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik as Syrian government forces attacked the town of Homs in February last year and rockets hit the house where they were staying.

On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin was published in April last year.

The book ends with her final written dispatch from Homs.

Colvin’s book was one of seven shortlisted from 210 nominations for the Orwell book prize that was set up 10 years ago to award work “that comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition to make political writing into an art”.

Former Sun editor charged THE former deputy editor of Rupert Murdoch’s Sun tabloid has been charged with authorising illegal payments to a public official to get stories, prosecutors said yesterday.

Fergus Shanahan is accused of authorising a reporter on the paper to make two payments totalling £7,000 to an unnamed official in return for information between August 2006 and August 2007.

“Following a careful review of the evidence, we have concluded that Fergus Shanahan, who served as an editor at the Sun newspaper, should be charged with an offence of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office,” said Alison Levitt, Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Shanahan will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 8.

Measles cases pass 800 mark MEASLES cases in a region battling one of the biggest epidemics in the UK for a decade have passed the 800 mark.

An extra 43 cases of measles were recorded in the Swansea area of South Wales since Tuesday, Public Health Wales said.

The number brought the total to 808, up from 765 since Tuesday, as special vaccination sessions were to continue at schools in the area.

Paralysed man taking up the right-to-die legal fight Insists ‘cruel’ law that bars assisted deaths must be changed A PARALYSED man from Leeds is taking up a legal challenge for the right to die with the help of a doctor, saying he should be able to end his life with dignity.

Paul Lamb, 58, has taken on the case begun by Tony Nicklinson, saying the “cruel” law that forbids assisted deaths must be changed.

Nicklinson, 58, died last year shortly after he lost his legal bid to end his life with a doctor’s help, but his family won permission to continue his campaign.

Lamb, who has waived anonymity to speak out, has joined the challenge, with the two cases to be heard in the Court of Appeal on May 14 and 15.

Nicklinson’s widow, Jane, said she was “over the moon” that her late husband’s cause will continue and said he would have been equally pleased.

After being told he can take on Nicklinson’s fight, Lamb, a former builder and fatherof-two, said in a statement: “I hope that this is the next step towards the ultimate goal of changing this cruel law, which keeps people like me alive when I want to have

Paul Lamb was severely injured in a car accident in 1990 and for the last 23 years has been unable to use any of his limbs apart from slight movement in his right hand a dignified death.

“To be given this chance of being involved in the case makes me very proud. I have always been an extremely strong character and when I believe in something, I can take on the world.

“So, for the sake of everyone in this country who deserves the right to have a dignified death, I hope that we can make this happen.”

Lamb was severely injured in a car accident in 1990 but remembers virtually nothing about the moment that changed his life.

For the last 23 years he has been unable to use any of

his limbs apart from slight movement in his right hand, is in constant pain and needs round-the-clock care.

As the Court of Appeal heard Lamb’s request last month for the right to pick up where Nicklinson left off, he said in a statement that life was “pointless” and he would like a doctor to help him die by lethal injection, preferably in his own home.

Lamb added: “I consider that I have lived with these conditions for a lot of years and have given it my best shot. Now I feel worn out and I am genuinely fed up with my life.

“I feel that I cannot and do not want to keep living. I feel trapped by the situation and I have no way out. I am not getting any younger and I cannot carry on as all that my life consists of is being fed and watered.

“I feel that the truth is that I have had enough. I have been in pain since July 1990 and there is no way of getting rid of the root pain. My daily routine is tedious, monotonous and pointless. I often go to bed early at 5pm - such is the pointlessness of it all.

“I am 58 years of age and I am fed up of going through the motions of life rather

than living it. I feel that enough is enough.

“People tell me that I must keep trying - but there is only so much that a person can take.

“I wish I could end my own life but I cannot.”

He said he felt “genuinely terrified” by the prospect of having no control over his life or death and said: “What I would like to do is be able to hug those people who are closest to me and say goodbye to them.

“I wish to end my life in a dignified way, preferably without pain. I wish to find peace.”

Following Lamb’s decision to waive his anonymity, his lawyer Saimo Chahal, of Bindmans LLP, said: “He is clear and determined in his wish to see a change in the law which he considers wholly wrong and out of date for a person in his situation, and for others like him.”

Mrs Nicklinson, 57, of Melksham, Wiltshire, told the Press Association her late husband would be “very pleased” with Lamb’s decision.

She said: “I’m over the moon that he’s joined the cause and has agreed to go public because seeing the person helps people understand the argument.

“This keeps it going - we needed someone like Tony to be able to carry on the case, asking for a doctorassisted death.”

Mrs Nicklinson, who has two daughters with her late husband, added: “It was the one thing he wanted to see through, but in the end he just couldn’t carry on”.

Four jailed over bomb plot

By Michael Holden FOUR Britons were jailed yesterday for plotting al Qaeda-inspired bombings across the country, which included an attack on an army base using a remote-controlled toy car packed with explosives which they planned to drive under the gates.

Prosecutors said the men, who were captured after an operation involving London’s Counter Terrorism Command and the MI5 domestic spy agency, were “dangerous and committed terrorists”.

Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain, from Luton, north of London, had all pleaded guilty last month to preparing for acts of terrorism.

Prosecutors said Iqbal was a “terrorist facilitator” who arranged for people, including Ahmed, to travel to Pakistan for extremist purposes.

Meanwhile Ahmed, who with others also underwent training in the Snowdonia mountainous region of North Wales, had recruited Arshad and Hussain.

British officials have said that while al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan are less capable of organising mass attacks along the lines of the July 2005 suicide bombings on London which killed 52 commuters, the threat from homegrown Islamists remains.

“All four men have shown a deep commitment to engage in violent jihad,” said Deborah Walsh, deputy head of Counter-

Terrorism at Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service.

“In April 2011, Iqbal and Ahmed discussed an attack on the Territorial (reserve) Army base in Luton using explosives placed on a remote controlled car.

Independent forensic evidence has confirmed the device was viable.”

Police said the group had taken advantage of information provided by an English language online magazine posted by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and had talked about making a bomb and procuring firearms.

Washington and other Western governments regard AQAP as one of the most dangerous offshoots of the militant network. The group has planned attacks on international targets including airliners and pledges to topple Saudi Arabia’s ruling family.

“They discussed plans to carry out attacks in the UK - at a territorial army base as well as multiple sites at one time,” said Stuart Osborne, the senior national coordinator for counter terrorism.

“The actions and intentions of these men starkly demonstrate what we have repeatedly said - that terrorists live among us while they carry out their plans, doing all they can to conceal their activities,” he added Iqbal and Ahmed were jailed for 11 years with the possibility these terms could be extended, while Arshad was imprisoned for almost seven years and Hussain for more than five years.

Top row left to right: Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed. Bottom row left to right: Umar Arshad with Syed Farhan Hussain

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Europe EUROPE TODAY Foremen hunted GREEK police were hunting three foremen yesterday who were suspected of shooting and wounding more than 20 migrant workers at a strawberry farm.

The supervisors were believed to have opened fire on Wednesday at a crowd of about 200 mostly Bangladeshi immigrants who were demanding wages that had not been paid, police said. The wounded were taken to hospital but none of the injuries were serious.

Anti-foreigner sentiment has been rising in Greece, where one in four workers is unemployed after five years of recession.

Police said they had arrested the owner of the farm, in the southwestern town of Manolada, and were still hunting the foremen.

One of the immigrants involved in the protests told Greek Skai TV that they had been promised wages of 22 euros ($28.70) a day.

“They keep telling us that we will get paid in a month, and this has been going on for more than a year,” said the worker, who was not identified. “We don’t talk about it because we are afraid that we will be killed or kicked out.”

Slap to Bersani ITALY’S parliament failed to elect a new state president in the first two votes yesterday, with a centreleft rebellion against leader Pier Luigi Bersani torpedoing his official candidate and prolonging political stalemate.

Until the new president is elected, the paralysis hobbling attempts to form a government since February’s inconclusive general election will continue but a chaotic day of voting yesterday showed how fractured the political landscape remains.

Bersani’s candidate Franco Marini, a former Senate speaker, fell far short of the required two-thirds majority of the 1,007 electors in the first vote and in the second he won no votes at all, with many members of both centreleft and centre-right blocs casting blank ballots.

Stimulus alert TWO senior Russian officials warned political leaders yesterday against rushing into more spending to stimulate a struggling economy at the risk of higher inflation.

Russia’s $2.1 trillion economy expanded by just 1.1 per cent in the first quarter, significantly below the Kremlin’s target of 5 per cent, prompting President Vladimir Putin to urge the government to boost social spending and aid ebbing growth.

Serbia EU bid falters over Kosovo UN seat Negotiations continue in Brussels today

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SERBIA’S hopes of starting talks this year on joining the European Union hung in the balance yesterday after it balked at demands from its former province of Kosovo for a seat at the United Nations.

Kosovo said the EU had summoned both sides back to Brussels for further talks today, before the EU’s 27 members consider on Monday whether to recommend the start of accession talks with Serbia, a process crucial to unlocking its potential as the largest market in the former Yugoslavia.

The talks are aimed at finding a way to guarantee Kosovo’s viability as a separate entity without requiring Serbia to recognise the independence of a territory that it sees as the cradle of its identity.

But after 14 hours of talks on Wednesday, Serbia said

a UN seat for Kosovo would amount to just such a recognition, while Kosovo said the issue was non-negotiable.

ASHTON REQUEST Both sides headed home, only for Kosovo to announce that its prime minister, former guerrilla commander Hashim Thaci, had turned back from Slovenia’s Ljubljana airport at the request of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

“Delegations back to Brussels! Dialogue to continue tomorrow!” tweeted Kosovo’s EU integration minister, Vlora Citaku.

The Serbian state news agency Tanjug said Belgrade had received the invitation to return, and would respond during the day. There was no official word from Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.

Agreement would mark a seminal moment in the region’s recovery from the collapse of federal Yugoslavia.

Kosovo broke away from

Lagarde to be quizzed in misconduct case INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will be questioned by a French magistrate in May over an arbitration payment made to a wealthy supporter of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, her lawyer said yesterday.

Lagarde’s lawyer in France, Yves Repiquet, confirmed a report by news website Mediapart that the former French finance minister was to be heard in the case involving billionaire businessman Bernard Tapie.

“I confirm that it’s at the end of May,” Repiquet told Reuters, asked about Mediapart’s report that the hearing would be on May 23.

It is the first time Lagarde has been called in for questioning in an investigation launched in 2011 which could become uncomfortable for her and the International Monetary Fund if she is placed under formal investigation.

Lagarde has denied she did anything wrong when she ended a long-running court battle between the state and Tapie by agreeing to arbitration to settle the dispute.

But a court specialised in cases involving ministers suspects her of complicity in misusing public funds when, as finance minister, she overruled objections from advisers to go ahead with the arbitration.

Lagarde, who has been designated as a suspect despite never profiting personally from the affair, could be placed under formal investigation after the hearing, her

IMF chief Christine Lagarde was previously finance minister for France lawyer said.

A formal investigation would be more serious than Lagarde’s current status. Another outcome is her designation as an “assisted witness”, an intermediary status meaning Lagarde would speak to magistrates with a lawyer but would not be detained.

Repiquet said her summons was routine. “It’s a nonevent,” he said. “It’s normal that she is questioned ... I am not at all nervous about it.”

Lagarde said in January that arbitration was the best solution at the time and stood by her decision. Leftwing lawmakers filed a complaint which led to the current legal case.

Lagarde’s decision to accept arbitration meant the state paid Tapie 285 million euros ($371.70 million).

On Wednesday, an IMF spokesman said it would not be appropriate to comment on a case that was still being examined by a French court.

Belgrade in 1999 after 78 days of NATO air strikes halted the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians by Serb forces trying to crush a guerrilla rebellion.

The province declared independence in 2008 and is recognised by more than 90 countries, including the United States and 22 of the EU’s 27 members.

Dangling the prospect of membership talks, the EU says Serbia must help to end an ethnic partition of Kosovo between the 90-per cent Albanian majority and a northern pocket of some 50,000 Serbs where Belgrade still has a fragile grip.

The two sides have edged towards a deal on the status of the north, including what powers it would wield, through six months of talks mediated by Ashton. But negotiations on Wednesday, billed as make-

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (pictured) was called back to Brussels for further talks today or-break, stalled over Point 14 of the plan.

That calls for Serbia to stop obstructing Kosovo’s accession to international organisations, implicitly the United Nations.

“Removing that point would undermine the entire agreement,” Bekim Collaku, an adviser to Thaci, told Reuters.

“What kind of normalisation are we talking about if after this deal Serbia will continue

blocking Kosovo on its EuroAtlantic path?”

Serbia’s Dacic said all was not lost, but nonetheless accused Thaci of trying to scupper the deal.

“Serbia is supposed to let Kosovo be a member of international organisations? Well then let’s just write down that we recognise Kosovo as independent,” he told reporters.

“We couldn’t accept that, and we will never accept that.”

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Chinese Internet abuzz about cab ride that wasn’t

By Terril Yue Jones and Eleven Du CHINA’S Internet was abuzz yesterday over a report that President Xi Jinping, who is striving to portray himself as a humble man, had hailed a cab in Beijing last month. The report was later dismissed by state media as being false.

Many Chinese news portals, which had carried the story, removed it, including the website of the newspaper that wrote the original piece.

The report, which first appeared in the Beijingbacked Ta Kung Bao newspaper of Hong Kong, went viral on Chinese microblogs and the Internet before the official Xinhua news agency stepped in to say it was all untrue.

The Ta Kung Pao later posted an apology on its website.

“Because of our lapse, a significant false report ap-

peared,” the newspaper said. “For this, we sincerely apologise to our readers, We take this as a warning, and will return to producing accurate and rigorous reporting for the public.”

The story had portrayed Xi, who has been keen to break from the stiff and aloof style of past leaders, as a man who takes random taxi rides and gives moderate tips.

The Ta Kung Pao said that China’s new leader hailed a cab in the capital last month to take him to the Diaoyutai Hotel, part of the wellguarded state guesthouse.

Taxi driver Guo Lixin said he picked up two men, one of whom turned out to be Xi, who at the time was Chinese Communist Party secretary and was two weeks later named China’s president.

“This is hilarious. It shows that people will believe anything,” wrote one user on Sina Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, after Xinhua’s denial.

Travelling incognito? Chinese President Xi Jinping

UAE says that it has arrested the plotters linked with al Qaeda THE United Arab Emirates said yesterday it had arrested a seven-member cell linked to al Qaeda that was planning attacks on the Gulf oil and business hub, the second time this year it has alleged a concrete threat from the militant group.

The UAE, an important military, counter-terrorism and business partner of the West, said the seven were Arab nationals who had been helping al Qaeda with recruitment, financing and logistical support.

“The cell was planning actions to target the country’s security and the safety of its citizens and residents, and was carrying out recruitment, and promoting the actions of al Qaeda,” WAM news agency said. “It was also supplying it (al Qaeda) with money and providing logistical support and seeking to expand its activities to some (other) countries in the region,” WAM added.

The UAE, a federation of seven emirates including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, has been spared an attack by al Qaeda and other militants; some analysts say the groups find it too useful as a communications and financial hub.

But in December, the UAE said it had arrested a cell of Emirati and Saudi Arabian members of a “deviant group” that was planning to carry out militant attacks in both countries and other states. The term “deviant group” is often used by authorities in Saudi Arabia to describe al Qaeda members.

Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan told a local newspaper in January that some of the group had links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which uses Yemen as a base for international operations. There was no immediate word on whether yesterday’s arrests were related.

Some of the emirates have seen a rise in Islamist sentiment in recent years, and in the past year the federal government has started to crack down on alleged sympathisers of Islamist groups such as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

Musharraf flees after court orders his arrest Pakistani special security commandos escort a vehicle carrying former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf as he leaves the court premises following the order for his arrest in Islamabad on April 18, 2013.

Musharraf fled a courtroom yesterday after judges ordered his arrest to answer allegations he committed treason in 2007, an ignominious retreat for a man who once dominated Pakistan and had hoped to revive his political fortunes.

Pakistani television broadcast footage of Musharraf dashing from Islamabad High Court in a black SUV as several lawyers made half-hearted attempts to pursue his vehicle - a scene that would have been unthinkable when Musharraf was at the height of his powers.

It was another blow to his hopes of resurrecting his polit-

ical career after election officers barred him from standing at next month’s general elections, in part due to the various legal challenges he faces. The bid had garnered widespread popular scorn.

Musharraf retreated to a farm in an exclusive residential estate on the outskirts of Islamabad where police set up a cordon restricting access to the area. It was unclear whether the officers were preparing to detain him.

As police moved to seal off access, Mohammad Amjad, Musharraf’s spokesman, called a news conference to announce that his lawyers would petition the Supreme Court today to withdraw the order.

“We will file an appeal against the arrest order in the Supreme Court tomorrow,” Amjad said. He added that Musharraf was “composed and in good spirits”. (AFP)

North Korea offers list of conditions for talks

By Jack Kim NORTH Korea offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions yesterday for talks, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions, but Washington said it was awaiting “clear signals” Pyongyang would halt its nuclear weapons activities.

In a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, the North’s top military body said the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula would begin when the United States removed nuclear weapons that the isolated state said Washington has deployed in the region.

The move was likely a conciliatory gesture to China, North Korea’s only major supporter, which has signalled its unease over Pyongyang’s escalating threats and said talks were the only way to end the tensions.

“Dialogue and war cannot

US awaits signals Pyongyang will halt nuclear arms activity co-exist,” the North’s National Defence Commission said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

“If the United States and the puppet South have the slightest desire to avoid the sledgehammer blow of our army and the people ... and truly wish dialogue and negotiations, they must make the resolute decision,” it said.

The United States has offered talks, but only on the pre-condition that they lead to North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons ambitions.

Although North Korea signed a denuclearisationfor-aid deal in 2005, it later backed out of that pact and now deems its nuclear arms a “treasured sword” that it will never give up.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters North Korea would first need to show it is serious about abandoning its nuclear ambitions for talks to be meaningful.

“We’re open to credible, authentic negotiations, but that’s going to require clear signals from the North Korean regime, signals we haven’t seen so far,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. US Secretary of State John Kerry, who this week ended a trip to the region that was dominated by concern about North Korea, has stressed his interest in a diplomatic solution.

He told a US Senate hearing that Pyongyang’s offer was “at least a beginning gambit,” but added that it was “not accept-

able, obviously, and we have to go further.”

“One thing we’re not going to get into is .. ‘Here’s a little food aid, here’s a little this, then we’ll talk.’” Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a rejection of previous patterns of negotiations with North Korea.

South Korea which has angered North Korea by conducting annual military exercises with US forces, has also proposed talks. Pyongyang rejected the offer as insincere.

North Korea stepped up its defiance of UN Security Council resolutions in December when it launched a rocket that it said had put a scientific satellite in orbit.

That was followed in February by the North’s third test of a nuclear weapon. That test triggered new UN sanctions in March, toughening existing measures, which in turn led to a dramatic intensification of Pyongyang’s threats of nuclear strikes against South Korea and the United States.

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‘We will find Boston culprits’

WORLD TODAY Saddam’s former deputy pursued IRAQI special forces are closing in on the most senior member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle still on the run since the 2003 invasion, security sources said yesterday.

Troops backed by helicopters were searching for Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, head of Saddam’s nowoutlawed Baath party, in villages around the former ruler’s hometown of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.

Capturing the most prominent Baath leader would be a major victory for the Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki before provincial elections that will measure his political muscle for the 2014 parliamentary ballot.

“We have solid information that he is in Dour since last night, now we have closed the area, announced a curfew and are searching house by house,” said one senior security officer involved in the operation.

Douri was long believed to be living outside Iraq, and he was last seen in January in a video message encouraging Sunni Muslim protesters to resist Maliki’s government.

The remains of a fertiliser plant smoulder after a massive blast in the town of West, near Waco, Texas yesterday

Rescuers hunting for survivors after blast

Veto unlikely

By Corrie MacLaggan

FRANCE, Morocco’s traditional protector on the U.N. Security Council, is unlikely to use its veto to block a U.S. proposal to have U.N. peacekeepers monitor human rights in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, envoys stated.

The US proposal was contained in a draft UN Security Council resolution Washington circulated to the so-called Group of Friends on Western Sahara, which includes the US, France, Spain, Britain and Russia, UN diplomats said this week on condition of anonymity.

“We don’t expect France will block,” a diplomat from one of the Group of Friends countries said on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. The diplomat was confirming a French media report. Another UN diplomat yesterday confirmed the remarks.

RESCUE teams were searching the charred rubble of homes in a small Texas town yesterday for survivors of a fiery explosion at a nearby fertiliser plant that killed as many as 15 people, injured more than 160 and destroyed dozens of buildings.

Three to four volunteer firefighters were among the missing following the blast on Wednesday night, said Sgt. William Patrick Swanton of the Waco, Texas, police department.

Firefighters had been fighting a fire at the West Fertiliser Co for about 20 minutes before the 8pm blast rocked West, a town of 2,700 people about 20 miles (32 km) north of Waco.

The plant had tanks of volatile anhydrous ammonia, including what initial reports said was a tanker-sized container like those hauled on freight trains, Swanton said at a news conference yesterday. However, the immediate

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Up to 15 dead, over 160 hurt in Texas plant blast threat from fumes appeared to have abated, he said.

The blast destroyed 60 to 80 houses, officials said. It reduced a 50-unit apartment complex to what one local official called “a skeleton standing up” and left a horrific landscape of burned-out buildings and blackened rubble.

“It looks like a war zone with all the debris,” McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said.

Amid such devastation, the death toll remained a rough estimate of five to 15 people, Swanton said. He said more than 160 people were injured and that number was likely to rise.

Emergency crews were moving from house to house in a search and rescue operation, Stanton said.

“That’s good news to me, meaning that they’re probably

still getting injured people,” he said. “They have not gotten to the point of no return where they don’t think that there’s anybody still alive.”

The firefighters had been battling the fire and evacuating nearby houses and a nursing home out of concern about possible dangerous fumes before the explosion occurred, Swanton said.

Texas Public Safety Department spokesman D.L. Wilson said half the town, eight to 10 blocks, had been evacuated. Officials said 133 people were removed from the nursing home.

“There are still firefighters missing,” Swanton said. “They were actively fighting the fire at the time the explosion occurred.”

The firefighters were members of a large volunteer corps who had arrived on the scene.

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One law enforcement official who also served as a firefighter was found alive but in critical condition in a local hospital, Swanton said.

The cause of the fire remained unknown and it was being treated as a crime scene, which was standard procedure, Swanton said.

The explosion came two days before the 20th anniversary of a fire in Waco that engulfed a compound inhabited

by David Koresh and his followers in the Branch Davidian sect, ending a siege by federal agents. About 82 members of the sect and four federal agents died at Waco.

In West, witness Kevin Smith told CBS News he had just climbed the stairs to the second floor of his home when he felt the blast.

“The house exploded. It was just a bright flash and a roar, I thought it was lightning striking the house,” Smith said. “I felt myself flying through the air about 10 feet, and it took a second or two to realise that the roof had caved in on me so I knew it wasn’t lightning.”

PRESIDENT Barack Obama told a memorial service for the Boston bombing victims that “we will find” whoever carried out the attack that killed three people as investigators search for two men seen on a video of the scene shortly before the blasts.

Obama said Americans would not be intimidated by the twin blasts, which also injured 176 people in a crowd of thousands at the finish line of the world-famous marathon on Monday.

“If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorise us, to shake us from those values ... that define us as Americans, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it to. Not here in Boston,” Obama said at the memorial yesterday. While investigators have made no arrests yet, Obama said of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attack, “We will find you and you will face justice.”

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano earlier yesterday in Washington confirmed that the FBI was searching for people seen on a video taken near the finish line.

The Boston bombings put Americans on edge and security was tightened in major cities across the United States. Mail sent to Obama and federal officials that authorities believed contained the deadly poison ricin, reminded Americans of anthrax mail attacks in the wake of the September 11, hijacked plane attacks nearly 12 years ago.

The memorial service took place a day after the FBI arrested a Mississippi man in connection with the letters.

The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the ricin letters and the Boston bomb attacks.

Justice promised: US President Barack Obama

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Business Data points to slowing US econ

Diamond era finishes at Barclays with Ricci exit

THE number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week and factory activity in the nation’s Mid-Atlantic region cooled in April, further signs of a moderation in U.S. economic growth.

Underscoring the softening growth outlook, another report yesterday showed a gauge of future economic activity fell in March for the first time in seven months.

It was the latest data to indicate a step-back in the US economy after a brisk start to the year as tighter fiscal policy began to weigh.

“The evidence is mounting that the economy lost momentum in March and that has carried to April,” said Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Economic data for January and February has suggested growth accelerated in the first quarter after activity almost stalled in the final three months of 2012.

But in a replay of the prior two years, the economy appears to have hit a speed bump at the end of the quarter, with data ranging from employment to retail sales and manufacturing weakening significantly in March.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 352,000 the Labour Department said. The fourweek moving average for new claims, a better measure of labour market trends, rose 2,750 to 361,250.

While claims rose last week, they were still at levels economists normally associate with average monthly job gains of more than 150,000. That helped ease concerns of a deterioration in labour market conditions after nonfarm payrolls posted their smallest increase in nine months in March.

Departure comes as Jenkins tries to repair bank’s image

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RICH Ricci, the boss of Barclays’ investment bank who collected $26 million in deferred bonuses last month, is leaving the scandal-hit bank as its new chief executive seeks to cut back executive pay and repair its image.

The American-born Ricci, a star performer at Barclays known for his love of horse racing, was a key lieutenant of Bob Diamond, the former chief executive who left Britain’s third largest bank last year after a Libor interest rate-rigging scandal.

Tom Kalaris, head of Barclays’ wealth management and Americas business and the other remaining executive close to Diamond, will also leave.

New CEO Anthony Jenkins has been trying to put his stamp on the bank since he took over in August and pledged to reform its aggressive, high-risk reputation which led to Diamond and Ricci being pilloried in parts of the British media.

Speculation intensified that Ricci, 49, who is estimated to have earned at least £80 million ($122 million) from his 19 years at Barclays, would go after Jenkins failed to publicly back him when he unveiled a new strategy in February.

“It’s part of the ongoing cul-

Rich Ricci will step down as CIB boss at the end of this month and retire from Barclays at the end of June tural revolution at Barclays,” said Simon Maughan, analyst at Olivetree Securities. “There will be a few more Diamond acolytes edged out over the next 12 months, though obviously not as high profile.”

Ricci, who has one of the most memorable names in banking, is known for his immaculately cut green tweed suits, dark glasses and felt hat he wears to watch his top racehorses compete.

British people angered by large “fat cat” executive pay packets in tough economic

times derided the naming of one his horses Fatcatinthehat after a newspaper profile of Ricci headlined “Who’s the fat cat in the hat?”

More criticism greeted his sale of shares worth more than £17 million ($25.9 million) last month straight after receiving them as part of previous deferred bonuses or long-term awards.

British opposition Labour member of parliament John Mann urged him yesterday to pay it back or give it to charity.

Ricci was among 25 people named by the High Court in London as listed in regulatory documents concerning the Libor investigation which referred to “internal political” pressure to set borrowing rates low to paint a rosier picture of the bank’s financial health.

He has said he had been a witness in the investigation but was cleared.

His pay does not have to be disclosed as he is not on the board, but the 2011 Sunday Times Rich List estimated

he had a £54-million fortune and he has since received and sold more than £27 million of shares.

Ricci joined Barclays in 1994 and led its acquisition of Lehman Brothers in 2008, becoming co-head of investment banking in 2009 and sole head of corporate and investment banking (CIB) last June.

Barclays said he will step down as CIB boss at the end of this month and retire from Barclays at the end of June, the same day that Kalaris, 57, retires.

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BRITISH insurer Aviva Plc is to cut 2,000 jobs and slash redundancy payouts in the process, setting up a showdown with the country’s biggest trade union as it attempts to cut costs and mollify shareholders after a recent investor revolt.

Chief Executive Mark Wilson said the cuts would equate to around 6 per cent of the global workforce over the next six months and reflected the group’s commitment to deliver more than £400 million in cost savings by year-end.

Aviva, which employs around 31,200 people, said it would also overhaul its redundancy policy for all employees on UK contracts. From May, pay will be capped at 78 weeks of service and from December, staff will only receive two weeks’ pay for each year of service, rather than a current four weeks’ pay.

“I know this is difficult news for our employees but these changes are essential,” Wilson said in a statement. “Aviva needs to become a more efficient and agile organisation.”

Aviva launched an overhaul of its business last year after spiralling costs and poor share price performance triggered an investor revolt that forced out former CEO Andrew Moss.

Chairman John McFarlane subsequently drew up a review promising savings from the sale or closure of more than a dozen underperforming units across its insurance and asset management operations.

Britain’s largest trade union Unite branded the group’s planned reforms in its redundancy terms “a callous and disgraceful act” yesterday. “...the UK workforce, which is the backbone of the company, has suffered job cuts, pay freezes and now faces an attack on their redundancy terms, when the company is planning more cuts,” National Officer Dominic Hook said. “Unite will give staff all the support possible to oppose any job losses in the UK and the cuts to redundancy terms.”

A SHARP fall in sales of Nokia’s basic phones overshadowed a stronger performance from its Lumia smartphones in the first quarter, rekindling fears over its future and sending its shares tumbling to year lows.

The results renewed pressure on Chief Executive Stephen Elop, who was hired in 2010 to turn the Finnish mobile phone maker around after it fell behind rivals Samsung and Apple in the smartphone race.

He made the controversial decision to switch to Microsoft’s untried Windows Phone software in early 2011 and had said the transition would take two years, a period that is now over. Analysts said he was running out of time.

“Basically, he has only the second quarter,” said Mikko Ervasti at Finnish investment banking and wealth management group Evli.

Nokia said it sold 5.6 million units of Lumia handsets in the first quarter Nokia said it sold 5.6 million units of Lumia handsets in the first quarter, up from 4.4 million in the previous quarter, and forecast stronger growth in the current quarter.

But shipments of mobile phones slumped 21 per cent to 55.8 units, a far steeper

decline than the 8 per cent fall that markets expected, with unit sales down in every region.

As a result, overall net sales fell 20 per cent to 5.9 billion euros from a year earlier, far short of the 6.5 billion euros forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll.

Nokia’s future is seen depending on higher-margin smartphones as a growing number of global consumers want access to apps such as Twitter from their handsets.

But it still sells more regular mobile phones than smartphones, and needs to protect its position in the basic handset market so buyers of its cheaper handsets don’t defect to other brands when they eventually upgrade to smartphones.

In markets such as China, Nokia faces strong competition not only from rivals such as Samsung but also from emerging, cut-price competitors.

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Private schools need to adapt to the change in circumstances LIKE SO many other areas of the economy, the private education sector is in crisis.

Although the government announced that educational institutions were to be exempt from the brutal haircut on deposits, it is not yet clear whether private schools are included.

But even if the deposits of those schools which banked with Bank of Cyprus and Laiki are saved, the haircut and spiralling recession is likely to have a dramatic impact on student numbers.

Cypriot parents have traditionally made big sacrifices in other areas of their lives to send their children to private schools. The crumbling state school sector and the career advantages an English language education provided made those sacrifices seem worthwhile. In the meantime, the private school sector in the last decade expanded. In the mid-2000s, the economy was booming, increasing numbers of parents had the money for fees, while the growing expat populations especially from Britain and Russia meant a steady stream of foreign children who needed educating. Existing schools moved into newer, larger premises, new schools were established.

It was not to last. Student numbers had already dropped in the last two years as the first effects of the economic crisis hit home. Now the bailout juggernaut has crashed onto our shores, private schools will bear the full brunt of it. Already, they are offering discounted fees and renegotiating fee payment schemes to keep student numbers up. It is unlikely to be enough and it is hard to see how all these schools can keep going.

But like so many other areas of the economy, the crisis does provide an opportunity to adapt and make meaningful change to a sector that had fundamental flaws all along. Quite simply, there are too many private schools and most of them – even during the boom years – were and are too small to offer a fully rounded education. At IGCSE level, for example, students are often far more limited in the combination of subjects they can study than they would be at a state school in the UK and are forced to make an uneven arts/science choice far too early in their academic careers. At A level the limitations are even tighter. Sports, music and arts facilities at some schools are also patchy.

These weaknesses will become ever more evident as student numbers fall.

The answer seems obvious, small schools should pool resources and amalgamate.

The schools themselves will be most reluctant because each has tried to create its own identity. Some pride themselves on their traditional, academic ethos. Others seek to be more inclusive. Some aim for a truly international student base. Others are basically Greek schools where the language of instruction happens to be English.

But the crisis may well force them to overcome their reluctance. In the process, merged schools will finally be able to offer a richer range of subjects and improved facilities. Both the students and their parents deserve nothing less.

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The tourist is not as gullible as we think I

REMEMBER, in years gone by, whenever experts were discussing the future of the tourism industry many were suggesting that ‘virtual tourism’ would supersede other forms of tourism. Although this concept seems rather unrealistic, the future of this volatile industry is quite unpredictable and as its economic importance is growing, it becomes apparent that attempts to forecast future trends should not be ignored.

Whilst ‘virtual tourism’ is not going to materialise any time soon – I personally believe that such forms of tourism are unlikely to become a significant element of the tourism product, because the basis of travel is the actual, physical escapism from one’s environment – things will not remain the same forever as the tourism industry keeps evolving, adapting and changing.

Given the recent circumstances that have affected our economy and with tourism receiving the long-awaited attention it deserves, the question everyone should ask is the following. Is Cyprus keeping up with changes taking place in tourism?

Cypriots have a tendency to delay things. After all why do something today when it can be postponed until tomorrow, right? Well, simple economics suggest that if we are not proactive – and so far we have shown signs that we are not – competition will override us. An example is that of Turkey’s successful and rapid tourism development, most of which has had little to do with it being a low-cost destination.

Several success stories in tourism exist…Mallorca’s diversification from mass tourism, Malta’s position as a cultural destination and even Athens’ response to recent riots by promoting the Attica region cannot be ignored.

So why are we still struggling with our tourism product? With competition increasing how do we ever get out of this downward spiral of dependency on the UK market’s need for sunshine and ‘The English Breakfast’? (This has been recently replaced by Russian Menus offering ‘Borsch Soup’ and ‘Chicken Kiev’!).

The answer is neither a secret nor a mystery. An industry will be profitable if, a) its development is planned carefully by considering resources, strengths and market factors, b) decisionmaking and management processes involve every stakeholder and finally, c) if it has the ability to adapt to market and industry changes.

So far we have done none of these in either a timely or wise manner! Based on past performance it can be argued that project development in Cyprus precedes planning, and at times by-passes it, whereas decisions are poorly made because of conflicting interests. Nevertheless, the importance of the tourism industry for our economy is unequivocal and, despite the many obstacles and challenges, tourism officials in Cyprus must consider future trends, as outlined by the World Tourism Organisation (WTO), and to plan many years ahead.

Comment Dr Anna Farmaki A variety of trends are challenging the tourism industry worldwide and the visionaries who reap the benefits are destinations and organisations that have acknowledged the fact that the nature and structure of the industry is constantly changing.

Older travellers are predicted to dominate the market in future as more and more customised holiday products are targeted towards the segment affectionately known as ‘oldies’.

After all they have the money and time to spare! Another trend which is seeing phenomenal growth is that of ‘City Breaks’. An increasing number of destinations are advertising their cities and regions to target nearby markets in an attempt to maximise weekend visits, which can be particularly beneficial for season-dependent destinations such as Cyprus. Considering the excellent geographical position of Cyprus it seems imperative that our cities promote themselves as ideal weekend destinations.

We surely have plenty of attractions and activities for weekend breaks although there is always room for improvement. Given the rising demand for luxury entertainment complexes, it seems that shopping centres, casino resorts and theme parks are an appropriate investment option.

As more and more tourists are requesting comfort, quality and security, Cyprus has the resources to meet such demands if the appropriate measures are taken. With health-consciousness

‘Let’s face it, even though it is painful to acknowledge, Cyprus has nothing unique to offer’ growing, demand for sea and sun products will most likely diminish in the future as tourists will seek out more activity-type holidays and breaks. Similarly, demand for the arts, culture and historical events, festivals and attractions will continue to rise. Cyprus is fortunate enough to possess an abundance of culture and history.

Despite the existence of resources though, we are not quite there yet as there are several aspects which we need to improve on. As the role of information technology is becoming more predominant, Cyprus is falling behind its main competitors in the field of online marketing.

The future is in the eyes of the tourist Essential Information Technology (IT) such as a destination management system and creative technology embedded in museums and cultural sites is conspicuous by its absence.

Also, with cost becoming an important factor for holiday decisions why is our tourism product still one of the most expensive? And most importantly, as demand is growing for low-cost carriers and thematic cruises, why are our airports the most expensive in Europe, and our port not geared to accept large cruise ships?

As a nation we tend to imitate others and believe that if Ireland has golf courses then we should as well, and if Barcelona has marinas we need them also.

But in an era where sustainable development is dominating every discussion, how sustainable are these large-scale projects? As the importance of eco-friendly practices and authenticity is highlighted, it seems that promoting ecological processes in tourism production and consumption, involving local communities in the planning, development and management of tourism, is an essential step towards fulfilling future needs.

It is rather unsettling that almost 20 years ago the tourism authorities on this island instigated a repositioning plan which has yet to materialise.

There are many things which have not been done, many areas for improvement and many vested interests that need to be overcome. Otherwise, the future of our tourism industry seems bleak. For those quick to jump to the conclusion that Cyprus has loyal tourists who have always returned, and that our tourism product is unique, are in for a painful shock.

The statistics indicate that

loyalty to destinations is diminishing and well…let’s face it, even though it is painful to acknowledge, Cyprus has nothing unique to offer. Think of a postcard and ask yourself what distinctive characteristic would you put on it that would allow foreigners to easily recognise Cyprus?

In short, there is a tendency towards ‘going back to basics’ as humans seek more interaction with nature, traditional culture and the local population. More customised and personalised holidays will be sought after in future as full packages are likely to decline in demand. Also, smaller budget hotel chains are expected to dominate the accommodation sector, especially for short city visits whereas budgets will always be of concern to the contemporary traveller.

The temptation is to believe that trends will come and go, but the future is here and gaps are too obvious to ignore, particularly when visitors post negative reviews on social media networks. The future is in the eyes of the tourist and he is not as gullible as we may think. The ‘English Breakfast’, the staged ‘Authentic’ Cypriot Dances at hotel resorts and the Chinese employee showing visitors how to make ‘halloumi’, are scenes that have no place in the contemporary tourist destination.

The cruise-ship of change has sailed; the question is ‘are we on it?’

Dr Anna Farmaki is Course Leader, BA (Hons) Hospitality and Tourism Management School of Business and Management at UCLan Cyprus and wishes to offer special thanks to Dr Panayiotis Constanti for his comments and corrections to this article

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Opera star Placido Domingo says no plans to slow down Spanish tenor returns to London stage this week with Nabucco

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By Belinda Goldsmith SPANISH opera singer Placido Domingo returned to the London stage this week for his debut in Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco, saying he has no plans to slow down with a packed schedule for the year ahead.

Domingo, 72, has spent the past three months performing Verdi in Valencia, Berlin, Vienna and New York and will sing in another six European cities in the next four months.

His website bears the motto ‘If I Rest I Rust’ and Domingo said this was how he lived his life with no plans to change.

“I have been doing this all of my life and I plan to continue,” he told Reuters backstage this week after the first of his four performances of Nabucco at London’s Royal Opera House.

Domingo said he enjoyed the challenge of taking on a new role, the 142nd in a career that started in 1959, performing Nabucco for the first time as part of Verdi’s 200th anniversary year celebrations.

Nabucco, Verdi’s third opera, follows the plight of the Hebrews conquered and exiled from their homeland by Babylonian King Nabucco (based on the biblical King Nebuchadnezzar). Following the opera’s premiere in Milan in 1842, Verdi was hailed as one of Italy’s leading composers.

Domingo said it was a complicated part and he had had little time to rehearse before adding it to his recent Verdi baritone lead roles in Simon Boccanegra and Rigoletto.

“But I am very happy with the way it has gone,” he said.

“I feel with every opera that you do, you are looking for the next performance and to

Placido Domingo’s career has included 200 appearances at the Royal Opera House and performances alongside the late Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras as one of the Three Tenors improve...It is amazing with all the repertoire that I have done that this is my first Nabucco role.”

Critics praised Domingo’s vigorous, baritone performance for bringing alive a production that will be played in cinemas globally on Monday April 29. He will perform the role at the Royal Opera

House again on April 20, 23 and 26.

“His singing has such expressive beauty that he still commands the stage,” wrote critic Michael Church in The Independent newspaper, urging people to catch the great singer while he is still in his prime.

While in London, the Ma-

drid-born Domingo received the ceremonial Freedom of the City of London honour on Tuesday in recognition of a career that has included 200 appearances at the Royal Opera House and performances alongside the late Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras as one of the Three Tenors.

Last year Domingo released his first album of pop songs in 20 years, featuring various duets including one with his son, Placido Domingo Jr, but he did not expect a swift follow-up.

“I have some classical things to do now. This was something special for me to do,” he said.

Emeli Sande gets two Britney records Smurfs song Novello nominations EMELI Sande’s success looks to set to continue after she was nominated for two prestigious song-writing awards.

The singer, who enjoyed a series of high-profile appearances during the Olympics ceremonies last year, could pick up a pair of Ivor Novello awards.

Her track, Next To Me, is in the running to be named best song musically and lyrically after it was shortlisted along with Laura for Bat For Lashes and Jake Bugg’s Two Fingers.

The same song is also shortlisted for most performed work along with Olly Murs’ Dance With Me Tonight and Paradise

by Coldplay.

The annual awards - in their 58th year - are highly prized because they are voted for by songwriters and composers.

They will be handed out at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House hotel in central London on Thursday May 16.

Mercury Prize winners Alt-J are also recognised, with Fitzpleasure up for best contemporary song along with Plan B’s Ill Manors and Pelican by the Maccabees.

An Awesome Wave, the album that won the Mercury Prize for Alt-J, is shortlisted with Ben Howard’s Every Kingdom and Lianne La Havas’ Is Your Love Big Enough? for the album award.

Other awards given out on the day include best original film score, songwriter of the year and international achievement.

Britney Spears worked on Ooh La La for her children

BRITNEY Spears has recorded a song for the new Smurfs movie.

The hitmaker worked on Ooh La La for her children, Sean, seven, and Jayden, six, with ex-husband Kevin Federline, but has now revealed the track will be part of the soundtrack for The Smurfs 2, the forthcoming sequel to the 2011 animated adventure.

She announced: “Remember that surprise song I recorded for my boys? It’s coming soon! #OohLaLa for #TheSmurfs2 :) (sic)” While details about the track are not yet known, it is possibly Britney has teamed with her Scream & Shout collaborator will.i.am again as earlier this month the Black Eyed Peas star tweeted they had been “bonding”.

He wrote: “I had a good vibe session during lunch with @britneyspears ... talking about music, dreams, and life...#bonding (sic)”

MUSIC documentary Mistaken for Strangers, a tale about two brothers and the indie rock group The National, opened the Tribeca Film Festival, which this year features nearly 90 feature films from 30 countries.

The documentary was made by Tom Berninger, the younger brother of the Brooklyn group’s lead singer Matt, who follows the band behind the scenes on a world tour.

The filmmaker fires funny and often irrelevant questions at the five members of the band which is made up of Matt and two other pairs of brothers.

“It is a very personal movie,” said Berninger, 33, who shot the film while working as a roadie for the band, which will perform after yesterday’s screening. The band, formed in Cincinnati in 1999 before moving to Brooklyn, is known for its dark, moody music.

“With every younger brother there comes this desire to make something of himself in his (older) brother’s eyes.

It is about self discovery, stepping out of the shadow and acceptance of who you are,” Berninger said.

Festival organisers said they selected the film to start Tribeca because it embodies the independent spirit of many of the emerging filmmakers showing their work at the 12-day festival that runs until April 28.

“Not only is it a music documentary, it is a documentary about a young filmmaker making his first film. It is funny and irreverent, a good laugh, and has great music,” said Genna Terranova, the director of programming for Tribeca.

Jane Rosenthal, who cofounded the festival named for a New York City neighbourhood with actor Robert De Niro after the September 2001 attacks in downtown Manhattan, described it as “a very poignant story,” with its title stemming from the band’s song of the same name.

Berninger is among 38 first-time directors showing at Tribeca, which will feature 55 narrative films, 34 documentaries and 53 world premieres.

The festival, now in its second decade, will include free streaming of a number of films and has added a new section called Storyscapes, with five trans-media projects examining the intersection of technology and filmmaking.

Visitors can interact with the projects whose topics range from personal reflections on insomnia, accounts of the effects of Superstorm Sandy in the US Northeast, and alternatives to the storyline of Star Wars.

The festival will close with a restored version of Martin Scorsese’s 1982 film The King of Comedy starring De Niro and Jerry Lewis.

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Men ‘need to be more like women’ MEN need to be much better at going to the doctor when they are ill, British health minister Anna Soubry said.

She told MPs most men would do well to follow the lead of women and seek advice when they felt ill or had a medical problem.

The Government was particularly targeting the issue when it came to encouraging men to ask for treatment for sexual health problems, she said.

Soubry’s comments followed a question from fellow Tory MP Paul Uppal who asked: “Research seems to show that men’s poor sexual health is often more symptomatic of more serious problems like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

“Can you assure me that all robust measures are put in place to ensure that this is not overlooked and ensure that

men do not die unnecessarily because this situation has been taken for granted?”

Soubry replied: “Men are not very good at going to see their GP, or indeed a nurse or some other health professional, when they feel they may need some sort of medical assistance.

“It is beholden to all men frankly to follow the lead of women.”

ers - those who drank two units or less a week - had lower behavioural difficulty scores than children born to mothers who abstained from drinking during pregnancy. Similarly they were found to have higher cognitive test scores for reading, maths and spatial skills tests.

However, when the authors adjusted the score for potential confounding factors, most of the results did not prove to be significant.

Pregnancy study examines drinking

Asthma sufferers ‘take huge risks’

CHILDREN born to women who drink one small glass of wine a week while pregnant are not likely to suffer any cognitive or behavioural problems, research suggests.

Light drinking during pregnancy “is not linked to adverse behavioural or cognitive outcomes in childhood”, the new study found.

Previous studies have linked heavy drinking during pregnancy to health and development problems in children.

But the authors wanted to examine the effects of low-level consumption.

The study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, saw more than 10,000 sevenyear-olds take cognitive tests and their parents and teachers completed interviews and questionnaires to test the children’s social and emotional behaviour.

The findings suggested that children born to light drink-

ASTHMA sufferers have been urged to be more vigilant after a poll found that half of those with the condition do not think they are at risk of a potentially fatal asthma attack.

A survey of more than 50,000 sufferers found that 52 per cent do not think they are at risk of an attack - but Asthma UK warned that nine out of 10 of those people are mistaken.

The charity, which released the figures as part of its Stop Asthma Deaths campaign, said that sufferers who do not take their preventer inhaler every day, or those who ignore worsening symptoms and those without a personal asthma action plan are at risk.

“Millions of people with asthma are unaware that the condition can be fatal and that they are regularly taking huge risks with their lives,” said Asthma UK’s chief executive Neil Churchill.

Price of fame: performers, sports stars die younger

China says investigating humanto-human Self-destructive tendencies or risk-taking personality traits shown spread of by the two groups are thought to maximise the chances of success bird flu

By Belinda Goldsmith THE price of fame can be high with an international study yesterday finding that people who enjoy successful entertainment or sporting careers tend to die younger.

Researchers Richard Epstein and Catherine Epstein said the study, based on analysing 1,000 New York Times obituaries from 2009-2011, found film, music, stage performers and sports people died at an average age of 77.2 years.

This compared to an average lifespan of 78.5 years for creative workers, 81.7 for professionals and academics, and 83 years for people in business, military and political careers.

The Australian-based researchers said these earlier deaths could indicate that performers and sports stars took more risks in life, either to reach their goals or due to their success.

“Fame and achievement in performance-related careers may be earned at the cost of a shorter life expectancy,” the researchers wrote in their study published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine.

“In such careers, smoking and other risk behaviours may be either causes of effects of success and/or early death.”

Britain’s most high-profile celebrity publicist, Max Clifford, said the pressure that celebrities and sports stars put on themselves to succeed had to play a part, and even at the top they were always worried about who could replace them.

“People assume that fame and success is all about riches and happiness but as someone who has worked with famous people for 45

By Sui-Lee Wee Best of both worlds?

David and Victoria Beckham

years I know that is not the case,” Clifford said.

“The success becomes like a drug to them that they have to have and they are always worried about losing it so they push and push and work harder and harder. You have to be competitive in these fields otherwise it will not work.”

For the study the researchers separated the obituaries by gender, age, and cause of death as well as by occupation, with anyone involved in sports, acting, singing, music or dance put into a perform-

ance category.

Others were split into creative roles such as writing and visual arts, into a business, military and political category, or a group of professional, academic and religious careers.

The study found that the list was heavily skewed towards men who accounted for 813 of the obituaries and the main causes of earlier deaths were linked to accidents, infections including HIV and cancer.

Lung cancer deaths - which the authors considered a

sign of chronic smoking were most common in performers.

Richard Epstein, a director at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, acknowledged that the one-off analysis could not prove anything but raised interesting questions.

“If it is true that successful performers and sports players tend to enjoy shorter lives, does this imply that fame at younger ages predisposes to poor health behaviours in later life after suc-

cess has faded?” he said.

He suggested maybe psychological and family pressures favouring high public achievement could lead to self-destructive tendencies or that risk-taking personality traits maximised the chances of success, with the use of cigarettes, alcohol or illicit drugs improving performance output in the short-term.

“Any of these hypotheses could be viewed as a health warning to young people aspiring to become stars,” he said.

CHINA is investigating the possibility of human-to-human transmission of a new strain of bird flu that has killed 17 people and is examining “family clusters” of people infected with the virus, a top health official was quoted as saying.

Authorities have slaughtered thousands of birds and closed some live poultry markets to slow the rate of human infection. But many aspects of this new variety of bird flu remain a mystery, particularly whether the H7N9 strain is being transmitted between people.

China has warned that the number of infections, 82 so far, could rise. Most of the cases and 11 of the deaths have been in the commercial capital Shanghai.

Feng Zijian, the director of the health emergency centre at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters on Wednesday that “we are paying close attention to these cases of family clusters. “(We) are still analysing indepth to see which has the greatest possibility - did it occur first from avian-to-human transmission, and then a human-to-human infection, whether they had a common history of exposure, were exposed to infected objects or whether it was caused by the environment,” Feng said.

His comments were reported in a statement posted on the website of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

Efforts to determine the nature of the H7N9 virus are also hampered by a lack of accurate information from the victims on whether they have had contact with poultry, Feng said.

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Oblivion 60 years have passed since Earth was nearly destroyed by an alien invasion. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), a former Marine commander, is one of the last remaining men on the planet. He’s a drone mechanic, part of a huge operation to extract the planet’s remaining vital resources, and lives on a floating station thousands of metres above the ground.

A couple of weeks before his mission is due to end, Jack rescues a young stranger named Julia (Olga Kurylenko) from a crashed spacecraft – and soon finds himself captured by an insurgency led by 102-year-old Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman), eventually making him question everything he knows about the society he lives in and the truth about the war with the alien race. Also starring Andrea Riseborough and Melissa Leo. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. (Sci-fi action, 126 mins.)

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offers to help Pat reconnect Nikki but only if he’ll do with Nikki, something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both their lives. Directed by David O. Russell. (Drama with comedy elements, 122 mins.)

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Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything – his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother Dolores (Jacki

Maya (Jessica Chastain) is a CIA agent whose life is transformed after 9/11. She reluctantly participates in extreme duress (read: torture)

Zero Dark Thirty

La Bin Laden is where she says he is is. Also starring Jennifer Ehle, Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton. Directed

by Kathryn Bigelow. (Political action thriller, 157 mins.)

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Beautiful Creatures Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) is a young man who longs to escape his small Southern town. Lena (Alice Englert) is the new girl in town, beautiful and mysterious. The two fall in love – but Lena is a witch (a ‘Caster’) faced with a cosmic choice: on her 16th birthday, her true nature will emerge. Will it be light or dark? Her uncle Macon (Jeremy Irons) and other members of her family are trying to shepherd her to the light, while her mother and cousin are advocating that she embrace the dark side. Also starring Emma Thompson, Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum. Directed by Richard LaGravenese. (Romantic fantasy, 124 mins.)

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Pitch Perfect

Weaver) and father Pat Snr (Robert De Niro) after spending eight months in a mental health facility. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet – but Pat is obsessed with reuniting with his estranged wife Nikki, even though she’s the reason he went off the rails in the first place. When he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany

applied to detainees, but believes that the truth can only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she’s single-minded – and increasingly obsessive – in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s leader, Osama Bin Laden.

Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a US Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident that

Beca (Anna Kendrick), a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining ‘The Bellas’, the school’s all-girl a capella group, led by the demanding and headstrong Aubrey (Anna Camp), competing against the allboy a capella group The Treblemakers. But The Bellas are stuck in an old groove, despite Beca’s attempts to make them more energetic and relevant. Meanwhile, Beca’s budding relationship with Treblemaker member Jesse (Skylar Astin) is causing all sorts of problems. Also starring

Rebel Wilson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Directed by Jason Moore. (Romantic comedy, 112 mins.)

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation 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. Also starring D.J. Cotrona and Channing Tatum.

Directed by Jon M. Chu. In 3D. (Sci-fi action, 110 mins.)

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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 Jean-Christophe Lie. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 78 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 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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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.)

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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.)

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

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NEW FILMS Broken City Directed by: Allen Hughes Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Barry Pepper, Catherine Zeta-Jones US 2013, 109 mins.

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

Ratings Key Unforgettable Unmissable Recommendable Watchable Regrettable Abominable

Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), a New York cop, is accused of having murdered a suspect in cold blood. Mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe) considers Billy a hero but police chief Carl Fairbanks (Jeffrey Wright) isn’t so sure. Billy is exonerated, but forced to resign from the force. Seven years later, Billy is working as a private detective when Mayor Hostetler calls him to a meeting. He needs someone to track his wife Cathleen (Catherine Zeta-Jones), whom he suspects of infidelity. Currently in the middle of a tight mayoral race with challenger Jack Valliant (Barry Pepper), Hostetler can’t afford for this story to reach the papers, so he offers the princely sum of $50,000 if Billy can get him what he wants. Unfortunately, things are not as they seem.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Mixed: “If Michael Bloomberg had an evil twin – hoarse with power and wealth, swollen with macho entitlement – he’d probably look a lot like Russell Crowe in Broken City. As New York City mayor Nick Hostetler, Crowe is the best thing in Allen Hughes’s cluttered, formulaic thriller, which is to say he’s enjoyably terrible. With his perma-tan, Julius Caesar bangs, and an outer-borough yawp that lands on your ears like the Sunday Post hitting your doorstep, Hostetler is a New York monster to rank with J.J. Hunsecker in the classic Sweet Smell of Success.

Too bad the movie’s not remotely up to that level… “[Screenwriter Brian] Tucker, a first-timer, obviously loves his Bogart movies and shady film noirs, and he writes dialogue that occasionally smacks pungently against the wall (‘I believe in loving the one you’re with’. ‘What are you, stupid or Catholic?’) but more often splats on the floor (‘If he sees election day, it’ll be from the

inside of a cage like a monkey!’). Broken City is overstuffed with characters, including an upright campaign manager (Kyle Chandler), a conniving police commissioner (Jeffrey Wright), a sleazy businessman (Griffin Dunne) and Katie (Alona Tal), Billy’s adoring gal Friday – she really is right out of the Sam Spade playbook.

“Unfortunately, Wahlberg is all wrong for his role. Billy’s supposed to be a hard case waging an inner fight between his brutish and heroic sides, but little in the actor conveys raging conflict. Wahlberg’s best at playing oddly gentle tough guys, and Broken City is too mean – sometimes mean-spirited – to let him go there.

“It’s well shot, and the score channels ’80s-movie synth soundtracks in ways that I think are supposed to be ironic. You could do worse on a slow Saturday night when there’s nothing else on cable.

But as the implausibilities and conspiracies and doublecrosses pile up, Broken City paints itself into a corner. A plot can be confusing as long as the filmmakers themselves don’t seem confused, but that’s not the case here.”

Ty Burr, Boston Globe (US) Anti: “Wahlberg’s unique brand of bland under-acting works best when he’s cast opposite a larger-than-life on-screen presence, whether it’s a talking teddy bear or Christian Bale going for broke. When he’s required to anchor a film, as here, it invariably runs adrift, leaving a vacuum at the centre where a leading man should be. Crowe should be more than capable of holding up his end, but here, fake tanned and with a schoolboy haircut, he makes hard work of a straightforward role, and it is only Zeta-Jones, as the Mayor’s long-suffering, hardas -French-polished-nails wife, who seems willing to colour outside the lines.

“Allen Hughes’ first film away from twin brother Albert wants to be a 21st-century Chinatown, or perhaps a ’70s political thriller, but even if Hughes had the chops of a Lumet or a Polanski – and he doesn’t – he is hobbled from the start by a screenplay which too often mistakes complications for depth, and exposition for revelations …

If this ‘power corrupts’ potboiler had been made in the 1990s – with, say, Andy Garcia, Gene Hackman and Kim Basinger – it would already have felt old-fashioned. Forget it, Jake, it’s no Chinatown.”

David Hughes, Empire (UK)

The Croods Directed by: Kirk De Micco & Chris Sanders With the voices of: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener US 2013, 98 mins.

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

Hitchcock Broken City

The Croods Limassol, the K-Cineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

THE PLOT The cave-dwelling Croods are a prehistoric family who live largely in the dark. The family consists of father Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage), mother Ugga (Catherine Keener), son Thunk (Clark Duke), daughter Eep (Emma Stone) and Gran (Cloris Leachman) – but one day their cave is destroyed by an earthquake, forcing them to embark on the journey of a lifetime. Travelling across a spectacular landscape, they meet a young man named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) and discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Mixed: “The makers of the animated Vikings comedy How to Train Your Dragon have come up with an animated caveman comedy that might as well be titled ‘How to Train Your Father’. Instead they’ve called it The Croods, and centered it on a cavegirl

named Eep (Emma Stone) who has a dad she sees – entirely accurately, let’s note – as a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal.

“Voiced by Nicolas Cage, dad is loving but dim, and, as you’ll guess from his bedtime stories – all of which involve characters who die when they encounter anything new – cautious to a fault…

“For a while, I thought there might be a political parable intended here – Cage’s conservative dad competing with his daughter’s progressive boyfriend for the right to chart a path forward for the family of man – but it’s pretty quickly clear that the filmmakers don’t actually have much on their minds besides jokes.

“Most of these jokes are based on stereotypes nearly as ancient as the cave drawings the characters occasionally reference – not just overprotective dads and girls who love shoes, but savage toddlers, annoying in-laws and subservient mums…

“The Croods is structurally crude – just a Paleolithic road trip with detours for slapstick and sentiment. It’s less about breaking new ground, or even breaking in new characters,

than about creating an Ice Age-style franchise.

“Still, as family viewing, it’s pleasant enough: primitive, yes, but in a digitally sophisticated way that’s boisterous, funny and will no doubt sell a lot of toys.”

Bob Mondello, NPR (US) “If you’re pacing back and forth outside the Odeon, scratching your arms and muttering: ‘When is there going to be a new Ice Age movie? Four wasn’t nearly enough. I need another one.

I need to feed my fanatical addiction to cutesy prehistoric animations with wellknown Hollywood names doing the voices’ – well, this could be the one, a sort of methadone for die-hard Ice Age fans. Nicolas Cage voices Grug, the brutish yet lovable lunk of a caveman dad who rules his family strictly, keeping them in the cave. Emma Stone voices his teen daughter Eep, who causes Grug serious heartache when she falls for local cave-teen Guy (Ryan Reynolds). It’s amiable enough, but it makes The Flintstones look like it was scripted by Karl Popper.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

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

TELEPHONE NUMBERS: K-CINEPLEX: 77778383 RIO LIMASSOL: 25871410 RIO PAPHOS: 26207000

NICOSIA Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.20pm; KCineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 7.50pm, weekends also at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.20pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.20 and 7.50pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm Oblivion (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm

Beautiful Creatures (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.15pm Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm Zarafa (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 Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm

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

Cyprus Film Days (tonight at 8pm: Beasts of the Southern Wild) Zena Palace (midnight shows at the Point Centre for Contemporary Art). All films with Greek and English subtitles. www.cyprusfilmdays.org

LIMASSOL Broken City (15) Rio 3 at 7.45pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.35pm The Croods (K) Rio 2 (in 3D, in Greek) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in Greek) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) at 10pm; Rio 5 (in 2D, in English), weekends only at 5.15pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 7.50pm, weekends also at 5.20pm

Oblivion (12) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm Zero Dark Thirty (15) Rio 3 at 10pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.10pm Beautiful Creatures (12) Rio 6 at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.30pm

Broken City (15) Rio 5 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm

The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.20pm; KCineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 7.50pm, weekends also at 5.20pm Oblivion (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 5.25pm

Exhibition One Night Solo painting exhibition by Silvia Zwahlen Ragheb. April 19. Hilton Hotel, Othello Room, Nicosia. 6pm-9pm.

Tel: 96-578996

Theatre The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 19. Markideio Theatre, 27 Andrea Geroudi, Paphos.

6pm. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770 The Lost Island Little Box Theatre presents a hilarious production incorporating both film and theatre, written, devised, filmed and acted by the kids. April 19.

Melina Mercouri Theatre, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia. 7.30pm. Entrance is free (donations welcome). The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks. Free, donations welcome. In Greek. Tel: 99-832370. www.littleboxtheatre.com

Other Events Cyprus Film Days 2013 A showcase of international and local productions, special tributes, parallel screenings, workshops and music events. April 19-28. Rialto Theatre, Limassol and Zena Palace, Nicosia.

Tel: 77-777745/77-772552. All films screened with Greek and English subtitles. Free to all afternoon and late midnight screenings. €6 day card/€25 general entry card (for all festival screenings). A full programme at www.cyprusfilmdays. org Swinging Jazz Evening Charity music evening featuring Melanie from 4front entertainment and Michael Antoniou. April 19. Friends Bar in Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. €20 includes a 3 course hot buffet. €5 of the proceeds go to the Cancer Patient Support Group.

Win 2 free tickets by entering the competition; Tel: 99-854375 Effective Teaching and Learning History in Diverse Environment: New Opportunities and Challenges A conference for history teachers and educators. April 19-20. Home for Cooperation, Markos Drakos Street, Buffer Zone, Nicosia. April 19: 4.30pm7.30pm. April 20. 9am-2.30pm. Due to the limited number of places available on April 20 please send your participation request to the address: historyteachingworkshop20april@gmail.com.

Simultaneous interpretation in Turkish, Greek and English on both days. Tel: 22-445740. www.ahdr.info

Tomorrow Music Chamber Music Concert Concert with members of the CySO. The programme includes works by Benjamin Britten, Tomaso Albioni, Ayis Ioannides, Aaron Coplant and Antonio Vivaldi. April 20. Pallas Theatre, Paphos Gate, Nicosia. 5pm. Tel: 22463144 and or visit www.cyso.org.cy Rembetiko Festival Svoura Cafebar presents music festival devoted to old rembetiko and laiko song, with food & drink. April 20. Constanza Moat, Nicosia. 6pm-midninght.

Free. Tel: 22-757750

Theatre The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends.

April 20. Russian Cultural Centre, Nicosia. 11am. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770 Egg Salad A new children’s play, in a new theatre presented by Aiora. April 20 until May 26. Aiora Theatre, 4 Trion Ierarchon Street (Carrefour Volos Street), Limassol. Every Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 11am & 4pm. Adults €7/ Children €5. In Greek. Tel: 99-668843

Oblivion (12) Rio 7 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 3 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 2 at 10pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Zero Dark Thirty (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm

Beautiful Creatures (12) Rio 2 at 5.15 and 7.30pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm

Beautiful Creatures (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.15pm

Pitch Perfect (12) Rio 6 at 9.45pm

Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 4 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 7, weekends only at 3pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm

Other Events I Like Mr & Mrs Facebook Party Take your number at the entrance, get the most likes and win €200 in cash with DJ Peter on the decks. April 20. Club Nuovo, 11 Stasinou Street, Engomi, Nicosia.

11.30pm. €20 Open Bar. Tel: 96-336649 NASA International Space Apps Challenge Limassol A two-day event during which citizens from around the world will work together to address current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. April 20-21. Cyprus University of Technology, CUT Studies and Student Welfare building, Athinon Street, Limassol. 9am to 6pm April 21 (36hours). Tel: 97-719440/96-549344. misaakidis@ yahoo.gr http://spaceappschallenge.org/ location/limassol Come Together Day Join the Grammar School helping those in need in a festival featuring futsal, games, table games, bazaar, music, dance by GS and GJS students, food & drinks. April 20. Grammar School, Nicosia. 12–3pm. All proceeds will go to the Cyprus Red Cross Society, Nicosia Branch. www.grammarschool.ac.cy International Day Celebrate International Day at the school campus featuring songs, dance and drama in a spectacular evening show of well loved music together with popular food, games and entertainment. April 20. American Academy, 3A Micheal Parides Str, Ayios Andreas, Nicosia. 5-9pm. Tel: 22-664266

Zero Dark Thirty (15) Rio 2 at 9.45pm

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The Croods (K) Rio 1 (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.15 and 7.30pm, weekends also at 3pm; Rio 1 (in 3D, in English) at 9.45pm; Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) at 5.15 and 7.30pm, weekends also at 3pm

Pitch Perfect (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm

Cyprus Film Days (tonight at 8pm: Block 12) Rialto Theatre (midnight shows at Art Studio 55). All films with Greek and English subtitles. www.cyprusfilmdays.org

Zero Dark Thirty (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.10pm

PAPHOS

Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.35pm

Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 5.20pm

Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

LARNACA

Spring Fiesta Festival in aid of the Cyprus AntiCancer Society with exhibition and sale of paintings, sculptures, photos, jewelleries, vintage bags and clothes, Easter Decorative items etc, Activities for kids, songs, dances, bands from schools, food & drink and much more. April 20. In front of Phaneromeni’s School, all around Phaneromeni’s Church and Onasagorou Street (Old Town), Nicosia.

11am-7pm. Tel: 22-446222 CIM Marketing Summit 2013 A conference that aims to provide the opportunity to Cypriot firms to be informed about the latest developments in the areas of Marketing and Management with international guest speakers. April 20. New Theatre THOK, Nicosia. 9am.

Participation is open and free to the public. All Presentations will be in English. A Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to all participants at the end. RSVP events@cima.ac.cy or 22-778475

Ongoing Theatre The Eulogy A black comedy that breaks the mould on what we consider a typical monologue

by Greek poet, playwright Iakovos Kambanelis. Until April 20. Epigoni Theatre, Kyriakos Karaolis Square, Old Aglantzia.

Every Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €8.

Tel: 99-222974

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

In Motion The Black Box Theatre Group presents play by George Kleanthous. Until April 26. Old Vinegar House, 34 Genethliou Mitella Street, Limassol. Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. €10. Tel: 99790819/99-349719 Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatre presents comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. Until April 28.

Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609 Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas satirising Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 1. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Nicosia. On Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Gone With the Jobless A comedy performance by Marinos Hatzivasiliou who, together with other actors from the popular TV programme Patates, present a hilarious show with g humour and laughter. Until May 5. Diachroniki Music Stage, 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 9pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 99-783455 A Steady Rain The theatre group D-tale presents twocharacter melodrama by Keith Huff. Until May 16. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. €12/15. Tel: 99-535625

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On The Scene Music

Springing into action THE WEATHER has been a little bit… unpredictable of late. This weekend, however, it continues to make decent strides at more typical spring-like fashion as we oscillate between warm and cool.

At the time of writing the weather forecast for Saturday predicts intermittent clouds, sun and those cursed April showers, which doesn’t bode well for any outdoor events. Don’t let the weather dampen your spirit and enthusiasm though as here’s a couple of things to look forward to tomorrow that should help brighten things up.

Anyone who’s ventured into old Nicosia recently will attest to the fact that it has now become the heart and soul of the capital. Filled with trendy bars, coffee shops, it has bags of character and the city centre once shunned by locals for being too ‘multicultural’ is now being fully embraced.

There’s a great carnival atmosphere in the streets every weekend, with street buskers and human statues and tomorrow the old town will be alive with even more revellers as the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society hosts the Spring Fiesta.

If there’s anything better than strolling the charming and historic streets of old Nicosia it’s walking those same streets intoxicated by the smell of freshly baked bread that will have you salivating, while the pavement rings with the sound of music. An event in aid of a worthy cause, all the action is set to take place in front of Phaneromeni School, all around Phaneromeni Church and Onasagorou Street.

There will be plenty of stalls to peruse, offering handcrafted items and the artists are often available to chat about their wares. A sampling on the day might include paintings, sculptures, photos, books, vintage bags and clothes and jewellery of all shapes, sizes and colours. With Easter right around the corner, there will also be plenty of creative and fun Easter decorative items on sale, as well as cakes, biscuits and Easter chocolate eggs.

Boasting a friendly and relaxed atmosphere,

Preview Theatre Stage One Theatre Group Party Piece a comedy by Richard Harris May 7-11, 7.30pm at Emba Theatre FOLLOWING their last dramatic rendition of Disposing of the Body, Stage One Theatre Group

everyone is encouraged to look, carefully touch and explore what’s available. Sports collectors and football fans in general will have a chance to purchase authentic autographed footballs signed by local football teams including APOEL, Omonia and Anorthosis.

To keep the young ones entertained throughout the day there will be a designated area, with face painting, craft activities, balloon creations and much more. Children will also be encouraged to get involved in a recycling art workshop with Green Dot while adults can take part in the edu educational European game Do o you know Europe?

Let’s See. The sweet aroma of loukou-mades, the golden puffs of fried dough bathed in sweett syrup will add to the festival ambiance. You can also grab a quick sandwich or two wo along with all variety of food d and drinks. In addition, the Mediical School of the University of Nicosia will be on hand offerring first aid and emergency info plus blood pressure screening. ing.

Of course, no festival would be complete without the sound of talented ed musicians and there will be plenty of that with brass b bands, ith b d philharmonic orchestras and school bands parading down the streets.

Greek musical identity NOT FAR from Phaneromeni Square, at Constanza Moat, Svoura Cafebar is organising a musical festival devoted to old rembetiko and laika songs.

Some call it an alternative cafe, others an underground bar and some, a way of living. One thing is for sure that since it opened, Svoura has managed to become a popular haunt in old Nicosia.

Every day is a new story and every night has its own identity in keeping with the character of Svoura.

The friendly upbeat bar with no dress code is known for its musically-themed evenings.

Some go for its minimal and psychedelic nights, others for its funk and electro music. If you go there on a Tuesday, the night will begin with a playlist of blues and Greek bands that give traditional rembetiko a modern twist. For those staying on or arriving at around 10.30pm they’ll be met with the captivating and mesmerising sounds of live rembetiko.

This weekend, Svoura is bringing locals and visitors alike closer to rembetiko music.

The festival will attempt to take its audience on a journey

through the birth, development and glory of Greek urban blues music. From the early 1900s until approximately 1950 the identity of Greece changed dramatically through wars, political turmoil and civil unrest. Rembetiko music similar to that of the tango, the flamenco, the blues and the Fado - was born out of sorrow, pain, desire and yearnings.

Rembetiko songs are still popular today and this particular music genre is even admired among the younger generations. Expect to hear songs of a bygone age that filled the parlours of Smyrni and Constantinople to the dark and dingy dens of Thessaloniki and Athens and through to the live cabaret style bouzoukia.

The music will start early in the afternoon with distinguished local musicians simply reffered to by their first names such as Antonakis, Kokos, Charalambos, Elena, Yiangos, Andreas and more. Food and drinks will be available at low prices - nibble on some meze and traditional Greek deserts and then wash it all down with some ouzo or beer.

Rembetiko Festival Svoura Cafebar presents music festival devoted to old rembetiko and laiko song, with food & drink.

April 20. Constanza Moat, Nicosia.

6pm-midnight. Free. Tel: 22-757750

Spring Fiesta Festival in aid of the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society with exhibition and sale of paintings, sculptures, photos, jewelleries, vintage bags and clothes, Easter Decorative items etc, Activities for kids, songs, dances, bands from schools, food & drink and much more. April 20. In front of Phaneromeni’s School, all around Phaneromeni’s Church and Onasagorou Street (Old Town), Nicosia. 11am-7pm.

Tel: 22-446222

By Ledha Socratous

returns to playwright Richard Harris to provide some lighter relief and something a little closer to the Emba audiences’ acceptance for a ‘jolly’ night out.

Harris, born 1934, is a prolific British television writer, most active from the early 1960s to the mid 1990s when, in addition to his theatrical work he wrote primarily for the crime and detective genres, having contributed episodes to series such as The Avengers, The Saint, The Sweeney plus adaptations for A Touch of Frost and Last Man Standing.

Stage One has previously performed two of his plays - Outside Edge and Stepping Out and it is fun-loving Carol Harvey (who performed so movingly as Annie in the recent presentation of Calendar Girls) who returns to direct his Party Piece, a fast-paced and very funny play set in the back gardens of feuding neighbours on the night of Michael and Roma’s fancy dress house-warming party.

The evening looks set to be a lively one until a string of hilarious disasters strike including a distinct lack of guests, a burning

garden shed, a marauding Zimmer frame and the prospect of an irate husband on the prowl.

Michael and Roma’s patience is further tried by the arrival of their neighbours, the indomitable Mrs Hinson, who brings her own brand of party entertainment in the form of the domestic squabbles of her son and daughter-in-law.

The assembled strong cast includes Dawn Charman, Andy Fox, Judith Fox, Terry Jones, Carole Manuel, Mick Page and Gail Stokes, so all seems set for five hilarious evenings of entertainment.

Party Piece Stage One Theatre Group present comedy by Richard Harris. May 7-11. Emba Theatre, Paphos.

7.30pm. €12 and €6 for children.Members €10 on opening night and half price for Members over 80 on opening night. Complimentary tickets only available on opening night. Telephone Box Office Monday to Friday between 10am & 1pm.

Tel: 99-967737. Theatre Box Office Opens: Monday & Friday only, from 10.00am to 12.00 Midday, or email: boxoffice@stageonetheatre. com to reserve your seats

By Chris Ekin-Wood

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

Friday, April 19, 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

07.00 08.00 16.30

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

12.00 15.30

CYBC 2

17.00

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show.

18.45

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

19.20

Moiraia Fengaria

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

20.00 21.00

22.00

22.30

FILM: Night Falls On Manhattan

Repeats

07.50

Kati Psinetai (rpt)

23.30

08.40 09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures

14.50

NRG Zone George Et Fanchette

15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40

Repeats

Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (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) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt)

MEGA 07.00 08.00

18.40 19.30 20.20 21.25

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves

09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00 16.00 18.00 18.30

01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoulo Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Zois (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Dr Cook New Greek cookery show.

19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.10

00.00 00.10

Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Piso Sto Spiti FILM: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

01.30 03.00 04.30

SIGMA 06.10 07.00 08.20

10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30

A low-rent gigolo tries to raise the money for legal fees when his friend and former manager gets into trouble in Amsterdam.

Comedy sequel, starring Rob Schneider.

2005.

20.20 21.20 22.30

News ‘Til Death

00.20 00.25 01.20

Sitcom chronicling the domestic discord and disasters of middleaged couple.

Greek music show.

00.00 00.05 00.30

Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

With News at 18.00.

22.20

Top Gear Seventeenth season.

Episode 2: The trio travel to Italy to test high-performance hatchbacks.Also, petrolhead comedian Ross Noble is in the Reasonably Priced Car and the McLaren MP412C supercar comes under review.

A rookie attorney is put in charge of the prosecution of a drugs lord who killed the lawyer’s father. Thriller, starring Andy Garcia. 1997.

With News at 23.30.

00.15

A look ahead to the tournament that will be staged in Brazil, which has already seen the qualification process begin in Africa, Asia and South America.

This ambitious account on the life of France’s best known literary rebel, George Sand as she settled in the country after a tumultuous life in Paris. Drama, starring. Raphaël Personnaz. 2010. Part 2 of 2.

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

06.20 06.50 07.00

The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

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

20.00 21.15

Euronews Kids’ TV FIFA World Cup Magazine 2014

Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15

ANTENNA

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

PLUS TV

Anna Paola (rpt) Protoselido Eleni

06.45 07.20

Variety show featuring entertainment as well as segments on cooking, health, astrology, and more. Hosted by well-known presenter Eleni Menegaki.

08.30

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 Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Stin Igeia Mas

10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00

09.05 10.00

Greek comedy series.

17.50 19.40

02.10 03.30 04.00 04.30

Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life.

21.15 22.00

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: Nights In Rodanthe A doctor who is travelling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.

Romantic drama, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. 2008.

Greek variety show, with well-known guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.

News Dekati Entoli (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mona Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Kid’s TV Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema

23.30

09.05 09.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.25 16.15 16.45 17.40 18.15

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Sto Mati Tou Kiklona (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi 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: Odd Girl Out A tiff between best friends at high school sparks a cycle of bullying which grows increasingly vicious leading to emotional problems. Teen drama, starring Alexa Vega.

2005.

22.45

FILM: A Lover’s Revenge Story about a female radio psychologist whose on-air advice makes her the target of a deranged man.

Thriller, starring Alexandra Paul. 2005.

FILM: Fists Of Fury A kung-fu fighter avenges his relatives, slain by their gangster boss. Martial Arts action, starring James Tien and Bruce Lee 1971.

01.10 01.50 02.20

CAPITAL

00.30

FILM: K- Pax A mysterious mental patient, convinces both staff and fellow patients that he comes from a utopian plane.

Drama, starring Kevin Spacey. 2001.

Raising Hope (Fox Life, 22.40)

01:15 Silk 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors 03:50 The Diamond Queen 04:45 Ideal 05:15 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:25 My Family 09:55 Keeping Up Appearances 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Hustle 13:05 The Diamond Queen 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 Keeping Up Appearances 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 The Diamond Queen 18:20 Life On Air: David Attenborough’s 50 Years In Television 19:10 Walk on the Wild Side 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 2 Point 4 Children 22:00 The Diamond Queen 22:55 Lead Balloon 23:25 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 23:50 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:35 Mad Dogs

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 The Aviators 08:40 Chasing Classic Cars 09:30 Prehistoric 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 13:05 Mighty Mississippi 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 Wild Fisher-

man: Mozambique 15:25 Prehistoric 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Unchained Reaction 17:50 Meteorite Men 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 Prehistoric 22:00 Unchained Reaction 22:50 Meteorite Men 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Unchained Reaction 02:50 Meteorite Men 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 Prehistoric 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 All Sports: Watts 10:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 12:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 14:45 Athletics: Greene Light 15:00 Fitness: The Box 15:15 Snooker: China Open Beijing 16:30 Gymnastics: European Championship Russia 18:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 Boxing: Bigger’s Better Heavy Weight Contest 00:00 Strongest Man: Champions League Lapland 01:00 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reserva-

tions 7 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Happy Endings 3 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 12:50 Last Man Standing 2 13:15 The Neighbors 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:25 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 19:25 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Happy Endings 3 21:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 2 21:50 Last Man Standing 22:15 The Neighbors 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Happy Endings 3 23:55 Don’t Trust The B...

In Apartment 23 2 00:20 Last Man Standing 00:45 The Neighbors 01:10 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3

07:30 Love Affair 09:30 Red Riding Hood 11:15 Underbelly Files - Infiltration 13:00 Poseidon 15:00 Saint John Of Las Vegas 16:30 Neverending Story Ii: The Next Chapter 18:15 80 Minutes 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Prey 23:00 Whistleblower 01:00 Hustler TV 02:45 Corporate Affairs 04:30 Cash 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

05:05:10 The Grey 07:05 In Her Shoes 09:20 The Artist 11:10 Crimson Tide 13:05 Beginners 14:50 X-Men: First Class 17:10 Action Zone 17:45 Albert Nobbs 19:50 Bridesmaids 22:00 The Double 23:45 We Bought A Zoo 01:55 Conan The Barbarian 03:50 Super 8

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 Nba Action 19:00 La Liga World 19:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 23:30 Barclays Premier League Preview 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 00:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 01:00 Barclays Premier League Review 02:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Privileged 08:00 Friends 08:25 Top Boy 09:20 Luck 10:20 One Tree Hill 11:15 Strike Back 13:00 Gossip Girl 13:45 Privileged 14:30 Top Boy 15:25 Luck 16:15 Big Bang Theory 16:40 2 Broke Girls 17:25 Mentalist 18:10 C.S.I. Miami 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 Pan Am 20:30 Friends 21:00 Necessary Roughness 22:30 Closer 23:15 Fringe 00:05 Sherlock

ants At Milwaukee Brewers 16:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 2 19:30 PRE GAME(E) 20:15 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS E.N.P (E) 22:15 POST GAME (E) 23:00 A DIVISION CYPRUS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 23:15 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 2

Holmes: A Game Of Shadows 02:20 My Afternoons With Margueritte 03:45 Big Bang Theory 04:10 2 Broke Girls 05:00 Mentalist 05:45 C.S.I. Miami 06:30 Gossip Girl

19:10 The Hunting Party 21:00 Analyze That 22:40 Cine News 23:00 Paranormal Activity 3 00:30 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:20 Outrage

08:15 Beautiful (2009) 10:00 Above The Law 12:00 Goodbye Girl (1977) 14:00 Space Cowboys 16:15 Safe Passage 18:00 Poltergay 20:00 Fathers And Sons 22:00 Easier With Practice 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Carnage 05:45 Art Of Travel

18:55 Take Shelter 21:00 Better Life 22:45 Room In Rome 00:40 Dirty Girl 02:15 Take Me Home Tonight 03:55 Cine News 04:25 The Names Of Love

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Catfish 21:00 MTV Hitlist Hellas 22:00 MTV World Stage 23:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 01:00 MTV Geordie Shore 02:00 Only Hits

02:30 NHL: New Jersey Devils At Philadelphia Flyers 05:00 TBA 06:00 Sports Unlimited 07:00 School Of Golf - Chapter 7: Better Wedge Play 07:30 Feherty - Roger Maltbie 08:30 Academy - Bernhard Langer: Driver 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Playing Lessons - Ian Poulter 10:00 Golf Central International 10:30 NHL: New Jersey Devils At Philadelphia Flyers 13:00 MLB: San Francisco Gi-

07:00 The Angry Hills 08:50 The Great Lie 10:40 Bad Day At Black Rock 12:00 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 13:45 Texas Carnival 15:00 White Heat 16:55 Somebody Up There Likes Me 19:00 Grand Prix 22:00 Splendor In The Grass 23:50 Many Rivers To Cross 01:20 Bachelor In Paradise 02:05 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 04:40 East Side, West Side

05:45 Machine Gun Preacher 07:55 Cine News 10:30 Nicostratos: Le Pelican 12:10 Mad On Novacinema 12:50 The Way 15:00 Absence Of Malice 19:10 Darling Companion 21:00 Ncis 22:00 In Darkness 00:30 The Conspirator 02:35 Apollo 18 04:05 House Of The Rising Sun

By Preston Wilder

The Prey (LTV, 21.00) It’s all getting a bit French! A French gangster movie on Pick of the Day last night - and another French thriller tonight, its trailer (in French) asking “Who is the hunter? Who will be the prey?” which is all quite exciting. Albert Dupontel is the hunter (or possibly the prey), doing time for bank robbery but breaking out when his ex-cellmate - now a free man - turns out to be a serial killer with designs on Albert’s family; also at stake is the loot from the bank, which Albert managed to hide before being arrested - and fans of classic Hollywood may discern a touch of The Night of the Hunter but this is something else again, “a testosterone-packed thriller full of breathtaking stunts,

The Prey

convoluted plot lines, interesting characters and unexpected shock moments,” to quote a breathless fan at the Internet Movie Database. And you thought the French just made films where people smoked Gauloises and talked endlessly. Made in 2011.

In Darkness (Novacinema1, 22.00) Phew, that was close: fans of traditional European art cinema may be wondering what’s happened to their favourite continent, with all these gangsters and serial killers - but this is the kind of European film we know and love (or just know), a sober-minded drama for the middlebrow audience. It’s a Holocaust movie, the ultimate ‘serious’ genre (inevitably, it was nomi-

nated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar), telling the Schindler’s List-ish tale of Leopold Socha, a sewage inspector in the Polish city of Lvov who helped a group of Jews by hiding them in the sewers. As in Schindler, the point is a rather unworthy man becoming a hero despite himself; as in Diary of Anne Frank, the Jews bicker endlessly but remain (of course) sympathetic - and you also have a horrible setting (the sewers) for those close-ups of rats and so on. Wellmade, engrossing and probably unnecessary, with a gratuitous interlude in a concentration camp so we can all shake our heads at those eeeevil Nazis (they’d shoot a man for not wearing his cap!). Old-school Euro-cinema still lives. Mostly in Polish; made in 2011.

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2 Name novice in California (4) 3 Aware of being on top for the most part (4) 4 Recorder? (6) 5 Green village in southern Scotland? (6) 6 Missile that will make a comeback (9) 7 Ended hopes of revolutionising the trades (9) 11 Out of form (9) 12 Begin with fish? That’s surprising (9) 13 Living person (5) 14 Vet or doctor open to view (5) 18 Long slit right in the fish (6) 19 Act in for agent (6) 22 Young skipper (4) 23 Food prepared by Alf North (4)

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Sober up; 5 Bare; 7 Picturehouse; 9 Rule; 10 Scenario; 12 No-good; 13 Anubis; 16 Subtotal; 18 Long; 20 One’s cup of tea; 21 Coil; 22 Rehired. Down – 1 Superbness; 2 Backlog; 3 Rout; 4 Preach; 5 Browning; 6 Riser; 8 Coastguard; 11 Colossal; 14 Bloater; 15 Jaguar; 17 Bingo; 19 Loth.

QUICK: Across – 1 Gallant; 5 Hate; 7 Unprincipled; 9 Grin; 10 Restrain; 12 Noggin; 13 Tropic; 16 Latterly; 18 Trek; 20 Extravaganza; 21 Snap; 22 Ransack. Down – 1 Grudgingly; 2 Lapwing; 3 Avid; 4 Ticket; 5 Hipsters; 6 Theta; 8 Knick-knack; 11 Fire-trap; 14 Piranha; 15 Clover; 17 Texan; 19 Agin.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Your mind and your thinking can be exceptionally fertile today. Your boredom threshold could also be low, as you need to feel liberated from the workaday concerns that we all deal with. However simple, make some alterations in your schedule. Embrace the concept that change is as good as a rest. If you don’t, you might feel exhausted and listless.

Your thinking can be inspired today. You can have enormous curiosity, probably much higher than usual. You might find yourself debating a subject for the fun of it, or if you have ideals or causes that you hold dear, you may want to promote these and get others on-side. Issues to do with the law, natural justice and contracts also feature.

You need to use your guile. Where possible, try to create your own environment and plans. If work or kids preclude this to begin with, do something more inventive or fun later in the day. Don’t sit back waiting for life to come to you, for you need to prime up your own stimulation and amusements. Head off out to a movie, or meet a friend for a drink.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

That hard to figure nervous energy which has come and gone in recent times can, once again, be back. This could lead to a headache, worse a migraine, but especially if there are delicate issues washing around in you that you are finding hard to resolve. If you have some anxieties, it is very important that you do not judge yourself for these.

If you see yourself as being a solid citizen, today can be a good opportunity to explore a different side of life. Anything to do with scratching beneath the surface and getting at people’s true motives, can fascinate you. You may have some kind of consultation. Superficial considerations probably won’t cut it. You want more, much more.

You might stumble over an old family item today which could contain some interesting insights into your background or that of a forbearer. A conversation with a relative could be equally revealing. Yet it is going to be important to avoid being too defensive or changeable at this time.

An idea for a home based business can give you food for thought.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Surprises abound today, as your ruler Mercury contacts the unpredictable energies of Uranus. A friend could make a last minute change, or you can find yourself becoming suddenly militant if the boss asks you to do yet “another” good turn for them. Your own mood and interests can also be variable. But if you have a quirky sense of fun, it can shine.

Someone can contact you out of the blue and delight you.

Or you can find yourself being more combative in your approach to discussions. The angles you take up can be novel, or the people that you are drawn towards could be unusual, but bright minded somehow. Settled? You and yours may clash, but this may be no bad thing if it revives the spark.

That side of you which loves a spark, buzzy exchanges and even a touch of the out of the ordinary, is revved up today by Mercury’s connection with the erratic energies of your co-ruler Uranus. If you like people who are eccentric, left field, or just plain fun, set up some time with them.

Anything dull and repetitive will be hard to bear.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You might find yourself wondering about a different kind of setting or lifestyle. If you are bored with your current situation or always seem to be dealing with the needs of others, this can be especially so. However, you can use this mood to your advantage and to think of ways to refresh how you approach what you do now. Be innovative where possible.

Your nerves could be rattling today, but then you could turn this into a positive by doing lots of things you have been putting off, and giving yourself some time to think, yet achieve at a practical level. However, little things can seem to get under your skin more and you may find yourself suddenly speaking out and being ultra critical Scorpio.

You may feel very rebellious today, but especially about spending money. If you are having to keep a tight rein on your expenditure, the resentment can mount to such a degree that you just HAVE to splash out on something desirable. Then again, you may do something dramatic to slash your costs. Money matters will be fluid to say the least.

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA floor heating independent with grass, a/c units, garden with grass and covered patio, in a quiet area near the International fair in the central part of Makedonitissa - €1500 AVAILABLE END OF MAY –(H4MAK0018-R) (photos in the website)

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

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8. 2 bedr new modern luxury apartment with separate central heating, full a/c, 2bathrooms(one en suite), blinds on all windows, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big sitting & dining room, big covered veranda, covered parking near Alpha Mega – Engomi €500. AVAILABLE END OF APRIL (A2ENG0014-R), (photos in the website).

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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

TO LET NICOSIA 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. 2 bedr luxury apartment with a/c for hot and cold, separate kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking, near the Ministry of Education – Acropolis €550 (A2ACS0036-R), (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new modern luxury apartment with floor heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining room, big covered veranda 30sq.m, fully fitted kitchen with expensive electrical appliances, blinds, covered parking, on the 6th floor with plenty of view and nice breeze, in the centre off Kennedy avenue – Nicosia Centre €700 (A2NIC0031-R), (photos in the website).

13. New luxury finished 3 bedr penthouse (floor apartment) on the 5th floor,165sq.m+ big verandas(one bigger with bbq), solid parquet floor all the

TO LET NICOSIA flat,3wc,2 bathrooms, central heating ind, full a/c, big separate Italian kitchen with electrical appliances and dining area, big sitting room, covered parking and storage room off Makarios Avenue walking distance to the centre €850 (A3NIC0030-R), (photos in 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 Electronics and English school – Strovolos €800 (A3ST10013-R) (photos in the website) 16. New luxury finished 4 bed PENTHOUSE apartment in a

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA small modern building, 186sq. m+90sq.m big veranda with nice view, separate floor heating, fully air conditioned, 4wc, 2 en suite bedrooms with shower,1 bathroom, solid parquet floor all through, big sitting and dining areas with electric modern shutters opening to the veranda, fully equipped kitchen with expensive electrical appliances, 2 parking places (1 covered), in a very quiet neighbourhood ,near the Russian Embassy. AVAILABLE END OF MARCH –Engomi €1900 (A4ENG0005-R) (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

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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GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

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

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

TO LET LARNACA 99202543 1 BEDROOM flat in Ermou Square area Larnaca - 2 bedroom flat in Phaneromenis area Larnaca. Call 96693375 ***************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom detached unfurnished property set on a fantastic development in the village of Tersefanou. Available for immediate occupation. Ref. TLL973. Tel 24815926 2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment, nr the Metro/American Academy Larnaca. Ref. TLL1654 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926 3.

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TO LET PAPHOS sac. good quality furniture, central heating, jacuzzi bath, stunning home with large garden, pool with roman steps, walking distance to tlc. €1200 per month negotiable. Tel : 99389426 ***************************** 1. Sea Caves Paphos, luxury 3 bed unfurnished villa with private pool on a big plot. One bed downstairs, kitchen white goods include dish washer.

Spacious bedrooms, dressing room, balconies, separate outdoor storeroom, enclosed garden. €1000 2. Secret Valley, 3 bed un/furnished villa with private pool on a big plot. Spacious living space, good sized bedrooms.

Pool and garden maintenance included in rent. Lovely sea and country side views. €700 3. Peyia, Beautiful 3 bed un/furnished villa with amazing sea views. Private pool, lovely garden, double bedrooms, master en suite. €500 4. Koili, brand new 4 bed unfurnished villa. Finished to a very high quality in a very quiet location. Italian kitchen, fire place, under floor heating, shutters, fly screens, pool, one bed downstairs. €850 PAPHOS TO RENT Tel: 99389198. For listings and many other properties please visit our web www.paphotorent.com and give us a call. ***************************** PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool,

TO LET PAPHOS quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views.

Sky satellite, €550 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents FOR RENT a selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi, Kato Paphos & Kissonerga Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at our website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus CHLORAKAS: 3 Bedroom unfurnished villa private swimming pool, utility room, walking wardrobes, en suite shower 180 m2 covered area fenced garden fully a/c, € 575 p/m For more information’s phone 99400697 ***************************** TREMITHOUSA- Modern 2 Double Bedroom Townhouse with Stunning Sea views, Large Secluded Terrace with Open Views, Roof Garden, Fitted Kitchen, A/C, U/F 350 Euros or F/F 400 Euros TREMITHOUSA- Superb Detached 3 Bedroom Villa with Large Pool, F/F to a very High Standard, Mater En-Suite, Family Bathroom with Jacuzzi, Beautifully Fitted Kitchen, Utility, Separate Shower room, Spectacular Mountain and Sea views, Quite Cul-De-Sac location 700 Euros KISSONERGA- Beautiful Detached U/F 3 Bedroomed Villa, Large Pool,2 Bedrooms Upstairs Master En-suite, Family Bathroom, modern Fitted Kitchen, Downstairs Bedroom with En-suite Shower room, Low maintenance Garden,

TO LET PAPHOS Large Terraces and Separate Storage Room 600 Euros TREMITHOUSA- Purpose Built Ground and First Floor 1 and 2 Bedroom Apartments U/F and F/F, A/C, Parking From Only 150 Euros URGENTLY WANTED – 3 Bedroom U/F Detached Villas 600/700 MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. CHLORAKA €600 a unique opportunity to rent a traditional stone village house in the village of Chloraka. This beautiful property has been lovingly restored and offers a spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom homes with plenty of character. A rustic hideaway offering large pretty courtyard with fruit trees. Off street parking. Stunning real fire in living area & log burner in kitchen. Available furnished with solar panels, pressurised water system & storage space.

Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_679 2. SECRET VALLEY €750 spacious modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a peaceful residential

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS area. Offering large private pool with a low maintained enclosed garden with sea views.

Off street parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture and includes gas central heating throughout. Modern fitted kitchen with granite worktops.

One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_561 3. KAMARES TALA €850 a stunning detached villa offering 4 bedrooms plus office in a quiet & private residential area with large parking bay for numerous cars and covered off street parking.

Offering spacious living accommodation and

TO LET PAPHOS breathtaking views of the sea.

This property includes a lift to all 4 floors. Luxury modern fitted kitchen with appliances.

Lovely garden with spacious veranda & private pool. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_669 4. SEA CAVES €850 price includes pool cleaning & gardening. Luxury modern detached 3 bedroom villas in a peaceful & private location. Fully furnished with good quality modern furniture including a log burner for those winter months.

Modern fitted kitchen with top brand appliances. Two bedrooms on ground floor with family bathroom & master bedroom & ensuite on upper level.

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

May Fayre St Barnabas’ Anglican Church.

153 Leontios ‘A’ Street, Limassol Tel: 96413775

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

TO LET PAPHOS Good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy & sea views. Shaded bbq area. Off street parking with shaded car port. website reference number: RTL_625 5. KAMARES TALA €900 a unique property combining modern and traditional. Situated in the sought after area of Kamares on a large plot with mature gardens & stunning private pool, offering total privacy and breathtaking sea views. Separate annex with modern shower room & separate kitchen. Guest room offering bedroom & shower room at pool level. Large modern office. Main house offering 2 further bedrooms plus a number of sitting rooms. Perfect for those who require something completely different from the norm. Available furnished or part furnished. website reference number: RTL_673 6. PEYIA €950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & fittings. Offering spacious accommodation with breathtaking sea views. Fur-

TO LET PAPHOS nishings & fittings are of a very high quality. Spacious living area with modern fitted kitchen & utility area. One bedroom on ground floor with ensuite & kitchenette. Guest wc. Private infinity pool & enclosed low maintenance garden. A must to see! website reference number: RTL_670 7. ST.GEORGE €1,100 a brand new stunning detached 3 bedroom villa with modern fitted kitchen & bathrooms. Beautifully finished with detail mosaic flooring. One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom.

Enclosed landscaped garden with kidney shaped private pool. Situated in a quiet residential area. Available unfurnished though includes top brand kitchen appliances & blackout blinds. website reference number: RTL_678 8. CHLORAKA €1,800 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fitted kitchen, living room with working fireplace.

SPECIAL OFFER In Kokkinotrimithia, 15km from Nicosia in a good area, (in the centre, opposite Maragos bakery, 41/2 acres or 7 plot with 90% building factor.

For more information please call 99673286, 99918830.

TO LET PAPHOS Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos. net **************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS : Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST.

KONIA PAFOS 4 bedroom villa in Konia on 3 floors. Four spacious bedrooms with nice veranda views of mountains.

Middle floor has sitting/dining area all with classic furniture and fireplace and lovely big kitchen. Downstairs is a selfcontained annex with bedroom and kitchen area/bathroom wc. Private pool BBQ area and outside sink. REF 1232 €1300 AYIA MARINOUDA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow in lovely quiet complex with communal pool. Property has fire place, off street parking, nice stone features, character property. REF 1224 €500 KOLETRIA PAFOS 4 bedroom house with 3 bathrooms offered unfurnished, central heating and flyscreens throughout 3 bedrooms upstairs, master bedroom has ensuite. Large shower room. Fourth bedroom downstairs with shower room.

Lovely large kitchen and sitting room. Covered area for car and back garden REF 1234 €500

TO LET PAPHOS SEA CAVES PAFOS Modern Bungalow offered furnished or unfurnished, 3 bedrooms, master en suite shower, family bathroom, kitchen, sitting area, flyscreens. Private pool, roof garden, outside showertoilet, nice location with great sea views. REF 1213 €750 PANO PAFOS Large 3 bedroom house on ground floor on large plot with lovely garden and private pool with BBQ area with outside utility room and shower in a residential area that is within walking distance to shops government offices, school, pharmacy and near to bus stop. REF 1231 €700 SECRET VALLEY A 3 bedroom bungalow in a peaceful location, fully furnished with central heating, airconditioning private pool and beaufiful sea views. Offstreet parking. REF 1228 €800 ANARITA 3 bedroom villa in Anarita in a nice quiet location with outside fenced area with gates, private pool, great seaviews. Unfurnished, airconditioning, fireplace in living room. Modern kitchen with granite worktops, guest WC. Nice garden and offstreet parking. REF 1229 €700 CORAL BAY 3 bedroom villa offered furnished or unfurnished in a lovely private and peaceful location. Property is cosy with a small kitchen, sitting room and dining area with a fireplace, airconditioning, guest WC, 3 bedrooms master ensuite, family bathroom. Nice views. Ref 842 €750 Please call for a free viewing on Office 26600450 Mobile:

CHURCHES GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m.

Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 office@sainthelenas.com

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

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives.

Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm.

International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

PROPHETIC CALL-OUT Grieved by preachers living in sin ? Pastors collaborating with idolaters?

Bored with just being a spectator?

In Prophecy there is no ‘us and them: Everyone contributes (1 Cor 14:26) 10am start 9/2/2013 God willing, Meet: Entrance Palaiopafos, Kouklia Instruments/shofars welcome

Open Door Baptist Church

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS 97614070 many more properties on our website at www. flowron.com - Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!! **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes.

Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and

TO LET PAPHOS stunning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call: 99389426 BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340 p.m. Tel 99403261 *****************************

UK House Offered in Exchange for Apartment or House in Cyprus A 100 sq. m. four bedroom Semi Detached house in the East Midlands, with a market value of £120,000, is offered in exchange for a 2 bedroom (minimum) apartment or house anywhere in Cyprus.

My house has been recently renovated at a cost of over £25,000 and is situated within less than three miles from Clumber Park.

If interested, please email Natalia at nzah50@hotmail.com for a detailed description of my property and please include the internal size in square metres and photos of what you are offering in exchange.

TO LET PROTARAS PROTARAS ***************************** NEED A REST? Luxury flats to be let, at Protaras, just by the sea.

Reasonable prices. Tel 447794 or 99628758 *****************************

PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL VILLA, Nicosia, Strovolos 550sqm build in two lots 1250sqm. 6 bds, 6 bath, under floor heating, A/C, basement, two car garage, beautiful landscape, well, pool, quiet area, great for families. Motivated seller.

Price reduced 1.500000.Call 99432074 mpapadmd@gmail. com **************************** FOR SALE a very nice, large, two bedroom apartment near Hilton and Central Bank. Living, dining room, sitting room, large veranda. Spacious kitchen, c/h, s/h, covered parking. Title deed. Tel. 99519370. ***************************** FOR SALE OFFICES, ground floor space, suitable for offices or any other business.

FOR SALE NICOSIA

FOR SALE PAPHOS

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. ***************************** 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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PAPHOS ***************************** FOR SALE large, beautiful, nice designed, sea view house. In Chlorakas area, very quiet and private location. 4 en-suite bedrooms. Spacious living - dining room, sitting room, kitchen with all electrical appliances, breakfast room, two fireplaces, built-in bookcases, electrical shutters, a/c, swimming pool, garden, patio, garage, store

FOR SALE PAPHOS room. Option for second floor.

Title deed. Adjacent to above.

Sold separately plot of land, with sea view. Title deed. Tel. 99519370.

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

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INDOOR MARKET & CAR BOOT SALE FRIDAY – SATURDAY – SUNDAY FRI 8:00AM – 2:00PM

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

STALLHOLDERS & CAR-BOOTERS WELCOME ALL ENQUIRIES CALL: 96533839/99771532

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Sport Kiprotich wants to be inspiration at the marathon

IN BRIEF Murray thrashed by Wawrinka

Olympic champ back in London for big race

By Alison Wildey STEPHEN Kiprotich, who overcame childhood illness and the might of the Kenyans on his way to winning marathon gold at the London Olympics, now seeks to inspire young athletes in his native Uganda.

Kiprotich takes on the Kenyans again in Sunday’s London Marathon and he wants to use his new-found fame to improve facilities for young athletes at home.

“In the future I need to look for good facilities so the young, upcoming athletes don’t travel long distances like I used to,” Kiprotich, who moved to Eldoret in Kenya when he was 17, told Reuters.

“So many people ask why I train in Kenya. I train in Kenya because of the facilities. We don’t have good facilities in Uganda.

“So for the future, we shall have good training facilities in Uganda so the young ones train there and also people from Kenya and all over the world can come,” added the 24-year-old.

As a youngster, marathon running seemed an unlikely prospect for Kiprotich who missed three years of school due to illness.

“The illness was on-off.

Sometimes I’d become ill for three or four months then I’d rest and get better.

But I’m happy that I gained back my health.

“The doctors would treat me with medicine and later, in 2001, they told me that it was ulcers but I wondered why I got ulcers,” said the quietly spoken Ugandan.

“When I gained back my health and joined school I started training. It was something I wanted to do because I love sports.”

Asked when he realised he had a talent for running, Kiprotich, who also enjoyed playing football, answered: “In 2009 when I was training with strong athletes and I could beat them.

“That showed me that although I was still young, maybe in the future I could do this.”

At the London Games, Kiprotich pulled away from Kenyan favourites Wilson Kipsang and twice world champion Abel Kirui in the latter part of the race to become only Uganda’s second Olympic gold medallist, 40 years after John Akii-Bua. Kiprotich, who was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Kampala, is confident Uganda will not have to wait so long for the next

champion to come along.

“They won’t have to wait because so many people now are inspired,” he said, his face lighting up with a gap-toothed smile.

“I inspire so many young athletes. So people now are training. To me the 40 years is impossible.

It is because of his Olympic victory that Kiprotich will be facing the likes of defending champion Kipsang and Kenyan world record holder Patrick Makau at the London Marathon this weekend.

“My life has changed in several ways. Being invited to come and run in the London Marathon that’s one of the things that’s changed my life.

“I’m now a famous person in Uganda and UK and all over the world. I’m enjoying it,” he said.

His best time of two hours seven minutes 20 seconds, set in Enschede in 2011, is several minutes slower than his rivals but having already got the better of them once, Kiprotich was undeterred.

“This Sunday, my focus is to run a fantastic race, running with the top athletes in the whole world is my memory... and for me I’m very happy.”

Stephen Kiprotich wants to use his new-found fame to improve facilities for young athletes back home in Uganda

Emirates adds Roland Garros to global sponsorship drive

By Tim Hepher

Seven-time French Open champion Rafa Nadal will see the Emirates logo on centre court next month

EMIRATES airline has added Roland Garros tennis to a spending spree on high-profile sports sponsorships, a strategy aimed at leapfrogging its rivals for global attention.

The Dubai-based carrier said it would sponsor the French grand slam tournament starting with the upcoming event in May. The airline is also on the verge of announcing a deal to sponsor the shirts of football team Real Madrid, a person familiar with the matter said. Media reports have pegged the shirt rights for one of the sport’s biggest brands at 30 million euros.

Forbes magazine said in its annual ranking of the value of football teams on Wednesday that Real Madrid, at $3.3 billion, had knocked Manchester United from top

place for the first time.

Dubai’s carrier has led the field in opening up global sports packages to the generally cash-pinched airline sector as it attempts to redraw the long-haul route map around the Gulf.

It was the first airline to sponsor the FIFA World Cup and spent an estimated $200 million on an eight-year deal up to 2014.

The cost of the Roland Garros partnership, which will give Emirates display rights on centre court and other locations, was not disclosed but the French Tennis Federation said it exceeded its minimum tariff of three million euros.

Emirates’ interest in international sports reflects its strategy of penetrating markets globally and drawing long-haul traffic through its hub in Dubai, an approach which has placed it on a collision course with Euro-

pean and other carriers.

“As a global brand we are interested in these kinds of sports which are borderless,” the airline’s president, Tim Clark, said.

Other partnerships include a recently extended stadium and shirt sponsorship with Arsenal and another shirt sponsorship deal at Paris St Germain, which it renewed weeks before the French team signed David Beckham, one of football’s superstars.

“Beckham is like Roger Federer. He has transcended football just as Federer has transcended tennis,” Clark said in a recent interview.

“These people are global brands in their own right.”

Emirates declines to say how much money it spends a year on sponsorship, which also includes cricket - hugely popular in key markets opening up to aviation such as India - and rugby.

WORLD number two Andy Murray suffered a heavy defeat as he was swept aside 6-1 6-2 by Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka at the Monte Carlo Masters yesterday.

Murray, who had won eight of his previous 12 meetings with the world number 17, looked far from his best as Wawrinka punished his tame serve.

The defeat, in his second match on clay this year, is a blow to the Scot’s preparations for May’s French Open.

Wawrinka goes on to face Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the next round.

Earlier in the day there were no problems for Rafael Nadal, who calmly continued his bid for a ninth consecutive crown at the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-2 6-4 third-round victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany.

The Spanish world number five recorded his 44th win in a row in the first big claycourt event of the season to set up a quarter-final encounter with 34th-ranked Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.

Fourth seed Tomas Berdych meanwhile slumped to a 6-4 6-2 defeat against Fabio Fognini of Italy.

A semi-finalist last year, Berdych, who had to recover from a break down in each set in the previous round to move past Spaniard Marcel Granollers, again struggled with his serve.

Ding: I wish I was an alien DING Junhui says the pressure of being China’s top snooker player weighs heavily on him going into the World Championship.

Ding, ranked nine in the world, will begin his quest for a maiden Crucible title against Scot Alan McManus.

“When I play in China, people think I will win every tournament I play in. They say ‘it is not impossible - you are human’.

I wish I was an alien.

“But I like to be the first Chinese player to set the records,” he said.

Ding, 26, has won the UK Championship and the Masters, widely regarded as the most prestigious titles in the sport outside of the World Championship.

But, while many expected him to become the first Asian player to capture snooker’s most coveted crown, he is yet to reach a Crucible final.

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Six-time Olympic champion Hoy confirms his retirement Britain’s most successful Olympian

By Tom Pilcher GONZALO FernandezCastano is itching to play what he describes as “probably the best course” in his homeland at this week’s Spanish Open after his best major performance in the Masters on Sunday.

Fernandez-Castano’s top20 finish included a third round in the company of Tiger Woods, following on from the world number one’s dropped-ball controversy.

Next stop for the genial Spaniard, nicknamed ‘Gonzo’, is the venue for the only European Tour event this season in his home country.

“It’s an indescribable course, there aren’t many left like it, a work of art that must be kept and cared for as if it were a Goya or a Picasso,” the 32-year-old told the European Tour website (www. europeantour.com).

“Hopefully, we will get some wind, which is its main defence, to add to the spectacle,” added the world number 31.

By Justin Palmer and Mitch Phillips BRITAIN’S most successful Olympian Chris Hoy is to retire from track cycling having exhausted “every last ounce of effort and energy”, the six-time Games gold medal winner said yesterday.

Hoy, 37, has decided against competing in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in his native Scotland.

“I am officially announcing my retirement. It was not a decision I took easily or lightly, but I know it’s the right decision,” Hoy told a news conference in Edinburgh.

“Nothing would give me more pleasure than going to Glasgow, but I don’t want to be there for the numbers. Being objective, I got every last drop out in London. Now it’s time for younger riders to experience what it is like to compete in front of a home crowd.”

Hoy won his first Olympic gold in the 1km time trial at the Athens Games in 2004 and followed up four years later by winning three in Beijing in the team sprint, keirin and sprint, the first Briton since 1908 to win three golds at one Games.

Gonzo set for Picasso test after Augusta artistry

Goodbye: Sir Chris Hoy, 37, yesterday said it was time to retire from track cycling

SAD Last year in London he secured two more golds in the team sprint, helping clock a world record time, and keirin to overtake rower Steve Redgrave as the Briton with the most gold medals.

Fellow British cyclist Bradley Wiggins has also won seven Olympic medals with Hoy ahead of the Tour de France winner on ‘gold difference’.

In a stellar and long track career that helped spearhead British dominance in the sport, Hoy also won a silver medal in the team sprint at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and 11 world titles.

Throughout his glittering career, which also led to a British knighthood, countless ‘sportsman of the year awards’, honorary degrees and doctorates and even-

tually national hero status, Hoy remained unfailingly modest, polite and fair and is held in the highest regard as a competitor and a man by both team mates and rivals.

When it came to self-effacement, Hoy has given the world a quote that marks him out as something different in the all-too-often self-obsessed world of professional sport.

Soon after scooping his third gold at the Beijing Olympics an eager journalist asked him: “Everyone has been offering an opinion on Chris Hoy, but what does Chris Hoy think of Chris Hoy?” The Scot replied: “Chris Hoy thinks that the day Chris Hoy refers to Chris Hoy in the third person is the day Chris Hoy disappears up his own arse.”

Anthony wins NBA scoring title

Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks finished the season with a league-best 28.66 points per game average

CARMELO Anthony scored 360 fewer points than Kevin Durant this season, but the Knicks superstar still took home his first career NBA scoring title.

Anthony officially earned the crown on Wednesday, as both he and Durant sat out the final day of the regular season. Anthony finished the year with a league-best 28.66 points per game average, while Durant - who had won the last three scoring titles - ranked second at 28.15.

The only other Knick to win the scoring title was Bernard King in 1984-85. King averaged 32.89 points that season.

“I’m sharing good company with Melo,” King told The New York Post, laughing.

“I think that he’s had a remarkable year. Once he got healthy, he’s been on a roll.”

Indeed, in the last 14 games, Anthony delivered a 33.4-point average, raising his average from

27.4 to his current mark.

“It’s a nice individual award, but I know Melo is thinking bigger than the scoring title.

His whole thought process this year has been to try to get to the Finals. It starts Saturday (against Boston),” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “But I think it’s a great accomplishment. It’s a testament to what he put in last summer, through the Olympic work and getting ready for vet camp, and it’s been a beautiful carryover for this season.”

Anthony’s 28.66 scoring average is the third best in Knicks history, behind King’s 32.9 mark in the 198485 season and Richie Guerin’s 29.5 average in 1961-62.

“I’ve seen him at his best,” said Kenyon Martin, teammates with Anthony in Denver and with the Knicks. “I’ve had some good runs with him, been through tough times, great times. But his

focus and mentality is definitely set at an all-time high.”

Anthony, who was not available to the media, sat out his second straight game to rest. Woodson explained, “This is Melo’s choice. I told you guys a couple of weeks ago if guys needed rest we’d grant their wish. Melo has gone pretty hard since the summer. Couple of days rest will do him justice.”

Elsewhere in Wednesday’s regular-season finale, Steve Blake scored a season-high 24 points and Pau Gasol had a triple-double with 17 points, 20 rebounds and 11 assists as host Los Angeles outlasted Houston to claim the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference playoffs.

Dwight Howard had 16 points and 18 rebounds as the Lakers averted a firstround clash with Oklahoma City and instead will face the second-seeded San Antonio Spurs.

Fernandez-Castano said he was sad that the financial crisis, which has crippled his country’s economy, has also deprived Spain of more top-level tournaments.

“It’s a shame that we have only one event in Spain this year, and that’s the reason why I am here,” said the sixtimes European Tour winner.

“Had it been a different tournament, I would have taken a break, but it’s my national Open. I know that Reale and the other sponsors, together with the Federation, have made a great effort to maintain it, so I’m happy to support it.”

Fernandez-Castano has been grouped with compatriot Miguel Angel Jimenez, who is making his return to action after breaking his leg skiing, and Italian teenager Matteo Manassero in the first two rounds.

Jimenez, the oldest winner in European Tour history, said he was not yet 100 per cent fit but wanted to test himself on the El Saler course near Valencia where he tied for third in 2001.

“My leg is improving daily. I work out every morning in the gym and I’m actually a little ahead of schedule on my rehab.

I can’t wait to be back on Tour with my friends,” said the 49-year-old who is making his 599th tour appearance.

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Sport AEL and Apollon meet in Cup final after 26 years

Roma reach Cup final after beating sorry Inter Milan

By Nemanja Bjedov

Nerazzurri coach Stramaccioni defiant TWO quick goals from Mattia Destro followed by a gem from Vasilis Torosidis gave AS Roma a 3-2 win away to Inter Milan on Wednesday night to set up an Italian Cup final against neighbours and bitter rivals Lazio.

Roma completed a 5-3 aggregate win in the two-leg semi-final against a sorry, injury-plagued Inter who have also been knocked out of the Europa League and seen their chances of Champions League football next season extinguished in the last month.

Inter, trailing 2-1 from the first leg played three months ago, began promisingly when Brazilian striker Jonathan put them ahead in the 21st minute after a neat exchange of passes but it unravelled after halftime.

Destro levelled ten minutes after the break, cleverly lifting the ball over Samir Handanovic after Erik Lamela slipped the ball between three defenders.

He then put Roma ahead 14 minutes later when he rolled in Federico Balzaretti’s pass to finish off a counter-attack after an Inter attack broke down.

Torosidis crowned Roma’s win when he flicked the ball over the head of a

defender and then lobbed his shot over Handanovic from the edge of the penalty area.

Ricardo Alvarez pulled one back for Inter when he cut inside his marker and scored from the edge of the area, but it was too late for sorry Inter who have lost four of their last five Serie A games.

Inter were missing Diego Milito, out for the rest of the season, Antonio Cassano, Rodrigo Palacio, Walter Gargano,Yuto Nagatomo and Dejan Stankovic through injury while Alvaro Pereira and Fredy Guarin were suspended.

Roma face Lazio in the final on May 26.

After the game, Inter coach Andrea Stramaccioni has hit back at mounting speculation over his future.

Despite the public support of club president Massimo Moratti this week, the pressure on Stramaccioni appears intense with banners from the club’s ultra fans on the Curva Nord on Wednesday supporting former coach Jose Mourinho.

But after the game, he was defiant.

“I do not give a damn about rumours about my future,” he said. “As long as I’m on the Inter bench

I will give 110 per cent for these colours.

“The newspapers can pull out the names of 127 different coaches, I do not care. You pull out a name, that coach renews with his team, and you pull out another. Let’s just help renew the contracts of every other coach.”

Insisting that his team should be congratulated for their efforts in defeat, Stramaccioni said: “We could not give any more.

There was a period where things went wrong for us.”

Moratti also spoke after the game and echoed the thoughts of his coach.

While appearing to suggest Stramaccioni would at least see out the season, he stopped short of making any further guarantees.

“I congratulated the team, who gave all they could at this time,” he said. “There will be reflections about the future, but for now we have to play these final six games.

“We cannot think that was has happened has been an accident, but we must consider the reasons that have caused it.”

Asked about the Mourinho banners, he added: “The Curva is free to express itself as it wishes, but the company is also free to make its own choices.”

Roma set up an Italian Cup final against neighbours and bitter rivals Lazio after a 5-3 aggregate win

Keeper penalty helps plot Sao Paulo path to last 16

By Rex Gowar

Record goal-scoring goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni has scored more than 100 goals from free kicks and penalties

RECORD goal-scoring keeper Rogerio Ceni converted a penalty to send Sao Paulo on their way to a 2-0 win over fellow Brazilians Atletico Minerio and a place in the last 16 of the Libertadores Cup. Three-time South American champions Sao Paulo, who were without suspended forwards Luis Fabiano and Jadson for the Group Three decider at the Morumbi, will clash again with tournament favourites Atletico in the first knockout round.

Ceni, who has scored more than 100 goals from free kicks and penalties, converted from the spot with a well-placed shot into opposite number Victor’s top left-hand corner after Aloisio brought down Leonardo Silva early in the second half.

The Sao Paulo captain had spent more than a week nursing a sore right foot and said if he had to take a penalty it could only be to that side, where he also scored

from the spot against Bolivia’s The Strongest in a 2-1 defeat in La Paz two weeks ago.

Ceni praised Brazil midfielder Paulo Henrique Ganso, interrupting an interview on television to say to him: “You were the best of the match. Now I understand why you are worth what you are.”

Ganso, one of the most creative midfielders in Brazil who eclipsed Atletico’s Ronaldinho on Wednesday, has struggled to find his best form since joining Sao Paulo from Santos last year.

He warned Atletico that his side would be stronger in the two-legged last-16 clash, saying: “It will be a different Sao Paulo, even better and with much more will than today.”

Sao Paulo, boosted by their passionate crowd of 50,000, sealed victory with a second goal from teenager Ademilsonnine minutes from time but needed help from Argentina’s Arsenal to advance.

The Strongest were second in the group before Wednesday’s deciding round of

matches and a win in Buenos Aires would have put them through with Atletico, the only team in the competition with a perfect record of five wins.

Arsenal, who also stood a chance of qualifying if Sao Paulo did not win, beat the Bolivian champions 2-1 to finish third behind the Brazilian side on goal difference.

The only matter at stake in the final round of matches in Group One was first and second place and there was no change as the two teams that had qualified both lost.

Nacional of Uruguay, three times trophy winners, lost 1-0 away to Ecuador’s Barcelona in Guayaquil but stayed top as second-placed six-times champions Boca Juniors also lost 3-2 at Toluca in Mexico.

Struggling Boca, who languish near the bottom of the Argentine ‘Final’ championship with eight points from nine games, lost for the sixth time in 15 matches this year and will need a dramatic improvement to reach a second consecutive Libertadores Cup final.

AEL coach Jorge Costa was delighted with his side’s 1-0 win over Omonia in the second leg of their Cyprus Coca-Cola Cup semi-final on Wednesday, which helped the Limassol outfit reach their 15th national Cup final and second in a row, after a goalless stalemate in Nicosia last week.

“Congratulations to my players. I am very happy that we will play in the Cup final,” he said. “It was a very good match and my players fought until the final whistle. They usually score two to three goals per match and we managed not to concede and created more opportunities than them,” he added.

Dijilly Vouho scored the only goal of the game in the last minute of the first half, while Omonia had to play with ten men for the last ten minutes of the match after Nuno Assis was sent off for a second bookable offence.

Omonia coach Toni Savevski hinted of dissatisfaction with Vasilis Demetriou’s officiating, but he agreed with Costa on the game itself: “I want to congratulate my players on their efforts after what they had to deal with during this match. I will remain calm and not say anything about the referee. In the first half we played well, but after the break we did not keep up which is a direct result of our increasing fatigue.”

In the second semi-final at the GSZ Stadium in Larnaca, AEK were trying to overturn a 2-0 deficit from the first leg against Apollon that was played last Wednesday at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol. The hosts took the lead in the first half through Alex da Silva, but Romanian striker Romeo Surdu levelled just after the hour mark to set up the final score.

“For the last three weeks we worked very hard as we tried to improve as a team. When we were drawn to play against AEK we knew that we would face a high-quality side. Today we did not play as well as we did last week because AEK made it difficult for us to get organised,” said Apollon’s coach Christakis Christoforou.

“When we managed to score in the second half, we felt that the pressure was released. We can allow ourselves to celebrate this great achievement, but not for long because we need to get back to work if we want to have a realistic chance of winning the Cup,” said Christoforou added.

“The last time AEL and Apollon met in the Cup final was in the 1986-1987 season when AEL celebrated a narrow 1-0 win thanks to a goal

by Pavlos Savva. This year’s final will be played at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol on Wednesday, May 22.

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Decision cost Hammers famous victory, says angry Allardyce

Mancini: tired City below par after laboured win

West Ham boss hits out at linesman

By Andy Hampson

By Mark Bryans WEST Ham manager Sam Allardyce believes his side were denied a “famous victory” over Premier League leaders Manchester United after Robin van Persie scored a late equaliser from an offside position.

The Hammers had twice taken the lead in the game courtesy of goals from Ricardo Vaz Te and Mohamed Diame.

Antonio Valencia had levelled for United before van Persie’s goal 17 minutes from time.

The Dutchman reacted quickest to the loose ball after Shinji Kagawa’s effort hit the post but he appeared offside, although assistant referee Harry Lennard failed to raise his flag.

That decision left Allardyce deflated at the fact his side were unable to record a stand-out victory over the champions elect.

“I think it is a big decision that has possibly taken the famous victory away from us,” he said.

“To play as well as we did and score the types of goals we scored - when you see it is an offside goal that is bitterly disappointing.

“At the end of the day it is a terrific performance by the players and it is fantastic in terms of how they have played at home all season.

“It is another precious point against the team who

Not a happy man: Sam Allardyce (left) was fuming after Robin van Persie equalised for league leaders Manchester United from an offside position are going to be the new champions.”

Allardyce admitted he would have taken a draw ahead of the match but suggested in the aftermath of the result that the level of officiating was not up to scratch.

He said: “I would have settled for a point before the start of the game and I’m very, very pleased by the performance of the players and I hope they can keep it up between now and the end of the season.

“This level of football has to be equalled by the level of the officials who are in

charge of the game.

“Lennard’s coaches have to coach him properly and coach him into getting better positions - that is why they are professional these days.

“It is a major decision that has gone against us. In the end we have gained a point - this highlights again just how good we are here at Upton Park.”

The salvaged draw for United means they are now four points away from claiming their 20th league title and Sir Alex Ferguson was delighted with the fighting qualities of his side.

“We had to stand up to a lot, we went down twice but we kept going. We played like champions,” he told Sky Sports 2.

“It was magnificent in terms of determination and courage to play. It’s one more game away - we’re determined to win, we don’t like losing and they showed that again.”

One area of contention for Ferguson was a challenge on goalkeeper David De Gea on the stroke of half-time.

Andy Carroll, fresh from a tangle with Wayne Rooney and a talking to from referee Lee Probert, crashed into

De Gea as he launched himself towards a set-piece and Ferguson felt the on-loan Liverpool forward should have been dismissed for the challenge.

“I think it’s obvious,” he added. “I don’t think we need to dwell on that, it’s an obvious red card but the referee has seen it differently.

“We know how they play, the ball is in the air most of the time. You’ve got to defend those things and they’re very, very aggressive so you hope there’s a strong referee. I’m not so sure we got that.”

Rafa can’t guarantee Terry a start

By Simon Peach

Chelsea captain John Terry celebrated his return to the team by scoring two headers

CHELSEA captain John Terry may have netted twice in Wednesday’s west London derby win at Fulham, but Rafael Benitez has warned that might not be enough for a starting berth at Liverpool this weekend.

The 32-year-old was an unused substitute in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final defeat to Man City but returned to the starting line-up at Craven Cottage, where he nodded home either side of half-time.

Terry’s headers complemented David Luiz’s exquisite long-range opener in a 3-0 win, which moves Chelsea back up to third in the Premier League.

Next up is a trip to interim manager Benitez’s former club Liverpool - a match in which Terry could find himself back on the bench as the Spaniard juggles domestic and European exertions.

“He has to be happy, scoring goals,” Benitez said. “Everyone is.

“It’s good for him and the team. I’m really pleased because it was a good performance.

“I prefer these problems of whether to leave him out. I told the players before it is important that they have to be ready.

“We have eight or nine games to play and

everyone has to be on his toes and ready to play and perform.

“We will try to stay in the top three and we have the Europa League as well. We want to compete in both competitions.”

After Liverpool comes the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Basel, making Wednesday’s win an important morale booster after back-to-back defeats.

“We were well organised and defending well, had chances on the counter-attack and you cannot complain when you score three away.”

For Fulham it was a case of what could have been after a bright start fizzled out following Luiz’s wonder strike.

“The first 30 minutes I thought our possession game was good,” Cottagers boss Martin Jol said.

“We played the four attacking players and had a good go at them. They’re a strong team.

“If you see the players they brought back into the team - Terry, for example, scored two goals.

“It is a fantastic team, but it is still disappointing we could not capitalise on the first 30 minutes.

“Their two defenders scored three goals.

That tells you all.”

MANCHESTER City boss Roberto Mancini admitted his side had been below par after labouring to a 1-0 win over Wigan at the Etihad Stadium.

The Premier League champions were outplayed for large periods by their relegation-threatened FA Cup final opponents, but snatched victory with a brilliant late Carlos Tevez goal.

Mancini said: “We worked really hard because Wigan played really well and every game we play against them is difficult because they play football and they like to win every game.

“I don’t think we played very well because we were so tired. Only in the last 2025 minutes we played better.

“They played very well, they don’t deserve to be relegated.”

Mancini felt his players were probably still feeling the effects of their energysapping FA Cup semi-final win over Chelsea at Wembley on Sunday.

When asked if there may have been a hangover, he said: “Probably yes, only three days.

“For this reason we played with four, five new players.

We spent a lot of energy against Chelsea and it was difficult.”

All of the five changes Mancini made to his line-up were defensive, including a return for Micah Richards at right-back after six months on the sidelines with a knee injury.

Mancini was pleased to see the 24-year-old back in action, but felt he was some way off his best.

On Tevez’s superb winner seven minutes from time, Mancini said: “Fantastic goal, he played really well Carlos - he fights.”

Tevez, who has now scored eight goals in nine games, is currently playing and training around a community service order after being convicted of driving whilst disqualified earlier this month.

When asked if this might be doing the striker any good, Mancini joked: “I think so.”

Mancini also joked when asked about the gap at the top of the table.

City’s victory cut Manchester United’s lead at the top to 13 points as their rivals drew at West Ham with a controversial equaliser on the same night.

Mancini, smiling and watching a replay of Robin van Persie’s goal on a pressroom TV, said: “This is not important, now it is finished. If they didn’t score an offside goal, probably...”

Meanwhile, assistant boss David Platt confirmed Sergio Aguero had been withdrawn at half-time after complaining of a hamstring problem.

The Argentinian could now be doubtful for Sunday’s trip to Tottenham.

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UCI admits Armstrong failed drug tests in 1999

By Martyn Ziegler THE International Cycling Union has defended its actions after it was confirmed that Lance Armstrong returned test samples with traces of corticosteroids four times during the 1999 Tour de France.

It had previously been known that the former US Postal rider, who in January confessed to drug use, had tested positive for the substance once, but the UCI has confirmed a leaked internal memo stating that there were actually four positive tests.

At the time, the UCI accepted that the traces came from cream used to treat saddle-soreness after Armstrong produced a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) certificate. He admitted this year the medical certificate had been

backdated.

In a nine-page document explaining the background, the UCI also confirmed that re-tests of Armstrong’s 1999 samples in 2005 also showed the presence of the blood-boosting agent EPO. The lack of B samples to test, however, made it impossible to charge Armstrong with a doping offence.

The UCI’s document states in relation to the corticosteroid findings: “It should be stressed that this case was handled knowing only the facts which were apparent at that time. For example, the UCI did not know that the medical certificate handed over to Dr. Schattenberg, a member of UCI’s Anti-doping Commission, in July 1999 had been post-dated. Armstrong only admitted this during his interview with Oprah Winfrey, which was broadcast on 17 January 2013.”

In relation to the EPO, the UCI said the

re-tests could not be taken as proof of doping.

The UCI document states: “In 1999, no test had yet been developed that could detect EPO, so the samples taken during the 1999 Tour de France were not tested for EPO. “In 2005, samples taken from Lance Armstrong at the 1999 Tour de France were re-tested in a scientific research programme of the anti-doping laboratory of Chatenay-Malabry, Paris.

“According to the research results EPO was found in Armstrong’s samples.

As indicated by the laboratory, and later also in the Vrijman report, these research results did not constitute valid proof of the presence of EPO under the anti-doping rules.

“Until his public confession, Armstrong has always denied that he had ever used EPO.”

An editorial cartoon depicting Lance Armstrong by cartoonist Steve Sack, published by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.

The image won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoon

Webber hits the 200 mark Australian hoping for a change of luck on milestone

By Alan Baldwin

F

ORMULA One’s most controversial race, the Bahrain Grand Prix with its simmering backdrop of teargas and petrol bombs, might just give Mark Webber something to celebrate on Sunday.

Red Bull’s Australian has had a pretty thin time of it recently but Sunday’s race, in a tiny Gulf kingdom troubled by civil unrest since a 2011 uprising, will be the 200th grand prix of his career.

The 36-year-old has been outspoken about Bahrain in the past and would doubtless feel happier hitting the milestone somewhere else.

But any strong result will be a bonus after last weekend in China and the previous ‘team orders’ storm in Malaysia.

“Yes folks really looking forward to the next GP, it’s ap my 200th appearance,”” d he said on Twitterr k. this week. it “Jeez ck, goes quick, pumped for the rest off the year.”

Webber has yet to stand on the podium in Bahrain e chambut triple m-mate Sepion team-mate bastian Vettel, the

Still going strong: Red Bull’s Mark Webber, 36, will line up for his 200th Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday German who snatched victory from him in Malaysia by ignoring an order not to overtake, was the winner last year.

In China, the Australian ran out of fuel in qualifying and lost a wheel in the race after having to start from the pitlane and then being involved in a collision.

Vettel leads the standings with 52 points to 49 for Lotus s K im mi Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen n and a d an 43 for Ferra r ri’s Ferrari’s Fernando Alon-

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso is chasing his fourth win in Bahrain

Building walls: protesters make their feelings known with graffiti in a village near Manama so. Webber has just 26 after four races.

Formula One’s travelling circus began arriving from China on Monday, greeted by friendly smiles at the airport and newspaper reports of explosions in town overnight that marked an escalation in

protests against the sport.

Away from the circuit, in more rundown areas and majority Shi’ite villages, teargas-firing police and protesters throwing petrol bombs clash almost nightly in lowlevel violence that threatens to flare up in race week.

There have again been calls by campaigners at home and abroad for the race to be cancelled, as it was in 2011, but commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone has made clear that is not going to happen.

Webber was one of the few drivers to speak out last year, when there was far more noise made about the decision to proceed with the grand prix.

“Ultimately we are all human. We have morals. We have ways we see things,” he said at the time.

Alonso won in China, his team’s first success of the season, and the Spaniard has the best record of any driver in Bahrain after three previous wins including his first for Ferrari.

The third different driver in three races to win this year, Alonso is the bookmakers’ favourite to spray

the rosewater - there being no champagne on the Bahrain podium - after a backto-back victory.

“I expect a tough race again,” he said.

“In Bahrain I think we will see different conditions and who knows how competitive anyone can be. But definitely ... from the races that we finished this year the car seems to be able to be on the podium, so we hope to be on the podium again.”

So too does Lewis Hamilton after taking two third places in three races for Mercedes since the 2008 world champion left McLaren.

“We’re not quite there yet, but we’re not far away,” he said.

“I came into the year with everyone saying it was the worst decision I could possibly ever make in my life,” he told reporters. “And we’re getting these results.

“We’re doing the job. We’ve got a lot of work to do to improve reliability and pick up the pace but we’re on it ...

Bahrain hopefully will be a better weekend for us.”

Raikkonen is chasing his 21st successive points finish, which would leave him just three short of Michael Schumacher’s all-time record.

The 2007 champion had his first podium with Lotus in Bahrain last year, when he finished second, and hopes to go one better.

“I like it. I’ve had some nice races there and picked up some good points although I’ve never won,” he said. “Wherever you look around the track you can just see sand in the distance and you notice it in the paddock too.

“It’s a circuit where I’ve never won before, so maybe this year I’ll change that.”