Letters

In 2016 – nine years ago – I was part of a campaign with experts and dedicated volunteers from Cyprus and abroad urging the authorities to implement specific measures to prevent tragedies like ...

What exciting news about the longed-for crematorium. As has been reported on many occasions there are thousands of us of all nationalities and faiths wanting this to happen. Cost, pollution ...

The Cyprus Orthodox Church’s stance that it will not perform funeral rites for individuals who choose cremation is ridiculous and unchristian and is based on an interpretation on religious ...

I found them on the hills of Pentalia. Two bodies, stiff, discarded as if they had never lived, as if their devotion had meant nothing. Hunting dogs, once valued for ...

The government is encouraging everyone to go and buy electric cars for the sake of the environment but: Firstly, is there enough electricity available to charge these vehicles. At present ...

I am writing to you today to complain about the practices of mukhtari regarding the fees charged for official stamps. I am concerned about the lack of transparency and consistency ...

I refer to an article published in the Cyprus Mail on January 10 on the views of the former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and would like to point out, that ...

The hunters who, every Sunday morning, gather on a well-known municipal family walk i.e. Aphrodite’s Dog Beach Walk have absolutely no thought or respect for the adults, children ...

Bravo Larnaca for reducing the fireworks to a level possibly bearable for many of us. I say this as a former war correspondent in Vietnam and Southern Lebanon/Unifil, also ...

I would like to praise garbage man George Rotos for the job he is doing (‘People are queueing up to do this job’ Cyprus Mail, December 21 by Theo Panayides) and ...

I live in Melbourne, Australia, and while watching Channel 9 news about a week ago, the finance segment showed the 10 best countries for Australian tourists to visit because of the strong $...

EAC currently requires people pay a monthly subscription to use their public car charging network (€6 per month). It’s the only charging network I’ve found in Europe that has ...

There is a major problem with the Road Transport Department and the provision of driving test appointments. This issue has existed since July and is only getting worse. There are ...

I helped my mother, a 19-year permanent resident of Cyprus, attend the Larnaca court this morning to meet up with her lawyer and submit some legal paperwork. It was interesting ...

Clearly the current visible, passive policing approach isn’t working. The recent spate of road deaths confirms this. Merely driving around with blue lights flashing creates a “law abiding” environment ...

I was very concerned to read the recent article on the airbag recall and the idea that cars may be forced off the road because of it. I have a ...

Water bills have been transferred from my local area (Oroklini) to the ‘Larnaca’ district although no-one bothered to let us know. Only upon asking Oroklini council where had my September ...

We recently returned from a holiday in Paphos, not having been in the previous five years due to Covid etc. I was pleased to read that tourism has increased, but ...

How can Cyprus be an energy hub since no financially viable gas has been discovered? The government managed to spend a lot of money on Vasiliko with nothing to show. ...

How sad to see the closure of the fish tavern Ayios Georgios in Peyia with its world class view. It seems that it is to be taken over by the ...

For several years I have enjoyed tuning in at mid-day of weekdays to hear a CyBC radio programme of classical music presented in English by Saskia Constantinou. This programme which ...

It’s one thing when hunters start shooting at 5am on a Sunday and wake everyone up, but I cannot accept that they come here and shoot directly on the ...

I feel I have to comment on the rip off charges being made by the car hire companies. Since 2006 I have been travelling to Cyprus on average twice a year ...

I felt that “if true” the ‘Government pays €6,000 monthly for autism facilities that do not exist’ (Cyprus Mail, November 8) then who is benefiting from that expense for absolutely nothing? And ...