Letters

Tuesday, May 11, 10am – 2.5 hours after the vaccine portal was opened for 27-28-year-olds. As a 27-year-old who has been staring at a screen for over three hours, waiting for the ...

I have been following your reporting about the inability of privately insured individuals (many of whom, like myself are not originally from Cyprus) to receive the Covid vaccination. This is ...

What a surprise that unvaccinated tourists will be allowed to roam freely and not be hampered at all by the same restrictions as residents in having to be tested during ...

On May 17, 2019, I applied for Cyprus citizenship. I paid 300 euros (not a few millions). I was assured that in no more than 10 months I would have Cypriot citizenship. Obviously, two ...

I was shocked to learn of the survey that was taken showing that only four out of 10 people said they would get the Covid vaccine. Have they not been watching ...

George Orwell’s Big Brother, Stalin, Adolf Hitler and their ilk would be jealous of the level of Draconian state measures introduced by the Cyprus government. There is a virulent ...

For nearly a year we are watching every day a new scandal unfolding over the golden passports given to rich investors. And on the other hand there are people who ...

It will soon be reaching five years since I moved to our beautiful island, a life-changing decision I never regretted. Still, I feel I have to share my opinion about ...

There are a few faults with your inductive reasoning as appeared in your editorial Government should have given us no choice over vaccine (Sunday Mail, April 18). First the fact. Medical ...

I have been following your news coverage of the Cyprus government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and would like to compliment you for your mostly balanced and objective reporting, ...

Your journalist’s report in the Cyprus Mail (Tuesday, April 20) that the health ministry appears to no longer be informing the public as to whether people who have died from ...

With outright surprise we took notice of the historical overview of Russian-Cypriot relations “Russia is not the horse to bet on” (Sunday Mail, April 4). The underlying message of the article ...

I write in response to the article in last week’s Sunday Mail by George Koumoullis, entitled “Accepting a mandatory lockdown but not a vaccine makes no sense”. How a ...

In his excellent profile of the animal loving Andreas Tsavellas and his DVD emporium (Sunday Mail, April 4) Theo Panayides is right to point out that “Netflix and its rivals only ...

An estimated 10,000 people marched in Nicosia on February 20 – yet there was no spike in coronavirus cases two weeks later. We were told this was because they were wearing masks and (...

Many people, me included, have been slamming the Cyprus banks for being slow, inefficient and bureaucratic. Based on my experience with HSBC, however, Cyprus banks are light years ahead when ...

My wife and I got the call to get ‘the jab’ on Monday, March 22 at the Vaccination Centre, Palia Electriki, Paphos. We were both given the AstaZeneca (batch ABV5811) Monday ...

Twas the year two thousand I remember it well I purchased a homestead Therein for to dwell I requested the papers To prove it was mine Don’t worry you’...

At 2.30 on Thursday afternoon, I was locking my car when a woman in a Mercedes saloon hit me with her left side wing mirror as I was standing right next ...

I write in response to the article, “We must preserve the Republic of Cyprus” by Yiannakis Matsis (Sunday Mail, February 28 https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/02/28/we-must-preserve-republic-of-cyprus/). Mr Matsis quoted me in an ...

Open letter to Mr Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from Nicosia lawyer Achilleas Demetriades Honourable High Representative of the European Union, Your ...

There are several issues raised by this editorial, each of which need to be examined separately. Firstly, the decrees promulgated by the state regarding the restrictive gatherings of people in ...

Benjamin Broome (an overseas facilitator in helping to create a bi-communal community in Cyprus) once offered this advice: “You must reach out your hand in friendship to the other side. ...

Like many of the people I know I have been willing to follow government directions, mask use in public and social distancing in particular, regarding the pandemic in order to ...