Letters

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 ...

Reporter Gina Agapiou in her article “Overcoming suspicions of 5G” (Sunday Mail, January 31) has accomplished the opposite. The superficial, one-sided coverage more appropriately should have been labelled as an advertisement ...

So this is “Getting Brexit Done” is it? Where were the voices explaining about the Northern Ireland issue before Brexit? On the Remain side, Theresa May, then Home Secretary, said ...

Many of the proposals are already in place and completely ignored. The public procurement of public projects are an EU obligation procedure and firms which have been found to be ...

The world is at war, not over races or nations, but over ideologies. Families and friends have been divided by their opinions on Covid and the responses to it. In ...

I’m a regular visitor to your country, and I believe I understand the mentality of the local population. I’m a regular swimmer down at the beach of Ayios ...

I went shopping with my wife yesterday for ‘essentials’ correctly reporting our intentions before we went, to be legal. In the shop my wife chose a food mixer to replace ...

Yesterday, like many of us, I was waiting for the announcement regarding the lifting of measures in Cyprus. Scrolling through the news and the updates, I finally came to realise ...

The miserable catalogue of disgusting examples of selfishness and downright obduracy spelt out by this damning and rapier-like editorial is no surprise to those of us who have been watching ...

I’m all for a solution to the Cyprus problem, however the author seems to be omitting a ton of weaknesses with the proposed US constitutional federal legal panacea he ...

A story massively biased against BREXIT once again. The authorities can still work together if their respective governments weren’t so full of petty scorn and childishness. Only this week ...

A couple of weeks ago it was reported that the permanent secretary of the health ministry, Christina Yiannaki, along with director general of Okypy Christis Loizides, had jumped the queue ...

To the Editor, I am concerned about the wide publicity given to the dreadful events on December 21, 1963. I would request that you please publish my letter in response to Mr ...

Dear Editor, I would like to refer to last Sunday’s article by your regular columnist Mr George Koumoullis on the intercommunal events of 1963-1964 and express my strong disagreement ...