Man arrested for coffee shop knife attack
A 46-year-old man from the Famagusta district was arrested on Thursday night after having allegedly attacked someone with a knife inside a coffee shop.
The police said a 41-year-old man ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Who is really in charge in Cyprus?
NOBODY knows what our Prez did to the deity-general Odysseas to excuse the latter’s manic efforts to wreck poor old Nik II’s carefuly cultivated image as the guy ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Mixed messages for Cyprus corridors
WHO WOULD have thought that instead of the much-trumpeted humanitarian sea corridor, which is still cooking, our Kyproulla would be used for a non-humanitarian air corridor, without our Kyproulla even ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: In times of crisis, a role for Cyprus
DELUSIONS of world importance have always been strong at the centre of the universe, also known as Kyproulla, and they inevitably surfaced as soon as foreigners leaving Israel began using ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Presidential surrender to whims of our real ruler
THE OTHER day I found myself almost feeling a certain degree of sympathy for our Prez – the sort of sympathy you feel instinctively for someone who is being bullied and ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Marathon brainstorming and multi-dimensional hot air
THE MILLION-dollar question that nobody has asked and therefore has not been answered is whether the beard will be a permanent feature on the Prez’s boyish face or whether ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Barbie branding and poor sartorial choices
A COUPLE of weeks ago the “internationally-acclaimed, award-winning Cypriot artist Alexia” performed her “conceptual live-arts culturalwork (sic) Kypris” in the street between the Cyprus museum and what was once called ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Triumphs rain down on umbrella diplomacy
WE HAVE lost count of the number of triumphs we have recorded on paper, thanks to the courageous battles fought by our warrior diplomats all over the world, often in ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Adding value to Prez Nik II’s agenda
THE RETIRED Nik loved grand gestures. When Odysseas demanded that the interior ministry hand him over 20 files relating to ‘the citizenship by buying a grossly overpriced house scheme,’ and was ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Just what do I have to do to join the battered middle class?
ONE OF the main slogans of Ethnarch Junior, when he stood in the presidential elections five years ago, was that he would revive the middle class which he defined as ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Farewell to a golden age with gift of new spiritual guide
ON THIS Christmas Day, all Christians of Kyproulla, including the non-believers, have been given the best possible present they could have prayed for, even though they would not have found ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Utter nonsense gaining ground with swathes of population
OUR DEPUTIES go on a three-month holiday having attended the last session of the House on Friday. The legislature will reconvene after the end of the presidential elections, giving deputies ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: In memory of the man too smart to seek public approval
SO FAREWELL Archbishop Chrys II, poor boy from Tala who rose to the top of the Church thanks to his undoubted cunning and wits. Our establishment, like everyone, considers it ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Not just the outside world that no longer cares
WHO COULD have believed that there would come a day when only a pitiful 8 per cent of our population would consider the Cyprob the most important issue facing the country? ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: 62 years of facing down threats paraded before us
KYPROULLA celebrated its 62nd anniversary of independence on Saturday with the traditional military parade, held in the sweltering Nicosia heat, which proved no deterrent to crowds of people turning up ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Will the kids take over? Radical, nonsensical ideas for education
EVERY few years someone decides it is time to make a fuss about the corruption and sleaze plaguing the government’s Service for the Administration of Turkish Cypriot Properties. Although ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Gesy is a conquest of the doctors
UNIVERSAL outrage greeted the publication of the auditor-general’s report about the Gesy specialist doctors who were making big fortunes by submitting countless fictitious payment claims to the Health Insurance ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Trading fatherhood claims for Gesy
FATHER of Gesy and independent presidential candidate hopeful Giorgos Pamborides suffered a couple of blows below the belt on Thursday thrown by his ungrateful former boss Prez Nik during an ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Gesy lynch mob determined to protect sacred cow
MAYBE I have missed something or there is some ethical point I am not aware of but the Edek leader Dr Sizo’s campaign for changing Gesy is so shameless ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Threat of UN words and free speech
DÉJÀ VU. We appeared to have engaged in some time travel in the last week and returned to the eighties when high anxiety gripped the country over the wording ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sick and tasteless days of Covid, elections
CONGRATULATIONS to Annita Demetriou for becoming not only the first woman to become president of the House but also the first Disy deputy. I do not know if she is ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The lockdown that took everyone by surprise
EVERYONE has been wondering how and why the government decided to impose a lockdown for two weeks starting last Monday, despite giving assurances before the announcement that there would not ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: They may as well lock us up and throw away the key
IN KEEPING with the traditions of authoritarianism, supreme leader Prez Nik overruled his government’s decree prohibiting people from attending church services during Holy Week just a few hours after ...