Cyprus Mail www.cyprus-mail.com FREE with your Sunday Mail People By Stefanos Evripidou P OLICE ARE on the hunt for those responsible for kidnapping an 18-month-old child from his grandmother’s verandah in Limassol yesterday, triggering a massive search for the missing toddler until he was found abandoned near a cemetery almost eight hours later. At around 8am, the 18- month-old Stavros Styl- lis went missing from his grandmother’s balcony on Karaoli Street in Yp- sonas in the Limassol district. According to reports, his mother, a teacher, dropped both Stavros and his twin sister off at their grandmother’s in the morning before go- ing to work. While his grandmother was chang- ing the nappy of his sis- ter in another room, Sta- vros was playing outside on the verandah. When the grandmother went out to find him, he was gone. Early reports suggested eyewitness accounts reported see- ing a rental car speed- ing away from the scene at around the same time as the kidnapping. The boy’s father, a sen- ior officer in the Nation- al Guard, was informed and almost immediately police launched a mas- sive hunt for the tod- dler, sending out a heli- copter while recruiting the help of the British bases, civil defence and other services. By mid-morning, the news of his disappear- ance was all over the tel- evision and radio, while a picture of little Sta- vros was disseminated across the internet, on online social network- ing sites like Facebook and Twitter, and spread like lightning around Cyprus through emails. Stavros was described as being 80cm tall, 11kg in weight, with short black hair, last seen wear- ing a red tracksuit with a Benetton label and a blue sleeveless coat. At around midday, police spokesman An- dreas Angelides said that police had alerted all ports, airports and checkpoints of the miss- ing boy. The search for the lit- tle boy intensified as the hours went by and word got round. At around 3.30pm, a widow, Lucy Constantinidou went to the Ypsonas cemetery to light a candle at her husband’s grave when she saw the child crying nearby, just in front of a shed made out of corru- gated iron sheets. Fearful that the kid- nappers were near at hand and might attack her, she stopped motor- ist Yangos Yangou who was passing by in his car and asked him to help her take the child. The two picked up the child who was shaking from the cold weather but dry, despite the ear- lier downpour in Limas- sol, suggesting he did Saturday, February 16, 2013 CYPRUS EUROPE Russia hit by meteor, nearly 1,000 injured 9 Tomorrow in €1 Kidnapped boy aged 18 months, left near a shack in a cemetery Fashion TURN TO PAGE 5 On election day we speak to the island’s third president Catwalk shows with looks for autumn kick off in New York Whatson LIFESTYLE New detention centre is state-of the-art 4 Toddler back with parents Competition Win an overnight stay for two at the Ayyi Anargyri resort Gilbert & Sullivan plus other favourites in upcoming concerts The next generation of movie gangs changing Hollywood centre TURN TO PAGE 3 Cypriots like white cars and September babies By Peter Stevenson CYPRIOTS love white cars and having babies in September according to Statis- tical Services, which yesterday released a host of interesting stats on its website as part the International Year of Statistics. “Our goal is to make people aware of the wide-ranging possibilities that statistics can offer all areas of society,” a statement from the service said. There are more women currently living in Cyprus than men, with 51.4 per cent of the population being female, which goes towards proving the age-old statistic that women live longer than men, as the life expectancy of men is 79 and women 83. The three most popular names for women Ballot boxes were being allocated yesterday in Nicosia ahead of tomorrow’s presidential elections in which over 500,000 people will vote (Christos Theodorides) STORY PAGE 6 ALL SET FOR ELECTIONS Nature Local filmmaker to capture our wildlife on screen
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By Stefanos Evripidou
POLICE ARE on the hunt for those responsible for kidnapping
an 18-month-old child from his grandmother’s verandah in Limassol yesterday, triggering a massive search for the missing toddler until he was found abandoned near a cemetery almost eight hours later.
At around 8am, the 18-month-old Stavros Styl-lis went missing from his grandmother’s balcony on Karaoli Street in Yp-sonas in the Limassol district.
According to reports, his mother, a teacher, dropped both Stavros and his twin sister off at their grandmother’s in the morning before go-ing to work. While his grandmother was chang-ing the nappy of his sis-ter in another room, Sta-vros was playing outside on the verandah.
When the grandmother went out to fi nd him, he was gone. Early reports suggested eyewitness accounts reported see-ing a rental car speed-ing away from the scene at around the same time as the kidnapping.
The boy’s father, a sen-ior offi cer in the Nation-al Guard, was informed and almost immediately police launched a mas-sive hunt for the tod-dler, sending out a heli-copter while recruiting the help of the British bases, civil defence and other services.
By mid-morning, the news of his disappear-ance was all over the tel-evision and radio, while a picture of little Sta-vros was disseminated across the internet, on online social network-ing sites like Facebook and Twitter, and spread like lightning around Cyprus through emails.
Stavros was described as being 80cm tall, 11kg in weight, with short black hair, last seen wear-ing a red tracksuit with a Benetton label and a blue sleeveless coat.
At around midday, police spokesman An-dreas Angelides said that police had alerted all ports, airports and checkpoints of the miss-ing boy.
The search for the lit-tle boy intensifi ed as the hours went by and word got round. At around 3.30pm, a widow, Lucy Constantinidou went to the Ypsonas cemetery to light a candle at her husband’s grave when she saw the child crying nearby, just in front of a shed made out of corru-gated iron sheets.
Fearful that the kid-nappers were near at hand and might attack her, she stopped motor-ist Yangos Yangou who was passing by in his car and asked him to help her take the child.
The two picked up the child who was shaking from the cold weather but dry, despite the ear-lier downpour in Limas-sol, suggesting he did
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Cypriots like white cars and September babiesBy Peter Stevenson
CYPRIOTS love white cars and having babies in September according to Statis-tical Services, which yesterday released a host of interesting stats on its website as part the International Year of Statistics. “Our goal is to make people aware of the wide-ranging possibilities that statistics
can offer all areas of society,” a statement from the service said. There are more women currently living in Cyprus than men, with 51.4 per cent of the population being female, which goes towards proving the age-old statistic that women live longer than men, as the life expectancy of men is 79 and women 83. The three most popular names for women
Ballot boxes were being allocated yesterday in Nicosia ahead of tomorrow’s presidential elections in which over 500,000 people will vote (Christos Theodorides) STORY PAGE 6
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ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 161923
Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1947Canadians are granted Canadian citizenship after 80 years of being British subjects. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the fi rst Canadian citi-zen.
1959Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro becomes the country’s youngest ever premier after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1999Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel lead-ers, Abdullah Öcalan.
2005The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratifi -cation by Russia.
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Improved Greek Turkish relations and a change in Greek Cypriot leadership have led to cautious optimism that a solution can be found for divided Cyprus but analysts say no quick settlement is in sight. The elections in Cyprus last weekend brought defeat after 11 years for incumbent Spyros Kyprianou, who refused to negotiate while Turk-ish troops remain in Cyprus.
35 years ago, Saturday February 16, 1978President Kyprianou has agreed with the Greek Prime Minister that when Karamanlis meets his counterpart Ecevit they will exchange views on the Cyprus problem in an effort to create a climate which will promote a just solution to the Cyprus problem.
45 years ago, Sunday February 16, 1968King Constantine of Greece has left the Greek ambassa-dor’s residence where he has been staying since his abor-tive counter coup on December 13 and has gone to live in a Rome hotel. The King’s residence in the ambassador’s house, technically Greek territory, has been considered a symbol of the fact he is still king of Greece and not an-other exiled monarch.
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Russia to contribute to helping CyprusBy George Psyllides
RUSSIA has assured Cyprus that it is prepared to con-tribute towards resolving the island’s economic problems as part of an agreed support package, it emerged yester-day.
The assurances were given during a meeting between Russian Finance Minister An-ton Siluanov and Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetria-des and his deputy Spyros Stavrinakis in Moscow.
“It was a very constructive and positive meeting … the fi nance minister assured that Russia is ready to contribute,” Central Bank spokeswoman Aliki Stylianou told state ra-dio.
The one-hour meeting was held on the sidelines of a high-level seminar of the Eurosys-tem – the European Central Bank and 17 member-states – and the Bank of Russia.
Stylianou said it was almost certain that Russia would ex-tend the repayment period of a €2.5 billion loan extend-ed to Cyprus in 2011. It was not however clear if Moscow would also offer fresh cash, as part of the island’s bailout package.
Cyprus has asked Russia to extend the maturity of the ex-isting loan to 2022 from 2016.
Last year, the island request-ed a new €5.0-billion loan, but Russia has not shown any sign so far that it was prepared to grant it.
Earlier this month, Siluanov said they were leaning more towards the extension as a contribution to the island’s bailout.
Extending the repayment period would help in making the island’s debt more sus-tainable and possibly avoid fresh austerity measures, in-cluding privatisations.
The island is looking at a potential bailout equal to its GDP – around €17 billion – a fi gure that would raise its debt to GDP ratio to 140 per cent. It appears that everything hinges on the cash needed for bank recapitalisation, which reports suggest was around €10 billion. The fi gure has not yet been made public.
Regulating collective agreements would be a ‘time bomb’By George Psyllides
LEGAL regulation of collective agree-ments would be a time bomb, employ-ers warned yesterday, registering their strong objection to a government bill that authorises the labour minister to extend agreements to all employers in a given sector.
The chamber of commerce and in-dustry (KEVE) said attempting to change the system would create huge upheaval and deal a blow to labour peace.
“Free negotiations and the industri-al relations code will be undermined,” KEVE said. “Such an action will be a time-bomb to the successful three-way cooperation based on free collec-tive negotiations between social part-ners.” The bill, approved by cabinet on Thursday, was submitted to parlia-ment yesterday.
According to the accompanying re-port, the extension aims at securing equal treatment in the sector while “combating the potential of some em-ployers to use unfair practices” like undeclared and illegal employment, personal contracts with worse condi-
tions than those provided for in the collective agreement. “Extending the collective agreement can be sought by a union, an employer organisation or it could be examined by the labour ministry itself if it judges that it would serve public interest,” the report said.
Employers, who had expressed their objection to the bill before its approv-al by the cabinet, stressed that they would not accept changes to the cur-rent state of affairs.
“There is no question, not even of discussing the possibility of changing the current system of labour relations, which will cause continuous unrest
with unpredictable catastrophic con-sequences for the country’s economy,” KEVE said. “The tripartite model of cooperation in Cyprus is an example to follow abroad and was often praised by the International Labour Offi ce,” KEVE said. “This is the system that helped our economy grow.”
Unions accepted the government proposal.
Left-wing PEO welcomed the cabi-net’s decision and yesterday it urged parties to approve the bill at parlia-ment and not to side with the employ-ers who disagreed for “obvious rea-sons.”
Toddler back with parentsFamily member brought in for questioning by police (continued from front page)not spend very long out-doors near the cemetery.
The father was informed immediately and arrived at the scene- around 1.5km from the grandmother’s house - to collect his litle boy.
Looking confused, re-lieved and teary-eyed, the father held the child in his arms before taking him to Limassol hospital for a precautionary check-up. The child appeared to be in good health, though a little disorientated and dazed by all the media at-tention.
Head of Limassol CID Io-annis Soteriades said po-lice were continuing their investigations into the kid-napping, noting that they were looking for more than one person.
“We are investigating a kidnapping, which is a very serious crime, with a pen-alty of up to seven years imprisonment,” he said. “We believe there was more than one person involved,”
he added. Police took around 20
statements from family members yesterday and took one family member in for questioning.
The man’s car was also taken in to undergo foren-sic testing.
Soteriades hailed the “unprecedented mobilisa-tion of forces” to search for the little child, which in-cluded Cypriot police and a police helicopter, British bases police, the fi re serv-ice, the army, civil defence members, the Ypsonas mayor and local author-ity employees, and mem-bers of the public who of-fered their support in the search.
“Because we are talking about an 18-month-old child, and I believe this mobilisation played a cat-alytic role in fi nding the child,” he said, implying that the kidnappers felt the web closing in on them and decided to dump the child near the cemetery before they were caught.
Screen grab of Stavros reunited with his father
The shack where the toddler was left alone
Three arrests in Limassol after street altercationTHREE PEOPLE were ar-rested on suspicion of damag-ing cars and restaurants on Navarino Street in Limassol last night after a gang of thugs tried to engage in a street fi ght with Kurds holding a peaceful demonstration in the coastal town.
According to a police spokes-man, at around 9pm, a group of around 200 Kurds held a peaceful march through the city to commemorate the as-sassination of Cypriot nation-al and Kurdish sympathiser Theophilos Georghiades.
The former president of the Cyprus-Kurdistan Solidarity Committee was murdered in 1994 by persons believed to work for the Turkish intelli-gence service (MIT).
During last night’s march, two Greek Cypriots allegedly swore at the Kurdish dem-onstrators as they passed by. Police quickly intervened to prevent any altercation, said the spokesman.
However, by the time the march ended and the Kurd-ish demonstrators returned to their club house on Nava-rino Street near the Catholic Church, around 50 to 60 hood-ed thugs wielding batons were waiting for them.
Police again intervened to prevent a massive street brawl between the two sides though were unable to stop the baton-holding hoodies from causing damage to nearby cars and a restaurant.
Three people from the crowd of hooded men were arrested.
By Peter Stevenson
THE NEW Menoyia deten-tion centre was offi cially opened yesterday by Justice and Public Order Minister Loucas Louca who said the increase in illegal immigra-tion called for the creation of such a facility.
“By creating places like the one we are inaugurating today we aim at the short-term stay of immigrants who are being deported,” he said. “The fi rst phase of construc-tion of this modern estab-lishment was co-funded by
the EU foreign border fund which contributed more than €2 million to the to-tal cost of €9.58 million,” he added. Louca said the new centre could hold 256 people and met all the necessary EU standards of living speci-fi cations.
He said those being held at Menoyia would have certain benefi ts such as rest rooms, a library, television, radio and facilities to play sports. They would be allowed to communicate with their law-yers as well as buy products for personal use, and have been given allotted smok-
ing areas. They would also be able to practice their own religion. Those detained will also have the opportunity to be checked regularly by doc-tors to help prevent any ill-nesses.
The Menoyia centre will only hold illegal migrants, including failed asylum seekers, rather than plac-ing them in the notorious Block 10 holding cells on the grounds of the Nicosia cen-tral prisons. Block 10 and the Lakatamia police deten-tion centre have been over-populated for years, holding people in subpar conditions, according to the 2011 report by the independent author-ity on torture prevention.
Speaking at the opening Police Chief Michalis Papa-georgiou said that concert-
ed efforts by many over the years had seen the inaugura-tion of a centre that would set the standard in Europe and internationally.
“Until the date that the illegal immigrants are de-ported we will care for them, for their safety, their wellbe-ing, their physical state and also for their religious be-liefs,” he said. “It is a great place and I am confi dent that instructions and regu-lations will be carried out in the best possible manner,” he concluded.
A committee was appoint-ed by the cabinet last week to oversee the detention centre. The committee, fall-ing under the auspices of the justice ministry, will visit the centre at least eight times a year to check on safety and
security, as well as documen-tation and electronic data.
The committee supervis-ing the Menoyia centre will include offi cials from the police, the migration de-partment, social services, the fi nance ministry and the health ministry, Stefanou said.
There are now two cen-tres in the Larnaca district, one in Menoyia and another nearby in Kofi nou, and the state rents two hotels in Lar-naca and Paphos to accom-modate migrants, includ-ing asylum seekers who are waiting for their application to be reviewed.
Security will be provided by special constables, an is-sue of contention between parliament and the govern-ment that had delayed the centre’s operation.
The justice ministry was eventually given fi nal say, go-ing with the state’s original plan of using police, includ-ing hiring about 100 special constables at a cost of €2.8 million.
Cyprus has managed to reduce the number of “mi-
grants passing through” and decreased expenses stem-ming from obligations to provide support – including fi nancial benefi ts.
From spending €23.5 mil-lion in 2010, the state spent €10 million last year to pro-vide for the needs of asylum seekers and people protect-ed for political or humanitar-ian reasons.
The state is also looking to switch from providing fi nancial help to handing out goods and gave parties a draft plan to consider in October last year, Stefanou said.
In 2008, 3,395 asylum seek-ers came to Cyprus, includ-ing 2,545 through the north. In 2009, there were 2,795 – 1,505 through the north and 1,290 through other ports of entry- and by 2010, some 2,498 people sought asylum, only 956 of whom came from the north, ac-cording to the latest com-plete police data.
In 2005, there were about 11,500 pending asylum appli-cations but the numbers are now down to around 1,000.
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Centre will have benefi ts such as rest rooms, library, TV , radio, sports and freedom to practice religion
State-of-the-art bunkbeds inside the facility will be a welcome change for detainees
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White cars and September babies Almost half live in detached houses while 40 per cent of homes have central (continued from front page)in Cyprus are Maria, Eleni and Androulla while men are most commonly named Andreas, Giorgos or Costas.
Most Cypriots get married according to the Statisti-cal Services, with 30 being the average age of men ty-ing the knot and women being tied down at 28. One in three of those marriages do not last though with 307 out of 1000 couples getting divorced.
Another well-known fact that is confi rmed is that most Cypriot men’s sub-ject of choice in higher education is business management and second favourite, engineering.
The subject of choice for most women on the other hand is teaching.
Women are rewarded sub-stantially lower on average compared to men, with the fairer sex receiving an average monthly salary of €1,400 and men receiving €1,750 a month with the amount of public debt per person coming to €15,000.
According to the statis-tics almost half the popu-lation live in detached housing and 40 per cent in houses with central heating, the average size of these homes being 141 square metres.
For every ten inhabitants on the island there are seven registered cars while two in 1,000 people have reported to police they had been in an accident during the course of a year.
Cypriot dietary habits are also scrutinised by the statistics which show that every person in Cyprus consumes 58 kg of bread, 88 litres of milk and 57 li-tres of beer a year. Each person, according to the service, produces 660 kg of refuse.
Mobile phones are very popular in Cyprus, shown by the statistic that for every one thousand peo-ple there are 1,266 sub-scriptions to mobile phone services.
About one in fi ve have ordered goods through
the internet with the most popular being booking va-cations while one in six make bank transactions online.
Cypriots travel abroad at least once a year or spend a night at a hotel or other tourist establishment on the island, while they only visit the cinema on aver-age once a year.
Social networking sites are very popular with young people aged be-tween 16 and 24 with four in fi ve Cypriots owning an account.
From the 100 or so cars at a municipal car park in Nicosia (above) over 40 are coloured white
Two in hospital after being run over in Limassol THE 62-YEAR-OLD woman who had her leg amputated after being struck by a car in Limassol on Thursday night was still in a critical condition yesterday as she re-covered in Limassol General Hospital.
According to a police spokesman a car being driven by a 42-year-old woman at around 6.10pm, collided with another car being driven by a 33-year-old man which changed course and hit the 62-year-old pedestrian.
She was taken to Limassol General Hos-
pital where doctors amputated her leg. She remained yesterday in critical condi-tion.
A second accident in Limassol on Thurs-day night saw an 11-year-old pedestrian girl hit by a car. She suffered a severe head injury, and although her condition was said to be stable she was kept for ob-servation at Limassol General Hospital. The 11-year-old was crossing the street when she was hit by a car being driven by a 21-year-old man, police said.
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All set for elections Chief returning offi cer says fi nal results by 8.30pmBy Peter Stevenson
POLLING stations are ready for tomorrow’s presidential elections, Chief Returning Offi cer Andreas Ashiotis an-nounced yesterday.
A total number of 1,139 dif-ferent polling stations will op-erate, both on the island, and also abroad. Some 545,491 registered voters will have the right to cast their vote tomor-row in all fi ve districts and at polling stations abroad.
The polling stations will open at 7am and close at noon for a one-hour lunch break, re-opening at 1pm and closing at 6pm. A new law has been put in place which will allow the chief offi cer at each polling station to extend voting hours until 9pm if a large number of voters have yet to cast their vote. Ashiotis expressed the hope that this would not be required as it had not been done in previous years.
Ashiotis explained the pre-cise method that each voter needed to use so their ballot was not considered void. “Vot-ers should place a plus sign, the letter X or tick the box un-der the candidate they wish to vote for,” he said.
“Any other sign, placed anywhere else will not be ac-cepted and that ballot will be considered void,” he stated. He added that if the front of the ballot was not stamped with the offi cial stamp of the Returning Offi cer at the poll-
ing station then it would also be considered void. If voters chose two or more candidates or if they placed any other insignia on the ballot papers then their vote would not be counted, Ashiotis said.
He also gave a reminder that pre-election campaigning and any political party action were to end at midnight last night.
“According to voting law, during the day preceding the day of voting, and during the day of voting, political adver-tisements, statements and events which are relevant to the elections are strictly pro-hibited,” he explained. “Any advertisements of any of the candidates must be removed by Friday night so that at midnight there will be none,” he added.
He pleaded with the rival camps to be extremely wary of such circumstances but admitted that it would be al-most impossible to stop peo-ple on social networking sites from posting advertisements prior to the elections. “We are looking at the law to see if people will be charged for posting various comments on facebook or twitter,” he said. “I would like to ask people to refrain from posting anything though as we do not want to waste our time and state funds tracking down these of-fenders,” he added.
Candidates have been given permission to speak to the press outside polling stations on Sunday as long as their
comments are not controver-sial. Each voter must present his or her voting booklet and must also be registered on the voting catalogue of the poll-ing station they go to, to be allowed to vote. The only ex-ceptions to this rule are voters from the enclaved districts of Kyrenia and Famagusta who can show any state documen-tation as long as it has a pho-tograph, like an ID card, driv-ing licence or passport.
Those wishing to vote abroad can do so by presenting either their voting booklet or ID card as long as they have registered at their relevant polling cen-tre. Ashiotis wished to remind the public that voters should know which polling centre they would be voting at but
if they do not, they could visit the page wtv.elections.moi.gov.cy or call 77772212 to fi nd out.
“We expect to have the re-sult of the election by 8.30pm on Sunday,” Ashiotis revealed. “If no candidate receives more than 50 per cent of the vote then the two candidates with the most votes will face each other the following Sunday,” he added.
“The proclamation ceremo-ny of the new President of Cy-prus will take place at ‘Tassos Papadopoulos’ Eleftheria Sta-dium at a yet undecided time on either the fi rst Sunday or second Sunday depending on the outcome,” he continued. “We are prepared for either,” he concluded.
The parting shots and last pledgesBy George Psyllides
PRESIDENTIAL candidates issued their fi nal messages to voters as campaigning drew to a close at midnight yester-day ahead of tomorrow’s poll.
Frontrunner DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades pledged to form a national salvation government to lead the coun-try out of the crisis.
He urged Cypriots to choose the path of bold changes, re-sponsibility and credibility, and not that of populism, ir-responsibility and refusal to change. “Sunday’s elections are the most critical in our modern history (and) their result will defi ne how we face the economic crisis,” he said. “A weak economy undermines our international standing. We ought to restore our cred-ibility in Europe.”
Anastasiades said a lot must change in Cyprus, across sev-eral sectors. “We need a new state model, transparent, pro-ductive and orderly,” he said.
A state that will serve peo-ple, support the weak and be an ally in growth.
“We do not have the luxu-ry of experimentation. The cost for the state and society grows with each day of inac-tion, each hour that goes by without making the necessary decisions,” the DISY chief said. “We need to act imme-diately.” Stavros Malas prom-ised a government that would work by consensus and in co-operation with parliament to achieve the best result for the country and its people.
He pledged to solve the problems of the economy by “sharing the burden equally, consolidating the public fi -nances and creating condi-tions for growth.”
Being a new face in Cypriot politics, Malas sought to set
himself apart from his oppo-nents. “I declare that I have no obligations (towards) nor ties with the country’s estab-lishment,” the AKEL-backed Malas said. “That is why I can guarantee with credibil-ity that anyone responsible for the crimes in the fi nan-cial sector will be brought to justice.” Malas said he has no shadows in his personal and professional course and thus he could guarantee strict enforcement of the rules of transparency and account-ability for all state offi cials.
“We will progress and rise to the challenges of the new era with knowledge, deter-mination, clear objectives, and aspirations,” Malas said, promising to form a coalition government if elected.
Giorgos Lillikas, the third main contender, insisted that the advance sale of natural gas could rid Cyprus of the painful conditions of a bail-out. “That is why I pledge to start negotiations from day one with all the companies that have already showed in-terest,” he said.
Lillikas said his proposal to pre-sell natural gas could “rid our people of the memoran-dum, misery, and poverty.”
“We have the potential to get our country out of the current dead ends.
“To remain economically and politically independent so that we will be able to pre-vent any plans of coupling the troika loan with a solution of the Cyprus problem based on Turkish demands,” Lillikas said. He said it was up to the public now and while other candidates banked on absten-tion “we invest in the citizens’ participation.” “At this diffi -cult time, our country needs the citizens’ active participa-tion. I urge people to vote on Sunday,” he said.
Viewers can complain about election coverageTHE Radio and Television Broadcasting Authority of Cy-prus yesterday announced that its offi ces would remain open during this Sunday’s presidential election to pro-vide information or receive complaints from members of the public.
The offi ces will be open on Sunday from 9am until polling stations close at 6pm. Members of the public
may contact the authority by calling 22512468. The an-nouncement reminded the public that people may call a separate number, 80004444, on a 24-hour basis and they may leave an answering message either passing on views or suggestions or complaints to the authority of possible legal violations by radio or television broad-casters.
Polling stations will open at 7am tomorrow and will close at 6pm. First results will be out by 7.30pm
Chief Returning Offi cer Andreas Ashiotis yesterday
From right: Lillikas, Malas and Anastasiades
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OUTGOING PRESIDENT’S SWAN SONG FOCUSES ON MARI, CYPRUS ISSUE, GAS, WATER AND ECONOMY
Christofias: blameless until the ‘bitter’ endBy Stefanos Evripidou
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofi as gave his last tel-evised address to the nation last night, expressing sorrow over the Mari tragedy and absence of a Cyprus solution while seemingly absolving himself of blame for both.
In a recorded address on the achievements of his fi ve years in government, Christofi as said he felt bit-ter over the many problems faced during his term in of-fi ce.
“The greatest sorrow is as-sociated with the tragic ac-cident at Mari, which caused me and my family distress, anguish, and deep sadness for the loss of lives. I would like once again to express my sympathy and support to the families of the vic-tims,” he said.
The president said he also felt “great sorrow” for not being able to realise his life-long ambition to solve the Cyprus problem, mainly due to Turkey’s continued intransigence and obstruc-tive policy of preventing a solution based on UN reso-lutions on Cyprus.
“My conscience is clear, because we did everything we could to reach a solution and more. Our efforts were acknowledged internation-ally.”
He had some advice for his successor due to take over next month: “My own view is that the new presi-dent should continue to rely on the same principles and work on the same basis for a solution, like we did and all my predecessors did.”
Christofi as argued that he and former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat made “signifi cant conver-gences” during peace ne-gotiations, adding that it is no coincidence Talat’s suc-cessor Dervis Eroglu rejects those convergences.
“He rejects them because they do not suit the parti-tionist policy of the Turkish side,” he said.
The outgoing president warned those wishing to start negotiations from scratch - a clear reference to presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas - that they will fi nd themselves “on a collision course with the in-ternational community and will pay a high price”.
Despite the ongoing global economic crisis and euro-zone crisis, Christofi as ar-gued that his government managed to achieve many of its goals.
“There is no doubt that the greatest legacy the govern-ment leaves behind is the natural gas,” he said.
He highlighted the discov-ery of gas reserves in Block 12 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Eco-nomic Zone and the explo-ration for more in fi ve new blocks.
The president said infra-structure work on a Lique-fi ed Natural Gas terminal should start in 2015, and is expected to create 4,000 new jobs.
Christofi as argued that no one did more to enhance ties with Russia than his govern-ment, while highlighting the strengthened relations with Israel.
However, his government’s main priority was strength-ening the welfare state.
“To achieve this goal we increased social benefi ts by 42 per cent,” he said, adding, “even now, when the troika has forced us to cut social benefi ts, many are still high-er than they were when we came to power”.
The government also solved “once and for all” the water problem, said Christo-fi as, noting: “Cypriots will never go thirsty again”.
On migration, the govern-ment introduced a compre-
hensive migration policy, while reducing the costs of benefi ts to migrants from €23.5m in 2010 to €10m in 2012.
Regarding the economy, Christofi as repeated the ar-gument that Cyprus would not have needed an EU bailout if the Cypriot banks were not so exposed to the Greek economy.
“Cyprus is the victim of the crisis in the banking system. All of Europe and the world recognises this,” he said.
Thanks to the govern-ment’s tough negotiating stance, it succeeded in pre-serving the inalienable and sovereign right of the Cy-prus Republic to decide for itself on the management of natural gas, he argued.
The government also cre-ated the conditions to avoid privatisations, and preserve the wage indexation and 13th salaries, he added.
“We never claimed we didn’t make mistakes or omissions,” said Christofi as, adding that he would leave it to history and the public to judge whether the gov-ernment was treated fairly or not by its critics.
On a fi nal note, Christo-fi as said he would leave of-fi ce with his head held high “because I did, in extremely diffi cult conditions, what I could to achieve the best for Cyprus”.
In response, main opposi-tion party DISY noted sar-donically the burden of emo-tion Christofi as must have felt as the fi rst president in the history of Cyprus to leave offi ce without seeking a second term.
DISY said it was “disheart-ened” that Christofi as did not fi nd the courage, even in the fi nal hour, to offer an apology, at least on behalf of the state, for the crimi-nal mistakes which led to the Mari tragedy that left 13 dead.
President Demetris Christofi as during his televised address to nation last night
‘We never claimed we didn’t make mistakes or omissions,’
said Christofias, adding that he would leave it to history and the public to
judge
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British schools hit by horse meat scandal
UK retail sales fall unexpectedly in snowy January
HORSE meat was discovered in school dinners for the fi rst time since the scandal began, it was revealed yesterday.
The news that cottage pie testing positive for horse DNA was sent to 47 Lancashire schools came as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) pub-lished results of widespread testing into meat products.
The FSA said 2,501 tests have been carried out on beef products, with 29 results positive for undeclared horse meat at or above 1 per cent.
These 29 results related to seven different products, which have already been re-ported and withdrawn from sale.
The products linked to the positive results were con-fi rmed to be Aldi’s special fro-zen beef lasagne and special frozen spaghetti bolognese, the Co-op’s frozen quarter-pounder burgers, Findus beef lasagne, Rangeland’s catering burger products and Tesco value frozen burgers and val-ue spaghetti bolognese.
As the results were con-fi rmed, pub and hotel group Whitbread became the latest company to admit horse DNA had been found in its food, saying their meat lasagnes and beefburgers had been af-fected.
The fi rm, which owns Pre-mier Inn, Beefeater Grill and Brewers Fayre, said the prod-ucts had been removed from their menus and will not be replaced until further testing has been carried out.
In another development as the scandal deepened, it was revealed that burgers containing horse meat have been supplied to hospitals in Northern Ireland.
David Bingham from the health service’s Business Services Organisation, which provides meat for the health trusts, said a range from a company in the Republic of Ireland had been withdrawn.
“We have acted immediate-ly; as soon as we got infor-mation there may be a confi -dence issue we withdrew the
product,” he said.Earlier yesterday, Lanca-
shire County Council said that it has withdrawn pre-prepared cottage pies from 47 school kitchens.
Lancashire County Coun-cillor Susie Charles, cabi-net member for children and schools, said they had sought extra assurance that its external suppliers were
not providing any products containing horse DNA.
Testing had returned one positive result, she said.
“Relatively few schools in Lancashire use this particu-lar product but our prior-ity is to provide absolute as-surance that meals contain what the label says - having discovered this one doesn’t, we have no hesitation in re-
moving it from menus.“This does not appear to
be a food safety issue but I’ve no doubt parents will agree we need to take a very fi rm line with suppliers and it is a credit to our offi cers that we have been able to quickly identify the problem and take the product off the menus.”
The Local Authority Cater-ers Association (LACA), which works with school caterers, said it was currently attempt-ing to assess the situation, adding that the school meals case in Lancashire is the only one it had heard about.
“It appears to be a very small, isolated situation,” a spokeswoman said.
“We are trying to assess that. There’s a lot of testing been going on in the last week.”
A spokesman for Worces-tershire County Council said they were proactively test-ing samples of school meals through their own scientifi c services.
FSA director of communi-cations Stephen Humphreys said he could “assure” the public that all seven products which had tested positive had now been taken off the shelves.
But it would likely be “im-possible” to ever know the full extent of horse meat mis-la-belling, FSA director in Wales, Steve Wearne, said.
He said: “What we have in these set of results is a snap-shot of what has been on the market and provided by wholesalers, by caterers, by retailers in the period be-tween January, when this sto-ry broke, and now.
“We don’t have any reliable information on what might have gone on before Janu-ary 15.”
FSA chief executive Cath-erine Brown added that the agency had only just been made aware of Whitbread’s announcement that some of their products had tested positive and this had not been included in their latest test fi gures.
Horse DNA-tainted cottage pie sent to 47 Lancashire schoolsBRITISH retail sales unex-pectedly fell in January as snowy weather hurt food stores and other retailers, re-viving worries that the econ-omy may be slipping into a third recession in four years.
Sales volumes including au-tomotive fuel slipped 0.6 per cent in both monthly and an-nual terms, the Offi ce for Na-tional Statistics said yester-day, compared to economists’ expectations for solid growth in both numbers.
“This probably brings the question of triple-dip back on the table again,” said Rob Wood, economist at Beren-berg Bank. “If this is the sort of disruption we see from snow and it’s refl ected in out-put in the rest of the economy, then it could be bad news for Q1,” he added.
The pound hit a half-year low against the dollar and British government bonds extended gains after the data was released.
Economists taking part in a Reuters poll had forecast a 0.4 per cent rise on the month in January. The ONS also re-vised December’s numbers down.
Besides the temporary hit from poor weather, Britons’ spending power has been eroded by sticky infl ation in recent years.
The Bank of England warned on Wednesday that high in-fl ation would persist much longer than forecast only three months ago, pointing to
a further fall in Britons’ real wages, already at their lowest since 2003.
“When we look at the overall numbers for Christmas - we tend to look at between No-vember and January - they’ve been exceptionally weak,” said George Buckley, econo-mist at Deutsche Bank. “In-fl ation has picked up and that might mean that volumes of sales have been weaker.”
The ONS said the main reason behind falling sales was bad weather during the month, which led to shut-downs of some smaller gro-cers and drove the biggest monthly fall in overall food sales since May 2011.
Food accounted for more than 40 per cent of the to-tal retail sales in January, as measured by the ONS.
The quantity of food sold fell by 2.6 per cent compared with January last year, touching its lowest volume since April 2004.
The share of online food sales jumped by nearly a third, probably another re-fl ection of the bad weather that kept shoppers at home. The increase in online shop-ping helped big retailers, the ONS said.
The ONS said retail sales excluding fuel fell 0.5 per cent on the month but were 0.2 per cent higher than in Janu-ary 2012 - much weaker than economists’ forecasts for rises of 0.4 per cent on the month and 1.4 per cent on the year.
A general view of the Greencore Prepared Meals building, located in Bradley Stoke, Bristol
Shoppers browse the aisles in the Canary Wharf store of Waitrose in London, January 23, 2013
Child torturer is found dead in his jail cellTWO prisoners are being held in police custody after Subhan Anwar, who was jailed for torturing and murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter, was found dead in his cell, the Ministry of Justice said.Anwar, who was jailed for a minimum of 23 years in 2009 for the murder of Sanam Navsarka, is under-stood to have been held hostage in a cell at HMP Long Lartin in Worcester-shire before he was killed.His partner Zahbeena Navsarka was cleared of her daughter’s murder but found guilty of manslaugh-ter and jailed for nine years.A Prison Service spokes-woman said: “An incident at HMP Long Lartin on
Thursday February 14 re-sulted in the death of pris-oner Subhan Anwar. Two prisoners are now in police
custody and the matter is being investigated by police.”Anwar and Navsarka, from Huddersfi eld, West York-shire, were condemned for their cruel and selfi sh treatment of Sanam.The violence infl icted on the youngster happened near the end of her life.Her tiny hand prints and bloodstains were found inside cupboards at the home in Huddersfi eld and also at a former property in Batley, West Yorkshire.Both her thigh bones had been fractured, causing fatty deposits to enter her bloodstream and resulting in her death, and she had sustained fractures to both her arms.
Anwar had tortured and killed his partner’s toddler
Le Vell won’t appear in Coronation StCORONATION Street actor Michael Le Vell, who has been charged with child sex of-fences, will not be appearing in any further episodes pending the outcome of legal pro-ceedings, ITV said.Le Vell, 48, whose real name is Michael Turner, is accused of 19 sex offences includ-ing raping a child, indecently assaulting a child and sexual activity with a child.An ITV spokesman said: “Given the seri-ous nature of these charges, Michael Le Vell will not be appearing in Coronation Street pending the outcome of legal proceedings. It would not be appropriate for us to comment further at this time.”Le Vell, a stalwart on the popular ITV series, will appear in court in two weeks’ time, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.He was fi rst arrested in September 2011 and questioned over alleged child sex offences, but the matter was later dropped.But late Thursday night GMP said the ac-tor, from Hale, Cheshire, had been charged with sex offences against a youngster after a
review of evidence by lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).A spokeswoman from GMP said: “A man has been charged with 19 child sex offences.“Michael Turner, of Byrom Street, Hale, has been charged with 19 offences including rap-ing a child, indecently assaulting a child and sexual activity with a child.“He is due to appear at Manchester Magis-trates (court) on Wednesday, February 27.“The charges, which were authorised by the CPS following a review of evidence, relate to offences against a child between 2001 and 2010.”Alison Levitt, QC, principal legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions, had re-viewed a fi le of evidence in relation to allega-tions of sexual offences and looked again at a decision previously made not to prosecute.Levitt said: “I have very carefully reviewed the evidence in this case and I have conclud-ed that there is suffi cient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge Michael Robert Turner with a number of sexual offences.”
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Russia hit by meteor, nearly 1,000 hurtMeteor explodes over Ural Mountains, huge shock waveA METEOR streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb yesterday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.
The spectacle deeply fright-ened many Russians, with some elderly women declar-ing that the world was com-ing to an end. Many of the in-jured were cut by fl ying glass as they fl ocked to windows to see what the source was for such an intense fl ash of light.
The meteor - estimated to be about 10 tons - entered the Earth’s atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered into pieces about 30-50 kms (18-32 miles) above the ground, the Russian Acad-emy of Sciences said.
Amateur video showed an object speeding across the sky about 9.20 am local time, just after sunrise, leaving a thick white contrail and an intense fl ash.
“There was panic. People had no idea what was happen-ing,” said Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk, a city of one million about 1,500 kms (930 miles) east of Moscow.
“We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud, thundering sound,” he said.
The meteor released several kilotons of energy above the region, the science academy said. The shock wave blew in an estimated 100,000 square metres (more than one mil-
lion square feet) of glass, ac-cording to city offi cials.
The meteor hit less than a day before Asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid to the Earth - about 17,150 miles (28,000 kms). But the European Space Agency in a tweet said its experts found there was no connection - just cosmic coincidence.
The Russian meteor was probably about two metres (6.5 feet) across, about the size of an SUV, said Richard Binzel, a professor of Plan-etary Science at MIT.
The Interior Ministry said 985 people sought medical care after the shock wave and 44 of them were taken to hospital. Most of the injuries were caused by fl ying glass, it said. There was no immediate word on any deaths or anyone struck by space fragments.
Meteors typically cause size-able sonic booms when they enter the atmosphere be-cause they are travelling so much faster than the speed of sound. Injuries on the scale reported yesterday, however, are extraordinarily rare.
Lessons had just started at Chelyabinsk schools when the meteor exploded, and of-fi cials said 204 schoolchildren were among those injured.
Russian television ran foot-age of athletes at a city sports arena who were showered by shards of glass from huge windows. Some of them were still bleeding. City offi cials said 3,000 buildings in the city were damaged by the shock wave.
The trail of a falling object is seen above an apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, yesterday
‘French government too quick to blame’THE president of French meat proc-essor Spanghero promised yesterday to disprove allegations that his fi rm knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef, and accused the government of being too quick to point the fi nger.
Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon released on Thursday details of an investigation into the fi rm which he said indicated Spanghero was the likely culprit in a scandal that has enraged consumers across Europe and implicated traders and abattoirs from Cyprus to Romania.
“I don’t know who is behind this, but I can tell you it’s not us. I’m aston-ished,” Spanghero boss Barthelemy Aguerre told Europe 1 radio. “I think we will prove our innocence and that of my associates. I think the govern-ment has been too quick.”
A French inquiry into how horse meat got into ready meals sold across Europe found that the Spang-hero fi rm labelled meat as beef when it knew what it was processing may
have been horse.Hamon said that Spanghero could
not have failed to notice the meat it was importing was much cheaper than beef, and there was no indica-tion that a Romanian fi rm supplying the meat had mislabelled what was in fact horse meat.
LEGAL ACTION
Outside Spanghero’s factory in the town of Castelnaudary near Toulouse in southwest France, workers were seen fi lling up dumper trucks with blocks of meat and sausages yester-day, although it was not immediately clear why they were doing so.
The privately-owned fi rm, which was founded by brothers of 1970s French rugby captain Walter Spanghero, has had its operating licence suspended for 10 days and will face legal action if the suspicions are confi rmed.
The Paris prosecutor is now review-ing the investigation.
Aguerre said his company had ana-lysed the meat as soon as the scandal broke and discovered that some had been a mixture of beef and horse-meat. “It shows that Spanghero is not behind this deception. It comes from elsewhere. It puts the 300-odd employees in a great deal of diffi cul-ty,” he said.
Hamon told the same radio station that it was not up to him to say who was guilty, but added that it was clear something was not right at Spangh-ero.
“There are suffi cient facts which show that at the very least there was a lot of negligence,” he said. “Millions of consumers have been duped so we had to act quickly.”
The scandal, which has triggered recalls of ready meals and damaged confi dence in Europe’s vast and complex food industry, erupted last month when tests carried out in Ire-land revealed that some beef prod-ucts also contained horsemeat.
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Al Qaeda manifesto left behind in MaliIN their hurry to fl ee, al Qaeda fi ghters left be-hind a crucial document spelling out the terror network’s strategy for conquering northern Mali and refl ecting internal discord over how to rule the region.The confi dential let-ter, tucked under a pile of papers and rubbish in a Timbuktu building occupied by the Islamic extremists for almost a year, is an unprecedented window into the terror-ist operation, indicating that al Qaeda predicted the military intervention that would dislodge it in January and recognised its own vulnerability.The letter also shows a sharp division within al Qaeda’s Africa chapter over how quickly and strictly to apply Is-lamic law, with its senior commander expressing dismay over the whip-ping of women and the destruction of Timbuktu’s ancient monuments.It moreover leaves no doubt that despite a tem-porary withdrawal into the desert, al Qaeda plans to operate in the region over the long haul and is willing to make short-term concessions on ideology to gain the allies it acknowledges it needs.
$1b gambing tabA FORMER US city mayor lost more than one billion dollars (£640 million) in a 10-year gam-bling spree.Appearing in court in San Diego, Maureen O’Connor, 66, admit-ted that she took $2.1 million (£1.4 million) from her late husband’s charitable foundation. She appears to blame the gambling spree on a brain tumour.O’Connor, former mayor of San Diego, pleaded not guilty to a money laundering charge in an agreement with the Justice Department that defers prosecution for two years while she tries to repay the foundation and receives treatment for gambling.
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Christopher Dorner had launched a deadly revenge cam-paign against the Los Angeles Police Department
Burned remains those of killer ex cop - authoritiesIdentifi cation via Dorner dental recordsTHE burned remains found in a California mountain cab-in are those of the fugitive ex-cop who launched a deadly revenge campaign against Los Angeles Police Depart-ment, authorities said.
Jodi Miller, a spokeswom-an for the San Bernardino County sheriff-coroner, said the identifi cation was made through Christopher Dorner’s dental records. She did not give a cause of death.
The search for quadruple killer Dorner began last week after authorities said he had launched the revenge cam-paign for his sacking fi ve years ago, warning that he would bring “warfare” to LAPD of-fi cers and their families.
The manhunt brought po-lice to Big Bear Lake, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where they found Dorner’s burned-out pick-up truck abandoned. His footprints disappeared on frozen soil and hundreds of offi cers who searched the area and checked out each building failed to fi nd him.
Five days later, but just a stone’s throw from a com-mand post authorities had set up in the massive man-hunt, Karen and Jim Rey-nolds said they came face to face with Dorner inside their cabin-style condo.
The couple said Dorner
bound them and put pillow-cases on their heads. At one point, he explained that he had been there for days. “He said ‘I don’t have a problem with you, so I’m not going to hurt you’,” Jim Reynolds said. “I didn’t believe him; I thought he was going to kill us.”
Police have not commented on the Reynolds’ account, but it renews questions about the thoroughness of a search for a man who authorities declared was armed and ex-tremely dangerous as they hunted him across the South-west and Mexico.
‘LAUGHING AT THEM’
“They said they went door-to-door but then he’s right there under their noses. Makes you wonder if the po-lice even knew what they were doing,” resident Shan-non Schroepfer said.
“He was probably sitting there laughing at them the whole time.”
The notion of Dorner hidden just across the street from the command post was shocking to many, but not totally sur-prising to some experts famil-iar with the complications of such a manhunt.
“Chilling. That’s the only word I could use for that,” said Ed Tatosian, a retired
SWAT commander for the Sacramento Police Depart-ment. “It’s not an unfathom-able oversight. We’re human. It happens. It’s chilling (that) it does happen.”
Law enforcement offi cers, who had gathered outside dai-ly for briefi ngs, were stunned by the revelation. One offi cial later looking on Google Earth exclaimed that he had parked right across the street from the Reynolds’ cabin each day.
The Reynolds said Dorner was upstairs in the rental unit on Tuesday when they arrived to ready it for holi-daymakers. Dorner, who at the time was being sought for three killings, confronted the Reynolds with a drawn gun, “jumped out and hollered ‘Stay calm’,” Reynolds said.
His wife screamed and ran downstairs but Dorner caught her. The couple said they were taken to a bedroom where he ordered them to lie on a bed and then on the fl oor. Dorner bound their arms and legs with plastic ties, gagged them with towels and covered their heads with pillowcases.
“I really thought it could be the end,” Mrs Reynolds said.
The couple believe Dorner had been staying in the cabin at least since February 8, the day after his burned truck was found nearby.
Handout picture released by the Venezuelan presidential press offi ce yesterday shows Chavez with his daughters
Chavez post surgery photographsVENEZUELA published the fi rst photos of cancer-stricken Hugo Chavez since his sur-gery in Cuba more than two months ago, showing him smiling while lying in bed read-ing a newspaper, fl anked by his two daugh-ters.
The government said yesterday that the 58-year-old president was still suffering respira-tory problems after a lung infection, and that he was breathing through a tracheal tube.
Chavez had not been seen in public, and has still not been heard from, since the oper-ation on December 11, his fourth surgery for a cancer in his pelvic region fi rst diagnosed in mid-2011.
Chavez’s face looked swollen in the two images, where he appeared alongside his daughters Maria Gabriela and Rosa Virginia. He was lying in a hospital bed, and in one of the photographs they were reading Cuban state newspaper Granma.
The government said the photos were tak-
en on Thursday night.“The post-operative respiratory infection
was controlled, but there is still some in-suffi ciency,” Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said in the latest communique on Chavez’s health.
“Under these circumstances, which are being treated, the commander is currently breathing through a tracheal tube.”
Chavez has never said what type of cancer he has been treated for, and in his absence critics have accused the government of se-crecy over his condition.
Last October the socialist leader was re-elected to a new six-year term in offi ce. But he was too ill to return to Venezuela for his inauguration ceremony last month.
On Wednesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro - Chavez’s preferred successor - said the socialist leader was undergoing “complex” alternative treatments, but did not give details.
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Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib speaks to the media after meeting with Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo, February 11, 2013
Thousands of Islamists protest Egypt violence‘Petrol bombs cannot oust elected Mursi’By Asma Alsharif
THOUSANDS of Islamists protested in Cairo yester-day against violence that has marred anti-government demonstrations, showing sup-port for President Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brother-hood politician elected head of state last year.
The “Together against Vio-lence” rally was called by a hardline Salafi Islamist group that waged an armed revolt against the state in the 1990s.
Al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, whose leadership renounced violence more than a decade ago, has entered mainstream politics since autocratic presi-dent Hosni Mubarak was over-thrown in 2011.
The Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party said it backed yester-day’s rally in a symbolic way, but did not mobilise support-ers for the event, meaning the numbers were smaller than at previous Islamist protests.
Around 60 people have been killed in Egypt since late Jan-uary in unrest touched off by the anniversary of the upris-ing against Mubarak and ex-acerbated by a court ruling that sentenced 21 people to
death over a soccer stadium disaster a year ago.
It has been the worst blood-shed since Mursi assumed of-fi ce, underlining the instabil-ity that continues to thwart government efforts to restore a sense of normalcy and re-vive an economy in crisis by attracting fresh investment and tourism.
The unrest has been stirred by anger at Mursi and his Is-lamist backers, who the op-position says have betrayed the revolution and sought to monopolise power - accusa-tions dismissed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Repeating the pattern of
recent weeks, Mursi’s oppo-nents rallied again yesterday, this time gathering outside El-Quba, one of the presiden-tial palaces in the northern suburbs of Cairo. The activ-ists dubbed it “Checkmate Friday”.
The protesters numbered several hundred by early af-ternoon.
Recent protests have rou-tinely turned violent, with government buildings, police stations and the presidential palace coming under fi re from petrol bombs and rocks.
But, “the person who came (to power) through ballot boxes will not leave by petrol bombs,” said a cleric who led the crowd in Friday prayers as the rally got under way out-side Cairo University. “He who came to power by direct, free choice will not leave by the rocks thrown by children.”
The crowd grew to several thousand after prayer.
Mursi’s most prominent lib-eral and leftist opponents have distanced themselves from the violence, saying they support only peaceful agitation. Islam-ist leaders and their rivals all renounced violence at crisis talks on January 31 chaired by al-Azhar, a Sunni Muslim seat of religious learning.
Syrian opposition seeks untainted partnersBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis
SYRIA’S opposition coalition is ready to negotiate President Bashar al-As-sad’s exit with any member of his gov-ernment who has not participated in his military crackdown on the uprising, coalition members said yesterday.
Syrian authorities have given no for-mal response to several offers of talks in recent weeks. But offi cials say they cannot accept pre-conditions about Assad’s departure and have privately dismissed what they say are no more than media initiatives.
The political chasm between the sides, along with diplomatic deadlock among world powers preventing effec-tive intervention, has allowed fi ghting on the ground to rage on with almost 70,000 people killed in 22 months of confl ict, by a UN estimate.
Opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib made an offer of negotiations last month without consulting the coali-tion’s 70-member assembly, prompting criticism from a powerful bloc within
the movement dominated by the Mus-lim Brotherhood.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem is due to visit Moscow, one of Assad’s main foreign allies, later this month. Russia also hopes Alkhatib will visit soon in search of a breakthrough to end the bloodiest of the Arab Spring uprisings.
But coalition members say no date has been set for an Alkhatib trip to Moscow and Syria’s Foreign Ministry played down suggestions that Moualem and Alkhatib could meet there, saying any dialogue must take place in Syria.
An overnight meeting of the coali-tion’s 12-member politburo in Cairo en-dorsed Alkhatib’s initiative, although it set guidelines for any peace talks which will be presented for approval by the full assembly next Thursday.
“These guidelines stipulate that Bashar al-Assad and all the security and military leaders that (have) partic-ipated in the killing of the Syrian peo-ple and whose hands are stained with blood have no place in the Syria of the future,” coalition member Abdulbaset
Sieda told Reuters in Cairo after the meeting.
“We agreed to reassure the Syrian brothers from the (ruling) Baath Party whose hands are not stained with the blood of the Syrian people that they are partners in the coming political process.”
Another opposition member said next week’s gathering of the full coali-tion would try to revive plans for a pro-visional government, undermined so far by divisions among Assad’s foes.
Walid Bunni, one of a handful of liber-als in the Islamist-heavy assembly, told Reuters that Assad and his military and intelligence offi cials could not be part of any negotiations.
“Bashar and his cohorts will not be party to any talks. We will not regard those present from the government’s side as his representatives,” Bunni said.
He said the meeting addressed how to deal with Iran and Russia, Assad’s main supporters, after Alkhatib met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran in Munich earlier this month.
Mystery Australian’s next-of-kin seek compensation from IsraelRELATIVES of an Australian im-migrant to Israel who killed him-self in 2010 while secretly jailed on charges of violating national security are seeking compensation from the state, a source briefed on the affair said yesterday.
The source said the talks were preliminary as Israel had not for-mally faulted its prison authorities in the death of Ben Zygier, which was made public this week by an
Australian television expose that described him as a Mossad offi cer.
A Mossad link has been neither denied nor confi rmed by Australia or Israel, where military censor-ship and court gag orders kept many details of the case from the media.
The silence has fanned media speculation that Israel believes the 34-year-old Melbourne Jew had betrayed its intelligence agency’s
high-stakes work abroad.The offi ce of Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu, which oversees the Mossad, did not re-spond to a request for comment on the matter.
Israel’s Haaretz daily said the state agreed to pay “several mil-lion shekels” in damages to Zy-gier’s family around six weeks ago, when an internal inquest declared his death a suicide.
The inquest result was disclosed by the Justice Ministry on Wednes-day, in Israel’s only offi cial state-ment on the case. The statement, which did not identify Zygier by name, said a judge had also or-dered an “evaluation regarding is-sues of negligence”.
A source briefed on the affair denied there had been any agree-ment to compensate Zygier’s fam-ily for the failure of staff to prevent
his suicide at Ayalon prison, where he had been held for months under an alias and in isolation from other inmates.
“There’s no decision on negli-gence yet, so there’s no compen-sation in any form in that regard,” the source told Reuters on condi-tion of anonymity. “What there have been are initial inquiries by the deceased’s representatives about compensation.”
Mursi was elected Egyptian head of state last year
Business
12 Saturday, February 16, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL
RatesThese Bank of Cyprus rates for telegraphic transfer trans-actions (spot deals) apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s value against the euro.
Buying Selling
Pound St 0.8649 0.8563
US Dollar 1.3419 1.3285
Australian $ 1.3040 1.2718
Canadian Dol. 1.3525 1.3191
Swiss Fr 1.2388 1.2240
Denmark Kr 7.5521 7.3657
Japan Yen 124.2762 122.7938
Norwegian Kr 7.4998 7.3146
Polish Zloty 4.2295 4.1251
Romanian Leu 4.4722 4.2968
Russian Ruble 40.6772 39.6728
Swedish Kr 8.5604 8.3488
German to head Vatican’s bankTHE Vatican appointed Ger-man lawyer Ernst von Frey-berg yesterday to head its bank, fi lling a post left vacant since May when the previous chief was ousted from the scandal-tainted institution.
The appointment, made by a commission of cardinals, was approved by Pope Ben-edict and is likely one of his last major decisions before he resigns at the end of the month, a move he announced on Monday, stunning Catho-lics around the world.
Italian magistrates are in-vestigating suspected mon-ey laundering at the bank, offi cially known as the In-stitute for Works of Religion (IOR), accusations it has denied but which added to its reputation for poor fi -nancial transparency and decades of scandals.
A Vatican statement said Freyberg, a devout Catho-lic who is a Knight of Malta, an elite member of a chari-table organisation that has its roots in the crusades, brought “a vast experience of fi nancial matters and the fi -nancial regulatory process”.
Born in 1958, he is chair-man of Hamburg-based shipbuilder Blohm+Voss and is on the advisory board of temporary employment agency Manpower GmbH and of asset management fi rm Flossbach von Storch AG. He will work at IOR for three days a week.
G20 set to dilute big powers’ demands on world currencies
THE GROUP of 20 nations will not single out Japan over the weak yen and will disre-gard a call from G7 powers to refrain from using economic policy to target exchange rates, according to a text drafted for fi nance leaders.
A G20 delegate who has seen the communique - prepared by fi nance offi cials for their bosses - also said it would make no direct mention of new debt-cutting targets, something Germany is press-ing for but which the United States wanted struck out.
If adopted by G20 fi nance ministers and central bank-ers meeting in Moscow, Ja-pan will escape any censure for its expansionary policies which have driven the yen lower and drawn demands for action from some quarters.
“There will not be a heavy clash about currencies in the end, because nobody can risk such a negative signal,” said another G20 delegation source.
The currency market was thrown into turmoil this week after the Group of Seven - the United States, Japan, Ger-many, Britain, France, Can-ada and Italy - issued a joint statement stating that do-mestic economic policy must not be used to target curren-cies, which must remain de-termined by the market.
Tokyo said that refl ected agreement that its bold mon-
etary and fi scal policies were appropriate but the show of unity was shattered by off-the-record briefi ngs critical of Japan. The G20 draft merely sticks to previous language on the need to avoid exces-sive currency volatility, the delegate said.
The yen has fallen by around 20 per cent since No-vember. Having fi rmed ear-lier on Friday, it turned tail and dropped about 0.6 per-cent against the dollar and euro in response to the com-munique details. “Although this week has been marked by volatility surrounding G7 and G20, it appears the path
to currency weakness will re-main intact,” said Nick Ben-nenbroek, head of currency strategy atWells Fargo in New York.
One senior G20 source said any reference to targeting exchange rates was also not acceptable to China, which is the world’s No.2 economy and holds much of its $3.3 trillion in foreign reserves in US Treasury bonds. After a working dinner, Japanese Fi-nance Minister Taro Aso said he had heard no criticism of his country’s policies.
“We explained our stance and other countries voiced no such opinions as approval or
objection,” Aso told report-ers. “We stick to our policy, and consequently it (the yen weakening) happened. But that was not our target. Our target is getting out of reces-sion and defl ation.”
Offi cials lined up to pour cold water on talk of a cur-rency war where countries in-dulge in competitive devalua-tions.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said recent sparring over cur-rencies was “inappropriate, fruitless and self-defeating” and US Treasury offi cial Lael Brainard warned against “loose talk”. France has
been a lone voice calling for euro exchange rate targets. Draghi said the currency was trading in line with long-term averages, a point endorsed by International Monetary Fund chief Chris-tine Lagarde.
“The current talk of cur-rency wars is overblown,” she told the G20 ministers and central bankers. “There is no major deviation from fair value of major curren-cies.”
The G20 nations account for 90 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product and two-thirds of its popula-tion.
Offi cials pour cold water on talk of a currency war
Greek inflation evaporatesGREEK infl ation evaporated in January to hit its lowest level since data began in 1996, the national statistics service (EL-STAT) said yesterday after fi ve years of austerity-fuelled re-cession sapped consumer price pressures and pulled down property values.
The EU-harmonised consumer infl ation rate (HCPI) was 0.0 per cent year-on-year in January, ELSTAT said, below a 0.2 per cent forecast in a Reuters poll of economists.
“The disinfl ation process continues as the pass-through from wage adjustments is strengthening and domestic demand remains under pressure,” said Eurobank economist Platon Monokroussos.
“I would not exclude negative CPI infl ation readings in the following months, although recent electricity price increas-es may temporarily constrain the adjustment in consumer prices,” he said.
Greek price rises have come to a halt, after the country’s adoption of the euro in 2001 led to a debt-fuelled boom and to infl ation running almost twice as fast as in the euro area. Greek HCPI rose by an accumulated 46 per cent in 2001-2011 compared with 29 per cent in the euro area.
Cuts in public sector pay and pensions have contributed to an internal devaluation process aimed at making the 195-bil-lion-euro economy more competitive.
Signs that downward price pressures are growing were also refl ected in central bank data released yesterday, showing that property prices dropped by 11.7 per cent last year from a 5.5 per cent fall in 2011. Property, mainly residential apartments, accounts for about 80 per cent of household wealth in Greece, which has one of the highest home ownership rates in western Europe - 80 per cent versus 70 per cent in the European Union - according to European Mortgage Federation data.
AIRBUS has dropped lithium-ion batteries of the type that forced the ground-ing of Boeing’s 787 Dream-liner and will use traditional nickel-cadmium batteries in its crucially-important next passenger jet, the A350.The European planemaker said yesterday it had taken the decision to adopt the batteries used on existing models such as the A380 superjumbo in order to prevent delays in the A350’s entry to service next year.Reuters had reported that Airbus was considering such a move to limit the risks sur-rounding the development of its $15 billion airliner.“We want to mature the lithium-ion technology but we are making this decision today to protect the A350’s entry-into-service sched-ule,” an Airbus spokes-woman said.Industry executives, insur-ance companies and safety offi cials had told Reuters the technology’s predictability
was being questioned at senior levels as investigators struggle to fi nd the cause of incidents that led to the grounding of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.These included a fi re on board a parked 787 in Bos-ton and an in-fl ight problem
on another plane in Japan.The A350 is due to enter service in the second half of 2014 compared with an initial target of 2012 when it was launched as Europe’s answer to the lightweight 787 Dreamliner.The industry’s fear is that the failure to identify the “root cause” of the burning battery incidents leaves too much uncertainty over whether regulators will certify planes as safe when relying on the powerful but temperamental power packs.Airbus, which has said the A350 timetable is “chal-lenging,” can ill afford such doubts over its largest ever civil plane project and so has opted to eliminate its expo-sure to the risk that regula-tors might change the rules.Airbus will use the lithium-ion batteries for a maiden fl ight in mid-year and early fl ight trials, but switch to traditional batteries in time for certifi cation and delivery.
Airbus drops culprit lithium-ion batteries for A350
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) speaks to G20 states fi nance ministers in the Kremlin in Moscow yesterday
The battery decision was taken in order to prevent delays in the A350’s entry to service next year
Ernst von Freyberg
THE CYPRIOT economy is undoubtedly facing seri-ous structural problems. The key to overcoming
the crisis lies in fi scal rationali-sation, bank recapitalisation, reform of the fi nancial sector and the further diversifi cation of the economy with the de-velopment of new engines for growth.
Overcoming the challenges requires new approaches do-mestically as well as the sup-port and the solidarity of the EU.
However, the Eurogroup, amidst a political power struggle among member states and EU institutions, a series of internal elector-al contests and with a new head in Dutch fi nance min-ister Jeroen Dijsselbloem - a labelled conservative and a proponent of strict fi scal dis-cipline - is pursuing policies that may create problems for the stability of the eurozone as a whole.
Cyprus is currently under considerable stress. The due diligence exercise by PIMCO has concluded that the re-quirements for bank recapi-talisation range around €9 billion.
If this is added to public debt it would have the con-sequence of rendering it un-sustainable. Hence, it will be essential to consider oth-er arrangements; this may mean that bank capitalisa-tion, at least partly, should be directly from the Euro-pean Stability Mechanism (ESM).
Cyprus is also under sus-tained scrutiny for money laundering and has recently come under severe criticism on the matter.
This would need to be han-dled delicately on the one hand to confi rm compliance but on the other, not to jeop-ardise investor confi dence in the confi dentiality of our banking system.
The debt crisis and the broader economic crisis have raised several issues, includ-ing those of fi scal consolida-tion and solidarity among
EU member states. The un-ion may have to revisit some fundamental economic prin-ciples. A policy of contain-ing budget defi cits and en-couraging rationalization of public spending is in princi-ple correct.
But trying to maintain bal-anced annual budgets ir-respective of the economic circumstances of a country would, most likely, create more problems than it could solve. Indeed during a reces-sion such an approach is pro-cyclical and would worsen economic conditions, even lead to depression. The case of Greece may well be an in-dicator.
A similar rationale is being adopted in the case of Cy-prus. With unemployment already at 15%, instead of following growth oriented policies the overriding objec-tive appears to be locked on fi scal consolidation and defi -cit reduction.
A new approach would al-low states to aim for a bal-anced budget on the basis of an average over an ex-tended period of time (such as fi ve years for instance). This would permit a discre-tionary expansionary fi scal policy in times of recession or crisis, and would encour-age growth.
Furthermore, it is of utmost importance to move forward to establish a fully-fl edged fi scal union. EU spending will also have to increase considerably from currently 1% to about 3% of the total GDP of the Union.
This will enable the EU to support member states when in need with targeted spending. Understandably, for the implementation of this policy option it is also essential to reach a consen-sus for closer integration. This entails greater solidar-
ity, as well as a departure from the current wrangling at the Council, Eurogroup and ECOFIN levels by heads of member states that wish to appease voters in their own countries.
At the same time it will also ensure greater commitment by member states to move forward with the necessary reforms for fi scal consolida-tion and a greater degree of integration.
Obviously the issues under consideration require a par-adigm shift. It is question-able whether in the long run there can be a monetary un-ion without a fi scal union.
Recent discussions for a Banking Union constitute a step in the right direc-tion. Moreover, fi scal feder-alism can offset the effects
of asymmetric shocks and policy wars that hinder the decision process – especially at times of need.
The transfer of more fi s-cal responsibility from the national level to a common eurozone authority seems to be necessary for the viability of the monetary union but diffi cult to achieve. Some analysts go even further and support that a common cur-rency can only exist within the framework of a political union. These issues deserve to be addressed quickly and with an open mind.
� Andreas Theophanous is Professor of Political Econ-omy and President of the Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia.
Opinion
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13CYPRUS MAIL Saturday, February 16, 2013
PV systems clearly threaten EAC monopolyWE WOULD have thought that the authorities of a country that boasts the highest electricity rates in Europe would not have been averse to exploring the possibilities provided by renew-able energy sources. More so in a country which has long hours of sunlight 12 months a year and is ideally suited for photovoltaic (PV) systems which turn sunlight into power in a clean and environmentally-friendly way.
In the past, PV modules were not cost-effec-tive because of their high price and the Energy Services preferred to invest funds allocated to renewable energy sources in wind farms that are an eye-sore, noisy and unreliable. The authorities ignored the fact that there was not enough wind in Cyprus making wind farms ineffi cient. In addition to this the sudden changes in the strength of the wind caused surges of power, creating problems at power stations.
PV systems had none of these problems – there has always been an abundance of sunlight, and there are no sudden surges or falls in their power production. Every house-hold could contribute to power production by installing a PV system, no matter how small, in contrast to wind farms which require an investment of millions. And now that the cost of these systems has almost halved, they have become the most cost-effective method of power production.
The biggest obstacles to the installation of these systems are the government and Electricity Authority of Cyprus which control approval of the systems. These controls were understandable considering that the govern-ment was directly subsidising PV systems and the EAC buying the power at a premium rate; applications for subsidies were complicated and it took a year, sometimes two, for an ap-proval to be given.
There is no state subsidy any longer and the premium rate at which power was bought is unnecessary now that the price of PV systems has been slashed. A household could install a system without a subsidy, sell the power at the unit cost the EAC charges consumers and pay off the investment in less than 10 years. The system would carry on producing power for another 15 to 20 years as most well-known brands offer 25-year performance warranties.
In short, there would still be an attractive incentive for households and businesses to contribute to power production in a clean and environmentally friendly way. But one more thing needs to be done – introduction of net metering by which a system owner would have the electricity his system generates deducted from his EAC bill. The government would be removed from the equation and all delays eliminated. A pilot system for the installation of 25 smart meters is currently under way, but the EAC, presumably fearing its monopoly would be affected is already expressing op-position to implementation of net metering. It claims that the electricity grid would not be able to cope with the extra capacity generated by thousands of small PV systems. Surely the grid could be made to cope. We think how-ever, the real concern of the EAC is the fact that big PV systems could produce electricity at a much lower unit cost than the authority and eventually threaten its dominance of the market.
LETTER to the Editor
Paradigm shift is what’s needed within the EU
Cyprus is currently under considerable EU-related stress
There’s but one life and we should make the most of it Having read the detailed letter (Cyprus Mail, February 9) from John Knowles, I feel bound to take issue with him on some of the issues he raises. Reincarnation has been dismissed by many more equally distinguished writ-ers as compared with those who con-sider it likely.
I do not criticise John. I simply disa-gree with him. He can believe what he likes. For myself, as for countless mil-lions, I am just content to accept there is but one life and that we should make the most of it while we are here.
The questions of out-of-body and near-death experiences have long been set aside by the vast majority of special-ist neuro surgeons who recognise the occurrence as being caused by rogue electrical manifestations in the brain.
As for the JB Rhine experiments with
Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) I can assure John these are possible to repli-cate perfectly by any competent magi-cian to a degree which will astound a lay observer.
I know that John sells Tarot type cards and books and sincerely believes in this kind of character reading, but they have as much credibility as aura colour analysis - which is without doubt total hocus pocus.
As a long time Associate Member of London’s Inner Magic Circle and with 70 years active practice in magic I know very well that virtually all the so-called inexplicable phenomena linked with mind reading, ectoplasm production, ghostly sightings, voices from the dead, medium performances et al, can all be faithfully reproduced by a thorough understanding of the myriad tech-
niques involved. One only has to have access to The Magic Circle’s library of many thousands of volumes covering every conceivable aspect of matters of mystery to discover and realise that al-though people desperately wish to be convinced, their convictions are by and large unhappily baseless.
There is for example, a ten thousand pound prize waiting in an escrow ac-count to be claimed by anyone who can defi nitively prove genuine ESP or mind reading expertise, not down to coinci-dence or chance, but subject to exhaus-tive and meticulous non-negotiable scrutiny by an expert panel.
Over decades that prize has yet to be claimed.
Clive Turner, Paphos.
Andreas Theophanous Comment
Showbiz
14 Saturday, February 16, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL
Hugh Jackman’s father is his heroHUGH Jackman’s father is his hero.The 44-year-old Australian actor says he is driven by his dad’s strength and com-mitment to raising fi ve chil-dren alone after his mother walked out on them to start a new life in England when Hugh was just eight years old.He explained: “My dad went off to England to bring her back, but by this point she was married to someone else, with a kid. It was really complicated. So when Dad arrived back - not three weeks later, as planned, but fi ve days later - I just knew. I was old enough to go, ‘This is not happening.’“My father could only come to one school sports game a year because he had fi ve kids, and on Saturday he had to shop. If my father was there, it would be 50 per cent greater. Having his approval is something that still drives me.”Hugh, who has adopted children Oscar, 12, and Ava, seven, with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, says he chose to devote himself to his father’s conserva-tive Protestant church as a teenager and although he is no longer particularly reli-gious, he is grateful for the safe haven it offered him from his family troubles.The Les Miserables star added in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “I was involved with so many things in the church. It was my social group. It was where I met girls. It was sort of my life out of school. Then around 16 or 17, I started questioning. ‘How come all these nonbelievers are going to hell?’
Ke$ha drank her own urineSINGER Ke$ha has sampled her own pee on her new MTV reality show, Ke$ha: My Cra-zy Beautiful Life, after being told that it had health ben-efi ts - but quickly found she didn’t like the taste.Speaking to BBC Radio 1, she said: “I was told drinking my own pee was good, I was try-ing to be healthy.“Somebody tried to take my pee away from me and I said, ‘That is mine!’ So I snatched it up and took a chug and it was really gross, so I don’t do it anymore.”The 25-year-old singer has previously revealed her ten-dency to urinate in unusual places.Last year, the singer posted a picture on Twitter of her-self peeing in the street and blamed heavy traffi c for her emergency toilet break.She tweeted: “pee pee on the street. PoPo come n get me if u can fi nd meeee. I blame traffi k (sic)”.Ke$ha also said she met fellow singer Lily Allen while they were both urinating in a sink at the 2010 BRIT Awards.
Prince headlines Montreux jazz with pricey concertsBy Stephanie Nebehay
PRINCE returns to the Montreux Jazz Festival in July to give three concerts at the 47th edition, the fi rst after the death of founder Claude Nobs, organisers said this week.The American singer and musician is booked to give three shows on July 13, 14 and 15, the Swiss festival said in a state-ment.“Groovy, funky and the undisputed master of improvisation, Prince’s performances are all unique and unpredictable,” it said of the 54-year-old viewed as a pioneer of online music dis-tribution and maverick in the business.Prince fi rst appeared on the famed Montreux stage in 2007, then showed up at 3 a.m. to jam with his band at a late-night jazz cafe along Lake Geneva. He gave two back-to-back shows on the same night in 2009, drawing fans from across Europe for a rare appearance on the continent.Tickets go on sale this morning, at a whopping 175 Swiss francs ($190) standing and 395 francs for a seat.“We consider him one of the headline acts,” festival spokes-woman Emilie Loertscher told Reuters.The rest of the line-up will be announced on April 18.Nobs, who founded the Montreux Jazz Festival nearly 50 years ago, died in January at age 76 after several weeks in a coma fol-lowing a skiing accident.The Swiss impresario immortalised by rock group Deep Pur-ple as ‘Funky Claude’ in the song Smoke on the Water, lured the biggest stars of the music world including Miles Davis, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin to the annual event. The singer performed the act on her new MTV reality show
By Mike Collett-White
AMERICAN actor River Phoenix has returned to the big screen 20 years after his death after Dark Blood director George Sluizer sal-vaged the footage of his in-complete 1993 fi lm and fi lled in the gaps with voiceovers.
Phoenix was considered one of the most promising performers of his generation before he died suddenly of a suspected drug overdose aged 23, ten days before shooting on Dark Blood was scheduled to fi nish.
British actor Jonathan Pryce, who starred alongside Phoenix and Judy Davis in the story of a couple who get lost in the American desert, said he had no reason to sus-pect the young star was tak-ing drugs during six weeks of fi lming together.
“I found him a remarkable young man,” Pryce told re-porters after a press screen-ing in Berlin.
“I can’t believe now looking back that he was only 23 at the time, a kind of old head on young shoulders. He was absolutely delightful and wonderful to work with.
“In all the weeks we were together in Utah ... at no time did I experience him using drugs or abusing drugs in any way, shape or form. I’m not a drug user myself but I’d have known. It was a
time in his life when he was very committed to not using drugs. I loved him a lot and I love his memory.”
In Dark Blood, Phoenix plays Boy, a disturbed young widower of Native Ameri-can extraction, who rescues wealthy couple Harry and Buffy, played by Pryce and Davis, when their vintage Bentley breaks down in the middle of the desert.
Fearful of the forbidding landscape of scrub and canyon and the fi erce heat, the couple are relieved, and Buffy is initially attracted to the dark, brooding loner who
lives in an isolated wooden shack on the top of a hill.
But their unease begins when he shows them a can-dle-lit bunker carved into a canyon where he believes he and a mate can be saved from the end of the world, and that unease turns to fear when he refuses to take them to the nearest town.
The fact that Dark Blood was ever made is a minor miracle in itself.
In 1999, Sluizer discovered the fi lm reels were about to be destroyed by the com-pany that insured the movie and so fl ew from the Nether-
lands to Los Angeles just in time to rescue them.
In 2007 the Dutch fi lmmak-er, who is now 80, suffered a serious illness and so decid-ed to try and fi nish what he had started. He estimated that 25 per cent of the foot-age was missing, and sound and image often did not match.
Sluizer was forced to ad-just his script to fi t what he had, and to add voiceovers explaining the gaps in the action, but the overall effect is surprisingly coherent.
Whether wider audiences will be able to watch the
completed fi lm remains to be seen, with Sluizer yet to cut a deal with the company controlling the rights.
“They are very tough,” he said. “They are billionaires, money market people ap-parently who by mistake I would say have in their stock ... a fi lm, and they don’t care about movies and they don’t care about culture, they care about money.”
He did, however, have the blessing of members of the Phoenix family, which includes River’s younger brother and fellow actor Joaquin.
River Phoenix rises again as final movie is finished
Gone but not forgotten: River Phoenix was considered one of the most promising actors of his generation before he died suddenly of a suspected drug overdose aged 23, ten days before shooting on Dark Blood was scheduled to fi nish
Director uses some voiceovers to fi ll gaps
Jessica Alba’s ‘dream’ OscarsJESSICA Alba felt like she was “dreaming” when she fi rst attended the Oscars.The 31-year-old beauty - who has daughters Honor, four, and 18-month-old Haven with husband Cash Warren - can still remem-ber the surreal experience of being at the Academy Awards for the fi rst time in 2008 and thinks being pregnant on the red car-pet made the ceremony even more enjoyable.Speaking at the grand opening of the Tommy Hilfi ger West Coast Flag-ship on Robertson Boul-evard in Los Angeles, Jessica told BANG Show-biz: “My fi rst time at the Oscars I literally felt like I was in a dream the whole time.“At the same time I was pregnant with Honor, my fi rst daughter, so that was awesome and memorable. I was thinking the whole time, she’s going to have these pictures of her at the Oscars. Sort of.”
15CYPRUS MAIL Saturday, February 16, 2013
Tech
TODAY IN HISTORY
Death of first cloned sheepIn 2003, Dolly, the world’s fi rst cloned sheep, was put down, aged about six and a half years, as she was suffering from progressive lung disease. The fi rst mammal cloned from an adult cell saw scientists replace the nucleus of a Finn Dorset sheep egg cell with that from a parent cell, then implant the resulting embryo into the womb of a surrogate sheep. As the normal life expectancy of a Finn Dorset is about 12 years, Dolly’s early death raised new controversy about cloning.
Dolly’s death raised fresh controversy about cloning
Top chipmaker Intel plans a new internet TV service
By Noel Randewich and Ronald Grover
TOP chipmaker Intel Corp plans to launch an internet television service this year with live and on-demand con-tent, entering a hotly-com-petitive race as its core PC business erodes.
Shifting into an unfamiliar and potentially costly mar-ket in which Intel lacks ex-perience and relationships, Erik Huggers, vice president and general manager of Intel Media, said he is negotiating with content providers.
He said hundreds of Intel employees and their families are already testing a set-top box the company will sell as part of the service.
Intel’s move puts it into com-petition with heavyweights like Apple, Amazon and Goog-le that believe the $100-billion cable television ecosystem is ripe for change.
The chipmaker plans to offer consumers smaller bundles of content than those currently offered by cable operators, Erik Huggers, vice president and general manager of Intel Media, told the AllThingsDig-ital “Dive into Media” confer-ence on Tuesday.
Asked if Intel has inked any content deals, Huggers said he is working with provid-ers and is confi dent Intel will have a compelling product to launch this year. “We have been working for (the past) year to set up Intel media, a
new group focused on devel-oping an Internet platform,” Huggers said. “It’s not a value play, it’s a quality play where we’ll create a superior experi-ence for the end user.”
Intel has struggled to get its virtual television service off the ground due to unwill-ingness on the part of major media content providers to let the company unbundle and license specifi c networks and shows at a discount to what
cable and satellite partners pay, according to sources.
Silicon Valley has been tak-ing aim at the US cable tel-evision market - dominated by major distributors such as Comcast and DirecTV Group and programme makers like Walt Disney Co and Time Warner Inc. Technology com-panies see opportunities due to reasons ranging from shift-ing viewer habits to mounting programming costs.
Intel’s plan, if successful, would go further than prod-ucts currently offered by Ap-ple, Amazon and Netfl ix by offering live programming as well as on-demand content.
“There is an opportunity to offer a bundle that can be cu-rated by the consumer, an op-portunity to create smarter bundles,” Huggers said.
Intel’s set-top-box will also have a camera that could be used to automatically steer
content and ads toward spe-cifi c users.
“There’s a scenario where the TV recognises that it’s you and says ‘Hey, I know what you like. I know what you want to watch’, versus the environ-ment we’re in today where the TV literally is not interested in you at all,” Huggers told Reu-ters In an interview.
Some media executives are sceptical that Intel will be able to convince content pro-viders to agree to terms that are attractive enough to make its service viable.
Analysts, on the other hand, see Intel’s leap into Internet TV, along with its growing fo-cus on smartphones and tab-lets, as a way to diversify be-yond the slowing PC market.
Huggers said in the inter-view that Intel employees are testing the device’s user interface, sound and picture quality and other features.
“We’re actively testing it in the fi eld with employees. It’s not the fi nal product, but it’s certainly functional,” he said.
Industry insiders have said Apple may unveil a TV-based device that has the potential to shake up the cozy televi-sion content and distribution industry the way the iPod and iPhone disrupted music and mobile content.
Sources say Apple, which al-ready sells a $99 set top box called Apple TV that streams Netfl ix and other content, is in talks with providers but it is unclear how much headway it has made.
Huggers previously worked at Microsoft and the BBC, where in 2007 he launched iPlayer, an online service let-ting viewers catch up with programmes they missed on regular television.
“The model we envision is a model where live television and catch-up television live in the same paradigm,” Hug-gers said.
Service to vie with Amazon, Apple and Google
Intel’s plan, if successful, would go further than products currently offered by Apple, Amazon and Netfl ix, by offering live programming as well as on demand content
TV stations had to change passwords on equipment connected to the US’ EAS
Password failure to blame for TV hoaxA HACKER infi ltration of the US emergency broadcast sys-tem on TV stations in at least four states came down to the fact that the stations had failed to change factory de-fault passwords, broadcast-ers said this week.
The Monday attacks, which broadcast bogus warnings that the United States was under attack by zombies, prompted the government to order television stations to change passwords on the equipment that connects them to the nation’s Emer-gency Alert System, or EAS.
The FCC would not com-ment, but in an urgent ad-visory sent to television sta-tions on Tuesday the agency said: “All EAS participants are required to take imme-diate action.”
It instructed them to change passwords on equip-ment from all manufacturers, making sure that gear was secured behind fi rewalls and to also inspect systems to ensure that hackers had not queued “unauthorised alerts” for future transmission.
While a zombie hoax ap-peared to be innocuous, the fact that hackers could eas-ily broadcast an emergency message showed that they might be able to wreak havoc with more alarming commu-nications. “It isn’t what they said. It is the fact that they got into the system. They could have caused some real damage,” said Karole White, president of the Michigan As-sociation of Broadcasters.
Two stations were attacked in Michigan, in addition to several in California, Mon-tana and New Mexico, ac-cording to White.
A male voice addressed view-ers in a video posted online of the bogus warning broadcast from KRTV in Great Falls, Montana, a CBS affi liate: “Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from the grave and attacking the liv-ing.” The voice warned not “to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous.”
Super luxury handset launchedA LUXURY, hand-made mo-bile phone was launched this week with an eye-watering fi ve-fi gure price tag.
Vertu’s Ti is a titanium-cased, sapphire crystal-screened Android smart-phone that will set back the discerning punter up to £14,200.
It is the latest high-end phone by the British com-pany, formerly part of Nokia until it was sold to private eq-uity outfi t EQT last year.
It hit the headlines in 2002 offering a £15,000 Nokia phone available in 18-carat gold, white gold and top-of-the-range platinum cases.
Perry Oosting, Vertu’s presi-dent and chief executive, said: “Vertu has pioneered and led the luxury mobile phone sec-tor since we began in the late ’90s and the great depth of our knowledge and experi-ence can be seen in Vertu Ti. There is nothing else like it.”
Prices for the handset start at £6,800, for the Titanium
Black Leather model, rising to £14,200 (16,500 euros) for a version in red gold.
Each one is hand-made and signed by a single craftsman at the company’s factory in Hampshire.
Its specifi cations put it alongside most other smart-
phones on the market, with an eight megapixel rear cam-era with fl ash, a 1.3MP front-facing camera and 64MB of internal memory.
The company claims its 3.7in sapphire crystal screen is “virtually scratch proof” and tested to be four times stronger than other smart-phones against impacts. It also claims its titanium case is around fi ve times stronger than other smartphones.
Vertu has expanded on its concierge service that was available on previous handsets through a special button.
It would allow wealthy us-ers to call their own personal operator and ask for any-thing, from local information to a table at an exclusive restaurant. The “Vertu key” on the new handset includes this, but adds a 24/7 service, including Vertu Certainty, which “helps protect the de-vice, its data and, where nec-essary, the customer”.
Prices for the Vertu Ti start at £6,800 for the Titanium Black Leather model
FILM tribes with dedi-cated followers have long been in existence. But times and tastes
are changing. And Holly-wood is now having to raise the bar to cater for powerful new gangs.
The over-sixties and teen-age girls, for example, wield serious clout. The Motion Picture Association of Ameri-ca reports that movie attend-ance across all age groups dipped in 2011 – except for those who were 60 and older. It has been estimated that a third of Hollywood produc-tions are now made with this demographic in mind. Young women, meanwhile, ensured that Twilight Break-ing Dawn: Part 2, The Hunger Games and Snow White and the Huntsman were among the top 15 highest-grossing fi lms of last year, worldwide.
Then there are females in search of a giggle. They’re a gold-mine. As Meryl Streep recently pointed out during an awards ceremony cele-brating women in fi lm, a “lit-tle” comedy such as Brides-maids offered “pure profi t” for the studios because mov-ies aimed at women often cost a fraction of what the big tent-poles cost.
The fi nancial risks are greater when it comes to literary adaptations, CGI-enhanced spectaculars and modern sci-fi . But as shown by the records broken and Academy Awards won by se-ries such as The Lord of the Rings, the rewards are po-
tentially huge.The latest wave of tribes
leaves some fi lm fans behind. History buffs in search of well-acted drama don’t have much to look forward to this year (Lincoln? Sorry, people, that’s your lot). But the new groups on the block are thriv-ing. In fact, they’re spoilt for choice.
FUNNY WOMEN FANSThis group may have an all-
new fondness for gross-out toilet gags but in other ways they’re old-school, tickled by the kind of scenarios that used to feature in the Sev-enties American TV comedy Rhoda. The latter’s heroine was not appealing because she had a pretty face or su-per-duper hairdo. She was cool because she was rawly human. And because she was played by a talented comedi-enne. What’s so funny about female comics? As far as these viewers are concerned: everything.
DVD essentialsSightseers (two words: Al-
ice Lowe); Bridesmaids
Must-see moviesIdentity Theft - Brides-
maids’ brilliant big-mouth, Melissa McCarthy, plays the identity purloiner in ques-tion, who throws the life of a staid businessman called Sandy (Jason Bateman) into crisis. The police won’t bring this woman to justice, so Sandy decides to do the
job himself. Needless to say, she’s way more than he can handle.
The Heat - McCarthy (again). She and Sandra Bul-lock play chalk and cheese FBI offi cers in The Law, a comedy from Paul Feig. Mc-Carthy is the rogue element, Bullock the perfectionist (think Zero Dark Thirty’s Maya, played for laughs). Look out for a guffaw-out loud moment involving Spanx.
Girl Most Likely - Kris-ten Wiig, who co-wrote and played the lead in Brides-maids, is the playwright who - aged 30 - realises she’s gone from hero to zero. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend and he fails to fall for her fake suicide bid, she returns to her New Jersey home, where her gambling addict mother (Annette Bening) awaits.
Best of the restAdmission; In a World
THE SCI-FI SNOBSOnce upon a time, all a sci-fi
feature needed was a frown-ing man in a Lycra onesie. Those days are gone. This lot would rather eat their own vomit than watch something such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). What they seek are projects with excellent pro-duction values, quirky, “prop-er” actors and directors with indie pedigree. And plots as much concerned with aliena-tion as alien nations. They want the universe on a plate,
basically, and Hollywood is doing its best to oblige.
DVD essentialsPrometheus (they weren’t
sure about the fi lm but loved Michael Fassbender as dap-per robot David); Looper
Must-see moviesStar Trek into Darkness - JJ
Abrams stays for the second instalment of the reboot, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Starfl eet renegade John Harrison, out to destroy Lon-don and spook Captain Kirk. Damon Lindelof (co-creator of TV series Lost) helped write the script.
Elysium - Think Metropolis with huge guns. It’s 2159: the rich thrive on a pristine space station while the poor die slowly on planet Earth. Matt Damon is an ex-con who wants to shake things up, while Jodie Foster is the gov-ernment offi cial who wants to stop him. The writer/di-rector is Neill Blomkamp (of cult thriller District 9 fame).
Pacifi c Rim - Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited giant monsters vs robots extrava-ganza, which he claims was inspired by Goya’s painting, The Colossus. Jaegers - aka robots controlled by human pilots – must defend the earth from Kaiju, dinosaur like monsters that erupt from the sea. Idris Elba - as Stack-er Pentecost - thinks his elite forces can “cancel the apoc-alypse”. Can an untested trainee (played by lovely Jap-anese actress Rinko Kikuchi) save the day?
Best of the restOblivion; After Earth; Grav-
ity; Ender’s Game
TWILIGHT ZONERSDo not underestimate these
damsels. They may have a weakness for love triangles, hairless pecs and having en-emies (including the major-ity of male movie critics) but without them a franchise such as The Hunger Games would not exist. They iden-tify with resourceful, rather than macho, heroines and - just as important - appreci-ate a good soundtrack. They are (almost) women. Hear them roar.
DVD essentialsThe Twilight Saga: Break-
ing Dawn Part 2; The Hunger Games
Must-see moviesThe Host - Set in the fu-
ture, it’s based on Stephenie Meyer’s post-Twilight novel and is about an attempt to save planet Earth from emo-tion-crushing aliens. Saoirse Ronan plays Melanie Stry-
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THE NEW FI
From post-Twilight teenagers to silver-haired cinema-goers, Charlotte O’Sullivan scouts the next generation of movie gangs and the releases that they won’t want to miss
A logical sequel: Spock in Star Trek Into the Darkness
der, impregnated by an alien soul, or host, called Wanda but determined to fi ght back alongside human lover Jared (pretty Max Irons). Mean-while, Wanda falls for a guy called Ian (the even prettier Jake Abel). Hi-concept or highly suspect? Either way, with brilliant, stern, Irish “It” girl Ronan in the lead, it’s likely to be gripping.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones - Lily Collins is
Clary, an apparently ordinary teen who discovers she is a Shadow hunter, a half-angel, half-human warrior. Demons want to take over the world, Clary holds the key to sur-vival. Among her friends and foes, you’ll see Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Twilight’s Jamie Campbell Bower.
The Hunger Games: Catch-ing Fire - The second part of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian adventure gets the big screen
treatment. Still reeling from their surprise victory at the Games, Katniss and Peeta (Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson) are forced to go on a Victor’s Tour but sense that rebellion in the districts is growing. Then it’s time for the 75th annual Hunger Games. Let the blood-letting – and sexual tension - begin.
Best of the restB e a u t i f u l
Creatures;Byzantium; The Bling Ring
THE BLOCKBUSTER BOFFINS
This bunch love the clas-sics but are not purists. They want to see great literature combined with the most ex-pensive, cutting-edge tech-nology. The mass slaughter of mythical creatures is wel-come but not essential. Ditto sex. What this refi ned breed yearn for, above all things, is a lofty-themed, out-of-this-world “event”.
DVD essentialsThe Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey; Life of Pi
Must-see moviesCloud Atlas - An adaptation
of David Mitchell’s novel from Lana and Andy Wachowski. The story spans various con-tinents and eras (including the South Pacifi c in 1849 and Korea in 2144) and stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry as star-crossed lovers deter-mined to meet again.
The Great Gatsby - Baz Luhrmann tackles one of the most nebulous novels of the 20th century, with the help of his Romeo + Juliet muse, Le-onardo DiCaprio. Carey Mul-ligan plays tantalising, unre-liable Daisy Buchanan, while
Tobey Maguire is quiet witness, Nick Carraway. Expect lots of whizzy camera moves and a mod-ern soundtrack (Jay Z has reportedly contributed to the score).
The Desolation of Smaug - In which Bilbo and his sort-of friends continue their journey to Smaug’s Lair. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the Necromancer and also provides the voice of Smaug.
Best of the restOz The Great and Powerful
SENIOR CINEMA-GOERS
This crew are nothing if not fl exible, willing to watch actors of any age as long as they appear in dramas that are character-driven. They appreciate art-house fi lms like Amour, which concen-trate on ageing and death, but generally prefer some-thing a bit more upbeat. The mantra of these energetic veterans: you can teach an old dog new tricks. Note: this rule does not apply to 3-D, which they see as an abomi-nation dreamt up by cruel youngsters with 20/20 vision.
DVD essentialsThe Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel; Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Must-see moviesSong For Marion - Marion
(Vanessa Redgrave) has ter-minal cancer and - much to the horror of her introverted husband, Arthur (Terence Stamp) – a yen to sing. She’s part of a senior, non-profes-sional choir called the OAPZ, led by chirpy twenty some-thing Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton). The group want to take part in a national
competition and Marion helps get them through the fi rst stage with her rendition of True Colours. Can Eliza-beth help Arthur fi nd his voice?
Robot & Frank - It’s the near future and ex-convict Frank is suffering from the early stages of dementia. His son buys him a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) to help Frank cope with life, and man and machine bond. Almost too well. Soon Frank and Robot become partners in crime, helping alluring,
sardonic librarian Susan Sarandon to foil a tycoon’s plans.
Last Vegas - Michael Doug-las, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline head off for a bachelor par-ty in Sin City. Douglas has described this as an “alter kaker Hangover” (alter kaker is Yiddish for old fart). It fea-tures a party, a funeral and a Madonna impersonator.
Best of the restA Late Quartet; August: Os-
age County
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Mischief maker: Melissa McCarthy stars
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Hear our voices: Vanessa Redgrave as a terminal cancer
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TodayMusic
Rigolleto - The Met: Live in HDLive broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera of New York in high-definition. February 16. Rialto Theatre, Limas-sol. 7.55pm. €20/15. With Greek and English Subtitles Tel: 77-777745. www.rialto.com.cy
TrelantonisStage 018 of THOC presents a clas-sic work of Greek literature by Pene-lope Delta. February 6 until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Saturday February 16 & 23 at 6pm and Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300
PinocchioTheatre Maskarini unique adaptation of well-known tale. February 16 until April 14. Russian Cultural Centre, 16 Alassias Street, Nicosia. Premier at 4pm and every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-761607/22-270420
Are You Afraid of the Dark?A play aimed to help children to
overcome their fears, based on Jill Tomlinson’s fairytale. February 16. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. 5pm. €5 for children/€9 for adults. In Greek. Tel: 99-358663/99-621669
TomorrowMusic
Ethnic Night at WindcraftA night with ethnic music, includ-ing traditional pieces and original compositions in an improvisa-tory style. February 17. Windcraft Music Centre, 27 Xanthis Xenierou, Nicosia. 9pm. €6 (includes drink). Tel: 99-549141/99-808835. [email protected]. www.wind-craftmusic.com
Theatre
In the Land of Peter PanThe Puppet Group of Satiriko Theatre presents work by James Barry. February 17 until April 28. Vladimi-ros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11 - 15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609
Other Events
Health & Well Being FestivalExhibitors plus free lectures, work-shops and fitness classes. February 17. Aloe Hotel, Paphos. 10am to 6pm. €2 with proceeds going towards
the Cancer Patients Support Group and Archangel Michael’s Hospice. Tel: 99-387311or e-mail, [email protected]. www.in-any-event.biz
MondayExhibition
Etching, Printing and Poster Exhibi-tionGroup exhibition featuring content of a cultural and political nature. Opens February 18, 7.30pm until March 2. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983
Theatre
KatsaridaPocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy. February 18-19. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959
OngoingOther Events
Love at first… BiteChocolate week, marvel at chocolate sculptures, watch chocolate cooking demonstrations and taste a variety of exciting new flavours. February 12-17.
C House Lounge Café, 33 Neas Engo-mis, Nicosia. Chocolate shows from 5.30pm-8.30pm followed by chocolate tasting at 8.30pm. Tel: 22-269600
Screenings at the Shoe Factory An extraordinary selection of rare eclectic films. Until March 29. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str, Nicosia. 8pm. Free. Films shown in original language with English subtitles where applicable. www.pharosartsfoundation.org
Stories in ScreenA series of video work presentations. Until March 15. Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art Gallery Solonos 10, Paphos Monday-Friday: 10am-1-pm and 4pm-6pm. Saturday: 10am-1.30pm. Tel: 99-311225
Theatre
The Grönholm MethodThe New Stage of THOC presents a play by the Catalan playwright Jordi Galcerán Ferrer. Until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gre-gori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 77-772717
AntigoneTHOC presents Sophoclean tragedy directed by Despina Gatziou. Until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nico-sia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300
Isadora DuncanSatiriko Theatro presents play by
Thanasis Theologis based on the life of the famous dancer. Until February 24. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609
Nursing Home the CherubimTheatre Anemona celebrates its tenth anniversary with comedy by Nearchos Ioannou. Until March 17. Anemona Theater, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 8pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031
Sheer MadnessPopular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides returns with an adapta-tion of one of the longest-running non-musical plays in the world. Until March 17. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Sat-urday and Sunday at 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910/22-675787
God of CarnageDionysos Theatre presents multi-award winning comedy by Yasmina Reza directed by George Mouaimis. Until March 17. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6.30pm. In Greek. €20/15. Tel: 99-621845
The Children of CainTheatro Ena presents the psychologi-cal thriller by Andreas Thomopoulos. Until March 31. Theatro Ena, 4 Athi-nas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday
through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203
How to Rob a BankSkala Theatre presents a three act comedy by Samy Fayad. Until March 31. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 99-490102
Exhibition
MindscapesSolo painting exhibition by Thekla Pa-padopoulou. Until February 28. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Lar-naca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109
ImpressionsSolo photo exhibition by Sergey Yastrzhembskiy. Until February 28. The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Founda-tion, 86-88-90 Phaneromenis Street, Nicosia. Visiting hours: Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. (except on bank holidays). Tel: 22-128157
Da Vinci Machines – An exhibition of Genius Exhibition displaying more than 60 interactive machines from Da Vinci original drawings, 15 high quality reproduction artworks, giant art panels and rare copies of Leonardo codices. Until February 28. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Vasilissis Street, (Medieval Castle Area), Limassol. Tel: 25-342123. www.davincimachi-nescyprus.com
NICOSIAA Good Day to Die Hard (15)K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.10am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm
Upside Down (N/A)K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.25pm and 3.30pm
Love in the End (N/A)K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 11.10am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm.
Argo (12)K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm
The Impossible (12)K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.10pm
Anna Karenina (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm.
Flight (18)K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm
Gambit (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm
Hotel Transylvania (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm
Faust(in German, with Greek subtitles)Cine Studio, Sunday at 8pm, Thursday and Friday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy
Wintertochter(in German, with English subtitles)Cine Studio, Monday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy
Short Films from the Drama Film FestivalCine Studio, Tuesday and Wednesday at 9pm. Tel: 96-420491
LIMASSOLA Good Day to Die Hard (15)
Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, week-ends also at 3.30 and 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm
Upside Down (N/A)Rio 5 at 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm
Love in the End (N/A)Rio 2 (in Greek) at 7.45pm, week-ends also at 6pm; Rio 4 (in Greek) at 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.25pm
Argo (12)Rio 6 at 8 and 10.15pm, week-ends also at 3.30 and 5.45pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm
The Impossible (12)Rio 5 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3.20 and 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm
Anna Karenina (K)Rio 3 at 7.35 and 10pm, week-ends also at 5pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm
Flight (18)Rio 2 at 10pm
Gambit (K)Rio 4 at 7.45pm
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 6pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm
Finding Nemo 3D (K)Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30 and 4.20pm
Hotel Transylvania (K)Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), week-ends only at 3pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm
Faust(in German, with Greek subtitles)Rio 5, Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club. www.cinelesxi.org
Short Films from the Drama Film FestivalRialto Theatre, Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. Tel: 7777-7745
LARNACAA Good Day to Die Hard (15)K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm
Upside Down (N/A)K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm
Love in the End (N/A)K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, week-ends also at 3.25pm
Argo (12)K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm
The Impossible (12)K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm
Anna Karenina (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm
Flight (18)K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm
Gambit (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm
Hotel Transylvania (K)K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm
The Skin I Live In(in Spanish, with Greek subti-tles)Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society. Tel: 99-658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org
PAPHOSA Good Day to Die Hard (15)Rio 1 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3.30pm
Upside Down (N/A)Rio 3 at 6, 8 and 10pm, week-ends also at 4pm
Love in the End (N/A)Rio 7 (in Greek), weekdays at 5.45, 7.30 and 9.45pm, week-ends at 6.15, 7.45 and 9.45pm
Argo (12)Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3pm
The Impossible (12)Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm
Anna Karenina (K)Rio 6 (in English) at 5pm (week-days only), 7.30 and 10pm; Rio 5 (in English), weekends only at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (dubbed into Russian) at 5.15pm
Flight (18)Rio 2 at 9.45pm
Gambit (K)Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)Rio 5 (in Greek), weekdays only at 5.30pm, weekends only at 3.30pm
Finding Nemo 3D (K)Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 4.30pm
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12)Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm
Hotel Transylvania (K)Rio 6 (in Greek, in 3D), week-ends only at 3pm
Short Films from the Drama Film FestivalRio Cinema, Tuesday at 8.30pm. Tel: 99-521620
(K) All Audiences(12/15/18) No admit-tance to Under-12s/15s/ 18s(N/A) Not Available
film
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Times are subject to change, so check first with cinemas before you head out
Telephone no:
K-Cineplex: 7777-8383
Rio Limassol: 25-871410
Rio Paphos: 26-207000
For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail
CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy
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The Pharos Arts Foundation is organising a re-cital with not one, but two artists, widely consid-ered to be the most promising young talents of their generation.Wednesday’s recital sees South Korean violinist Hyeyoon Park accompanied by Armenian pian-ist Nareh Arghamanyan for an exciting concert at the Shoe Factory in old Nicosia. Twenty-year-old Park’s rise to stardom has been rapid. She has dazzled audiences with her concerto performances and has performed with Lars Vogt, Daniel Hope and Paul Watkins, amongst many other internationally-famed art-ists. Frequently praised for her radiant stage presence, she is also widely acclaimed for her vivid personality.Since her debut at the age of nine with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, she has performed with many leading orchestras. In 2009 she won two special prizes at the 58th ARD International Music Competition in Munich. At just 17 years she became the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition. That was followed by the London Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2011, and most recently she was awarded the 2012 London Music Masters Award – a triennial
prize given to only three violin-ists in the world. Park not only
received £10,000 but also invitations to play at the Wigmore Hall and give a concerto with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra.Park will team up with Arghamanyan, who in recent years
has been quietly build-ing an international reputation. Arghaman-
yan has won an impres-sive number of awards.
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the age of 19, she has been steadily performing throughout Europe and in North America.Born in Armenia, she has played the piano since the age of fi ve. By the time she was eight, she began her studies with Alexander Gurgenov at the Tchaikovsky Music School for Talented Chil-dren in Yerevan. In 2004, she was the youngest student to be admitted to the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she studied with Heinz Medjimorec and chamber music with Avedis Kouyoumdjan. Since 2010, she continues her piano studies with Arie Vardi in Hannover.In their duo recital, the two young musicians will play Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, Ravel’s So-nata for Violin and Piano and Sergei Prokofi ev’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2. The recital will end with Karol Szymanowski’s 3 Myths for Violin and Piano Op 30, which is based on characters from Greek mythology. Seats are limited, so it is advised you book yours to avoid any disap-pointment.
Violin & Piano Recital Pharos Arts Foundation presents a recital with pian-ist Nareh Arghamanyan and violinist Hyeyoon Park, with works by Beethoven, Ravel, Szymanowski and Prokofiev. February 20. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €20/15. Tel. 22-663871/ 70-00-9304. [email protected]. www.pharosartsfoundation.org
Other EventsDrama in shortFive months ago the Drama In-ternational Short Film Festival in Greece wrapped its 35th edition by bestowing a slew of awards on local and international talent. Next week, those awarded shorts travel to Cyprus for a series of screenings in Nicosia, Limas-sol and Paphos. With the aim of supporting and promoting the production of short fi lms, the Short Films Festival fi rst opened its doors in 1978, but for Greek fi lms only. Following an encouraging start and growing enthusiasm from fans and critics alike, it turned international in 1995. Eight years later, it was recognised by the European Film Academy (EFA). For nearly a decade, Drama has taken its short fi lms on the road to many cities in Greece and Cyprus, but also to cities abroad with large Greek communities, such as cities in Egypt and Ger-many.On Tuesday and Wednesday, a selection of the winning shorts will be screened simultaneously at the Rialto Theatre in Limas-sol and at the Cine Studio of the University of Nicosia and the Rio Cinema Paphos. A total of 16 shorts will be screened over two days. On Thursday, the fi lms will hit the road once more for a fi nal screening at the Rialto Theatre; just eight out of the 18 fi lms will be screened in Paphos
on Tuesday.A few shorts worthy of a men-tion are the winner of the Golden Dionysus Award for Best Fiction Film, Chamomile by Neritan Zintziria. In the fi lm, viewers see an elderly, black-clad woman walking on a snowy mountain-side, as she attempts to bury her husband.Winner of the Sokratis Dimitri-adis Award in the ‘Greeks of the World’ section was Ghost in the Machine by Oliver Krimpas. Told like a fairy tale, Ghost in the Ma-chine follows an overweight teen-age farm girl looking for romance and independence away from her bullying father. She fi nds love where she least expects it: in the form of a talking tractor.Alexandros Chantzis won the Silver Dionysus Award for Best Fiction Film: Chelsea-Barcelona, which follows two friends as they watch the Champions League semi-fi nal between Chelsea and Barcelona in 2012. Another short to look out for is the winner of the Dinos Katsouridis Newcomer Award. In Fokion Bogris’ Family Tree, an intense day in the life of three people, taking place in a degraded Athens suburb, unfolds before our eyes.
Drama’s Festival TravelsScreenings of awarded short films from the Drama International Short Film Festival in Greece.February 19: Rio Cinema Paphos, 130 Alexandrou Papagou Street. 8.30pm. free. Tel: 99-521620February 19-20: Cine Studio, (University of Nicosia), 46 Makedonitissas Avenue. 9pm. Free. Tel: 96-420491February 20-21. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. free. Tel: 77-777745. E-ticket: www.rialto.com.cy
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Other EventsLive your life to the fullLittle changes to your daily rou-tine could make a huge difference to your life. Tomorrow, In Any Event is bringing together the top experts in the health and well-ness fi elds for an all-day, all-ages exhibition.Taking place at the Aloe Hotel in Paphos, the festival combines an exhibition of handpicked com-panies showcasing products and services that support healthy living, running alongside a robust programme of seminars, work-shops and lectures. Put your mind and body on the same page - at-
tend a guided meditation work-shop, learn the truth about diet and exercise, and take control of your life, your goals and future prosperity. With over 40 exhibitors at the Health & Well Being Festival, you’ll discover many ways to help you live life to the full. There is an entrance fee of €2 which will get you into a draw. Further draw tickets can be purchased for just €1, with the proceeds going to the Cancer Patients Support Group and Archangel Michael’s Hospice.Some of the lectures and work-shops to look out for include a demonstration on minimising the appearance of facial lines with hyaluronic acid. From facial fi llers to getting to know yourself, Carol Page will be giving a workshop entitled, Know Yourself: Meet your Soul Mate, where one can learn the fi rst and most vital step
in attracting one’s meant-for companion. Igor Faskevich will be giving a lecture on membrane plas-mapheresis in different diseases and conditions - removing viruses and cleansing the blood. As we get older, most of us will suffer from arthritis in varying degrees. Arthritis cannot be stopped, but it can be slowed. Learn how to understand and resolve arthritis naturally, working with the cause of this disease as well as easing the symptoms.Those suffering from weight problems should not miss the lecture on surgery for obesity, as well as a broader description of various types of surgery available. Looking to stop smoking? Try the new fad - the electronic cigarette. Christian Everett will be giving a lecture on how e-cigarettes work and their health benefi ts.
It’s diffi cult to know who you can trust in the health business, so come and hear from local thera-pists and tradespeople about their tried and tested goods and services, all of which have the stamp of approval from ICC.Another lecture to take note of is on post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. Dr Christian Fes-sas will discuss the up-to-date techniques which are available to women who have had a mastectomy procedure to tackle breast cancer.
Health & Well Being FestivalExhibitors plus free lectures, workshops and fitness classes. February 17. Aloe Hotel, Paphos. 10am to 6pm. €2 proceeds going
towards the Cancer Patients Support Group and Arch-angel Michael’s Hospice. Tel: 99-387311or e-mail, [email protected]. www.in-any-event.biz
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Television
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Eye of the Dolphin (LTV3, 20.00)What would you say to a dolphin, if you could com-municate? Dogs are easy; you can ask why they keep fetching sticks, or engage them in a deep conversa-tion on the evil nature of cats - but dolphins live in the sea, which is handy for combating shark attacks but limits the options for general chit-chat. Angry teen Carly Schroeder is ‘troubled’, at least she goes to the Bahamas to live with the father she never knew; Dad studies dolphin communication - but it’s Carly who turns out to have a knack for talking with the smiley cetaceans, so much so that Dad is initially upset. “I forbid you from having any more contact with that dolphin!” he says hilariously, trying to play the heavy
father - but dolphins are wise, and can help Dad out when his research operation is threatened by a tour-ist attraction. Flipper-y family fun, with Jane Lynch (of all people) among the cast; maybe she can entertain the dolphins with her “Know what I had for breakfast? Cocaine!” speech from Role Models. Made in 2006.
Chronicle (Novacinema1, 22.00)Did you follow our advice last night? Did you refrain from watching The Devil Inside? If you did (and even if you didn’t), here’s your reward - a similar but far supe-rior entertainment, sci-fi rather than horror but sport-ing the same grungy ‘found-footage’ look. Andrew (Dane DeHaan) is a high-school kid with problems, a
dying mother and a drunken, abusive father - so An-drew starts fi lming everything, initially as a weapon against his dad, and is still fi lming when he and two friends explore a strange cave in the woods during a late-night party and discover they’ve become ... well, superheroes. The boys develop special powers, like telekinesis and the ability to fl y, and have fun playing football up in the clouds - but Andrew’s personal is-sues soon lead to more sinister thoughts, turning him from superhero to incipient supervillain. A very clever low-budget fi lm which also makes a virtue of the found-footage gimmick, the tunnel-vision of holding a camera rhyming with the tunnel-vision that leads to megalomania. Good stuff ; made in 2012.
By Preston Wilder
01:25 The Weakest Link 02:10 Eas-tEnders 02:40 Doctors 03:10 Last Man Standing 04:00 Robin Hood 04:45 Live At The Apollo 05:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 The Weakest Link 10:15 Doc-tor Who 11:00 Doctor Who Confi -dential 11:10 Last Man Standing 12:00 Full Circle With Michael Palin 12:50 Dinnerladies 13:20 As Time Goes By 13:50 Fawlty Towers 14:20 Last Of The Summer Wine 14:50 Casualty 15:40 EastEnders 18:10 My Family 18:40 The Weakest Link 19:25 Doctor Who 20:10 Last Man Standing 21:00 Live At The Apollo 21:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 22:30 Luther 23:20 Ideal 23:50 Getting On 00:20 Twenty Twelve 00:50 Last Man Standing
07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Twist The Throttle 08:15 Fifth Gear 09:10 Mega Builders 10:05 Mighty Ships 10:55 Deception With Keith Barry 14:30 Extreme Engineering 15:25
You Have Been Warned 16:20 Dirty Great Machines 17:15 Fast N’ Loud 18:10 Texas Car Wars 19:05 Mythbusters 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Auction Hunters 23:00 Costa Concordia: The Whole Story 01:00 Body Invaders 01:55 Auction Hunt-ers 03:50 Costa Concordia: The Whole Story 04:50 How It’s Made 05:15 Jesse James Outlaw Garage 06:05 Mega Builders
09:30 Ski Jumping: World Cup Ger-many 10:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 10:45 Alpine Skiing: World Champi-onship Austria 12:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 12:45 Cross Country Skiing: World Cup Swit-zerland 14:15 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 15:15 Biath-lon: World Championship Czech Republic 17:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 19:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:00 Biathlon: World Champion-ship Czech Republic 02:00 Snook-er: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom
05:40 Tough Love Miami 06:30
Desperate Housewives 10:20 Modern Family 11:10 Last Man Standing 12:00 Happy Endings 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apart-ment 12:50 Masterchef 14:30 The Listener 18:30 Who Do You Think You Are 19:20 Tough Love Miami 21:00 Once Upon A Time 21:50 Revenge 22:40 Raising Hope 23:05 New Girl 23:30 Glee 00:20 Bones 04:25 Modern Family 05:15 Melissa & Joey
07:30 Hollywood Buzz 08:00 Mum-ford 10:00 Greenberg 12:00 Yogi Bear 13:30 Double Jeopardy 15:30 The Fighter 17:30 Action Zone 18:00 Deception (2008) 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Sleepless In Se-attle 23:00 Groupie 00:30 Hustler Tv 02:45 True Crime 05:00 Elder Son, The 06:30 Ltv Sports News
07:00 Kids TV 13:40 Max Adven-tures 14:05 2011 Figure Skat-ing Championships 16:00 Planet Speed 16:30 2011 World’s Stron-gest Man 17:00 2011 American Le Mans Series 19:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 21:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 (Live) 23:00 E-60 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 Liga Bbva 2012-13 02:30 Three For The Show 03:30 Nba 2012-13 (Live) 06:00 E-60
07:15 Gossip Girl 08:00 Friends 08:30 Big Bang Theory The 09:00 According To Jim 09:55 Two And A Half Men 10:45 Bones 11:30 Mentalist The 12:30 Hawai Five 13:15 Closer, The 14:15 Fringe 15:00 Necessary Roughness 18:00 Five Days 23:45 Weakness 01:30 St. Elmo’s Fire 03:30 Su-pernatural
08:15 Dragonslayer 10:00 Action Zone 10:30 Flipped 12:30 Opera-tion: Daybreak 14:30 Underbelly Files - The Man Who Got Away 16:15 Peggy Sue Got Married 18:00 Ticking Clock 20:00 Eye Of The Dolphin 22:00 Just Go With It 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:05 Incendiary 05:45 Secret Pact, The
05:40 Meskada 08:05 First Daughter 09:10 To Tango Ton Christougennon 10:55 Cine News 11:35 12 Dates Of Christmas 13:05 Jumping The Broom 15:00 Ncis 16:40 Cine News 17:30 Al-vin And The Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked 19:05 Monte Carlo 22:00 Chronicle 23:35 The Avengers 02:05 The Following 02:55 Death Race 2 04:35 Strange Crime
06:45 The Beaver 08:15 Cine News 08:55 Manhattan Murder Mystery 10:50 Beastly 12:20 Puss In Boots 13:55 My Life So Far 15:30 Thor 17:30 Mad On Novacinema 18:10 Love And Other Impossible Pursuits 20:00 Five Mina-rets In New York 22:00 Dream House 01:55 The Ides Of March 03:40 Un-derworld: Awakening
05:00 Paranormal Activity 3 06:30 Breaking Wind 09:55 Cine News 10:35 Doctor Dolittle 12:05 Captain America: The First Avenger 14:15 Love To Kill 15:50 Hanna 17:45 Cer-tain Prey 19:20 The Hit List 21:00 Page Eight 22:45 Cine News 23:00 Love Crime 00:55 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:10 The Ward 04:40 Choose
05:05 La Fille De Monaco 06:45 The Client List 08:20 Les Emotifs Anonymes 09:40 Hop 11:20 Melan-cholia 13:40 Alfi e 15:30 Mpilompa 17:15 Beginners 19:05 Welcome To The Sticks 21:00 Treasure Buddies 22:40 Le Divorce 00:45 My Future Boyfriend 02:05 Hud 03:55 Room In Rome
01:30 Courtside Jones 02:00 Big Ten Wrestling Iowa At Illinois 04:00 Sports Unlimited 05:00 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Vancouver Canucks 07:30 Courtside Jones 08:00 Feherty - Graeme Mcdowell 09:00 Golf Cen-tral International Sdd 09:30 Being John Daly - The New John Daly 10:00 Being John Daly - Aloha, Pga Tour 10:30 Golf Now – New York City 11:00 Tba 13:00 Golf Central Inter-national 13:30 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Vancouver Canucks 16:00 Europe-
an Tour Africa Open Sdd 19:30 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Vancouver Canucks 22:00 Tba
06:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV World Stage 13:00 Mc-Café Music Project 13:30 MTV
VHI Pop up Video 14:00 MTV Daria 14:30 MTV Daria 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 15:30 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Mis-
sion Lydia 16:30 MTV Ev-eryday Girls 17:00 MTV Movies & Stars 18:00
Only Hits 19:00 2012 UK Hosted Countdowns 20:00 Pure Lo-cal 22:00 Only Hits 00:00 S7S Lock-down Top10 00:30 MTV Party Zone 04:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local
07:00 , The Swan 08:45 The Ad-ventures of Huckleberry Finn10:15 Travels With My Aunt 12:05 In This Our Life 13:40 Ivanhoe 15:25 Texas Carnival 16:40 , The Biggest Bundle Of Them All 18:30 Kismet 20:25 Ag-atha 22:00 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 23:45 Captains Courageous 01:40 Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid 03:35 , The Naked Spur 05:05 Mr: Imperium 06:30 TCM Presents Under the Infl u-ence: John Leguizamo
Puss in Boots (Novacinema2, 12.20)
CAPITALCYBC 1 CYBC 2 ANTENNA MEGA SIGMA PLUS TV08.00 Oikogeneia Solomou (rpt)
Local series with events unfolding in a Cypriot village before and after the Turkish invasion of 1974.
08.40 Moiraia Fengaria (rpt)
Local drama series.11.00 Paizoume Kypriaka
Local game show, ask-ing questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.
13.30 Kaftes Piperies (rpt)Cookery show.
14.00 News14.30 Me Kali Parea
Vivian Kanari hosts new show featuring a mix of news, informa-tion and live music.
16.30 Vimmata Stin Ammo (rpt)
Two episodes of local period drama, based on true events.
18.00 News18.15 Ego Ki Esi
Local comedy series.18.45 O Daskalos (rpt)
Local two-part sketch.20.00 News21.30 Savvato Ki Apovrado
Variety show, with well-known guests pretend-ing to have a good time for the benefi t of You At Home.
23.30 News23.45 Tete A Tete (rpt)00.45 Savvato Ki Apovrado (rpt)02.45 Me Kali Parea (rpt)04.45 More Repeats
07.50 Kids’ TV12.05 LTV Sports News (rpt)13.00 Star News13.40 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of15.10 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of16.40 Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt)
Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition. Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.
17.30 Mila (rpt)19.00 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz19.40 Greek FILM: O Papatrehas
Comedy, starring Thanasis Vengos. 1966.
21.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz22.00 Cold Case (rpt)
Third season. ‘Colors’. Rush and Jeffries investigate a 1945 case involving baseball star Clyde ‘the Glide’ Taylor, who was sub-jected to a violent at-tack following a game and beaten to death with his own bat.
22.50 Vathi KokkinoGreek drama series.
23.30 Kostakis Ki Yioi00.10 LTV Sports News 01.05 Star News01.40 Repeats
07.00 NRG Zone08.00 Kids’ TV
Shown till 12.30, then repeated till mid-afternoon.
17.15 FILM: Johnny Kapahala: Back On Board
A teenage snowboard-ing champion travels to Hawaii for his grand-father’s wedding, and helps save the family surf shop. Comedy sequel to Johnny Tsunami, starring Brandon Baker. 2007.
18.30 Candid Camera18.50 News In English19.00 New In Turkish19.20 NRG Zone Weekend21.00 FILM: Hocus Pocus
Three witches are accidentally resur-rected by a teenager and cause mayhem in modern-day Salem. Supernatural Disney comedy, with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. 1993.
23.40 Ghost Whisperer (rpt)
Fifth and last season of paranormal drama. ‘Dead Air’. Melinda helps Ned as he tries to stop a vengeful ghost after the Grandview radio station broadcasts the humiliating secrets that led to his death..
23.25 Album Show00.10 Repeats02.20 Euronews
06.50 Danda Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt)07.00 Cheek To Cheek (rpt)07.30 Men Kai Den (rpt)08.00 San To Skilo Me Ti Gata (rpt)08.50 40 Kimata (rpt)09.40 Super Babas (rpt)10.30 O Tzitzikas kai o Mermyngas (rpt)11.20 Tychi Vouno (rpt)12.10 O Polemos ton Astron (rpt)13.50 Yia Tin Agapi Sou 15.10 Niose Me (rpt)17.30 Ekeino to Kalokairi (rpt)
With News at 18.00.18.30 Vals Me 12 Theous20.20 News21.30 Eksairetika Afi eromeno23.00 FILM: The Hitch- Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
An ordinary man is hurled into an interga-lactic adventure when the Earth is destroyed, accompanied by his best friend who turns out to be an alien. Sci-fi comedy, starring Martin Freeman. 2005
00.05 News00.20 Sports News01.00 Vradi Me Ton Petro Kotsopoulo 01.40 Blackout 02.40 Mavros Okeanos (rpt)03.50 News04.40 Eftychismenes Meres (rpt)
07.00 Proino Mou (rpt)09.40 Kids’ TV10.00 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes10.30 Klemmena Oneira (rpt)11.20 Proino Mou (rpt)12.10 Chuck13.00 Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt)15.30 Master Chef (rpt)16.30 Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)
With News at 18.00.18.40 Oi Vasiliades (rpt)20.20 News21.10 Anonymous
A scientist working in a millionaire’s secret lab performs experiments on two giant predatory snakes - then, when the creatures escape and go on the ram-page, enlists the aid of a mercenary to try and kill them. Monster movie, starring David Hasselhoff. 2008
01.40 Big Bang (rpt)02.20 Eheis Meson (rpt)03.20 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt)04.00 Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt)04.30 Oi Afthairetoi05.00 O Ios Tou Patera (rpt)05.40 Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou
05.20 Oi Takkoi (rpt)07.00 Zoi Podilato (rpt)08.30 Hua Mulan 10.00 Mes Stin Kala Hara14.00 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt)15.00 Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt)
Local drama series.16.00 The Cooking Factory (rpt)17.00 Annita SoS
With News at 18.00.19.00 Pame Paketo (rpt)
Popular talk-show, that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfi lling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes in their lives.
20.15 News21.20 FILM: French Kiss
A woman travels to Paris to try and stop her fi ance from leaving her, and gets mixed up in a French jewel thief’s criminal caper. Romantic comedy, starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. 1995.
23.00 Las Vegas (rpt)Drama series focusing on a security team at a large casino.
23.50 News23.55 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt)00.40 Mes Stin Kali Hara (rpt)04.00 Magazino (rpt)
07.00 Kids’ TV11.45 Kouzina Me Apopsi12.15 Telemarketing13.25 Greek FILM: Oikogeneia Horafa15.20 Mila Mou Prasina15.35 Kouzina Me Apopsi 16.05 News16.10 FILM: The In-Laws
Right before his daughter’s wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smug-glers. Comedy, starring Albert Brooks. 2003. With News at 17.30.
18.00 Remington Steele18.55 News19.05 Acapulco HEAT19.55 News20.05 O Anthropos Tis Thalassas 21.00 FILM: Black Knight
an employee in a Medieval World amusement park, sustains a blow to the head, and awakens to fi nd himself in 14th century England. Comedy, with Martin Lawrence. 2001.
22.45 IconSecond-part of thriller, starring Patrick Swayze.
01.00 FILM: Replicant A cop on the hunt for a serial killer teams up with a clone of his intended prey - but the double proves unpredictable. Thriller, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. 2001.
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ARIES March 21 - April 20
TAURUS April 21 - May 21
GEMINI May 22 - June 21
CANCER June 22 - July 22
LEO July 23 - August 22
VIRGO August 23 - September 23
LIBRA September 24 - October 23
SCORPIO October 24 - November 22
SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21
CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20
PISCES February 20 - March 20
AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19
Emotions are feelings in motion, and today yours seem to be building up rather like a steam train in that they can be used in a constructive manner. If you feel righteous anger, you may decide to do something that could heal the situ-ation, put things to rights and so be able to move on. You can also use this power to achieve a major objective.
The Moon in your sign brings you an extra dose of good fortune, which you may be keen to put to good use. You seem ready to change a few things, and perhaps to turn over a new leaf, especially where friendships and relation-ships are concerned. Yet the Moon also goes face to face with Saturn, so one relationship can surprise or frustrate.
There’s plenty going on in your career zone, with the promise of some interesting developments. As Mars makes a powerful aspect to Saturn, you may get a new contract or be offered other work, or perhaps a promotion that might help you feel much more secure overall. Don’t mistrust your intuition. If you listen to it you’ll be ready with the right answers.
Don’t stop yourself from going on a social outing if friends invite you. It’s time to overcome any reluctance you feel and get into the swing of things by mixing and mingling. You may feel in an escapist mood and keen to avoid the harsh realities of life. However, today’s powerful aspect may help you move through a problem like a knife through butter.
Career issues may compete for attention with domestic matters. You may feel the weight of family responsibilities dragging you away from your goals. You might also be in the frame of mind to make a few practical changes that could work for everyone. If the atmosphere at home has been diffi cult, a decision today could alter things for the better.
It’s a good day for making plans whether with your partner, business partner or work colleague. As Mars makes an upbeat aspect to Saturn, you may get an intuitive sense of what needs to be done, and then plan to make it happen. Whatever you’re up to today, with application you could make positive strides for a better and happier future.
You may be in the mood to make some changes, which could affect either your work, health or both. You may want to splash out on a gym subscription, or perhaps home exercise equipment. Or if you can afford it, perhaps hire a session with a personal trainer. Work-wise, you might be tempted to ask for a pay rise or may be offered extra hours.
The Moon in Taurus places the focus on relationships. However, your mood may not be the brightest or the best. You may need to make an effort to be open to other peo-ple’s ideas and willing to listen to what they have to say. When it comes to a creative enterprise, you may show a surprising amount of determination to get a project off the ground.
You may be considering a change of lifestyle, which you might want to start work on today. As the Moon connects with your home zone, you could be thinking in terms of diet for both yourself and your family, perhaps buying something which helps life domestically, or changing the atmosphere in your abode by decorating or moving things around.
You may want to make the most of a social connection that seems to hold great potential. As Mars aspects Saturn in your social zone, a meeting may bring up ideas which could be very fruitful. You may want to work in collabo-ration with this person, as your association together may be positive and dynamic. Things are looking good Cap-ricorn.
This looks like a good day for fi nances, as you may come up with a plan that not only works for you career wise, but could help you to earn more in general. It may take some application and some working out, but with determination you may be able to turn things around in such a way that the prospect of success seems even closer.
The desire to explore your beliefs and see which work for you may result in a positive outcome today. You may want to harness the power of determination to fulfi l your desires. If there is something you want to achieve, it’s a good time to focus on taking that fi rst step after which the result may arrive more speedily than you might imagine.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Whoever has unwanted cd/dvd, books, decorative items and homeware in good con-dition can donate it to the Hiv Cyprus Foundation (KYFA) so we can re-sell them at the Gy-naikopazaro in Nicosia every fi rst Saturday of the month in support of these families. For further info please contact 99 55 95 94 or 99 57 50 74.
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baby pure white doves, to re-stock my dovecote (Paphos area) contact Chris Brown: 99170519
FOR SALE white wedding dress with veil, modern line, designed by famous Cypriot fashion designer. For informa-tion call Joanna 99597797
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Meeting at the following loca-tions/days. Call to speak to an AA member.
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LESSONS
ART AFTERNOONS Drawing Thursdays Painting Fridays Sketching Saturdays 14.30 – 17.30 IDC at Art Studio 55, Heroes Square, Limassol. Tel 99 409 829 [email protected] ART ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION
PETS
VICO KENNEL: Dog Training Centre and Boarding Kennel. Facebook VICO KENNEL. Tel. 97774377, Larnaca.
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MOLLY is sweet, polite and very gentle. Aged around 2 years old, she is a Pinscher cross, small sized and will do best in a quiet home. She is good with other dogs. A bit scared/shy around children and prefers peace, quiet and cuddles. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact on 99520511 Mon-Frid.
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NAYIA, a female dog around one year. Very friendly with children and other dogs. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and pup-pies like this one are looking for forever homes! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact on 99520511 Mon-Frid 10-2pm.
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PENNY, a loving gentle female. will make a wonderful fam-ily pet. Around 3 years old. Excellent temperament, very loving and well behaved. She will make an amazing com-panion. Worth Meeting! She is a small size. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact on 99520511 Mon-Frid 10-2pm.
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SERVICES
K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD. We manufacture top qual-ity sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdfl yscreens.com
CHIMNEY SWEEP, when did you last have your chimney swept or log burner cleaned? Build-up of soot can cause respiratory problems and fi res. All areas, call Dave, a professional sweep, now on
99819137. Also available for weddings. www.paphosluck-ychimneysweep.com
SWIFT SERVICE AND RE-PAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fi t air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol
PROFESSIONAL UPHOL-STERY CLEANING, also car-pets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. For a quote call Rickys Clean-ing Services on 99131044 (all areas) [email protected]
DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full re-pair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled fl oors and sur-faces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstra-tion contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 All areas
WE UNDERTAKE REFUR-BISHING of houses or holi-day homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work. For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, ME-LIS: 96547879
HEALTH & FITNESS
MASSAGE full body relaxing Aromatherapy, my place or yours. Call Lora 99 026488
CLINICAL PILATES. Person-alised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia. Individual assessment and supervision of exercises. “Clinical pilates” is a modifi ed form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to assist in the rehabilita-tion and prevention of mus-culoskeletal injury especially lower back pain, sacro-iliac pain and neck pain. More info on 22446988.
FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND
PRIME LAND IS AVAILA-BLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40, 000 sq.m., zoning Ka7 (80% - 45% - 3 stories). Regular amphithe-atrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, elec-tricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ide-al for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres,
commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enter-prises etc. Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554
FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupo-li (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554.
FOR SALEMOTOR VEHICLES
TOYOTA IQ 2009. Automatic 1ltre. White pearl, 33.000km. Medium tinted windows, Zenon lights. Perfect con-dition only €8500.00. Call 99511737
FOR SALE TOYOTA LAND CRUISER/PRADO white 1998, exceptional condition inside and out. Many extras. Any inspection welcome. €7950 ono. Tel: 99680747
BLACK HONDA CBR1100XX SUPERBLACKBIRD regis-tered new in June 2011 as new condition with 12000 km. Any inspection welcome. €6950. Call Philip 99680747
2004 PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO, tiptronic, seats & carpets etc like new due to one owner, no children, 108000km, metallic gold color. New tyres. Price: 27 000.00. Got to be seen to be appreciated.Call 99494450
NISSAN JUKE FOR SALE - owner emigrating, 1 year old, metallic grey, 7 yr guarantee from Nissan. Automatic,15.000km. 13.800 eur ono. Contact: Maria 99 371874 or 99 461625 – Pa-phos Area
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TO LET fully furnished up-per house in Ayios Dome-tios.3 bedrooms,2 wc 2 sitting rooms, 2 verandas, a/c in rooms. €480pm. Call 99628100
MAKEDONITISSA, 12 Ay Par-askevis, Engomi with pano-ramic view. 3 bedroom upper house & ground fl oor house with garden,2 bathroom , 2 toilets , fully a/c and a/h,new w/m,d/w,hob,oven,f r idge freezer, fully fi tted kitchen, ful-ly furnished ,storage, parking. Rent €750 pm. Tel 99660115 or 99688655. Email victorka-
LUXURY 6 BEDROOM HOUSE IN A QUIET AREA IN LAT-SIA. The house has been con-structed with the most modern building materials and one can enjoy all comforts of modern life. The house has 3 storage rooms 3 kitchens, 2 covered garage, housekeeper’s room, study room, en-suite bath-room – master bedroom, walk in closet, Jacuzzi, c/h, a/c, and fi replace. Rent €5.000pm. Call 99609239 or 99424106.
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2 BEDROOM fl at, fully fur-nished. Fully A/C, small block, 3rd fl oor. Covered parking. Central heating. Near Hilton hotel off Makarios Avenue. €480pm. Tel 99444336
STROVOLOS 4 bdrm., house, c/h, a/c from €1000 now €800, Mak/ssa f/f house, pool, 4 bdrm., 4wc, 2 shower €1700, Kornos villa, pool, mature garden €4000 (2) penthouse luxury Acropolis 1 bdrm, f/f, centre €450. For info www.markidesestates.com Markides 22378898, 99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16
STUDIO fl at in Pallouriotissa (next to McDonald) furnished €280. For info call 99606984.
2 BDRM fl at (almost new, 4 years old) at Lycavitos with good area near University of Cyprus
with fully equipment kitchen, a/c in all rooms. For info call 96530532.
2 ROOMS €125 each, near Mc-Donald’s Engomi only Philip-pine girls. Call 99663927.
FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank. 3 W.C., fully air-conditioned ex-tra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554
3 BEDROOMS fl at on second fl oor in a block of six fl ats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently paint-ed. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358.
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quiet area – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10051-R), (photos in the website)
2. 3 bedr luxury terraced house, 210sq.m,central heating, full a/c, marble fl oor in the sitting areas and solid parquet fl oor on stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big ve-randas, electrical appliances in the kitchen,3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website).
3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi de-tached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FUL-LY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPO-LIS €600 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).
4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fi replace, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrig-erator, nice mature garden with fl owers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighbourhood. Available mid-dle of January. Agios Andreas - €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos on website).
5. 3 bedr luxury detached house, 200sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 3wc, blinds and curtains, open plan kitchen with cooker, oven and dishwasher, veranda with bbq, good size garden, covered parking, storage room, alarm system, in a quiet area – Archangellos €1100 (photos in the website).
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6. 4 bedrs and sitting room upstairs luxury detached house,380sq.m, central heat-ing, full a/c, marble and par-quet fl oor, big sitting and dining areas, offi ce space, BIG bed-rooms (2 en suite) big verandas around the house, 2 covered parking,3 bathrooms,4 wc in a quiet area off Eleonon street, near Pizza Hut – Strovolos €1500 (H4ST10041-R), (photos in the website)
7. 3 bedr detached ground fl oor house with separate maid’s room, with very big garden with grass(200sq.m) and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, full a/c, 180sq.m, FUL-LY FURNISHED or NOT, 2 cov-ered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood op-posite Acropolis park - Acrop-olis - €1500 - H3ACS0004-R (photos on website).
8. 4 bedr very big luxury semi detached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Con-sists of big sitting and dining
areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 show-ers, 1 bathroom, central heat-ing, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered park-ing and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios foorball stadium. Available END of February - Makedonitissa €1500.
9. 4 bedr new luxury detached house build in a big plot of land, central heating, full a/c, 2 bedrs with en suite shower, 4 wc, bathroom with jacuzzi, big open space sitting and din-ing areas, 330sq.m, big swim-ming pool 5x10, big garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, roller blinds and curtains on all the win-dows, electrical appliances in kitchen, covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood off Tse-riou avenue. AVAILABLE end of February –Strovolos €1800 (photos in the website).
10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc,
2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electri-cal appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).
11. 4 bedr new luxury fi nished detached house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big kitchen with cooker oven, dishwasher and big family room, aluminum shutters in all the house, sepa-rate big sitting and dining room with parquet fl oor, 2 covered parking, alarm system, big cov-ered patio, SWIMMING POOL, in a newly built area near Fal-con school – Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website).
12. 3 bedr luxury detached house, 200sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 3wc, blinds and curtains, open plan kitchen with cooker, oven and dishwasher, veranda with bbq, good size garden, covered parking, storage room, alarm system, in a quiet area, Archangelos – €1100 (H3AR0003-R) (photos in the website)
13. 3 bedr ground fl oor house with big separate 80sq,m room with shower and wc for multi use, central heating independ-ent, full a/c, 2wc, 2 shower,1 bathroom, fully furnished, small garden, bbq area, park-ing, on a small building in a very quiet area near Agios Va-silios church. Strovolos - €900 - H4ST10028-R (photos on website).
14. 3 bedr +offi ce space +attic room +separate big maid’s/playroom in the basement semi detached house, recently reno-vated with big sitting and din-ing areas with marble fl oor, big kitchen with cooker and oven and family room, central heat-ing, 3 bathrooms, 4 wc, 6 a/c units, covered parking, behind Hilton Park near the park – En-gomi €1700 (H4ENG0003-R), (photos in the website)
15. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, offi ce space/maid’s room with shower and wc, central heating,
full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fi tted cooker and oven, 6wc, 2 covered park-ing, yard with tiles and SWIM-MING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighborhood park – Platy Ag-lantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-R),(photos in the website)
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veranda, covered parking, big storage room, on a small 3 sto-rey building in a quiet neighbor-hood – Agios Andreas- €1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on website).
2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, cov-ered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).
3. 2 bedr penthouse apartment,100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with fl owers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing ma-chine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website).
4. 2 bedr luxury ground fl oor apartment with central heating-independent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite
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network, FULLY MODERN EX-PENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered park-ing, double glazed windows, aluminum shutters, on Peri-cleous street near Klimataria traffi c lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website)
5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury fi nished fl oor apartment with fl oor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appli-ances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fi replace, covered parking and big over fl oor heated covered swim-ming pool on the ground fl oor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokra-tion private hospital –Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website)
6. 2 bedr new luxury apartment, modern nicely furnished, stor-age heaters, 2 a/c, 100sq.m, big covered verandah with nice view, covered parking off Digenis Akritas street near Debenhams shop, walking distance to the centre. PRICE INCLUDES COMMON EX-PENSES. – Lykavitos €450 (A1LYK0020-R) (photos in the website)
7. 1 bedr cozy luxury apar tment,60sq.m,parquet fl oor, nicely furnished ,all fi tted electrical appliances(cooker, oven, microwave, wash-ing machine, dishwasher, fridge),roman blinds, provi-sions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion
hospital. – Dasoupoli €500 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website)
8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with sepa-rate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omolog-ites €550 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website)
9. New top quality 2 bedr apart-ment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veran-da, on a small modern building with 6 fl ats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bath-rooms, 2wc, fully fi tted kitchen with all the electrical appli-ances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neibourhood near Akrop-olis park. AVAILABLE middle of February – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .
10. 2 bedr luxury spacious apart-ment, 85sq.m, big sitting room, big fully equipped kitchen, nicely modern furnished, stor-age heaters, full a/c, big bed-rooms, covered veranda with nice view,covered parking, off Prodromou streeet. – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0017-R)(photos in the website)
11. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment on a small modern building with central heating independent(with petrol), full a/c, solid parquet fl oor, big bedrooms, big sitting room with open plan kitchen, big cov-ered veranda, FULLY MODERN
FURNISHED, covered parking off Makarios Avenue in a quiet area near the centre - Nicosia €800 (A2NIC0030-R) (photos in the website)
12. New top quality 2 bedr apart-ment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veran-da, on a small modern building with 6 fl ats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bath-rooms, 2wc, fully fi tted kitchen with all the electrical appli-ances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE middle of February.– Acropolis €800 (A2ACS0002-R)(photos in the website)
13. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet fl oor, big sitting and dining area, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, blinds, shutters in the bedrooms, big kitchen with all expensive electrical applianc-es, off Makarios avenue near the centre – Nicosia Centre- € 800 – A3NIC0025-R (photos on website).
14. 3 bedr spacious luxury fi nished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol,full wall a/c units, solid parquet fl oor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COV-ERED PARKING,storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website).
15. 3 bedrs luxury
penthouse,165sq.m+80sq.m verandah with bbq, central heating ind, full AC, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, solid parquet fl oor all the fl at, big kitchen with dining area, fully MODERN FURNISHED, covered park-ing off Athalassa Avenue near Stephanis Electrinics and Eng-lish school – Stovolos €800 (A3ST10013-R) (photos in the website)
16. New luxury fi nished 4 bed PENTHOUSE apartment in a small modern building, 186sq.m+90sq.m big veranda with nice view, separate fl oor heat-ing, fully air conditioned, 4wc, 2 en suite bedrooms with shower,1 bathroom, solid par-quet fl oor all through, big sit-ting and dining areas with elec-tric modern shutters opening to the veranda, fully equipped kitchen with expensive elec-trical appliances, 2 parking places (1 covered), in a very quiet neighborhood ,near the Russian Embassy. AVAILABLE END OF MARCH –Engomi €1900 (A4ENG0005-R) (photos in the website)
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INDEPENDENT 4 BEDROOM HOUSE, 3 upstairs, 1down-stairs with w/c-shower suit-able for maid. 220sqm in a plot of 400sq.m. with 3w/c a/c units, 2 covered parking, and a big yard, near Foley’s Gram-mar Limassol. Price €800. Tel 99400462or 99129084.
3 BEDROOM charming bunga-low in Agios Tychonas, 900 sq m plot, 180 covered area, central heating, a/c units in all areas, open fi replace, en-suite master bedroom, alarm system, mosquito nets, very private and quiet area. Mature garden, lawn, swimming pool 4,50 x 9 m. Price: €1600 negoti-able. Tel 99417253.
GROUND FLOOR house 3 bed-room, furnished, area Agios Nectarios, Limassol. Private parking. Price €550. Tel 25752987 or 96535495
FOR RENT new big furnished studio, in Katraki building, 100 metres from the sea and Deben-hams Olympia, in Neapoli area. Price €400 (including common expenses). Tel. 99406415 An-dreas, Fax: 25-582963.
FOR RENT big 3 bdrm furnished or unfurnished house, with big balcony, big garden, 3 wc, air-conditioning, in Pareklisia area, 1000 metres from the sea and beach hotels. Price €800. Tel.
99406415 Andreas.
TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very qui-et village, 20mins from Limas-sol. Road to heritage school/Troodos. 2 bedrooms, offi ce available top fl oor 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, fi replace. Toilet/shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800.
GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, fur-nished renovated this year. Laminated parke fl oor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775
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der. Three bedroom fi rst fl oor apartment, bathroom, en suite. Downstairs toilet, large lounge/kitchen diner. Two bal-conies, rural and sea views. All mod cons, linen etc. Taste-fully fi tted out. €550 pcm email [email protected] Tel 99141162/99923884
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bedroom fully furnished prop-erty on gated development in Pyla. Available for immedi-ate occupation. €250.00 Ref. TLL514. Tel 24815926
2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom fully furnished villa, available now Oroklini. Ref. TLL523 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926
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*****************************FLAT IN CENTRAL LARNACA,
Stasinou St, f/f, a/c, one bed-room, Off street car parking. Foinikoudes, Zenonos Kiteos shops 200 metres. Rent €350 p/m. Tel: 24 815104/9939 5954
FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet sce-nic location In Alethriko, Lar-naca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378
FULLY FURNISHED one bed-room fl at near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543
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PAPHOSPAPHOS
KISSONERGA, ST KONONAS AREA, 3 bedroom apartment, with elevator, private car park, a/c, stove, humidifi er, private roof garden with barbeque, beautiful sea and mountain views, unfurnished, €380 o.no, please call: 99553741
*****************************LONG TERM RENT : Geroskipou,
one bedroom partly furnished apartment (covered area 60 square metres) in immaculate condition with two big sized balconies, situated in a quiet residential area. Sea view and lift. Rent: €250 per month Tel: 99387019
*****************************LOW COST, long term 3 bed-
room bungalow, Polis area, Gialia village, on 3 acres of property, large variety of fruit trees, extremely private with panoramic mountain and sea views, unfurnished, swimming pool, a/c and fi replace, fence around the property €550 per month ono – available from 1st of April For more info call : 99 442485
*****************************UNIVERSAL: 1bed ground fl oor
apartment fully furnished, air-conditioning, fridge, beds com-mon swimming pool , leather sofas, €260 p/m. For more in-formation phone 99400697
bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden
area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, euro 650 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents
FOR LONG TERM RENT: 2 bedroom modern apartment, recently renovated-fully fur-nished, Chloraka- Melanos, quiet neighbourhood, com-munal pool, 2 covered parking space, security burglar bars throughout, 2 balcony. Sea view, central to shops. Commu-nal fees included. 380.00eur/month. Call Maria 99 371 874
*****************************LETYMPOU - Traditional De-
tached 2 bedroom Property set on a large plot with Spectacular Mountain Views, F/F to a very high standard, Wood burning Stove, outbuildings 500 Euros
TALA - Modern 2 and 3 bedroom apartments U/F, P/F and F/F, some with communal pool, A/C, Separate Storage and own Parking 325 Euros
TREMITHOUSA - Traditional Spacious 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath-room, and Large Mature en-closed Garden, Open Fire-place, Beautiful Fitted Kitchen, A/C, Wonderful Family Home 400 Euros
TREMITHOUSA - Stunning Tra-ditional Stone Built House 2 bedrooms, Swimming Pool, Open Fireplace, Fitted kitchen with white goods, P/T or F/F , an early viewing is highly rec-ommended 350 Euros
URGENTLY WANTED –Bunga-lows 2/3 Bedrooms
MORE PROPERTIES AVAIL-ABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922
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1. PEYIA €550 modern detached 2 bedroom villa, situated on private road. Available unfur-nished though includes cen-tral heating throughout, pres-surised water & security alarm system. Modern fi tted kitchen & bathrooms. Roof terrace with sea views & private pool. website reference number: RTL_447
2. EMBA €650 modern detached 3 bedroom villa on quiet private road. Gated entrance, off street parking. Enclosed garden with private pool. Spacious open plan living area with feature fi replace & modern gas fi re. Additional gas radiator heat-ers throughout. Spacious well equipped kitchen with top brand appliances. Downstairs guest wc. Master bedroom with ensuite. Available furnished. Views to the sea & country-side.
3. CORAL BAY €675 detached modern 3 bedroom villa, situ-ated close to the restaurants & beach of Coral Bay. Entry to villa on top fl oor offering two double bedrooms & bathroom, leading down to an open plan living area & one further bed-room & family bathroom. En-closed mature garden with pri-vate pool. Available furnished with good furniture. website reference number: RTL_544
4. PEYIA €750 modern detached 3 bedroom villa, situated on private road. Available unfur-nished though includes cen-tral heating throughout, pres-surised water & security alarm system. Modern fi tted kitchen & bathrooms. Roof terrace with sea views & private pool. website reference number: RTL_572
villa offering stunning views of the sea. Ssituated in a quiet residential street opposite or-ange groves. Gated entrance, enclosed good sized mature garden with fruit trees & pri-vate pool. Spacious living area with real fi replace. Downstairs guest wc. Master bedroom with ensuite. Available fully furnished. website reference number: RTL_550
6. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situ-ated in the sought after resi-dential area of Limnaria. Walk-ing distance to the beach and the many amenities of Kato Paphos. Spacious living acco-modation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully fur-nished with modern furniture & solar panels. website reference number: RTL_442
7. MESOGI €1250 luxury de-tached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom villa. One bedroom & ensuite on ground fl oor. spacious kitchen with separate util-ity room. Available unfurnished though includes gas central heating plus real fi replace in living area. Enclosed garden & private pool offering stunning views. Gated entrance with un-dercover parking. Situated on a private road. website reference number: RTL_628
8. CHLORAKA €2,200 substan-tial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spa-cious (350 sq metres), beau-tifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fi tted kitchen, living room with working fi replace. Circular dining room with vault-ed dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area. Available un-furnished. website reference numer: RTL_579
Tel: 97790883 offi ce: 26271858
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*****************************LONG TERM RENTALS
1. GEROSKIPOU a large 2 bed apartment with large balcony facing the sea, covered park-ing, a/c, communal pool. €330 pcm
2. TALA 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Stunning sea views, large balcony, well kept gardens, communal pool, and quiet area. €340 pcm
3. CHLORAKAS fi rst fl oor 2 bed apartment, new kitchen and bathroom, very well furnished, two parking spaces, a/c, quiet area, easy access to town cen-tre and a communal pool. €370 pcm
4. EMBA un-furnished 3 bed 2 bathroom villa, private gated parking, a/c, large kitchen with white goods, cul-de-sac. NO POOL. €445 pcm
THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELC-TION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON [email protected] LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.
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for rent in Peyia, 4 bedroom, 4 bathrooms, large sitting-dining area, fully airconditioned and heated, unfurnished, panoram-ic views, large parking, low rent contact: 99490953, 26815534
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AYIA MARINOUDA a 3 bedroom villa with an additional loft room conversion with en suite. Prop-erty has a downstairs bedroom, sitting/dining area, separate utility area with granite work tops, 2 bedrooms on the top level master en suite. Central heating, AC, fl y screens, private pool, enclosed and fenced gar-den. Ref: 1199 €900
Mesogi 4 bedroom villa with pri-vate pool, nice quality fi xtures, granite work tops, separate utility room, downstairs bed-room with en suite, fi replace, ac, 3 upstairs bedroom master en suite, separate bath, nice views, pets welcome, offered unfurnished Ref 783 €700
CHLORAKA 4 bedroom large villa with quality fi ttings , fur-nished to a very high stand-ard, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suites, bathroom, private pool, decking, fantastic sea views, near Tombs of the Kings Ref: 806 €850
SECRET VALLEY 2 bed villas furnished or unfurnished with private pool, downstairs bed-room, kitchen , sitting/dining area, guest wc, upstairs large master bedroom with en suite bath, large veranda. Nice lo-cation with sea views and off street parking: Ref: 1198 €450
PEGEIA 4 bed villa unfurnished, 2 downstairs bedrooms, large sitting/dining area, Italian kitchen with white goods, 2 bedrooms upstairs with out-side large veranda. Property is of a high standard with cen-tral heating, full AC, off street parking, private pool, stunning views, quiet location. Ref: 765 €900
Mesogi Large 3 bedroom apart-ment with full AC, bathroom, kitchen, separate utility room, clean and tidy building with without communal area, walk-ing distance to all local ameni-ties. Offered unfurnished Ref: 818 €400
Sea Caves 2 bedroom town house, furnished with central heating, fi re place, nice sea views, walking distance to Pa-phos the sea Ref 819 €300
Please call for a free viewing on Offi ce 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more proper-ties on our website at www.fl owron.com - Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!!
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modern quality furniture and fi nishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infi nity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call: 99389426
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PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!!
1. MESA CHORIO– 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground fl oor apartment set in an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan liv-ing area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Cov-ered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool. €400.00 per month
2 FYTI 3 bed, 3 bath furnished villa in a very quiet location. The property offers stylish ac-commodation and has many luxury features. Open plan liv-ing area with feature fi replace. Dining area. Large fully fi tted L shaped kitchen with appli-ances and breakfast bar. Doors out to rear garden and pool. Guest WC. Stairs up to 3 very spacious bedrooms. Master with ensuite. Family bathroom and storage cupboard. Stairs up to roof garden with pano-ramic views. Outside there is a feature pergola, swimming pool and landscaped gardens. €700.00 a month.
3. GIOLOU– 5 bed unfurnished
villa consisting of 3 bed, 2 bath main house (bungalow) with self-contained 2 bed apart-ment with own entrance. Main house, open plan living area, beamed ceilings with feature fi replace. Dining space and kitchen. 3 bedrooms, master with en-suite and family bath-room. Covered balcony with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas. Lower level apartment reached via the main house or separate en-trance. Large open plan living area, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. €850.00 per month
4. TALA - 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with din-ing space. Fully fi tted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground fl oor bed room with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seat-ing area with adjacent balcony. Pool and off street parking. Landscaped gardens €750.00 per month or close offers only
5. AYIOS DEMITRIANOS – 3 bed, 2 bath furnished villa (bungalow style) set in a pri-vate and quiet location. Open plan living area with fi replace.. Fully fi tted kitchen with quality appliances. Utility room and storage.. Master bedroom with adjacent shower. Two more double bedrooms with family bathroom with Jacuzzi bath. Garden areas, large terraces with outstanding views. Private pool 10x5., Covered parking. €700.00 per month furnished, €650 unfurnished.
6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed, 2 bath fully furnished penthouse apartment. Living area with din-ing space. Doors out to mas-sive balcony area overlooking the pool and gardens. Fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms, master bedroom has ensuite shower. Family bathroom. A/C, Comm pool and parking. €450.00 a month or offers.
7. LOWER PEYIA - 3 bed, 2.5 bath unfurnished villa situ-ated in quiet cul du sac. Open plan living and dining area with doors out to pool and gar-den.. Very large breakfast fi tted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms. Master bedroom very large with en-suite shower. Family bath-room. Private pool, gardens, shutters. €550.00 per month or close offers only.
8. CHLORAKAS– 2 bed 1 bath large furnished apartment in quiet area. Spacious open plan
living area with doors out to bal-cony. Good sized modern fi t-ted kitchen and breakfast area. Small balcony off the kitchen. Two double bedrooms. Fam-ily bathroom. Off-street park-ing, comm pool. €380.00 per month.
FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUS-ES AND VILLAS,PLEASE SEE www.rentalpointpaphos.com ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LAND-LORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL WITH DETAILS PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- [email protected]
lage house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fi replace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.
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PAPHOSPAPHOS
*****************************FOR SALE: One bedroom apart-
ment in Paphos (Tomb of the Kings area) For full details phone: Paul 077411191867 or 01332 663439 (Code 00 44)
KATO PAPHOS UNIVERSAL, LARGE 2 bedroom apartment. Ground fl oor, 1 bathroom kitchen, large veranda, pri-vate parking, A/C, Satellite TV. Near bus route, shops, banks,
quiet apartment. Full furniture. Communal pool. 92m covered area. Full TITLE DEEDS. Was €159,000 REDUCED €90,000
ROOM apartment, fantastic central location, lounge kitch-en, bathroom, 2 verandas, parking, communal pool. Pri-vate entry. Near all amenities. NOW REDUCED €65,000.
1 BEDROOM APARTMENT, Tombs of Kings Area, close to the sea, large private roof ter-race with electric and water, covered parking, veranda, fur-nished, swimming pool. Full TITLE DEEDS, was €95,000 reduced to €63,000.
CHLORAKAS, 2 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE. Exceptional sea views. New kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom. Private park-ing, On mains sewage system. Communal pool. A/C, quality fi xtures. Fully furnished. Secu-rity barrier. FULL TITLE DEEDS Now €90,000
CALL 99716390.*****************************FLAT FOR SALE 1 bdrm at Peyia
village with title deeds, fully fur-nished. €65.000. For informa-tion call 99526562.
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fi rst fl oor 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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Frustration follows in wake of Australia’s ‘blackest day’
Flawless Kuchar takes control at Riviera
IT was dubbed the ‘blackest day’ in Australian sport but one week after a government report said doping was widespread among professional athletes, frustration and anger had replaced soul-searching as the prevailing mood.The incendiary report, the result of a year-long probe by Australia’s top criminal intelligence unit, said it had found evidence of performance-enhancing substance abuse across several sports and increasingly dangerous links with criminal fi gures.Anger that names were not named in the report and the scandal therefore tainted all sports in Australia was not long in fi nding expression.
MATT Kuchar, revitalised after a three-week break, took advantage of ideal early scoring conditions to charge into a one-shot lead in the fi rst round of the Northern Trust Open.With hardly a breath of wind on a glorious morning of unbroken sunshine at Riviera Country Club, the 34-year-old American fi red a fl awless seven-under-par 64 to take control of the PGA Tour event.Kuchar made a sizzling start with birdies on his fi rst three holes and picked up four more to fi nish one ahead of Spaniard Sergio Garcia, who carded a 65 late in the day as fog began to roll across the course.
Broad beaming after huge win
ENGLAND’S Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad was buoyant after watching his side crush New Zealand by 10 wickets to clinch a 2-1 se-ries win in Wellington.
After a forgettable outing in Hamilton last time out, the tourists were back to their very best as they limit-ed the Black Caps to 139 for eight after winning the toss.
Alex Hales (80 not out) and Michael Lumb (53no) then knocked off the runs with aplomb, sharing nine sixes in their 12.4 over as-sault.
Broad, understandably, was a happy skipper.
“I can’t remember a much more powerful perform-ance from an England side,” Broad, who excelled with three for 15, told Sky Sports.
“It was key for us to re-claim some confi dence here. We bowled well and held our lengths early and the way we chased down those runs was pretty spectacular.
“There was no panic but-ton pressed (after the sec-ond match). We had a bad day but that can happen in sport.
“We worked on the areas
we thought needed improv-ing and today we came and put it right.
“We were on song today.”Broad has little time to
digest the win before head-ing back to the ranks for the fi rst one-day international on Sunday.
“We came here to win all the series and this is a great start for us,” he said.
“It’s a quick turnaround but I’m sure we’ll be fully switched on for that.
“We want to win all three series and we’ve ticked one of them off.”
Hales, whose stand of 143 with Lumb was England’s best-ever opening partner-ship in the format, praised the attack for teeing up vic-tory.
“I thought our bowlers were outstanding from the start,” he said.
“They never let them get away from us and made the batsmen’s job very easy.
“I’m happy I managed to contribute. In Twenty20, once you get away you can get into a stride and if you back yourself you can really take a bowler down.”
Hales, Lumb in record opening stand
England’s Alex Hales (right) and Michael Lumb combined for 143 runs – England’s best ever opening partnership in the Twenty20 format
Swedish rookie plays on through spider biteBy Amlan Chakraborty
DANIELA Holmqvist per-formed emergency surgery with a golf tee to extract po-tentially fatal spider venom from her leg before going on to complete her round in a qualifying event for the women’s Australian Open in Canberra.The 24-year-old Swede was on the fourth hole at the Royal Canberra Country Club when she was bitten by what she suspected to be a black widow which resulted in immediate swelling.Instead of seeking medical attention, Holmqvist treated herself and went on to card a round of 74 that was not enough to qualify for the LPGA Tour event.“I cut up the swelling with a peg and squeezed out the poison,” the golfer wrote on her blog on the Swedish Golf Federation website.“My ‘operation’ was quite well done, but not well enough that I should quit as a golfer and look into medi-cal school,” she quipped.“They bandaged the wound, which will be supervised in the near future. If the leg is starting to feel weird, it’s apparently straight to the doctor, ‘without passing go’,” the Ladies European Tour rookie added.
Baghdatis beaten by Dimitrov in RotterdamBy Nemanja Bjedov
MARCOS Baghdatis lost to doubles partner Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 7-6(4), 6-7(0), 3-6 in the quarter-fi -nals of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam yesterday afternoon.
There were no breaks of serve in the fi rst set and it was world number 36 Baghdatis who did exceptionally well to claim the opener in the tie-break, after neither player fi red down an ace or fashioned any break point oppor-tunities throughout the set.
In the second set there was one break of serve on either side, but this time it was Dimitrov who stayed fo-
cused in the breaker and he brushed the 27-year-old Cypriot aside by not allowing him a single point to get back on level terms and force a decider.
The Bulgarian, a rising star nick-named ‘Baby Fed’, then continued to build on his momentum and broke Baghdatis early in the third set to jump out to a 3-0 lead and eventually served the match out after more than two and a half hours at the Ahoy Rot-terdam Indoor Sporting Arena.
In other news, Rafael Nadal beat world number 140 Joao Souza in straight sets at the Brazil Open as he continued his comeback from a seri-ous knee injury.
The Spaniard, 26, won 6-3 6-4 in his opening singles match in Sao Paulo,
having played one doubles match be-fore withdrawing to protect his knee.
Nadal had few problems seeing off Souza, and the 11-time Grand Slam champion then took on Carlos Ber-locq in the early hours of this morn-ing.
“I was more or less OK - I’m in a process of recovery,” said Nadal. “The important thing is to have regularity, to be able to compete. I am confi dent that with the days and weeks, I will regain what I am missing.”
Nadal was looking to build on his fi rst tournament in nearly eight months last week in Chile.
He came through three singles matches before losing to Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos, in Sunday’s fi nal. The Cypriot lost to doubles partner Grigor Dimitrov
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Formula 1 teams in financial survival mode, say McLaren
SEVEN of the 11 Formula 1 teams are struggling fi nan-cially to the extent that they are in “survival” mode, says McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh.
Whitmarsh, who is also chairman of the Formula 1 Teams’ Association that represents the majority of the sport’s competitors, said: “It’s tough.
“We’re in the world of ad-vertising and you only have to see how advertising is worldwide. The rate card is down.
“We have taken some meas-ures, but I think it’s going to be tough for some.”
Whitmarsh reckons sev-eral teams will fi nd it hard to “have a viable business model for a few years”, while his opposite number at Caterham, Cyril Abiteboul, thinks world champions Red Bull are doing well fi -nancially but “everyone else is suffering”.
Whitmarsh says much of the present problem is a hangover from the 2008 global fi nancial crisis. Ad-vertising and sponsorship contracts signed before the crash have come to an end. New backers are thin on the ground, while existing ones are not willing to pay top dollar for the privilege of continuing.
Formula 1 operates under a Resource Restriction Agree-ment that limits staffi ng lev-els, how much research and development teams can do
and the amount they can spend on external suppliers.
But that did not prevent Spanish team HRT from closing its doors at the end of last season. Others are known to be struggling, too.
Ahead of this campaign, which starts in Australia on March 17, Caterham and Marussia have had to drop well-regarded drivers who were earning salaries in fa-vour of those who can bring sponsorship.
Whitmarsh says one of the problems is that teams do not receive a big enough share of the sport’s total in-come from the commercial rights holder, the venture capital group CVC, which employs Bernie Ecclestone to run the F1 business.
F1’s income was about £963 million in 2011, the last year for which fi gures were published.
That compares with the £2.6 billion generated an-nually by the NFL and the £1bn the English Premier League will earn each year from next season from UK TV rights alone.
Under the previous con-tract between the F1 teams, CVC and governing body the FIA, teams shared 47% of the sport’s income. This contract, known as the Con-corde Agreement, lapsed at the end of 2012.
Under the new deal, which has yet to be signed, reports suggest teams will receive as much as 63% of revenue.
In addition, all teams have
concluded new private com-mercial contracts with CVC, the details of which have not been made public.
“Bernie has done a fan-tastic job for the owners,” added Whitmarsh. “We can criticise him but he’s doing a better job than we are. He’s keeping the money on behalf of his employers.
“That money whistles out of the sport and that’s deep-ly frustrating for some of us in the sport but that’s exact-ly what he should be trying to do.
“If the teams aren’t cohe-sive enough to work togeth-er to secure a larger share of that, then they have to blame themselves.”
A sports marketing expert with knowledge of F1, who
did not want to be named, said: “I am not sure if seven teams are at risk but I guess at least half a dozen are like-ly to be not self-suffi cient under the current structure.
“The business environ-ment is tough everywhere, not just in F1.
“Looking at F1, the acid test should be whether the team is sustainable without support from a shareholder, who are often also sponsors.
“If the answer is ‘yes’, then the business is healthy. If not, then teams will still probably survive but not be-cause they are self-suffi cient but only because the own-ers keep them going. If their parent company switched off the tap, then they would not survive.”
‘I think it’s going to be tough for some time’
McLaren drivers Jenson Button (left) and Sergio Perez pose at the unveiling of the team’s 2013 car
By Duncan Bech
FLANKER Sean O’Brien in-sists Ireland must be ready to pounce on any errors by their RBS 6 Nations title ri-vals when they resume their championship against Scot-land.
England are in the driving seat following their 12-6 vic-tory in Dublin last Sunday and the only unbeaten team remaining in an unpredict-able tournament.
The defeat at the Aviva Sta-dium was defl ating for Ire-land, who have lost Jonathan Sexton and Mike McCarthy to injury for the trip to Mur-rayfi eld, but O’Brien refuses to give up hope.
“There’s still a lot to play for. The Six Nations is and it isn’t out of our own hands,” the Leinster openside said.
“If we leave ourselves in the best possible shape, there
will be a slip-up somewhere for the other teams down the line.
“Anyone can beat anyone on any day. If we leave our-selves in the best possible position, we can do no more than that.”
Ireland will also be missing Cian Healy in Edinburgh af-ter the loosehead prop was banned for three matches for his stamp on England’s Dan Cole.
Although there is confusion over whether Healy can play for Leinster today, he is defi -nitely unavailable against Scotland and France, sub-ject to any successful ap-peal.
Sexton has a grade two hamstring tear that usually requires four to six weeks to heal, making him a major doubt to face France in the penultimate round of fi x-tures.
McCarthy has damaged
the medial ligament of his right knee and will be in a brace for two weeks, at the end of which his fi tness will be reassessed.
More positive news was re-ceived on the remaining inju-ries incurred during a brutal clash against England.
O’Brien, centre Brian O’Driscoll, full-back Rob Kearney and lock Donnacha Ryan are at varying degrees of fi tness, but all should be available to face Scotland.
“We’re looking forward to getting back on the horse against Scotland. It’s a good game for both teams,” O’Brien said.
“Our errors, as a team and as individuals, stand out from the England game. They cost us.
“A few of them happened within minutes of each oth-er and put us under a bit of pressure and they kicked a couple of scores from that.”
O’Brien: still plenty to play for
Flanker Sean O’Brien says Ireland can win the Six Nations title despite losing to England last weekend
Pistorius sobs as court hears murder charge(continued from back page)Athletes, friends and fam-ily all expressed shock at Steenkamp’s death. Her uncle Mike Steenkamp said: “It was such a devas-tating shock that her whole life, what she could achieve, never came to fulfi lment. And I’ll just say she’s with the angels. She loved peo-ple, she loved everybody.” Steenkamp, a law gradu-ate, began dating the sprinter in November after he split from his long-term girlfriend and high school sweetheart Vicky Miles in the summer. Friends said Steenkamp was “very happy” but there had not been any talk of marriage. It is believed Pistorius told police he had shot his girl-friend after mistaking her for a burglar, while local media reports speculated she may have been surpris-ing him for Valentine’s Day when she was killed. But police confi rmed they were investigating reports of a row at the house heard by neighbours. Brigadier Denise Beukes said there were no other suspects and no evidence of forced entry. She added that Pistorius was cooperating with police and having blood-alcohol tests. Nike confi rmed it had al-ready demanded one of its adverts with the sprinter accompanied by the tagline ‘I am the bullet in the chamber’ be removed from the runner’s website. Gun enthusiast Pistorius, who made history in Lon-don last summer when he became the fi rst amputee athlete to take part in the Olympic Games, appears to have had serious concerns over his safety. He lives on a guarded es-tate with electrifi ed fences, armed 24-hour guards and manned controlled ac-cess. He was said to have a machinegun at home and to sleep with a revolver by his side. Last year he described his fascination for guns and told how he would often use a nearby shooting range at night “when I can’t sleep”. South Africa has one of the world’s highest violent crime rates, with an aver-age of nearly 50 murders a day. However its gun laws are strict, with one regula-tion stating that anyone with a history of violence may not own a fi rearm. Questions will now be raised about whether Pisto-rius’s weapons should have been removed after police confi rmed there had previ-ously been alleged inci-dents of domestic violence at his home. In September 2009 he was also arrested for assault after slamming a door on a woman. Family and friends said it was an accident. Last November, he report-edly “threatened to break the legs” of the friend of a man whom he believed had slept with his girlfriend.
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Roma’s transitional period goes onAS Roma fans may be won-dering how much longer their team will be in a so-called transitional period after club president James Pallotta used the dreaded word again this week.
The decision to sack coach Zdenek Zeman two weeks ago failed to stop the rot as they lost 3-1 to Sampdoria in their fi rst game under his replace-ment Aurelio Andreazzoli and they now face the daunt-ing task of taking on Serie A leaders Juventus today.
Roma fans had accepted that last season would be transitional under Spaniard Luis Enrique who was hired as coach by the consortium which took over the club in 2011 and was expected to im-itate Barcelona’s style.
However, the Spaniard quit in the summer and Roma then opted for old romantic Zdenek Zeman, a Czech-born coach known for throwing caution to the wind.
True to Zeman’s style, Roma scored freely but also leaked goals at the back, putting everyone’s nerves on
edge and leading to talk of a U-turn as early as November.
“I don’t want another year of transition, I’m tired of that,” said stalwart striker Franc-esco Totti at the time.
“We have to follow Zeman and we will come out of this tunnel.”
But a 4-2 home defeat by Catania a fortnight ago was the last straw and the club changed direction again, bringing in Andreazzoli on an interim basis.
Following Sunday’s defeat at Sampdoria, which left Roma languishing in ninth place with 34 points, club president James Palotta issued a state-ment which made it clear that the period of transition was still far from over.
“As I have said on every oc-casion we are building an organisation and team that will take some time and that Rome can be proud of,” he said.
“In these periods of tran-sition, there will always be cases, in hindsight, we could have made different decisions but I don’t intend to take
those decisions just to satisfy some short-term goals.
“I’m disappointed because we would all like to see us quickly getting the results we expected.
“But, since becoming presi-dent seven months ago, I think we have taken steps forward in many aspects to achieve the long-term results and greatness we all want.”
He added: “While we are all not happy with our recent results I have complete con-fi dence in our players and en-tire staff.”
Andreazzoli’s debut was also marked by controversy when Pablo Osvaldo took and missed a penalty even though Totti was the desig-nated taker.
Osvaldo’s car was kicked by angry fans at a training ses-sion on Tuesday while Totti was criticised by the media for not forcing his team mate to back down.
“I would like to say sorry to the fans and I certainly didn’t want to show any disrespect to Francesco,” said Osvaldo later.Once mighty Roma are languishing in ninth place
Rayo aim to storm Real fortressRAYO Vallecano have made a mockery of their fi nancial woes and played some of the best football in La Liga this season to climb to sixth and can test their progress when they take on wealthy city rivals Real Madrid at the Bernabeu tomorrow.
A thoroughly deserved 2-1 win at home to second-placed Atletico Madrid last weekend prompted talk of a realistic chance of a place in Europe next term and en-hanced Rayo’s reputation as one of Spain’s ‘giant killers’.
The modest club, who are in administration and whose 15,000-seater stadium has only three stands with one
end used for advertising, are transformed from the side that were mired in the third-tier in Spanish football be-tween 2004 and 2008.
They narrowly avoided relegation last season after coming up from the second division but under the guid-ance of coach Paco Jemez and fi red by the goals of captain Piti and fellow for-ward Leo Baptistao, they have become a genuine force, with wins at Valencia, Athletic Bilbao and Malaga.
“We are now in a situation
where we only have to look forward,” Jemez told a news conference this week.
“We are not going to be satisfi ed with what we have done and we want to con-tinue making history,” the 42-year-old added. “We have to enjoy everything we are doing.”
They face a monumental task at champions Real, who are undefeated at the Bern-abeu in all competitions this season but have suffered er-ratic form away from home and are four points behind
Atletico and 16 behind lead-ers Barcelona.
Jemez said Rayo would not be changing their free-fl owing playing style, which has drawn comparisons with Barca, and would be going out to enjoy themselves on Sunday night.
“We don’t need to be scared in any way, we just have to show what we have been showing up to now,” he said.
“We are going to go there without any kind of complex with a lot of desire to enjoy
ourselves and play a good match.”
Barca have had a restful week with their Champions League last 16 fi rst leg at Serie A side AC Milan not until Wednesday and can go 15 points clear of Atletico with a win at 14th-placed Granada tonight.
Forward David Villa is unavailable after failing to recover from kidney stones, the club said on Thursday.
Atletico have won all 12 of their home matches this term but were beaten in their last two away fi x-tures and play at mid-table Real Valladolid on Sunday evening.
Giant killers want to take famous scalp
Minnows Rayo Vallecano have played some of the best football in La Liga so far this season as they have climbed to sixth in the standings
Stuttgart suffer familiar winter slumpBy Brian Homewood
STUTTGART have fallen into their traditional winter slump with a run of fi ve consecutive league defeats leaving them closer to the relegation dogfi ght than the chase for a place in Europe.Coach Bruno Labbadia has been repeatedly let down by his blundering defence and his only crumb of comfort is that tomorrow’s opponents Hoffenheim have even more problems than his own team.Hoffenheim, 16th in the 18-team table and occupying the relegation playoff spot, fi ned goalkeeper Tim Wiese and midfi elder Tobias Wies after they were thrown out of a carnival event by security guards for unruly behaviour on Monday.The previous week their Peruvian defender Luis Advincula suffered minor in-juries in a car crash, bringing back memories of Septem-ber’s incident when Boris Vukcevic was left in a coma for eight weeks following a severe crash.Stuttgart, who reached the Champions League round of 16 three seasons ago, had a seven-match winless run between November and Feb-ruary last season, although they eventually recovered to claim a place in the Europa League.“In the last few years, we have got used to going down-hill and we know how to get around the situation,” said striker Martin Harnik.This time, with the team languishing in 14th spot and only nine points clear of Hof-fenheim, sporting director Fredi Bobic has set them a more modest target of 40 points which would see them fi nish in mid-table.At the top, the question is when rather than if Bayern Munich will wrap up the title after they moved 15 points clear of second-placed Dort-mund.The Bavarians have won all four matches without conceding a goal since the Christmas break and their huge lead is a Bundesliga record for this stage of the season.In all, they have scored 55 goals in 21 league matches this season and conceded a mere seven.“At the moment, the way we’re playing our football looks so easy. But it’s all the product of hard work,” said coach Jupp Heynckes, who will be replaced by former Barcelona coach Pep Guar-diola at the of the season.“We can still optimise a few things. We have to keep working on ourselves, be-cause there are always things you can make more perfect.”Club president Uli Hoe-ness said it was too early to celebrate.“There can be no talk of the title race being over,” he said. “There’s no reason for euphoria. There are plenty of games to go and we’re still in three competitions.”
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Russian Europa joy as holders Atletico Madrid left stunnedBy Tom Pilcher
RUSSIAN clubs ruled the Europa League roost as Rubin Kazan upset holders Atletico Madrid while Anzhi Makhachkala and Zenit St Petersburg opened up com-manding fi rst-leg advantages in their last 32 ties.
Rubin’s Gokdeniz Karad-eniz scored after six minutes and Pablo Orbaiz struck deep into added time to give the Russians, who played the entire second half with 10 men after Roman Sharonov was sent off, a shock 2-0 win at Atletico.
Anzhi beat Hanover 3-1 and Zenit won 2-0 at home against fi ve-time European Cup winners Liverpool while goals from Vladimir Darida, Frantisek Rajtoral and Sta-nislav Tecl helped unfancied Czechs Viktoria Plzen upset Napoli 3-0 away.
Brazilian Oscar spared Eu-ropean champions Chelsea’s blushes late on at Sparta Prague in a 1-0 victory and Gareth Bale continued his remarkable scoring form with two superb free kicks in Tot-tenham Hotspur’s 2-1 home win over Lyon.
Hosts Inter Milan, three time European champions, beat Champions League dropouts Cluj 2-0 with two goals from substitute Rod-rigo Palacio.
The win was soured by inju-ry-prone forward Diego Milito lasting six minutes and cry-ing as he left the pitch with a knee problem but fellow Ar-gentine Palacio took his place with aplomb.
Atletico grew increasingly frustrated in the second half against Kazan and leading scorer Radamel Falcao hit the woodwork as the clock ticked on.
Allowing goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo forward for a last-minute corner could prove fatal for next Thursday’s sec-ond leg as Spaniard Orbaiz gleefully slotted into the un-guarded net with the home side’s shotstopper at the wrong end of the pitch.
“Those who don’t take risks rarely win,” Atletico coach Di-ego Simeone said after Rubin handed the Spaniards, second in La Liga, a fi rst home defeat of the season while also end-ing their 12-match home win-
ning streak in Europe.Samuel Eto’o, four-time
African player of the year who has won the Champions League three times with Bar-celona and Inter, was on tar-get and missed a penalty in big-spending Anzhi’s win at home to Hanover.
Hulk’s unstoppable swerv-ing effort from 30 metres broke the deadlock for Zenit after 69 minutes and Sergei Semak poked home three minutes later to break Liv-erpool’s resistance after the
English club’s striker Luis Suarez had spurned several chances.
“If we can get the next goal in next week’s home leg, it can create momentum for us. There’s no way the tie is over,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers told the club’s website.
Chelsea, who dropped into the Europa League after be-ing dumped out of the Cham-pions League as holders in the group stage, fl irted with a 0-0 draw until substitute Os-
car’s 82-minute winner short-ly after coming on.
“Sparta played well which made it good. It was a strange experience and I’m glad we got that one goal at the end,” said Chelsea and Czech Re-public goalkeeper Petr Cech, formerly a Sparta player.
In the later matches there was a 2-0 win for Basel over Dnipro, while Stuttgart and Newcastle United drew against Genk and Ukraine’s Metalist Kharkiv respective-ly.
European champions Chelsea win, red-hot Bale scores double for Spurs
Russian side Rubin Kazan celebrate handing holders Atletico Madrid a fi rst home defeat of the season, while Totten-ham’s Gareth Bale (right) hit two brilliant free-kicks to give his side a 2-1 win over French giants Lyon
Wenger: Bayern win could be springboard to gloryBy Jim van Wijk
ARSENAL could have the confi dence to go on and win the Champions League if they can knock out German giants Bayern Mu-nich in the last 16, according to manager Ar-sene Wenger.
The Gunners host Blackburn in the fi fth round of the FA Cup today, just a few days before the fi rst leg of their European clash against Bayern at the Emirates Stadium.
Bayern were runners-up to Chelsea last season and are currently 15 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, having not lost since October 28. They have returned from the winter break with four straight league wins.
Wenger feels should his men come through such a challenge, then just like Chelsea, con-fi dence would grow of a fi rst European Cup triumph.
“We have a big game on Tuesday against Bayern. If we get past them, then why should we not go further and win it?” Wenger said.
“It looks at the start that winning the FA Cup is more reachable than any other com-petition, but you don’t really know how dif-fi cult it will be.
“If you compare it to the Premier League certainly, we have more chances to do it because we are too far away in the Premier League.”
Despite the obvious draw of next week’s prestigious European fi xture, Wenger main-tains his side will be fully focused to see off the challenge of Blackburn and secure safe passage into the quarter-fi nals of the world’s oldest knockout competition.
“The FA Cup is an important target for us. We always take it very seriously, we’re on a good run and we want to continue the run,” said Wenger, whose side have closed back up on the Barclays Premier League top four af-ter back-to-back victories.
“We are the favourites, they’re the outsid-ers, and have nothing to lose.
“However, if you look at who is in the squad, many of their players have Premier League experience, that is why they are dan-gerous.”
Arsenal have fi tness concerns over Eng-land midfi elder Jack Wilshere, who went off at Sunderland last week as a precaution over a thigh problem.
Wenger said: “I will not take a risk. That is because of the rest of the season in mind and what happened to him before.”Arsene Wenger is confi dent of winning a trophy this season
FIFA plans biological profiling at World CupBy Brian Homewood
FIFA plans to use biological profi ling of players at this year’s Confederations Cup and next year’s World Cup in its efforts to tackle doping, football’s governing body said yesterday.“FIFA is developing plans to introduce this new tool, including a steroid profi le through urine and a blood test, for the Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup Brazil, where in and out-of-competition tests would be conducted on all participat-ing players,” FIFA said in a statement.FIFA began a pilot project in 2011 to capture players’ individual steroid profi le with tests on the partici-pants at the World Club Cup in Japan. It said that 178 out-of-competition tests were conducted in 2011 and 184 at the same tournament in 2012.FIFA added that it was de-veloping the hormonal profi l-ing project, a new initiative in co-operation with the WADA-accredited laboratory in Switzerland.“FIFA was the fi rst interna-tional organisation for team sport to start with longitu-dinal profi les,” said Michel D’Hooge, head of FIFA’s medical committee.“We have been testing this at the World Club Cup in 2011 and 2012, we will continue at the Confederations Cup 2013 with blood testing unan-nounced at training camps and games.“It’s our commitment to have all players participating at the 2014 FIFA World Cup having biological profi les.”Football has long viewed itself as largely immune from the use of performance enhancing drugs which has badly tarnished other sports such as cycling.However, Arsene Wenger, manager of English Premier-ship side Arsenal, said last week that the sport needed more blood tests.“It is very diffi cult for me to believe that at a World Cup, where you have 740 players, you come out with zero prob-lems. Yet mathematically that is what happens every time,” he said.World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey met his FIFA counter-part Sepp Blatter on Thurs-day and said he was satisfi ed with FIFA’s efforts.“We are very interested in continuing the work on biological profi les,” he said. “WADA is very satisfi ed with the commitment of FIFA on the biological profi les.”“There is always more which can be done in the fi ght against doping, but we know FIFA has always been serious in this domain,” he added.“We think the domestic leagues can complement what FIFA is already doing.”WADA registered 28,587 doping samples in football worldwide in 2011 with 119 failed tests.
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Role reversal as wealthy City take on fallen giants Leeds
By Toby Davis
WHEN Manches-ter City last met Leeds United in the FA Cup, the
fi xture pitted a team fl ying high in the top fl ight and one who had fallen on hard times and slipped out of the game’s elite.
Tomorrow, the sides will meet again in the fi fth round (4pm), and while the narrative remains the same, the roles of the two protag-onists have been turned on their head.
Thirteen years ago, Leeds, on their way to a third-place Premier League fi nish, won 5-2 in a fourth-round stroll against a City side who had just been promoted to the second tier of English foot-ball having diced with fi -nancial meltdown.
Now the boot is on the other foot and City are rolling in Middle-Eastern wealth and fi ghting for a second consecutive Premier League title while Leeds are watching the pennies and trying to plot a route back to the top division.
The differing paths the teams have taken since they were both established members of English foot-ball’s elite in the late 1960s and 70s is a reminder of how fi nancial misjudgements
and high-stakes gambles can bring down even the biggest clubs.
Leeds, three-time league champions, were fl ying when David O’Leary took them to the Champions League semi-fi nal in 2001 with an expensively-assembled side that included £18 million defender Rio Ferdinand.
The club took out large loans based on hopes of continued Champions League football and when they failed to qualify the next season, their problems
spiralled and they were rel-egated in 2004. Three years later they fell into the third tier.
City’s demise from league champions in 1968 and FA Cup winners the following season was more drawn out.
Twice relegated from the top fl ight in the 1980s and once in each of the preced-ing two decades, 18 differ-ent permanent managers - seven in the 80’s alone - oc-cupied City’s hotseat after 1979.
Their darkest hour came in 1998 when they too were relegated to the second di-vision, or third tier of Eng-lish football.
Unlike Leeds, however, there was a happy ending to their tale of woe as they rose from the ashes to become world football’s richest club under Abu Dhabi steward-ship that culminated in their fi rst Premier League title last season.
City’s current title cam-paign has faltered, though, and it is unclear whether
manager Roberto Mancini sees the Cup as an unwant-ed distraction or an oppor-tunity to return to winning ways with their league chal-lenge falling away in recent weeks.
The Italian has promised to ring the changes hav-ing seen his team slip 12 points adrift of Manches-ter United at the top of the table following a 3-1 defeat by Southampton last week-end.
Talking about his prepa-rations for the Cup clash,
Mancini said: “I will change players. I only want players who are ready for the fi ght in the last 12 games. I am very angry with a lot of my play-ers and very disappointed at the performance against Southampton, because it is impossible to play the way we did.”
The previous round of the Cup underlined the diffi -culties in store for Premier League clubs who choose to rest players against lower division teams hungry to cause an upset.
Liverpool, Tottenham Hot-spur, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and Aston Vil-la all made changes for their fourth round matches last month and were dumped out by lower league clubs.
Holders Chelsea were held to a draw at third tier Brentford and will play their fourth round replay tomor-row (2pm) while other clubs are involved in fi fth round clashes.
In the pick of the other ties, Arsenal host Blackburn Rovers today (5pm) while Everton travel to Oldham Athletic (8pm) who embar-rassed Liverpool in the pre-vious round.
The only all-Premier League tie pitches Manches-ter United against Reading at Old Trafford on Monday (10pm) with the hosts lifted by their 1-1 draw at Real Madrid in Wednesday’s Champions League last 16 fi rst leg.
Weekend focus turns to FA Cup
Roberto Mancini’s men, who face Leeds on Sunday, lifted the famous old trophy in 2011. The roles of the two protagonists have been turned on their head since they last faced each other in the competition
Pistorius sobs as court hears murder chargeBy Benedict Moore-Bridger
OSCAR Pistorius sobbed in court yesterday as he was charged with murdering his girlfriend and claims emerged that he shot her four times through a bathroom door after a row. Wearing a dark suit, the South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter buried his head in his hands, wept and shook as prosecutors alleged that he was respon-sible for the “premeditated murder” of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp (right). She was shot in the head, chest, pelvis and hand only hours after security guards were apparently alerted at their housing complex near
Pretoria when neighbours heard “screaming and shout-ing”. Pistorius, 26, known as the ‘Blade Runner’, was remand-ed in custody until Tues-day after Pretoria mag-istrate Desmond Nair agreed to his lawyers’ requests to postpone the bail application hearing. He did not enter a plea but a statement issued by his fam-ily and London-based agent said the charge was disputed “in the strongest possible terms”.The athlete was sup-ported in the packed courtroom by his brother, sister and father,
who placed his hands on the athlete’s back as he hung his head, while Nair told him to “calm down and take a seat”
as the single charge of mur-der was read out. He will now be held in the city’s Brooklyn jail after Nair said he did not want there to be a
perception of “prefer-ential treatment” for the star. Prosecutors are set to oppose bail for Pistorius, and if found guilty of murder he faces an automatic life
sentence of at least 25 years.
Yesterday’s hearing came as
it emerged that
security guards were alerted at the Silver Woods Country Estate in the hours before the fatal shooting. Neighbours had complained about “shouts and screams” during an argument be-tween the couple. Police then rushed to the property after the shots were heard at around 3.30am. Steenkamp was found slumped in the bathroom. Paramedics tried to revive her but she was pronounced dead.Pistorius was arrested at the property, while police also seized his 9mm pistol.News of the killing stunned the world, with Steenkamp’s parents said to be ‘hysterical’ with grief.
TURN TO PAGE 29Despair: Oscar Pistorius breaks down as he stands in the dock accused of the ‘premeditated murder’ of his girlfriend
