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the week By George Psyllides resignation. “I’d like to believe that I did my duty with the highest sense Cyprus RESIDENT Nicos of responsibility and diligence, Anastasiades has lost making every possible effort Greek Cypriot two top offi cials after to achieve the best in a sector Pthe resignations of that as you know well, is rife both his health minister and with problems and needs im- director on the secret service chief were an- mediate and radical reorgani- nounced yesterday. sation,” the letter said. trauma of war The resignation of Andreas Patsalis, appointed in March Pentaras, the head of the se- 2014, said he was proud that cret service (KYP), was an- he managed to prepare the 4 nounced early Saturday morn- bills for the national health ing following revelations earlier scheme, and making public in the week that KYP had been hospitals autonomous, “and using phone surveillance tech- fi nd ourselves a step before World nology. His resignation was ac- submitting them to parlia- cepted by the president. ment”. Serb leader “Following the information “As regards hospital auton- A woman lays a wreath at the memorial to those killed in the Mari blast. Yesterday was and the shadows cast in rela- omy and the NHS, implemen- the fourth anniversary of the explosion. STORY PAGE 2 (Christos Theodorides) chased away tion to the use of specifi c soft- tation is more than necessary, ware by KYP, and to protect and I hope that this time prob- the service’s notable work to lems and interests won’t stand at Srebrenica date, its chief … submitted his in the way of implementation,” resignation today,” a written he said. Eurogroup ministers: Greece must do more memorial statement from the govern- At the beginning of the ment spokesman said. month, the cabinet postponed By Philip Blenkinsop further steps to convince them it would hon- 8 Just hours later, it emerged approval of the hospital au- and Robert-Jan Bartunek our any new debts. that Health Minister Philip- tonomy bill - a cornerstone of Wolfgang Schaeuble, fi nance minister of its pos Patsalis, citing personal the NHS - but denied the de- biggest creditor Germany and a veteran stick- reasons, had also tendered his lay was linked to a threatened EUROZONE fi nance ministers told their ler for the EU’s fi scal rules, said negotiations Sport resignation. In his letter how- 48-hour strike by state nurses. Greek counterpart yesterday that Athens would be “exceptionally diffi cult”. ever, he also spoke of vested Dialogue between the health must go beyond an initial set of proposals for Since Tsipras’ leftist government won power ‘Serena Slam’ interests that stood in the way ministry and health sector reforms if it wants them to open negotiations in January, he said, emerging optimism about of vital reforms. professionals would continue on a bailout, eurozone sources said. Greece had been “destroyed in an incredible victory at In the letter, dated July 9, until mid-September, the Meeting in Brussels as the Eurogroup, the way in the last few months”. Patsalis, 53, thanked Presi- president’s offi ce announced. ministers took a break from their plenary Other ministers arriving for the Eurogroup Wimbledon dent Nicos Anastasiades for Patsalis had warned that it discussions after some three hours. meeting also spoke of a fundamental lack of entrusting him with the health Two sources said there was consensus among trust after years of broken Greek promises and portfolio, saying personal rea- TURN TO PAGE 3 the other 18 ministers around the table that back sons obliged him to submit his the leftist government in Athens must take TURN TO PAGE 9 2 Home July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Weather Mourning parents in

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YESTERDAY By Bejay Browne max/min temp Humidity Nicosia 36 - 21 46% HE FAMILY of a young Paphos Larnaca 34 - 21 51% mother who died of cancer four Limassol 30 - 21 69% years ago are still wrangling with her Tinsurance company for pay-outs on Paphos 30 - 20 73% two life insurance policies. Paralimni 32 - 22 51% Thirty-fi ve-year-old Alethea Ayres’ honest account on her personal blog Prodromos 21 - 10 43% and Facebook of her cancer as it spread from malignant melanoma to nine brain tumours and stomach cancer struck a SUNRISE: 05.41 am SUNSET: 20.03 pm chord among Paphos residents. They joined forces to raise money to send her for what was hoped to be lifesav- ing treatment in Germany. But Alethea’s cancer had spread to her stomach and Sunday Mail her health deteriorated rapidly. She was Alethea with her husband and son shortly before her death admitted to the Friend’s hospice Paphos Established 1945. Number 22,181 where she later died. hospice has moved from the Evange- or eight years ago and it is still owned by The family have just marked her four lismos clinic, where Alethea’s medical Adam. But it’s empty and up for sale. He NICOSIA 24 Vass. Voulgaroctonou, P.O. Box 21144, 1502 Nicosia year memorial but say Alpha Bank In- records are stored, to St George’s clinic. now lives in the UK with my grandson. Tel: 22-818585, Fax: 22-676385 email: [email protected] surance have still not paid out on two of Three weeks ago, Alpha Bank - after hav- Alethea and Adam had a Swiss franc Alethea’s policies. ing this form for some time - sent it back mortgage with Alpha - which is why the LIMASSOL 5A Nicolaou, Pentadromos Centre, Thessaloniki St, Her mother, Hilda Georgiou, said that to the lawyer dealing with her daughter’s payments became impossible. Since 2011 Tel: 25-761117, Fax: 25-761141 email: [email protected] Alpha Bank/Alpha Insurance had all of estate saying the hospice hadn’t fi lled it in when Alethea passed away, very little has the paperwork pertaining to her daugh- properly, she said. been paid.” LARNACA Tel: 24-652243, Fax: 24-659982 ter’s death within two months of Alethea “Once again, I was forced to go back to The controversial Swiss Franc mortgag- passing away. the hospice and all the memories it holds, es with Alpha Bank are already the sub- She said she had turned to the media in even though it’s in a different clinic, and ject of court action taken by hundreds of Chicken recalled on salmonella fears desperation and told the Sunday Mail: ask the doctor to fi ll it in again. His reply clients who were unable to keep up pay- “Alethea had two life insurance policies, was that he couldn’t fi ll it in any differ- ments when the Swiss Franc soared in STATE Health services have recalled two frozen chicken one for her apartment and one for a small ently and asked for Alpha Bank to phone value. products with salmonella. loan. Up until now these haven’t been him to discuss it.” “Being the guarantors I have been told The health ministry announced that during lab tests on paid out. I believe they were waiting for by the lawyer dealing with Alethea’s es- random samples, frozen chicken burgers produced by two her will to be fi nalised. They were given NEW FORMS tate that they (the bank) can take our local companies, Loukas Aristodemou Farm and Sons Ltd her death certifi cate shortly after she home. He told us it would be easier for and Tasoulla’s Home Made Foods, were found to contain passed away.” A spokesman for the medical team at them to come to us as we live here than salmonella. Georgiou said that as her daughter died the hospice confi rmed Georgiou’s version try and get anything from our son-in-law The batch of chicken burgers produced by Loukas Aristo- intestate - without making a will - the of events. “We don’t understand how it in England,” Georgiou said. demou Farm has the barcode 2814646008003 and expires process was only fi nalised last August, could be fi lled in differently and we need Following a number of emails and tele- May 27, 2016. three years after she died. Her husband them to tell us what they need and we can phone calls by the Sunday Mail to Alpha The barcode package of the chicken burgers produced by and son are the benefi ciaries. help.” Bank and Alpha Insurance, the company Tasoulla’s Home Made Foods is 5291468000113 and expires The claims refer to a small loan and An added delay is that Alpha is now responded in an email. on December 30, 2015. a mortgage for an apartment Alethea requesting a ‘Declaration of the cause of Riana Metti of Alpha Insurance wrote: Consumers are urged to return the items to the shop bought prior to her marriage and which Death’. “We will contact the lawyer that is han- where they bought them from and avoid consumption, now belongs to her husband and son. The “This is on the offi cial death certifi cate, dling the case as it seems that there may while the announcement said it notifi ed the two producers pay-out will cover any outstanding pay- so why do they want the hospice to give be a misunderstanding regarding the in- and gave instructions for their immediate recall. Investi- ments relating to the property, said Geor- them another one?” asked Georgiou. formation outstanding. We assure you gations on the incidents continue in cooperation with the giou. In addition to these problems, Alethea’s that we will do our best to resolve the two companies’ managers and the state vet services. “Earlier this year, Alpha then asked the mother is worried that she and her hus- matter.” hospice to fi ll in a form regarding her ill- band, as guarantors, may end up being A member of staff also confi rmed by ness and some other information, which held responsible for mortgage payments telephone, that it usually takes no more they did.” on her daughter and son-in-law’s house than three weeks to pay out a claim, once An Industrial company located in Larnaca needs: She said that this was made all the more and that their own home may be at risk. all of the paperwork has been complet- diffi cult as during the last four years the “They bought the house about seven ed. Specialist for sales of electro-technical equipment. Requirements: presence of technical education, operational experience, fluent English, Greek and Computer skills. ‘Never again’ - president’s pledge Electrical Engineer: university degree; experience in high voltage equipment to relatives of Mari blast victims TEL: 24-821-788 THE PAIN of the tragic and needless The July 11, 2011 blast was caused by “The death of our lads must unite us loss of 13 men in a naval base muni- munitions haphazardly stored at the and charge us with the responsibility E-mail: [email protected] tions explosion in 2011 will forever Evangelos Florakis naval base. to go ahead with those changes that weigh on peoples’ consciousness and The munitions, stored in 98 contain- would make the July 11, 2011 tragedy highlight the inadequacy of the state, ers, had been confi scated in 2009 from a the start of a new era, for a modern President Nicos Anastasiades said Cyprus-fl agged ship en route to Syria. well-governed state,” Anastasiades OFFSHORE yesterday. They were then stacked in an open said. COMPANIES In a speech at a memorial service space at the base and left exposed to The disaster saw former defence min- LL to mark the fourth anniversary of the the elements until the day of the explo- ister Costas Papacostas jailed for fi ve Cyprus & Worldwide Mari blast, the president said the loss sion, despite repeated warnings about years after being found guilty of man- Complete Service of the seven sailors and six fi remen on the risks. slaughter. July 11, 2011 refl ects state negligence Beyond the loss of life, the blast in- Senior fi reman Charalambos Char- but would “guide our steps on the path capacitated the island’s biggest power alambous and Andreas Loizides, towards our country’s future”. station, located next door, which had former commander of the disaster re- A.K. COSMOSERVE LTD “We bow with respect to their hon- a crippling effect on the already ailing sponse team EMAK were jailed for two 89 Kennedy Ave., Off. 201 our, repeating our apology for all that economy. years for causing death due to reckless P.O. Box 26624, 1640 Nicosia - Cyprus we ought but failed to do as a state,” Yesterday, Anastasiades said the gov- and dangerous acts. Tel 22379210, Fax 22379212 Anastasiades said. ernment has decided to set up a com- Former minister Marcos Kyprianou, Email: [email protected] He pledged that such mistakes would mittee that will deal with issues faced who was also charged in connection http://www.cosmoserve.com never be repeated. by the relatives of the victims. with the incident, was acquitted. 3 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Home ‘House was swamped Two top officials with bills,’ MP defends resign in one day delay over title deeds Health minister disappointed over NHS

By George Psyllides legislation should have been pending on the case and un- (Continued from front page) passed on Thursday, but one der certain conditions. was imperative MPs ap- reason it wasn’t was the gov- The director will have the proved the bill before the INTERIOR Minister Socra- ernment dumping a host of power to transfer mortgages summer recess because if tis Hasikos had a point when other bills on parliament, to other property belong- momentum was lost Cy- he slammed parliament for with a request that they be ing to the vendor. If no such prus would not get a health not passing a government bill passed before the break. property is available, the scheme within 40 years. designed to protect house The bills, which include tax director can transfer the en- It appeared that pressure buyers without title deeds, breaks and other incentives cumbrances on individuals from unions forced the gov- but he was not entirely right, to attract foreign invest- who guaranteed the seller’s ernment to yield. an MP said yesterday. ment, had been announced obligations. Just hours before the cabi- Green party MP Giorgos just days earlier. Banks, which are expected net meeting, nurses union Perdikis was commenting “If they had wanted the to take a hit, had expressed PASYNO said they had called on a scathing statement re- (title deeds) bill expedited opposition to the bill. off the 48-hour strike after leased by the minister on they should have asked,” Perdikis said the postpone- their efforts had “forced Friday, berating MPs for not Perdikis told the Sunday ment had been decided by President Nicos Anastasia- passing the bill the previous Mail, adding that they had the House Finance and Inte- des to take the initiative and day, the last parliamentary not done so. rior Committees during dis- withdraw the bill”. Philippos Patsalis (left) and Andreas Pentaras session before the summer cussion of the matter at the The introduction of the break. DEVELOPERS end of June in a bid to give NHS is years behind sched- The bill, submitted by the MPs more time to study the ule, and its implementation for items as “Android Plat- its Enemies of the Internet government late in June, Developers’ land and matter. was part of the bailout Cy- form,” “No.5 Agents Software index due largely to Hacking was meant to sort out the buildings are counted as as- Hasikos had disagreed with prus reached with its inter- License,” Physical Infection Team’s business practices mess created by the failure sets that need to be offset the decision and asked par- national lenders in March Vectors,” and “Remote Mo- and their primary surveil- to provide title deeds to peo- against their debt to banks, liament to vote on the bill 2013. bile Infections.” lance tool Da Vinci. ple who had paid for their giving lenders a claim on before the break. Pentaras’ resignation fol- The issuer of the invoice is Communications surveil- properties, either because people’s properties that had MPs voted instead to ex- lowed revelations this week “HT Srl,” short in Italian for lance is illegal in Cyprus. it was mortgaged by the de- been mortgaged by develop- tend the exemption of such that KYP had apparently “HT, Società a responsabil- Parliament amended the veloper, or the state could ers. properties until the end of purchased phone surveil- ità limitata,” or HT Ltd. constitution some fi ve years not go ahead with the trans- Thousands have been left the year. The previous date lance tech from a manufac- It is the designation used ago to allow such activity fer because of outstanding without deeds as a result. was July 10. turer with a poor reputation by Hacking Team, an Ital- under certain circumstanc- taxes. The bill grants the head of At fi rst glance there did not among privacy advocates. ian company that sells intru- es, but the legal framework “Whom is parliament try- the Land Registry depart- appear that anything suspi- A published copy of a De- sion and surveillance tools to enforce it has not been ing to protect? Trapped buy- ment the authority to ex- cious was afoot but Perdikis cember 2014 invoice made to governments and law en- approved yet. ers of mortgaged real estate, empt, eliminate, transfer, did not rule out attempts in out to KYP for the purchase forcement agencies. Nevertheless, it is a known or the banks,” Hasikos said. and cancel mortgages and the autumn to accommodate of such technology showed Reporters Without Borders fact that phone tapping has Perdikis said he agreed, the or other encumbrances, de- bank objections. that KYP had paid €35,000 has listed the Italian fi rm on long taken place.

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By Alexia Evripidou The National Centre for PTSD statistics shows 11-20 out of every 100 veterans who HE HARROWING ex- served in the operations Iraqi periences of war veter- Freedom and Enduring Free- ans suffering from Post dom have PTSD in a given Traumatic Stress Dis- year. T “I fi rst met a US veteran in order (PTSD) are the subject of a new fi lm from New York- 2011; he’d great diffi culty be- based Greek Cypriot fi lm di- ing in a public place. We were rector and cinematographer in a busy but not particularly Minos Papas. crowded bar. He was uncom- Son of internationally ac- fortable and anxious among claimed fi lm director Michael lots of people and abrupt Papas, Minos was determined noises,” Papas recalled. to carve his own successful He spoke to many veter- path in the industry from an ans, researched books and early age. At age 16, Minos articles on PSTD and worked Papas received his fi rst inter- with veterans at a Filmmak- national award with the short ing Workshop called “I Was fi lm Whispers (1993) at the US troops on patrol in Iraq. Below: Michael Day There Films.” The workshops Make-A-Video youth compe- were run by Benjamin Patton tition in Helsinki, Finland. (grandson of General George He’s since worked as a writer, Patton), where participants director and producer on his made fi lms about their own own productions as well as experiences. turning his hand to director of photography on short and HAUNTED feature fi lms, music videos, documentaries and commer- Inspired by these very real cials. and often painful life stories, Now, as an established in- Minos decided to write Tango dependent fi lmmaker in New on the Balcony this year. It’s York for the past ten years, his a story about Johnny, a US vision in his short narrative veteran returning home and fi lm Tango on the Balcony is facing the challenges of PTSD to make an honest, daring whilst living in New York. He’s and consciously non-political haunted by a single event that fi lm, ‘aimed at telling a more occurred on a balcony. authentic story’ of the veter- “As civilians, we have a re- ans who suffer with PTSD. sponsibility to learn and un- This debilitating anxiety derstand how PTSD works, disorder can be experienced what it is and how it marks people in society. It’s not just by anyone who has been ex- Minos Papas: interested in the human story about PTSD posed to a traumatic event, a problem that governments such as witnessing or infl ict- will have PTSD at some point up taking their own lives. A need to solve with medication or benefi ts. The more we un- veterans are on a waiting list, “I have fi rsthand experience ing injury or death. Its symp- in their lives and about eight staggering 22 veterans com- many with serious PTSD”. with the ugly side of undiag- toms include re-experiencing million adults have PTSD dur- mit suicide per day, a death derstand PTSD, the more we can understand the human Tango is a fi ctional narra- nosed and untreated PTSD. the event, hyper-arousal, and ing a given year. But this fi gure toll that is higher than those tive fi lm inspired by such real In 2003, I sat on the border diminished responsiveness to pales beside those who seen killed in action. That is one condition,” said Papas. Although help exists from events. It is not a documen- between Kuwait and Iraq or avoidance of stimuli associ- active service in the military. veteran every 65 minutes,” tary. Papas believes there are with the United States ma- ated with the trauma. “Today, as many as 20-50 per said Papas. the US Department of Vet- erans Affairs who process many documentaries that fol- rine corps awaiting the order War veterans are of course cent of all war veterans suffer More than two million US low veterans and document to invade. My unit crossed particularly prone. The US with PTSD and have prob- service personnel have been veterans’ cases, administer therapies and address issues their problems, but there’s a the line, and we saw things Department of Veteran Affairs lems transitioning to civilian deployed in operations in Iraq considerable lack of narrative no human being should,” estimates that 7-8 per cent of life. Many fi nd themselves and Afghanistan since Octo- of transition to civilian life, “about 50 per cent of combat fi lms that authentically por- says Day. the (American) population without purpose and end ber 2001. tray veterans and PTSD. “Minos told me of his desire “US veterans have been po- to create a short fi lm, one liticised in many ways. There that would bridge the gap CHEMISTS is the mantra ‘Support the between audiences occasion- Troops’ that silences any dis- ally hearing the word PTSD sent to the wars. There is a lot onscreen and their experienc- SUNDAY 12/07/2015 L. Lambrou, 32, Rafael Santi, Tel: 25364775, 25752846 (H) of fl ag waving and patriotism ing it through the eyes of a 24662044, 24342157 (H) NICOSIA Chr. Metaxa 5 Christaki Kranou Ger- associated with the military, confl icted soldier. I embraced C. Michaelidou, 12 D. Akrita St. Tel: PAPHOS all for political posturing,” he the idea. The narrative will 22433480, 22337979 S. Socratous, 52 Agapinoros St, Kato masoyia Tel: 25314848, 25322840 (H) said, stressing his fi lm is de- connect veteran and civilian liberately non-political. communities alike. The fi lm Th. Kotropoulos, 42A 28th October Paphos. Tel: 26949855, 26221966, (H) A. Marcou, 33 Apostolou Varnava, Tel: St, Makedonitissa. Tel: 22350091, PARALIMNI is vital, unique in its explora- 22325801 (H) R. Kefala, 111 1st April St. Tel: 23730116, 25660088, 96893387 HUMAN STORY tion of the subject material, L. Socratous, 24C Peraios St, Strovolos. 23821516 and has the potential to be a LARNACA “I am interested in the hu- game-changer.” Tel: 22422279, 22321828 (H) K. Evlavis, 65A Arc. Makariou Tel: man story about PTSD, the No stranger to army life S. Papanastasiou, 320A Arc Makarios MONDAY 13/07/2015 human condition and the im- himself, Minos served in the III. Tel: 22372337, 22321430 NICOSIA 24656469, 24662689 plications of trauma and how national guard in Cyprus. Al- L. Mavrommati, 68 Akropoleos Avenue, Y. Toumba, 86C Athalassa & Dorion Ave, it affects memory and our though born in London, he Strovolois, Tel: 22424233 22321267 Strovolos. Tel: 22313677, 22499681 (H) V. Moyseos, PEO, Tel: 93 Ermou St., Tel: perception of time.” grew up in Cyprus. LIMASSOL I. Papaiakovou, 60 Democratic Ave, 24655312, 24626553 Minos’ co-producer, Michael “Cypriots can possibly iden- M. Stephanidou, 6 Bishop Laurentiou Strovolos. Tel: 22450644, 22876916 (H) Day, was discharged from the tify because we have been St. Tel: 25333726, 25382177 (H) S. Hadjiapostolou, 16 Prigkipa Karolou PAPHOS US marine corps as a combat through trauma collectively veteran, having served in Iraq as a nation. I have childhood A. Agathocleous, 8D Gr. Afxentiou Tel: Ayios Dhometios, Tel: 22459270, S. Varnavidou, 62B N. Nicolaides Ave. 25751275, 25750773 (H) 22779662 in 2003. memories of unexpected fi re- Tel: 26943424, 26949727, (H) Seven years later he began works going off and people M. Potamitou 29B Vasileos Konstanti- D. Vrakas, 265 Arch. Makariou Avenue, to dabble in prose and pho- stepping outside onto their nou A’ Tel: 25364000, 25382333 (H) Pano Lakatamia (next to Marks & Spen- PARALIMNI tography as a means of fi nding verandas, looking skyward, LARNACA cer) Tel. 22384900 P. Yiallourou, 173 1st April St. Tel: therapeutic outlets to combat just to make sure those were L. Georgiou, 81, Spirou Kyprianou St. LIMASSOL his symptoms of PTSD. actually fi reworks and not an- Tel: 24631390, 99533388 (H) L. Lisiotis, 36 Thessalonikis St. Tel: 23825979, 23744771 (H) Day talks about his experi- other invading army. Those ences in his blog. 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By Jean Christou Cypriot average of 20 per cent in ways which can be both positive 2010 - the last year for which data and negative,” said Salli Felton, was available. chief executive of the Travel Foun- OTELS IN Cyprus gener- Though the waste produced per dation. on government statistics suggest- ment or the municipalities could ated around 1.8 kg of waste guest might be only a bit higher “Yet it’s striking how much we ed that, on average, 71 per cent of potentially work with tour opera- per customer per night and than that of residents, the study don’t know about tourism’s impact purchases from the agricultural tors to improve the positive im- Hused 340 litres of water per also found that 25kg of waste per given its scale and reach. While sector by businesses in the food, pacts of tourism and reduce their guest per night in 2013, according customer night was produced in much work has been done to con- beverage and tobacco sector came negative impacts. to a just-published pilot environ- the supply chains of the hotel and sider different impacts in isolation, from Cypriot suppliers. “This sug- These areas include the devel- mental impact study relating to other services the customers use in to date there has been very little gests that hotels source propor- opment of stronger local supply tourism carried out on the island. Cyprus. consideration given to whether tionately less of their purchases of chains with greater capacity to de- The study, “described as ground- On average, the eight hotels used these impacts can be measured, food and beverages from Cypriot liver higher quality and potentially breaking’” carried out jointly by the around 340 litres of water per cus- valued and compared. That’s why producers than the national aver- more diverse Cypriot products and British Travel Foundation, tour op- tomer night in 2013. “Although this this pilot is so exciting and impor- age,” the report said. services to meet the needs of the erators TUI and Pricewaterhouse- is less than the goal set by TUI tant: it’s breaking new ground.” Also for every euro spent by the sector and the provision of incen- Coopers, covered eight Cypriot Group of 400 litres per customer, The information gained from hotels, the total indirect tax im- tives for Cypriot businesses, par- hotels and 60,000 guests over the it is more than the average Cypriot the pilot study is also intended to pact was €0.27 while every euro of ticularly hotels and to stimulate entire year, and interviewed over resident uses - 264 litres per day,” provide insight into how all parts discretionary spend by customers investment in energy effi cient new 600 employees in the industry. the report said. of the sector can better measure, outside the hotels was estimated technology to reduce the sector’s Data from the hotels showed that, “We are all aware that tourism manage and communicate its im- to generate €0.33 in indirect tax environmental impact. on average, hotels generate 1.8kg can have a profound impact on pacts leading to a more sustain- impact. It also suggested improved data of waste per customer per night holiday destinations. We know able form of tourism. While the pilot study did not spe- needed to be gathered from regu- which exceeds the average Cypriot that tourism will bring economic The analysis also showed that cifi cally examine the potential role lar visitor exit surveys to capture resident’s 1.4kg of waste per day. and fi scal benefi ts in the form of only 37 per cent of the food and of government in improving the the habits of visitors to Cyprus, It found that the hotels recycled profi ts, jobs and tax revenues, and beverages bought by the hotels was tourism’s sector’s impact, it said including their spending patterns, 25 per cent of their waste in 2013, it will affect the host communities’ reported to have been produced in it had identifi ed a number of areas use of cultural heritage sites and which is slightly more than the way of life and the environment in Cyprus. In comparison, data based where either the Cyprus govern- public infrastructure and services. 6 Home July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL The many lives of A harrowing 59- year-old Cyprus Mail photo has taken on a life of its own down the decades

By Jean Christou

OES A picture really paint a thousand words or do a thousand words help paint Da more accurate picture? With the Cyprus Mail celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, we have been selecting archive ma- terial to upload onto the website. In the process we came across the negative of a photo taken in 1956 during the EOKA uprising. Unlike many images that are self- explanatory, this one calls out for its story to be told. And for that, we need the words every bit as much as the haunting image. In the black and white photo two men are lying on the ground, a third is looking to his left, another man is walking to- Editor of the Cyprus Mail Victor wards the photographer, Bodker has just rushed out of the a woman has her hand up newspaper’s offi ces after hearing to her mouth in shock and the gunshsots that killed the British horror and several by- intelligence offi cers. Left: the front standers are looking on. The photo was taken page of the Cyprus Mail on September outside the then Cyprus 29, 1956 Mail offi ce on Ledra Street in Nicosia, known at that time as Murder Mile. It was September 28, 1956. The men on the ground were new- The Cyprus Mail photo, ly-arrived British intel- ligence offi cers. One is though displayed dead, the other is dy- ing. Both were shot. in both museums, The man looking to his left who has been hit by bullets in the ‘becomes a part of a neck is watching the EOKA gunman very different narrative running away. It emerged much later that the depending on which shooter was Nicos Sampson, Cyprus’ ‘Eight-Day side of the Green Line part President’ who was installed in for the July 1974 after the failed Greek- The traumatised fi ancee of Special Constable Bonici Mompalda UK, he suggested the you are’ engineered coup and just prior to sits on the ground next to his dead body (Robert Egby) Mail needed more local features. the Turkish invasion. Finding my camera empty, I sat According to later writings by looking up Murder Mile. He had The British media splashed the and reloaded while I listened to Sampson, the three Britons had a gun drawn. Victor Bodker was story and my photo. One head- group surrounding the body. It in- Mr Bellm. At 10.26 am a sharp been in a camera shop boasting coming towards me, calling out to lined it: ‘Murder on High Street,’ cluded Brian Wright, a sub-editor rattling noise outside. I initially about how they had come to crush everyone to call an ambulance. A another ‘Death at High Noon’, at CM and also Nicos Sampson. thought one of the printers had EOKA leader George Grivas. The lady named Mrs Leyland whose and ‘EOKA Killers Slay British The group picture took on a his- dropped a box of lead type. Victor shop clerk overheard them and husband often came into the pa- Bobbies’. tory of its own when Sampson was looked out of the window into the informed the organisation, which per, had been shopping and was The victims on that Friday, Sep- arrested,” Egby said. closed alley. He watched as the caught up with them at a second walking by. That is the moment I tember 28th were Sergeant HB The Bonici photo scored an Hon- Ledra Street kiosk operator ran shop. The man walking towards took the picture. It was tragedy Carter, and Sergeant CJ Thor- orary Mention in the News Photo in with the news. ‘There’s a killing the photographer was the then frozen in time. oughgood, both deceased. The category of British Press Pictures outside!’ editor of the Cyprus Mail Victor Roy rushed up to the wounded third man, Sergeant WIJ Webb, of the Year 1956. Egby eventually Bodker. I grabbed my camera and raced man and helped him sit down who received fi ve bullets, miracu- moved on from Cyprus in 1961 but As for the photographer himself, out to Ledra Street. Victor and on some steps. Suddenly many lously recovered and told how he his famous photograph on Ledra there is probably no one else in Roy were ahead of me. On Murder people gathered around to help. had fi red after the fl eeing EOKA Street outside the Cyprus Mail, that photo still alive today to tell Mile shoppers and strollers were ‘Ambulances won’t come,’ said gunman.” which had been published in all of the tale. In his 2011 book, Kings, rushing to get away. On the street a Greek shop manager. ‘They’re the newspapers in Cyprus and in Killers and Kinks in the Cosmos, I could see three prone fi gures! scared. Let’s get a taxi.’ Victor Egby, now 83, and living in New the UK, has a signifi cance way be- former Cyprus Mail photographer All had been shot. I immediately fl agged one down. York state, told the Sunday Mail yond one bloody day in 1956. Robert Egby brings the photo to recognised all three as Brit- Two minutes later the wounded this week that 1956 saw many sto- The Cyprus Mail photo is promi- life, this time in words: ish police constables who had man and his two dead comrades ries that made international head- nently featured in an academic recently arrived in Nicosia. Each were on their way to Nicosia lines. Another one of his most fa- article “War Museums and Pho- one was in civilian clothes, shirts Hospital. The fi rst British troops mous photos involved the killing tography” by Theopisti Stylianou- “Friday, September 28th 1956 was and pants. arrived and started searches. of a Turkish Cypriot man Bonici Lambert and Alexandra Bounia a day of horror. As I walked onto the street I Meanwhile I was developing the Mompalda. Egby said he snapped published in the journal Museum Just after 10am the offi ces at the started taking pictures. It was pictures and a few minutes later a photo of Mompada’s fi ancée and Society in November 2012. Cyprus Mail saw a new journal- automatic. I could see one man I was on my Lambretta scooter, seated on the pavement beside the The two researchers wanted to istic light. A new reporter Roy was dead; another was on his on my way to Cable and Wireless. body. The photo, like the killing of see how the use of photographs Bellm arrived and was talking back, waving his arms and in the The girl behind the counter at the the British offi cers, made the front in museums in Cyprus specifi cally, with Victor Bodker. Although the throes of dying. The third man, cable offi ce gasped as I handed page of most of the British dailies. revealed different perspectives in ageing Victor was shortly to de- trying to stay on his feet was her the picture. “I took a general picture of the the political construction of his- 7 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Home a photo

torical narratives by appealing to emotions. This is where Egby’s photo re- ally comes into play. Stylianou- Lambert, a lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology told the Sunday Mail she and her co- author had found that it was the only common photo on display in both the Greek Cypriot museum of the struggle in southern Nicosia and the Turkish Cypriot national struggle museum in northern Ni- cosia. But that’s not all. Robert Egby now lives in the US. “In our research we found that Right: Egby in the Cyprus Mail photographic material is always offi ces in 1960, aged 28 used very differently. There were no common images. This was the only one,” she told the Sunday order to get a fuller picture: (a) its Mail. “But it was used in totally internal context, which includes different ways.” what one can see; (b) its original Museums and photographs are context, which includes informa- considered to be reliable and cred- tion about who, when, how and ible and thus become offi cial vehi- why the photograph was taken, cles of history, despite the fact that as well as what events it depicts they may provide only a partial, or excludes; and (c) its external and often biased, view of reality. context, which includes the situa- “Endorsed by the aura of the mu- tion in which a photograph is pre- dead bodies are correctly identi- ish Cypriots] cruelly murdered in ries. seum’s authenticity, photographs sented. fi ed as British offi cers and those the streets by EOKA’. So does Egby’s famous photo serve as visual proof to help rein- The Cyprus Mail photo, though responsible as EOKA fi ghters. The label was still there on Thurs- paint a thousand words? Rather force the museum’s narrative. The displayed in both museums “be- “Within the context of this muse- day, the Sunday Mail can confi rm. more, actually: 1,513 to be precise. Greek Cypriot Struggle Museum as comes a part of a very different um, this is an act of bravery, an act The fl ummoxed museum guide well as the Turkish Cypriot National narrative depending on which side of protection of our own against had no idea it was mislabeled and  A PDF of the original front page Struggle Museum … predominant- of the Green Line you are”, the re- the enemy, a justifi able and even had been for decades. can be viewed on the Cyprus Mail ly use documentary photography search paper says. commendable act,” the article Stylianou and Bounia said that in website. Highlights from the ar- as a claim to historical accuracy In the Greek Cypriot museum says. both cases the museums had cho- chives of 70 years of the Cyprus and truth,” the article says. the specifi c photo is included in In the Turkish Cypriot museum, sen to strip the photograph of its Mail are uploaded every Wednes- The authors explain how a pho- a panel of similar photos with the the narrative could not be more original context and present it as day and Saturday. Go to www. tograph has at least three different overall label ‘Executions of British different. The photograph appears part of a larger narrative to sup- cyprus-mail.com and click on ‘70 levels which one has to consider in Intelligence Service Offi cers’. The with the label: ‘Our people [Turk- port two completely different sto- years’ along the top bar 8 World July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Srebrenica, 20 years on WORLD TODAY Angry crowd chases Serb Yemen fighting leader from burial site SAUDI-led air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook By Daria Sito-Sucic and 1992-95 war. several cities in Yemen Maja Zuvela Serbia had at the time yesterday, violating a Unit- backed the Bosnian Serbs ed Nations humanitarian with men and money. truce which took effect A MASS burial marking More than 1,000 victims just before midnight on the 20th anniversary of the have yet to be found. The Friday. The U.N.-brokered Srebrenica massacre was remains of 136, their coffi ns pause in the fi ghting was marred yesterday when a draped in green cloth, were meant to last a week to crowd of mourners chased interred yesterday. allow aid deliveries to Serbia’s prime minister from Vucic’s attendance was in- the country’s 21 million the cemetery, underscoring tended to be symbolic of how people who have endured the depth of anger over Bel- far the region has come since over three months of grade’s denial of the crime the bloody collapse of Yugo- bombing and civil war. as genocide. slavia, but it came just days A coalition of Arab states Bodyguards whisked Ale- after his government enlisted has been bombing the ksandar Vucic, a hardline na- ally Russia to veto a British- Iranian-allied Houthi tionalist during the Yugoslav drafted resolution at the rebel movement - Yemen’s wars of the 1990s, through a United Nations that would dominant force - since late jostling crowd which shouted have condemned the denial March in a bid to restore and booed. Some, throwing of Srebrenica as genocide, as to power President Abd- stones and bottles, surged up a U.N. court has ruled it was. Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a hill behind his delegation Many Serbs dispute the who has fl ed to Riyadh. as it ran for cover and left the term, the death toll and the Air raids pounded Houthi site. offi cial account of what went and Yemeni army units in Serbia condemned the in- on, refl ecting confl icting nar- the capital Sanaa and in cident as an “assassination ratives about the Yugoslav the embattled southern attempt” and called an emer- wars that still feed political People carry coffi ns of 136 recently identifi ed victims of the Srebrenica massacre for cities of Taiz and Aden, gency cabinet meeting. divisions and have stifl ed reburial at the memorial centre in Potocari where residents also Tens of thousands had progress in Bosnia toward reported intense artillery gathered to commemorate integration with western Eu- Serbia said it would send a Vucic was formerly a disci- mander of the Bosnian Serbs exchanges between the the worst atrocity on Europe- rope. protest note to Bosnia after ple of the “Greater Serbia” led the attack on Srebrenica fi ghters and local militia- an soil since World War Two, Only last month, Milorad yesterday’s events. “This is a ideology behind much of the and who is standing trial at men. in which some 8,000 Muslim Dodik, president of Bosnia’s scandalous attack and I can bloodshed that accompanied the U.N. court in The Hague. men and boys were mas- autonomous Serb Republic say it can be seen as an assas- Yugoslavia’s demise, in which Vucic has since rebranded sacred after the designated where Srebrenica is located, sination attempt,” Serbian at least 135,000 people died, himself as pro-Western, em- Cairo bombing U.N. safe haven of Srebrenica called the massacre “the Interior Minister Nebojsa 100,000 of them in Bosnia. bracing the region’s ambi- fell to Bosnian Serb forces greatest deception of the Stefanovic said on Serbian For years he lionised Ratko tions of joining the European A BOMB exploded in in the closing months of the 20th century”. Pink television. Mladic, who as military com- Union. front of the Italian con- sulate in Cairo yesterday, killing one person and wounding ten, raising the possibility that Islamist Cameron to demand militants will open a new front against foreigners in Egypt. A security source said preliminary investi- opt-out of EU gations indicated that a bomb was placed under a car near the consulate and employment laws remotely detonated. COLUMBIA Shipmanagement Ltd is one of the world’s leading shipmanagement Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said there companies. We are looking to recruit Technical Superintendents for our offi ce in PRIME Minister David were no Italian victims in Limassol. Cameron wants Britain to the blast. “Italy will not be be able to opt out of some intimidated,” he said on Technical Superintendents (Large Crude Carriers / Bulk Carriers) EU employment legislation Twitter. as part of his renegotiation Egyptian President Abdel with Brussels, media reports Fattah al-Sisi has said The successful candidates will be reporting to the Technical Fleet Managers and will said yesterday. militancy poses an exis- have the following responsibilities: Cameron has embarked on tential threat to Egypt, a drive to renegotiate the other Arab states and the • Ensuring the safe operation of ships allocated to them; country’s relationship with West. One of the tough- • Implementing and monitoring compliance with the Company’s Management the EU on issues such as est security crackdowns System relevant to the shipboard and departmental activities; welfare, migration and com- in Egypt’s history has • Monitoring performance, technical and operational conditions of ships allocated to petitiveness before holding weakened the mainstream an in/out referendum before Muslim Brotherhood them; the end of 2017. group, blamed by security • Ensuring prudent fi nancial management; The Telegraph and Times offi cials for small-scale • Arranging for repairs and dry dockings; newspapers said, as part of bombings. The Brother- the talks, Cameron would hood says it is a peaceful • Ensuring that the ships are fully certifi ed according to international standards and call for the right to control movement. requirements; Britain’s employment laws, • Preparing technical reports to owners in compliance with the management including rules on working agreement; time limits and equal rights China typhoon for temporary workers. • Encouraging and developing a strong safety culture and environmental awareness “This is just more of the ONE of the most power- on board ships assigned to them; speculation we said there ful typhoons to strike Labour accuses the PM of • Providing support to the shipboard management in respect of technical and would be during the nego- eastern China in decades tiation,” a spokeswoman for trying to appease his Tory disrupted air, rail and sea operational matters. Downing Street said. supporters transport yesterday after “The prime minister has forcing the evacuation Candidate Profi le ... made clear that cutting by former Prime Minister of more than a million back on unnecessary EU Tony Blair. people from the provinces regulation is part of making The opposition Labour of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, • A marine degree from a university, with a minimum of three (3) years experience Europe more competitive.” party, which is generally state media reported. onboard ships, or holding a Chiefs Engineer’s license with a minimum of two (2) Cameron’s bid to reshape more pro-European, said Typhoon Chan-Hom years sea service as a Chief Engineer, or having been in a position of Technical Britain’s relationship with the mooted demands ap- was packing winds of Europe has so far focused peared to be aimed at keep- 162 kph as it hit the city Superintendent with another shipping company for a minimum of two years; mainly on limiting welfare ing Cameron’s Conservative of Zhoushan, slowing • Good leadership and communication skills, as well the ability to work within benefi ts for migrants, leav- Party happy, rather than from an earlier speed of a team; ing some eurosceptic mem- improving Britain’s relation- 173 kph. In Shanghai, • Good command of the English language; bers of his party to complain ship with the EU. the commercial capital, that the prime minister was “Tearing up rights at work Pudong airport cancelled • Good knowledge of the marine industry and applicable Rules and Regulations; not being ambitious enough is no basis for winning sup- 500 fl ights while Hongqiao • Knowledge about purchasing and budget cost control. in his demands. port to stay in a reformed airport cancelled 250. Britain had previously se- EU, which is what the prime The typhoon brought cured the right to opt out minister claims is his objec- heavy rain to Shanghai as If you are interested for the above position, please send your CV to Marina Christofi of some legislation cover- tive,” said Pat McFadden, well as the provinces of at [email protected]. All applications will be treated in the strictest confi dence. ing social and employment Labour’s spokesman for Eu- Anhui and Fujian, besides rules, but this was given up rope. Jiangsu and Zhejiang. 9 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 World Wary eurozone to pass bailout judgement on Greece proposals Germany pondering a Greek ‘timeout’ from euro

(Continued from front page) Under the second scenario, a snap referendum Tsipras Greece would take a “time- called, in which voters mas- out” from the euro zone of at sively rejected creditors’ least fi ve years and restruc- terms he has since had to ture its debt, while remain- embrace. ing a member of the Euro- The Frankfurter Allgemeine pean Union. Sonntagszeitung (FAS) re- However, sources familiar ported that Germany’s Fi- with a preparatory meeting nance Ministry believes earlier yesterday said minis- Greece’s latest reform pro- ters’ aides had endorsed with posals do not go far enough reservations a recommenda- and has suggested two alter- tion by EU institutions and native courses for Athens in- the IMF that Tsipras’s pro- cluding a “timeout” from the posals did provide a basis to euro zone. launch negotiations. “These proposals miss out “We are still far away,” said important central reform ar- Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the eas to modernise the coun- Dutch fi nance minister who try and to bring economic was chairing the meeting. growth and sustainable “On both content and the development over the long more complicated ques- term,” the FAS quoted the tion of trust, even if it’s all ministry as writing in a posi- good on paper the question tion paper. is whether it will get off the Tourists in Athens yesterday as Eurogroup ministers in Brussels discussed how far they could trust Greece Instead, the ministry set ground and will it happen ... out two alternative courses We are facing a diffi cult nego- ed spending cuts, tax rises outs totalling 240 billion eu- years may be too high and Slovak Finance Minister Pe- for Greece. Under the fi rst, tiation.” and other measures he pro- ros ($265 billion) since 2010, too sudden,” one euro zone ter Kazimir, one of the most Athens would improve its In Athens overnight, posed in order to unlock 54 is deeply sceptical after fi ve source said. He said offi cials hawkish critics of Greece, proposals quickly and trans- Tsipras had to rely on oppo- billion euros in three-year months of abortive talks believed Greece may need said making the country’s fer assets worth 50 billion eu- sition votes from the right credit. with Tsipras. 82 billion euros, factoring in debt sustainable was going ros ($56 billion) to a fund in in parliament after some of But Germany, the biggest “The high fi gures for fi nanc- cash from the IMF and other to be “a huge problem”. order to pay down its debt. his leftist lawmakers resist- lender in two previous bail- ing needs over the next three EU sources. A positive assessment of the 10 July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL News Review Unions on hold THE HOT-BUTTON issue of civil unions did not make it to the plenum on Thurs- The House plenum on day, with the parties deciding to revisit the matter in the autumn. Thursday. While many The decision to postpone voting on bills were passed, the bill was taken unanimously by party that allowing civil leaders and representatives meeting be- partnerships never fore the plenary session got underway. made it Despite the delay, LGBT Cyprus said it welcomed it, under the circumstances. In a statement, the organisation spoke of “backroom moves” by MPs intended to change the whole philosophy of the bill. Essentially some MPs had sought to – and did – insert a clause depriving civil- union couples of spouse status. Casinos closer PARLIAMENT on Thursday approved the creation of a casino resort in Cyprus plus four more so-called satellite estab- lishments, in a move the island hopes would attract more tourism from the region. The bill was passed with the votes of 29 MPs belonging to ruling DISY, DIKO, and EDEK. Twenty-two lawmakers vot- ed against, including House President Yiannakis Omirou, the former EDEK leader. Of the four satellites three would only Closer union, but not for all one of the four units said. port - mainly shipping - industries, as host gambling machines, while the It has been “By analogy of what happened in Shared vision well as in fi nancial and insurance activi- fourth would also include table games. March 2013, I do think that this is a like- ties. Amendments added by parties include estimated ly scenario,” Alexander Michaelides who PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades and a ban on granting credit to players, and heads the department of fi nance at Im- Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci that state land will not be used for the that with a perial College in London said. “It’s one on Wednesday night shared their com- construction of the casinos. possibility”. mon vision for a post-settlement Cyprus, Larnaca pledge Michaelides, who was expressing his stressing that the fi nancial cost of the THE government insisted on Wednes- settlement personal opinion, was referring to the status quo was greater than the short- day it wanted to do everything possible sale of the operations of Bank of Cyprus, term cost of implementing a solution. to develop the Larnaca marina after ne- Teacher overhaul there is a Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank In a show of support to the chambers gotiations with Zenon consortium - the A GOVERNMENT bill for the drastic in Greece to Bank of Piraeus, as part of of commerce on both sides and for the team of investors who were to develop overhaul of the system of appointing potential that Cyprus’ bailout agreement. work they are doing in bringing busi- and fund the project - were offi cially ter- teachers in public education was voted nesses together across the divide, the minated. into law on Thursday, with 31 votes in fa- two leaders attended an event to show- This may prove to be diffi cult as no vour and 19 abstentions. the all-island case the chambers’ Leading by Example other investor has shown interest, Com- Implementation of the new rules will KYP technology (LbE) programme, from which some of munication and Works Minister Marios start in 2017, and full implementation is GDP could THE Cyprus Intelligence Service (KYP) the confi dence building measures dis- Demetriades said after a meeting in scheduled to take place in 2027. on Wednesday confi rmed that it had “in cussed in parallel with the talks have Larnaca on Wednesday with the mayor According to the bill, from September double in 20 accordance with established practice” originated. Andreas Louroutziatis, local MPs and 2018 to August 2027 appointments will strengthened operations with new tech- Addressing an audience of business councillors. be made jointly from the current list, nical equipment, “following all legal and people and diplomats, both Anasatasia- “No other investors have come. At the which comprises all university gradu- years time prescribed procedures”. des and Akinci outlined how they saw a moment, our fi rst thought is to hold a ates ranked according to graduation The agency had on Tuesday declined to future Cyprus and the benefi ts reunifi ca- workshop with some potential inves- year, and the new list – which will grade comment on revelations that it had ap- tion would bring. tors that can give us their ideas because, graduates on various criteria, including parently purchased phone surveillance Anastasiades said according to a whatever plans you have on paper, if written examinations. tech from a manufacturer with a poor number of studies, it has been estimated there are no interested investors, you reputation among privacy advocates. that with a settlement there is a poten- can’t bring those plans to life,” he said. Sigmalive online news portal published tial that the all-island GDP could double a photocopy of an invoice made out to in 20 years time. There would be signifi - GMI widened KYP for the purchase of such technol- cant additional annual income creation PARLIAMENT on Thursday approved ogy. in the tourism, construction and trans- Debt restructure amendments to the Guaranteed Mini- PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said mum Income (GMI) legislation, slightly on Monday that Cyprus would stand expanding the eligibility criteria for the with Greece in its efforts to achieve the assistance. restructuring of its bailout terms in or- Until now a person was eligible for GMI QUOTES OF THE WEEK der to make the debt more sustainable. if they had no more than €5,000 in cash Speaking to reporters at the presiden- or owned property worth more than “The natural resources belong to “It is with great satisfaction that I “Our goal is to implement a new, tial palace, Anastasiades said: “The fi rst €100,000 – excluding the primary resi- all Cypriots and they should be witnessed the awareness of EU’s more effi cient public administra- thing that I want to point out is the abso- dence. taken as a source of cooperation high-ranking offi cials that the cost tion system, a system in which lute respect for the decision of the Greek Those conditions have been eased instead of confl ict. A solution of of the continuation of division is positions of responsibility will be people, not only from us, but also from somewhat. Now the cash threshold has the Cyprus problem will create higher than the cost of awarded to the most worthy, that all Europeans and in particular from all gone up to €20,000, provided that this favourable conditions for a win-win the solution” willwill be fairlyfa awarded through writ- the European governments. The second amount is blocked to secure a loan, is situation where all sides will ben- Turkish Cypriotpriot tenten examsexam and a modern system of thing I have to acknowledge is the posi- deposited in the name of a minor, relates efi t by linking fi elds and selling the leader Mustafatafa Ak- assessment”assessm tive approach of the [Greek] prime min- to a scholarship or a college loan, or be- resources in the most economical inci PresidentPreside Nicos Anastasiades ister that the prevalence of ‘no’ does not longs to a disabled person. way.” overover legislationleg to reform the mean in any way the exit of Greece from The €100,000 threshold for property is Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa “Once such a ppersonerson publicpublic services the euro.” waived where the entire property or part Akinci is denied thee of it cannot be transferred or sold due to right to live “Comrade“C Alexis, please encumbrances on it, for example a memo “We have only one choice. Togeth- the life he acceptac this small amount for has been placed on the property. er, all of us will make our presence deserves, hee theth benefi t of the national Co-ops first known loudly in the modern day immediately eeconomy fund, … as an THE co-op sector ranked top worldwide class struggle” gains the appreciationa of your tire- in non performing loans (NPLs), the Democratic Labour Federation right to ask lessl but also heroic efforts chairman of the Central Co-operative Banks move of Cyprus general secretary for euthana- tot keep the honour and Bank (CCB) said on Tuesday, but efforts THE SUBSIDIARIES of the four Greek Diomides Diomidous sia” dignity of the Greek people, were underway to tackle the problem. banks operating in Cyprus are likely to Cyprus’ which is being so brutally In a speech during a conference in change hands in the coming days as “Long-standing confl icts, even longest- fought by our powerful Limassol, Nicolas Hadjiyiannis said the sweeping changes in the Greek banking between communities with differ- serving lifer ‘partners’…” recently nationalised sector has €3.5bln sector are expected, sources have said. ent ethnic or religious orientations, Panayiotis 88-year-old Onoufrios in liquidity and its capital adequacy was The change of ownership of the Greek can be resolved once the common Kafkaris Michaelides, in a letter around 15.5 per cent. subsidiaries in Cyprus may result either aim is to reach peace, and achieve has asked he sent to Greek Prime “It was €1.3bln in capital but at the following a decision of the supervisory collective social and economic to be put to Minister Alexis Tsipras same time it has a huge percentage of authorities or under the terms of a new collaboration and prosperity” death unlesss withw his monthly pension non performing loans, a rate that consti- bailout agreement Greece was seeking, President Nicos Anastasiades his request ofof €505€ as a contribution tutes a bad worldwide lead for Cyprus,” people in the know including a banker at (right) for parole iss towardtow the Greek national he said. re-examinedd fundfuf n DO NOT DELETEDO NOTDO NOTDELETE DELETE

11 July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Opinion Rejectionists are an anachronistic irrelevance HOW STRANGE it is see the Nobody claims this would be sudden the mean-spiritedness DISY chief Averof Neophytou - Cyprus negotiations progress- easy, but their approach has a SundayMail and paranoid mistrust inspired have the highest approval ratings ing smoothly, with the leaders much bigger probability of be- by the talks has vanished. of all the party leaders while and negotiators of the two ing successful than the sterile, The anti-settlement parties Nicolas Papadopoulos, leader of communities focused on the confrontational style adopted social meetings between the were at pains to revive these biggest anti-settlement party, has job at hand and shunning by their predecessors. leaders positively, while 60 per on Thursday with some vicious the second lowest. It is indicative the dirty tricks, blame games It is all down to the good rap- cent believed these meetings attacks on Anastasiades, whom of the changing times that Papa- and public showboating that port Mustafa Akinci and Nicos would contribute to a settle- they accused of trying to “bribe dopoulos’ puerile fi ghting talk is were part of all previous Anastasiades have built since ment of the Cyprus problem. the people with hopes of eco- being openly questioned by lead- procedures. We have not been the former won the Turkish Ongoing attempts by DIKO, nomic benefi ts after a settle- ing members of his own party. Cypriot elections, making the ment”; these were “false hopes” Thanks to the continu- accustomed to such a busi- EDEK, Alliance and the Greens most of their Limassol back- to poison the climate with their that were aimed at “misleading ous positive signals given nesslike and mature approach ground. The stroll in both sides knee-jerk negativity thankfully people that any solution would by Anastasiades and Akinci to the peace talks, with the of the old part of Nicosia and are having no effect on people. bring growth”; the people should public sentiment is changing leaders reporting progress the play they watched together This may explain why this not “settle for fewer rights and fast and expectations of a deal after every meeting they have. in their hometown may have brotherhood of negativity freedoms for the sake of some are building up. At the same This is because for the very been disparaged by the Greek intensifi ed its rhetoric after prosperity”; Anastasiades’ vision time, this public support for fi rst time the two leaders are Cypriot hard-line parties, Wednesday’s gathering, or- “in reality is a nightmare for the the process will strengthen the working together and neither which claimed the Cyprus ganised by the chambers of Cypriot people”. leaders and encourage them to is trying to trip the other one problem would not be solved commerce of the two sides, at This abject negativity that be more decisive in the talks - up or cause diffi culties in his by the leaders drinking coffee which Anastasiades and Akinci comes across as parody is the progress on six key issues was respective community. For the together, but created a sense spoke of their vision for a post- only language the opposition reported after Friday’s six- fi rst time in the history of talks, of optimism and built trust settlement Cyprus, explain- parties and politicians can hour meeting. Momentum is the leaders are not viewing between the two men. ing the prospects of a unifi ed speak, while their over-the-top building at all levels, but there the negotiating table as a bat- In contrast to the hard-line economy from which all the reaction to the meeting indi- should be no let-up by Anas- tleground on which one side’s parties, the majority of Greek people would benefi t. Never be- cated they are at a loss. Their tasiades who is ideally placed gain is the other side’s loss. Cypriots saw these social meet- fore had the leaders of the two alarmist rhetoric, designed to to go all the way. He has the The talks are no longer a zero ings as positive steps. Accord- communities spoken about a prevent any progress does not support of the people while sum game, but a joint effort by ing to the Cypriot barometer shared vision, thinking big and seem to be working, as the An- his critics, with their obsolete, the leaders to resolve differ- survey for June, conducted by highlighting the countless pos- tenna TV poll showed. The survey cliché-ridden rhetoric are fast ences through constructive Evresis for Antenna TV, 73.5 sibilities that would be opened also showed that supporters of becoming an anachronistic ir- and meaningful discussions. per cent of people viewed the up by a settlement. All of a the talks - Anastasiades and the relevance. Reader’s letter: editor’s choice Cancer patients aren’t Cypriot citizen? Yes. Am I a Cypriot? No Yes to votes for expats, yes to ised Cypriots, ALL of whom, brave. They’re angry more participation by expats bar one, regarded themselves and yes to expats in govern- as foreign despite their Cyp- ment. That may upset the ap- riot citizenship, for the same The people of Cyprus have always been plecart somewhat delightfully. reasons as myself. Even many extraordinarily generous when it comes They’d have to learn Greek ‘real’ Cypriots, who were born to raising much needed funds for those of course. And ‘Yes’ to new or brought up outside Cyprus requiring urgent medical treatment. I faces and thinking outside the have diffi culties in totally as- would however ask that you pause for a box. In all this I agree with similating. moment and, please, consider a few im- Peter Davis, and also with re- On another note. portant points. gard to the need for overseas We hear so much about ani- First, it would help tremendously if all investment, and in our disap- mal abuse, here’s something those blogs, tweets, Facebook updates, pointment in the President. positive concerning the care, and newspaper articles, stopped stress- What I disagree with is the use concern and consideration ing that all cancer patients are ‘brave’ of ‘foreigner’. shown by both the Parekklisia and ‘courageous’, and then go on to mis- I have been here 42 years - local council’s ‘dog guys’ and leadingly indicate that if the person can- including getting captured the Sirius Dog Sanctuary in not somehow conquer their cancer then by the Turks during the inva- both trying to catch and then something is inherently wrong in that sion. I have Cypriot national- neuter, a bitch who’d just had person’s emotional make up. They have a ity because I love the country, yet another batch of puppies. fl aw, or some huge weakness that result- warts and all, two children The number of times they ed in them “losing the battle”. born here. I speak moderate came, setting up the cage, This new ‘tabloid brave’ is a purely in- Greek and think I contribute moving it to always be in the voluntary state. True brave is what you to society. shade, loading it with fresh are when faced with options: if, for exam- But I do not consider myself meat... eventually the dog was ple, I had become sick because I had cho- try for treatment? Why isn’t there more at why so many people are diagnosed Cypriot. My family is not from caught only to have someone sen to take on my best friend’s illness to free screening systems in place? Why do here in Cyprus, anger at why we don’t here, I don’t have the back- open the cage and let her free. save her, that might be deemed as acting we have so few well trained oncologists? have islandwide resources for early di- ground/culture or family vil- The guys started over, and in a brave manner. Why aren’t we questioning the fact that agnosis. Why are our hospitals unable to lage, nor even after all these caught her again. Believe me, cancer patients do not feel in all but the more advanced, metasta- service the needs of cancer patients? years do I have all the Cypriot in the least bit brave, more like scared sised cases, it is the ‘treatments’, not the Why aren’t we questioning environmen- ways although I try. I polled Penny Douglas, rabbits when they think too much about disease, that cause the immediate ill- tal issues, etc? Anger should also be di- my friends who are natural- Limassol what they are going through. It helps not ness and pain? Why is there no sense of rected towards our insurance companies one iota to have this disease associated outrage over a disease that is culling our who seem to think that cancer is some on the one hand with bravery, of being population? sort of optional indulgence. Stop tossing cigarette butts somehow victimised, and, on the other, There is a huge danger that we are We should also be raging simultaneous- with all out failure. trying in a way to normalise this dread- ly at the pharmaceutical companies who This morning around 11am somebody driving through Tala Please, stop this bravery nonsense. ful disease, that it’s almost accepted as are enjoying double digit growth year on on their way to Kissonerga tossed a cigarette into a fi eld, Resist pouring out on Facebook or any- being a right of passage for women of a year, and they are out to sustain that, not within minutes a fi re started and soon spread throughout where else those supposed motivational certain age to be felled by breast or ovar- least because senior management’s earn- the whole fi eld. The four properties backing onto this fi eld quotes such as ‘When life hands out lem- ian cancer, that it’s somehow ‘normal’ for ings are related to the share price. have all experienced damage to their fencing, plants and ons, squeeze out a smile’. You may feel men of a certain age to die from prostate The words ‘fi ercely’, ‘battling’, ‘fi ghting’, many other items as the wind blew lightened waste into just fi ne about sending that to someone cancer? ‘bravely’ and ‘victim’ should all be banned their property. in the throws of treatment, but I doubt Worse, is when we hear of those oppor- when used as a prefi x to the words can- Aside all the damage there is the mess which will probably very much if the recipient has much time tunists who have enthusiastically climbed cer. Instead, we should be looking to take a couple of days to clean up as the cindered embers have for this sort of utterly useless claptrap. on the cancer band wagon trumpeting empower patients. We need to recognise blown on top of roofs, into pools, furnishings everywhere... Just Instead of having a nice warm feeling that they can ‘cure cancer’ via everything that cancer is a social issue needing pro- because of someone’s momentary laziness and stupidity they about donating money, why aren’t we from oxygen, metabolic and magnetic found social changes. have created what could have been a serious situation. For- feeling another emotion, why aren’t we therapy, to eating shark cartilage. tunately, neighbours all pitched in which helped minimise the feeling ‘angry’? Why aren’t we question- What we are all missing here is a healthy Jill Campbell-Mackay, damage and nobody was hurt. ing why patients have to leave the coun- dose of good old fashioned anger. Anger Paphos Evelyn Judge, Paphos

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12 Opinion July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Daring new vision for an ancient city Nicosia’s old town could be recreated and redesigned as a re-unifi ed free zone

HE OLDEST and the projects including rehabilita- most valuable part of Comment tion of neighbourhoods, pe- the last divided capi- Hossein Sadri destrianisation and restora- Ttal city of Europe with tion projects were proposed thousands of monuments and the British Nicosia. The for the walled city as part of a is now under three different walled city with eleven bas- common heritage site for all legal and administrative au- tions and three gates was communities. In addition to A UN soldier points to the decaying houses in Nicosia’s buffer zone thorities. built as a closed castle. This residential and cultural ac- With Nicosia the fi rst di- gated city was fragmented tivities, the master plan in- area and implement the pe- and local, public-private into the most alive, valuable vided settlement on the is- into Greek and Turkish com- troduced artisans and tradi- destrianisation project for partnership oriented, inter- part of the island. It could land, yet also the subject of munities during the Ottoman tional shopping areas in the the walled city. They have nationally supported and bi- be the fi rst bi-communal Cyprus’ fi rst bi-communal period and British colonial heart of the walled city and also presented their propos- communal initiated adminis- settlement and the fi rst co- project as developed by the rule. However establishing green and open public areas als for the opening of new trative authority. habitation and co-operation municipalities of this city, the local administration au- in the bastion and gate ar- checkpoints in the city to the The physical shape of the centre. The project would could it now play a special thorities by both communi- eas. The plan concentrated community leaders. walled city as a fortifi ed cas- attract the attention of both role in the re-unifi cation of ties in 1958 was the fi rst step on the buffer zone as a “glu- While increasing the links tle, the limited access points local and international in- the island by hosting the fi rst in the legal division in Nico- ing” area especially around between the two divided to it, its historical value, vestors for its restoration re-unifi ed initiative? sia. After the inter-communal Ermou Street. parts of Nicosia walled city the organisation of spaces and revitalisation projects. The “Free Walled City” is violence of 1963, the city was While many of the planned and bringing life back to the around it and the accessibil- By opening up new employ- a proposal to establish the physically divided into two projects have been realised dead buffer zone area, are ity - car park and public use ment and business poten- fi rst free zone on the island parts by the “Green Line”. In over the last three decades, both positive initiatives, a opportunities - could be all tial, the “Free Nicosia Walled with the aim of developing 1974, this line was expanded the buffer zone area and sec- more holistic and integrated used as advantages in mak- City” project could revive the an effective economic, so- to become the “Buffer Zone” tions of Ermou Street could approach for this most his- ing Nicosia walled city a bi- island’s economy. cial, cultural and confi dence under the control of the Unit- not be refunctioned and torically and socio-cultural- communal free zone. It seems that opening up building project. ed Nations. opened for public use yet. ly valued part of the island By moving the checkpoints Nicosia is both politically and The multi-layered heritage In 1979 the bi-communal at- Recently, the two present could act as a catalyst for outside the walled city on technically easier than Varo- of the walled city remains tempts to create a common mayors of Nicosia, Mehmet re-conciliation and even re- both sides and establish- sha. It could also be more from the ancient Roman Le- master plan for old Nicosia Harmanci and Constanti- unifi cation of the country as ing a bi-communal initiative meaningful and effective. dra city-state, the Ptolemaic was started by Mustafa Ak- nos Yiorkadjis, have pressed a whole. Nicosia walled city to administrate the walled Lefkothea, the Middle Ages inci and Lellos Demetriades, ahead with their attempts could easily be turned into city, the project could be  Dr Hossein Sadri is an as- and Venetian fortifi ed Lefko- the two mayors of Nicosia. In to develop a revitalisation a “free zone” with controlled readily realised. The walled sociate professor of architec- sia, the Ottoman Lefkosha the master plan, numerous project for the buffer zone access from the both sides city could be transformed ture in northern Cyprus Why I can no longer support Tsipras

Comment I could not - and to be honest, I a Grexit. still cannot - make sense of his ne- Alas, to be fair to Tsipras, one George Iordanou gotiating tactics. Why adopt such should not rush to put the blame a confrontational rhetoric if the solely on him. What we witness is underlying agenda is to remain not Tsipras turning into Samaras, ON SATURDAY, a day before the in the eurozone? It only makes but rather, Tsipras trying to bal- referendum, I argued that I will sense to call your creditors ter- ance the irreconcilable double no longer be supporting Tsipras rorists, if you want to show them mandate that he received: namely, even though I was in favour of the the fi nger. If not, and irrespective less austerity and membership to NO vote. Having read the Greek of whether they act as terrorists the eurozone. The two, as Alex An- government’s latest proposals to or not, you should adopt a stance dreou argued, are mutually exclu- their creditors, as they were sub- that will eventually allow for an sive. mitted on Thursday night, I stick agreement. But the story does not end here. to my view. The moment of shock for me was Tsipras has not been elected as These are the fi ve reasons I gave when the FT leaked the emergen- an abstract political actor who that explain why I no longer sup- cy proposal that was submitted by would implement whatever was port Tsipras and his government. Greece right before it defaulted on demanded of him. Tsipras and his its IMF debt, on June 25. The pro- party represent the “radical left”. 1. He called people to vote on a posal accepted the very terms that Granted, their policies have been document that was no longer on the Greek people were called on to less radical and more social dem- the table. reject a week later. It was nothing ocratic, but whatever the case, 2. The consequences of either short of embarrassing to see a gov- they have an ideological axis that option were not clear and not ad- ernment concede defeat like that, should constrain (if not guide) equately discussed - thus weaken- showing their cards and making the type of policies that a radical ing his argument that a referen- obvious that membership to the It’s impossible to make sense of Alexis Tsipras’ negotiating tactics left party can rightfully pursue. dum was the democratic thing to eurozone would be pursued at all If the option was to sacrifi ce the do. costs. It was at that point that all anti-austerity commitment in or- 3. Tsipras and his offi cials were hope was lost. The outcome of the and access to information, nei- even more austerity measures der to stay in the eurozone, Tsipras promising what they could not de- referendum was, if not irrelevant, ther of which were available in the which will be more severe than should either resign or proceed liver: that a deal would be secured then of considerably diminished case of the Greek referendum. But before? Isn’t Tsipras going against to another referendum, this time and that the banks would reopen importance. in general, treating people like the democratic mandate that the avoiding the idiotic mistakes of within 48 hours - neither of which And here we are, at the end of the adults and asking them to own Greek people have generously giv- the last one. He should ask people materialised, as it turned out. week with the Greek government their choices is the way to go. en him on Sunday? to decide between the two mutu- 4. I predicted that he would ac- submitting a proposal for another If we accept Tsipras’ democrat- Not quite. Tsipras’ campaign- ally exclusive mandates. If, in the cept whatever is put in front of three years of austerity, with cuts ically-driven defence for the ref- ing leading to the referendum referendum, eurozone wins over him, a product of his grossly di- that will run deeper than those re- erendum, then we are faced with was based on the promise that anti-austerity, then the only route minished bargaining power, which jected by the Greek people with a paradox: if the Greek people he wouldn’t leave the eurozone. A left for a radical left wing candi- would be marketed to the Greek their NO vote. overwhelmingly opposed the de- strong NO would strengthen his date is to resign. people as a success. The idea of the referendum, by structive austerity politics that bargaining power, was the mantra 5. His failure would impede the the way, was not a bad one. More caused the humanitarian crisis in used. Naive as it may be, the Greek  Dr George Iordanou blogs momentum of leftist movements democracy is never a bad idea pro- Greece, then on what grounds is it people who supported it bought it. at iordanou.org and tweets @ across Europe. vided that there is a clear choice legitimate for Tsipras to propose Few were those who advocated for iordanou

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13 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Opinion Were we all bewitched? The schools, media and politicians all identifi ed the Junta with Hellenism. No wonder thousands of Greek Cypriots congratulated Sampson on July 15, 1974

junta in 1973 as ‘teddy-boys’. I be- lieve it was this identifi cation of Greece with the Junta that led the majority of Greek Cypriots to ap- Comment plaud the Junta’s invasion. The leading role in establishing GeorgeGe Koumoullis this monstrous identifi cation was played by the House of Representa- UST AS the Germans can- tives. The deputies of Enieon Party not rid themselves of the re- and Progressive Front - the nation- sponsibility for the start of alists - who were guided by Tassos JWorld War II and the creation Papadopoulos always referred to of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Mau- the Junta as the ‘national govern- thausen death camps by blaming ment’ while they never unequivo- it all on the paranoid Hitler, so we cally condemned EOKA B before cannot absolve ourselves for the 1974. Glafcos Clerides also bore a disaster that struck Cyprus in 1974 big responsibility because as presi- by putting the blame exclusively dent of the House he attended the on the Greek Junta and EOKA B. annual celebration every year of the The July 15 coup was carried “revolution of April 21” as the colo- out by the Junta with the help of nels used to call their coup which Tanks roll through Nicosia on the day of the coup July 15, 1974 EOKA B, but to pull it off it had to overthrew the elected government fi nd favourable conditions in Cy- in 1967. His presence encouraged society - perhaps through blind- egram of support.” This admission the land of loss. prus. Without the eager complic- respect for the Junta. ness, perhaps through callousness, epitomised our fall in 1974. The coup was no obstacle to ity of the media, the legislature, A very important part was also perhaps through servility, perhaps We now know that thousands of coupists pursuing a political ca- the teachers and a large section of played by school headmasters because of fi nancial gain. Whatev- clubs, organisations and “high- reer after 1974. Two ministers in the Greek Cypriot population the as well as the leaderships of the er the reasons, they betrayed their standing individuals” that sup- the Sampson government were Junta would not have been able to teaching unions OELMEK and mission. The damage they did was ported Makarios and had con- subsequently elected to parlia- take root in Cyprus and mount the POED. Our state school teachers incalculable as it paved the way demned the criminal activities of ment as DISY MPs, even though coup which caused the biggest ca- became the prey of the Junta, the for the Greek Cypriot acceptance EOKA B, sent telegrams of sup- participation in a coup govern- tastrophe for Hellenism since 1922. propaganda of which they skilfully of the “national salvation” of ’74 by port to Sampson. It is seems in- ment makes the participant com- Worse still, the thousands of con- channelled into the schools and the Junta-led National Guard. credible, but it is true. The shining plicit in the coup. The election of gratulatory telegrams sent to coup We all know about the resistance example however was that a min- these two men makes up the farce president Nicos Sampson, indicate to the coup. What we do not know, ister in Makarios’ government be- that continues to this day - while - as hurtful as this is - a popular ac- because nobody has conducted an came a Sampson minister. we described the coup as criminal ceptance of the coup. in-depth study on the matter, is The Cypriot people demolished we allow people that participated In the years that preceded the If you dared to the other side of the coin, the mass their standing and ethics. Admit- in this crime to occupy important coup the paranoia that whoever public support of the coup as was tedly, it is a very diffi cult event to public posts. opposed the Junta was an anti- criticise the policy exemplifi ed by the 15,000 telegrams explain. It seems the witch Kirki Aftermath: most probably future Hellene had been cultivated. In of support sent to Sampson in the passed over Cyprus on July 15, historians will conclude that the other words, the foreign-driven, space of a week. These telegrams 1974 and as the coup commenced Greek Cypriots of the second half criminal Junta was identifi ed of the ‘national represented a sizeable proportion at 8.25am waved her magic wand of the 20th century were schizo- with Greece, with the nation. If of the adult population. Unfortu- and transformed Makarios sup- phrenics. In the 1950s they fought you dared to criticise the policy of nately, discussion of this matter is porters into Junta pigs. The more for their freedom, whereas a cou- the ‘national government’ (as the government’ you a taboo as it is one of the darkest plausible explanation is the identi- ple of decades later they embraced Junta was referred to by the CyBC episodes of our history. fi cation of the Junta with Greece, and praised the tyranny of fascism. and the newspapers with very few Archbishop Makarios acknowl- mentioned above. As a result, many On July 14, 1974 they were, mostly, exceptions) you were labelled an were labelled an edged, with sadness, the existence Greek Cypriots chose to support Makarios followers, while the next extremist or a communist. of these telegrams. In an interview the Junta, that is, Greece rather day by magic (Kirki’s perhaps) It suffi ces to say that the most he gave to Italian journalist Oriana than the anti-Hellene Makarios. they were transformed into slimy ‘serious’ and ‘authoritative’ news- extremist or a Fallaci in the autumn of 1974 he They believed the declarations of supporters of the Junta mafi a. paper of the time, Eleftheria, dis- said: “If Sampson stayed in power the coup government that Cyprus missed the Athens Polytechnic communist for another week, even my sister would be the promised land and  George Koumoullis is an econo- students who rose up against the Maria would have sent him a tel- not what it ended up becoming - mist and social scientist Pensioned off at 33? Of course Greece is bankrupt

THE MOST impressive thing year-olds?” own Glafkos Hadjipetrou, but I lenders know about all this bet- about all the things written and Comment Nothing else need be said for any was wrong. I was really surprised ter than us. Do you think they are said by our political demagogues rational person to understand to hear this man angrily describ- fools and we can take them for a and naive journalists, who are Loucas Charalambous why Greece is bankrupt. How- ing the scandalous way in which ride?” outraged over the allegedly ‘harsh ever I add here a few fi gures that assorted governments handled I remembered that what made and cynical’ treatment of Greece shock. According to offi cial data pensions. the biggest impression on me, af- by its international lenders, is the rity organisation) and had to use the total number of pensioners in He described how a pensioner ter seeing television pictures out- complete absence of any mention two buses and the train every day Greece was 2,653,198. The work- with just 15 years of work contri- side the Greek banks of people of the reasons for the country’s to go to work. force is estimated to be three mil- butions by resorting to a variety waiting to collect their pensions collapse. When I asked her something re- lion, which would roughly mean of tricks (lawful of course), also were not the long queues but the None of them has ever said garding the transport problems, that for every working person involving the state’s ‘auxiliary fact that the elderly were the mi- a word about what caused the her answer left me speechless. She there is a pensioner. funds’, could be paid the same nority. Most of the pensioners in country to go bankrupt. Instead said: “Leave it, in 17 months I will In January, the state paid some pension as someone who had the queues were in the 40 to 55 age they all take swipes at the easy be pensioned off and my problem €2.6 billion in pensions. In other worked for 40 years. group. and popular targets - Greece’s EU will be solved.” Unable to hide my words, it pays in pensions €30 bil- Kalakos also revealed that one This is the Greece that has gone partners and international lend- surprise, I said: “17 months... but lion a year, which is a third of an- year orders had been given to in- bankrupt. If, to the number of ers. For those who do not know how old are you?” She replied nual state revenue. It should also crease all pensions by 15 per cent pensioners we also add the public why Greece is in the mess it is in that she was 30-and-a-half “but in be noted that there are 93 differ- the following year. He wrote back employees that were close to one today, the following says it all. a year-and-a-half I will have com- ent pension funds. The situation saying that the fund could not af- million before the cuts, we realise In 1999 some of my relatives pleted 15 years in the job and will is beyond a joke. ford it and proposed that this un- the state is paying wages and pen- from Athens visited Cyprus. be entitled to a pension.” Last week, one of the members justifi ed rise was not given. The sions to half the adult population Among them was a young woman I just about managed to ask her of a TV panel on Greece’s state minister’s response was that the of the country. This is Greece’s with her husband, and one day I one more question. “So if you at channel ERT was a Nikos Ka- increase would be given because ‘dignity’ that the lenders, suppos- heard her describe the diffi culty 33 start receiving a pension who lakos who was the president of “elections are coming.” Kalakos edly, do not respect and causes she experienced every day getting will be working and making con- the public employees’ provident then turned to the rest of panel- our own political and journalistic to work in Piraeus. She worked at tributions to the state so you can fund. I expected to hear the kind lists and, displaying both anger clowns to beat their breasts with IKA (Greece’s largest social secu- be paid every month? Eighty- of militant views uttered by our and sadness, told them: “Our rage.

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14 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Opinion

One way to look at the crisis in Greece and the EU is as an arm-wrestling match over political economy

“TAX the rich, feed the poor, ‘til there are no rich no more. I’d love to change uotes the world, but I don’t know what to do. So I’ll leave it up to you.” Those pessimistic lyrics sung by the British band Ten Years After came from the cell phone ring of a Greek of the education offi cial I was interviewing in 2011. (The offi cial took the call, and later we got back to the interview.) The moment has stuck in my head for week four years because at the time - and certainly now - those lyrics seemed to “The most dangerous an- “Labour will now, be- characterise the dominant Greek po- imal I have encountered cause of Ed Miliband, sition toward politics, economics and is a male human being be in a disaster zone for the country’s ongoing fi nancial crisis. who has had rather too a long time. There is no Many Greeks feel this way about in- equality and socialism, and identify as much to drink, doesn’t chance of us winning Marxists - though certainly not all. speak your language and the next election if the For that reason, one way to look at has a loaded gun in his party carries on as it has the crisis playing out between Euro- hands.” been.” pean politicians, fi nance ministers and technocrats is as an arm-wrestling TV naturalist Sir David TV’s Lord (Melvyn) match over what many academics Attenborough Bragg castigates the call “political economy” - the study of (below) former Labour leader how economic theory affects politics. Greeks - like citizens of some other European countries - have a schizo- “Does an archbishop phrenic approach to their own political using water from the economy. (We can thank the Greeks for river Jordan in the Lily the characterisation: the Greek word Font make you more “schizo” means “split” and “phrene” means “mind.”) christened than any old The crisis has shed light on the fact vicar using tap water in a that European citizens - and Greeks stone trough?” specifi cally - are divided between those Ian McMullen, of Kent, in who favour a more socialist long-term political and economic order, and those Protestors hold Greek fl ags during a pro-Euro rally in Athens a letter to the Daily Tel- who prefer a more neoliberal one. egraph on the baptism of The new Greek fi nance minister, Eu- Princess Charlotte clid Tsakalotos, is an Oxford-educated Marxist academic economist. But some “Sorry, can’t watch this Greeks calls him a “champagne social- ist” because he owns several houses “The thing that people tennis match - Maria Can Greece don’t think about is that Sharapova sounds like and lives the life of a European elite that they and he - as an early Syriza member all men are women. All she is in pain. Must be - despise. His predecessor, Yanis Varou- men lived in women for hideous to play against fakis, also identifi es as Marxist and has spoken about how much he would like nine months of their lives that level of noise.” to replace capitalism. so they are women, but TV’s Lorraine Kelly on At the same time, 80 per cent of Greeks find its inner many men just can’t the Wimbledon player’s want to remain part of the EU. They seem to accept that.” “constant screeching.” want Greece to have access to capital markets and foreign investment. They Jane McAdam Freud, are fed up with life in a sluggish, collec- daughter of Lucian Freud “I shall wear the credi- tivist economy. EU payments exceed tors’ loathing with pride.” what Greece pays into the EU, and have “Beards have charmed Greece’s fi rebrand improved infrastructure throughout capitalist? the country in the past 30 years. But us for long enough, I former fi nance minister many Greeks aren’t sure if the Troika can’t but feel. Time for all Yanis Varoufakis (comprised of the European Commis- those furry-faced gentle- sion, the International Monetary Fund opposed National Socialism and after men to start shaving. Or and the European Central Bank) is out Comment World War Two, his ideas were funda- am I wrong?” to help them or exploit them. Paul Glader mental to the rapid rebuilding of West Many highly educated Greeks believe Germany that became known as the Stephen Fry that three decades of socialist leaders Wirtschaftswunder or “economic mira- have dented the country’s economic Finance Ministry and Brussels has cle.” “I believe about half of it - optimism. “I think Papandreou [An- bled the patient, not cured the dis- Both Eucken and Hayek believed in and that is pushing it.” dreas, a socialist prime minister in the ease,” they wrote in Nation. the importance of individual liberty, the 1980s and 1990s] started the country on But the Keynesian crowd’s critique power of free markets, competition and Former Rolling Stone a downhill path with his policies,” my doesn’t solve the underlying problems the idea that government should have Bill Wyman on his band father-in-law, Evangelos Mavrogeorgis, in the Greek economy, including an ex- limits. But they differed on the role of mate Keith Richards’ a member of the roughly three million tremely bloated public service sector the state and the role of religion. award-winning 2010 person Greek diaspora in the United that employs one in four Greeks, pen- Eucken argued that human dignity States, told me this week. Papandreou sion plans more generous than other goes hand in hand with competitive memoir formed the leftist Pan-Hellenic Social- developed countries and too many markets and a smart government help- ist Movement in 1974, created generous state monopolies. (The Greek word ing to create ordered liberty. He also “The internet is a frontier. “My solution for the crisis social welfare programmes fi nanced by “monos” means “alone.”) believed pure capitalism doesn’t have Our children are roam- with the Greeks - let’s massive public borrowing and was stri- Few modern neoliberal economists enough concern for the poor. He be- dently anti-American. seem to be paying attention to Greece. lieved religion in society helped provide ing around the Wild West pay them for the Marbles Mavrogeorgis believes that life im- But their ideological comrades from that social conscience. That thinking and nobody is policing as they have now clearly proved when Greece joined the EU, Wall Street and in government seem to would gain traction in Greece, where it.” lost them.” even though the other member states ignore the more vocal Keynesians. A re- key leaders of the Orthodox Church - Former Catatonia singer Actor John Cleese were willing to overlook Greece’s un- port from JP Morgan last month notes arguably the most important cultural derlying fi scal problems. He thinks the the “Greek crisis does not pose an exis- and economic institution in the coun- Cerys Matthews (below) (above), on the Elgin country should comply with needed re- tential threat to either the euro system try - expressed support for remaining Marbles forms, but that the EU should also give or to Europe’s fi nancial system.” And in the EU. another bailout and, possibly, debt re- Germany’s fi nance minister, Wolfgang The positions advocated by the ordo- “The Women’s World lief. “To go back to the drachma, the Schäuble, has been publicly frustrated liberal school provide the best hope to country would be in distress,” he said. with Syriza’s antics and shown a will- save Greece, and should be taken seri- Cup has proved that the The debate between “two Greeces” ingness to let Greece exit the euro. ously by other countries wrestling with constant spitting of male mirrors a parallel divide within eco- Modern history suggests Greece political economy schizophrenia. footballers is both a dis- nomics, pitting the neoliberal direction would be much wiser to follow Ger- Greece should agree to a more neo- gusting and unnecessary of the Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek many’s “ordoliberal” approach that liberal path and the European credi- habit. I wonder if the men and Milton Friedman tradition against advocates free markets, guided by a tors, in return, should create a pro- the modern neo-Keynesians such as strong, lean government and the social gramme of graduated debt relief over habitually spit on their Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty and conscience of religion to maximise the the next 10 to 20 years to get a more carpets at home?” Paul Krugman. potential of an economy while also pre- competitive Greece on its feet. Brian Rushton, of French author and economist Piketty venting it from destroying itself. Stourport-on-Severn, and four other left-leaning economists German Chancellor Angela Merkel  Paul Glader is director of the Mc- have argued for the Troika to lighten and Bundesbank President Jens Wei- Candlish Phillips Journalism Insti- Worcestershire, in a up on austerity programmes in Greece dman adhere to the ideas of German tute and associate professor of jour- letter to the Daily Tel- and to loosen the purse strings. “The economist Walter Eucken, who was nalism at The King’s College in New egraph medicine prescribed by the German the father of “ordoliberalism.” Eucken York City

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IT IS extremely diffi cult to believe a mystery which was never solved. that the chief of our bungling se- We now know that his reason for cret service KYP Andreas Pentaras doing this was related to KYP tendered his resignation because it eavesdropping. He had been was revealed that the service had tipped off that the agency, while bought phone surveillance tech- using its surveillance technology nology. It is a bit like the National “solely within the national secu- Guard chief resigning because he rity remit of KYP” had obtained had purchased machine guns for information about his personal the army. fi nancial dealings and that it would Surveillance tech is the tool of leak this to the press. He therefore the state security business and decided to give out this informa- without it Kypites would be play- tion himself and limit the damage ing solitaire and watching porn on that could have been done by his their PCs all day. There is no state enemies, if they got hold of it. security service in the world that Pentaras may have had nothing to does not use surveillance technol- do with this, but Averof held him ogy and software. responsible and seized the op- The Italian company from which portunity to get his own back last KYP bought the ‘platform suite’ week. Good for him even though that intercepts communications it should be said that the Kypite and data on smart phones and chief may have been following tablets has several countries on its orders from higher up. list of customers, according to the information publicised by hackers last Sunday, so it wasn’t as if KYP was doing something unheard of. This being Kyproulla in which there is not much respect for rule and regulations, there may have been a little monitoring of com- munications, unrelated to state security, but this was standard practice and everyone knows it Is DIKO leader Nicolas Papadopoulos being outmanoeuvred by his president? goes on. During the Papadopou- los presidency, with referendum the central committee ignored his the law. What was interesting was paranoia at its peak, the phones of invitation to attend a meeting on that only women deputies publicly PHIL has been plugging a three- all suspected traitors were tapped. Wednesday, while rumours were condemned the sexist, bullying volume publication on “Great KYP even knew what extra top- rife that former leader Marios Ga- behaviour of the Limassol deputy. Cypriots” which includes 150 pings Alvaro de Soto’s associates royian was planning the creation Male deputies stayed quiet, prob- “pioneers in politics, economics, had on their pizza. of a new party. ably fearing they would be thought business, the arts, culture, science, So it is impossible to believe that Several deputies are set to fol- of as gay or effeminate if they took education, sports.” The standards the chief Kypite resigned because low the uninspiring motor-mouth a stand against a sexist bully. set by Phil could not have been he bought surveillance tech, espe- But if Kypites have no qualms Marios who has the support of very high if it found 150 Cypriots cially as the purchase would have about eavesdropping on the con- the scheming Prez Nik. This sup- YOU CAN always rely on our load- who touched greatness. Believe it been authorised by the Prez Nik versations of the leader of the pro- port was shown in practice when ed countrymen to show off their or not, there was also a Turkish himself. government party and monitoring Nik appointed the retired public wealth given half an opportunity Cypriot among the greats. his electronic communications, no parasite Giorgos Papageorgiou - a to do so. Mega-wealthy business- What was strange was that the AFTER the story broke, Pentaras legal framework on “the democrat- Garoyian man - as president of the man Lykourgos Kyprianou, who is books were sponsored by OPAP issued the obligatory statement on ic control of intelligence services” Public Service Commission, which wanted in the US for a share scam and the Bank of Cyprus. It seemed Tuesday, saying that KYP did not will stop them. decides promotions and appoint- involving hundreds of millions of weird that a hard-nosed Yank comment on matters touching on ment in the public service. bucks, seized the opportunity pro- businessman like Wilbur Ross, the national security. THE TWO amigos really pissed off With his man in a position with big vided by his daughter’s wedding to vice-chairman, would waste the This turned out to be a lie because the Cyprob negativity salesmen on rusfetological powers, Garoyian’s fl ash his cash. bank’s money to sponsor such a the next day the agency did com- Wednesday when they appeared be- drive to set up a new party were Exclusive pictures of the wedding pointless, vanity publication from ment, saying that “this technology fore businessmen from both com- given a big boost. Now that he has were posted on a gossip website which the bank had absolutely is used solely within the national munities to give their shared vision the power to offer rusfeti, he will named ilovestyle.com and showed nothing to gain. The sponsorship, security remit of KYP and the need about the many benefi ts for the be able to attract many principled the proud father, in a smoking worth tens of thousands of euros and importance of maintaining a re- economy after a settlement. Dikheads to a new party. jacket and bow-tie taking his girl to had been sanctioned before the liable and operational intelligence Never before in the antagonistic church. The car that drove her to arrival of Ross by the happy bunny service....” It also said it “under- history of the Cyprob have the lead- SPEAKING of Garoyian, he con- church was a shiny black convert- former chairman, a great Cypriot, stands and fully respects the need ers of the two communities been tinues to take money from the ible Rolls Royce. who scandalously was not included for transparency and accountabil- transmitting the same message. state under false pretences, a There were aerial photos of the in the book. And neither was ity,” which it did not a day earlier. This unity of purpose got the vitri- disgraceful practice which was grounds of the wanted man’s pa- Lykourgos despite having pulled KYP, the statement said, had on olic juices of the opposition leaders recently censured in the Audi- latial residence in Tseri (said to be off one of the biggest share scams its own initiative submitted to the fl owing. They all issued nasty an- tor-General’s annual report. The the biggest house in Kyproulla) in in US history. House a legal framework which nouncements attacking poor old money-grabbing Garoyian takes which the wedding party was held. would govern the agency’s opera- Nik. a total of €4,000 per month for One photo showed the glass stands tion and “incorporates best interna- “The campaign undertaken by Mr secretarial services - a thousand on which huge balls made of white IT IS NOT the policy of this estab- tional practices in the fi eld of dem- Anastasiades and DISY, to bribe as deputy and three thousand as roses were arranged, while in the lishment to respond to criticism, ocratic control of the intelligence the people with the hope of eco- a former president of the House. background the fugitive business- because it is of the philosophy that service.” So why, if everything was nomic benefi ts after the solution Considering he hardly ever uses man’s Tseri version of the palace of if you dish it out you have to take hunky dory, did the guy tender his of the Cyprus problem constitutes secretarial services this is taking Versailles was majestically lit up so it. However, because we noticed resignation which was announced political vileness, insult and provo- money from the state under false we could all get an idea of its huge- some readers of the online version yesterday? cation,” said DIKO. pretences. Even more scandalous ness. declared that reading the Coffee- And why had prez Nik accepted Two parties also used haircut met- is that this four grand he pockets The close-ups of the tables - ar- shop ruined their Sunday we have it? Did he not know that the surveil- aphors to make a point. Diko said: every month is not taxed because ranged around the swimming pool thought they may be interested in lance equipment, the purchase of “Mr Anastasiades administered a it is for the imaginary payment of over which there were wooden our new service which is designed which he had authorised, might be haircut to the deposits of citizens. secretarial services. decking bridges in the shape of a to help these people avoid the un- used for tapping communications? We will not allow him to administer cross with railings decorated with necessary stress of having to read a haircut to the future of Cypriot POLICE have almost completed fl owers – were an exhibition of opu- it. OUR ESTABLISHMENT has Hellenism.” The Alliance of Lillikas the investigations into the incident lence and bling, of the type you see They could submit an application, learned that DISY chief Averof believed “the haircut of deposits reported by AKEL deputy Irini in old movies featuring 19th centu- requesting that their email address Neophytou may have pushed for cannot be fi xed with the haircut of Charlambidou, who accused her ry dinners of royalty. Even the lou- is blocked from accessing the Cof- Pentaras’ resignation, because he the Cyprus Republic.” DISY colleague Andreas Kyprian- koumi on each plate was wrapped feeshop and we would be happy to wanted to settle an old score with This childish, relentless and mis- ou of trying to take a photograph in expensive lace, while there were oblige, because our establishment the former National Guard offi cer. erable negativity could certainly do up her skirt. What was there to in- crystal glasses, gold-rimmed wine does not want to be blamed for ru- People may remember that a few with a haircut, preferably a number vestigate? Kyprianou admitted to glasses, an array of shiny silver cut- ining anyone’s Sunday. If readers of months ago, completely out of the one. trying to take the picture because, lery etc. the newspaper version feel the same blue, Averof issued a statement as he said, Charalambidou was sit- Lykourgos did not spare any ex- way, they should also submit an ap- listing his assets and his bank POOR old Ethnarch Junior, apart ting ‘indecently’ on a table. pense for his girl’s bling wedding plication and we will ban them from loans. What possessed him to do from suffering the anguish caused Kyrpianou had reportedly turned and he wanted everyone to know buying the paper, by sending their such a thing, as there had been no by the progress in the Cyprob talks aggressive after Charalambidou about it, including the Yanks whom picture to all periptero owners in- press reports about his personal also has the stress of split DIKO tried to photograph him smoking he defrauded. If you’ve got fl aunt it, structing them not to sell the Sun- fi nances or business dealings, was to deal with. Half the Dikheads of in the legislature, which is against they say. day Mail to them. 16 SUNDAY MAIL Reportage Inside Thailand’s traffickingtr crackdown Roti seller’s story leads to big break in investigation as experts warn ‘big fi sh’ at large, investigation should widen report Amy Sawitta Lefevre and A Rohingya child who recently arrived Andrew RC Marshall by boat having his picture taken HELTERING in the grant smuggling and abuses the government’s own anti- for identifi cation backroom of a provin- against migrants, which may traffi cking report. purposes at a shelter cial Thai police sta- include human traffi cking, in Aek said he could not “give in Indonesia Stion is a 35-year-old southern Thailand,” Adams an opinion on this. But I can street vendor who triggered added. say that since the June 2014 a human traffi cking investi- Police Major General (US anti-traffi cking) report, gation that has reverberated Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, who everyone woke up and has across Southeast Asia. led early anti-traffi cking ef- taken this issue seriously.” He is a Rohingya Muslim, a forts in southern Thailand The Thai crackdown has mostly stateless group from was told his investigation disrupted the region’s traf- western Myanmar. He had was damaging Thailand’s im- fi cking infrastructure for now scraped a living for the past age, though he declined to be but some experts question decade selling fried bread, or more specifi c about who was how lasting that will be. roti, from a push cart in Na- telling him that. The investigation has khon Si Thammarat, a city in “No one cared,” he said. “made traffi cking in Thailand southern Thailand. Thatchai felt otherwise. “If a bit harder,” said Steve Gal- Then his nephew fell into we want to eradicate human ster, director of FREELAND the hands of murderous hu- traffi cking, we can’t hide it. Foundation, an anti-traffi ck- man traffi ckers. We must put it on the table.” ing NGO that has given tech- The roti seller’s desperate Deputy National Police nical help to the Thai police. bid to save him ultimately Chief Aek Angsannanont, “The question remains, how- led to the discovery of scores who is in charge of the anti- ever, if anyone higher up the of jungle graves on the Thai- traffi cking crackdown in chain... will be investigated.” Malaysia border in May and Thailand, said the military If that doesn’t happen, Gal- sparked a regional crisis over government that came to ster warned, “traffi cking in boatloads of unwanted Ro- power in a coup last May this region will remain a big hingya. took the issue seriously. problem.” Now the roti seller fears “I don’t know what the pol- The traffi cking syndicates traffi ckers could target him. icy was of previous adminis- have particularly preyed on His new home in the police trations,” Aek said. “I took the Rohingya, who are fl ee- The camps along the jun- cargoes ashore so they sim- Chamat, deputy commander station is a primitive form of up this traffi cking issue un- ing poverty and oppression gly border between Thailand ply abandoned them at sea. of Nakhon Si Thammarat witness protection. (Reuters der the military government in Myanmar. The number of and Malaysia had been ex- The boats eventually washed Provincial Police, admitted has withheld his identity at and the military government people leaving on boats from posed as early as 2013. But ashore in Malaysia, Indonesia they were “not that interest- the request of police.) has given this issue impor- Myanmar and Bangladesh they became impossible to and Myanmar, their passen- ed” in the complaint at the His predicament raises tance.” has nearly tripled in three ignore in May after police gers sick and thirsty. At least time. questions about the long- After last year’s coup, Thai- years - from 21,000 in 2012 from both countries found 1,200 remained stranded at That was about to change. term effectiveness of Thai- sea, according to a June 16 On January 11, just before land’s crackdown on resilient United Nations report. dawn, Anuchon’s men inter- and lucrative traffi cking syn- The roti seller, who Reu- cepted fi ve trucks at a rou- dicates. Witnesses have been ters interviewed at the police tine checkpoint in Nakhon Si intimidated, police say. Key Workmen walking station, said his nephew fell Thammarat. Hidden inside suspects are represented by among coffi ns in into the hands of traffi ckers were 98 tired and malnour- lawyers with powerful politi- a mass grave of during last year’s smuggling ished Rohingya. One woman cal connections. And while 72 Rohingya remains season. had suffocated to death; two people have been arrested, Last October, he said his more later died in hospital. police are still seeking many at a traffi ckers family paid 95,000 baht Police interviews with the others. camp in Malaysia ($2,800) in ransom money to Thailand’s investigation free their 25-year-old neph- comes ahead of a new US ew from a camp in southern report card on its anti-traf- Thailand. Traffi ckers typical- The roti seller, who R fi cking efforts, due out in ly held boat people for ran- mid-July. Police spearhead- som and often tortured them ing the campaign on the until their relatives, who had at the police station, s ground told Reuters they settled in Thailand or Malay- encountered offi cial indiffer- sia, paid up. Some of those into the hands of traf ence about the evidence they whose relatives couldn’t pay had gathered on traffi cking were left to die in the camps. networks - even after the US Police say some were sold year’s smugg State Department identifi ed into slavery on Thai fi shing Thailand in June 2014 as one boats. of the world’s worst traffi ck- Despite getting the ran- survivors confi rmed what ing offenders. som payment, the roti seller the roti seller had described: Katrina Adams, a spokes- said the alleged operator of “That there was buying and woman for the State Depart- the camp his nephew was selling of humans,” Anuchon ment’s East Asia and Pacifi c in, a Myanmar man known said. Bureau, said this year’s re- as Anwar, refused to release He said he sought help from port only covers the year to his nephew. It was unclear to the anti-traffi cking group March 2015, and thus would land’s military junta prom- to 58,000 last year, accord- the graves of 175 suspected him why. FREELAND, which analysed not include Thailand’s latest ised what it called a “zero ing to The Arakan Project, migrants at dozens of hastily So, two months later in De- data from mobile phones crackdown. tolerance” policy to human a Rohingya advocacy group vacated traffi cking camps on cember, the roti seller fi led seized from two of the truck “We welcome Thailand’s traffi cking. Yet Thailand con- based in Bangkok. Most of both sides of the border. a complaint against Anwar drivers. law enforcement actions, in- victed fewer perpetrators of them came ashore in Thai- The ensuing crackdown with local police. “They didn’t This helped Anuchon map cluding the arrests of dozens human traffi cking last year land and were moved to traf- meant traffi ckers could no take me seriously,” he said. out a transportation network believed to be involved in mi- than in 2013, according to fi cking camps. longer bring their human Police Colonel Anuchon that led from Ranong, a port 17 • July 12, 2015

Left:Thai Police General Aek Angsananont Below: Ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar waving as they are transported by a wooden boat to a Inside Thailand’s traffickingrafficking temporary shelter crackdown

witness who had survived 10 covered along Thailand’s surrendered to police on June Moreover, the scores of ar- months at the same camp as border, Police Major General 2. “I’m a lawyer and I have the rests so far may only rep- the nephew. At the request Thatchai replied: “Absolute- right to be a member of a po- resent a fraction of those of police, Reuters has agreed ly”. litical party,” Pakkapon said. involved, police say. “There not to reveal the survivor’s After Anwar came other “My job as a lawyer is to look could be hundreds of people name for safety reasons. big-name arrests. Patchuban after the accused.” involved, including many of- The Rohingya survivor said Angchotipan - a wealthy busi- Manus denies all charges, fi cials,” Thatchai said. Anwar, the alleged camp op- nessman from Satun prov- which include human traf- And despite the investiga- erator, had ordered the neph- ince known as Ko Tor or ‘Big fi cking, holding people for tion and crackdown that ew killed. On April 28, police Brother Tor’ - gave himself up ransom and hiding corpses. began in late April, the traf- grabbed Anwar after staking at a Bangkok police station Manus previously headed fi ckers’ fi nances seem largely out his house and took him on May 18. Patchuban, the an operation to intercept intact. The United Nations to Nakhon Si Thammarat’s former chairman of Satun’s migrants in the Andaman estimates people-smuggling main police station. provincial administration, has Sea for the Internal Security across the Bay of Bengal has The roti seller was already been charged with a range of Operations Command, Thai- generated about $250 million city on the Andaman Sea, to line was cut. at the station, where earlier offences, including human land’s powerful, military-run since 2012. Thailand has so jungle camps on the Malay- Still, Anuchon did not think that day he had recounted traffi cking, holding people for equivalent to the US Depart- far seized assets worth only sian border, an overnight’s he had enough evidence to how he had tried to tell po- ransom and detention lead- ment of Homeland Security. $3.5 million. drive away. He concluded that convince his superiors about lice in four different cities ing to bodily harm. “If Manas really is involved in Aek said Thai authorities the malnourished Rohingya the growing scale and sophis- about his nephew’s plight. Patchuban was unavailable traffi cking, he won’t escape “only froze assets of those we and the roti seller’s nephew tication of the traffi cking net- Anwar, fl anked by policemen, for comment. Fighting his it and will have to accept the suspected of wrong-doing”. were in thrall to the same works. “We did not dare talk walked past him in a corridor. case in court will be Wirat Ka- truth,” Pakkapon said. The roti seller dares not syndicate. Bank transfer slips to Bangkok because our evi- “I wanted to hit him for what layasiri, the chief legal advisor The trials could be lengthy leave his new home in the from the roti seller showed he dence was insuffi cient. If our he did to my nephew,” the roti of Thailand’s Democrat Party, and convictions are far from provincial police station. He had paid the money to sus- information was wrong, we seller said. which has close links to the certain, police said. recently stopped praying at pected syndicate members. would have lost face with our Anwar, 40, also known as military and royalist estab- On June 16, three men were a nearby mosque after he Anuchon’s discovery, how- bosses.” Soe Naing from Myanmar’s lishment. Wirat is also repre- arrested for intimidating a heard that some men had ever, was too late to save the Yet one Thai police unit was Rakhine State, is himself a senting another key suspect, witness not to testify in the turned up to look for him roti seller’s nephew. well-placed to help moni- Rohingya. During an hour- Anas Hajeemasae, who police trials. Other witnesses have there. On January 27, camp tor the Ranong-based syn- long interview at the police describe as Patchuban’s right been threatened by “subordi- Many known traffi ckers re- guards called the roti seller dicates, including the one station, Anwar insisted he hand man. nates” of the accused against mained at large, which was and placed a phone to his that had held the roti seller’s was not a human traffi cker, Pakkapon Sirirat, another testifying, said Aek, the depu- why he hoped to be relocated nephew captive. The Port but a rubber tapper - and a Democrat Party member, is ty national police chief. “The to another country after the Intelligence Unit in Ranong roti seller himself. representing Lieutenant Gen- suspects are powerful peo- trial. “Otherwise,” he said, “I was set up in 2013, with help “They say I killed. I am not eral Manus Kongpan, who ple,” he said. will be killed.” Reuters interviewed from the United Nations Of- worried. I did not do anything fi ce on Drugs and Crime (UN- and I don’t know anything ODC), to gather intelligence about this,” Anwar said. “I’m said his nephew fell on people smuggling, human rich enough selling roti.” traffi cking and transnational Three days after Anwar’s ar- ffickers during last crime. But, lacking the go- rest, the Rohingya survivor ahead from Bangkok, it re- led police to the camp a few mained inactive. hundred metres from the Ma- ling season The unit is “the right solu- laysian border on a hill local tion in the right place,” said people called Khao Kaew or Jeremy Douglas, the UN- ‘Glass Mountain’. Police be- nephew’s face. The roti seller ODC’s Regional Representa- lieved it had been hurriedly wept as he described what tive in Southeast Asia and the evacuated just days before. happened next. The traffi ck- Pacifi c. “It has not become They discovered shallow ers, he said, had found out he fully operational and it needs graves marked with bamboo had gone to the authorities. a (Thai) leadership push to sticks. Anuchon confi rmed the roti get going.” A sombre mood descended seller’s story. Aek, the deputy national as police and rescue volun- “They’re going to kill me,” police chief, declined to com- teers unearthed 26 corpses his nephew said. “What did ment about the status of the on May 1. Some were shroud- you do?” unit. ed in cloth or simple bamboo The roti seller heard the After intercepting the truck mats. Others were little more phone drop and his nephew convoy, Col. Anuchon en- than skeletons. screaming. Then a voice said, listed the roti seller’s help in When asked if there were “He’s dead already”, and the tracking down a Rohingya more graves yet to be dis- 18 July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Lifestyle

From going commando to fi nding the perfect white dress - and why the fash pack have given up on lipstick, Karen Dacre brings us the lowdown on how to be haute Keeping her cool: Anna Wintour Giambattista Valli’s white dress of the week

Lily-Rose Depp (right) and actress Lily Collins present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld. Below: fresh faced model Amyeline Valade (left) and a posh picnic

1. La Wintour keeps her cool Short of stripping down Ten hot tips from to their diamond-studded smalls, guests at Raf Si- mons’s Dior show on Mon- day did everything possible to keep cool. One attendee was seen frantically towel- ling down with a wet-wipe the Parisian f’row while another gent declared his bald patch hot enough to the Chanel show. Accompa- 4. Haute heat fry an egg on. Not Anna Win- nied by her mother Vanessa While the French appear to tour. While her fellow guests Paradis, a relative goddess adapt to the heat simply by - fans fl apping furiously - de- and a lifelong ambassador switching their signature arrived at the Dior show look- clared themselves “melting” of the Parisian brand, dinky white cotton shirts for linen ing as fresh faced as the day and peered through beads Depp wore a neat black dress versions (quelle surprise), she was born. And pity those of sweat at the heavy-duty from Chanel’s couture col- Brits tend to make a beau dé- who sat opposite her. winter coats and capes that lection along with a frosting sordre out of haute weather were paraded before them, of diamonds. The duo joined dressing - a fact that must 9. Glastonture rocks American Vogue’s awe-inspir- Julianne Moore, Kristen surely be blamed on some There was a whiff of Worthy ing editor-in-chief remained Stewart and Jemima Kirke pretty dodgy preparation Farm in the air on Sunday unfl ustered. Some wondered in a game of blackjack while and the totally untrustwor- night when Donatella Versace if she had been gifted with a the show played out around thy iPhone weather app. But unveiled a collection which Prada ice-pack to sit on for them. Nice work if you can they’re a thoroughly resilient offered fl ower power to the the occasion. Others are con- get it. bunch. super rich. Drawing on a Six- vinced that Wintour (the clue In order to cope with ris- ties vibe for peace and love is in the name) has her own inging mercury, some fashion - albeit with a stinking great microclimate. editorsedito re-wore the same slip price tag - the Italian tour de dressdress day after day (don’t tell force showcased fl oral head- 2. Comfort versus couture thethe French,F it’s surely a pun- bands and bellsleeve chiffon Sandals, espadrilles and ishableishab offence) while oth- dresses. We obviously hope trainers may remain the shoeshoe ersers ddonned straw trilbys and Donatella’s new found inter- of choice for the sensiblesible boughtboug emergency fl ip fl ops est in all things Michael Eavis couture attendee who fi nndsds toto ststay cool. Raf Simons also means we’ll see her sashaying herself dashing from f’rowrow scoredscore extra points by slip- Ralph and Russo client with- the charge while at Chanel, into Shangri-La and watch- to cab queue to hot Metroetro pingping a fan in with the Dior out a haute couture gown, a confection of ivory feather ing the sun come up from the carriage. But it’s a differentrent showshow notes. which means attending the trimmed A-line evening gowns Stone Circle next summer. story for the street style brbri-i- British brand’s biannual cou- prevailed. Equally popular on Just imagine. gade. It seems whatever the 5.5. Go commando ture shows is for many a com- the front-row namely because weather, or length of cab NeverNeve mind worrying if your petitive sport. Rumour has it of their light-refl ective quali- 10. Picnics get posh queue, a heel is the only sshoehoe pantspant are visible through your that the most shrewd R&R ties, the little white dress When it comes to throwing worth peacocking in. AndAnd sweat-soakedswea slip dress (oh, clients text designer Tamara came in lightweight silk and the perfect summer picnic, now Star blogger Chiara Fer-Fer- thethe glamourg of the fashions), Ralph as soon as they spot the lace. But it is Giambattista the French have got there ragni, of The Blonde Salad,alad, next summer we’ll be dealing dress of their dreams in order Valli, the designer whose cou- fi rst. Without a sweaty snack has seriously upped the anantiti withwith a far more challenging to ensure that the one-off ture gowns require a team of egg or watery tub of tzatziki after daring to attend the issueissue as knickers are removed creation ends up in their own ruffl ers to travel with them, in sight, Louis Vuitton cel- Dior greenhouse (I mmeanean fromfrom the agenda altogether. A personal collection. Sources who treated us to the white ebrated the opening of its show venue) wearing a pairair of ratherrathe puzzling affection for also suggest customers will dress of the week. new “Galerie” with a perfect PVC boots from the brand’snd’s tabardtabar cocktail gowns which do anything to snare a seat summer’s day picnic in the latest collection (imaginegine areare lleft gaping from knee to directly adjacent to the cat- 8. Embrace bare-faced chic garden of the original Vuit- the chafe), while Meg RyRyan,an, Couture vs shouldershou is to blame for this walk entrance and the most While some among the style ton family home. Guests, who who arrived at Schiaparelliarelli comfort developmentdeve which, thanks lucrative shopping spot. ranks applied fresh layers of sat at linen-covered tables, in stacked sandals, may bbee iinn toto Simons’Si beautiful embroi- “Rouge Coco” mid-show and sipped champagne and nib- line for a similar prize. dereddere Dior couture creation, 7. All hail the white dress caked on foundation in order bled from extensive cheese iiss lilikelyk to be copied by high- A relative hit on and off the to cover up heat rash, the boards. Other highlights in- 3. Fashion is in the genes ststreetre chains everywhere catwalk, the white dress in chicest of all side-stepped cluded a burrata and heritage Life appears to be workingking nextnex summer. Sideless a host of glorious forms has their makeup bags alto- tomato station which came out well for Lily-Rose DeppDepp knickers,knic anyone? been couture week’s saving gether this week. Instead, a with its own specialised chef. who, just a month after her grace. In Simons’ latest Dior bright, dewy complexion was And you thought your folda- 16th birthday, was amongg thethe 6. TThe f’row is a battlefield collection a fl owing white the prevailing look. Witness way Cath Kidston blanket A-list army that starredd in HellH hath no fury like a chiffon peasant gown led model Amyeline Valade, who was the pinnacle of luxury. 19

SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Week in pictures

German heath rams are presented by their breeders at a Exiled Tibetan monks attend a procession carrying a portrait of their spiritual leader Dalai Lama during a function to festival in Mueden/Oertze, Germany (EPA) mark his 80th birthday celebration at Namgyal School in Kathmandu (EPA)

Comic-Con 2015 conference goers pose for photographs outside the San Diego Convention Center (EPA)

Walkers enjoy the sunny weather and go wading in the Indian commuters wade through fl oodwaters during a rain shower in Calcutta. The Indian monsoon takes place be- tide waters on the beach in Cuxhaven-Duhnen, Germany tween May and September (EPA)

Fighting bulls from Victoriano del Rio chase ‘mozos’ or runners during the third bull run of the Fiesta de San Fer- min in Pamplona, Spain (EPA)

A Yemeni woman puts her red-painted palm on a banner, a A model presents a creation by British designer Syed Sha- symbol of silent protest against the Saudi-led military oper- hid Nisar during the ‘Designer for Tomorrow’ show at the A Ukrainian woman wearing fl ower diadem attends the ations outside the Saudi embassy in Sana’a, Yemen (EPA) Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin (EPA) traditional pagan holiday of Ivana Kupala (EPA) DO NOT DELETE

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July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Business Not all will benefit from UK wage boost Minimum wage will top nine pounds an hour by 2020

By David Milliken

RITAIN’S Conservative poli- About a fi fth share their card information via e-mail and text ticians cheered and pumped their fi sts on Wednesday when Bfi nance minister George Os- borne announced a bumper increase in Millennials prefer the minimum wage, but the economic gains from the change are likely to be much more muted. The plan to raise the minimum wage going naked online by 40 per cent by 2020 was the surprise of Osborne’s fi rst budget since the Con- servative Party won an unexpected out- right victory at May’s election. to data breach By tweaking a policy of the vanquished centre-left Labour Party, Osborne cast it as an end to taxpayer subsidies for low- By Bobbi Rebell paying fi rms as he tried to claim the po- litical centre ground. But it may keep some people out of work WHICH WOULD you prefer: Naked pictures of yourself circu- and fail to compensate others for the big lating on the Internet or a breach of your fi nancial data? cuts in welfare he also announced. According to a new survey from Mastercard, 62 per cent of Fears of job losses when Britain fi rst in- Millennials would rather have their nude photos leaked online troduced a minimum wage in 1999 proved than have their fi nancial information stolen or compromised. wide of the mark. However the much By contrast, the general population is a little more shy about broader scope of the new minimum wage, Higher wage bills could lower profi ts at pub chains such as JD Wetherspoon their bodies: 55 per cent would rather get naked on the Inter- which will cover about 10 per cent of the net than lose fi nancial privacy. workforce, makes some economists nerv- 60 per cent of the average wage for those 0.2 percentage points - the equivalent of While baring some fl esh, apparently, is not all that alarming, ous. aged 25 or over. The current minimum is 60,000 jobs - and that other workers will Millennials are more concerned about an e-mail hack or their “The introduction of the ‘national living less than half the average wage, while in lose out from employers offering fewer phone being stolen. (Having their home robbed or getting wage’ does have the potential to raise the the United States it is under 40 per cent. hours. pickpocketed, while still pretty bad, is not as big of a deal to natural unemployment rate and deliver The big increase roughly doubles the Economic output by 2020 will be 0.1 per Millennials, though, according to the Mastercard survey.) real economic costs,” said Philip Rush, number of workers who will come under cent lower than it otherwise would have “Today’s digital lifestyle means consumer concerns regarding chief UK economist at Japanese invest- the scope of the plan and get a pay rise. been as people work less, the OBR said. safety and security have moved online,” says identity theft ment bank Nomura. It may also have knock-on effects for up Rush fears the effect on jobs and growth consultant Robert Siciliano. Businesses which rely heavily on cheap to a quarter of the workforce, according could be much bigger, and that it is too After all, what’s a little fl ash of skin? It has even paid off for labour, such as supermarkets and pubs, to fi gures from the government’s budget optimistic to simply extrapolate from the the Kim Kardashians and Paris Hiltons of the world. But have grumbled, while anti-poverty watchdog. limited impact of previous rises in the access to your e-mail contact list? Tragic. Going without a groups say the rise will not offset benefi t With the Bank of England watching minimum wage. phone, even for the brief time it takes to get a replacement? cuts. wage growth as it judges when to start to Much depends on whether fi rms im- Like running out of air. The current minimum wage for those raise interest rates, Nomura’s Rush said prove a dire recent track record on pro- Information is the currency of the Millennial generation. It is aged 21 and over is 6.50 pounds ($10) an the new minimum wage could encourage ductivity so that they can afford pricier far more important to them, in many cases, than most physi- hour and will rise to 6.70 pounds in Oc- it to act sooner. workers. cal possessions or an image - even an embarrassing one. tober. Osborne said that from April 2016 The higher minimum wage will also A minimum wage nearer the national However, that giant digital fi nancial footprint can be danger- employers will have to pay a ‘national liv- cost jobs, though Osborne said the effect average also gives businesses less scope ous. More than half of Millennials go online to check personal ing wage’ of at least 7.20 pounds to over- would be small. to cut pay rather than jobs in an emer- fi nancial information in public places, like airports and cafes, 25s. The Offi ce for Budget Responsibility gency, as they did during the last reces- which can expose private data on public networks. This will rise steadily over the following estimates that the change will push up sion. Considering that the majority of Millennials fear their e-mails four years to around 9.35 pounds an hour, Britain’s long-run unemployment rate by Supermarket chain Tesco, Brit- or texts being hacked, it is equally alarming that about a fi fth ain’s biggest private-sector employer, of those surveyed share their credit and debit card informa- backed the new national living wage tion via e-mail and text. on Thursday. But there were hints from In fact, Mastercard found that 53 per cent of Millennials rarely, employers that other benefi ts such as if at all, change passwords to their online fi nancial accounts. paid breaks or pensions could be under And almost half use the same passwords for different online threat. accounts. Higher wage bills could lower profi ts It makes sense. Who can keep track of all of so many pass- at pub chains such as JD Wetherspoon words? and Mitchells and Butlers by almost 10 At a certain point it might be worth tapping into a password per cent, according to an estimate by management site like Dashlane or Lastpass. Both offer a lot of equity analysts at Irish stockbrokers free services. For example, Lastpass will notify you if it looks Goodbody. like one of your accounts is hacked. The low paid will also bear the brunt Consumers across every age group think, often mistakenly, of £12bn of government welfare cuts an- they are protecting themselves from a fi nancial breach: 92 per nounced on Wednesday. For many fami- cent of all respondents to Mastercard’s survey, which polled lies, this will outweigh gains from the 1,000 people, say they take precautions to protect themselves higher minimum wage. from their fi nancial information being lost or stolen. The Resolution Foundation think That is a worrisome disconnect. tank estimates that a couple on the “The fact that there is a heightened awareness is a good thing, minimum wage with three children will although consumers still want to feel they are being protected be £350 a year worse off, even after big by the institutions who are responsible for protecting their pay rises. data,” says Carolyn Balfany, Mastercard’s senior vice presi- “It will take many struggling families dent of US product delivery. years before they earn their way back to Counting on a corporation can only go so far, though. Data their current position,” the foundation’s breaches do and will happen. Taking a grownup attitude to- George Osborne: a bumper increase in the minimum wage chief executive, Gavin Kelly, said. wards protecting your fi nancial data will pay off.

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July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Business Even with a deal, banks need ¤14b Cyprus-style length of capital controls and mergers unlikely, bankers insist

capital, although it is expected to involve a By George Georgiopoulos commitment to major restructuring of the and Stephen Grey Greek fi nancial sector. The European Stability Mechanism de- clined to comment on options in Greece REECE’S banks will need an esti- but has made clear the rules for its new re- mated 10 to 14 billion euros of fresh capitalisation instrument are stringent and capital to keep them afl oat and capital from European taxpayers will only be Gmore time before they reopen even injected after a “bail-in” of the bank’s own if a deal is reached with European creditors resources, as well as a contribution from a today, a senior Greek banker told Reuters national resolution fund. on Friday. A bail-in could involve cash calls from Shut for two weeks, banks have relied on bank shareholders, haircuts to bondhold- an ECB-approved emergency credit line ers, or potentially haircuts to some deposi- from the domestic central bank to dispense tors, as in the case of Cyprus two years ago, rationed cash and are hoping that they can although the Greek government says it op- People queuing up to withdraw their 60 euro daily cash limit from Alpha Bank be reopened by the end of next week, de- poses this. spite having bled more than 34 billion euros Cyprus targeted deposits over 100,000 eu- The banks will likely need to be recapital- sential imports, despite capital controls. of deposits since December. ros but only about 20 per cent of deposits in ised because mounting bad debts are eating The banker projected a much faster pace Offi cially, the banks are due to reopen on Greece are over 100,000 euros, much of them into their capital cushion. of normalisation for the sector than was Tuesday. belonging to small businesses. Greek banks held just over 40 billion euros the case in Cyprus, where capital controls “Liquidity is assured at the daily 60 euro Banks expect that a deal today will prompt of loan loss provisions, covering nearly 60 lasted for two years, although there are withdrawal limit until Monday night,” the the ECB to pump liquidity into the system per cent of non-performing loans, at the end doubts whether Greece’s banking system banker said, declining to be identifi ed. and raise the cap of emergency liquidity of the fi rst quarter, according to their fi nan- can emerge from the fi nancial shock with- “There is a cushion of about 750 million eu- assistance (ELA) from a current 89 billion cial statements. out an overhaul. ros until then.” euros, allowing banks to draw funding from The four banks’ non-performing loans av- National Bank, Piraeus, Eurobank and Al- the Bank of Greece. eraged a third of their loan books at the end GREECE IS NOT CYPRUS pha, which account for about 95 per cent of of March but that fi gure is worse when us- the industry, will likely need to be recapital- SMALL INCREASE IN ELA ing a tougher European defi nition of non- “This is not Cyprus. Once an agreement is ised after an assessment by regulators and performing exposures (NPE). reached with creditors and fi nancing for the are not likely to return to a semblance of The ECB would be likely to agree to a On a NPE basis, for example, Alpha Bank’s next three years, the situation will normal- normalcy for months. small increase in ELA to give banks a buffer, bad loan ratio jumped to 47 per cent of its ise faster than in Cyprus,” the banker said, “There is an estimated need of about 10 to but the banks would almost certainly need entire loan book. adding that controls could start to be lifted 14 billion euros in new capital,” the banker to be recapitalised, or in a process of recapi- Banks have been struggling to keep their “as early as within a fortnight.” said. “Given the magnitude of the shock talisation, before they could reopen, an ECB automated teller machine (ATM) networks “Once banks are perceived to be solvent, we have been through, regulators will take source told Reuters. fed with banknotes and dispense cash at the this will infl uence the speed of their return stock of the situation and the impact on “If there is no discussion on recapitalisa- daily withdrawal limit, gradually using up to normality and capital controls can be lift- non-performing loans. A stress test by Sep- tion, it is very diffi cult to increase ELA sub- the remaining cash buffer in the system. ed faster as deposits come back.” tember would allow time for things to nor- stantially,” the source said. “But he also said “The ATM outfl ows have averaged about While European offi cials predict major malise.” “nobody wants to pull the plug”. 80-100 million euros a day but there have consolidation in the sector, which may see Athens would seek to raise the money Without an agreement with creditors, the been infl ows from tourists, supermarkets some Greek banks taken over by stronger from private investors, but if it proves futile, ECB would keep the liquidity taps closed and exporters,” the banker said, adding the rivals as part of a restructuring that would banks may get a capital injection from the and banks would face insolvency and na- Greek central bank had renewed its request follow a bailout of the country, the banker European Support Mechanism’s Direct Re- tionalisation if the country leaves the euro. for 6 billion euros in emergency funding from said mergers of the big four would be op- capitalisation Instrument (DRI), a new fa- “The liquidity problem will be solved, the the ECB. posed in Athens. cility which has so far been unused. challenge will be the recapitalisation, the On top of the cash paid out in ATMs every Provided the banks were solvent, “it is It is unclear yet what conditions would speed at which capital can be replenished,” day in Greece there is also 50 million euros important to have competition in the sys- be imposed by the ESM in return for such the banker said. in authorised transfers abroad daily for es- tem.” RBS looking to sell Greek shipping loan business

By Jonathan Saul December.” Shipping still faces a multi-billion dollar and George Georgiopoulos RBS is downsizing its corporate and insti- funding hole as many European banks have tutional banking business in the Middle retreated from the sector, partly due to East, Africa, parts of Europe and Asia as capital constraints and regulatory demands ROYAL Bank of Scotland is winding down the lender, majority owned by the British to shore up reserves in the wake of the 2008 its Greek operation and is putting its $5 bil- government, focuses on its home market. fi nancial crisis. lion shipping loans portfolio up for sale as British state-backed rival Lloyds Bank- RBS’s former shipping boss Lambros Var- the group scales back non-core activities, ing Group has also been exiting the ship navides, one of the industry’s most infl uen- fi nance sources familiar with the plans said fi nance sector and sold $500 million from tial players who retired last year, helped the on Friday. its remaining ship fi nance portfolio in April bank to build a particularly strong pres- The move, part of a wider strategy by RBS last year, sources told Reuters. Pricing on ence in Greece. to shrink parts of its international busi- that deal was in the region of 80 percent of While Greek shipping magnates generally ness, came as Greek Prime Minister Alexis the value of the loans, one of the sources operate from the Athens suburbs and the Tsipras made a last ditch effort to secure said at the time. port of Piraeus, their companies are largely a bailout from international creditors and Greek ship owners are among the country’s registered in places like the Marshall Islands prevent a fi nancial meltdown in the coun- wealthiest tycoons and the sector has been and the Turks & Caicos. The fi rms are often Former shipping boss Lambros Varnavides try. a major market for shipping banks despite listed on stock exchanges abroad and their For decades, RBS has been a top lender to tough conditions. ships fl y foreign fl ags such as Liberia’s. Giv- The remaining $6 billion of shipping loans the global shipping industry and its Greek The Greek fl eet, which includes Greek and en the international nature of their business, were expected to be managed out of the offi ce - with an estimated 60 staff members foreign-fl agged ships, is one of the biggest top Greek ship owners have been largely UK, the source added. - has played a pivotal role. in the world and provides vital income for unaffected by the country’s crisis. RBS, which briefl y became the world’s big- “We won’t be around for much more in the country. The fi nance source said RBS’s shipping gest bank after an acquisition binge under Greece. RBS is slowly closing up operations “This is a sad time for the ship fi nance loans portfolio in Greece was worth $5 bil- former chief executive Fred Goodwin, has here,” one source at RBS said. industry when one of the market leaders for lion. The bank had an estimated further undergone a complex restructuring to “The shipping business is up for sale. They decades will seemingly no longer be with us $6 billion of loans in the rest of its global focus on lending to British households and have decided to sell it, if there is a buyer by (in Greece),” a fi nance source said. shipping book. businesses.

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LEGAL ISSUES WITH GEORGE COUCOUNIS Suppression of minority rights THE purpose of the regis- ings violating the minority’s tration of a company with rights and promoting their more than one member is own interest as the majority the combination of fi nan- of members, they disregard cial resources, experience three basic lawful expecta- and business skills. The tions of the minority: (a) company is a separate legal obtaining profi t from their entity being autonomous investment, (b) having signif- and independent from its icant role and participation members, shareholders, in the management of the directors and secretary. The company and (c) a propor- persons entrusted with the tional share in the profi ts. management of the company The purpose of the afore- exercise control and power mentioned behaviour by the over its affairs and they have majority is to isolate the the obligation to operate in minority, expel them from good faith in favour of the the company and minimise company as a whole. They their interest in participat- are not allowed to act or ing in the management of the take decisions, the purpose company’s affairs. Such tech- of which is to obtain person- niques include the refusal to al benefi ts to the detriment provide dividends, spend- Should shared pools of the rest of the company’s ing the company’s name on members. disproportionately large It goes without saying that in salaries and bonuses for the every company, decisions are directors, the dismissal of taken in general meetings directors or employees of either by the positive vote of the company, withholding be public or private? more than 50 per cent of the information from the minor- members or through special ity, cooking of the books and resolutions that require a essentially depriving the positive vote of more than minority from electing an Clarity needed over how to treat pools in complex 75 per cent, and the minor- active representative in the ity has to respect and follow board of directors. The pur- By Antonis Loizou FRICS that a public pool is one which is open to One solution could be registering the the decisions of the general pose of the aforementioned the public and for which an entry fee is common pool on one of the units with meeting. However, when the techniques is to: (a) force charged. As such this Department does the remainder having a right of use etc majority of the members act the members of the minor- THERE is huge and serious confusion not deal with common use pools and for the same. The problem is who would in a manner that violates the ity to sell their shares at an whether a swimming pool is private even refuses to examine an application accept the registration of the pool on his legal rights and interests of undervalued price and (b) or public. The prevailing regulations which we all understand as being pri- title, which by projection involves the re- the minority, the latter has deprive them of a fair share stipulate that a pool is considered as vate. So it is not surprising that on sev- sponsibility legal/running cost etc. the right to seek protection in the company’s profi ts. public if it serves more than 10 units. In eral occasions the swimming pools are This matter came up after a report and remedies from the court; Under the aforementioned addition and so there is no further con- fi lled with earth and planted as a garden from a neighbour to the Municipality of they enjoy the benefi t of the circumstances, the buyout fusion, a public pool must be provided (other reasons apart for not paying the Paphos for an abutting project where protection of the law. The remedy is considered by the with men/women wcs, fi rst aid room, common expenses). On a couple of oc- the pool caused a nuisance and with the Companies Law deals with courts to be the most com- showers, lockers and the provision of a casions where the building permit au- mayor announcing that the municipal- this issue, giving the right to mon exit option. This view qualifi ed lifeguard during the pools’ op- thority insisted that the “private” pool ity will take such projects to court if the the members of the minor- is based on the law of equity eration, while the local authority should was public and having confronted the “health and safety” regulations are not ity to claim either of the and is consistent with the regularly inspect the pool and provide authority the reply was “this is a mat- kept. If the municipality insists on this, following remedies from the remedies provided by the certifi cates of the water quality and the ter of health and security”, but then we it will mean that almost all project pools court: (a) an order terminat- law. However, a buyout or- management of the pool as a whole. add okay, but such issues do not matter will become public non viable. ing the suppressive acts of dered is effective only if the So a project with 11 apartments must if the project has 9 units and is it impor- Bear in mind that the mechanical con- the majority and to regulate price is fair. The term ‘fair have all the above requirements if it has tant if it has 10?. tainer of a pool (sunk or not) must be the procedure according to price’ has been interpreted a common pool. Is this logical you and if Having a non workable regulation it is 1.5-3m from the boundary and if not, the which decisions will be taken by the courts to mean that a it is, is it workable? Who is going to pay better to abolish it and replace it with neighbour who abuts the pool must sign in the future, (b) the buy-out suppressed member of the the cost of the lifeguard (say ±8 hours other requirements e.g. low depth pools that he has no objection. A client of ours of the minority members’ minority is entitled to the a day) which could amount in this case (e.g. 1.5m deep, no diving board, step had to pay €2,000 as “compensation” to shares by other members market value of their shares. at least €100pm per unit over and above and slides for the invalid etc). To add to the neighbour for him to sign the approval or the company, and (c) an Therefore, the minority is the ordinary common expenses, let the confusion, EU regulations (which su- (he was claiming that he will not be able order for the dissolution of protected and suppressive alone the additional cost of the instal- percede the local ones) state clearly that to sleep due to the pool noise notwith- the company. or illegal behaviour by the lations (including special steps for the a public pool is a pool which is open to standing his property was vacant land!). The smooth operation of a majority should not be toler- invalid, fencing all around, lock up the the public for a fee. Adding to the whole We have many problems in the building company requires compli- ated. pool when the lifeguard is not there etc confusion some local authorities require industry and this is another one which ance with the provisions of etc). a pool to have a 3m distance from the we do not need. the articles of association  George Coucounis is a law- The whole defi nition, as circumstances boundary and others 1.5m. and the fair treatment of its yer specialising in the Im- stand at present, is a lot of nonsense. We feel that the Ministry of Interior  Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – members in relation to their movable Property Law, based Having said this, the authority in should look at this since it affects the ti- Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents, rights as shareholders. When in Larnaca, Tel: 24 818288, charge (the Electro-Mechanical Depart- tle issue and then the legal obligation of www.aloizou.com.cy, ala-HQ@aloizou. the majority dominates the [email protected]. ment) has a different stand by saying the administrative committee. com.cy procedure in general meet- cy, www.coucounislaw.com

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Compiled by Rosie Ogden Motoring Honda sets new SILVERSTONE WILL REVERBERATE TO SOUNDS FROM A GOLDEN AGE world record for fuel efficiency HONDA has set a new giving Fergal and Julian Guinness world record for the challenge of driving an ‘lowest fuel consumption’, average of approximately recording an average 100.31 380 miles, taking around miles per gallon over 8,387 7.5 hours, each day. miles, in a 25-day drive Based on strict and rigor- across all 24 EU contiguous ous guidelines, the title countries. attempt required the car to Behind the wheel of a Hon- enter each of the 24 coun- da Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC tries specifi ed, collecting a for the entire journey were range of evidence includ- two members of Honda’s ing a fuel/mileage logbook, European Research & GPS readings, video and Development (R&D) team, photographs and independ- Fergal McGrath and Julian ent witness signatures to Warren, who took on the prove that it has done so. challenge to demonstrate To ensure accurate moni- the real-world fuel econo- toring of the route, journey my of the Tourer. time and distance driven, The distance travelled is the record car was fi tted akin to the team driving to with a tracking device, pro- Australia from their home vided by fl eet telematics in the UK, stopping just and stolen vehicle recovery nine times to refuel. The expert, Tracker. car achieved an average Under the rules of the 932 miles on each tank of record attempt the car fuel, at a total fuel cost for must be a standard model the whole journey of just in every respect, with no £459 (calculated on aver- modifi cations to create an age UK diesel price during advantage, so as to rep- June 2015). licate ‘real world’ condi- The team set out on their tions. The return of evocative pre-war sports cars at this year’s 25th anniversary Silverstone Classic will take festival-goers epic trip from Aalst, Bel- This was judged by inde- back in time to an epoch when the famed ‘Bentley Boys’ were victorious at Le Mans gium, on Monday June 1st, pendent witnesses at the navigating the continent beginning and end of the in a clockwise direction. attempt. Fuelling was car- They returned to their ried out at regular fi lling start point on Thursday stations, with the tank June 25th, recording the fi lled to the maximum at incredible fuel economy each stop to ensure no The ‘Bentley Boys’ fi gures which exceed the weight advantage. Tourer’s quoted effi ciency Additionally, tyres were in- of 74.3mpg by more than 25 fl ated to the recommended per cent. pressures and the wheel Fergal McGrath comments: alignment set to factory “It was tough, but we really specifi cation to represent enjoyed it, and setting this the experience of the regu- new Guinness world record lar customer. are back in town has made all of the hard The team, both amateur work worthwhile. This drivers, were also keen to HIS year’s 25th an- Having survived several se- other potential front-runner Trophy is just one of the was a huge team effort so show that through adopt- niversary Silverstone rious scrapes, Kidston sadly – it’s one of at least seven many highlights on Satur- I’d like to thank everyone ing some simple but very Classic (24-26 July) lost his life less than a year Frazer Nashes rolling back day’s packed programme. involved for all of their effective driving tech- Twill celebrate its Silver later when the de Havilland the years at the Classic. Others include BTCC cham- commitment and support. niques, anyone can achieve Jubilee with its widest-ever Puss Moth he was fl ying What makes the Kidston pions Matt Neal and Gordon After spending so much such remarkable fuel spectrum of glittering motor broke up in mid-air during a Trophy special, though, is Shedden gunning for victory time behind the wheel Ju- economy. They simply used sport history. dust storm over the Draken- the wildly diverse sizes and in the fi ercely-fought U2TC lian and I are just happy to some very logical methods At one end of the pano- sberg Mountains in south- power of the competing ma- race for Sixties saloons, be back behind our desks including careful and sensi- rama, the introduction of F1 ern Africa. chines, the mighty Bentleys the opening FIA Masters for a while!” ble route planning, driving cars from the turbocharged It takes quite a grid to rep- dwarfi ng cars such as the Formula One contest for a The offi cial GUINNESS smoothly and consistently Senna and Schumacher era resent such a buccaneer- Austin Seven, as the seat- record fi eld of F1 cars from WORLD RECORDS title without harsh acceleration brings the story almost up ing character, but Motor belt-less drivers saw away at the DFV era, Group C pro- is ‘Lowest Fuel Consump- or braking, anticipating to date, while the return of Racing Legends has suc- the wooden steering wheels totypes racing into the sun- tion – all 24 contiguous EU the road conditions ahead, evocative pre-war sports ceeded, with more than 45 and negotiate the modern set and rock legends Status countries’, measured in carrying no unnecessary cars will take festival-goers eye-catching entries already Grand Prix track on narrow Quo performing live. litres per 100km and miles weight, and ensuring that much further back in time - received. A full complement tyres. All tickets must be pur- per gallon calculated over the car was correctly main- to an epoch when the famed of 50 now looks probable for The sparkling entry also chased in advance. Adult the entire journey. tained at all times. Driving Bentley Boys were victori- a dazzling 40-minute show- features a mouth-watering admission starts from £40 Under the rules the same speed was always within ous at Le Mans in the 1920s. down complete with a man- array of nine early Aston and ticket prices include two drivers must be in the the law and keeping up Adventurer and aviator datory pit-stop and optional Martins plus the three Tal- booking fees, parking, in- car for the whole journey, with traffi c conditions. Glen Kidston was one of driver change. bot 105 ‘works’ Fox & Ni- fi eld, grandstands, paddock them and he will be hon- In a race dedicated to a choll team cars complete access, live music – includ- oured at this year’s Classic. Bentley Boy you need a with their famous GO 52, ing Status Quo – and the Silverstone will reverberate Bentley or two. The Clas- GO 53 and GO 54 regis- vast majority of the numer- to the magnifi cent sound sic will have at least nine, trations. Paul Grist’s Alfa ous attractions. of a huge grid of wonderful including the 4½-litre Le Romeo 8C 2.9, Richard Pilk- cars from that golden age in Mans of vintage Bentley ington’s Talbot T26, Richard what promises to be a vastly guru Stanley Mann plus a Wilson’s 1935 Squire Short entertaining Kidston Tro- pair of 3-litre machines dat- Chassis and Martin Halu- phy race on Saturday morn- ing back to 1924 – currently sa’s gorgeous Alfa Romeo ing. the oldest on the near-ca- 8C 2300 Zagato Spyder are Glen Kidston had been pacity entry. other certain crowd-pullers. torpedoed twice in the same At the front of the pack are Halusa is also fi elding his morning when serving as a likely to be the big Invicta S Bugatti 35C. Lieutenant Commander in Type of Chris and Nick Ball, “We’ve been completely the Royal Navy. By the mid- the Alta Sports of Gareth blown away by the entry,” 1920s he was a submarine Burnett and Richard Evans, admitted Duncan Wiltshire, Commander and when not and Rudi Friedrichs in the Motor Racing Legends at sea he set records as an Alvis Speed 20 SA in which Chairman. “Clearly this is aviator, hill climbed, con- he has clocked up more than going to be a very special ducted motorcycle speed 150,000 miles, including no Silverstone Classic but, even trials on sand and raced fewer than three Peking- so, the response has been cars, winning the 1930 Le Paris rallies. The aluminium really, really fabulous. The Behind the wheel of a Honda Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC for Mans 24 Hour race in the Frazer Nash Supersports of amazing grid has a lovely the entire journey were two members of Honda’s Euro- Bentley Speed Six he shared Fred Wakeman and Patrick eclectic feel to it.” The victorious Bentley team pean Research & Development (R&D) team with Woolf Barnato. Blakeney-Edwards is an- The inaugural Kidston at Le Mans in 1930 28

July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Sport F1 tweaks St Andrews sparks memories super-licence and new of Woods’ imperious peak engine rules By Alan Baldwin

Became golf FORMULA One has ap- proved changes to its power unit penalty system with great in 2000 immediate effect and also tweaked super-licence rules By Mitch Phillips for 2016 to give more drivers a chance to enter the sport from other series. WHEN Tiger Woods tees it The governing Interna- up on Thursday in the Brit- tional Automobile Federa- ish Open he would not be tion (FIA) announced the human if his thoughts did changes after a meeting of not wander back 15 years to its World Motor Sport Coun- when he tamed St Andrews cil in Mexico City. and seemed set to become The simplifi cation of power the greatest golfer in history. unit penalties will mean the The Woods of 2015 will maximum sanction a driver probably be happy just to will face from now on is to make the cut at the ‘Home of be sent to the back of the Golf’, or even just a few fair- starting grid. ways as he wrestles to mas- In Austria last month, ter another rebuilt swing in both McLaren drivers were the wake of woeful rounds of handed farcical 25-place 80 and 76 at last month’s U.S. penalties from where they Open. qualifi ed for unscheduled In 2000, however, he played engine and gearbox replace- with such controlled preci- ments -- with only 20 cars on sion that he caressed his ball the grid. around 72 holes of the Old That meant Jenson Button Course in Scotland without and Fernando Alonso had once fi nding the myriad kill- to take additional penalties er bunkers that repeatedly during the race. caught out his rivals. The FIA meeting also The American had gone agreed that the McLaren into the tournament with Tiger Woods has been struggling to keep the top form drivers will be allowed an his confi dence and reputa- that made him a legend 15 years ago extra fi fth unit for the sea- tion sky high after putting son because Honda are new together a six-tournament manufacturers. winning streak, the longest The engine allocation was since compatriot Ben Hogan the Saturday he posted an- ranked in the sport’s pan- hold all four majors at the in him?”, is one of the most- reduced from fi ve engines in 1948. other 67 to head into the fi - theon, with fellow country- same time, people began to common debating topics in to four this year, the second One of them was the 2000 nal day six ahead of Thomas man Jack Nicklaus the gold talk in terms of “when” rath- clubhouses around the world season of the complicated U.S. Open, where he broke Bjorn and David Duval. standard. He was two years er than “if” he would eclipse and Woods is not about to V6 turbo hybrid units. or tied nine tournament Totally in the zone and in younger than Nicklaus had Nicklaus’ tally. write himself off. The points based super- records including his aston- complete command of his been when he completed More major titles came, There were glimpses of the licence qualifying system ishing winning margin of 15 clubs and the terrain, Woods his career grand slam and including a second Open at player of old at the Green- was modifi ed to allow more shots. That triumph was his could not have positioned the Golden Bear’s incredible St Andrews in 2005, but the brier Classic in West Virginia series, such as the German third different major and, his ball better had he walked total of 18 majors suddenly swaggering dominance of last week when he fi red a 67 Touring Cars (DTM), to be at 24, he needed the British the course and placed it each looked achievable. the Millennium year had be- for his fi rst bogey-free round eligible. Open to become the young- time by hand. “Any time you shoot four gun to fall away. in two years. The FIA said the changes est to complete a career A risk-free 71 ensured he rounds under par in a major Woods chalked up his 14th “It’s the best I’ve hit it in a were also aimed at increas- grand slam. fi nished eight shots clear of you’ve done well,” Bjorn said major victory at the 2008 U.S. very long time. I had full con- ing fl exibility for drivers He opened with a fi ve-un- Bjorn and Els as his 19-under at the time. “But Tiger is just Open but with his personal trol over all the clubs,” said who have qualifi ed for a der-par 67 at St Andrews, tally was the lowest ever for playing different golf.” and professional life unrav- Woods, now ranked an eye- Super Licence but do not trailing Ernie Els by a shot, a major. When Woods added the elling the following year, his popping 220th in the world. have the opportunity to race but was three clear of com- Woods was clearly so far 2000 U.S. PGA Champion- best fi nish in the big four “I made some nice strides in Formula One. patriot David Toms on Fri- ahead of his rivals at the ship and then bagged the since has been a tied third at heading into the Open. I’ll do The champion of the new day night after adding a 66. time that the obvious ques- 2001 U.S. Masters to make the 2012 British Open. some good work next week electric Formula E Cham- Relentlessly accurate on tion was where he would be him the fi rst professional to “Has he got another major and be ready.” pionship, Brazilian Nelson Piquet junior this year, will also be given a Formula One Super Licence, even though Golden oldie Watson to wave fond farewell to British Open the series remains outside the points system. By Michael Hann is probably his most revered ers produced such a high at St Andrews but he’d love The super-licence rules were success. quality of golf amid so much to go out walking across the changed to ensure drivers Under clear skies on the drama. bridge on Sunday rather were of a minimum age and WHEN Tom Watson walks Ailsa Course the two Ameri- “This was a watershed mo- than Friday,” said North, experience after Max Ver- across the famous Swilcan cans were tied at the top of ment in my life, winning the now an ESPN golf analyst. stappen was signed by Toro Bridge at St Andrews for the the leaderboard with three Open at Turnberry early in “He’s had such a history in Rosso as a 16-year-old. fi nal time, pausing for pho- holes to play. my career against the best Scotland that he’d love to Azerbaijan will make its tographs to rapturous ap- “This is what it’s all about, player in the game,” Watson play well and be able to play F1 debut next year with plause, the American’s love isn’t it?”, Watson said on told Today’s Golfer maga- four rounds and be some- Germany returning after a affair with the British Open the next tee. “You bet it is,” zine. where near contention.” year’s absence, according to will come to a fi tting end. Nicklaus replied. “Jack said, ‘Tom, I gave you Watson was certainly in a 21-race provisional calen- The 65-year-old has been A birdie at the 17th put my best shot but it wasn’t contention at the age of 59 dar published by the sport’s given an exemption to play Watson in front for the fi rst good enough. Congratula- when he rolled back the governing body. at the spiritual home of golf time and at the last he hit a tions’. years at Turnberry in 2009 The race in Baku will be next week to mark the 40th seven-iron to two feet. “When he said that it made and stirred the golf world on July 17, sandwiched anniversary of his fi rst ap- Nicklaus drove into the me realise I could play and by going agonisingly close between Austria and pearance and his fi ve victo- rough but smashed an eight- compete against the best in to becoming the oldest ma- Tom Watson has been giv- Germany. Malaysia moves ries in the championship. iron to the edge of the green the game. I felt I had arrived jor champion before being en a special invitation to a September slot, with Watson, an eight-times ma- and dramatically holed from as a professional.” pipped by compatriot Stew- the race back-to-back with jor winner, dominated the 35 feet. Now Watson’s putt Twice U.S. Open cham- art Cink in a playoff. attack on his stewardship neighbouring Singapore’s British Open between 1975 looked a bit longer but he pion Andy North is hoping His return to Scotland as after the U.S. went down 16- fl oodlit grand prix, while and 1983, and the 1977 ‘Duel tapped in for victory. Watson’s farewell ends with U.S. Ryder Cup captain in 1/2 - 11-1/2, saying Watson Russia takes a May 1 date as in the Sun’ triumph over The pair left the green arm- the fl ourish it deserves. 2014 was far from happy as had not engaged with his the fourth race of the year a Jack Nicklaus at Turnberry in-arm. Rarely had two play- “He’s had disappointments Phil Mickelson launched an players. weekend after Bahrain. 29 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Sport Vuillermoz shines on Tour de France stage eight as Froome leads

By Julien Pretot Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) led his rivals. overall in the Giro d’Italia in 2014 the top names ten seconds behind Defending champion Vincenzo in his second year as a profession- to take third place after a 181.5-km Nibali of Astana lost ten seconds al, is supposed to ride in support ALEXIS Vuillermoz earned ride from Rennes. to the other members of the Big of team mates Jean-Christophe France its fi rst victory on this “I really wanted to go for the Four (Froome, Spain’s Alberto Peraud and Romain Bardet, sec- year’s Tour de France, his fi nal stage win today, it was all or noth- Contador and Colombian Nairo ond and sixth overall in last year’s kick proving too hot to handle for ing,” Vuillermoz, a former moun- Quintana). Tour. the big guns in the eighth stage tain biker, told reporters. Contador is seventh 36 seconds Today’s ninth stage is a 28-km yesterday. Froome still leads Slovakian Pe- behind Team Sky’s Froome, Nibali team time trial before the fi rst rest The AG2r-La Mondiale rider at- ter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) by 11 is 13th 1:48 off the pace with Quin- day of the three-week race, which tacked twice in the fi nal climb, a seconds and American Tejay van tana in 16th place, 1:56 adrift. then heads to the mountains. brutal 2-km ascent at an average Garderen (BMC Racing) by 13. Inside the fi nal km, Froome “In the Pyrenees the race for the gradient of 6.9 per cent, and coun- “That was a tough climb, but upped the pace in typical fashion, yellow jersey will really start,” said tered overall leader Chris Froome my team mates did a great job in glued to his saddle with his head Froome. less than 1 km from the line. bringing me to the front, I was in bent, but Vuillermoz hit back, sug- German Andre Greipel (Lotto- The 27-year-old Vuillermoz beat the best position,” said Froome, gesting he could be tough to han- Soudal) lost the green jersey for Ireland’s Dan Martin (Cannondale- who once he realised Vuillermoz dle in the mountains. the points classifi cation to Sagan, Vuillermoz won yesterday’s stage Garmin) by fi ve seconds as Spain’s was gone focused on controlling Vuillermoz, who took 11th place who was fourth on the day. to give hopes of a French victory Pakistan’s England hammer Australia to all-rounder fashions win over Sri Lanka take 1-0 lead in Ashes test PAKISTAN beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to go 1-0 up in the fi ve-match series after Mohammad Hafeez claimed Captain Cook’s side made no his best bowling fi gures in one-day internationals be- fore returning to register his mistakes on way to record tenth hundred at Dambulla yesterday. By David Clough hold on at third slip off An- Part-time off-spinner Hafeez derson was not costly. has been under pressure Thereafter Warner, who had lately after being reported ALASTAIR Cook’s new Eng- struggled notably against for a suspect bowling action land surged to a 169-run vic- Broad and Anderson, had during the test series in Sri tory in the fi rst Ashes Test in less trouble with the change Lanka but proved his worth Cardiff yesterday. bowlers en route to a 72- with fi gures of 4-41 to restrict Captain Cook could do lit- ball 50 during which he and the hosts to 255 for eight. tle wrong, as bowling chang- Smith hit Moeen Ali (three He then made 103 off 95 balls es continually paid off and for 59) out of the attack with as Pakistan, who won the the tourists were all out for 17 runs in his second over. test series 2-1, easily chased 242 late on day four in pur- It was not therefore until down the target with almost suit of an all-time Ashes the fi nal one before lunch fi ve overs and six wickets in record 412. that Cook dared re-intro- hand. Stuart Broad (three for 39) duce his frontline spinner The right-handed Hafeez provided the most telling - and it worked perfectly walked out to bat at number individual impetus, and for when Warner went back and three after an opening stand good measure Cook played missed an arm ball as Eng- of 47 and looked in sub- his own part in two juggling- land got their badly-needed lime form, driving the fast act Australia dismissals to breakthrough. bowlers crisply and hitting ensure England prevailed The weather began to fa- the spinners with disdain. as expected here despite an vour the hosts too, clouds He went past his 50 with admirable 77 down the order rolling in at lunchtime, and a six and hit a boundary from Mitchell Johnson and a Broad immediately cashed off Thisara Perera to cross half-century too from opener in when Smith edged anoth- three-fi gures, before getting David Warner. er slip catch to Bell. out two balls in the same Ultimately, neither did any- Cook responded by taking over. Hafeez smashed 10 thing more than delay what Moeen straight off, despite fours and four sixes in total. had long seemed inevitable his wicket maiden which had Shoaib Malik (55 not out), as England’s commitment to straddled the break. who added 75 with Hafeez aggressive cricket - following Michael Clarke, one deliv- for the fourth wicket, hit a their miserable World Cup ery after getting off the mark six to complete the victory winter - paid off with a fi rst by leg-glancing his 12th and also brought up his 32nd step towards regaining the for four off Broad, poked a half-century with the shot. Ashes after their 5-0 2013/14 catch to point - and Adam Earlier, Sri Lanka got off to whitewash down under. Voges went for just a single a brisk start after Pakistan Australia reached 97 for at the other end, off 16 balls, captain Azhar Ali put them one just before lunch but when he edged Mark Wood in to bat, but they failed to then lost four wickets for behind. stitch together meaningful nine runs as Broad upped After a hiatus of 16 runs partnerships as all their top the ante. and six overs, confi rmation fi ve batsmen were out after It was he too who had kick- came that Cook’s England initally looking set for decent started England’s progress, could do nothing wrong scores. inducing the early depar- when the captain brought Hafeez was given the ball as ture of Chris Rogers before back Moeen and then pulled early as the ninth over and Warner (52) and Steve Smith off a brilliant catch himself struck with his third delivery shared a second-wicket one-handed high above his to dismiss Kusal Perera (26) stand of 78. head at short midwicket as and break the opening stand But Warner’s dismissal to Brad Haddin fell to the fi rst of 44. the last ball of the morning ball of the off-spinner’s new Veteran opening batsman reignited belief in the crowd spell. Tillakaratne Dilshan (38) and on the pitch - and Broad It was another 11 overs be- also fell to Hafeez, who faces duly took his cue that he fore England struck again - England’s Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Mark Wood celebrate winning a nervous wait to know his could be a focus for a famous Shane Watson playing round the fi rst test in the Ashes against Australia fate as a bowler after being day in English cricket. some inswing from Wood to reported by match offi cials He and James Anderson go lbw for the second time haps getting a little greedy Root, like Moeen before too, with a safe catch when for a suspect action dur- had bowled very well with in the match and 29th in his against Root’s part-time him, had previously con- Josh Hazlewood hit Moeen ing the fi rst test against Sri the new ball, yet the hosts Test career. spin. ceded 17 runs principally to to him at long-off. Lanka in Galle last month. had only Rogers’ wicket to But Johnson was far from Starc laid back to cut and Johnson in one over. It was fi tting therefore that Sri Lanka captain Angelo show for their efforts almost done, dominating an eighth- a thick edge fl ew to who else Again like his fellow off- after providing the bulk of Mathews (38) and Dinesh throughout the fi rst session. wicket stand of 72 either but Cook in the gully - from spinner, he went on to take England’s runs with his fi rst- Chandimal (65 not out) Broad did the deed, the side of tea alongside Mitch- where he made a vital inter- two wickets - doubling up innings hundred and then 60 steadied the hosts, who opener neatly caught by Ian ell Starc with some typically ception and then had the when Johnson was ninth second time round, Cook’s were reduced to 118-4 after Bell at second slip to ensure clean hitting until his part- good fortune to parry a catch out, edging a drive to slip. deputy should hog the vic- Dilshan’s dismissal, with a Joe Root’s earlier failure to ner paid the price for per- back to slip Adam Lyth. The fi nal act was Root’s tory lap as well. partnership of 82 runs. 30 July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL Sport Miami US beat Haiti, advance to company named in Gold Cup quarter-finals bribe case

By Mica Rosenberg and Panama and David Ingram

Honduras A MIAMI-based affi liate of Spanish media giant Ima- gina group is one of the uni- battle, end dentifi ed sports marketing companies alleged in a U.S. indictment to have agreed match with to pay a bribe in a global soccer corruption scandal, sources told Reuters. draw The company is Media World, a subsidiary of Ima- gina US, according to two THE United States secured sources familiar with the a quarter-fi nal spot in the matter who spoke on condi- CONCACAF Gold Cup when tion of anonymity. Imagina they beat Haiti 1-0 on Friday, US is a subsidiary of the while Panama and Honduras Barcelona-based Imagina drew 1-1 in the other Group group. A match in Massachusetts. The indictment does not A Clint Dempsey goal early say that the company - in the second half secured identifi ed only as “Sports the Americans’ win, though Marketing Company C” - Haiti were far from over- paid a bribe, but says it had awed and had several good agreed to do so and was scoring chances that went looking for a way to make begging. the payment to a high-rank- The U.S. won their fi rst ing soccer offi cial in the group stage game against Americas. Honduras and have six Media World, which buys points from two games, and sells the media rights while Panama have two to soccer leagues and has points, Honduras and Haiti operated TV channels one point each. aimed at the U.S. His- The U.S. meet Panama panic market, has not been in their fi nal group match, charged with wrongdoing. while Honduras plays Haiti. In U.S. court proceedings, The top-two qualify for the Haiti midfi elder Wilde-Donald Guerrier (7) fouls USA forward Clint Dempsey during the fi rst half of CONCACAF Gold prosecutors will sometimes quarter-fi nals with the two Cup group play at Gillette Stadium. Dempsey later went on to score the winning goal describe potential wrong- best-placed third teams also doing by people or entities advancing. us and we’ll count on him to others were booked. had two strong penalty ap- but the ball cannoned back even if they are not ready to Though the U.S. and Haiti continue making some big Two Honduras players peals, one either side of half- to the feet of Najar, who charge them with a crime. were deadlocked at half- plays for us,” American cap- were also booked. time, though the referee re- made the easy tap-in before Sometimes, the person time, the Americans were tain Michael Bradley said of A draw was probably a fair mained unmoved. celebrating with an acrobat- or corporation is never unlucky to have an Aron Zardes. result, though Honduras Honduras had the better ic backfl ip. charged or even named by Johannsson goal disallowed Earlier, Panama and Hon- had two chances in added of the fi nal 30 minutes and Three minutes later, Pan- prosecutors. for offside. duras played an ill-tem- time when Romell Quioto were rewarded in the 78th ama’s players again remon- On May 27, U.S. prosecu- U.S. coach Jurgen Klins- pered match during which missed from fi ve yards out minute when Andy Najar strated with Mejia and Al- tors detailed more than mann sent on Gyasi Zardes tempers boiled over several before Eddy Hernandez was tripped inside the box berto Quintero was lucky $150m in alleged bribes at half-time in place of fel- times in the second half as had a goal ruled out for off- and Mejia pointed at the to avoid a red card when he paid over more than two low striker Jozy Altidore, a referee Marlon Mejia strug- side. spot, sparking a full-scale made clear contact with the decades, leading to the ar- move that paid quick divi- gled to keep control. It was the second goal by melee between the players. offi cial. rest of some top soccer and dends when the Los An- Panama’s players were par- Hernandez disallowed for It took offi cials a full three Even the fi nal whistle did marketing executives and geles Galaxy player found ticularly incensed, especially offside. minutes to restore order. not signal the end of their pitching soccer’s governing Dempsey with a perfect when they were denied two Panama took the lead in Najar’s penalty attempt complaints as Panama play- body FIFA into crisis. pass that led to the game’s penalties and had defender the 21st minute when Luis was then brilliantly pushed ers continued to remon- The indictment says that only goal. Luis Henriquez sent off for Tejada scored from a well- on to the crossbar by Pan- strate with the referee at the “Sports Marketing Com- “He made a great play for a second yellow, while four worked set piece and they ama keeper Jaime Penedo edge of the pitch. pany C” agreed with Traffi c USA, a sports marketing fi rm named in the indict- ment, to split equally a $3m bribe to Jeffrey Webb, at Ex-FIFA official Webb agrees to US extradition to face charges the time the head of the regional soccer federation CONCACAF. By Nate Raymond and Michael Without identifying Webb, the marketing companies in exchange The bribe was negotiated in Shields Swiss FOJ said that a transfer of for the commercial rights to soccer exchange for allowing the the person would take place within matches. companies to jointly exploit ten days. A spokeswoman for U.S. One $500,000 bribe payment from the media and marketing JEFFREY Webb, one of seven cur- prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, a sports marketing fi rm called rights to the 2018 and 2022 rent and former offi cials of soc- declined to comment. Traffi c went to build a swimming Caribbean Football Un- cer’s world governing body FIFA Webb was one of the powerful fi g- pool at Webb’s house in Loganville, ion’s World Cup qualifi er arrested in Switzerland in May, ures arrested in Zurich on May 27 Georgia, the indictment charged. matches, the court docu- has agreed to be extradited to the two days before FIFA’s annual con- Last week, Cayman Islands of- ment says. United States to face corruption gress, stunning world soccer. fi cials announced separate charg- The indictment says that charges, a source familiar with the An indictment unsealed by U.S. es against Webb in an unrelated the decision to pay the matter said. prosecutors in Brooklyn charged healthcare fraud case. $1.5m bribe was made on The Swiss Federal Offi ce of Jus- soccer offi cials and marketing ex- U.S. prosecutors say their inves- Media World’s behalf by tice (FOJ) had said on Friday that ecutives with exploiting the sport tigation - which is running parallel “a senior executive” of the one of those detained had agreed for their own gain through bribes to a separate Swiss inquiry - ex- European parent of “Sports not to fi ght extradition but it did of $150m over 24 years. poses complex money laundering Marketing Company C.” not identify the offi cial. The scandal put pressure on FIFA schemes, millions of dollars in un- In a statement on Friday, The source, speaking on condi- President Sepp Blatter, who said taxed incomes and tens of millions Spain’s Imagina “strongly tion of anonymity, confi rmed to on June 2 he planned to resign. in offshore accounts held by FIFA denied” any involvement in Reuters that Webb, a former FIFA Webb is charged with racketeering offi cials. the case and said there was vice president and president of the conspiracy, wire fraud and money The United States last week fi led no indication that “Sports CONCACAF regional soccer fed- laundering. He has been provision- extradition requests for the seven Marketing Company C” eration, was the offi cial concerned. ally banned from his posts at FIFA offi cials. refers to any company in its Bloomberg News fi rst reported and CONCACAF. The other six were Eugenio Captain Horace Burrell and Jeffrey group or that any of their that Webb, a citizen of the Cayman The U.S. indictment describes Figueredo, Eduardo Li, Jose Maria Webb (right) attend the World Cup executives are described Islands, was the person. A U.S. law- Webb as using his infl uential posi- Marin, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas qualifi er between Mexico and Ja- as co-conspirators in the yer for Webb declined to comment. tions to solicit bribes from sports and Rafael Esquivel. indictment. maica in Kingston 31 SUNDAY MAIL • July 12, 2015 Sport

Injury delays Boca resume Lampard’s MLS debut

ENGLAND great Frank Lampard will have to wait championship to make his Major League Soccer (MLS) debut after he was ruled out of New York City FC’s match against Toronto FC today with a calf strain. Lampard, 37, signed for the newest MLS franchise from waiting on Tevez Chelsea in July 2014 but spent last season on loan at Manchester City. The 106-cap England inter- Argentine star returns home after a decade in national arrived in Amer- ica following his Premier League commitments with Europe but will play for Juniors next weekend City but will have to wait to make his U.S. bow after the By Luis Ampuero Arruabarrena told a news tionals Javier Saviola and injury during training. conference. “Physically he’s Lucho Gonzalez made their “I’m hugely disappointed to good, let’s see when he ar- River comebacks in that be missing out on (today’s) BOCA Juniors fans must rives on Tuesday, but he gets match after, like Tevez, se- game, which I have been wait another week to see in shape quickly. curing a return to their fi rst really looking forward to,” Carlos Tevez wear their blue “Carlos has shown me in club last month. Lampard told the club’s and yellow colours again these last few years he feels Argentina under-20 strik- offi cial website (www.nycfc. even though the Argentine more comfortable with a er Giovanni Simeone has com). championship resumes this number nine in front of him,” moved from River to Ban- “I’ve been feeling great in weekend after a break. added Arruabarrena as he fi eld, who are coached by training and have loved Tevez, who has returned ponders how to get the best former River favourite Ma- working with the squad. home after a decade in Eu- out of Tevez. tias Almeyda, looking for Unfortunately, I sustained a rope, will not be back from The striker is on holiday more regular action and say- small strain to my calf dur- holiday after the Copa after helping Argentina ing his father Diego helped ing a session. America until next week- reach the Copa America fi - him decide. “The good news is that I end’s home match against nal in Chile, the reason for “He gave me a lot of ad- should be back in full train- Quilmes at La Bombonera. the fi ve-week break at the vice about coming here, he ing next week.” Boca visit Sarmiento in halfway point in the league knows Almeyda well, but it During a glittering 13-year Junin today looking to at championship. was my decision,” said the career at Chelsea, Lampard least retain second place in San Lorenzo have 32 points son of Atletico Madrid’s won three Premier League the standings behind San after 15 matches, one more coach Diego, who played titles, four FA Cups, two Lorenzo, who visited Union than Boca and two in front alongside Almeyda for Ar- League Cups, the Europa in Santa Fe late last night. of Racing Club and River gentina at the 1998 and 2002 League and the Champions Coach Rodolfo Arruabarre- Plate. World Cups. League and left Stamford na has no doubt that Tevez River, who were at home “I know here I’m going Bridge as the club’s record will give Boca an extra edge to Temperley yesterday, to improve and evolve as a goalscorer. in quality by returning while missed the chance to pull player,” said the 20-year-old, Lampard is one of three still at the peak of his pow- level with the Saints at the having chosen Banfi eld, who Tevez has yet to unpack his bags from the Copa America of New York City’s major ers after two fi ne seasons top when they were held 0-0 visited Quilmes yesterday, close-season signings along- with Juventus. at Tigre on Wednesday in because of Almeyda’s com- international, Simeone will to move on from the dis- side the arrivals of World “Tevez’s presence gives their match in hand after it mitment to attacking foot- no doubt be watched keenly appointment of losing the Cup winners in Spaniard us greater class, we hope was postponed in May. ball. by Argentina coach Ger- Copa America fi nal to Chile David Villa and Italy’s And- to make the most of that,” Former Argentina interna- As a potential future senior ardo Martino who is looking on penalties last weekend. rea Pirlo.

weekend of August 22-23. League appearances for Newcas- from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven, Atletico sign tle United and also had spells at the Premier League club an- Blackburn Rovers, Manchester nounced yesterday. Carrasco from Villa sign Senegal City and Villa. Wijnaldum arrives at St James Van Ginkel and Given -- Stoke’s Park on a fi ve-year contract for Monaco fourth and fi fth summer signings an undisclosed fee though New- midfielder Gueye after Phillip Wollscheid, Jakob castle said it represented their ATLETICO Madrid have added Haugaard and Joselu -- will join third highest transfer fee after an extra option in attack by ASTON Villa have signed Sen- up with the squad for their pre- deals involving former England signing Belgium winger Yan- egal midfi elder Idrissa Gueye season tour to Singapore. forwards Michael Owen and Alan nick Carrasco from Monaco, the from Ligue 1 side Lille on a Shearer. Spanish top-fl ight club said. four-year contract, the Premier The 24-year-old made 152 ap- The 21-year-old is the latest League club announced. McAllister appointed pearance, scoring 56 goals, for youngster to join Atletico who The 25-year-old arrives for an PSV following his arrival from have also brought in Argentine undisclosed fee, which British Feyenoord in 2011 and captained forward Luciano Vietto from Vil- media estimated at £9m, having Liverpool coach the club to the Dutch title in larreal since the end of last sea- made 134 league appearances 2015. son. for the French side following his FORMER Liverpool midfi elder Wijnaldum has won 19 caps for Carrasco, who joined Ligue 1 debut in 2010. Gary McAllister has been ap- Netherlands and scored their fi - Monaco from Racing Genk in Gueye, who has 24 caps is pointed the club’s fi rst team nal goal in a 3-0 victory against 2010, has agreed a fi ve-year con- likely to replace Villa’s England Marco van Ginkel was on loan coach as part of manager Brazil in the third-place playoff tract, Atletico said on their web- midfi elder and captain Fabian to AC Milan for 17 games Brendan Rodgers’ new coaching at last year’s World Cup. site. Delph who is expected to join staff, the Premier League side PSV also lost winger Memphis Spanish media reported that Manchester City, according to Van Ginkel arrived at the Bri- said yesterday. Depay this close-season after the the club had paid €15m for 75 local press reports. tannia Stadium from Premier The 50-year-old won the FA 21-year-old Netherlands interna- per cent of the player’s rights, “He’s been one of the best League champions Chelsea Cup, UEFA Cup and the League tional joined Manchester United. with Monaco holding on to the young midfi elders in France for while Given joined after he was Cup in 2001 during two seasons remaining 25 per cent. the last few seasons and there released by Aston Villa. as a player at Anfi eld and has “Yannick is a player with mas- were a lot of teams trying to sign The 22-year-old midfi elder since managed Leeds United Chelsea teen Brown sive prospects who has an in- him this summer,” Villa manag- joined Chelsea in July 2013 fol- and Coventry City. credible future,” Atletico sport- er Tim Sherwood told the club lowing a highly impressive four “Gary has a special connection ing director Jose Luis Perez website. years at Vitesse Arnhem, scor- with this club and its supporters, on loan to Vitesse Caminero said. “He is a player ing 18 goals in 93 league match- and I’m delighted he is joining with great speed, excellent ball es, for a fee reported to be in the our team as fi rst-team coach,” VITESSE Arnhem have signed skills and a great shot. Stoke bring in region of £8m. Rodgers told the club’s website. Chelsea’s teenage forward Isai- Atletico have also agreed to He missed most of the 2013-14 Liverpool fi nished sixth in the ah Brown on loan for the com- sign Colombia striker Jackson season with an anterior cruciate Premier League last season. ing season, the Dutch club con- Martinez from Porto. van Ginkel and ligament injury. fi rmed yesterday.

TRANSFER NEWS IN BRIEF The Madrid team have sold The player then spent last sea- Brown is their third loan sign- two key players in the close sea- goalkeeper Given son on loan at Italian giants AC Newcastle get ing from the English champions son with Turkey captain Arda Milan, spraining his ankle only in this transfer window. Turan joining Spanish and Eu- STOKE City have signed highly- half an hour into his debut but The 18-year-old, an England ropean champions Barcelona rated Netherlands midfi elder going on to make 17 Serie A ap- Dutchman Wijnaldum junior international who was and Croatia international Mario Marco van Ginkel on a season- pearances. signed by Chelsea from West Mandzukic moving to Italian long loan and evergreen goal- 39-year-old Given, a 130-cap NEWCASTLE United have com- Bromwich Albion in 2013, joins champions Juventus. keeper Shay Given on a two- Republic of Ireland interna- pleted the signing of Netherlands Lewis Baker and Brazilian Nath- La Liga is due to begin the year contract. tional, made over 350 Premier playmaker Georginio Wijnaldum an in the Netherlands. 32 July 12, 2015 • SUNDAY MAIL

St Andrews sparks Boca resume memories of Argentine Woods’ imperious championship Sport peak 28 without Tevez 31 Williams wins at Wimbledon to complete ‘Serena Slam’ Battling Muguruza fails to stop American’s 21st major title

By Toby Davis -- having also won the U.S., Australian and French Open titles. ERENA Williams “I can’t believe I am stand- claimed a sixth Wim- ing here with another Serena bledon title and Slam. It is so cool,” Williams Sfourth successive said courtside. grand slam crown by sup- “It has been a pleasure and pressing the spirited attack- an honour to have so many ing instincts of 20th-seeded years in this unbelievable Spaniard Garbine Mugu- place.” ruza to win yesterday’s fi nal Muguruza, playing in her 6-4 6-4. fi rst grand slam fi nal, began American Williams rein- with calm authority and it forced her stranglehold on was Williams who seemed to the women’s game by over- suffer an attack of the but- coming an early wobble and terfl ies, hitting three double resisting a battling fi ght- faults and facing four break back to claim a 21st grand points before losing her slam title that leaves her serve in the opening game. one behind German Steffi But Williams eventually Graf’s record haul of profes- cranked into gear and start- sional era majors. ed to fi nd her range, forcing The world number one was Muguruza to save two break simply too powerful and too points in the sixth game be- consistent for surprise 21- fore the American got her year-old fi nalist Muguruza, reward on the Spaniard’s who began with a valiant serve to level at 4-4. positive approach but could Williams increased the not maintain her early high pressure and, when Mugu- level. ruza served a double fault to After losing a close fi rst bring up set point, the top set and battling bravely to seed smashed a forehand come back from 5-1 down winner before pumping her Serena Williams with the trophy after winning her Women’s in the second, the Spaniard fi st in celebration. Final match against Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon was eventually downed after Muguruza was visibly de- one hour and 23 minutes of fl ated. She managed to hold combat, to leave Williams her fi rst service game, but not lie down, however, and Just when it looked like she suffered an anti-climactic It eventually dawned on to receive the acclaim of the was then subjected to a bru- broke back twice, going toe- could force the match into a fi nish. A Muguruza shot her that she had clinched Centre Court crowd. tal barrage of winners from to-toe with Williams from decisive third set, though, landed long and Williams the title and she raised her Williams now holds all four Williams, who broke twice the back of the court and her serve collapsed and Wil- stood still, unsure of the call arms to the sky before em- majors at the same time -- for a 5-1 lead. swinging her racket to bru- liams forced three match and whether to celebrate or bracing the vanquished Mu- the so-called ‘Serena Slam’ The Spaniard simply would tal effect. points before the contest wait for a challenge. guruza. Evergreen Federer out to defy time and Djokovic for 8th Wimbledon title

By Martyn Herman crushing Andy Murray. third Wimbledon title and play. This is where he plays Federer, who won the last ninth grand slam crown. his best tennis. The Centre of his 17 grand slam titles World number three Mur- Court of Wimbledon, seven MOCKING the ageing proc- here against Murray in 2012, ray, who also played su- titles. It’s his court. He loves ess, Roger Federer will at- said he was applauded all perbly on Friday, was sim- it,” said the Serb. tempt to become the oldest the way to the locker room ply powerless as 56 winners, “He usually rises up to Wimbledon champion in the after beating Murray 7-5 7-5 including 20 aces, fl ew past the occasion. He’s always professional era by beating 6-4. him from all directions on playing his toughest when Novak Djokovic today in a Should he beat world Centre Court. it matters the most. That’s repeat of last year’s fi nal. number one Djokovic today Remarkably, considering why he’s a big champion. We When the Swiss walked off in their 40th career meeting Federer’s full bore attack- all know how good he is. He’s the hallowed Centre Court, and win a record-extending ing tennis in the semi-fi nal, the greatest ever. There are beaten but proud, after be- Wimbledon title -- he cur- the Swiss made only 11 un- not enough compliments for ing denied an eighth title by rently shares the feat with forced errors. what he does.” the Serb in a fi ve-set thriller, Pete Sampras -- they will It was a combination that Mutual respect will be put many thought they had seen probably hand him the keys no player, not even the elas- on hold, though, today when his last hurrah. to the All England Club. tic-limbed Djokovic, would the Centre Court crowd, Few imagined he would re- “I need to keep it up for have been able to resist. whose allegiance was split turn a year later, aged nearly one more match to really “I’m just able to fi gure when Murray faced Federer, 34, playing arguably the best make it the perfect couple it out very quickly on the will be cheering loudest for tennis of his spectacular ca- of weeks,” said Federer, who grass,” Federer said of a dis- the Swiss. reer. would be three years older play so good it was almost He has not just reached than Arthur Ashe when he surreal. his tenth Wimbledon fi nal, won the title in 1975. Djokovic, who would equal though, he has arrived as Whether the second seed his coach Boris Becker’s if transported by a magic can reach the same dizzy three Wimbledon titles, carpet, conceding only one heights he achieved against trails Federer 19-20 in head- set, one service game and Murray will be the key to to-heads and knows playing on Friday producing a jaw- the outcome -- anything less him at Wimbledon is the ul- Roger Federer talks to coach Stefan Edberg during a dropping demonstration will probably not be enough timate challenge. practice session at Wimbledon yesterday of his sublime game when against a player eyeing a “This is where he loves to