Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

A quick look at this weeks Cyrpus Today as I must get ready for Joan's big birthday party this afternoon.

There are now a total of eight candidates for the job as President of the TRNC. Only here in local politics could we have two candidates from the same party, both so called heavy weights, who will clearly split the votes of the faithful, which will maybe leave Mr Talat with a clear chance of retaining his position. But who knows maybe this is just a po

The EU insistance on Greek Cypriots applying to the IPC for land reclaims etc now probably means that the size of the committee might have to double in order to cope with the expected flood of applications.

The Health Minister has now confirmed that the flood damage at Lefkosa State hospital, caused by the blocked riverbed in the area, will cost 2 million TL to repair. It seems that an insirance comapny is picking up the bill for all this work.

CTA workers stagged a one day strike last Wednesday in protest at the loss of jobs and the non payment of future bonuses. As the prime minister said to them, were in the world does a bankrupt company pay bonuses. Sort of shades of British Airways staff problems I think. I just hope that they don't have another one day strike next Tuesday when I want to go to France.

Thats it for this week, I'm off to the party.