Onasagoras
We’re the only country where prisoners run legitimate business ventures, and we even pay guards to watch over them and give extra “security” for their little enterprises. In the case of the murder of a Limassol businessman, a detainee reportedly bought and sold the motorcycle used by the attackers right from his office, which some malicious souls might call a cell.
“Organized crime will never be stamped out because it’s evolving and imported,” Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis tells us. Me? I’d say organized crime won’t be stamped out precisely because it’s organized, unlike our police, which, on many counts, could study the business and maybe become organized too.
“Organized crime will never be stamped out.” - Marios Hartsiotis, Justice Minister
The chairman of ADMIE, Mr. Manousakis, no relation to that famous director, said Greece wants the cable project to continue. Very good. Lots of people want it to continue, including us, but we don’t just want it to continue forever like an unfinished Netflix series. Someday it should actually finish. I hope we’re not unreasonable or overly demanding if, alongside the “keep going,” we ask for completion, too.
For now, though, nobody seems willing to actually take...not just talk about...responsibility for completing and operating the GSI. And given that so many projects in Cyprus and Greece usually end up costing three times the budget, nobody can guarantee that the bill won’t jump from €2 billion to €5 or even €6 billion. Let me remind you: one billion has a lot, a very lot, of zeros. Imagine how many zeros “many billions” has. Lord have mercy!
A weapons mount detached from a helicopter and fell, with its contents, into a residential area. I read it, rub my eyes, and read it again. I read more to see if someone takes responsibility for the very dangerous, yet unbelievable, event, an “I apologize,” even a “sorry, but…” Nothing. Dead silence. Silence reigned over the plain, the same silence that would reign in that “residential area” if the metal had exploded or landed on an unsuspecting citizen’s head.
How I wish I had one, two, three, or four plans. And five and six. Olympiakos conceded that many goals to Barcelona the other day; that’s how many plans we’ve prepared for Gaza, and we’re declaring ourselves fully ready to save them. Some of our little problems, like occupation with no prospects for a solution, outrageously expensive electricity, and water shortages so bad we tell farmers not to plant this year, are “small” problems that can wait. Gaza: the Cypriots (not the Germans) are back. Count on us.
