Iacovos "Jaco" Iacovides took a considerable financial gamble in 1945. The war had just ended, paper was rationed, power cuts were routine and the British colonial administration was growing more repressive, and he printed the first two-page tabloid issue of the Cyprus Mail on 2 November 1945 at one piaster a copy. It paid off. The paper covered the detention of Jewish refugees on the island in the late 1940s, the rise of EOKA, independence in 1960, the coup and Turkish invasion of 1974, and the decades of negotiation since. It outlasted the Cyprus Times in 1960 and remains the island's only English-language daily and its oldest newspaper still publishing. Ownership sits with Neo Cymed Publishing Limited, and Andreas Neocleous, founder of a Cypriot law firm convicted of bribing a former deputy attorney general, acquired a stake in 2019. Today, Cyprus Mail is mainly focused on Cypriot politics and government, the division of the island and peace process, crime and courts, business, banking and property, environment, health, culture and sport, published daily except Monday in print and continuously online, from their base in Nicosia, Cyprus. One interesting fact: A mocked-up Cyprus Mail front page appears in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, carrying the story of Elektra King's escape, on screen as Bond scans information about her kidnapping.