Our View: Why hasn’t a single tree been planted in four years?

It’s been almost four years since Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square was completed but to look at it, it’s as if it was only handed over by the contractors yesterday.

A capital city’s main square should be buzzing in the height of summer, not someplace to be avoided at all costs for fear of spontaneous combustion while walking across it.  

Not a single tree has been planted or placed on the upper