Melissa Hekkers

In today’s episode, we hear that the US Pentagon has announced Cyprus’ membership in the State Partnership programme and the cooperation between the Cyprus National Guard and the United ...

In today’s episode, we hear that the UN Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart has warned that the scenario of a mutually agreed solution to the Cyprus problem is ...

In today’s episode, we hear that Cyprus’ first crematorium is set to begin operations by 2024, six years after the relevant law was first passed. Elsewhere, Police said they will ...

Everybody has a story from the other side. A new documentary looks at the people whose lives span the divide It’s perhaps the punch line at the end of ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Melissa Hekkers British pensioner, David Hunter, is facing the charge of premeditated murder of his wife, who was terminally ill, the Paphos criminal court heard on ...

Melissa Hekkers went on board to see the sinking of 60 amphorae By 10am the boat that was driving us to our meeting point was anchored in place. At about one ...

Ring found in Kent belonged to teen married in Cyprus As I shuffle through a dozen of documents, including letters, newspaper clippings in Greek and English as well as photographs, ...

We set off bright and early to make the most of the day. By 9 o’clock in the morning, the five of us were comfortably nested in the lush interiors ...

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been hearing about the efforts of the University of Nicosia Medical Centre (UNMC), from the University’s medical students themselves, ...

One local resident has set himself the challenge of swimming around much of the island to raise awareness of the environmental cost of refugees, and more. MELISSA HEKKERS meets him ...

Having been to some of the world’s worst war zones one photographer now uses his lens to tell human stories. MELISSA HEKKERS meets a man telling the stories of ...

Technology now touches everything we do and has transformed major sectors of our society: media, education, transportation and healthcare, to name just a few. More importantly perhaps, technology has fundamentally ...