Theo Panayides

Several hundred people gathered outside the presidential palace in Nicosia on November 13 to protest coronavirus measures. Full story here.

A small, hard-working shop owner fined €4,000 for not checking SafePasses is the sorriest aspect of a very sorry tale Last week, my greengrocer – a small-to-medium-sized business selling fruit and vegetables – ...

In a lifelong geek that runs a comic store, THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman drawn to extremes whose habit of drawing every day helps to embrace what scares her Talking ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets the man behind a new venture brining simplified cooking from a community of small farmers to people tired of fakeness, looking for something real Yiannis Tryfon is ...

In a mournful romantic, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man for whom art is therapy as well as vocation, pained by the jungle mentality of the film industry as he took ...

We caught up with Unite Cyprus Now, the (still very active) bicommunal group whose street protests were much in the news in summer 2017, at the time of the talks on ...

The data being made available on Covid is often inadequate Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the rallying cry has been ‘Follow the science’. But a more useful motto might be ‘Follow ...

In the 86-year-old man who built the tourist town’s first hotel after being entranced by the spot as a child, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man with a vision that ...

In an environmental engineer and activist THEO PANAYIDES finds an honest woman who brings dynamism and joy to her battles, from fighting sexism to money as the agenda You can ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets a gay Palestinian man who has just written his life story. He finds someone who has lived a charmed but traumatic life, who had dealt with feeling ...

For the past 18 months we have been governed by a British Quarantine Law nearly one hundred years old. A change was long overdue, but how different will it be? The ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets a sharp mind probing the future of the universe in a bright – in a literal and intellectual sense – astrophysicist who is currently living life long distance, both ...

In a member of the government coronavirus advisory team THEO PANAYIDES finds a woman who dreamt of being a superhero who, despite seeing her personal life swallowed by Covid, is ...

On the day that the Cabinet decided to start administering a third Covid vaccine dose, we asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia if they’ll be ...

Music is not only the word, but almost a magical force for one musician on the island. THEO PANAYIDES meets a restless soul who finds solidarity in jamming We open ...

Mass jabs still touted as way to herd immunity despite rising infections among vaccinated By Theo Panayides Questions over the long-term outlook of the global Covid-19 vaccination programme have continued ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets TV, West End and Hollywood actor Kevork Malikyan, a ‘little Armenian boy’ from Turkey Steven Spielberg once described Kevork Malikyan’s face as a combination of Al ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets an ordinary-looking couple in their 30s living their lives by 2,000-year-old precepts It doesn’t even look like a church. One hundred metres from Eleftheria Square in ...

In the new Akel leader, THEO PANAYIDES finds a true believer in changing the world who has happily spent his life in politics, despite it losing its charm The headquarters ...

The outspoken woman seen on Facebook near the flames of the recent large fire tells THEO PANAYIDES about the dire situation facing stray animals in Cyprus The pictures were shared ...

In a 92-year-old cobbler THEO PANAYIDES finds a craftsman with a love of football who likes to keep it simple Andreas Vasiliou is an ordinary man – but he stands out ...

The pragmatic v the quixotic – there are lots of ways to divide people over Covid vaccines but Theo Panayides asks what is driving people to make a decision over getting ...

In a columnist and novelist THEO PANAYIDES finds a man dedicated to both realism and magic, a control freak with a passion for theatre and travel Back in the day, ...

Maureen Chacholiades came to Cyprus as a student in 2006 and has now become the bossy but concerned ‘mama’ of the Cameroonian community. By Theo Panayides Ogbono soup, says the menu, “...