Theo Panayides

A day after a demonstration against Israel’s capture of the Global Sumud flotilla was violently broken up by police in Nicosia, a second protest was held – organised by Akel, ...

It’s a pleasant Tuesday night in early September, and the street outside the club is buzzing. Tables have been set up, a chatty crowd – with perhaps a disproportionate number ...

We asked a random selection of people on the streets of Limassol this question: ‘What would be your message to mayor Yiannis Armeftis, if he were here right now?”.

You can’t really tell over a Zoom call. Only when the angle’s just right, when he inclines his head a certain way, can you make out… something on ...

The once bustling Laiki Yitonia is now shuttered. Even the municipality has given up. A decision’s been taken to transfer the stewardship of Laiki Yitonia from Nicosia municipality back ...

It’s the kind of question those old Raj colonels must’ve asked themselves when they first went to India: why is everyone eating chili – which of course makes you ...

The subject of fast-track citizenship was in the news last week, following questions raised by independent MP Alexandra Attalides. There are three ways of obtaining Cyprus citizenship, two of which – ...

We’re at the Bedrock Café in Ayia Napa, surrounded by Flintstones merch and plastic dinosaurs – but Aeropryme isn’t happy with his coffee. “I wanted an iced coffee with ...

A ‘silent protest’, organised by CY Movement to Gaza, was held in Nicosia today for the Palestinian journalists who’ve been targeted and killed in Gaza. Around 242 Palestinian journalists have ...

It’s looking like another mixed – but mostly acceptable – year for Ayia Napa, and another step in its gradual transformation. Clubbing-wise, the resort’s heyday was a crazy few years ...

Let’s imagine a young Filipino woman. Let’s call her Althea, which was apparently the most common girl’s name in the Philippines in 2023. What will Althea experience, should ...

They live in the village of Ayia Triada, halfway up the Karpasia peninsula with its sleepy roads set amid thickets of pine, palm and olive – though also in the pages ...

Footage and interviews from ‘End the Starvation of Gaza’, a symbolic protest and hunger strike held outside the Embassy of Palestine in Cyprus on July 22.

An all-day symbolic protest and hunger strike called End the Starvation of Gaza was held outside the Embassy of Palestine in Nicosia on Tuesday. “The situation in Gaza has exceeded ...

This is the story of a happy surprise. The hero of our story is Faros, a bakery and confectionery that’s long been part of the landscape in old Nicosia – ...

Scrolling through the archive of complaints received by the Cyprus Consumers’ Association (supplied by the CCA, with personal data redacted of course), makes for illuminating reading. “In July 2025 I travelled ...

The blue door is unmarked, its glass panel stealing a glimpse into a dishevelled interior. The door is locked so I wait, surrounded by the quiet cobbled streets of old ...

“I need to be released from here,” was the last message received by the Cyprus Mail from Katina Baird, the Larnaca restaurateur (owner of Katina’s Tasty Food Caribbean restaurant) ...

We spoke to Israelis at Larnaka Airport who’ve been trapped overseas by the war and are now returning through Cyprus – as well as a group of American Jews who’...

Quarrying in the Pentadaktylos mountain range constitutes “rapacious development with very serious consequences on the natural environment”, Stelios Michael, director of the mines and quarries service, told Phileleftheros last week. ...

Sounds like hype, but it’s actually true: there’s nothing else in Cyprus like the Images and Views of Alternative Cinema festival. This is partly for boring practical reasons. ...

Andreas Andreou is quite young – he turns 34 this month – but he’s already been on TV several times, plus radio and print media: CyBC, Sigma, 24 Ores on Alpha, interviews with ‘...

We follow Togolese asylum seeker Jacqueline and her husband Madoubele on an ‘experiential walk’ to the places in old Nicosia which have meant most to them during their six years ...

It’s every parent’s nightmare – and not just parents, either. Your child (or spouse, or friend, or loved one) is an addict. They’re in the grip of something ...