Theo Panayides

A friend found it in their mailbox. A small brown envelope, unaddressed, seemingly promotional but sporting a handwritten message, the writing calligraphic in its symmetry and the obvious care taken: ‘ A calmer home starts here

Sitting in the spokesperson's office at the Filoxenia Conference Center, the desk stacked with piles of leftover CY2026 stickers and notepads, we're suddenly distracted by the sound of someone down the hall bursting into loud, lusty song.

Joshua Polloso Epiphaniou is one of the few local criminals who are so notorious that they're known by a nickname (for some reason, English-language media tend to refer to him as ‘the little hacker', whereas in Greek he's usually ‘the hacker').

Here's a question (translated from the Greek) from the most recent citizenship exam for third-country nationals, on July 4:

Romani Youssef sits in a detention centre, waiting to be deported back to Egypt after being arrested as a ‘prohibited immigrant' two months ago.

Yiorgos Georghiou puts it bluntly, in the prologue to his book I Was My Own Enemy : “I am not a psychologist. I am not a clinician or a researcher. I am someone who has lived inside this cycle for most of my life – someone who misunderstood it, fought it the wrong way, hid from it, and eventually learned how it works…

It's so rare for a government scheme to be an unqualified Good Thing that it feels downright ungrateful to criticise it.

It takes a moment to even realise it's her, this slim young woman in a light-pink T-shirt, dwarfed by the gaudy tower of Ayia Napa marina. She looks like she's just come from the beach (as indeed she has). She doesn't really look like an MP – albeit from the freshest, least stuffy party, Fidias Panayiotou's Direct Democracy.

The role of personal doctors has come under scrutiny as part of a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report on our national health system (Gesy).

When it comes to solar power, the ultimate dream is self-sufficiency – both on the macro level, as an island (since we have so much sunshine), and on the micro, household level.