What can we say about a country called United Kingdom that still thinks of itself as a global power, sends soldiers to fight and aircraft to bomb in other countries, and is planning to spend between £71.4 billion and £140.5 billion for a new nuclear weapons system but fails to produce or supply gowns and […]
This is what they sell us! Rubbish! This is where your money ends up! In the dustbin! In the form of uneatable, unripened fruit (and many other uneatable things). We bought this pack of two avocados from a co-op shop. I cut the first one. It was rock hard and tasteless. I cut the next […]
Many Cypriots and Mediterranean people generally cannot live without olive oil and lemon. Olive oil and lemon are two very important ingredients of our diet. Now, according to some reports, the olive tree “disease of the century” threatens to make our olive oil very expensive or even disappear from our table. Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent […]
Health modelling and, generally, mathematical modelling, was not something I knew much about before I heard Yalchin Oytam’s achievement. Once I became aware that “something happened”, I asked him to send me some details. He sent me a text. I sat on it for several days searching on the Web trying to understand what it […]
Comment by Cosma Papouis “We are Cypriots first. Ask an American what they are. Irish, Greek, Italian Americans. But always American. Maybe we need to wake up to the fact that we have not been Greeks or Turks for a long time (nothing against Greeks)”. My answer I agree! We are Cypriots first and foremost! […]
Some people pretend that Greek Cypriots are nothing to do with Greece and Turkish Cypriots are nothing to do with Turkey. Obviously, they are wrong. Denial of ethnic identity is not based on reality and would never be accepted by the majority of either community. The future cannot be built on unreality. We cannot ignore […]
According to Sky News, a formal review is to be launched into why people from a black and minority ethnic background appear to be disproportionately affected by COVID-19. It follows calls for the government to investigate the number of deaths of people from the BAME community and those working for the NHS, during the coronavirus pandemic. The […]
According to the latest unconfirmed reports, more than 200 UK Cypriots have already died from coronavirus. Parikiaki newspaper, according to a report on its website www.parikiaki.com dated 12/04/20, expects to have “confirmed figures” by Wednesday (15/04/20). According to the same report, Parikiaki journalist Michael Yiakoumi has observed that there is grave concern among the UK […]
What you see in the photograph is just some clerics taking a short walk around the church of St. Lazarus in Larnaca. That’s all for St. Lazarus this year. Larnaca is believed by many Christians to be the saint’s second resting place. Each year, eight days before Orthodox Easter, a casket containing remains of Jesus’s […]
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