A joint appeal by the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot journalists to the political leaders of both communities: “Do not let this opportunity be wasted”The leaders of the Cypriot Journalists’ Union and the Press Workers’ Union, Basin Sen, jointly appeal to the leaders of both communities “not to let this opportunity provided by the United […]
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 […]
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 […]
Translation of the title from Latin into English: “Hail Caesar! They who are about to die salute you!” This is the title of a coment in Greek that was posted by Giorgos Eleftheriou on his timeline on Facebook regarding Covid-19 in Cyprus. Reading Giorgos’ text will probably enligthen you as to why he chose this […]
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 […]
That a young UK Greek Cypriot allegedly went to Syria to fight for the “Islamic State”, is the last thing we expected to hear. Stefan Aristidou, who grew up in Gordon Hill in Enfield, on a tree-lined street, close to the Chase Farm hospital, in middle-class surroundings, landed at Larnaca airport on 5 April 2015 and […]