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We really should discuss WHO’s planned pandemic treaty
2022 in review: Covid became endemic and we got back many of our freedoms, but it’s not over yet I wrote two dozen features for the Sunday Mail in 2022, but one in particular stands out – an article on...
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Archaeologist sees the passage of time in human bones
Another year over but the work never ends for a prize-winning busy scientist who studies the physical markers of history, and has even co-written a children’s book about it. THEO PANAYIDES meets her...
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Where physics meets metaphysics
In a physics teacher who is also a priest THEO PANAYIDES finds a man who believes in miracles, and that science and religion can sit side by side. He also has the serenity to feel something good can...
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High rents in Limassol made even worse by recent influx due to Ukraine war...
We talked to a selection of people on the streets of Limassol – and visited an estate agency, Vivo Realty – to find out more about the hot topic of the very high rents in the city, made even worse by...
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Makariou landlord is a natural scholar
Driven by the pursuit of knowledge, one former civil servant who has spent most of his adult life in the shadow of Makarios Avenue tells THEO PANAYIDES about his life as a geologist, father and...
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Presidential elections 2023: The Turkish Cypriot view (video)
We talked to a selection of people in northern Nicosia, asking whether they’re following the upcoming presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus.
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Second-hand bookseller in a world of language
In a proud but troubled Cypriot poet and bookworm, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone for whom books themselves have stories, and not just the ones inside them The book is at the top of the pile. I pick it...
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Election night 2023 (video)
Footage from last night’s electoral victory, and the proclamation of Nikos Christodoulides as president.
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Life for flower grower is no bed of roses
With a boom in sales for Valentine’s Day, you would imagine it is a welcome time of year for a high-tech flower grower. But THEO PANAYIDES meets a man who explains he is a farmer, not a sentimentalist...
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An ordinary guy with some ‘dangerous’ ideas
In a citizen journalist broadcasting controversial political views on Ukraine from the streets of Cyprus, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man who misses the right to disagree, keen on stressing the right to...
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The family that was too ‘green’ for its own good
Aglandjia municipality wanted to penalise woman who didn’t throw out enough trash By Theo Panayides Aglandjia municipality’s pace-setting ‘Pay as you throw’ scheme is the future, due to be adopted all...
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TV and theatre actress keeping it real
THEO PANAYIDES meets an actress who’s in people’s living rooms every night, a woman who was quiet and not very brave as a child but grew up into an old-fashioned radical We meet in a geodesic dome...
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The mystery of excess deaths
Covid does not explain more people dying each year The week-by-week mortality figures – all-cause deaths – supplied to Eurostat for 2022 are now complete, though it’s important to note that the number...
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Casino’s executive chef living the nomadic dream
From picking salad in the garden growing up in France to overseeing the 10 restaurants in the island’s upcoming casino resort, one man, a dynamic doer, has bounced around the world, one luxury stop at...
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The right finance minister at the right time
Not all politicians are the same, finds THEO PANAYIDES after meeting the man given a baptism of fire after the financial meltdown of 2013. He finds an outward looking, low-key former finance minister...
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The perils of living ‘the Christian life’
In an exile, a poet who runs a coffee shop, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man who found God in Turkey as a teen and tried to do the right thing by spending the rest of his life there Ryan Keating has appeared...
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Cyprus-problem activist laments our missed opportunities
In a brilliant young woman mired in hypocrisy, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone used to ‘bursting bubbles’ in her quest for knowledge, and the course of the island’s national problem Eating isn’t really a...
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Quick-witted beatboxer making music from ‘noises’
In beatboxer Beardyman, THEO PANAYIDES finds a neurodivergent, restless and impulsive musician using technology to augment his human reality Greenland, notoriously, is not very green – and it must be...
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The unspoken legacy of Cypriot African heritage
With massive numbers of asylum seekers from the continent, Cyprus is undergoing a demographic change but the history of Africans on the island goes back much further The arrival of migrants from...
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Hypnotherapist on a quest for inner peace
In a woman who burrows into strangers’ subconscious, THEO PANAYIDES finds a practitioner who likes calm, a positive mindset coach who has also been through some pretty bad times herself The...
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