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Battle for the soul of the Green party
Single issue? Progressive? Just some of the difficult choices in the Greens leadership elections next week The Cyprus Green party are holding their general conference next Sunday, electing a new leader...
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Guitars, beers & tears: the life of a rock star
In a working musician who picked a guitar up 50 years ago and hasn’t put it down, THEO PANAYIDES finds a safe pair of hands with countless famous friends and incredible stamina Dave ‘Bucket’ Colwell’s...
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Demolition expert doing his bit for development
THEO PANAYIDES meets a family man who has built his business up from owning just one truck. Just doing his job in the never-ending urban sprawl, recycling as much as possible Philippos Kameris holds a...
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Probably Cyprus’ most unpopular academic
Professor and activist Hubert Faustmann tells people what they don’t want to hear on Israel-Gaza, Russia-Ukraine – and the Cyprus problem. As he tells THEO PANAYIDES, he works best when everyone’s mad...
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Woman and shop are both many things
In a store that reflects its perky, restless owner THEO PANAYIDES finds himself surrounded by words “Life is trying things to see if they work”. The shop is devoted to quotes, much like that one....
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Queer experience: open, outspoken and angry
In an intense expatriate Cypriot, THEO PANAYIDES finds a woman open to difficult things who only felt free after leaving the cultural desert of Limassol and a violent childhood behind ‘How we survived...
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Struggling for hope while dying inside
At a time of year when cynicism should be put to one side, THEO PANAYIDES meets an African couple faced with deportation who love Cyprus but not the human cost of the system’s policies Christmas is a...
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2023: Oh, for those website-free days of writing profiles
Life would be so much simpler without the views. I’ve been writing profiles for years – I interviewed 45 people for the Living section of the Sunday Mail in 2023, including today’s profile of Serdar...
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Accidental politician with the burden of a famous name
In a Turkish Cypriot public figure, THEO PANAYIDES meets a doleful doer who treated politics much like a business. While dismissing the chances of Cypriots living together again, he is more interested...
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Delivering ‘crazy science’ with compassion
In a woman working in Limassol on a cure for cancer, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone whose life fell apart when members of her own family died from it but is now content with a quiet life and medical...
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The mental strength of Cyprus’ long-distance runner
THEO PANAYIDES meets an ultra runner with a warrior’s tenacity in search of a hippy’s sense of freedom, a man who finds freedom when moving through nature Some have reported hallucinations. “I’ve heard...
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Nearly 50% of Nicosia pupils from migrant background
Headteachers say they are coping well, but what about outside of school? Recent figures, released in November by the Schools Board of Nicosia, show that 49.5 per cent of schoolchildren in Nicosia have...
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Has Limassol therapist found secret to wellbeing?
From a child who was never heard, to a young ‘asshole’, to wearing many emotional hats, one alternative doctor is fearless. THEO PANAYIDES meets him Where to begin? Most of his clients at the Limassol...
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Akamas expert goes from activist to Commissioner
In an outdoorsy, fiery architect THEO PANAYIDES meets the woman trying to steer a course between money and natural beauty When I meet Antonia Theodosiou, in her office on a Friday morning, she’s been...
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Cyprus’ stateless children, a red-tape nightmare
It could take years for new criteria to take effect… if it does at all Alexandra is 30 years old and lives in Limassol. Her partner Philip (she calls him Philippos) is from Cameroon and came to Cyprus...
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Palestinian Cypriot creative with an eye for emotion
In the creator of award-winning adverts, THEO PANAYIDES meets a driven, cool man who sees things other people can’t and believes the world should fight for Gaza, not feel sorry for it Gaza hangs in the...
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Counter-productive to still ignore persistent Covid jab fears
Officials would do better to stop blaming misinformation, apologise for clearly illiberal measures during the pandemic, and try to reassure us that the vaccine situation is being monitored Covid...
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The man who’s tried 33,000 different beers
In a beer celebrity drinking his way around the world, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man who has seen a lot and done a lot, including tasting 67 brews in Cyprus alone Back in April 2014, when Gene Bonventre...
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Drag queens in Cyprus (video)
We visited Bar Souvenir in Nicosia, where Sunday brunch also includes drag-queen karaoke and a special show by Lynn Dynasty and Masc4Mascara.
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‘Don’t be afraid of Putin. He is a coward.’ (video)
On February 24, 2024, exactly two years since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Democratic Community of Russians in Cyprus – a group of expat Russians opposed to the war, and the Putin regime –...
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