Theo Panayides

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.

Miriam Erne is in what might be called a transitional phase. At 36, “I have lived through some stuff,” she says – vivid stuff and sometimes terrible stuff, images she'll carry with her to the end of her days. Right now, however,

A few days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we asked people on the streets of Nicosia what they remember from that day in 2001, and what it means to them all these years later.