Film Reviews

Posted on February 7, 2025

FILM OF THE WEEK

HARD TRUTHS
Marianne Jean Baptiste is reunited with Mike Leigh for the first time since the award-winning SECRETS AND LIES and delivers one of the best performances of the year. She is hilarious as Pansy, a …

Theatre Reviews

Posted on February 7, 2025

Of horror and hilarity

Monday 27th January was Holocaust Memorial Day, the 80th anniversary of the date of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Allied forces. An event serendipitously connected to this week’s column.
We begin with Athasha Lyonnais …

Jewish Community of Cyprus meets Israel’s Diaspora Minister in Larnaca
The Jewish Community of Cyprus hosted Israel’s Diaspora Minister, Amichai Chikli, in Larnaca on Wednesday.

The Jewish Community of Cyprus says in a press release that it ”had the honour …

President, Nikos Christodoulides, has expressed his readiness to attend a joint meeting with Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Rosemary DiCarlo, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar.

President Christodoulides was replying to journalists’ questions upon his arrival to a book …

UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo is set to meet with President Nikos Christodoulides at noon on Monday. Earlier, at 10:30, she will meet with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, according to sources who spoke to CNA.…

Trump’s statement on the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza constitutes a crude and cynical declaration by the US to complete the genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. It constitutes a challenge to humanity as a whole and an …