Dancehouse Lefkosia, in collaboration with the three founding organizations (Dance Gate, Dance Lab and Lefkosia Youth Ballet) and their members, announces its first fundraising event ‘PEDIAIOS HAPPENING’. The event will take place on the 25th and 26th of October 2014 at the indoor and outdoor premises of the Dancehouse Lefkosia from 10 a.m. to 10 […]
Four rowers (Alexandros Zisimides, Christos Aristidou, Omiros Antoniou and Michalis Christodoulou) are on a mission to change rowing in Cyprus by taking part in the U23 World Championships in Italy in July. Unfortunately, given the current economic climate and the current allocations of budgets for sporting teams on the island (Cyprus Rugby faces similar issues), […]
Last night Hector from Ektagon (the company behind projects like the website you’re reading) announced that in order to help unemployed individuals get noticed in the current job market, free annual memberships for seevi.co are to available immediately. The job market is so tough that candidates find it increasingly difficult to stand out when supplying […]
Bothersome: The last couple of years, Entrepreneurship has been presented as a “fix all problems approach” to all ills of our economy and society. Even more bothersome, this expectation has been cultivated by the most dangerous types, individuals who read a book and became “experts” in the field; people who don’t even know what they […]
Received from our friends at the Cyprus Rugby Federation: Receiving an international call up is a huge honour for any rugby player. We as a Federation are so proud of all our boys who are able to produce superb performances on the field which have led us to a current World Record of 22 consecutive […]
It’s been almost a year since we launched RentADeskCyprus as an OnThisIsland.com project to help get talented people in Cyprus, back to work. Since then the project has continued to grow from strength to strength, evolving to make the end vision more understandable: to build an international marketplace that gives, and keeps giving, entrepreneurs a […]
Two brothers, Alexis and Andreas Economides, are running a crowd-funding campaign to raise €4,300. The money will be put towards getting a Motomed machine for the school. (It’s specialist exercise equipment that will greatly enhance the quality of life for the children.) To see more about this campaign and to make a small donation, head […]
So, as you may have gathered there’s good news and bad news regarding the sewers in Limassol’s Old Town. Seeing as it’s a Friday night, we’ll start with the good then head over to the bad. The Good News: They’re finally doing work and upgrading the drainage system below old town. The Bad News: It appears they’ve […]
The Cypriot Enterprise Link (CEL) are the young group of volunteers behind great things like Hack{Cyprus} (and it’s hackathon, and it’s insights conference and it’s tech talks) are back at it again! On the 12th of April they organised their first ever Hack{Cyprus} Code School at the English School in Nicosia. The event focusses on teaching young people […]
We’ve been following and updating our followers and facebook friends about the situation with a gunman who was running from the Police across Limassol earlier. As there’s been a slow-down of information, we’ve been able to quickly put this together to give you the rough list of the news as we got it. We’ll update this post with […]
On the 5th of April 2005, the very first page was uploaded and OnThisIsland.com was born. Today I have to say a massive thank you to everyone for everything you’ve contributed over the last 9 years. Whether you shared an event with us, won a ticket, found out about an event, followed a live-blog, read […]
Given all the bad press over the last year or so, we’re happy to see that the Telegraph put Cyprus in their top 20 places to live the good life. In amongst the likes of Hong Kong, Bavaria, Budapest, Amsterdam, Tuscany, Barbados and Grenada; we’re glad that the beauty of our shores, our cuisine and […]