THIS JANUARY. All roads lead to LIONS GARDEN as FalzThaBahdGuy gears up to shut down the city of Famagusta in TRNC. The Official After Exams Party, aptly tagged "CYPRUS UNPLUGGED" will feature an array of contemporary and popular Falz tunes, including but not limited to other genre's of music from local artists and the likes.

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Date: January 22, 2016

Venue: LIONS GARDEN, FAMAGUSTA - TRNC

Doors open 10pm

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3. Table of 6 - 2KTL (1Hennessy, 1Bottle of wine, Energy Drink & Suya)

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Born Folarin Falana on October 27, 1990 in Lagos State, better known by his stage name Falz The Bahd Guy is a Nigerian rapper, actor, and songwriter. He began his career while in secondary school after forming a group called "The School Boys" with his friend before his professional career as a music artiste began in 2009. 

Falz shot into limelight after his song titled "Marry Me" (featuring vocals from Poe and Yemi Alade) won him a nomination in the "Best Collaboration of The Year" category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. He was also nominated in the "Best Rap Act of The Year" and "Best New Act to Watch" categories at the same event. He currently owns an independent record label called Bahd Guys Records.

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THIS JANUARY. All roads lead to LIONS GARDEN as FalzThaBahdGuy gears up to shut down the city of Famagusta in TRNC. The Official After Exams Party, aptly tagged "CYPRUS UNPLUGGED" will feature an array of contemporary and popular Falz tunes, including but not limited to other genre's of music from local artists and the likes.

More details below:

Date: January 22, 2016

Venue: LIONS GARDEN, FAMAGUSTA - TRNC

Doors open 10pm

MUSIC:

DJ Cosec

DJ Ather

DJ Simonsayz

CORDINATORS(MC's):

*MC LEGIT

*NI EMEKA

TIX:

1. Regular - 60TL

2. VIP - 150TL (Free Shot)

3. Table of 6 - 2KTL (1Hennessy, 1Bottle of wine, Energy Drink & Suya)

4. Table of 10 - 3KTL (1Ciroc, 2Bottles of wine, Energy Drink & Suya)

CONTACTS:

+90-5338835145 | +90-5338835331 | +905338776681

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Born Folarin Falana on October 27, 1990 in Lagos State, better known by his stage name Falz The Bahd Guy is a Nigerian rapper, actor, and songwriter. He began his career while in secondary school after forming a group called "The School Boys" with his friend before his professional career as a music artiste began in 2009. 

Falz shot into limelight after his song titled "Marry Me" (featuring vocals from Poe and Yemi Alade) won him a nomination in the "Best Collaboration of The Year" category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. He was also nominated in the "Best Rap Act of The Year" and "Best New Act to Watch" categories at the same event. He currently owns an independent record label called Bahd Guys Records.

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Let’s talk a bit about Cyprus and all it’s weirdness (…or not). I’ll tell you something about them, nobody ever told them that staring is rude. When I was a kid, it was received wisdom that openly staring at odd balls, weirdoes, crazies, and sick people was a NO NO. It’s a fact of life that has allowed me to get as far as I have in modern society.

Cypriots are completely unaware of this simple rule. In fact, I suspect that young Cypriots are sent to special staring schools where they learn to gawp intently at anything out of the ordinary. If staring were an Olympic sport, the Cypriots would be legendary.

You’re catching on to my general point here. THEY LIKE TO STARE. Apparently shuffling down the road at a snail’s pace is well within the legitimate grounds for Cypriot-style staring. On every normal day, as I wend my way to the shops, you're bound to see people fetching chairs out from their flats and settling down to a protracted staring session.

I've noticed this predilection before, I must admit. When I first came to Cyprus, speaking English in public would cause people to fix their gaze on you as if they expected you to start eating your own leg at any moment. Recently, on the way to an event in a Cypriot village, one woman almost broke her neck in her efforts to stare into the car I was traveling in.

I swear, the other day I saw a blind girl who had been provided with a dog that was specially trained to do her staring for her. The hound fixed me with a beady gaze, its head tilted to one side, as its mistress casually wondered into the path of an oncoming pedestrian. Now, how fcuked up is that???

And if that’s not enough, I've got some real WEIRD neighbors. They moved in some few weeks back. Ok, in my building, there are six flats. I hardly know any of the people living here, I say “hi” when I pass them, but I wouldn't be able to pick them out of a line-up.

But the weirdest thing has just started occurring from my new neighbors. I don’t know who does it, but they ring the door bell before unlocking their own door. That’s right; they come home, ring the bell, with the key in hand, and unlock 10 seconds after ringing. And they seem to get out a lot because it’s almost a constant ringing and unlocking. It’s just weird.

On a another note, winter's upon us. The cold will become unbearable. I wish…I wish I were in some place cozy and warm...if I say that three times, will my wish come true?

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UN Special Envoy to Cyprus Espen Barth Eide: "Cyprus negotiations are not over yet"
“The game is not over” will be the message UN Special Envoy to Cyprus Espen Barth Eide is expected to convey to the two Cypriot leaders, both North and South Cyprus....READ MORE Learn more »

THERE HAS never been a generation better qualified than the present nor a time more opportune than now for the people to decide how to put Cyprus back together again.

This generation is better educated; more widely travelled than ever, with broader horizons and with the benefit of 21st Century information technology, and should be asked to participate directly from the outset in order to provide the prior consent that is crucial to uniting Cyprus in a bi-zonal federation of two constituent states.

There are also many good people of the older generation on both sides with the wisdom of hindsight who lived through the terrible events of 1963 and 1974 and experienced at close range the awfulness of war and displacement who have waited far too long and who would wish to have an opportunity to vote about the future of their country in the hope that they will leave behind a peaceful future for their children and grandchildren.

The region around Cyprus has become a dangerous place too and danger concentrates the mind of most people. It is an ill wind that is blowing across the sea, which makes it essential to unleash the common sense of the people to help sort out the Cyprus problem once and for all before it is too late.

The joint statement in Cyprus of 11 February 2014 reserves to the leaders the ultimate decision to agree the settlement first before it is put to the people in simultaneous referenda.

However in the 2004 referendum seventy five per cent of Greek Cypriots rejected the Annan Plan, and although they are not to be taken as having rejected a bi-zonal federation as such, the result of that referendum has to be shown respect if the same result is to be avoided.

The way to show respect is not to carry on regardless, but to hold a referendum and obtain prior consent first, this time round.

The truth is that a bi-zonal federation is still very controversial among Greek Cypriots because it arises from a state of affairs that was not freely chosen but was the result of the tragic events in the summer of 1974, and as such has to be promoted with sensitivity as well as pragmatism.

The Greek Cypriot people need to be persuaded and the persuading needs to be convincing. And the arguments are persuasive and convincing!

Advantages of direct democracy

The use of direct democracy in a referendum at the outset is not intended to replace representative democracy but to enhance it by relieving the political leadership of the responsibility for decision-making that is so profound and of such historical and national importance that no individual or institution in a modern democratic society should be expected to carry such a heavy burden within the constraints of their democratic mandate.

The Rationale behind a bi-zonal federation

The rationale behind the bi-zonal federation is that owing to events on the island from 1963 culminating in the 1974 war, Turkish Cypriots fled to the north of Cyprus en masse in fear for their lives and are now unwilling and in some cases unable to return to their former homes in the south of Cyprus.

As they are now concentrated in the north and not interspersed throughout the island, it is proposed that the previous constitutional arrangements are altered to enable them to govern themselves within a sovereign United Cyprus in political equality under a new federal constitution comprising two constituent states known as ‘North Cyprus’ and ‘South Cyprus’.

Political equality

Political equality has been much misunderstood by its proponents as well as its detractors. Political equality is what Cyprus has in the councils of the EU. In important decisions, for example, whether to admit a new member, Cyprus, a country of less than a million people, has equal voting power with Germany, a country of more than 80 million people.

In theory, Cyprus could for example veto the admission of say Ukraine even if all the other states wished to admit her.

The example shows that it all depends on the importance of the area of decision making involved but the underlying rationale is that in important areas of governance majoritarian domination is regarded as problematic and undemocratic.

Contrary to the received wisdom among Greek Cypriot politicians in the past, majoritarian domination is capable of being problematic and undemocratic in Cyprus too, hence the need for political equality in important areas of executive and legislative decision-making whereby both entities of the federation would have to agree a measure if its area of operation triggers the political equality provisions of the Constitution.

It is not difficult to imagine which areas would activate the trigger but that must be for the leaders to negotiate, with a further referendum if they fail to agree.

The property aspects

The property aspects of the problem have to be compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights but it is important to note that the right to property is a qualified right that may be curtailed in the public interest if necessary and proportionate to a legitimate aim, provided the loser is properly compensated.

The property aspects shall be dealt with by compensation exchange or reinstatement. Some of this is already taking place privately in accordance with procedures put directed by the European Court of Human Rights.

The land to be returned under ‘South Cyprus’ control is a matter for negotiation for the leaders.

The federal civil service

The federal civil service poses its own set of problems. People who are not civil servants are concerned about the size and cost of a bloated civil service and the integrity, competence, and efficiency of state officials more than their ethnicity.

The aim must ultimately be to have a much smaller state apparatus but of such high quality that in years to come ethnicity would no longer matter.

In the initial stages of any solution however it would be impossible for the putative federal civil service to be up and functioning from nowhere.

To this end it is proposed that in the event of an affirmative response in this referendum there is set up, with the assistance of the EU, a Graduate School of Administration in the mould of the Ecole Nationale d’administration in France, to train and prepare the very high quality civil service that will be from both sides who will take over the levers of federal power once the federation is launched.

Preparing for a solution in practical terms is one of the best confidence-building measures imaginable which is the reason why an affirmative answer in this referendum is so important. To this end it is also proposed that soundings begin with the EU as soon as possible concerning setting up the said Graduate School.

Membership of the EU

Cyprus shall continue to be a member of the European Union. The Turkish Cypriots have already voted indirectly in favour by their affirmative vote in the 2004 referendum on the Annan plan, since the idea at the time was for Cyprus to be reunited so as to join the EU problem free.

The importance of this area of common ground is that it is very conducive to resolving the Cyprus problem because membership of the EU carries with it transfer of sovereignty to the EU which reduces areas of potential disagreement.
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Foreign policy and Turkish guarantees

Foreign policy is not normally controversial at home. If it were not for the Cyprus problem, the foreign policy of Cyprus would be like that of Malta, which is perhaps why some politicians in Cyprus indulge the Cyprus problem.
Turkish Cypriots place a lot of importance on Turkish guarantees.

They should consider a fresh look at how efficacious such guarantees are in international law because even if the treaty of guarantee remained in force Turkey would still only be able to intervene lawfully if it could invoke self defence under the UN Charter.

Troop withdrawals and resettlement of Turkish nationals back to Turkey should not in principle pose insuperable problems because as and when a solution is found the natural consequence must be that the Turkish troops would gradually be withdrawn because their presence would be redundant.

So far as the resettlement of Turkish nationals is concerned, EU and European Human Rights law would govern their position as well as what the two sides agree. Objections from Turkey or from Turkish Cypriots about these matters are much exaggerated.
This declaration aims to persuade all the people, but particularly the Greek Cypriots, to vote in favour of a bi-zonal federation as a pragmatic way to reunite the island. It is acknowledged at once that it is put forward for want of anything better but in democracies this is often the best reason. It is measured in tone, close to the facts, sensitive to feelings and true to itself. We recommend it to the people of Cyprus.

Alper Ali Riza is a Queen’s Counsel and one of HM part time judges in England

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Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots could face the biggest decision of their lives this year if current peace talks lead to their divided island's reunification.

A professor of political science and international relations at Northern Cyprus-based Eastern Mediterranean University, Sozen – who has spent 20 years on the Cyprus conflict – talked to Anadolu Agency. 

In other words, everyone on the island would be citizens of a united federation; however, they would be educated in their own schools in their mother tongue and live under their own autonomy.

Therefore, the island’s unification would bring more gains for Turkish Cypriots than Greek ones, because Turks would be EU citizens in the end.

The Turkish side of the island would use the euro [official currency of the eurozone which consists of 19 of the EU’s member states] instead of its current currency, the Turkish lira.

President of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce, Fikri Toros, who is also a businessman in Northern Cyprus, claimed that Cyprus’s employment capacity would rise sharply after unification, especially in tourism – the island’s main source of income.

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NICOSIA, aside from being the only divided capital, as of today is now also probably the world’s only city of its size to have two time zones following the decision in Northern Cyprus not to return to daylight-saving time, which came into effect some while back.

There is now a one-hour difference between the north and south of the island with the Turkish Cypriots remaining an hour ahead and while many find it amusing, there will be practical issues, especially for Turkish Cypriots who work in the south of the island.

The decision, which was announced last month was mostly met with amusement from many Cypriots on both sides.  But TRNC Government said that it was necessary for practical reasons. Last year Turkey waited a week to fall in line with the rest of the world before changing to daylight saving time, causing frustration both in Turkey and in the north as computers and smartphones automatically dialled back an hour.

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci had said in September that it was deemed as necessary purely for practical reasons and he dismissed arguments linking the move with political criteria. He added that they wanted to avoid problems with flight schedules, as in the north planes arrive only from Turkey. Another reason, he said, was to also avoid a change in the rules of the market and an effect on the financial sector. “If you ask me I surely do not wish for different time zones on our island,” Akinci had said.

The way out is a solution of the settlement agreement so that they could “rid” themselves from “unnatural things like this,” he added.

“We divided this island and now we will also have two time zones. This is absurd and unacceptable,” Bariş said. “In my opinion, we have to solve the Cyprus problem to solve this”.

Commenting on the decision taken by the Turkish Cypriot side to implement Turkey’s decision to stick to summer time all year-round, a spokesman of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) had said that they were focusing on facilitating efforts to reach a comprehensive settlement as soon as possible and that it was up to the two sides “how to address such issues”.

“The idea began as a joke. We thought about it the night Turkey had announced it wouldn’t follow the daylight-saving changes and when they decided in the north to do the same, we launched the event and it became viral,” Tanur Tsiknakis told the Sunday Mail.

Having two time zones, she said, it will be confusing. “It will be difficult as I’m a Turkish speaking Cypriot and my husband is a Greek speaking Cypriot and it will create problems. We have family on both sides of the divide,” Tsiknakis said.

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A road rage video uploaded on a local news website was making the rounds on social media earlier this week, that shows two Cypriot drivers coming to blows in a middle-of-the-road punch-up.

The two men are seen rolling in the middle of the road before eventually being pulled apart by a third man and two women, who appeared to have been travelling with them, before returning to their respective vehicles on the outskirts of Nicosia.

There seems to be no indication as to the motive except two frustrated drivers that lost it at the wheel during the summer heat.

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United Nations, Espen Barth Eide : "There is no time to waste to achieve a Cyprus settlement"
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The meteorological service has warned that temperatures will be rising to as much as 42 degrees Celsius for the next couple of days. Skies as expected will be clear between the period of 14th and 20th of July.

While temperatures inland are expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius coastal areas will be slightly cooler with temperatures lingering between 33-36 degrees Celsius.

Winds will generally be Southerly and Westerly moderate strong on Monday.

The met office has advised people and sensitive groups to avoid unnecessary exposure to the sun, particularly between 10am and 4pm as well as to drink plenty of water during the day.

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African Students Association - TRNC in conjuction with relevant students bodies in TRNC is geared to deliver a one in a lifetime experience tonight in Famagusta, TRNC.

Aptly called ASGA 2016 - It promises to be everything you wish for and then some...

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The Nigerian artist rapper who said, "Music is the other half of me. In my 24 hours in a day, I spend like 20 hours in the studio every single day" will be in Cyprus this weekend in an event that will go down in history as one of the biggest and baddest...yet.

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Date: May 7th 2016
Venue: Lions Garden, Famagusta - TRNC
Time: 11pm


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Last weekend I was at a rather interesting Cyprus seminar. The meeting itself was a very important one as the Strategic Research Institute (USAK), in cooperation with the Cyprus Academic Dialogue brought together Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot academics, journalists, and of course some senior politicians in Ankara. Particularly for Greek Cypriots being in Ankara and sitting around a table with some key Turkish Cyprus pundits and top bureaucrats was precious. “Look at the invitation to this conference! ‘Turkey and Cyprus Regional Peace & Stability.’ Turkey and Cyprus in one sentence. That in itself is the biggest accomplishment of this seminar,” Nicos Anastasiou, President of Cyprus Academic Dialogue said. Of course when looked at from Ankara, there was nothing important in that sentence, but for Greek Cypriots who have been aspiring for decades to bypass Turkish Cypriots and directly talk with Turkey, it was an emotional success.

For ages, Greek Cypriot leaders have been stressing that they should directly talk with Turkey, rather than Turkish Cypriots because it was Ankara that makes the decisions. That assumption was not, unfortunately, wrong all together and indeed reflects the bigger and the lesser threats the Turkish Cypriots indeed have been facing. Turkey must accommodate itself to the reality of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and start state-to-state relations with Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish Cypriot state is recognized only by Ankara, but that Ankara has become some sort of a colony power as well.

Which is the bigger threat, Greek Cypriots who deny the existence and equal rights of Turkish Cypriots in the governance and sovereignty of Cyprus or Turkey, a country so affectionate and embracing the Turkish Cypriots so strongly that breathing has become almost impossible?

Well, there is even a third threat. Defeatist leftist or liberal Turkish Cypriots… Can there be lasting peace with a defeatist or self-defeating mentality? Can surrender and altogether submission to the demands of the “other side” manage to bring a sustainable resolution to an intractable problem, at the core of which lies in one of the two sides’ refusal of political equality and share in governance, as well as in the sovereignty of the other partner.

Her eyes wide open in anger, a young female colleague was yelling at me the other day that as someone who supported the TRNC was not expected to be a supporter of a federal solution on Cyprus. Strange. A Greek Cypriot friend, attending the same event, was talking about how Turkish Cypriots might patch up the unitary state of the Cyprus Republic, enjoying full individual rights like Greek Cypriots, and thus transforming the state into a functional federation. He was all together rejecting any settlement prospect other than the federal one, but his description of the federation was nothing further than changing the name of a unitary state. The Greek Cypriot friend was definitely sure that by transforming the republic into a federation buy adding to it the “Turkish Cypriot element” and re-writing the Constitution with a federal approach, the Cyprus problem could become history.

A Turkish Cypriot professor, presenting an awesome confidence building package that indeed was calling to approach the Cyprus issue through a compartmentation approach, suggested the Turkish side demonstrate its goodwill and will for settlement by taking some unilateral moves. What kind of moves? Transferring the ownership of some key religious institutions – such as the Apostolos Andreas Monastery and the Hala Sultan Tekke (Islamic monastery) – to their rightful owners. He also suggested that Turkish Cypriots could as well stop customs applications at border crossings, as if those gates are customs gates of “another state.” Why? All sorts of consolidation of TRNC must be avoided while moves demonstrating the will to recognize, at least tacitly, the Cyprus government must be undertaken.

Greek Cypriots, to show goodwill as well, might retaliate to Turkish Cypriot “confidence building” steps by allowing the Ercan (Timbou) Airport open to international flights. How? Under Turkish Cypriot rule, but subject to Greek Cypriot FIR and regulations. To show goodwill it was of course advisable for Turkey to open its ports and airports to Greek Cypriot planes and vessels and, of course, there is no merit in holding the deserted Varosha suburb of Famagusta a hostage of the deadlocked peace talks, and it must be handed over to Greek Cypriots bona fide at once. What else?

No one spoke about the need for Greek Cypriots to take unilateral steps, or to start acknowledging, if not recognizing, the existence of a functioning – indeed better functioning – democracy in the north. Cyprus talks of all sorts have become something like trying to nail jelly to the wall.

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US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has said that the United States strongly supports a Cyprus settlement by Cypriots for Cypriots and that Washington is encouraged by the leaders’ hard work towards reunification.

“We will continue to support these leaders as they take difficult steps but we want this to be a Cypriot owned, Cypriot led process” she said following her meeting with President Mustafa Akinci at his office in North Nicosia earlier this year.

The US diplomat said that she had a productive meeting with Akinci and added:

“We are hopeful of both leaders making courageous decisions for peace, thinking about their people, thinking about the future of this island. We also had a very good strategic conversation about the importance of peace and reconciliation not just for all the people of Cyprus but also for this turbulent neighbourhood which needs stability, which needs peace, which needs a positive example of two communities living well together. So the US will continue to support this”.

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Increased dust particles and unpredictable weather pattern in Cyprus spurred a public health warning from the relevant ministry.

In a statement, the Ministry’s Labour Inspection Department said: “due to the small size of respirable particles and their possible negative impact on human health, the public, and particularly vulnerable groups (children, the elderly and patients), should avoid outdoor activity until the phenomenon has elapsed”.

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In an interview published last weekend, European Parliament Speaker Martin Schulz said that he has no doubt that even though a settlement of the Cyprus problem is ‘within touching distance’ there is still work to be accomplished and efforts to be done even after an eventual unification.

"Cypriots face some crucial months ahead of them. The chance for reunification has never been so close,” Schulz told the semi-state Cyprus News Agency in an interview.

"I will be in Cyprus to show the support of the European Parliament to the process being undertaken and publicly back both President Anastasiades and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community Akıncı in the considerable efforts they are doing,” he added.

Schulz said that "the efforts being made by all sides to resolve the division in Cyprus are nothing short of remarkable. The speed and depth of the talks are impressive.”

Whilst in Cyprus, Schulz will hold meetings with leaders and representatives of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties, at Ledra Palace under the auspices of the Slovak Embassy in Nicosia.

He will also visit the Anthropological Laboratory of the Committee on Missing Persons and will participate in a television debate with young Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots at the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.

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Denmark has emerged as the happiest nation in the world. The Scandinavian country, which has a population of around 5.6 million, knocked Switzerland into second place to take the title of the happiest country in the 2016 World Happiness Report.

A combination of a relatively high GDP, good healthy life expectancy and high levels of social support gave the country its edge over the other nations.

The report is the fourth of its kind to be produced, using a variety of factors to measure happiness around the world since the first World Happiness Report in 2012.

People's health, access to medical care, family relations, job security, political freedom and levels of government corruption are all among the measures used to assess happiness.

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EU weather officials are predicting dry weather for Cyprus spring ending and all through the summer with less rain and higher-than-normal temperatures.

Following a particularly dry winter with less rainfall levels than normal in Cyprus, the Serbian Meteorological Service that monitors the entire region has issued a forecast for the island where the first warnings of a drought are starting to appear.

Total rainfall for the months of March, April, and May is expected to be less than normal by 50% in the south and southeast of the island and up to 75% in other areas. Temperatures are not expected to veer off drastically from normal levels but they will show a slight increase, adding to the already hot characteristics of a summer drought.

Expected temperatures of up to 45'C will be observed during the highest peaks in Summer. Residents are advised to be cautious and wear protective clothing.

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