Established in 1945, it is published every day except Monday, and most of the local articles are available on its website.

[3] Due to this, it was disliked by Greek-Cypriots and circulated mainly among the British colonial administrative and military personnel.

It later took a "pro-confederate" stance on the Cyprus dispute and supported the controversial 2004 Annan Plan, which led to allegations of anti-Greek bias and of "normalizing" the Turkish occupation in the northern part of the island.

[4] The newspaper was purchased in 2019 by Andreas Neocleous, a lawyer and former EOKA member who was previously found guilty of bribing deputy attorney general Rikos Erotokritou.

[5] Criticism came when articles referring to his conviction were removed from the website of the newspaper the day after ownership of the newspaper changed.