Participants gear up for solar car race

Preparations for the solar car parade on Saturday in Nicosia, aimed to gear the public interest for the annual race on Sunday at 10am.

This year the race has 10 participating teams, half of which are high-school teenagers.

On Saturday the cars went down Ledras and Onasagorou streets and going back to the town hall in time for a free concert starring starring popular singer Katerina Stikoudi and others.

On Sunday, the cars will race down Spyrou Kyprianou, Stasikratous, Queen Frederica, Grivas Dighenis and Demosthenes Severis starting at 10am followed by a prize-giving ceremony at the town hall at 2pm that will include cultural events and “surprises”.

This will be followed by an exhibition of the cars in the courtyard of the town hall.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.