Opinion

By Mark Post If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate exactly. A Japanese designer marvelling at ...

I live in the countryside, in the Nicosia district, in the middle of a field. Nature, wildlife, fresh air and peace and quiet. Except during the hunting season. During that ...

Members of the House of Representatives should not rush to approve the questionable ‘tax reform’ proposed by the government. This is because its contents are largely not compatible with achieving ...

The UK justice minister, David Lammy, told parliament last Tuesday that the government is minded to remove the right to jury trial for all offences for which the sentence was ...

HOW BIZARRE that just a few hours after his return from Kyiv and the meeting with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Prezniktwo announced a cabinet reshuffle that completely overshadowed his ...

For the last five years, thanks to the inflexibility of the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar the Greek Cypriot side was in control of the Cyprus problem narrative. This was ...

The Foundation of State Scholarships of Cyprus (Ikyk) ran out of money and is offering fewer scholarships to university students, said Akel deputy Christos Christofides in the legislature on Thursday. “...

The privileges granted to a president of the republic and a president of the legislature after they leave office, were discussed once again by the House institutions committee on Wednesday. ...

As was widely expected, Tuesday’s talks between the United States and Russia made no progress towards a Ukraine peace deal. This was the view expressed by a Kremlin aide ...

The Cyprus Consumers Association, as a matter of policy, is never satisfied. It always operates with the assumption that retailers have one objective – to deceive consumers into paying a higher ...

By Gwynne Dyer Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, has just asked the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, to “fully pardon” him of all three charges –  bribery, fraud and ...

Next May parliamentary elections will be held, and it appears there will be a large number of parties competing for seats. Seven parties are currently represented in the House, but ...

By Alexandra Attalides “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master,” wrote Nobel laureate Christian Lous Lange a century ago. In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this observation ...

By Michael Ioannou and Emilios Charalambous The rapid proliferation of drones across Europe has reshaped entire sectors from commercial photography and media production to infrastructure inspection, public safety operations and ...

Fighting bureaucracy, as a prerequisite for enhancing economic growth, is among the top priorities of many countries. In the US and Argentina, the approach is radical, characterised by large-scale horizontal ...

Turkey has been intensifying its promotion of a “two-state” solution in Cyprus, turning it into the centrepiece of its diplomatic narrative – or so it appears. Most recently, during a meeting ...

The country does not recognise same-sex marriages or civil unions Poland is a devoutly Catholic country and its laws on same sex marriage are less tolerant of homosexuality than other ...

A PROVISIONAL agreement for settling the issue of supplementing the provident funds of bank employees, whose deposits were reduced as a result of the 2013 haircut was reached at an agreement ...

There is no doubt that the strengthening of relations between Cyprus and Lebanon through the signing of the agreement on the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) between the ...

A good illustration of how the local authorities waste the taxpayer’s money was given in a letter sent to Limassol municipality by the Audit Service, which identified a long ...

There was no testimony linking the granting of citizenships with donations made to Disy, concluded the independent authority against corruption after its investigation of accusations made by Akel deputy Christos ...

Les Manison’s article last Sunday had sound financial advice. How marvellous if his suggestions could be applied locally, resulting in a fair and equally supported population. Sadly, we non-wealthy ...

A day after the publication of Ithaki, the book penned by former prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras about his time in office, a very short written announcement was issued ...

If a private business found that its operations could not be run efficiently with the number of workers it employed, the obvious thing would be to hire more workers. If, ...