Archive 2023

The current outdated swimming pool legislation is ridiculous, unaffordable, unenforceable and lifeguards aren’t exactly hanging off trees waiting to be selected (Swimming pool law damaging Cyprus property and tourism, ...

The new Alphamega stadium in Limassol is great. But getting there can be a nightmare on match days. Fans and nearby residents lodge their complaints with Jonathan Shkurko Just months ...

Investors and analysts are predicting that the crypto market has already bottomed, meaning now is the best time to invest. To position themselves for the impending bull run, investors are ...

Plays, music and film to take over Limassol theatre says ELENI PHILIPPOU A new series of cultural performances will take over Rialto Theatre in May, including theatrical productions, musicians from ...

We all know so much more now, especially if we were a part of the Thatcher-enabled noughties tsunami of off-plan buyers of Cyprus property. Nearly, we estimate, 30 per cent of ...

From those who refuse to show their passports at the checkpoints to those who have found the love of their lives across the divide, few subjects are as emotive in ...

The bicommunal peace initiative United Cyprus called on Sunday for new crossing points to open between the two sides. Marking the 20-year anniversary since the first checkpoint opened in 2003 at ...

Listening the other day to my favourite breakfast radio show, some listeners asked via text message when will “this farce with the refugee identity in Cyprus” finally end? In other ...

We stand ready, expecting and seeking the resumption of talks for a just solution of the Cyprus problem, based on the principles and values of the European Union, Defence Minister ...

Öntaç Düzgün was seriously contemplating closing down his small knitting and wool shop in the heart of the walled city in north Nicosia, when the crossing points opened ...

The son of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said in an interview published on Saturday that he had served in Ukraine under an assumed name as an artilleryman in ...

Methane producing and land gobbling cattle farming must go By Gwynne Dyer “When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant next to a giraffe next ...

Cyprus will not allow its reputation to be tarnished, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, suggesting there would be more individuals and companies that might be sanctioned. Already, the country ...

In minds of successive governments, blame for the events of the past and ongoing impasse lies on the shoulders of others By Gavin Jones This latest article completes my trilogy ...

The United States said its special forces helped embassy staff get out of Sudan, but evacuations by some other countries appeared to face problems on Sunday amid battles between rival ...

THE SANCTIONS, imposed by the Yanks and Brits during Holy Week on 23 Cypriots and 20 Cyprus-based companies, may have brought the honeymoon period of the new presidency to a premature end ...

Here’s a summary of the top business news stories from the week starting April 17: Cyprus has scored below the EU average in the 2022 Competitiveness Index: According to the annual ...

Russians love to litigate in England and the legal profession in London loves Russian litigation as it is extremely lucrative By Alper Ali Riza After the Soviet Union collapsed an ...

As disaster readiness climbs up the EU agenda, a chief scientific advisor offers views on how Europe can harness its strengths. Of all the areas of EU activity, crisis management ...

The government may have earned some plaudits from the United States for its cooperation on the issue of sanctions, but this cooperation was evidently not enough. This was why on ...

German wind power developer SL Naturenergie has been looking for a senior project developer for two years now without success. The company, in the west German town of Gladbeck, needs ...

Generative AI, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, needs to be regulated, but governing bodies must figure out how to do so properly before rushing into prohibitions that “really aren’t ...

There may not yet be an overall solution yet but a whole new generation has experienced what their parents did not Twenty years after the opening of the first crossing ...

Police on Saturday night made an appeal to the public for information on the whereabouts of 31-year-old Angelos Perikleous who has been missing from his Limassol home for the past ...