Tales from the Coffeeshop: Syria trumped foreign minister’s finest hour
WHAT a pity that our Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides’ finest hour in Brussels was completely overshadowed by Turkey’s invasion of Syria and the last-ditch negotiations...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Last chance to take the taxpayer’s money
TO SAY the Estia Scheme, which rewards people for not repaying their housing loans, has not gone according to plan, would be something of an...
Tales from the coffeeshop: The truth about Nik’s bargain flight?
IF IT HAD not been for the broken windshield of the Boeing 737 800 bringing Prez Nik and his entourage back to Kyproulla from New...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: From WarNik to PeaceNik in one speech
THE GOLDEN boy of the government Nicos Christodoulides launched another form of diplomacy at the UN last week as part of his much-trumpeted multi-dimensional foreign...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Courageous defiance or plain teenage silliness?
THE TEENAGE boy who took down a Turkish flag from a primary school in Lysi last Sunday has caused great confusion in our society, which...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Major progress as leaders become ‘quite focused’
SPEAKING on Trito on Saturday morning, education minister Costas Hambiarouis said he was shocked to hear about the Muslim student that was sent home by...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Akel have their teeth into Nik and won’t let go
THE ATTACKS on Prez Nik by the indignant commies of Akel over the OCCRP report have been unrelenting. Every day for the last two weeks,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Projecting the whole truth and not the pseudo truth
“THE MAN was being treated in a pseudo-hospital,” reported a radio news bulletin of our state broadcaster Rik, in reference to some story it was...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: MPs’ declarations of assets brighten up a slow August
THIS is the worst time of the year for news and gossip. Everyone is on holiday so we have to feed off scraps. Even the...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Foreclosures highlight we are the eternal victims
I CANNOT say I understood the half-baked solution the legislature came up with on Friday regarding the row with the president over foreclosures, but will...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Lies, lies and holy revelations
PREZ NIK named and shamed another liar of the world political scene last week – Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Cavusoglu now joins the former...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla’s new sacred cash-cow
THE NATIONAL health scheme Gesy is the new sacred cow of Kyproulla, having overtaken auditor-general Odysseas as the institution that must be religiously respected at...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Wanted: new ‘bad demon’ after Brexit
IN THE END, our irrepressible foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides secured the maximum punitive measures the EU was willing to take against Turkey, which, were not...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Confused ramblings from church and state
OUR CHURCH has always had lunatics in its ranks, but one who is currently flying the flag is Bishop Neophytos of Morphou, who has taken...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool
GOVERNMENT celebrations of a few months ago concerning legislation before the US Senate to lift the decades-long US arms embargo on Kyproulla turned into a...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Starters, main course, two states, dessert
THE CYPROB is obviously not a hot topic of conversation at social dinners any more. In fact, it may have gone completely out of fashion...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: No substitutes on Supreme Court bench causing problem
YOU HAD to laugh hearing that the attorney-general had asked for the exclusion of more than half the judges on the full bench of the...
Tea and dyed hair: Nik tackles fake news
PREZ NIK was in mischief-making mood, taking a leaf out of the Donald Trump book, on Wednesday night when he gave two examples of fake...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Big win for clichés in Euro elections
THE DARLING of the pro-solution peaceniks, Niyazi Kizilyurek, whom they declared a sacred symbol of peace and unity, secured the MEPs big fat salary last...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Why would anyone want to be an MEP?
WHY WOULD someone want to be elected to the European Parliament (EP)? For an ambitious politician it means staying on the margins of the domestic...
