Tales from the Coffeeshop: Suddenly we’re all Libyan experts now
TWO MONTHS ago, if you asked an ordinary Cypriot who Khalifa Haftar was, he may have told you it was a brand of Lebanese baklava...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Flooded with water and good news
THE NEW decade could not have started any better for the good people of Kyproulla. The unprecedented, unrelenting downpours may have caused some flooding, damage...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A PR disaster of nuclear proportions
WHO WOULD have thought that our authorities’ monumental bungling of a rape claim case would have turned into a international PR disaster of nuclear proportions...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Israel is proving to be a fickle ally
THE GREAT and the good of our sun-drenched island received a terrible fright at the start of the week after reading reports from Israel suggesting...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Dialogue for the sake of dialogue
STATE hospital doctors’ union Pasyki was “forced to stage the three-hour work stoppage on Friday as a cry of anguish,” said the perennially angry union...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Doing a lot to get nowhere fast
BOOSTED by the success of the informal dinner with the UNSG in Berlin, which received rave reviews, Prez Nik’s government made another revelation to illustrate...
Nik directed the word-perfect Cyprob pantomime
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ declared intention to join in the Cyprus peace process pantomime was sincere as the airy-fairy statement that followed the ‘informal’ dinner...
A tough week for Nik and a dinner in Berlin he might not digest
NOTHING seems to be going well for Prez Nik these days. Just when the noise surrounding the passports business had died down, the Israeli spy...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: When Averof Hood went after the banks
ALTHOUGH the assault on the banks began at the legislature on Wednesday, the main offensive was launched on Friday by Disy chief Averof Neophytou in...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Palace tries some Humpty Dumpty PR
ALL IS NOT well at the presidential palace, where Prez Nik seems to be permanently in a foul mood that he reportedly takes out on...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The gilded workers have taken over the asylum
THE DICTATORSHIP of the proletariat, which ran the economy until its collapse in 2013, may have been in retreat for a few years after that...
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...
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...
