Our View: Farcical Aglandjia by-election a waste of public funds
The election of deputy mayor Aglandjia was the farce everyone expected. It is no wonder that it recorded what is probably the lowest ever turnout for any election at 27.73 per ...
Venezuela: Things could change
Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela are about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can’t blame the planners and the politicians ...
Our View: EU presidency did not reshape Europe, but was smoothly run
Cyprus’ presidency of the EU Council comes to an end today and will be taken over by Ireland from tomorrow. In the six months from January 1, the Cyprus presidency held ...
Earthquake shifts political ground for Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodriguez
Venezuela’s strongest earthquake in over a century is the biggest challenge to Delcy Rodriguez’s early leadership but could also allow the interim president to stamp her authority on ...
Progress towards normality, but energy markets remain far from normal
The first round of high-level US-Iran talks in Lucerne produced cautious but meaningful progress towards restoring stability in one of the world’s most important energy regions.
Both sides described ...
Cypriot journalist Sevgul Uludag dies
Renowned Cypriot journalist Sevgul Uludag died on Sunday at the age of 67.
In a career which spanned over four and a half decades, Uludag devoted herself to the cause of ...
Unprecedented concessions of US-Iran ceasefire
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), finalised at Versailles in June 2026 following mediation in Islamabad, marks a fundamental turning point in global affairs.
While the agreement appears to halt a devastating ...
Famagusta: gazing at the past through AI
An acknowledged Greek painter and a good friend of mine, Sylvana Samartzidou, recently portrayed me gazing at the past, next to a classic Cyprus fishing boat grounded on the golden ...
From globalisation to fragmentation: the evolving economic reality
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
For decades, the trajectory of the global economy was built on the deepening of trade and other cross‑border linkages. Trade barriers were declining, ...
The freedom to support Palestine
There were two judgments of general interest from the English courts two weeks ago about Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group based in UK that campaigned against the UK government’...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The old boy is back in town, guns blazing
NIK I was back in the spotlight on Tuesday reliving the good old days when he was Kyproulla’s ex officio centre of attention.
The last time he had so ...
Our View: Welcome signs government is confronting the unions at last
CoLA demonstrations in Limassol
Dream move to Cyprus quickly became housing horror story
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
My first five days in Cyprus were hell, with problems inside the house that demanded attention before anything else could begin to settle, continuous management of issues ...
Ireland’s Presidency will work to support all Europeans
By Micheál Martin
On July 1, on the conclusion of its successful six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Cyprus will pass the baton to Ireland for its ...
Our View: Committee probe into Mafia State a bad idea
The government decision to appoint independent criminal investigators, to look into the possible offences listed in the report by the anti-corruption authority about the allegations made in Mafia State, does ...
Tourism enters era of last-minute bookings
Cyprus tourism is facing a profound transformation that is reshaping the entire structure of the market. The period when holidays were booked months ahead of summer, allowing businesses to forecast ...
Our View: Ministers show bravery in taking on civil service sick leave cheats
We do not often hear politicians speak critically of the abuse of rights by public servants. It was therefore a very pleasant surprise to hear two ministers bring up the ...
Our View: Government must resist Nimby pressure over desalination plants
Apart from the Nimby (not in my back yard) culture with regard to asphalt factories, migrant centres, kebab shops and so forth we are now seeing this being extended to ...
Our View: Government once again pandering to the unions
The government has bowed to union pressure with regard to its pension reform plan. After a meeting of the Labour Advisory Body, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said there had been ...
The slave traders
At a ‘high-level United Nations consultative conference’ in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade to make a ...
Our View: National Council’s role seems to be production of platitudes
Another National Council meeting was held on Monday so that President Nikos Christodoulides could inform the leaders of the parliamentary parties about the latest peace initiative undertaken by the UN. ...
Alan Greenspan, US Fed ‘maestro’ through years of boom and bust, dies at 100
Alan Greenspan, hailed as the greatest Federal Reserve chairman when he retired in 2006 but derided for a severe financial crisis that followed barely two years later, died on Monday aged 100, ...
Cyprus reflected in a Ukrainian mirror
The geopolitical chessboard of the Eastern Mediterranean is a harsh, unforgiving arena where the survival of smaller states depends entirely on a cold, pragmatic calculation of the regional balance of ...
A reflection on life and death
A different kind of column today. A personal one.
Not so long ago, I wrote about Albert Camus and the absurdity of life. This came back to haunt me when ...
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