Paphos rubbish collection highlights Cyprus’ waste problem
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
Late in the evening, even past midnight, Paphos picks up the rubbish and for a few enchanted hours, civilisation smells like it has its act together again. ...
It really is time for a truly Cypriot national anthem
Emily Yiolitis is absolutely right that it is time for Cyprus to embrace its own identity and adopt a truly Cypriot national anthem (Cyprus Mail, October 10).
Relying on Greece’s ...
Cyprus joins forces for the ‘Let’s Do It! Cyprus 2026’ campaign
By Ileana Nicholson
Every year, thousands of volunteers across Cyprus put on gloves, grab trash bags and head out to our beaches, forests, parks and neighborhoods. Collecting tons of waste ...
The global sovereign debt crisis is coming to a head
Sovereign debt distress across North America, Europe and Japan marks the terminal phase of a multi-decade debt cycle hitting an arithmetic wall. Compounding deficits – amplified by post-2008 quantitative easing, pandemic ...
Our View: Good economic indicators hide worrying trends
The government never misses an opportunity about the healthy public finances which it invariably credits to its prudent economic policies. Are its economic policies prudent or has it been fortunate ...
Our View: Turkey’s GSI concession comes with a catch
Reading the comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan about the construction work for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), some might conclude that this opened the way for ...
Our View: Chicken or egg muddle as Disy scrambles for candidate
Averof Neophytou, who has turned Disy upside down in the pursuit of his presidential ambition, announced on Wednesday that he would stand in Monday’s election for the party candidacy. ...
Our View: Govt finally realising it is at the mercy of large oil companies
After years of high expectations about the gas finds in the Cyprus EEZ, everyone is starting to understand that no decision taken by the oil industry is straightforward. It was ...
Israeli election: No change
According to the ‘70s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month (27 October), even ...
Our View: Ministry must look at education reform, not international test scores
Nobody appears to have been surprised by the results scored by Cypriot students in the PISA 2025 exams conducted by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). PISA assesses 15-year-old ...
Environmental protection at local level requires ability to act
What happens when the state entrusts a local authority with the responsibility of protecting the environment, without providing it with the necessary powers, staff or financial resources to fulfil that ...
Vasiliko: Eight interested contractors, but how many can actually complete the project?
The renewed effort to complete the Vasiliko LNG import terminal is entering a critical phase. Eight companies have expressed interest in Etyfa’s (natural gas infrastructure company) tender, estimated at €180 ...
Trump-Xi meeting just kicked can down the road
The critical September White House summit between the US and Chinese presidents yielded a complex mix of relative market stabilisation and unresolved geopolitical tensions. Despite intense competition, the two leaders ...
India: the Cockroach uprising has been a long time coming
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is technically not upper caste, but he does have a high opinion of himself. “When my mother was alive, I used to believe that ...
US retrenchment and the remaking of the Levant
For more than three decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union, American foreign policy was defined by the doctrine of liberal hegemony – the conviction that the unchecked projection of ...
Security disputes need clarity on political objectives
Perhaps the most difficult question one can ask a politician is also the simplest: “What exactly are you trying to achieve?”
Not what principles are you defending, what historical injustices ...
Cyprus independence stands for a compromise Eoka never sought
On October 1, President Nikos Christodoulides marked the 66th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus by declaring that its birth was the culmination of the “purest” national liberation struggle: the 1955-59 ...
Christa Pike should not be executed a second time
Christa Pike is the 50-year-old American woman who was executed in the state of Tennessee and lived to tell the tale after her execution did not result in her death ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: We are all proud to be called ‘Mossad agents’
THE PUBLIC works department was always notorious for its legendary inefficiency. It was traditionally the employer of a special type of public parasite – the type that is less productive than ...
Our View: Nursing unions cannot dictate health policy
It is quite astonishing that there has been a shortage of some 600 nurses at hospitals and clinics for some time now and nursing unions are preventing every government attempt to ...
Why schools must prepare young people for an uncertain future
Parakeets in London are as ubiquitous as seagulls in my hometown in Ireland. Invasive species have become common, sometimes depleting native species, causing problems for farmers, then the question of ...
The next industrial revolution?
By Nektarios Michail
The first industrial revolution was the period between 1760 and 1840, which was defined by more efficient and stable manufacturing processes, at a large scale, aiming to reduce labour ...
Our View: Terminating contracts comes at a high price
New Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki, confirmed on Friday that the resumption of work on the construction of the Paphos-Polis highway, which stopped two years ago after the public works department ...
Our View: Cyprus talks have become political theatre
Having failed to reach agreement on any of the six or seven confidence-building measures discussed last July with the UN Secretary-General, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman ...
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