Our View: Government right to set limit on third-country students
SETTING limits to the number of third-country nationals that private colleges can enrol was the correct move by the education ministry. It had been advised...
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The property issue should have been addressed a long time ago
This issue should have been addressed immediately after the 1974 war and a tax levied on any real-estate transactions to compensate people like my wife’s...
New parliament building is a total waste of taxpayer’s money
Commenters had more or less the same view on the proposed building of a new parliament S: As ususal they have got their own selfish...
Our View: Akel’s criticism of foreign minister over Turkey is justified
Foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides is the latest state official who seems to believe he is above criticism. He follows the example set by the auditor-general...
In Davos, Trump frames climate change as global culture war
By Peter Apps In Davos on Tuesday, President Donald Trump pledged the United States to a major global project to plant a trillion trees worldwide in the...
Underground recycling bins should be just the beginning
In principle this is a great idea but the problems we already have at recycling centers in Cyprus remain. Unwillingness of the people who bring...
Seismic data can be freely bought on the market
If we’re talking about seismic data that was shot by independent speculative survey companies, then anyone with an interest in oil and gas exploration can...
Putin is not Stalin, nor is he immortal
Five years ago somebody posted photographs on the internet showing a man who looked a lot like Vladimir Putin in photographs from 1920 and 1941....
Our View: Quantity over quality yet again in new tourism plan
Yet another national tourism strategy was unveiled on Tuesday by the deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios and this time it will be a 10-year...
There’s always painting by numbers
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I watched The Kominsky Method on Netflix, starring Michael Douglas as a thrice married acting coach and...
Our View: New law could pave the way for improved government service
The government law that would cut the red tape and speed up the procedures for what are defined as ‘strategic investments’ is commendable, but whether...
His crime, he did not buy the house to become a Roman in Rome!
Mr O’Dwyer is not a Cypriot. He did not integrate, speak Greek, live in the local café, adopt local customs, support the local sport’s club,...
Helping vulnerable customers with their electricity bills should be down to the state’s welfare system, not the EAC
With regard to the suggestion in your second sentence, (perhaps part of the profits made from the somewhat outrageous electricity costs in Cyprus could be...
Our View: Auditor-general looks childish in latest power struggle
The ongoing row between auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides and ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottidou has taken comical proportions. Both have dug in their heels, waiting for the other...
A case of the pot calling the kettle black
Sometimes women lie about being raped, sometimes they don’t. just a fact of life. but extrapolating the Napa case – based on your own subjective...
Cyprus is too small and needs an agreement sooner rather than later
Probably the most impartial article ever written about Turkey. Congratulations to Mr Panayotides. As for the second objection clearly the facts do not support this...
Time for new initiatives in growing East Med energy crisis
The risk of an accident leading to a hot incident is increasing By Charles Ellinas Despite 2020 starting with some positive developments, the East Med...
The cult of self-congratulatory business awards
By Nicholas Karides Last month the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm bestowed its international award, the Nobel Prize, on economists, physicists and chemists...
Napa rape claim case highlights bias against women
By Cleopatra Kitti There can’t be many women in Cyprus who don’t feel a deep sense of unease about the case of the British teenager...
Is Turkey the beast we believe she is?
By Christos Panayiotides The other day I met a friend whom in previous years I would have called a nationalist. I directly posed the question:...
