Our View: Time to hit illegal parkers where it hurts most
INDEED it was a tragic irony, as the technical chamber Etek put it on Thursday, that a disabled pensioner in an electric wheelchair was killed...
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Banning cars from city centres the only effective solution
The EU should think twice before giving taxpayers money to just anyone. Ban cars from city centres like most EU cities – end of problem....
Elderly should try and adapt to modern times
‘In some cases, they said, the communities in question are so small that they do not even have a single pharmacy or a supermarket, meaning...
Our View: No excuses for bad planning in Nicosia works
NEW YORK’S Empire State building took one year and 45 days to build. A miniscule project – the revamping of Nicosia’s Eleftheria square – has taken nigh...
We are still living in the past
We are living in the past. Its 2019. We can sit here throwing accusations of atrocities to each other about what happened 50’s, 60’s, 70’s...
Stephen Barclay’s comments spark heated debate with strongly differing views
It’s the governments job to get a deal with the EU , it’s Parliaments job to accept or reject that deal. No amount of your...
The Land Registry’s valuation was always ‘correct’
Some years ago the Land Registry valued a plot of land we had bought, they stated it was “worth” €250,000 (way above the Contract value)....
Our View: The deal subsidising priests’ wages is absurd
THERE IS no rational justification for the state to carry on subsidising the monthly wages of so-called rural priests by 50 per cent. The whole...
Cypriots need to move on
Not happy with ALL Cypriots. In the UK we work together , drink together, and friendship is real. Yet I have come over to live...
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The Cyprus Mail is correct: the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Anything run by state bureaucrats is a shambles. Have you ever come across...
Cyprus needs to improve its tourist product
I like coming to Cyprus for a holiday, however all points are valid. Two years ago I travelled for a client to a hotel in...
More water with that?
By Richard Dickenson I live in an area which is on one of the main tourist migration routes of the island. For the most part...
Our View: Parents have finally woken up to the blackmailing by teachers’ unions
It was encouraging to hear the president of the confederation of parents’ associations of secondary schools lash out against the teaching union Oelmek after its...
Pavements are effectively impassable for a wheelchair user
Traffic police and wardens have other priorities – do the least to charge the most. Until govt/police seeks fines to fit the crime and enforces...
Our View: Serious questions to be asked over land prices
THE DEPARTMENT of Lands and Surveys (DLS) was targeted by opposition party deputies and the auditor-general at last Thursday’s meeting of the House watchdog committee,...
Hero or villiain?
The boy, whose name has been released by the media, vandalised school property. He would be expelled had he been a student of that school....
Varosha will be colonised sooner rather than later
Any sensible Cypriot knows that the terms of reference and the supposed resumption of the talks are another masquerade. After Crans Montana, there is not...
Challenges to Israel’s gas exports
By Charles Ellinas Since discovery of natural gas in its exclusive economic zone Israel has been dreaming of exports, riches and political influence. Massive political...
80 years after 1939, Europe’s far right scents power again
By Peter Apps Last week, as Europe commemorated the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two, the far-right Alternative for Germany became the...
The people of Hong Kong only want their freedom
I read with interest and wry amusement the September 4 article by the Chinese Ambassador regarding Hong Kong (HK) which, no doubt, was carefully prepared for...