Our View: New consensus building could prove to be something positive
It is not common practice for the government to consult the political parties about the state budget. If anything, the budget is one of the...
Opinion
Armenia and Azerbaijan
It’s probably Azerbaijan that started the shooting in this latest round of fighting with neighbouring Armenia. Which is not to say that it’s all Azerbaijan’s...
Time for the silent civil society to speak up
We are coming up with lame excuses to avoid negotiations By Christos Panayiotides The forced segregation of the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots over the...
Art uproar shows ditching blasphemy law long overdue
By George Koumoullis ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos’ demand for the sacking of head-teacher George Gavriel for his ‘sacrilegious’ paintings proves once more that Orthodoxy, in contrast to...
Happy 60th birthday to Cyprus in advance
No wonder there’s little to celebrate By Alper Ali Riza I owe the above title to a Nigerian cab driver that dropped me off between...
The insights of Harold Evans, a journalist of tenacity
Stephen Grey on the influence of ground-breaking journalist Harold Evans who died this week aged 92 He was the icon that inspired a generation of...
Our View: With unions running the show state hospitals will remain dysfunctional
Everything is unravelling at state hospitals, which have been going from one crisis to another with no end in sight. Okypy, the state health service...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Hopes of being a world power dashed, Cyprus becomes a nuisance
THIS WEEK when our Foreign Minister Nicos Chirstodoulides was playing hard-ball over sanctions at the EU foreign affairs council I was reminded of the wonderful...
Family businesses: Trump and Erdogan versus the world
In award-winning journalist Bob Woodward’s recent book, Rage, the veteran Watergate reporter quotes a January 2020 conversation with US President Donald Trump on the subject...
Our View: Being reminded that the pandemic is not over is not a bad thing
The warnings regarding Covid have been stepped up after the big number of infections reported on Wednesday, even though half of them were linked to...
Our View: The government is approaching the cultural sector in the wrong way
The creation of deputy ministries has been one of the main administrative projects of the Anastasiades government. So far, three have been set up –...
Obituary: The insights of Harold Evans, a journalist of tenacity
He was the icon that inspired a generation of young Britons to pick up a pen in anger – inspired by his example that the...
Our View: We have alienated our EU partners for no practical purpose
Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides was at pains to justify Cyprus’ refusal to give its consent to EU sanctions against Belarus and play down criticism that...
China, climate and blame
China took a major stride forward on climate on Tuesday. President Xi Jinping, addressing the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, for the...
Island people
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Four small children play on the floor as two women contemplate a drawer with long kitchen knives...
The unfair treatment of property owners under the 1983 rent control law
By Robert Ross-Clunis The Rent Control Law As a starting point, it is important to clarify that the Rent Control Law of 1983 (as amended)...
Our View: Why has Odysseas taken seven years to question legality of wives and children?
It was surprising to read a few days ago that an investigation by the office of auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides had concluded that the procedure followed...
Our View: Speed ‘leniency’ a mockery of traffic laws
Having established that 70 per cent of road deaths in Cyprus occur in built-up areas, twice the EU average, the police have decided they would...
No sector untouched by plans to cut EU carbon emissions by 55 per cent
If such a transition is achieved, it will impact the energy Europeans use, the food they eat, the cars they drive and the homes they...
The last days of the old Middle East
President Donald Trump declared “the dawn of a new Middle East” in Washington on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrein signed public agreements...
