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Away with the fairies (the full meze)

January 16th, 2019 THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou A Dublin pal and I meet occasionally for coffee and a chat. We’re sci-fi fans and share a fondness...

Our View

Our View: Cyprus judges labour under the illusion they are untouchable

January 16th, 2019 Everyone has now had their say about last week’s revelations of conflict of interest at the supreme court. Despite the supreme court judges’ protestations...

Our View

Our View: We should have learnt property bubble lesson by now

January 15th, 2019 THE WARNING about the possibility of another property bubble in the making, issued by the Nobel prize winning economist Christophoros Pissarides, should be...

Guest Columnist

Exxon’s drilling: all outcomes are possible

January 13th, 2019 By Charles Ellinas THE GOOD news early in 2019 is that drilling of Delphine in block 10 has been completed, as planned, despite the problems...

CM Regular Columnist

We are not like lambs to the slaughter

January 13th, 2019 By Christos Panayiotides I have the impression that Cypriots are greatly discontented with their political, religious and economic establishments...

Our View

Our View: The government has treated Gesy with superficiality

January 13th, 2019 LESS than a year into its second term, the unravelling of the Anastasiades presidency appears to be gathering speed. In the early hours of Friday, the Cyprus...

Coffeeshop

Kyproulla: where sadly, justice has perfect vision

January 13th, 2019 WHEN a few weeks ago, lawyer Nicos Clerides, the brother of the attorney general, wrote in social media that “our courts are controlled by the Chrysafinis...

CM Regular Columnist

The cost of deriding political equality

January 13th, 2019 By George Koumoullis Hearing our politicians discuss the Cyprus problem, you come to the conclusion that many of them are either ignorant of the precise...

CM Regular Columnist

Justice should manifestly be done and seen be seen to be done

January 13th, 2019 By Alper Ali Riza My old friend and fellow barrister, Nicos Clerides, is taking on the legal establishment of Cyprus. After being asked to justify...

CM Regular Columnist

A case of Brexit chicken: who will blink first?

January 13th, 2019 By Gwynne Dyer There’s no need to practise bleeding, as the soldiers say, but the British government didn’t get the message. On Monday, it paid 89...

Letters

A law that could do more harm than good

January 13th, 2019 In a first for Cyprus, on January 9 a woman was fined 800 euros for making racist comments online. Judging by the reaction one would think that she had...

Letters

The government is recklessly playing with your healthcare

January 13th, 2019 I'm a GP resident in Cyprus currently training towards my specialisation and since the general public is not aware about what's going on regarding the national...

Letters

Church liturgies have become a time only to daydream.

January 13th, 2019 The majority of our young and many other Greek Cypriots including me, do not understand the language of their liturgical services but our autocephalous...

Our View

Makarios conned the state, Anastasiades is rubber-stamping it

January 12th, 2019 PRESIDENT Anastasiades regularly expresses his wish for the Cyprus Republic to be a “normal state”, but the decision taken by the Council of Ministers at...

Our View

Press freedom is high but there is room for improvement

January 11th, 2019 CYPRUS has a high standing on the press freedom index, compiled every year by the Reporters Without Borders (RWB) group. In 2018 it climbed five places to 25th...

Guest Columnist

Will China go to war over Taiwan?

January 10th, 2019 By Peter Apps In the first week of 2019, as China grabbed headlines for landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a New Year’s Day editorial in...

Our View

Our View: Monthly bus strikes an unacceptable farce

January 10th, 2019 Parents’ associations of the Paphos Technical School and the Emba Lyceum have instructed students to boycott their first two classes on Thursday to protest...

Our View

Our View: Municipalities objecting to mergers not thinking of residents

January 9th, 2019 A day rarely goes by without some mayor declaring that his municipality should not be merged with another as part of the reform of local government. If we are...

CM Regular Columnist

Orthodoxy: the New Great Schism

January 9th, 2019 IF YOU live long enough, almost anything is possible. It is now possible, for example, to hear the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill,...

Property

Property demand and prices

January 6th, 2019 Investing in real estate in Cyprus is worthwhile for foreign and local investors for all types of property. The reduction in the prices due to the economic...

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