Opinion

It was Labour’s prime minister Harold Wilson who coined the phrase, a week is a long time in politics. He was UK prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and then again ...

This letter is written in response to the question posed by the unfortunate headline ‘Is insurance just a scam?’ (Sunday Mail, May 30). The headline is over an article by Antonis ...

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic more and more people have been buying what they need online. This requires a fit for purpose postal system. Packages from the UK (...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Seven parties entered parliament following the 30th of May parliamentary elections with winners and losers left to ponder on the meaning of the results. 34.2 per cent ...

As Covid has revealed a need for change in many areas, the European Parliament begins self-evaluation process David Sassoli Fifteen months after the outbreak of the pandemic, everyone is called ...

The tourism industry was dealt a big blow by the UK government’s decision to keep Cyprus on the amber list. Deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios was in the ...

Nursing union Pasyno has called a 12-hour strike on Monday by its members to report health minister Constantinos Ioannou for “interference in the right to union action, for a hostile ...

What society demanded was the search for the greatest possible consensus through creative engagement so that policies were approved and the country moved forward, said Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides. The ...

By Richard Dickenson So what on earth is the music they call grunge? And no, I’m not kidding! I had no idea so I looked it up. Now, when ...

The criminal route for a sexual harassment case has been blocked, but other possible actions exist By Achilleas Demetriades The #MeToo Movement that had started off in the US also ...

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

We know how the northern part of Nicosia has been affected by the closure of the Ledra Street checkpoint, but the southern part too has seen a significant reduction of ...

Last week the Cyprus Mail quizzed the major political parties on a variety of environmental issues including illegal bird-trapping, ahead of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. BirdLife Cyprus explains why ...

In the end, the biggest losses in Sunday’s parliamentary elections were suffered by the three big parties, which had dominated the campaign and hogged the headlines with their acrimonious, ...

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki condemned the “hijacking” of the Ryanair jet on the orders of Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday, accusing him of a “reprehensible act of ...

It was a week of reckoning for the oil and gas industry By Charles Ellinas The oil and gas sector was shaken this past week. There were some monumental developments ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides The slogan “Do not forget” emblazoned over a map of Cyprus dripping blood was created by the well-known communication consultant Nicos Demou, in the course of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Globally, noticeable progress has been achieved in decoupling economic growth and consumption of energy and natural resources. At the same time, we are seeing ...

Changes and reforms are the answer and we have to take this into account when voting on Sunday By Achilleas Demetriades The House elections on Sunday have, I believe, particular ...

Anyone who followed the last couple of weeks of the campaign could have been mistaken in thinking we would be electing a new president today. President Anastasiades completely dominated the ...

THE ELECTION campaign may have legally ended at midnight on Friday, but some party leaders continued with some light campaigning on Saturday. It was a ‘light’ violation of the law ...

Eurovision is a shadow of its former self and that’s before we get to the UK entry By Alper Ali Riza For the UK to lose a Eurovision contest ...

By Michael Sarris In the years before the pandemic, a combination of factors such as political stability, better macroeconomic and structural policies, improving governance and more effective international financial assistance, ...

By Jean-Pierre Lacroix Over the past year, to be a United Nations peacekeeper in the field has meant adopting new levels of flexibility and resilience in the face of evolving ...