Opinion

The culture of self-interest in Cyprus is evident almost on a daily basis but the past week has been exceptional. Firstly, we had the disgraced Bishop of Kiti who refuses ...

By Helen Pleasance The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing ...

Now that President Nikos Christodoulides has completed his first 100 days, perhaps he should take a day off. Since being sworn-in, there has not been a day when he did not ...

There’s an old tale about a fisherman who was lying on a beautiful beach with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out ...

We’re not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the ...

Farmers were on the streets again on Monday, making a nuisance of themselves, some might say, over EU regulations designed to cut pesticides, a very worthy endeavour it must be ...

By Abdullah Attari The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as ...

In Cyprus we like to think that we ‘think big’. We certainly talk big a lot of the time. We were going to be an energy hub, an education hub, ...

It was announced on Monday that Christos Iacovides, part of the board of directors and a managing director of the MSJ Group, passed away unexpectedly. The MSJ Group describes itself ...

The important parliamentary elections in Greece will take place on June 25. This time, the electoral system will be better balanced between proportionally representing in parliament all the political forces of ...

Accessibility of Gesy providers for people with disabilities is not a given By Efi Xanthou On October 27, 2022, a report from Gesy’s oversight ombudsperson was distributed to various government departments ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For more than a century, oil has retained its international position as the main source of energy, utilised, among other things, for fuelling vehicles, ...

By Sarah Vivienne Bentley and Claire Naughtin The launch of ever-capable large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 has sparked much interest over the past six months. However, trust in ...

THE RETIRED Nik loved grand gestures. When Odysseas demanded that the interior ministry hand him over 20 files relating to ‘the citizenship by buying a grossly overpriced house scheme,’ and was ...

They are a small price to pay for incorruptible democracy that allows them to prosper Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are rare birds. They are big beasts politically, but flawed ...

By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos As the date of the Nato summit on July 11 in Vilnius approaches, the question of Sweden’s accession to the alliance is gaining currency because of ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Can the language someone uses be as unique as their fingerprints? As I describe in my forthcoming book, “Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity,” ...

A few weeks ago, everyone marked the four years of the national health scheme Gesy, the only public institution that is afforded a birthday celebration every year. We very much ...

By Maria Demertzis Using a strategy of de-risking to deal with an increasingly fragmented world makes good economic sense. President von der Leyen first launched the strategy in a speech ...

It was reassuring to hear some voices publicly question President Nikos Christodoulides’ vague utterances about the Cyprus problem during the speech he gave at the European Parliament on Tuesday morning. ...

When a government introduces a temporary measure, aimed at offering relief to people, its eventual revocation is certain to spark opposition. There will be demands for keeping the measure in ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides on Tuesday urged the authorities to take action against hate speech directed at the LGBTIQ+ community. She was responding to screenshots of such posts in the ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE A piece in The Irish Times spoke of what I miss about Ireland: the hometown of my childhood and teen years. What would I miss if ...

The furious speculation on whether the Ukrainian counteroffensive will succeed has been ongoing for several months already, so the first thing I must tell you is that I don’t ...