Our View
Disy leader Averof Neophytou broke with a long political tradition on Tuesday when he spoke in glowing terms about the positive effects a Cyprus settlement...
Our View: Government is oblivious to the harm it’s doing to children
The Anastasiades government has shown what its priorities are with the latest measures it announced. It is certainly not education as it has decided to...
Our View: the US can play a vital, supporting role in the Cyprus process
After the four-year hiatus of the Trump presidency, the United States appears to have taken an interest in the Cyprus problem once again. On Wednesday,...
Our View: State-sanctioned interference on beaches must be stopped
The report about the authorities’ disregard for environmental protection, published in Wednesday’s Environment pages of the Cyprus Mail, should sound the alarm to everyone who...
Our View: Although options limited, barbed wire unlikely to stop flow of migrants
To fight the flow of immigrants from the north, the interior ministry decided to install barbed wire along the buffer zone, along an 11km stretch...
Our View: Anastasiades’ delusions on energy to cost us dearly
After President Anastasiades walked out of the talks in Crans-Montana in July 2017, he focused on his re-election, avoiding a settlement and on the forging...
Our View: Roads must be made safer before promoting cycling
In the sixties and seventies bicycle use was widespread. All boys, from a young age until they joined the army would get around on a...
Our View: Paedophiles should not be given the opportunity to offend again
While the ‘Me Too’ movement in Cyprus is gaining greater traction within the justice system as more women speak up, there are children on this...
Our View: Akel’s recipe for local government disaster needs to be defeated
There appears to be no end in sight to the saga of local government reform that has been dragging on for years. In the latest...
Our View: Knee-jerk reactions are penalising schoolchildren
The last few days have exposed the government’s erratic approach to dealing with the pandemic, an approach that fails to inspire any confidence or reassure...