Tales from the Coffeeshop

THE MASS mourning of the previous week was replaced by mass indignation on Friday when Politis broke the story about the attempts of a senior police officer to secure film ...

PERHAPS I have become a grumpy old man, no longer able to fight my innate conservatism and completely out of touch with the times. This was probably the reason I ...

MY FRIEND Costas Christofides made the big leap last Sunday, announcing his candidacy for the presidential elections to a full house at the Pallas theatre in Nicosia and received an ...

PREZ NIK has been taken over by a Turk-bashing mood in the last couple days, reinforcing my unjustified suspicion that he is considering seeking a third term. On Saturday morning ...

THE PUBLIC Service Commission (PSC), which appoints and promotes public employees, according to the diktats of the government and political parties, is one of Kyproulla’s most ludicrous institutions. While ...

HAVING sweet-talked his way into the hearts of as many voters as he could, on Thursday he finally decided the time was right to come out of the closet and ...

MY FRIEND who called to ask whether he was going mad or the world around him had gone mad was given a scientific answer to his question last week by ...

A FRIEND, I had not heard from for months called me on Thursday saying he needed psychological support, because “I do not know if I am going mad or the ...

PEOPLE with a brain, the minority among the voters, must have breathed a collective sigh of relief on hearing that the efforts for a Diko-Akel alliance in the presidential elections ...

AS FAR as woefully pathetic excuses go, the one given by the comrades of Akel for not attending President Zelenskiy’s address of the special session of parliament on Thursday ...

PRESIDENT of the ECB, Christine Lagarde got the full red-carpet treatment on her arrival in the regional centre of disappearing banks when she hooked up with her friend since the 2013 ...

NONE of our courageous politicians has yet broken the vow of silence they took with regard to the unveiled threats issued by Mother Russia’s ambassador Stan Osadchiy 10 days ago. ...

OUR POLITICIANS suffered a collective loss of their courage and speech faculty this week after President Putin’s henchman in Kyproulla, Ambassador Stan Osadchiy issued his unveiled threats against our ...

STATE broadcaster, CyBC, has always sounded like a subsidiary channel of Russia Today, featuring glowing reports about Moscow’s action and, as a matter of policy, portraying Vladimir Putin and ...

A FEW days was all that was needed for Moscow to lose the tight hold it had over Kyproulla for six decades, as the natives, seeing what was happening in ...

THE LOCAL children of Mother Russia had their world turned upside down over the last week when the country they so lavishly praised for its supposed principled stand on the ...

UNIVERSAL outrage greeted the publication of the auditor-general’s report about the Gesy specialist doctors who were making big fortunes by submitting countless fictitious payment claims to the Health Insurance ...

VERY little attention has been given by the media to the government’s dictatorship law also known as the Infectious Diseases Law of 2021, which was tabled in the House last ...

FATHER of Gesy and independent presidential candidate hopeful Giorgos Pamborides suffered a couple of blows below the belt on Thursday thrown by his ungrateful former boss Prez Nik during an ...

WE HAVE a long tradition here in Kyproulla of copying what happens in Greece. It is after all the centre of Hellenism and as loyal provincials, we do not have ...

DISY chief Averof breathed some much-needed life into the dead political scene on Friday by calling out Nikos Christodoulides and challenging him to an election showdown for the leadership of ...

HAPPY new year and I sincerely wish your hangover is manageable. I do not remember the last time the Coffeeshop was open on New Year’s Day, which caused a ...

THERE was some good news this week, among the long list of mind-numbing rules about what combination of vaccinations and PCR or rapid tests would allow you to go to ...

THE POLICE state is back in action and more forceful than ever before. It has a new excuse for picking up citizens and locking them up in quarantine prison – the ...