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THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou If you are unfamiliar with Irishisms, ‘gab’ is equal to chat. We Gaels are supposed to have ‘the gift of the gab’. If ...

If I were World Dictator, I would immediately place Brazil under total quarantine: nobody gets in, nobody comes out. And I would keep it isolated until they (a) arrest and ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides At regular intervals, the European Commission undertakes an assessment of the economies of the member countries of the EU. This process, known as ‘European ...

Is the badly needed catharsis of the politically exposed persons in sight? By Christos P Panayiotides I am one of the three members of a team comprising Sir Christopher Pissarides, ...

By Gwynne Dyer By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next two-and-a-half years in one of the ...

By George Koumoullis The view expressed recently by Disy leader Averof Neophytou, that we must accept political equality in order to secure a solution to the Cyprus problem sparked a ...

Elena is in love with a wide boy and just needs her mama to tell her what to do By Alper Ali Riza ‘El Diablo’ is a pop song by ...

If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn’t be George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven. He’d be a ...

Israel to link Leviathan gas field to Egyptian LNG plants runs contrary to green plans By Charles Ellinas THE Egyptian Petroleum Minister, Tareq El Molla, in a first visit to ...

His political courage and honesty are qualities in short supply on the Cyprus political scene I was truly relieved to hear – at last – a political leader courageously raising his voice ...

By Melissa Heckers, Although prevented from doing so for many years, the island’s state universities are now keen to attract students from private schools who only have A level ...

The set of ideas attributed to the UK are different from the community power-sharing system that failed miserably in 1963 There is no UK blueprint for a Cyprus settlement. It was ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Relations between the two small islands that bookend Europe have always been very cordial and good. Language and climate apart, Ireland and Cyprus ...

In 2019, the average salary of a civil servant was €40,000, for a private sector employee it was €20,000 While the official estimate that real GDP contracted by just over 5 per cent in 2020 ...

Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, ...

Education is the perfect example of a sector that should fall under a central government I consider it necessary, by way of introduction, to explain the important difference that exists ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the global economy battling the second wave of the coronavirus, the focus inevitably turns to the short-term management of the biggest socio-economic crisis ...

So have your say on the Panayiotides-Syrimis-Pissarides White Paper to fight corruption The events which led to the resignation of the previous House of Representatives’ president and of another MP ...

Next week, on Wednesday February 24, I shall be flying the federal flag at the second panel webinar organised by the UK-based Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations. My take is very ...

But scars of the pandemic will hang over the world for many years to come By Charles Ellinas The Atlantic Council (AC) held its annual Global Energy Forum at Abu ...

Nobody is in favour of a formal partition of Cyprus but the risks are real By Christos P Panayiotides Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ brief visit to Cyprus has unquestionably ...

By Alper Ali Riza Good riddance to 2020, the year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac. Welcome to the year of the Ox and hopefully a universal pan corona vaccine. ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Dr Richard Dickenson wrote knowledgably last week about male and female testosterone levels. Males have more, yet some women are described as ‘ballsy’ ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The practice of granting government guarantees to secure bank loans for businesses is widely spread. In Cyprus, this practice has been pursued on a ...