Our View: Is there a plan to deal with problems in Gesy?
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 ...
De-risking as an economic strategy
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 ...
Our View: EU involvement in Cyprob talks is wishful thinking
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. ...
Our View: VAT cuts are not so temporary
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 ...
Our View: Anti-LGBTI comments are nasty but are part of free speech
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 ...
What I’d miss about Cyprus
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 ...
Ukraine: The counteroffensive begins
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 ...
Our View: He came, he provoked, he left
There were no surprises in store during President Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the north on Monday, the first place he visited since his re-election. It was nevertheless an illegal ...
Our View: Do we really need British lawyers to tell us something we already know?
After months of inactivity, the Authority Against Corruption is set to start work. It may have received many complaints, but they do not appear to have been examined or had ...
Aphrodite gasfield has certainly resurfaced
Despite challenges, the latest plans for the development of Aphrodite are more serious and realistic
Aphrodite is back in the limelight. On May 31 NewMed submitted an updated development plan to ...
Never trust the fossil fuel companies but maybe insurance can rescue us
California’s fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, ...
Destruction of Kakhovka dam takes Ukraine war into uncharted territory
Burst dam threatens humanitarian, environmental disaster
By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie
The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for ...
On the road among the ‘horkatoi’
The conundrum of driving in Cyprus
By Christakis Peristianis
Some years ago, when the pandemic was still in its initial stages, the then Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis commented on the ...
Even after an indictment on federal charges, ‘persecuted’ Donald Trump could win again
Jeff MacLeod, Mount Saint Vincent University
Donald Trump has reportedly been indicted on federal charges for his handling of classified documents after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
The indictment follows ...
Ukraine dam breach a possible war crime
If it is a war crime, it has strong echoes of Britain’s bombing of Rhur valley in WWII
For unreconstructed Anglophiles like myself Dambusters was a heroic British operation ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Still hogging the limelight – 100 days for PR president
OUR PREZ has completed his 100 days in office, which has dogmatically come to be considered as some kind of grace period, for a newly elected prez. It is a period ...
Our View: President’s Cyprus problem proposals are solely for a domestic audience
President Nikos Christodoulides suffered a few embarrassments in his first hundred days in office, mostly related to some bizarre appointment choices, but these could be put down to inexperience as ...
Erdogan’s victory and the west
Erdoğan’s re-election as Turkish president means that Ankara’s relations with its Western allies will remain turbulent. The West should expect a bumpy ride.
By Luigi Scazzieri
On ...
Our View: Disgraced bishop deserves to be defrocked
Some societies progress faster than others and things that were deemed acceptable or ignored in the past, no longer are.
Cyprus is moving slowly but it’s getting there, and ...
Our View: Improvement of productivity is not an option
The government seems determined to go ahead with the ‘unfreezing’ of 1,851 positions in the public service as the little political resistance encountered when it took its proposal to the legislature ...
With so many people speaking ‘their truth’, how do we know what the truth really is?
By Jeremy Wyatt and Joseph Ulatowski
When Academy Awards boss Bill Kramer recently applauded comedian Chris Rock for speaking “his truth” about being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars ...
Our View: Private universities deserve credit for education sector, not the government
After laying the foundation stone for the campus of the American University of Beirut-Mediterraneo in Paphos, President Nikos Christodoulides said its establishment was “completely aligned with our policy to make ...
The immortality of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, left an indelible mark on music history. The renowned singer and performer whose revolutionary career influenced musicians from David Bowie to Beyoncé ...
Germany’s far-right rides high on anti-immigration, anti-green agenda
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is riding high in the polls to the alarm of mainstream parties and is on track to win three state votes in the east ...