Opinion

There is no space for losers at the head of the Conservative party A week is a long time in politics but it was an eternity last week in the ...

Ambassador Liu Yantao explains how China’s complete reunification will be fulfilled Recently, in disregard of China’s stern warnings, some forces hostile to China’s development made provocative visits ...

Residential rents have gone up significantly in the last few months and not just for university students who seem to be the only ones complaining. The arrival of foreign companies, ...

By Boróka Bó For many young people, retirement is a blip on the radar, if not a total unknown. This is particularly true during our cost of living crisis, ...

While the legislature is discussing the pension bill for public employees that was submitted by the government, unions and pressure groups have taken the opportunity to push their long-standing demand ...

Chairman of the House refugees committee Nicos Kettiros had written to the interior ministry last February asking for a list of names of civil servants of the Service for the ...

One of humanity’s greatest mysteries has always been the future. Since the beginning of time, people have attempted to predict what will happen, turning to magic, rituals and prophecies ...

By combining people power with scientific data evidence, brand audits are a great tool for pressuring companies over their role in plastic pollution By Victoras Pallikaras Brand audit is a ...

The interior ministry was entitled to treat the EU’s recognition of the instrumentalisation of migration by Turkey through the Green Line as a success. It was, considering how long ...

The tale of fights and bad behaviour at some bus stops is yet another sign of the failure of the island’s public transport system and to say police should ...

I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written ...

It is time for Cyprus to move from words to action As we approach winter the global energy crisis is getting worse and worse. It has shifted from a situation ...

‘Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic states treated as “second-class people” says Moscow’ As a Lithuanian I have many things to say about what is being said there. This article is ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...

Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...

The founding fathers of the Bank of Cyprus would surely be horrified at the turn of events. “Thrift” and “savings” for little people were the Victorian watchwords in the 1890s. ...

I would like to comment on your article of August 30 (Cyprus Mail – Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic state treated as ‘second class people’, says Moscow). As a person from Baltic ...

I wonder why Judge Riza, wrote about profiteering (Sunday Mail, August 21, Everyone knows that profiteering is criminal). Has he just bought a designer shirt and realised a near identical shirt ...

And no, she could not have reprieved Evagoras Pallikarides in 1956 Queen Elizabeth may have passed away but some of us of a certain age will remain Elizabethans until “we too ...

In this day and age politics is all about packaging and presentation. It is no longer about ideas and convictions which are the subject of public debate. Few politicians seem ...

EVERY few years someone decides it is time to make a fuss about the corruption and sleaze plaguing the government’s Service for the Administration of Turkish Cypriot Properties. Although ...

By Lanting Liu Real estate tycoon and art collector, Yan Lugen, who was the chairman of YJ Cyprus Group passed away in New York on September 5, aged 67. Yan, who built ...

By Ioannis Tirkides In a previous article, we published in these pages, titled, ‘A new era of monetary policy is just beginning’, we discussed the changing monetary landscape in the ...

There was no need for the planned protest organised by police and firemen of the public employees’ union Isotita on September 23. On Thursday it was announced that finance minister Constantinos ...