Opinion

Towards the end of the Christofias presidency, with Cyprus excluded from the markets, state coffers almost empty and the banks on life support, there were attempts by the EU and ...

It is a great relief that deputies of the House legal affairs committee have decided to engage in further discussions before taking any decisions on the two law proposals that ...

Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment of wages at 50 per cent ...

By Neil McArthur We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence ...

By Abdallah H. Attari The Palestinian cause and the daily brutalities of the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian West Bank and its blockade of Gaza have been deliberately deselected by ...

For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring Okypy to hire more nurses ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE On March 7, just before International Women’s Day, the BBC’s Today programme interviewed three young women who had been flashed. That shock intrusion frighteningly elicited ...

When deputies from the House legal affairs committee meet today to pick up discussion on ‘fake news’ they will have their work cut out for them. The discussion was shelved ...

A COUPLE of weeks ago, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides appeared before the House oversight committee to discuss the audit office’s special report on the University of Cyprus (UCy) for the ...

Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Hurricanes used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they’re starting ...

Cyprus is getting closer to obtaining its own gas supplies from a number of possible sources. But how much gas does it actually need and how can it ensure security ...

By Anna Mylona and Linda Stokes In 2022, as the world emerged from the constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic only to run into the shock of the war in Ukraine, a ...

Struck by a hard déjà vu, as our neighbours’ tragedies hit home, my mind travelled back to 2004. Beslan, a three-day siege, more than 1,000 hostages, 333 dead, 186 children, in the most ...

Time was when Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, travelled to European capitals as and when he pleased and was received there as a serious and rational diplomat and, like ...

The real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphise it By Nir Eisikovits ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless ...

ALTHOUGH our establishment had never been a big fan of our newly-elected prez, its bored members decided that Nikos II should be given a chance before it went into critical ...

Three years ago, Cyprus declared its first case of coronavirus, shuttered the island and locked down the population with the same mantra as every other government – three weeks to flatten ...

The European Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates by 50 basis points was widely expected. Not even the turmoil in the banking sector could dissuade the ECB council from ...

President Nicos Christodoulides has made it the style of his presidency to take an interest in most things that are in the news. The way this interest is shown is ...

By Lucy Atkinson From the fairy tales read to us as children to the costumes every Halloween, the figure of the witch has been with most of us for our ...

Nobody expected anything from the visit of the UN Under Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, who arrived here with no agenda but just to offer a little reassurance that the UN had ...

Although March 8 is officially International Women’s Day, the entire month encourages people to celebrate women’s accomplishments while raising awareness about discrimination and taking action to promote gender equality. ...

A new body that would facilitate coordination of actions between Greece and Cyprus was announced during President Nikos Christodoulides’ visit to Athens, his first as head of state. The supreme ...

Cyprus society has really moved on when the country’s conservative, traditionally male-dominated party can elect a 37-year-old woman as its leader. And it was not a narrow victory for ...