Opinion

BEFORE our establishment had a chance to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Akel, the comrades came up with another party anniversary. August 15, a party announcement informed, us marked the 95th ...

The Mediterranean will be particularly affected with higher summer temperatures, drought and fires says IPCC report The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a landmark report on ...

Defence has always been something of sacred cow. Everyone has the patriotic duty to support our military and applaud government expenditure on defence equipment, whatever it is and regardless of ...

There’s something wrong when the street names of great philhellenes are replaced with those of lesser mortals When it comes to naming streets, we would expect them given in ...

The Paphos district, the main industry of which is tourism, had been dealt an irreparable blow, said the director of the Paphos chamber of commerce and industry, Marinos Stylianou. Although ...

Singer, songwriter and producer Johnny Worth, whose father was a Greek Cypriot has died aged 90 after a short illness. Following a massive music career that stretched from the 1950s to ...

Tragedy had to strike for the authorities to come round to thinking that permits issued for the possession of a shotgun by hunters, must be reviewed from time to time. ...

It seems that more cases are emerging about doctors selling or providing fake vaccine cards to their patients as a means to get around the SafePass requirements. There could be ...

By Richard Dickenson For almost twenty years of my medical life I was a country GP. It was a great job, a way of life, really. I doubt that there ...

President Anastasiades, quite clearly, is not happy with the way the opening of the fenced area of Varosha has been partly blamed on him, and made his feelings heard during ...

There was not a hint of exaggeration when the head of the Forestry Department, Charalambos Alexandrou, likened the state of the island’s vegetation to “gunpowder” and warned that “every ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent years, and especially after the global crisis of 2008, supervisory requirements in the financial sector have been strengthened significantly. Taking into account the ...

By Gwynne Dyer “I will never kneel before such a destructive force (as the Taliban),” declared Ashraf Ghani, the soon-to-be-ex-president of Afghanistan. “We will either sit knee-to-knee for real negotiations ...

By Christos Panayiotides ‘They on that side and this side and we, somewhere else.’ I like this slogan, despite its bitterness. I like it because it condenses my fears and ...

By overturning a sham marriage decision this week, the Supreme Court proved itself independent of the executive in an area of law where the latter often rides roughshod over individual ...

No matter how hard the authorities try to reassure us they know what they are doing about controlling the pandemic, it is becoming increasingly clearer they do not. This situation ...

THE POLICE state has been showing its muscle. In the 24 hours up until Saturday morning, the cops had carried out 5,935 checks reporting 30 individuals and five businesses for violating the Covid ...

By Dr Yiorghos Leventis Often, the preoccupation with our national problem lacks international comparative analysis. It borders on navel gazing. In this article, I wish to highlight Ankara’s success ...

Nobody should be surprised about the shenanigans surrounding the state funding of the political parties. It was all the doing of the parties, with the government condoning their decision to ...

The Estia debt relief scheme, in the end, did not turn out the success it had been hoped. The finance ministry announced that only 802 applications of the 6,393 submitted, were approved; ...

Every time the government tries to solve one problem with the Covid situation, they seem to inadvertently cause another. It’s been like this since the beginning of the pandemic. ...

Cypriot and EU taxpayers lose out as Cyprus fails to properly apply VAT rules By Achilleas Demetriades About two weeks ago the European Commission announced that it was taking measures ...

The law regulating strikes in essential services has been a topic of political discussion since the Clerides presidency in the nineties, when disruptive industrial action at different state organisations was ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The issue of income inequality lies at the heart of political discussions, both at EU and worldwide levels. Inequality manifests itself in different forms – ...