Opinion

The wearing of ritual or decorative masks in performances or ceremonies to hide the identity of the wearer By Martin Clark My articles in the Cyprus Mail usually deal with ...

By Bill Trott Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on US television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV’...

Without getting into the pros and cons of electric vehicles (EV) at this early point in this revolutionary concept that is set to remake the future of transport, the government’...

It’s a sad indictment of our politicians that out of almost 72,000 eligible but unregistered voters, only around 10,000 at best signed up for the upcoming presidential elections by Tuesday’s ...

By Viren Swami The festive season seems to be a good time for love, or so many Christmas films would have us believe. One incredibly popular trope is “the return” – ...

For once there is welcome news that road traffic fatalities in the past 12 months have fallen but 37 lives lost still boils down to three people a month being killed on ...

Minister Yiannis Karousos is promising significant improvements in the public transport sphere in the coming year with more and better roads and smart technology, according to an interview published on ...

By Olympia Stylianou Cyprus has joined the European Union as a unitary state with the application of the acquis communautaire suspended in its occupied part. Accession has brought us many ...

The energy market was turned on its head; 2023 could bring further turmoil By Charles Ellinas What a year it was. 2022 was seismic in terms of global energy. Everything was turned ...

Between the government’s main focus being more and better paid public employees and banks’ passiveness and single-mindedness the economy only works for the few President Nicos Anastasiades, Minister of ...

By Gwynne Dyer Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now! I was idly scanning the website ...

Recently, the promised details on the Cyprus problem of Nikos Christodoulides’ election manifesto were made public with great fanfare. I have carefully read the relevant text of some 2,000 words three ...

Cyprus was given another Christmas present this week, but alas it is a present it cannot unwrap and make use of any time soon. The news of another gas find ...

ON THIS Christmas Day, all Christians of Kyproulla, including the non-believers, have been given the best possible present they could have prayed for, even though they would not have found ...

Historians will judge 2022 a momentous year. If when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 it heralded the end of history, by that logic Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ushered in ...

Private and public sector unions have united forces to push their unanimous demand for the full restoration of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA). After a meeting of their representatives on Thursday, ...

The decision of Attorney-General Giorgos Savvides not to prosecute the chief of the Drug Squad, Michalis Katsounotos, for corruption caused a public outcry sparking claims of a cover-up and blatant ...

By Cherine Fahd In April 1995, my uncle secured a lucrative job in Saudi Arabia. He and my aunt left their home in suburban Sydney and relocated to a western compound (...

Bank employees who left their jobs on the ultra-generous voluntary exit schemes have been complaining because the labour ministry has put their applications to collect unemployment benefit for six months ...

By Marguerite Johnson The 2022 word of the year from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary is “goblin mode”. Voted by the public and coming in at 93 per cent, “goblin ...

The roadmap the next leader of the country should follow to protect and restore nature This being the season for making wishes, here are some from me. Five things I ...

It was a good thing that all the people of the Orthodox faith on the electorate were entitled to vote in the archiepiscopal elections, as the poor turnout illustrated the ...

The public is by now familiar with what has become known as the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal involving members and staff of the European Parliament, including the arrest of Greek MEP ...

Professor Polemitis was a pioneer of higher education in Cyprus The University of Nicosia (UNIC) expresses its deep sadness on the passing of Professor Andreas Polemitis, who played a foundational ...