Opinion

The Armenians are a people of great antiquity – the first Armenian kingdom was in the 8th century BC – but they grew up in a tough neighbourhood, and they have been ...

A staggering 43.69 per cent of the loan portfolio of the state-owned Housing Finance Corporation is non-performing, but not a single foreclosure has been carried out. Deputies who heard this at ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has not given up his efforts to lure Disy into the government. In an interview, published on Sunday in Phileleftheros, the president said that he would like ...

Large increases in profits not due to better performance in using the funds of depositors to improve the economy Recent media reports on the performances of the largest Cyprus banks ...

Surely very little credence should be attached to the ruminations of an ex-Foreign Secretary of a quasi-failed state as it drifts about in a post-Brexit fog? Jonathan Reddaway, UK

By Nasia Hadjigeorgiou Day in day out, Greek Cypriots hear about the difficulties that exist in resolving the Cyprus problem – Turkey is not willing to compromise, Turkish Cypriots are not ...

I have just read through this pile of ignorant over-simplification (Former British foreign secretary calls for two-state solution to Cyprus problem, Cyprus Mail, September 7) written by a man who is ...

By President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda As Poles, we are proud that on September 10, 2023, our compatriots the Ulma family will be added to the ranks of the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Cypriot economy depicted a satisfactory performance in the first half of 2023, including the tourism sector, despite the summer outbreak of weather phenomena and ...

I am a civil society actor living in Cyprus as an Asylum Seeker. I strongly condemn the recent violent attacks against asylum seekers and refugees by some Cypriots. We have ...

An evaluation of the latest problems to have arisen in the buffer zone The attack by Turkish Cypriots against members of Unficyp in the buffer zone last month highlights their ...

European leaders are torn between the human rights of refugees and the fear of local people of being swamped by refugees The racist attacks on refugees in Limassol and Paphos ...

WHAT is our world coming to when the party that has based its steady growth on xenophobia and racist rhetoric expels one of its municipal councilors for being racist? It ...

The tension and fear caused by the racist mob beating up foreigners on the streets of Limassol, 10 days ago, appear to have eased. Some isolated incidents of attacks on delivery ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Her first year in office has confounded expectations, as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni blended Atlanticism and pragmatism towards the EU with right-wing populism on immigration, cultural ...

President Christodoulides was present at Acropolis gymnasium for the first day of the new school year on Thursday, talking to children and asking them how they felt to be back ...

In the end, a feud between two civil servants over a promotion that dates back several years was the reason we found out that a provision of the Gesy law ...

By Gail Iles In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now the Indian Space ...

In an article published in this paper at the weekend, Marios Eliades, former minister and a candidate in the last presidential elections, questioned the value of the pursuing a more ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Liberty, equality, fraternity, a lovely thought to wrap around any flag. How many democracies live up to that? Liberty? Still mostly in evidence. Equality and fraternity? ...

Comparing Fukushima’s ‘treated water’ with a typical nuclear plant’s discharge is misleading, as the ‘treated water’ had direct contact with the melted reactor cores By Huaxia Despite public ...

After Friday night’s violent riot in Limassol, President Nikos Christodoulides called a meeting at the presidential palace the next day to discuss the ineptitude of the policing. The meeting, ...

The ninth tripartite alliance summit of Cyprus, Greece and Israel was held in Nicosia on Monday. President Nicos Christodoulides and prime ministers Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Benjamin Netanyahu reconfirmed their commitment ...

By Efi Xanthou The ruckus over the claims concerning the qualifications of the permanent secretary of the health ministry Christina Yiannaki have immersed us over the last month. I am ...