Opinion

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannides Apparently Boris Johnson, British PM of Turkish ancestry, can rattle off chunks of the Iliad – in Greek. I don’t memorise, I ...

By Alexis Karkotis Don’t Look Up, the new environmental-disaster political satire staring Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence has been breaking records ever since its release on Netflix on ...

The bills reforming local government and reducing the number of municipalities will be finalised by the House interior committee next week and sent for approval to the plenum before the ...

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a call from his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides. Kasoulides said that Cyprus condemns the repeated cross-border attacks carried out by Yemen’...

China’s Ambassador to Cyprus Liu Yantao looks at the year that has just past and looks ahead to the Year of the Tiger On the occasion of the upcoming ...

Many will have welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the appeal against the conviction of the young British woman, whom the Famagusta district court found guilty of ...

By Andrestinos Papadopoulos The news that on January 14, Turkey and Armenia had a first round of talks in Moscow with a view to establishing diplomatic relations and opening their borders, ...

Following a highly controversial tendering process, the island’s €290million LNG project was handed in December 2019 to a consortium led by China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Company (CPPE), a pipeline construction ...

Trial by social media and news websites has become the disturbing norm By Christos Panayiotides The biological urge to reproduce is the mechanism that nature has provided to secure the ...

The effects of the Covid pandemic have exposed and exacerbated income inequalities in Cyprus including large remuneration disparities between employees in the higher-paid public sector and those in the private ...

The question now has to be ‘How do we get out of this? What’s the exit strategy?’. It’s been often said that, when governments gain new powers, they’...

In a mad world there are signs that the evident results of wayward economic policy may change the political weather By Andrew Shouler Unintended or not, the consequences of mistaken ...

Those who cannot understand Russia’s security fears over Nato’s expansion into East Europe are either not fair minded or unhistorical By Alper Ali Riza Nato has absorbed every ...

Turkey’s president Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that Israeli president Isaac Herzog will pay an official visit to Ankara next month. While Herzog’s spokesman declined to comment, The ...

FATHER of Gesy and independent presidential candidate hopeful Giorgos Pamborides suffered a couple of blows below the belt on Thursday thrown by his ungrateful former boss Prez Nik during an ...

We are all aware of the US State Department statement on 10 January finally abandoning the East-Med gas pipeline. Predictably, that attracted most of the attention, but a key part of ...

By Zenon Papaphilippou As the Investment Funds Industry in Cyprus continues to prolifically expand and record growth, the responsibility for high standards of ethical professionalism becomes more pertinent than ever ...

Most people know that the Cybc, like all public organisations, is a badly-run drain on state funds. We were reminded of this again by the report prepared by the auditor-general, ...

From Crans-Montana to the citizenship-by-investment programme to the deceptions over our gas deposits By Achilleas Demetriades Efforts to solve the Cyprus problem have not been on the agenda of the ...

Τhe planned 16 per cent increase in charges by the companies running Limassol port has caused uproar among political parties and business associations, all of whom fear that such a steep ...

It’s been 27 days since the official rollout of the new system of traffic cameras and apparently as it turns out, no fines have yet been issued due to administrative ...

By Richard Dickenson I suppose it was always inevitable but somehow it never seemed likely really to happen. For this is farewell. Time has, at last caught up. My words ...

By George Christou Comment The increase in bank charges has become a big public issue in the last few weeks, the political parties, consumers associations and interest groups mounting a ...

The ‘test to stay’ scheme introduced in schools on Monday with several caveats is expected to be introduced in hospitals, the police force and fire service. The proposal is set ...