Opinion

During the debate on the state budget on Thursday, a deputy had heard of the latest statement about Varosha by the Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and asked that ...

The 2007 movie The Bucket List has gained a certain amount of cult status, encouraging viewers to never stop believing in themselves and to never lose sight of their passions. Although ...

When in the previous week, it was announced that parents’ associations of two schools in Limassol were planning a protest about the sheer volume of the school curriculum, many would ...

By Naja Later There’s always been something queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with dark desires and invisible secrets from their early canonisation in popular culture. But ...

It is very convenient for everyone to blame bad policing for the violence and vandalism by football hooligans, because then they can go on pretending that they have no responsibility ...

Aside from the issues of alleged unconstitutionality and probably pressure from the church about the new mandatory sex education law that were brought up on Friday at the House during ...

By Louisa Borg Haviara For centuries, economic sanctions have been used as a weapon of war and included trade bans, closures of ports against enemies, and bans on specific commodity ...

The scramble for quick solutions to secure affordable and reliable energy could imperil climate action There is no question that the energy crisis has forced governments to reconsider their priorities, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Less than three weeks ago, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt unveiled an austere government budget, which includes a fiscal adjustment of £55 ...

He must define his position on the Cyprus problem I have repeatedly made it clear that for me the major issue of the presidential election campaign is – rightly so – the ...

Failure to address social and economic needs By Les Manison The budget is the main instrument of government policy for meeting the social and economic needs of its citizens. Indeed, ...

Rules that Scots do not have the right to self determination On November 22, 2022 the UK Supreme Court ruled that the people of Scotland did not have the right to self-determination ...

By Omar Khaled Abdelrahman, Christmas is a period for celebrating our relationships with family and friends – a time filled with nostalgia and sentimentality. Of course for many people it’s ...

The second presidential debate broadcast simultaneously by the four private television channels was held on Thursday night. Like the first one, the guests were the three leading candidates, who had ...

OUR DEPUTIES go on a three-month holiday having attended the last session of the House on Friday. The legislature will reconvene after the end of the presidential elections, giving deputies ...

Greece’s Eurobank has doubled its shareholding in Hellenic Bank it was announced on Thursday. It acquired 12.6 per cent of Hellenic in 2021 adding another 13.5 per cent of the shares this ...

The public protest has for years been a popular alternative to political discourse. If an interest group thinks its arguments are not being heard or have failed to convince the ...

By Vanessa Marr Mothers in fairy tales have a way of being absent, typically through untimely deaths (think Cinderella, Snow White or Beauty and the Beast) or thanks to storylines ...

EVERYONE who spoke at the AGM of the Union of Municipalities on Tuesday praised the reform of local government that was voted through last April by the legislature after years ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Back in the Sixties, the immaculate voice of singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell drew fans to her in droves. Her songs were smart, beautiful and relevant. Recently, she ...

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese state ...

It is very difficult to understand why Diko took such offence over the publication of a memo it had supposedly drafted in which it set the conditions for backing the ...

The statement by the attorney-general on the state of the Nicosia central prisons was quite shocking given that the goings on at the facility have always elicited a tight-lipped response ...

Marinos Papageorgiou’s November 16th article “Environmental education: A necessary tool” is spot-on. If we do not engage and educate the next generation about environmental challenges and give them tools ...