Opinion

By Richard Dickenson It is clear that Cyprus still has a long way to go before it reaches anything like international Covid safety criteria levels. Our frantic efforts to get ...

Timing often plays bad tricks on politicians. President Anastasiades wasn’t to know that his scheduled visit to Larnaca Airport on Tuesday would have coincided with an announcement by the ...

Pathways to sustainable peace By Kalliope Agapiou Josephides Conceptual unity and diversity in actuality (Unité de concept et diversité de fait) as acknowledged by Fernand Braudel in attempting to conceptualise ...

Presenting the government’s plan ‘Cyprus – tomorrow’ on Monday, President Anastasiades described it as “ambitious and pragmatic”. Not only was the EU-funded plan geared towards helping the recovery of the ...

By Gwynne Dyer ‘Objective allies’ generally don’t even talk to each other. They don’t have common values, their ultimate goals may be completely incompatible, they often hate each ...

DP World Limassol ready to welcome cruise lines back, as Cyprus makes a dynamic return to become Eastern Mediterranean’s top cruise hub By Nawaf Abdulla More than one year ...

Stark choices in the face of regional geopolitics and international fatigue with the Cyprus problem By Christos P Panayiotides For reasons that I have not been able to fully understand, ...

Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Back in September 2020, when we reviewed the negative performance of the once-rapidly growing Turkish economy, we felt that the country’s economic policy had reached ...

We have the parliamentary elections in a fortnight’s time to thank for the lifting of more pandemic-related restrictions from Monday. The decision came out of the blue – like the ...

A RECORD 658 candidates from 15 parties/groupings will be contesting the 56 parliamentary seats up for grabs in the elections in a fortnight. Of these, I would guess that some 500, maybe more, ...

A whiff of corruption hangs over public life in Britain By Alper Ali Riza Former British prime minister Gordon Brown was absolutely right to observe last week that public office ...

Tuesday, May 11, 10am – 2.5 hours after the vaccine portal was opened for 27-28-year-olds. As a 27-year-old who has been staring at a screen for over three hours, waiting for the ...

I have been following your reporting about the inability of privately insured individuals (many of whom, like myself are not originally from Cyprus) to receive the Covid vaccination. This is ...

By Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras The brain waste phenomenon has been identified as ‘external’ when the potential of highly skilled migrants (HSM) is not put to use in the destination ...

The most entertaining story produced by the parliamentary elections, so far, has been the dispute about the Akel name that will be printed on the ballot paper. It will no ...

With elections approaching, the government decided it was a good time to advertise its commitment to fighting corruption. An event, addressed by Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis at the presidential palace ...

A record number of people submitted their candidacies on Wednesday for the parliamentary elections. There will be nearly 660 candidates, 150 more than had stood for election in 2016, and an unprecedented 15 parties/...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Richard Pine knowledgeably writes Greece Letter for the Irish Times. Earlier this year, examining their long years of war and discord, he ...

For 15 months this government has had no qualms about releasing information on a daily basis about people who died from coronavirus, without using any names, but only now seems to ...

Is the SafePass forcing us to get vaccinated? Why is it so selectively applied? A look at the balancing act between public interest and private rights By Achilleas Demetriades The ...

It was interesting to read a release issued by Diko about the “social mission of the state.” Written by Anastasia Papadopoulou, the coordinator of the Diko election programme for the ...

People often compare him to Hitler, yet it’s not only the French who see him in a positive light Napoleon Bonaparte doesn’t come up much in conversation these ...

Cyprus has traditionally been a popular destination for Lebanese investors and families, there are now more incentives than ever By Nicolas Tsardellis and Kriton Dionysiou The economic downturn Lebanon is ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis The issue of nuclear disarmament is seminal in world affairs. Its importance dominated the agenda of relations between the liberal West and the communist East during the ...