By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
The idea of adopting a green tax system, within the context of comprehensive reform aiming to tackle the severe energy supply shortages and, at ...
The nine Vasiliko communities called off the dynamic measures they started on Wednesday, after receiving assurances that they would have a meeting with President Anastasiades, but they are being very ...
House of Representatives is invoking the doctrine of necessity to undo a merged court that was itself created under the same doctrine
The House of Representatives may reactivate Cyprus’ Supreme ...
The CyBC broadcast the first televised debate of presidential candidates on Thursday night. The guests were Disy leader Averof Neophytou, independent candidate backed by Akel, Andreas Mavroyiannis, and independent candidate ...
The Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by the President of the Republic against the House of Representatives, which had made additions to the law with which the State Budget ...
We marked yet another anniversary of the Turkish invasion on Wednesday, the 48th, honouring those who gave up their lives defending their country and acknowledging the plight of all those ...
I often feel as if the entire world is on the edge. Confrontation often starts with a misdirected glance, a misinterpreted comment, or an outright viewpoint. Cutting someone off in ...
About six weeks ago Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that the attempt to revive the 2015 deal that restricted Iran’s ability to enrich ...
Russia’s embassy in Cyprus issued a document titled ‘Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the violation of the rights of Russian citizens and ...
The mass hysteria sparked by President Anastasiades’ decision to appoint the president of the Cyprus Medical Association (CMA), Dr Petros Agathangelou, to the board of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), ...
‘This winter in Europe will be very, very difficult’
These will probably be the most important elections Cyprus has had for a long time. And it is not just the ...
By Andrestinos N Papadopoulos
Any reference to the past is useful as it helps us understand better the present and learn lessons to formulate opinions correctly for the future on ...
Open letter to the finance minister
By Achilleas Demetriades
As part of the ongoing dialogue to tackle soaring prices, I would like to contribute the following ideas.
Inflation is the ...
By Demetrios H Hadjihambis
Reading the article of Christos Panayiotides ‘Entry of Cyprus into Nato – Why not?’ published recently, I thought it would be a good idea to continue the ...
By Christos P Panayiotides
The onus of proof of the presidential candidates that they mean business when they claim that they are determined to reunite Cyprus and to combat corruption ...
Rishi Sunak should replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister
By Alper Ali Riza
It is often wrongly assumed that the political left is the natural home of liberated women, ...
WITH OUR beloved Cyprob dead and buried, despite our noble efforts to keep it alive, the great and the good of our society have been desperately looking for a new ...
Politicians and media commentators often warn about the growing disillusionment of people with politics, citing the declining turn out for elections and the thousands of youngsters not registering on the ...
After much dilly-dallying, the government seems to have finally decided that it would implement the halloumi PDO in Cyprus. On Friday the agriculture ministry, which has been presiding over this ...
It took a year and the danger of losing EU funding worth €85 million for the legislature to finally approve the two bills establishing a framework for the operation of companies ...
Finance minister Constantinos Petrides ruled out the idea of providing political parties with additional state funds for their presidential election campaigns. This was out of the question, he said, mentioning ...
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
The governing coterie of Boris Johnson has repeatedly side-stepped political propriety under his lack of leadership. Their list of misdemeanors grew until ...
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’). “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” Sri Lanka is much the same.
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By Victoras Pallikaras
As the world’s capacity to deal with the fast-rising supply of disposable plastic goods becomes overwhelmed, plastic pollution has emerged as one of the most urgent ...