Opinion

Akel, understandably, has been trying to make the most out of the issue of the surveillance software companies that are based in Cyprus. It has been attacking the government and ...

Even though home and school are undoubtedly the two biggest influences in our childhood, film aficionados will firmly believe that cinema has influenced their lives and the decisions they have ...

Once a year Cyprus police roll out their ‘human face’ during Police Week and talk about modernising the force and becoming ‘closer to the public’ with various social schemes. Polls ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who passed away on Monday morning, after a long battle with cancer, might not have been very interested in questions of the faith and spiritual matters, but ...

Elon Musk is that rarest of things, a benign sociopath, and therefore a person of considerable value to the world. He has just made a mistake that could ruin his ...

As the European Commission is finding out, interfering with markets creates unintended consequences and eventually backfires The oil and gas companies cannot get it right, can they? They have been ...

Can somebody please explain just what educational learning is to be gained by off-loading gangs of young teenage school kids on Paphos harbour and letting them run riot. This morning ...

Uncontrollable immigration is closely linked to the lack of a solution “The knot has reached the comb” is a cry that it is often heard outside Kokkinotrimithia, near Nicosia, where ...

For Britain, the Ukraine war is one event that has scuppered Brexit Brexit, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a kamikaze mini budget have brought Britain to her knees. ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Sahel zone is located south of the Sahara desert and it stretches from the west coast of Africa to the east coast by ...

I read with incredulity the recent article by Paul Lambis reproduced in your publication regarding the St Nicholas monastery at Akrotiri. The article describes a scenario which simply does not ...

I am so ashamed as an African, l am so ashamed as an asylum seeker here in Cyprus. We left our home countries because of insecurity. We found shelter in ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that CoLA (the cost of living allowance), also known as the ‘automatic price-index readjustment of wages’, is back in vogue. Its return to ...

WHAT HAD been shaping up as an acrimonious divorce, with a custody battle and a legal row over the ownership of the house and furniture, rather disappointingly degenerated into a ...

By Barry Markovsky Would you think it weird if I refused to travel on Sundays that fall on the 22nd day of the month? How about if I lobbied the ...

Andreas Demetropoulos, the former director of the fisheries department and the head of the Cyprus Wildlife Society, died on Saturday at the age of 84. Demetropoulos is well known for this ...

The Gesy law prohibits private doctors treating Gesy patients in hospitals that are contracted to the HIO (Health Insurance Organisation). This had always been the case, even though the HIO ...

A law, in place since 2009, allows public universities to offer excess places to students with internationally recognized qualifications of access, such as the IB and A-levels. In the 13 years this ...

AFTER weeks of build-up in the media, the visit by members of the European parliament’s Pega committee, which is gathering information regarding the use of the Pegasus and similar ...

It was certain there would be a strong reaction by unions after 156 workers employed by two ground staff companies at Larnaca airport were handed redundancy notices. An impromptu two-hour strike ...

There was violence at two matches at the weekend, exposing the ineffectiveness of the measures taken by the authorities to quash hooliganism and highlighting the need for new thinking. In ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE The storm cracked across the sky like a brutal artillery barrage just as the Adventure Club group had decided to make camp by the lake. The ...

By Jeff Mason, Richard Cowan and Heather Timmons The midterm elections in the United States on Nov. 8 will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control each house of Congress, and the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have had major socio-economic repercussions reflected in slower eco-nomic growth and rampant inflation together with a related severe cost of living crisis in ...