Abortion legislation may have been modernised in 2018 but if what was said at the House human rights committee on Monday is anything to go by, the new provisions have largely ...
The blame game over the collapse of balconies on two buildings in Paphos in the space of 24 hours is well underway, as passing the buck in the event of a ...
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
Income inequality refers to the gap between rich and poor within a country. Inequality arises due to a number of factors, including the level ...
There was nothing surprising about the decision to remove him; it was as ruthless as it was principled
British premier Boris Johnson was overthrown last Thursday July 7, 2022 in a very ...
Be wary of listening to influencers in the election campaign
I believe that the mission of an honest, competent columnist is to evaluate public figures and their actions and to ...
By Dorian Llywelyn
Ever since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, analysts picking apart Vladimir Putin’s motives and messaging about the war have looked to religion for ...
THE PRESIDENTIAL candidate of post-truth politics is flying if the latest opinion poll, conducted for Alpha TV, is anything to go by.
A staggering 33.1 per cent of respondents said they ...
The government in May of this year announced a new tax incentive scheme designed to attract foreign companies and workers to Cyprus. The scheme also seeks to repatriate Cypriot professionals ...
I am a Cypriot national and often take my kids to Cyprus alone without my husband for long holidays. My husband is British, and we live in London. He is ...
I think the government has made a huge mistake in doing a nationwide mask mandate. It takes away our rights and our freedoms. Why bring it back when it has ...
I am a regular reader of your newspaper and appreciate your work very much.
I very rarely comment on news even on social media, but I would like to express ...
The government has very ambitious and radical plans for managing the traffic on the roads of the capital. Two studies are currently underway for the plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility, ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave his routine, six-monthly report on Unficyp to the members of the Security Council on Tuesday and it was just more of the same. He highlighted ...
What had been expected to be a routine meeting at the presidential palace on Tuesday to announce a final decision on the minimum wage ended in a major disagreement between ...
Potato farmers are seeking a meeting with President Anastasiades to set out the problems they are facing as a result of the continuous increase in the prices of fuel and ...
The regulation actually goes beyond halting biodiversity loss to push for ecosystem restoration, for ‘bringing nature back’
At first sight the positive tone of this column may seem rather out ...
We often bemoan the slowness of the justice system in Cyprus but this can’t be said for the case of 26-year-old British tourist, who was jailed for 12 months last ...
The island could have played a major role in this had its own LNG project at Vasilikos been allowed to proceed
The Memorandum of Understanding between the EU, Egypt and ...
Another 15 million people joined the Nato alliance on Tuesday. Finland and Sweden, formerly neutral countries but near to Russia, gave in to Turkish blackmail, and that cleared the way for ...
The president and his close associates, as a result of the way they handled the situation, have left Cyprus without any real alliances
By Achilleas Demetriades, presidential candidate for the 2023 ...
Two main topics must be addressed by the three main candidates in election campaign
Possibly for the first time in the contemporary history of Cyprus, the political scene seems to ...
By Stefan Wolff
Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food ...
With so much going on – inflation, migration, Covid, the Cyprus problem, next year’s election – it’s easy to miss the issue of excess deaths in Cyprus. And of course ...
Unlike their leaders who love grandstanding on the world stage, most people are not prepared to pay any price in support of Ukraine
Being the British prime minister has its ...