Opinion

The spat over the renovation of the Cetinkaya stadium in the buffer zone that has been going on for a couple of weeks appears to be taking on bigger dimensions. ...

I just wanted to inform you about a scam going around that I hadn’t come across before. I thought you may want to inform your readers of it. I’...

Where is the real political marketing, where are the women in the elections? By Irene Demetriou When Margaret Thatcher ran for Britain’s most sought-after political position, modern political marketing ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Within the context of the upcoming presidential elections, various topics related to pensions are at the forefront of the public debate in Cyprus. These ...

The disgusting attempt at justifying the disgraceful vandalism at the National Gallery in London (Why just Stop Oil was right to target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Cyprus Mail, October 19) was ...

Draft legislation by MPs threatens the fight for clarity over the sources of wealth of politically exposed persons You have probably heard that, in the past week, effectively all the ...

After many years of absence and the Covid pandemic we returned to Cyprus in 2022 for our summer holiday at The King Jason hotel in Paphos. We enjoyed our holiday there ...

Purpose Communications 9+1 PR trends coming in 2023 By Dimitris Ioannides Over the past three years PR professionals across all industries have had to adapt, evolve and pivot to get their client ...

I refer to the article from Alper Ali Riza KC bragging about Cyprus having the “Best prison regime in the world” (Sunday Mail, October 16). It was of interest to me, ...

The Conservative party’s collective nervous breakdown began with Brexit By Alper Ali Riza Boris Johnson is the ultimate Come Back Kid. Hasta La Vista Baby indeed! Who would have ...

If opinion polls are anything to go by, Nikos Christodoulides has built an astonishing lead with presidential elections less than four months away. His lead may have been bigger at ...

WHO COULD have believed that there would come a day when only a pitiful 8 per cent of our population would consider the Cyprob the most important issue facing the country? ...

By Michele Ruyters, Greg Stratton and Jarryd Bartle Netflix’s recent series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has stirred controversy over its apparent glamourisation of a serial killer and perceived ...

Everybody would like to see modern, well-equipped public hospitals and medical centres which provide patients with a good standard of health care, without making them wait for a long time ...

While the finance minister’s statements that a planned green fuel tax would not be going ahead for now is welcome news for motorists, it is likely that is only ...

A day rarely goes by without Akel complaining about what it calls the ‘expensiveness’ people must cope with. The party either issues a written announcement, or one of its officials ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE The ancient Greek demokratia/polis system was an exclusive gents’-entitlement club, participatory and self-governing. Demokratia joins demos (people) and kratos (power). At the same time, ...

The three-month suspension of two doctors at Makarios hospital, pending a police investigation into their involvement in a case of alleged medical negligence, appears not to have been thought through ...

By Toby Walsh You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of ...

In two of the television debates of presidential candidates, Disy candidate, Averof Neophytou said the US lifted the arms embargo on Cyprus only after the candidate of the so-called centre ...

No more vague statements: Presidential candidates must clearly and loudly declare their positions so voters can make a real decision By Christos P. Panayiotides In Cyprus, we have a unique ...

By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos The statement by Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu published recently in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, could be characterised as an ultimatum. He was giving a ...

By Dr Panayiotis Mavros The football match at Nicosia’s GSP stadium two weeks ago between Apoel and AEL resulted in violent incidents between the fans of the teams, who ...

My name is John Brown and I served in the British army here in Cyprus from 1958-1963 and again from 1966-1968. When Nathan Morley wrote a similar article to the ...