Our View: It’s a mistake to stop free testing
It must have been very welcome news for the thousands of people not registered with the health service Gesy that they can now use the walk-in vaccination centres islandwide every ...
Stand up, Dinty Hardman
By Richard Dickenson
Some historical characters are famous, like Kilroy (who, once, really was here), Mickey Mouse, Robin the Hood, and Zorba the Clerk. Others remain inexplicably unrecognised. For example, ...
Our View: Trilateral alliances were never going to be game changers
One thing the Anastasiades government will be remembered for is the introduction of trilateral alliances with neighbouring countries. In reality, they were bilateral alliances of Cyprus and Greece, which were ...
Our View: We can only hope sanity prevails over foreclosures
The House of Representatives will suspend its summer recess on Tuesday to discuss the president’s return of the law extending the suspension of the foreclosures law until October 31. First ...
July an ominous month in Cyprus
THE WAY THINGS ARE (AND WERE)
Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Nicosia, July 1972: my husband kissed his family goodbye and left for an army training camp. After his service, he found a ...
This is the hour of reckoning
The events of this past week call for the most radical of actions: the president should resign
Last Tuesday, Turkey announced the long-anticipated, much-discussed opening of part of fenced-off Varosha.
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On its sixth anniversary, what chance is there of keeping Iran’s nuclear deal alive?
Dr Yiorghos Leventis
July 14 marked the sixth anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The JCPOA reached on July 14, 2015 in Vienna is the multinational nuclear deal between the US, ...
Climate awareness: we’re there at last
The extreme weather events of recent weeks have become a further wake-up call
‘Zeitgeist’ is a slippery word. At best it’s just a fancy German way of saying ‘the ...
Our View: UNSC condemnation won’t stop Turkish unlawful actions over Varosha
After protests to the UK, which drafted the UN Security Council Presidential Statement on Varosha, the Cyprus government succeeded in having a reference to the “Turkish and Turkish Cypriot leaders” ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Threat of UN words and free speech
DÉJÀ VU. We appeared to have engaged in some time travel in the last week and returned to the eighties when high anxiety gripped the country over the wording ...
Ottoman power games in northern Cyprus
The importance of Cyprus to the Turks
President Erdogan has been and gone. His visit was done to show the importance of Cyprus to the Turks, but that does not ...
I agree with archbishop’s plea to get the Covid vaccine
Having ties to Cyprus, I read The Cyprus Mail, and I fully agree with the advice given in the article: “Archbishop again appeals to young to get jabbed” (July 18). I ...
Government should look at where transmission is actually occurring
According to a New York Times articles dated July 18, 2021, Cyprus ranks 5th in a table of countries with the most Covid-19 cases in the world per 100,000 residents in the last ...
Two per cent positive means 98 per cent negative
My weekly heart and soul uplift thanks to Patroclos in the Cyprus Mail’s Coffeeshop every Sunday was special today (July 18) as it mirrored many of my comments.
The big ...
Our View: Our society does not see the intrinsic value of education
According to the latest European surveys and the European Commission’s data, “it appears the Cyprus public is lacking with regard to the participation in cultural activities including their relationship ...
Our View: There needs to be more awareness of security matters in general
The unacceptable shoddiness with which court security is approached by the authorities was displayed again in Limassol when in the early hours of Wednesday a room in which evidence for ...
Our View: Government’s lack of transparency has only fuelled the anti-vaxxer movement
Last Sunday’s demonstration at the presidential palace was overshadowed by the mindless violence that unfolded at the Dias group premises. The fact many of the thugs that went on ...
Our View: Varosha move leaves few options for Cyprus government
In the end, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan made a passing reference to the reopening of the fenced area of Varosha in a speech he gave in the occupied north ...
Our View: Police need to be prepared for more violence
The scenes of violence and vandalism by the thugs who stormed the Dias group building on Sunday night will have shocked anyone who saw them on television or social media. ...
Making the case for a benevolent dictator
Such a leader would have to tackle the Cyprus problem, the pandemic and corruption
By George Koumoullis
Is there such a thing as a ‘benevolent dictator’? For Cypriots, the associations ...
Cyprus will struggle to apply EU’s new carbon taxes
Implementing these policies and policing their application will be a logistical nightmare for the EU
The European Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday its ‘Fit-for-55’ package, with 13 new policies designed to ...
Central banks have painted us into a corner
The ECB’s revised inflation targeting reflects a doubling down on policy strategy that has been shown so far to be lacking
Andrew Shouler
Crunch time is approaching in the ...
Sowing the seeds of evil: Cyprus 1959-1964
The position taken by Takis Hadjidemetriou, as stated in his recent book The Republic of Cyprus 1959-1964: The State and the Parastate finds me in full agreement. In the preface, ...
Byzantine complexities that led to the coup
Sirens are sounded in the Republic of Cyprus every year at the exact time President Makarios was overthrown on July 15, 1974. Makarios was receiving some Greek Egyptian children at the presidential ...