Opinion

In this day and age politics is all about packaging and presentation. It is no longer about ideas and convictions which are the subject of public debate. Few politicians seem ...

EVERY few years someone decides it is time to make a fuss about the corruption and sleaze plaguing the government’s Service for the Administration of Turkish Cypriot Properties. Although ...

By Lanting Liu Real estate tycoon and art collector, Yan Lugen, who was the chairman of YJ Cyprus Group passed away in New York on September 5, aged 67. Yan, who built ...

By Ioannis Tirkides In a previous article, we published in these pages, titled, ‘A new era of monetary policy is just beginning’, we discussed the changing monetary landscape in the ...

There was no need for the planned protest organised by police and firemen of the public employees’ union Isotita on September 23. On Thursday it was announced that finance minister Constantinos ...

By Emma Beckett Coffee – one bean with many possibilities. A big choice is how to brew it: espresso, filter, plunger, percolator, instant and more. Each method has unique equipment, timing, ...

It was extremely difficult to understand the reasoning behind the proposal by Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou for the introduction of a vice president to the political system. ...

The crowning achievement of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who died on Thursday after 70 years on the throne, was to maintain the popularity of the monarchy across decades of seismic political, ...

Is it collective superficiality or a general inability to think anything through that led the executive and legislature to implement a law that provided for a discount on VAT for ...

THE WAY THIINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Netflix viewers can watch The Byzantine Cat and Inside the Mind of a Cat, a 00s film, and a documentary. Set on ...

There is a strange habit in the Cyprus media always to seek the opinions of teaching union bosses about public schools and education ministry policy. For the last couple of ...

Cyprus has a very low number of organ donors in relation to other EU countries, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said last week during a visit to the transplant clinic at ...

By Andrew Osborn Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by ...

As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be ‘King of the World’. He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by ...

The EU has finally woken-up to the seriousness of the problem High energy prices are here to stay for many years to come. Last week, Shell’s CEO, Ben van ...

An unbelievably frustrating experience at Larnaca airport with Wizz Air By Katerina Nicolaou What is best? A cold Alexa goddess or a displaced Cypriot girl consumed by the emotion that ...

Cyprus borrowed heavily with low-cost bond issues to finance their excessive current expenditures Economic and financial crises in the euro area are fast developing. With supply-side problems most strikingly reflected ...

But there is no agreement on how to get there: an open letter to President Anastasiades I have carefully read your speech at the meeting of the Limassol Reserve Officers ...

It was Yeltsin that oversaw the break-up of the Soviet Union The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev is a good time to reset the West’s relationship with Russia. There is ...

The golden passport saga took a new twist on Thursday, when an Akel deputy revealed at a House committee meeting that five foreign nationals had made donations to ruling party ...

GIVEN the borderline lawful way in which he has been leeching off the taxpayer, you dread to think what the Diko-Edek independent candidate Nikos Christodoulides, would do if he was ...

The foreign ministry protested to the United Nations about an incident in the buffer zone where armed Turkish soldiers ordered a Greek Cypriot shepherd to leave and threw stones at ...

By Belinda Lunnay, Kristen Foley and Paul Ward Many of us enjoy a drink at the end of a stressful day. But for some, this is less of a discretionary ...

“The minimum wage must be universal, and its height must secure a dignified level of living in conditions of healthy employment,” said the Akel president candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis about the ...