Opinion

In the last year and a half of his presidency, Nicos Anastasiades had made the appointment of a special envoy by the UN Secretary-General his main Cyprus problem objective. He ...

By Fernando Valladares Climate change is a global problem. Its origin is less so, however, because we do not all contribute equally: the countries that suffer the most from the ...

When sanctions were imposed on two Cypriot companies that had been providing legal and administrative services to Russian oligarchs, a month ago, banks immediately froze all the accounts linked to ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Weight is a constant in the lives of people who don’t conform to what experts and beauty addicts maintain is the correct number of kilos. ...

There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the murderous Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended twelve years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission ...

When a president messes up an appointment of a state official, as Nicos Anastasiades had done in the case of the president of the commission for the protection of competition, ...

An ongoing joke at the Eurovision Song Contest was that when marks were given out by each country, it was a near certainty that Cyprus would give Greece’s song ‘...

Realisation of the EuroAsia Interconnector (EAI) has now entered the home-straight. The project is close to achieving several important milestones. The EAI constitutes a critical infrastructure for the European Commission, ...

In August 2006, I learned for the first time what a professional towing strap means. Twenty-year-old Jana Kavacova, who had been missing for days, was found buried in the industrial area ...

I am contacting you to refer to an event that has infuriated me for months and I am sure that other Cypriots have also suffered. Specifically, from October 26, 2022 until November 2, 2022, ...

We have carefully read your editorial “Nicosia’s pavement plan falls short for some” (Cyprus Mail, April 28), in which you question the municipality’s policy to proceed with the creation ...

Decent wages for most workers have fallen victim to crony capitalism In a Cyprus Mail opinion piece of April 30, 2023 it was argued that the economic system of Cyprus characterised by ...

Today’s elections are a chance for mild-mannered, modest Kemal Kilicdaroglu to take over There is earthquake diplomacy and there is earthquake democracy. Earthquake diplomacy is when diplomatic relations between ...

I COULD not resist the temptation to engage in a little bit of cannibalism, having not had the opportunity to do so when everyone was at it last week, prompting ...

The issue of Israelis investing in the occupied north was raised by President Nikos Christodoulides at Wednesday’s meeting – his first – with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The information was ...

Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should ...

By Ozay Mehmet If Kemal Kilicdaroglu wins the Turkish general election, a win-win-win solution on Cyprus may be within reach. The name of the solution would be confederation. President Nicos ...

By Maha Nassar On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their ...

People that work in the public sector may be referred to as public servants, but this is a misnomer if ever there was one. Rather than serve the public, these ...

It is astonishing that the candidate of the six-party Nation Alliance, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, is only marginally ahead of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday’s elections in Turkey. The ...

Education Minister Dr Athina Michaelidou could not turn down an invitation to attend a concert to mark the 70th anniversary of the secondary teachers’ union Oelmek. Nor could she have ...

Customer centricity is the ability of employees within an organisation to fully understand their customers’ situations, perceptions, and expectations. Fostering a pleasant customer experience at every point of the customer ...

Here’s how to sound wise when writing a story about mass killings and gun control. Last week saw two such massacres in Serbia (eight deaths and nine deaths respectively) ...

Appointment fiascoes are becoming a habit for the current government. On Tuesday a teenage girl decided not to take up the post of advisor to the deputy minister of tourism ...