Opinion

Advisory opinions do not bind states but it is an exercise of soft power The UN General Assembly signalled its decision to challenge Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides In this article, we will examine the political landscape in Cyprus from 2011 onwards, against a backdrop of rising right-populism in advanced liberal democracies over the past couple ...

In the last few weeks we were given yet another depressing demonstration of how the teaching unions use the subservient deputies and political parties to prevent the government implementing its ...

By Ben Highmore As an expert in media and cultural studies, I once appeared in a television series about technology in the home during the last three decades of the 20...

There is almost nothing positive in the UN Secretary-General’s latest draft reports on his Good Offices Mission and on Unficyp that are due for release this week. Irrespective of ...

A new year represents the start of a brand-new chapter in the book that is your life. However, even though so many individuals have lofty goals, over two thirds of ...

Over the last five or six weeks, President Anastasiades has toured the island inaugurating projects, inspecting works in progress, announcing projects that have been approved and listing the amount of ...

The Commissioner for Transparency and head of the Anti-Corruption Authority, Haris Poyiadjis, announced that the newly established authority was ready to start work. The legislature approved the regulations for its ...

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” wrote Sam Johnson 250 years ago, and the Israeli prime minister has just confirmed ...

Time seems to be passing so quickly that it’s almost hard to believe that three years have gone by since the world was plunged into panic over a pandemic ...

And it’s time it published audited accounts The election result of the first round of the ecclesiastical elections was significant in that the voter turnout was striking low at 30 ...

Central to the art of prediction is the presumption of continuity. Predicting change where change is due is easy as is continuity where there is stability. By definition one cannot ...

By Jane Messer One of my life’s aims is to swim in as many lakes, rivers, pools and oceans as I possibly can, to use my liberty and swimming ...

The wearing of ritual or decorative masks in performances or ceremonies to hide the identity of the wearer By Martin Clark My articles in the Cyprus Mail usually deal with ...

By Bill Trott Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on US television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV’...

Without getting into the pros and cons of electric vehicles (EV) at this early point in this revolutionary concept that is set to remake the future of transport, the government’...

It’s a sad indictment of our politicians that out of almost 72,000 eligible but unregistered voters, only around 10,000 at best signed up for the upcoming presidential elections by Tuesday’s ...

By Viren Swami The festive season seems to be a good time for love, or so many Christmas films would have us believe. One incredibly popular trope is “the return” – ...

For once there is welcome news that road traffic fatalities in the past 12 months have fallen but 37 lives lost still boils down to three people a month being killed on ...

Minister Yiannis Karousos is promising significant improvements in the public transport sphere in the coming year with more and better roads and smart technology, according to an interview published on ...

By Olympia Stylianou Cyprus has joined the European Union as a unitary state with the application of the acquis communautaire suspended in its occupied part. Accession has brought us many ...

The energy market was turned on its head; 2023 could bring further turmoil By Charles Ellinas What a year it was. 2022 was seismic in terms of global energy. Everything was turned ...

Between the government’s main focus being more and better paid public employees and banks’ passiveness and single-mindedness the economy only works for the few President Nicos Anastasiades, Minister of ...

By Gwynne Dyer Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now! I was idly scanning the website ...