Opinion

By Richard Dickenson When I was growing up I set myself certain targets which I reasonably felt would be within my grasp as worthwhile achievements. I started out in life ...

Many people are worried about reports of “breakthrough” Covid -19 infections overseas, from places like Israel and the United States. A breakthrough infection is when someone tests positive for Covid ...

The question is whether the Cypriot government or better, the Greek Cypriot community, has the courage to face the truth By Achilleas Demetriades On 15 July I had posed the question “...

It is good that the House Ethics Committee has taken up the weakness of the authorities in combating human trafficking. The committee met on Monday to look at the failings ...

After all the noise made about corruption, which was highlighted by the Al Jazeera investigation into golden passports, the government announced a series of plans to combat it. There is, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The pandemic and temporary “shut down” of economies has led to a worldwide sharp decline in key economic indicators and negatively affected the trade ...

The first and most important lesson from Akis Tzohatzopoulos’ life is that power corrupts By Christos P Panayiotides On August 27, Akis Tzohatzopoulos passed away, at the age of 82. He was ...

Afghanistan withdrawal has strengthened rather than ended the West’s delusional thinking that led to the misbegotten adventure in the first place By Gwynne Dyer A man is sitting in ...

There was good economic news to report this week. Unemployment fell to the lowest level since June 2009. In July this year, according to Eurostat, it stood at 5.2 per cent compared ...

SADLY, it does not look like we will be returning to the constitution of 1960 any time soon, Prez Nik’s zealous and earnest initiative failing to convince anyone, not even ...

In the music for the film Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, produced a masterpiece that married music and character to perfection. Zorba, “Damn it boss, ...

Dear Editor, How difficult it was to restrain tears on reading in the Greek press (Philelefteros, August 20) the article detailing the distress wreaked upon the hunting brotherhood due to the ...

I read Alper Ali Riza’s article in the Sunday Mail of August 29 and would like to make the following comments. I do not think that it is easy for ...

The committee in charge of naming streets of the Limassol municipality is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss proposals for renaming main thoroughfares in the town. The new names ...

It is quite astonishing that a rash remark by President Anastasiades last week, during his public sparring with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar about the revocation of 14 passports, has dominated ...

Very often when a government tells its citizens there is no cause for alarm or no cause for concern, they are either completely misinformed or are trying to play down ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I needed a break from faithfully following the (literal) blood and guts of The Good Doctor so I clicked onto a series set ...

“It is an oxymoron making statements about the development of the economy, while the only concern of many officials is the securing of the interests of the banks.” If we ...

An ancient and natural carbon-capture technology that simply has no downside One of my favourites from among the rich variety of names sometimes flung at nature conservationists, is that of ‘...

It was surprising to see how the new health minister, Michalis Hadjipantelas, decided to deal with the delays by the state health services (Okypy) in carrying out projects and improvement ...

Ed Asner, who played a gruff newsman for laughs and for drama in the classic TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff “Lou Grant” in the 1970s ...

Capital markets and the insurance sector are becoming increasingly reluctant to fund and insure fossil fuels The oil and gas sector is undergoing permanent change brought about by a number ...

By Constantinos Christofides When I was Rector at the University of Cyprus, I was visited by a foreign ambassador just as his posting was drawing to an end in 2018. As ...

But revoking Cyprus passports of Turkish Cypriots was not the answer In a recent article of mine, I made the following important points concerning the 1974 Turkish military intervention: The 1974 coup, ...