New British PM Burnham vows to end years of instability
Andy Burnhambecame Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, pledging to break with the politics of the past to deliver a new economic model to benefit a ...
Beyond interest rates: a central bank for the future
As the World Cup comes to an end today, so will the euphoria that most of us have experienced start to fade. The distraction – similar to the Colosseum gladiator games ...
Gesy saved my life
Whilst being very quick to criticise, I like to think I display balance in my freedom to express opinion.
This is an open letter of congratulations and thanks to the ...
Extortionate sunbed prices in Limassol
My parents have come to visit and my wife took them to the beach today. They went down to the beach to the right-hand side of the Four Seasons in ...
Courts are the last defence against tyranny
India and the United States are the world’s two biggest democracies, and both of them seem to be in danger. In each of them populist federal governments are deliberately ...
The anatomy of a geopolitical tragedy
Cyprus’ modern history is defined by missed diplomatic opportunities, ideological blindness and the cold calculations of regional powers. Since 1974, the events leading to the island’s partition have been clouded ...
A very British and a very Cypriot coup
With Andy Burnham about to take over as UK prime minister in a very British coup, Cyprus marked 52 years since the coup against President Makarios with sirens blaring at 8.20am ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: One more extension ought to do it
THE INHUMANITY the Paphos authorities have shown in the treatment of the British father, whose three-year-old son was killed, after falling out of a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos last ...
Our View: Crackdown risks worsening labour shortages
The number of inspectors at the labour and social insurance ministry, clamping down on illegal or undeclared work will be doubled, said Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas. There were currently eight ...
Shock, awe and lessons lost
Language is one of humankind’s finest achievements. Its progression led to swifter understanding of the actions our species needed while hunting or escaping predators, for expressing emotions, understanding each ...
Our View: Authority’s silence undermines transparency
The Anti-Corruption Authority resorted to the oldest trick in the book in its announcement, responding to the previous week’s media reports about a possible conflict of interest in the ...
Cyprus can’t bury this problem
Cyprus is built on history, right?
Construct a hotel, and you uncover an ancient amphitheatre. New roads unearth mosaics. Excavate anywhere from Polis to Pernera and you’ll likely hit ...
Our View: Populism comes at industry’s expense
Only in Cyprus could the government decide to redesignate an industrial zone in the Dali-Yeri area into a ‘white zone’ which prevents the 50 factories that have been in the area, ...
Our View: Half a century too late to cosy up to the West
For the last half-century, every year, on July 15 we hear and read the same narratives about the Greek Junta-inspired coup against President Makarios, which gave Turkey the pretext to invade ...
Our View: EU envoy appointment has not brought a solution any closer
The way the government greeted the appointment of the European Commission envoy to the Cyprus problem gave the impression that the road to a solution had been opened. The reality, ...
It’s a shame they can’t both lose
The last time oil-tankers were being shot up in the Persian Gulf, back in the 1980s, it was Saddam Hussein’s brutal tyranny in Iraq versus Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary ...
Our View: Is this the Cyprus police’s cruelest act?
The decision of the Paphos police to arrest the inconsolable and grief-stricken father of the three-year-old boy who fell to his death from a fourth-floor window in a Chlorakas hotel ...
The illusion of a safe pause and Holguin’s wake-up call
For nearly a decade since Crans-Montana, Greek Cypriot leaders have operated under the illusion of a risk-free status quo. However, UN envoy María Angela Holguin has shattered this complacency, ...
The Brexit decade: the gap between expectations and reality
The 2016 referendum on the UK’s departure from the EU is widely considered to be a milestone event. The purpose of this article is to assess its multi-level impact, considering ...
A World Cup to remember: war minus the shooting
This week I had planned to write a carefully argued article on economics and the creation of money. After sending it to a couple of friends for comment, however, the ...
AI is already inside retail finance
There is a version of the AI-in-finance story that is almost entirely reassuring. Algorithms that make markets more accessible. Platforms that give ordinary investors tools once reserved for institutions. Personalisation ...
Is there a better way to bring natural gas to Cyprus?
The first two articles in this series concluded that the key question facing Cyprus is no longer whether natural gas is needed, but whether the current Vasiliko LNG import project ...
A discredited Fifa at the beck and call of a petulant Trump
The international football federation (Fifa), the body responsible for the overall conduct and supervision of the 2026 World Cup, brought the beautiful game into disrepute earlier this week.
In an unprecedented ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Give her the job! Only Raouna can look after our EU interests
A FEW weeks ago our establishment had mentioned that the Prez would be looking for job to give the deputy minister of European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, whose contract would expire ...