Opinion

Two government measures for helping people cope with inflation are in the pipeline – reduction of VAT on basic consumer goods and the creation of a shopping basket app that will ...

Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the first crossing between the north and south parts of the island. Newspapers were full of stories about people visiting their ...

Easter is a day of celebration, and in Cyprus the end of Lent is marked with a great feast that includes everything from the more classic avgolemono soup made with ...

By Pierre Jaillet Inflation has been elevated in 2021-22 in Europe and elsewhere, driven by higher energy and food prices, from exogenous influences, but also driven by mark ups on ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The prolonged period of rising inflation over the past year and a half has pushed major Central Banks to successive interest rate hikes. Specifically, ...

The current outdated swimming pool legislation is ridiculous, unaffordable, unenforceable and lifeguards aren’t exactly hanging off trees waiting to be selected (Swimming pool law damaging Cyprus property and tourism, ...

We all know so much more now, especially if we were a part of the Thatcher-enabled noughties tsunami of off-plan buyers of Cyprus property. Nearly, we estimate, 30 per cent of ...

Listening the other day to my favourite breakfast radio show, some listeners asked via text message when will “this farce with the refugee identity in Cyprus” finally end? In other ...

Methane producing and land gobbling cattle farming must go By Gwynne Dyer “When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant next to a giraffe next ...

In minds of successive governments, blame for the events of the past and ongoing impasse lies on the shoulders of others By Gavin Jones This latest article completes my trilogy ...

THE SANCTIONS, imposed by the Yanks and Brits during Holy Week on 23 Cypriots and 20 Cyprus-based companies, may have brought the honeymoon period of the new presidency to a premature end ...

Russians love to litigate in England and the legal profession in London loves Russian litigation as it is extremely lucrative By Alper Ali Riza After the Soviet Union collapsed an ...

The government may have earned some plaudits from the United States for its cooperation on the issue of sanctions, but this cooperation was evidently not enough. This was why on ...

Occasionally, and even more in recent months, we keep hearing about how elderly people are being treated within the health service. The latest spate of abuses came only days ago. ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos wrote to associations representing the banks and loan-purchasing companies asking them to absorb part of the cost from the rise in interest rates so that loan ...

Over the years, past presidents have made a habit of creating new public posts for their cronies. This is why we have ended up with a glut of commissioners, most ...

By Piotr Gliński, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland In April 1943, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, the Germans occupying the Polish capital surrounded the Warsaw Ghetto – ...

The sanctions imposed on Cypriot companies and individuals by the US and UK last week took the government by surprise. It was not expecting this and found itself in a ...

It only took a few hours for the appointment of Michalis Michael as member of the Public Service Commission to degenerate into farce. Within hours of his appointment, social media ...

In Northern Ireland with a problem similar to the Cyprob, the referendum question on the Good Friday Agreement was much simpler Last week President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference in ...

It is the key measure needed to reduce reliance on pricey fossil-fuels Increased grid flexibility is critical if we are to produce more than 25 per cent of our electricity from ...

By Gavin Jones Ever since I can remember, I’ve been addicted to films and have watched many hundreds – if not thousands. I’ve always been astonished at the way ...

Cyprus’ natural gas reserves, ever since the first discovery in the Aphrodite field in September 2011, have been politically, never commercially, exploited. Politicians never skipped an opportunity to tell us about ...

The latest U.S. intelligence leak illustrates a paradox of spycraft: keeping secrets means limiting their distribution but protecting against dangers like another Sept. 11, 2001, attack means sharing them. Balancing those ...