Opinion

In the past, I believed that the malaise of Cyprus was primarily caused by the incompetence and frivolousness of its leaders. Recently however, I have embarked on a process of ...

By Parveen Akhtar In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of ...

And the courts can do something about it Greed is the unacceptable face of capitalism, and profiteering in times of pestilence and war a most loathsome and wicked kind of ...

The absence of mechanisms to fight corruption has downgraded our country By Achilleas Demetriades Corruption in Cyprus in 2022 has filtered through most aspects of our society. First we need to ...

By Theodoros Pelagidis In September 2021 the undersigned, diagnosed that inflation will not transitory, that it will be more persistent, higher and longer lasting, showing evidence of entrenchment since then. In ...

Until a few months ago, most people were unaware that there was a commissioner for the supervision of Gesy. Those that follow the news, would have found out about his ...

Although the Akamas local plan has still not been finalised, the villagers of Ineia have been protesting because they claim, it would not allow them to develop their land. Last ...

‘Cry of anguish’ from the shopkeepers of Paralimni read the headline of a story by Cyprus News Agency, which reported that shops were on ‘life-support’ and were seeking government support ‘...

With presidential elections looming in Cyprus, it has become increasingly popular to express one’s ideas and opinions about the current political and economic climate. The masses have taken over ...

The education ministry is correct to look at expanding the scope of vocational education on offer. Basic vocational training is offered at technical schools, but for some years now, the ...

It’s only one year since the fall of Kabul last August 15 and everybody in the countries that sent troops to Afghanistan has already forgotten about it (apart from journalists ...

It is ludicrous for the government to claim that it does not have the resources to meet the needs of vulnerable households Accounts and behaviour of the government, banks and ...

Jordanian-born Gabriel Dahabreh is one of the top thoracic surgeons in Europe. Since 2001, he has been serving as the director of the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Athens Medical Centre. ...

High numbers of foreign students being forced into crime part of the problem By Esra Aygin There has been a drastic increase in crimes in the northern part of Cyprus ...

Nobody cultivates the idea of state dependency and the sense of entitlement as much as Akel. It is an integral part of its socialist mindset and what’s worse, it ...

BEING a deeply religious man and an avid churchgoer, you would have thought the independent Diko-Edek candidate, who remains a Disy member, and will bring an end to the corrupt ...

A wind of change is blowing through the museums of Europe Just as the English think of Shakespeare as their very own, despite his universal appeal, the Greeks think the ...

Western governments and central banks together have contrived an economic and societal farce, but few are laughing By Andrew Shouler We are now well into what some call the silly ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Inflation has been ramping up for about a year now and has reached levels last seen more than forty years ago, during the stagflation of the 1970s ...

The criticism of presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides by his rivals, for his refusal to take part in any of the televised debates scheduled to be held on the CyBC next ...

It was very difficult to comprehend the thinking behind the supreme court’s decision to hand out a suspended 15-month jail sentence to a public employee found guilty of bribery ...

The furore involving a Savannah cat named Berton this week has again highlighted the long-standing issue of the importation of exotic animals into Cyprus and the possible consequences, in this ...

By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou THE WAY THINGS ARE Death is the most certain thing in life, everything dies. And the hideous variety of ways by which death gathers its dues ...

The endemic plants of the island make its flora incredibly unique By Johannes Rötzer Summer, 2018. This was the first time I had the chance to visit Cyprus and fall ...