Brand audit clean-up: holding companies accountable
By combining people power with scientific data evidence, brand audits are a great tool for pressuring companies over their role in plastic pollution
By Victoras Pallikaras
Brand audit is a ...
Our View: Remains to be seen if recognition of ‘border that is not a border’ will help migrant problem
The interior ministry was entitled to treat the EU’s recognition of the instrumentalisation of migration by Turkey through the Green Line as a success. It was, considering how long ...
Our View: Public transport should be a choice, not a punishment
The tale of fights and bad behaviour at some bus stops is yet another sign of the failure of the island’s public transport system and to say police should ...
In defence of whistle-blowers (and Donald Trump)
I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written ...
Energy: difficult choices for the EU
It is time for Cyprus to move from words to action
As we approach winter the global energy crisis is getting worse and worse. It has shifted from a situation ...
What horrors the Soviets brought to the Baltics
‘Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic states treated as “second-class people” says Moscow’
As a Lithuanian I have many things to say about what is being said there. This article is ...
Saudi Arabia: reducing dependency on mineral wealth
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...
Yet another opportunity that should not be wasted
Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem
You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...
A bank for the ‘little’ people
The founding fathers of the Bank of Cyprus would surely be horrified at the turn of events.
“Thrift” and “savings” for little people were the Victorian watchwords in the 1890s.
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Wrong article put Baltic states in bad light
I would like to comment on your article of August 30 (Cyprus Mail – Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic state treated as ‘second class people’, says Moscow).
As a person from Baltic ...
Cost of living crisis? Just go without
I wonder why Judge Riza, wrote about profiteering (Sunday Mail, August 21, Everyone knows that profiteering is criminal).
Has he just bought a designer shirt and realised a near identical shirt ...
Elizabeth’s reign was as unique as it was long
And no, she could not have reprieved Evagoras Pallikarides in 1956
Queen Elizabeth may have passed away but some of us of a certain age will remain Elizabethans until “we too ...
Our View: We all want different things. How would participatory democracy work?
In this day and age politics is all about packaging and presentation. It is no longer about ideas and convictions which are the subject of public debate. Few politicians seem ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Will the kids take over? Radical, nonsensical ideas for education
EVERY few years someone decides it is time to make a fuss about the corruption and sleaze plaguing the government’s Service for the Administration of Turkish Cypriot Properties. Although ...
Yan Lugen, a real estate tycoon who spent 3 billion RMB to buy 30,000 paintings, passed away
By Lanting Liu
Real estate tycoon and art collector, Yan Lugen, who was the chairman of YJ Cyprus Group passed away in New York on September 5, aged 67.
Yan, who built ...
Central banks up the odds in the fight against inflation
By Ioannis Tirkides
In a previous article, we published in these pages, titled, ‘A new era of monetary policy is just beginning’, we discussed the changing monetary landscape in the ...
Our View: Pre-election politics add to puffed up public sector jobs
There was no need for the planned protest organised by police and firemen of the public employees’ union Isotita on September 23. On Thursday it was announced that finance minister Constantinos ...
Plunger, espresso, filter? Just because your coffee is bitter, doesn’t mean it’s ‘stronger’
By Emma Beckett
Coffee – one bean with many possibilities. A big choice is how to brew it: espresso, filter, plunger, percolator, instant and more. Each method has unique equipment, timing, ...
Our View: Disy leader’s proposal for a vice president is moot
It was extremely difficult to understand the reasoning behind the proposal by Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou for the introduction of a vice president to the political system. ...
OBITUARY: Elizabeth, the queen who moved with a changing world
The crowning achievement of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who died on Thursday after 70 years on the throne, was to maintain the popularity of the monarchy across decades of seismic political, ...
Our View: MPs have a nerve criticising government for VAT law
Is it collective superficiality or a general inability to think anything through that led the executive and legislature to implement a law that provided for a discount on VAT for ...
Cyprus, cats magic and Netflix
THE WAY THIINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Netflix viewers can watch The Byzantine Cat and Inside the Mind of a Cat, a 00s film, and a documentary. Set on ...
Our View: Media needs to realise teaching union bosses are not in it for education
There is a strange habit in the Cyprus media always to seek the opinions of teaching union bosses about public schools and education ministry policy. For the last couple of ...
Our View: Government should promote organ donation
Cyprus has a very low number of organ donors in relation to other EU countries, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said last week during a visit to the transplant clinic at ...