Opinion

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Andrew Osborn Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by ...

As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be ‘King of the World’. He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by ...

The EU has finally woken-up to the seriousness of the problem High energy prices are here to stay for many years to come. Last week, Shell’s CEO, Ben van ...

An unbelievably frustrating experience at Larnaca airport with Wizz Air By Katerina Nicolaou What is best? A cold Alexa goddess or a displaced Cypriot girl consumed by the emotion that ...

Cyprus borrowed heavily with low-cost bond issues to finance their excessive current expenditures Economic and financial crises in the euro area are fast developing. With supply-side problems most strikingly reflected ...

But there is no agreement on how to get there: an open letter to President Anastasiades I have carefully read your speech at the meeting of the Limassol Reserve Officers ...

It was Yeltsin that oversaw the break-up of the Soviet Union The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev is a good time to reset the West’s relationship with Russia. There is ...

The golden passport saga took a new twist on Thursday, when an Akel deputy revealed at a House committee meeting that five foreign nationals had made donations to ruling party ...

GIVEN the borderline lawful way in which he has been leeching off the taxpayer, you dread to think what the Diko-Edek independent candidate Nikos Christodoulides, would do if he was ...

The foreign ministry protested to the United Nations about an incident in the buffer zone where armed Turkish soldiers ordered a Greek Cypriot shepherd to leave and threw stones at ...

By Belinda Lunnay, Kristen Foley and Paul Ward Many of us enjoy a drink at the end of a stressful day. But for some, this is less of a discretionary ...

“The minimum wage must be universal, and its height must secure a dignified level of living in conditions of healthy employment,” said the Akel president candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis about the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday, aged 91, was celebrated in the West as a great leader but in Russia he was reviled for causing the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

Every year, thousands of couples travel to Cyprus to tie the knot. The allure of combining a wedding and honeymoon with something different, including good weather, are key drivers in ...

Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the ...

The release of the auditor-general’s report on the citizenship by investment scheme nine days ago sparked a political row in which everyone has become involved – the political parties, presidential ...

According to reports at the weekend, the state is to get tougher on benefits handed out to migrants and asylum seekers. Some of the measures make sense such as better ...

By Judith Garber August 24, 2022 marked the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Sadly, the day also marks six months since the Russian government launched its unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine – ...

You wait ages for the bus, and then three come along at once. Books are a bit like that, too, although in this case it’s only a pair of ...

It’s significant, but serious challenges remain With the world gripped by an ever-deteriorating energy crisis, with gas supplies and prices playing a central role, the discovery of a new ...