Opinion

It could be said that one of the reasons President Anastasiades has had an unjustifiably good press in his eight years in office, is that he is extremely skilful at ...

WHEN the government was drafting its plans for Gesy it decided that public hospitals should be taken out of the control of the health ministry and be placed under an ...

By Richard Dickenson I live in a large village-cum-small town where a lost dog is front page news. Having had a home there for almost 60 years I have never heard ...

We don’t celebrate failure properly. Someone who has failed is someone who has tried, quite unlike those who sit on the sidelines and criticise. Failure has to do with ...

Nicosia welcomed Monday’s decision of the EU Foreign Affairs Council to draft a document with ways of dealing with Turkey’s failure to reverse its actions in the fenced ...

Digitisation gives banks the opportunity to come out of the pandemic even stronger The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated technological transformation for businesses operating in all sectors of the economy. Organisations ...

Billions of euros have been spent on defence over the years, but no party or individual politician has ever questioned this expenditure because security issues cannot be the subject of ...

The US’ experience with supply chain issues goes a long way to explaining what Cyprus should expect and why By Kevin Ketels Walk into any US store these days and ...

By George M Georgiou Although the phrase “lies, damned lies, and statistics” is often attributed to Mark Twain, no one can say with certainty where it originated. What we can ...

It’s possible that the tide which brought hard-right populist governments to power in a number of Central European countries is starting to go out again. In the Czech Republic, ...

The people with the power to combat corruption and collusion are the very ones who benefit from perpetuating them The “Pandora Papers” are a cooperative international project of a large ...

By Les Manison Comparative data for 2021Q2 published by the ECB under its Single Supervisory Mechanism, reveal that the three largest Cypriot banks performed poorly relative to most of their ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Following the prolonged period of subdued inflation, discussions are currently focusing on the evolution of prices, given their serious effects on citizens’ everyday lives ...

Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...

Although inflationary pressures have been evident in the last couple of months, they were largely ignored. When the 38 per cent increase in the electricity rates hit the news, the government ...

CONGRATS to Xylophagou mayor Georgios Tasou and his municipal council for their publicity stunt with the big dick potato (BDP), of the Spunta variety, they have placed at the entrance ...

By George M. Georgiou According to Eurostat’s data browser, Cyprus’ real per capita GDP in 2020 was €23.050, which is about 87 per cent of the EU-27 average. One could be forgiven ...

Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect any efforts to find a ...

The members of the scientific team were of the view that a booster shot should be given to people above the age of 60, said Dr Maria Koliou. Only Professor Petros ...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the government has managed to get the general population to go along with lockdowns and other measures by throwing money at each problem as ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou In 2008, Professor KC Nicolaou, multi-awarded, Karavas-born Cypriot-American, co-authored with Tamsyn Montagnon, a thoughtfully laid out book Molecules that changed the world. Nicolaou ...

Parliamentary spokesman of Akel Giorgos Loucaides wrote to the finance minister on Tuesday asking to know whether the government had any plans to submit a bill for regulating the issue ...

In the last few weeks, the Nicosia district court has issued injunctions suspending the holding of elections at two political parties. First, an injunction was issued against the holding of ...

Britain, Greece and Turkey have all failed in their assigned roles When the Republic of Cyprus was born in 1960, she was given three “god-mothers” – Britain, Greece and Turkey – who were ...