Opinion

For months now, the labour minister, Zeta Emilianidou has been having meetings with union bosses and representatives of employers’ organisations about the introduction of a national minimum wage, which was ...

By Harriette Richards, In the course of her Met Gala attendances, Kim Kardashian has worn floral Givenchy (attending for the first time in 2013, pregnant with her first child), silver Balmain, ...

Foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides made a strong case for Cyprus with regard to the sixth package of sanctions against Russia planned by the European Commission. He was correct to point ...

WITH the UN warning last month of famine in around 80 countries worldwide due to pandemic fallout and the Ukraine war, and with impending shortages and rising prices looming in the ...

By Dr. Yaşam Ayavefe The sharp decline in economic activity and its consequences on the labor market have prompted governments and central banks to take stimulus measures to mitigate ...

Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato; Agatha Gibbons, University of Waikato, and Stacy T. Sims, University of Waikato Last weekend’s LPGA event in California will likely be remembered as much ...

By Craig Jackson The resignation of Conservative MP Neil Parish has left many people wondering what could possibly lead someone to think it acceptable to watch pornography in their place ...

The command of the British Bases may have thought a charity concert at the Curium amphitheatre to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was a good idea especially ...

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jennifer Rigby For many people worldwide, having cotton swabs thrust up their nose or down their throat to test for Covid-19 has become a routine and ...

Four months ago Jonathan Powell warned that the ‘Good Friday’ agreement of 1998 that ended 30 years of killing in Northern Ireland was at risk. “What worries me is the casual political ...

The bank employees’ union Etyk has invited all its members to district general assemblies next week to vote on strike measures. The union has been in a dispute over pay ...

The far-reaching geopolitical effects are unfolding By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos The end of the Cold War following the dissolution of the Soviet Union left a situation based on promises, but ...

By Antonis Antoniou The United States expelled Turkey, a proven unreliable US ally, in 2019 from the F-35 air-fighter programme because it bought the Russian S-400 missile system. Now the Turks ...

Cyprus missed the opportunities it had in 2013 to develop its own gas and is now paying the price As Europe imposes more and more sanctions to reduce and eventually stop ...

MY FRIEND who called to ask whether he was going mad or the world around him had gone mad was given a scientific answer to his question last week by ...

We were talking recently about how clever the Ukrainians had been to call the invading Russian troops ‘Orcs’ even before all the atrocities in the Russian-occupied towns around Kyiv came ...

President Anastasiades made a rousingly defiant speech at the 14th Congress of the New Democracy party in Athens, at which he was a guest speaker, to justify his handling of ...

In theory, Turkish Cypriots should be able to vote in the Republic’s presidential elections There is election fever in the air in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). Candidates are ...

By Maria Demertzis and Francesco Papadia When Europeans imposed sanctions on Russian firms and authorities, they did not sanction Gazprombank. This was necessary or European companies would not have been ...

The central committee of Akel meets this weekend to discuss the proposal prepared by the political bureau for the presidential elections. The political bureau will give the central committee a ...

By Bronwyn Eager, Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern. The 2017 book “Nomadland: Surviving ...

It was good to see the House education committee starting a debate about public school opening hours and plans for all-day schools. This is an initiative of the committee chairman, ...

JUST over a year ago, the government was celebrating because the European Commission finally registered halloumi as a protected designation of origin (PDO). The registration had waited for years because ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou All round us, human progress is rapidly evolving. Still, the rich get richer, and the poor get ever poorer when a mix ...