Opinion

The health minister Michalis Hadjipantelas will return to the House health committee in a couple of weeks with amendments and changes made to the bill on Dangerous and Infectious Diseases. ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Recent events have raised concerns as to the government’s ability to handle the serious issues the country is facing. Efforts to cover up the huge responsibilies ...

As expected, rising prices have sparked a new bout of calls by unions for the full restoration of the Cost of Living Allowance, by which wages are automatically adjusted every ...

By George M. Georgiou Debates about central bank independence have traditionally focused on monetary policy, specifically the setting of interest rates. A central bank, it is argued, should be free ...

Former European Commissioner, Androulla Vassiliou, became a target of scathing attacks on social media after her inappropriate comments about a rape case in Thessaloniki. After a 24-year-old woman reported to ...

By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou We had a laugh at New Year’s Day lunch when an environmental engineer told us science is looking at ways to reduce animal-ejected methane into ...

President Anastasiades expressed the hope that the UN Security Council resolution for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate would include the things that were missing from the report of the ...

COP26 president on what was achieved and what still needs to be done By Alok Sharma November last year was a pivotal moment for the planet, as the countries of ...

The brawl among young Syrian refugees living in Chlorakas a couple of weeks ago was a spark for unrest and protests by locals, who have been demanding the relocation of ...

Nothing would become Johnson more than having to resign over too many parties. Boris Johnson was caught bang to rights. While still recuperating from fever and low oxygenation brought on ...

The world has moved on and it’s time we did too The news last Monday that the US State Department finally abandoned the EastMed gas pipeline should not have ...

DISY chief Averof breathed some much-needed life into the dead political scene on Friday by calling out Nikos Christodoulides and challenging him to an election showdown for the leadership of ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou has come up with another idea for persuading foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides come clean about his intentions regarding next year’s presidential elections. Neophytou announced on ...

At the stroke of midnight last Friday, half of Germany’s remaining nuclear power stations closed down. The remaining three plants (of an original 17) will shut down on December 31 of ...

The euro marked its 20th birthday on January 1. On the first day of 2002 nine EU member-states gave up their national currency and adopted the euro. Proof of the euro’s ...

As the world shifts irrevocably and inexorably towards clean energy and net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry is finding itself under siege on multiple fronts By Dr Charles Ellinas ...

Our leaders embraced illogical behaviour from the beginning and have never deviated from that path By Christos Panayiotides The word “surrealism” comes from the French words “sur” (on, above) and “...

By Achilleas Demetriades At the end of every year each one of us reflects on the year ahead and sets out our goals regarding what we would like to achieve ...

By Alper Ali Riza Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for sexually abusing girls. She ...

We enter another year of uncertainty and unpredictability today. After two years shaped by the sole government objective of controlling the spread of Covid-19 in its mutating forms, only a ...

HAPPY new year and I sincerely wish your hangover is manageable. I do not remember the last time the Coffeeshop was open on New Year’s Day, which caused a ...

The Editor, You reported that the rainfall in Cyprus in December reached 113 per cent of the annual average according to the Cyprus met office. Is that really true? The average ...

Dear sir, Why would anyone keep savings money in a Cyprus bank? Far better returns are found around the world, no charges for having an account, no charges for having ...

The despair of Turkish Cypriots, over the state of the north’s economy is understandable. They are suffering the devastating effects of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies that ...