Opinion

The government’s budget estimates for 2022 now look way out of line The cost of living crisis afflicting households and businesses in Cyprus and most other countries is deepening as ...

MY FRIEND Costas Christofides made the big leap last Sunday, announcing his candidacy for the presidential elections to a full house at the Pallas theatre in Nicosia and received an ...

“Ninety per cent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens ...

The oil ban may not bring the pain to Russia that Brussels expects. The losers are the consumers The EU finally agreed on Thursday to impose a ban on seaborne ...

The governors of Cyprus have never promoted a comprehensive and viable plan of peaceful coexistence and mutual support of Greek and Turkish Cypriots I am convinced that in a well-structured, ...

The war in Ukraine entered its 100th day on Friday with President Zelenskiy saying that Russian troops had taken control of 20 per cent of the country. A few days earlier, ...

Three cheers for the monarch on her platinum jubilee but sustained boos for her first minister Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee this weekend is a good time to talk about ...

Is it just me asking or has the Electricity Authority lost the plot completely? Just before Christmas I received a ludicrously over ‘estimated’ electricity bill. We were all aware of ...

As far as I am aware there is no shortage of petrol, since there has been no rationing at any time and no rationing is being proposed. If that is ...

With reference to the 2021 tax returns I had previously had excellent help by prompt return emails from the Taxisnet office as with the recent changes to returns I found it ...

Article by Ambassador Liu Yantao on Global Development Initiative We live in a time when the world is beset by global changes and a pandemic unseen in a century. The ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Turkey’s objections to Finland and Sweden joining NATO have put the spotlight on Ankara’s role in the alliance. Even if a compromise is found, Turkey’...

Understandably, everyone is complaining about the soaring fuel prices, which on Friday went up yet again, with unleaded 95 now at about €1.81 per litre and diesel at €1.88 per litre. The increase ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou There are few who can describe human remains with the eloquence of Irish Nobel poet Seamus Heaney. Grauballe Man is too long ...

On the face of it, the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has a point in criticising energy regulator Cera for its decision not to grant the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) any ...

Two people have received jail sentences in the past week for rape, one of them was aged 24 and the other 70. The pensioner got ten years in jail and the younger ...

Imogene Smith, Deakin University and Jacqui Macdonald, Deakin University For many dads, having a child is unplanned. What happens next can vary. One man said: We broke up and she ...

By Dr Elias Allayiotis Everything that we have comes from soil; the food that we eat, the things that we use every day, even our own body grows from nutrients ...

By Roberto Sciffo The evidence of ‘energy dependency’ becomes more acute when events, such as what is currently happening in the Ukraine, bring to light both the sensitivity of international ...

It was about time the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), which runs the national health scheme Gesy, tried to address the weaknesses of the scheme that incur higher costs and also ...

For a company’s business strategy to work successfully, it must be based on changes taking place in the economy and in each sector, on political developments and on the ...

Turkish Cypriot parties, unions, NGOs and media have openly slammed the financial aid protocol signed by the north’s regime and Turkey, which will restrict democratic rights and freedoms by ...

‘What happens in Davos stays in Davos’, they say – or at least it should stay there, because some foolish things are said at the ‘World Economic Forum’, the annual conclave ...

Will style or sincerity prove to be the vital thing when it is time to vote? It used to be said of the Conservative party in England that it was ...