Opinion

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I know religious people who aren’t spiritual and spiritual people who spurn organised religion. Many ancient myths and beliefs tell of ...

By Major General Robert J Thompson During the past 24 months the Bases have worked in close partnership with the Republic of Cyprus on many fronts, not least in handling COVID ...

The government finds lots of sneaky ways to avoid a transparent consultation with the public By Charalampos Theopemptou A major achievement for environmental activists in Europe was the Aarhus convention ...

In a report about last year’s parliamentary elections, prepared by Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers, the public broadcaster was singled out for special mention. The ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Wars are highly uncertain events and never go as initially planned. This one in Ukraine is no exception. Russia was surprised by the resistance it met in ...

At the same time as the general population is benefitting from the lifting of most Covid restrictions, we read that elderly people continue to be virtual prisoners in care homes ...

A seven-point plan for the Walled City of Nicosia By Glafkos Constantinides The Walled City of Nicosia has been attracting idle attention for years while the area continues to suffer ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Turkish economy has repeatedly been described as totally directed by President Erdogan’s inner circle. Economic decisions which are obviously political, such as ...

The public response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compares unfavourably with the rest of the EU I was lucky in that I was born in 1945 at the end of ...

The government and banks issue deceptive statements and statistics and the media blindly report them without question By Les Manison According to Reporters Without Borders, Cyprus ranks 69th on the “...

By Charalambos Sergiou, Alexandros Vacanas and Nikolas Stratis Blockchain technology is based on the establishment of a decentralised network of trust between unknown participants, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions in a cost-efficient ...

Both the US and Russia have come unstuck on the legal differences between preventive and pre-emptive self-defence By Alper Ali Riza In his speech on Victory Day over Nazi Germany ...

It was no surprise that the political parties and the nationalist media completely ignored a warning by the Vice President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas about the possibility of ...

HAVING sweet-talked his way into the hearts of as many voters as he could, on Thursday he finally decided the time was right to come out of the closet and ...

Am I the only Baby Boomer who is getting more than a little annoyed that it is my generation being held responsible for all the ills of climate change? At 60, ...

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 ...