Opinion

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Teens rush to grow up, the old often long for past youth and decisions we’d alter if we could. Inbetween years ...

P.J. O’Rourke, the American journalist, political satirist and best-selling author who rose to fame as editor-in-chief of the now-defunct humor magazine National Lampoon, has died at the age ...

A few weeks ago, the legislature approved law that will protect whistleblowers. Under the law, private and public organisations as well as public authorities have a legal obligation to safeguard ...

I rarely ordered home delivery a decade or so ago. It wasn’t that big a part of the culture, beyond the odd once a week souvlaki or the usual ...

When the legislature approved by overwhelming majority, the reduced VAT for the purchase of primary residences in 2016, deputies claimed they were assisting the less-off and young families buy a home. ...

By Kenton White, During the tense negotiations over the Ukraine crisis, the idea of “Finlandizing” Ukraine has been suggested as a solution. This idea refers to the way a small ...

The island does reasonably well against its own clean targets because so far it has been setting the bar very low By Charles Ellinas Cyprus’ distorted renewables market was led ...

Open letter addressed to the attorney-general of the Republic Dear Mr Giorgos Savvides, I am monitoring the issue of the resettlement of the Famagustians in their properties, within the fenced-off ...

By Les Manison Although the date of the presidential elections is still 12 months away there is already excessive attention being focused on the prospects of the many potential candidates. And ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Someone travelling within the European Union may wonder why they have to present a passport/ID when they leave Cyprus to enter an EU member state, whereas ...

For Britain, the Queen has been a source of strength and continuity for 70 years By Alper Ali Riza 2022 is the Queen’s platinum jubilee year. She has been served by 12 ...

It was triumphantly hailed by the government as the biggest and most important energy project ever undertaken by the Cyprus Republic, when the contract for the LNG import and regasification ...

UNIVERSAL outrage greeted the publication of the auditor-general’s report about the Gesy specialist doctors who were making big fortunes by submitting countless fictitious payment claims to the Health Insurance ...

After an accident in 2020 I became a wheelchair rider and have been more than annoyed by the fact how many road obstacles we face besides our limitations. The letter from ...

VAT is a stealth tax introduced in Cyprus in 1992 at 5 per cent and steadily increased to the current 20 per cent. There is a new tax, not properly named or explained ...

By Clark Young I attended Georgetown University from 2005-2009 where Professor Karski had previously taught for five decades. And yet I didn’t know anything about him until years after ...

The health ministry on Thursday gave a breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid patients in hospitals. A little more than half of those in hospital (55 per cent) were unvaccinated, ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer who had gone into the buffer zone to tend his crops said he had been approached by armed Turkish soldiers, who threatened to kill him if ...

By Mark Trevelyan Behind his latest outbursts against Nato and doomsday warnings to the West, there are tentative signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to avoid an escalation ...

It hasn’t been a great month so far for the reputation of the health scheme Gesy, but whatever operational weaknesses the system might have, they pale in comparison to ...

By Richard Alston As with every humanities discipline, classics has responded to Black Lives Matter with justifiable introspection. As the study of the ancient world, and particularly that of the ...

By Gwynne Dyer I generally leave the psychohistory to Hari Seldon, but just this once I feel sufficiently motivated to venture into the field. The immediate spur for this departure ...

By Shashi Kant Yadav The European Commission has decided that power plants burning natural gas can be considered generators of green energy. This means they can count as sustainable investments ...

Hearing the announcement of the government’s housing policy plans for this year, people could have been mistaken into thinking that President Anastasiades would be seeking a third term. It ...