Our View: There is a total lack of perspective over Denia incidents
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 ...
Kremlin watchers detect signs Putin wants to defuse Ukraine crisis
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 ...
Our View: Doctor accused of cheating Gesy underlines lack of oversight
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 ...
Challenging the whiteness of classics
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 ...
The rise and decline of sociopathy
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 ...
Natural gas is a fossil fuel, but the EU will count it as a green investment
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 ...
Our View: Housing policies do not always benefit those in most need
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 ...
Field Marshal Haftar is an obstacle on the way to peace in Libya
The 10-year-long Libyan crisis remains a significant international problem as a source of instability and violence in the region. Attempts to find solutions to overcome the situation in Libya have ...
Our View: State nurses and teachers feel duty bound to exploit the pandemic
On the day primary school teachers held a one-hour work stoppage because they were not satisfied with the government’s response to their demand for full-time replacement staff, nursing unions ...
Coups in Africa have become the height of fashion
By Gwynne Dyer
Military coups are back in fashion in Africa. There have been over 200 attempted coups in the continent since 1960, about half of them successful, but in the past ...
With EU help we can both demand and achieve a whole and Green Cyprus
By Achilleas Demetriades
Climate change is on our doorstep. There is an urgency to address this global concern and Cyprus cannot drag its feet on this any longer. No individual ...
A critical evaluation of the single European currency’s first 20 years
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
The circulation of the euro began 20 years ago, two years after it was formed virtually. This article aims to critically evaluate the evolution of ...
Public-Private Partnerships – The devil is in the detail
By Savvakis C. Savvides
The cannibalisation of natural monopolies
Monopoly power is the Achilles heel of a laissez-faire economic system. Adam Smith, for many the father of capitalism, was one ...
Audacity begets tyrants
The former foreign minister’s hardline policies on Cyprus issue were a failure. He should not stand for president
By Christos Panayiotides
In the summer of 1962, I had the great ...
In run up to Valentines Day all eyes on roses
By Patricia Jordan
February already and what lot of rain we have had since the start of the year! It’s all good for the dams, aquifers and wells, but ...
Radical new choices may be needed for LNG imports
The current project has a long, and likely tortuous, way to go
This is further to my article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday. Since then, the debate over the ...
Supreme Court’s bizarre split in rape case
From being a gang-rape victim, the complainant was interviewed as a suspect
By Alper Ali Riza
By a majority of two to one the Supreme Court of Cyprus quashed the ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: More oppressive than our colonial rulers
VERY little attention has been given by the media to the government’s dictatorship law also known as the Infectious Diseases Law of 2021, which was tabled in the House last ...
Our View: Time to call a halt to project fear
The relaxation of the Covid measures we expected this week did not materialise, the higher number of cases, compared to the previous week, and relatively high positivity rate making the ...
Letter: I will miss commentator’s ‘unwoke’ wisdom
Richard Dickenson’s farewell article in the Sunday Mail (January 23) is a VERY sad day for the paper.
I have enjoyed his down-to-earth, common-sense articles for many years. I have ...
Letter: Shocking example of discrimination against the disabled
Bejay Browne wrote at length about the discrimination experienced by guide and assistance dog users in the Sunday Mail (January 30). While this is shocking, it is just one example of ...
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs): the next chapter in crypto
By Maria Demertzis
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the next hype in the crypto world. According to Collins Dictionary ‘NFT’ was the 2021 word of the year.
But what are they ...
Our View: No need for Anastasiades to get involved in routine ministerial matters
President Anastasiades has a habit of acting as a mediator or facilitator, getting involved in matters that are best left to his ministers and in some cases better left to ...
Our View: Kasoulides’ high-profile meetings in Washington are very telling
Surprise was expressed in some quarters about how soon after assuming his post as foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides was invited to Washington for talks with the Secretary of State Antony ...