Opinion

THERE was a time, some years ago, when a visit by a UN envoy to Kyproulla, with the aim of kicking some life into the Cyprob, would be big news, ...

Akel’s reaction to the distribution of the House committee chairs, which was completed on Friday, defied belief. It sparked an exchange of terse announcements with Disy, which accused Akel ...

The June 2026 Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Cyprus and France, and the 2024–2029 US–Cyprus Defence Roadmap, mark a radical departure from Nicosia’s historic military neutrality. While Cyprus hopes ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar What I’ve come to understand, now that I live in Paphos, is that Cyprus functions as a condensed mirror of the modern world. What many outsiders ...

Another instalment of the 3+1 energy dialogue of Cyprus, Greece and Israel plus the United State took place on Thursday at Rice University in Houston. Like previous, such meetings, it dealt ...

It defies belief that for years now, the executive and the legislature have been pretending there is no constitutional issue with the deputy ministries, the first of which was introduced ...

The 23rd World Cup kicks off today with one of the host nations, Mexico meeting South Africa. This will be the first time there will be three host nations – Canada ...

The enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem that President Nikos Christodoulides has been asking for will take place in either July or August said the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy, ...

Boosted pay and service benefits will be offered by the defence ministry to make the job of national guard private more attractive, according to press reports. The national guard is ...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the biggest in the tournament’s history. Hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, it will feature 48 teams, 104 matches and stretch over ...

The continuous exposure to negative or distressing news online, widely known as doomscrolling, has become a well-recognised phenomenon with significant psychological and social implications. Anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and social isolation ...

“The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn’t. In the Persian Gulf there is a sort-of ceasefire between the United ...

The sharp exchanges between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu are real. The language is harsh. At times, extreme. It is tempting to dismiss them as political posturing aimed at ...

Lawrence Durrell begins his book Bitter Lemons with one of the most memorable reflections on travel ever written: “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.” The best journeys, he ...

The arrest and handcuffing of murder victim Henry Nowak by police officers in Southampton in the UK last December and the political fallout after the conviction of the young British ...

CONGRATS to Disy boss, Annita Demetriou for securing a second stint as House Prezita and showing all the men, who privately dismissed her as ‘Barbie’ and another ‘clueless blonde’, that ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin is back in Cyprus after a four-month absence and is scheduled to have separate meetings with the two leaders on Monday. ...

Attitudes of misogynistic men have seeped like a virus from a fetid swamp to infiltrate the body of hard-won female equality. These men don’t see themselves as crude throwbacks ...

The government has said it would introduce a new pension system in 2027. It plans to submit the pension reform bills to the legislature, before the summer recess in mid-July, so ...

The speculation is over. Disy chief Annita Demetriou was re-elected president of the House of Representatives on Thursday, comfortably defeating Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou. She secured 29 votes compared to her ...

The biggest threat to the future of Gesy are the nurses and doctors of the public hospitals whose sense of entitlement and greed knows no bounds. Ever since public hospitals ...

The Anti-Corruption Authority will issue its ‘announcement’ about the investigation into allegations made against former president Nicos Anastasiades in the book Mafia State, by June 15 at the latest, Transparency Commissioner ...

Only a third of the euro zone’s largest companies have indicated they are raising prices in response to the Iran war, a Reuters analysis of listed corporate earnings commentary ...

Drivers in Russian-controlled Crimea were grappling with gasoline rationing on Monday after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted road supplies across south-eastern Ukraine, Reuters witnesses and officials said. More than four years ...