Opinion

By Julie Old At this time of year, images of reindeer are everywhere. I’ve had a soft spot for reindeer ever since I was a little girl. Doesn’t ...

By Tom Whyman I have a vivid memory of the moment I realised Santa didn’t exist. I was around six years old, it was the height of summer, and ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou visited Larnaca supermarkets on Monday as part of an established tour of shops carried out during the Christmas holidays. This year there were no shortages in ...

By Marcus Harmes and Meredith Harmes Sending a letter to Santa can be difficult as no one can agree on where exactly Santa lives. Several countries are competing to claim ...

The agreement for the expansion of Larnaca and Paphos airports was signed on Monday at the presidential palace. Under the agreement, Hermes Airport will commence work by March next year ...

Energy was constantly in the news in 2024, but serious progress was limited. By far the biggest success was the ‘Photovoltaics (PV) for All’ scheme. With the failure of utility-scale renewables (...

By Loukis Skaliotis The democratic system of government has come to be accepted as the preferred system, primarily because it provides legitimacy to those who govern. It is supposed to ...

“I believe in Father Christmas” by Greg Lake is a song that’s played on the radio and in shops each Christmas all over the UK and in many other ...

Government budgets are the main instrument of economic policy that determine how resources are to be allocated and collected from various interest groups. On Wednesday, MPs voted to approve the ...

THE TWO big banks gave Prezniktwo the Christmas presents he was asking for to improve his public image, after the battering it received from the comrades and other social justice ...

Zenon Stavrinides, the well-known Greek Cypriot intellectual and Cyprob aficionado, passed away last October aged 78 and my column this week is in celebration of his life. He was the eldest ...

On the final day of the debate of the state budget, a group of students gathered outside the House of Representative to protest against the cuts to their financial aid. ...

Julia Felton, Michigan State University and Crystal Cederna, Michigan State University Holidays are often depicted as picture-perfect moments: families blissfully united around a table filled with seasonal food favorites against ...

By Farid Mirbagheri The recent escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has brought the region to the brink of a wider war that could engulf Lebanon, Iran and ...

By Charles Ellinas Developments in Syria have been precipitous and momentous. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that deposed al-Assad last Sunday, has ...

Oelmek, the secondary school teachers’ union, is one of the main reasons public education has been in decline for years. For years, this union has been instrumental in falling education ...

By Konstantine Kvachakidze October 2024 parliamentary elections in Georgia were won by the Georgian Dream, ruling party. The elections were assessed by international observers as held in fair and democratic environment, ...

The 2025 state budget was approved by a sizeable majority on Wednesday evening, only Akel and the Greens plus two independent deputies voting against it. Main opposition party Disy voted in ...

By Ben Voyer and Perrine Desmichel The reopening of Notre-Dame in Paris has recalled debate over the €200 million contribution of France’s Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the LVMH luxury ...

Stung by the barrage of criticism directed at the government for its opposition to the proposed tax on the windfall profits of the banks, which failed to secure House approval, ...

Soon president-elect Donald Trump will rule the White House once more and an intelligent, educated woman I know, is ecstatic. When I asked her if his attitude and that of ...

They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So ...

Two months ago, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York to find a way forward in the peace process, ...

Friday’s violence and vandalism by teenagers came as something of a surprise. It was out of the blue and there had been no signs teenagers were planning to go ...