Opinion

Two weeks ago, just after the government had presented its superficial proposals for pension reform, which focused exclusively on the higher payments, we warned that this was far too serious ...

I have books on Celtic archaeology sent to me by a dear friend that I read through and kept till I had leisure time to enjoy studying them. It never ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s initiative to reduce electricity prices by 20 per cent has sparked intense public debate. The government, professional bodies, and market stakeholders quickly disputed his calculations, particularly regarding ...

It was difficult not to laugh at reports about deputies and officials discussing how they could stop recipients of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from going to casinos! According to ...

We have been hearing about the need for reform of the legal system and the legal service for many years now. No matter how many times this is mentioned in ...

Dr Andreas Procopiou In Cyprus’ public debate on energy, the lack of well documented information is widespread. Here we always back our claims with official data, because energy literacy is ...

For decades, this newspaper has been writing about the public education system, which is exclusively designed to serve teachers, who were hired from a waiting listing without an interview and ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou made it very clear on a TV show on Tuesday that the party would have its own candidate in the 2028 presidential election. There was no way ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was perfectly entitled to boast about the economy’s performance at his meeting with the executive committee of the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV). The forecast growth ...

This summer, my wife and I attended Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in southern France. The performance began at 9.30pm in the sweltering ...

In late August 2026, former President Nicos Anastasiades delivered an address over the state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation that fundamentally unsettled the country’s political landscape. Ostensibly arranged as an elder statesman’...

Last Sunday night I woke up sweating at around 1am after a particularly bad nightmare. Usually, I cannot get back to sleep easily, but this time I was so deeply ...

By Maria Demertzis Six million people voted for their favourite euro design in the first week of the survey launched by the ECB in July. This is a whopping one ...

If apologies generated electricity, Cyprus would have had no difficulty keeping the lights on this summer. When power cuts spread across the island recently, people were trapped in lifts, businesses ...

Prince Harry and his family returned to UK from California last Wednesday after a six-year absence. Their arrival was welcomed by royalists and cavaliers and the king himself.  Rumour has ...

RETIREMENT is something that Nik I is just not comfortable with. He just refuses to accept that he no longer has a role to play and keeps finding excuses to ...

The pollution of the sea off the Limassol coast became an issue of public debate in the last few days. An increasing number of people were complaining about the dirty ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar I’ve moved into the house that was sold to me as fully renovated, only to discover that it’s been one thing after the other. It ...

By Maria Demertzis The European Central Bank is redesigning the euro notes and has asked the public to help her choose one of 10 candidate designs, half depicting famous Europeans and ...

When the Anastasiades government prepared a bill that would put an end to the anti-educational ‘waiting list appointment system’ for public school teachers in 2015, the political parties, at the behest ...

A new dispute between local authorities and the government, over waste management, appears to be on the cards. Earlier this week, the president of the municipalities union and Larnaca mayor, ...

Newly elected Disy deputy Giorgos Pamborides, who served as health minister during Nicos Anastasiades’ first term, made some staggering revelations in an interview on a television show. He claimed that ...

Dr Panayiotis C. Andreou and Dr Costas Tziouvas, Cyprus University of Technology The publication of the Cyprus National AI Strategy 2032 is, in our view, an important step forward for Cyprus. ...

It seems strange that the education ministry felt obliged to issue a missive about prayers and religious instruction at public schools. Greek Orthodox prayers and religious instruction have been part ...