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Tales from the coffeeshop: Schools and army redefine students

February 10th, 20192491 SPOTTY teenagers defied headteachers, parents, the education ministry and the rain on Thursday morning to go on a protest march to the ministry to express...

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Recognition of Guaido is illegal and insidious

February 10th, 20192288 Venezuelans should change their president not outsiders By Alper Ali Riza Recognising a rival president in another state with menaces of the type used by...

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Impunity remains the norm

February 10th, 20192604 By George Koumoullis THE recent outburst about Grivas and enosis by the Disy deputy Eleni Stavrou underlines yet again how the impunity of criminals and...

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In propaganda, we’re the best

February 10th, 20191821 By Christos P. Panayiotides PROPAGANDA is a systematic attempt to disseminate ideas, beliefs or opinions, which aim at formulating public opinion, through...

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North slips south but no need to panic

February 10th, 20192180 By Gwynne Dyer For a moment there I thought we had a new global threat to deal with, alongside the old favourites like climate change, nuclear war and...

Guest Columnist

ExxonMobil’s drilling in context

February 10th, 20194533 By Charles Ellinas As ExxonMobil approaches the end its drilling campaign, rumours about the results abounded this week as have the extravagance of some of...

Guest Columnist

Gas revenues should not primarily be used to pay back state debt

February 10th, 20191418 By Abboud Zahr Cypriot legislators have given the government a week to come back with clarifications on the operation of the national investment fund, which...

Our View

Our View: Audit office report might shake army top brass into action

February 9th, 20191884 THE DEFENCE ministry was not very happy about the publishing of the audit office report, which highlighted the chaotic situation in the National Guard’s...

Our View

Our View: Prospects for implementing Gesy in June look grim

February 8th, 20191820 FROM NEXT month people will start contributing to Gesy, the first phase of which, primary care, is set to be introduced on June 1, but the obstacles to its...

Letters

Clarifying some misconceptions with regard to the case of the deputy AG

February 8th, 20191232 I would like to refer to the editorial published yesterday (February 7) in your esteemed newspaper under the title “Does Attorney-general show the...

Our View

Our View: Lute has had time to see clear lack of political will

February 7th, 20192522 AS EXPECTED the latest visit by the UN secretary-general’s envoy Jane Holl Lute did not amount to very much. Despite having two meetings with each leader on...

Our View

Our View: Does AG show objective impartiality he expects from others?

February 6th, 20191707 Although much has been said and written about conflict of interest at the Supreme Court in the last few weeks, Attorney-general Costas Clerides revisited the...

Our View

Our View: Naval facilities for France has little to do with gas

February 5th, 20192577 DURING his short visit to Cyprus last week, France’s President Emmanuel Macron described Cyprus as “a strategic point on an aeronautical level for...

Guest Columnist

Roadblocks cast shadow over path to peace in Afghanistan

February 3rd, 20191536 By Greg Torode, Rupam Jain and Abdul Qadir Sediqi US diplomats and the Afghan Taliban have seen cause for hope in talks to end the United States' longest...

Guest Columnist

Be Creative, yes you can!

February 3rd, 20191761 By Dimis Michaelides Develop your creative skills, for your business and for yourself Why make creativity a top priority in the personal and professional...

Property

Legal status of a management committee

February 3rd, 20192257 Every communal building must have a management committee, which is elected in a general meeting of the owners of the units and constitutes a legally...

Our View

Our View: Anastasiades and the ‘two-state-solution by stealth’

February 3rd, 20193439 THE UN Secretary-General’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute is back in Cyprus and will meet the leaders today and tomorrow. This will be her fourth visit to the...

Coffeeshop

Coffeeshop: Macron of France meets Macron of Kyproulla

February 3rd, 20194090 PREZ NIK and his associates were on a high, their pride and joy levels hitting red on Tuesday when they played hosts to the Southern European Summit, also...

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Turkey was found guilty of a violation but Cyprus was not innocent

February 3rd, 20194418 By Alper Ali Riza IT WAS poetic justice that was meted out to Turkey by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last Tuesday for ignoring an extradition...

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The crisis in the judiciary

February 3rd, 20192639 By Christos Panayiotides Over the past few weeks, I have been watching, breathless, the crisis plaguing our judiciary. Thus far, I have consciously avoided...

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