Tales from the Coffeeshop: Treating kids as adults a recipe for disaster
IT TOOK two months of horse-trading and pandering to the opposition parties for the government to finally realise that consensus politics is a chimera in...
Opinion
Our View: We must seize the opportunities pandemic has created
A BIG crisis, it is often said, creates opportunities. Opportunity for change, for improvement, for a new beginning. A crisis that turns things upside down...
Building the future we owe our children
In the May 14 issue of the Sunday Mail, former president George Vassiliou argued that the economic impacts of the coronavirus will be felt way...
Boris no match for forensic skills of new Labour Leader.
By Alper Ali Riza A few months ago Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s director of communications, now an author and political pundit, advised Johnson to smarten...
Our View: Gesy proposal is just robbing Peter to pay Paul
WHILE private hospitals and clinics are considering the HIO’s (Health Insurance Organisation) proposal for a 6 per cent cut in the prices agreed for offering...
Our View: Opposition parties have been childish over a bill that was vital to the economy
Everyone has had their say about the fiasco of the bill on state guaranteed bank loans that the government withdrew from the legislature on Tuesday,...
Was there ever a Plan B?
The Government is partly to blame for this terrible mess. Why did it take them so long to bring a Plan B? If they had...
Our View: A welcome return to normality of sorts. We must ensure it remains
After two months of martial-law type lockdown, during which we were under night-time curfew, needed state permission to leave our home in the day –...
Basic income: a done deal?
The First World War speeded up the emancipation of women; the Second World War led to the creation of welfare states in all the industrialised...
What are friends for?
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Keeping one’s fluttery brain frazzled with conspiracy theories could be one answer to that question! I’ve known Andreas...
Our View: Political parties can’t act responsibly even in times of crisis
In the end, the government was left with no choice but to withdraw its bill on state guarantees on bank loans because it had been...
Do we take the world back to where it was?
By Muhammad Yunus The extent of damage that the coronavirus pandemic is causing the world is just mind-boggling. However, despite this massive damage, it offers...
Our View: President is right to deny auditor-general a role on loans committee
Ii was high time President Anastasiades finally applied the brakes on the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides who has been constantly overstepping the bounds of his constitutional...
My home is wherever I lay my hat
Riza has penned a somewhat throwaway and underlying jocular piece which some have taken the opportunity to have an undisguised and unwarranted pop at him....
The Cyprob can only be solved through dialogue
One of few, very sensible political commentators in RoC. It’s always refreshing to share his logical and correct suggestions on how to solve our dispute...
Rekindling our flirtation with France will lead nowhere
The shortest road to our security and prosperity is solving our problems with Turkey By Makarios Drousiotis THE AMBASSADOR of the Russian Federation Stanislav Osadchiy,...
Coronavirus: Former president says economic impact will be worse next year
From natural gas to tourism, the worst is yet to come By George Vassiliou, former president of Cyprus The French Minister for Europe and Foreign...
Coronavirus: I have a well-founded fear of persecution in England
By Alper Ali Riza I never thought I would ever seriously consider fleeing England, let alone because of a well-founded fear of persecution from an...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Moaning spreading quicker than the coronavirus
THE AMOUNT of moaning we have been subjected to from teachers and their teenage proteges in the last week because some of them had to...
Our View: Better to delay phase 2 of Gesy than see system collapse
Less than two weeks are left before the introduction of the second phase of the national health scheme Gesy on June 1 but nothing is...
