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Brazil: the hard right wins again

October 10th, 2018 By Gwynne Dyer A MAN who makes Donald Trump look like a bleeding-heart liberal will almost certainly be Brazil’s next president. Jair Bolsonaro won 46...

Letters

Controlling everything relating to cinema in Cyprus

October 10th, 2018 To my great surprise I hear that the President of Cyprus proposes to change "the tyranny with which the kingdoms of the civil servants persecute the citizens...

Opinion

A house, a home

October 9th, 2018 The way things are By: Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou I was standing today in the old garage opposite a friend’s house when lines from a poem I learned...

Our View

Our View: Pressure on president over negotiations well overdue

October 9th, 2018 IT was high time President Anastasiades felt a little political pressure domestically for his handling of the Cyprus problem, which is designed to lead to...

Opinion

Property questions: How to stop neighbour’s water run off?

October 7th, 2018 My neighbour has raised his entire land by a metre or so, the result of this means water now runs off his land and comes into my land whenever he waters his...

Coffeeshop

Coffeeshop: Parody, cliches and lies, just your usual October 1

October 7th, 2018 INDEPENDENCE Day on Monday was celebrated with the traditional military parade and featuring two Greek fighter jets for the second year running. This sparked a...

Our View

Our View: Time to get real over our geopolitical significance

October 7th, 2018 WITH President Anastasiades closing the door on a federal settlement in all but words, and lacking the political courage to openly defend his preferred option...

Guest Columnist

Greek Cypriots seem blithely unaware of risks in a non-solution

October 7th, 2018 By Esra Aygin As the deadlock in Cyprus negotiations continues, much is being said and written about the possible impacts of a non-solution on Turkish...

CM Regular Columnist

Kavanaugh and the politics of the US judiciary

October 7th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza The US president appoints justices of the Supreme Court with the consent of the Senate. He nominates, they approve, and he appoints. It is...

Opinion

Parties thwart every attempt at municipal reform

October 7th, 2018 By George Koumoullis THE problem with the municipalities can be summarised in a few words – too many, over-staffed and underworked. There are 39...

Guest Columnist

Flexibility and choice, the hallmark of a US college education

October 7th, 2018 By Kathleen Doherty Do you know that a rising young Cypriot composer has been awarded a full scholarship by a prestigious US university for a PhD programme?...

Opinion

Good reasons why energy giants are eyeing the East Med

October 7th, 2018 By Charles Ellinas Interest in the East Med has increased during the last ten years with the discovery of major gas fields such as Tamar, Leviathan and more...

Letters

So many traffic violations during tragic accident

October 7th, 2018 Yesterday a friend and I were in my car coming back to Limassol from a day’s shopping in Nicosia when we joined the traffic queue near the Governors Beach...

CM Regular Columnist

Iraq’s new hope for bridging Sunni-Shia divide

October 6th, 2018 Fifteen years after George W Bush invaded Iraq to destroy Saddam Hussein’s imaginary ‘weapons of mass destruction’, what have the Iraqis got to show for...

Our View

Our View: SGO pension deficits can only be resolved with cuts

October 6th, 2018 THE DEFICITS in the pension funds of semi-governmental organisations (SGO) and municipalities amount to €665 million the finance ministry said in its report...

Our View

Our View: Disy chief’s Cyprob reality check met with the same old myths

October 5th, 2018 THE PATRIOTIC brigade was quick to turn its fire on Disy chief Averof Neophytou for speaking honestly to people about the fading prospects of a federal...

Our View

Our View: Now it’s the parents’ turn to interfere in education

October 4th, 2018 JUST a few days after the teaching unions reached an agreement with the government that paved the way for negotiations, another major dispute has surfaced in...

Our View

Our View: Political parties knew what they were doing when changing parole bill

October 3rd, 2018 When former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou was released from prison in August before he had served half his sentence all the political parties...

Opinion

Collaborative entrepreneurship as a path to peace

September 30th, 2018 By Dimis Michaelides How can innovation offer a path to peace? This question was asked by two young entrepreneurs in Cyprus, Burak Doluay and Steven...

Opinion

Interference with the right of access

September 30th, 2018 Actions aiming to reverse or abolish the right of access are considered to be illegal violating the right of possession of a property and the owner of the...

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