Opinion

The so-called Pancyprian Peace Council will stage a demonstration outside the presidential palace on Friday evening to protest against President Nikos Christodoulides’ scheduled visit to Israel on Sunday. In announcing ...

In today’s fast-paced world, where stress is often a daily companion, healthy nutrition and regular exercise are not optional luxuries – they are essential pillars for a life filled with ...

The Federation of Employers and Industrialists (Oev) said the key challenges facing the Cyprus economy are the rationalisation of energy costs, containment of wages and ensuring the labour supply meets ...

Greek American David Sedaris is an inimitable raconteur, an irreverent and brilliant wit whose jokes can be blunt, but never tainted with coarseness or discrimination. He’s gay, happy in ...

Marinos Sizopoulos took everyone by surprise last week when he announced his plan to step down as leader of Edek at the party’s next conference in June. He explained ...

I read with interest, and eventual dismay, the Easter article of President Nikos Christodoulides in Kathimerini newspaper where he enthused about his recent visit to the US and the miracle ...

The UK’s decision to leave the EU was a seismic shock in Ireland. In the years following the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, the border between Northern Ireland and the ...

Films highlight the doctrinaire versus the avant-garde and the machinations behind becoming pope What was unique about Pope Francis who died last Monday was not that he was the first ...

THE ORGY of self-congratulation in which the government engaged because the United Arab Emirates kindly offered to send us some mobile desalination units to help us avoid the looming water ...

The government came to the country’s rescue this week, saving the day at the last minute like a Marvel superhero. This was how the arrangement for the delivery of 15 ...

By Thomas Gift, UCL A few days ago, in a move that attracted international attention, the White House threatened to strip Harvard University of US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in federal funding, ...

Writing an opinion piece makes you realise that actual change does not come about from well-meaning people analysing problems and coming up with good ideas. Change, rather, is usually the ...

Is there any country in the world apart from Cyprus in which employees do not allow their employer to assess their job performance? And is there any country in the ...

Cyprus has been riding a five-year wave of growth in startups, innovation, and tech. Everyone’s clapping. But scratch beneath the surface and the cracks are hard to ignore. Yes, ...

Αll anti-settlement parties issued announcements celebrating Thursday’s 21st anniversary of the Greek Cypriot ‘no’ vote in the Annan Plan referendum. Diko, whose leader, president Tassos Papadopoulos, urged people to ...

Tourist arrivals will continue last year’s upward path in 2025. Cystat reported that arrivals for the first quarter of this year were up 7.5 per cent, compared to 2024, reaching 446,596. The growth ...

The dictionary defines a ‘horse whisperer’ as “someone who is skilled at training horses using gentle, non-violent methods based on understanding horse behavior and psychology.” By that standard, the only ‘...

The lambradjia lunacy produced a fatality on Saturday. A 22-year-old man was killed when a big wooden pole that youths were trying to place on a lambradjia hit him on ...

ALTHOUGH the adoption of an aggressive policy of imposing high tariffs by the United States featured prominently in President Trump’s campaign agenda, the scope of the actual measures has ...

In the UK, where there is no ban on the hijab for girls and women in public institutions including schools, we see an increasing number of successful, popular and respected ...

Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but his attempts to make the Catholic Church more ...

By George M. Georgiou “By spending more on defence, we will deliver the stability that underpins economic growth, and will unlock prosperity through new jobs, skills and opportunity across the ...

With President Trump pausing his punitive tariffs for 90 days, it will take time before the negotiations that will follow realign global trading to the new developing international order. Already analysts ...

In 2024 Cyprus banks continued to amass very large profits. However, their self-serving behaviour, particularly in conduct of interest rate and lending policies, has meant that banks fell far short in ...