Opinion

A gentle friend has a small farm he loves, and one of his prime pleasures is talking about how he’s improving it, and the affection he has for the ...

By Dr Sergii Nizhynskyi Since my appointment in July 2025, I’ve been guided by what I call the Ten Commandments of Strategic Partnership, which I presented to President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Happy Independence Day Cyprus On Independence Day everyone is From our beloved Cyprus today and The little children will wave Cypriot flags All day and with colours bold and spirits ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his spokesmen made a big deal about the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ alleged assertion that negotiations should resume from where they stopped in Crans Montana in 2017. ...

Last February, Donald Trump and his heir apparent JD Vance launched a televised frontal attack on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House, telling him that Ukraine had “no ...

In the last five years, there have been some 15,000 applications by third country nationals to purchase real estate in Cyprus, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. More than a third of ...

In a move that echoes one of the most perilous moments in its recent history, the Republic of Cyprus is acquiring the Barak MX, a sophisticated integrated air defense system ...

The reform of local government in Cyprus represents a historic milestone, laying the foundations for more modern and efficient local authorities. Its first year of implementation highlighted the advantages of ...

Sirs Your headline of the 23rd of September [Outrage over anti-Israel graffiti order] is quite tragic and a sad indication of the spineless behaviour of governments and their proxies around ...

For some time, I have been trying to understand how the West managed to lose its key champion: the United States. By “the West,” I mean the group of countries ...

For the Editor, Another summer draws to a close. Another summer where me and my family have been virtual prisoners in our home; unable to use our pool or outside ...

By Professor Kerim M. Munir Reading the September 24 Cyprus Mail article by Rebekah Gregoriades — “Christodoulides hits back at Turkey at the UN” — I was struck less by the predictable duelling ...

Last February, Donald Trump and his heir apparent JD Vance launched a televised frontal attack on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, telling him that Ukraine had “no ...

Even allowing for his hyperbolic style, US President Donald Trump is not the peacemaker he boasted in his UN General Assembly speech last week nor is the UN as ineffective ...

APART from the self-declared title of by far the most honest man in Kyproulla, it appears that Odysseas is now staking a claim to the crown of most patriotic man, ...

The good news President Nikos Christodoulides had arranged to announce on Thursday evening after the scheduled meeting in New York with the Vice President of ExxonMobil, John Ardill, was overshadowed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, will have nothing constructive to tell each other when they meet in the presence of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on ...

Attorney-general George Savvides decided not to charge former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with contempt of court, for public comments and social media posts, disputing the independence, impartiality and legitimacy of court ...

The adoption and implementation of the European Union’s Blue Card in Cyprus represents another tool that will help attract highly skilled workers from third countries who wish to work ...

The sense of entitlement of today’s teenagers is a rather disturbing phenomenon, although not surprising. It has been cultivated by their parents and follows the bad example set by ...

The way in which the education ministry hierarchy protected one of their officials accused by two female subordinates of sexual harassment is scandalous. The first complaint was submitted in May 2023, ...

Ten more countries are recognising Palestine as a sovereign state in the course of this week. That merely brings the total up from 147 to 157, but it’s a big deal ...

The noise Akel has made about the circular sent by the government to municipal councils asking for the “strengthening of actions for fighting anti-Semitism and the incitement of racial hatred ...

Despite the early optimism they generated, the meetings in Alaska and Washington in mid-August, achieved nothing of substance, except that in their aftermath we may be nearer to an escalation ...