Opinion

By Loukis Skaliotis The cat is finally out of the bag. April 2,2025, ‘Liberation Day’ as Trump called it will go down in history as the day America broke up with ...

The ongoing discussion on the unfreezing of first-time appointments in the public sector, including local authorities, is crucial, taking into account the size of the public payroll and its broader ...

Government policies in allocating resources implicitly promote consumerism, mass tourism and property development as the key drivers of economic growth President Nikos Christodoulides and the Finance Minister Makis Keravnos claim ...

I was very pleased to see that cemeteries will be restored. I was born in Engomi, Famagusta but emigrated to the UK with my parents (whole family) but sadly we ...

March 11, 2025, will forever be a day I’ll remember as the worst of my 3.5-year-old German shepherd’s life, and a deeply traumatic experience for both myself and my friend. ...

By Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol More integrated EU defence policy implies greater foreign-policy integration and a larger role for the European Parliament to provide accountability.  The current debates about bolstering the European ...

Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Rally (RN) candidate for president of France in 2027, was banned from holding public office for five years last week after she was found guilty ...

THE PICTURE of House president Annita Demetriou squatting in a saintly pose by the grave of an Eoka hero on April 1 and staring forlornly ahead was iconic political kitsch. It ...

The rowdy, often violent behaviour of youths in Limassol is becoming worryingly frequent. In the last 10 days there have been several incidents of violence by gangs of youths, requiring the ...

Great media coverage was given to the departure of an obscure member of Disy, Evgenios Hamboullas, who had served as a party deputy for Famagusta district from 2014 to 2016, taking a ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the tariffs that would be imposed on the United States’ trading partners, in what he described as ‘liberation day’ for America. Many in the ...

The latest round of U.S. trade tariffs unveiled on Wednesday will sap yet more vigour from a world economy barely recovered from the post-pandemic inflation surge, weighed down by ...

The head of Sek union federation Andreas Matsas joined forces with his Pasydy counterpart Stratis Mattheou to have a dig at the IMF, which had warned against any “fiscal loosening.” ...

Police bowed to political pressure and announced on Monday a month’s extension to the deadline for the payment of traffic camera fines. The payment period for pending traffic fines ...

By Yiannis Misirlis The Cyprus real estate sector is in a dynamic phase of growth. Despite significant challenges, the industry continues to demonstrate resilience and adaptability, contributing approximately 15 per cent ...

During the four years that President Donald Trump was out of the White House, he spent them not only in planning his return, and the retribution he would extract from ...

Maybe it was the fact that we were coming up on the tenth anniversary of the treaty Donald Trump destroyed that prompted him to start issuing threats to Iran again. ...

I have been writing many articles which look into the darker side of our humanity, and challenging relevant authorities to do better. As spring blossoms with its natural energy and ...

Turkey is in turmoil after Istanbul mayor and candidate for president Ekrem Imamoglu was charged with offences of bribery and corruption, which sparked sustained protests against the rule of President ...

KYPROULLA will not contribute any troops to a European task force that would maintain the peace in Ukraine in the very unlikely event that Russia agreed to a ceasefire deal, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spends an awful lot of his time abroad, attending councils, conferences, exhibitions. Last week he was in Geneva, before flying to Brussels for a European Council, while ...

By Andreas Theophanous On March 17-18, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres chaired another five-party conference in Geneva on the Cyprus problem. President Nicos Christodoulides, the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, ...

European leaders made the right decision in Paris on Thursday. More than two dozen heads of state and government unanimously agreed that sanctions on Moscow should remain until “peace has ...

“Shock at education committee: even rumours about human trafficking between students,” read a click-bait headline on a news website on Thursday. A newspaper was even clearer with the headline about ...