Opinion

IT STARTED out as a soundbite a few months ago, but our prez fell so in love with it that he has turned it into a national slogan, which he ...

The Cyprus economy recorded a rate of growth of 3.7 per cent in the second quarter of this year in comparison to the corresponding period of 2023, according to Eurostat. It was ...

Lessons on financial literacy will be introduced to public schools this year, the government following the EU-wide trend of giving youngsters a basic financial education that would help them understand ...

Sure, we’re biased about home products, Smuggling Hendrix was great, and everyone I’ve asked said Stelana Kliris’ Find Me Falling was captivating. Some foreign critics deemed it simple ...

The idea for a subsea energy cable that would connect the power grids of Cyprus, Israel and Greece (Crete to be more precise) was first presented in 2012 as a private ...

By Dr Dipesh Shah  The government of India implemented a major financial sector reform by establishing the country’s maiden International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in GIFT City, Gujarat. The ...

Akel gave full vent to its anti-West, anti-American prejudices last week after the American warship USS Wasp arrived in Limassol. The party issued several announcements, warning that the government was ...

By Ioannis Tirkides When the Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate from a range of zero to 0.1 per cent to 0.25 per cent, arguably to stem the yen’s ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Over the last 15 years, particularly after the financial crisis of 2008, the role of central banks (CBs) in developed economies has expanded and become even ...

In December 2023, I wrote an article about the Israel-Palestine conflict which reflected many people’s abhorrence of the murder and abductions of innocent Israeli civilians when the Hamas militia launched ...

By Antonis Antoniou The tax environment is a factor of particular importance in shaping the competitiveness of any country. And in countries like Cyprus, with limited natural resources and relying ...

Dear Cyprus Mail team, I hope you are well. I recently read your article about the silver-cheeked toadfish. Technically, these fish are primarily classified as poisonous because their primary danger ...

Sorry but I do take exception to your article where you describe the Reform UK party and Nigel Farage as far-right. They most certainly are not. It’s articles like ...

In reference to editorial ‘Christodoulides ensured the failure of his own efforts to break talks’ deadlock’: Dear editor, Whoever I speak to in Nicosia , be it a store keeper or ...

Decision-making regarding appraisal, risk assessment and management of public investment projects as well as possible partnership agreements with the private sector are taken with increasingly little consideration of the potential ...

It is summer riot season in England and Northern Ireland and if you believe what Elon Musk posts on X, the UK is in civil war mode. Just because there ...

THE PILLAR of regional stability, with its much-touted geostrategic significance growing substantially in the last months, is having difficulty managing the government narrative about its vital humanitarian role in the ...

Any remaining illusions about President Nikos Christodoulides’ commitment to a settlement of the Cyprus issue were shattered last weekend when he announced to a gathering of Famagustans in Dherynia that ...

By Linda Osti It all appeared to begin in early July with angry Barceloni residents squirting tourists with water as they sat on restaurant terraces. “Tourists go home!” shouted locals ...

Out of the blue, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Tuesday that the government would be giving €9.5m in handouts to schoolchildren. The package, he said, was aimed at helping pre-primary, ...

Congratulations to Pavlos Kontides, Cyprus’ greatest ever sailor, who won the Olympics silver medal on Wednesday in the men’s Laser class. This was the second silver medal he won ...

The Justice Minister Marios Hatsiotis, and Cyprus Football Association (CFA) have been at odds after the decision of the latter to allow away fans to attend matches in the new ...

The astrological Leo season, which lasts from July 23 to August 23, brings a wave of new energy, fresh confidence and creativity. This time marks the peak of the sun in its ...

The greed of public hospital doctors seems to have no bounds. Although they are among the best-paid employees on the island – Okypy estimates their annual salaries are in the region ...