Opinion

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 ...

On Wednesday five justices of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) decided that a woman is a person born biologically female. The judgement is long and technical and the UKSC was ...

Four lives were lost on the roads over 48 hours in the last week. Three of them were hit by other vehicles, while the fourth – a 23-year-old man – had reportedly lost ...

Donald J Trump is reinstating protectionist rhetoric, using tariffs (taxes on imports) as a tool for reindustrialisation, political pressure and wealth redistribution, while the American elite continues to support him, ...

‘A step towards the mountain’ was the title chosen by the UNSG’s Special Representative Colin Stewart for a speech he gave on Wednesday night at CVAR in Nicosia about ...

Since the Cold War era, the communist party Akel has viewed certain international organisations as centres of sinister, capitalist plotting. Nato, CIA, EEC (as the EU was known) have always ...

The disappointing results of the gas drilling at the Elektra-1 well in Block 5 of the Cypriot EEZ may have caused some surprise, bearing in mind ExxonMobil’s earlier assessment of ...

On March 24 a senior official from the finance ministry was arguing to MPs that the main thrust of a government bill to unfreeze public sector jobs was to simplify hiring ...

By Euripides L Evriviades Down the rabbit hole of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, we find ourselves in a curiouser and curiouser landscape, one that seems lifted from the pages ...

I was just idly looking at the casualty numbers the other day, and I noticed that there was something badly wrong with them. This will take a little time and ...

April to June are the months where students and parents alike go through the hellish exam period in schools and universities. This year, it is a no less testing period ...

The headscarf controversy in Turkish Cypriot schools after a regulation governing school dress was changed to authorise schoolgirls to cover their heads raises human rights issues the European Court of ...

Last week’s biggest news was the protest by thousands of Turkish Cypriots (around 13,000) against the re-legalisation of hijab in schools. If you live in the Republic, though, you’d ...

Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the ...