Opinion

Unfortunately, make believe about 60 being the new 70, and 50 being the new 60, etc, just doesn’t work after a while. When the body starts sending us stern messages about its malfunction, ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Some time ago, I wrote in the Sunday Mail that US President Donald Trump’s policies instead of making America great again, would rather usher in the ...

Momentous events are taking place in world affairs. America is finally breaking loose of its European chains. Despite being the most powerful country in the world, it remained a frontier ...

News of a proposed bill, tabled to parliament by the finance ministry and intended to resolve the issue of multiple pensions, is very welcome – but the proposed solution is still ...

By Stefan Schmitt Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas. Grim as such discoveries are, they ...

Kudos to Depa MP Michalis Yiakoumi who is advocating harsher sentences for child predators. Although Cyprus’ criminal code enshrines life sentences as the maximum penalty for a number of sexual ...

The struggle to regulate Gesy goes on – but the health system is like a moving target, defying any attempt to control it. The latest initiative is the ‘urgent referral’ system ...

By Harriette Richards Despite the many musical achievements celebrated at this year’s Grammy Awards, it was Bianca Censori’s red carpet appearance that won the award for most headlines. ...

The weather on Tuesday was not the only thing that rained on the goat and sheep herders’ parade. Goat and sheep breeders marched on the presidential palace clad in waterproof ...

As Donald Trump’s vision of a Gazan Riviera landed like a fart bomb, Vladimir Putin must have been crying ‘Da! Da! Da! Trump has lost his marbles and I’...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday claimed some credit for the preparations now underway by the UN for an informal five-party conference on the Cyprus issue that will reportedly take place ...

Three years and a few million euros later, Cyprus is still struggling to implement a national strategy for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the meantime, their problems are ...

A historic shake-up of the Middle East is starting to draw international investors, warming to the prospects of relative peace and economic recovery after so much turmoil. President Donald Trump’...

Controversial Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir died on Sunday night at the age of 83. Nadir rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he transformed textile company Polly Peck into ...

Our president presented his promises for the remainder of his presidency on January 29. Of course I should say he re-presented his promises, since many of them were presented in his 100...

I’m very cross with myself. My last two articles were about Trump saying he might invade Greenland, and then about Trump declaring that he would annex Canada (but no ...

By Dannagal G Young It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion ...

By Dee Ninis Greece’s government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island multiple times a day and sometimes only ...

Indonesia’s recent accession to the Brics coalition highlights the ongoing and ambitious efforts of its member countries to create a rival to the G7, the alliance of the world’...

Walking back statements the Trump makes as president is keeping the White House busy How to judge US President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle the Palestinians of Gaza and ...

The news that yet another golf course, Limassol Greens, will be opening this summer isn’t shocking in itself, but the timing is unfortunate. Golf courses are notorious water guzzlers – ...

Maha Nassar President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is ...

Football hooliganism is back in the headlines with the cabinet approving a new bill allowing the government to take “decisive” action, including banning away fans from football matches. The recent ...

Hands up anyone who thinks there will be full accountability for the Takata airbags scandal that has resulted in the deaths of two young people that we know of and ...