Opinion

“The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn’t. In the Persian Gulf there is a sort-of ceasefire between the United ...

The sharp exchanges between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu are real. The language is harsh. At times, extreme. It is tempting to dismiss them as political posturing aimed at ...

Lawrence Durrell begins his book Bitter Lemons with one of the most memorable reflections on travel ever written: “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.” The best journeys, he ...

The arrest and handcuffing of murder victim Henry Nowak by police officers in Southampton in the UK last December and the political fallout after the conviction of the young British ...

CONGRATS to Disy boss, Annita Demetriou for securing a second stint as House Prezita and showing all the men, who privately dismissed her as ‘Barbie’ and another ‘clueless blonde’, that ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin is back in Cyprus after a four-month absence and is scheduled to have separate meetings with the two leaders on Monday. ...

Attitudes of misogynistic men have seeped like a virus from a fetid swamp to infiltrate the body of hard-won female equality. These men don’t see themselves as crude throwbacks ...

The government has said it would introduce a new pension system in 2027. It plans to submit the pension reform bills to the legislature, before the summer recess in mid-July, so ...

The speculation is over. Disy chief Annita Demetriou was re-elected president of the House of Representatives on Thursday, comfortably defeating Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou. She secured 29 votes compared to her ...

The biggest threat to the future of Gesy are the nurses and doctors of the public hospitals whose sense of entitlement and greed knows no bounds. Ever since public hospitals ...

The Anti-Corruption Authority will issue its ‘announcement’ about the investigation into allegations made against former president Nicos Anastasiades in the book Mafia State, by June 15 at the latest, Transparency Commissioner ...

Only a third of the euro zone’s largest companies have indicated they are raising prices in response to the Iran war, a Reuters analysis of listed corporate earnings commentary ...

Drivers in Russian-controlled Crimea were grappling with gasoline rationing on Monday after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted road supplies across south-eastern Ukraine, Reuters witnesses and officials said. More than four years ...

Can a simple click create the same legal obligations as signing a contract? In the era of digital governance and electronic transactions, the answer is evidently yes. The introduction of ...

Chevron has just filed a request to acquire a 70 per cent stake in offshore Block 10 in the Ionian Sea that is expected to be granted by Greece. The following examines ...

I had the chance to revisit my younger self the other day when I watched François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic L’Étranger. The film – titled The ...

The recent meeting between the presidents of the United States and China marks a phase of “managed stability,” in which competition continues but with mechanisms designed to prevent escalation. For ...

I am a Cypriot citizen, a mother, a grandmother, and a person who deeply loves our island and everything it represents. I am writing not out of politics or personal ...

By Yiannakis Kaponi A constituent telephones a newly elected MP in Nicosia. There have been repeated serious road accidents on a dangerous stretch of road in their area. Residents demand ...

The law needs to be changed in Cyprus so that the police accept the evidence from drivers’ dashcams and set up a website where drivers can upload their evidence of ...

During President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, President Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap directly in his discussion with the American president. Its use, for the first time ...

There are still a number of communist parties active in the world, among them those in China and Cyprus, which, in their different ways kept the red flag flying after ...

UNFORTUNATELY, the election results were disappointingly predictable and the instability that the government, Annita, Junior and Phil’s hacks were terrified of did not happen. The two big parties both ...

The remuneration, allowances, retirement bonus and pensions of deputies featured in news reports in the last week and reminded us that in Cyprus there is a political aristocracy that enjoys ...