Opinion

A two-state solution is too inflexible and too terminal Rumours about the death of BBF have been greatly exaggerated. A bizonal bicommunal federation is both possible and desirable. It is ...

TODAY marks the 51st anniversary of the Turkish invasion. Within a month, the invasion army had taken control of 40 per cent of the Cyprus Republic’s territory and kicked out ...

The informal five plus one conference in New York, as everyone expected, came to nothing. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not even get the two leaders to agree on the ...

It is a positive development that Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, has decided to revisit the botched reform of local government, which resulted from years of chopping and changing the plans ...

After a brief lull, the controversy surrounding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project, which will connect the power grids of Greece and Cyprus with undersea cable, has resurfaced, with the ...

Why nutrition is our body’s first medicine Nutrition is not just another daily habit — it is the cornerstone of our health. Every single choice we make about what lands ...

The report of the committee investigating the criminal failure of the authorities to protect drivers of cars with the potentially lethal Takata airbags was released on Tuesday. It highlighted the ...

Last Friday it was reported that President Nikos Christodoulides had paid an unscheduled visit, accompanied by the chief of police, to the offices of the Larnaca police command to discuss ...

By Kerry Abbott As Cypriot leaders undertake another round of consultations, at an expanded roundtable in New York under UN auspices, indications abound that there is a limit to what ...

Every July we witness the same thing. On the last Thursday before the summer recess, the House plenum sits for hours and passes dozens of bills. Last Thursday, for example, ...

Pegasus lived up to his name and delivered for ExxonMobil. It “gushed forth” gas from the depths of block 10. Pegasus’s name comes from the Greek word “pêgê,” meaning “...

Our judicial system cannot help keeping itself out of adverse publicity as, following last week’s Supreme Judicial Council decision not to confirm Doria Varoshiotou as a judge, we had ...

The availability of data regarding the performance of the Turkish Cypriot economy is limited. However, should efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem intensify, the economic dimension will prove to be ...

By Euripides L Evriviades The recent visit of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to Cyprus was not merely a diplomatic courtesy call. It was laden with history, symbolism and strategic meaning, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has stated repeatedly that the proposed tax reform will “aim at reducing the tax burden on families and working people, modernising the economy, and encouraging competitiveness”. However, ...

By Nektarios Michail The recent geopolitical tensions that keep erupting around the world have underlined the fact that Europe and the US may likely be unprepared, and are definitely underperforming, ...

In rape cases the central task, according to the court, is assessing the issue of non-consent There is a public outcry in Cyprus following the finding by the European Court ...

ONLY members of the simpletons’ club would have thought there was a one-in-a-million chance that the deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides would have heeded calls for his resignation and stepped down ...

July has arrived and in three days the second, so-called ‘informal five plus one’ conference under the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be held in New York. The venue is ...

By James Sweeney The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a what it calls a “humanitarian city” ...

After months of meetings, discussions and haggling, the House voted through legislation that would supposedly rationalise the issue of multiple pensions which deputies had made several unsuccessful attempts to tackle ...

The release of the European Commission’s 2025 rule of law report could not have been timed better. It was published a few days after the ECtHR’s ruling about a ...

The Vassiliko gas terminal fiasco is not over by any stretch of the imagination. It is set to play and play as deputies were informed on Tuesday. A representative of ...

A government in a precarious world economy fights for its survival by implementing cuts, as the Cyprus government has done, seeking out welfare/benefit malingerers. However, careful scrutiny should ensure ...