UN climate change summits are ‘fundamentally flawed’
By Jack Marley
Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for negotiating ...
Our View: Can lifeless Makarios Avenue reclaim its former buzz?
A group called the Nicosia-Cyprus Capital initiative has launched a new push for a rethink on the way traffic is allowed on Makarios Avenue.
Anyone who has been down there ...
Our View: Akel needs to accept that the world has moved on
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand.
The president, ...
Our View: Public servants hold society hostage to get what they want
Disy leader Annita Demetriou was careful in her wording on Tuesday when she said her party was looking into a way around the decades-old contentious issue of strikes in essential ...
Blue health: How the sea benefits physical and mental wellbeing
By David Gallardo-Pujol, Jordi Renom Pinsach and Laura Viñals Vilà
Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in ...
Our View: Violence against women figures really are alarming
The latest figures on violence against women in Cyprus cited by Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Migs) on Monday should be more than a ...
Our View: Disconnects between the haves and the have-nots
Cyprus is currently beset by labour unrest from doctors to hotel employees to cement workers, predictable in that a number of collective agreements in different sectors are up for renewal ...
Dr Strangelove in Ukraine and the Middle East
By Euripides L Evriviades
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, brilliantly satirised Cold War paranoia and its catastrophic potential.
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No end in sight to airbag recall scandal
I was very concerned to read the recent article on the airbag recall and the idea that cars may be forced off the road because of it. I have a ...
Am I the only resident tearing my hair out over water-bill issues?
Water bills have been transferred from my local area (Oroklini) to the ‘Larnaca’ district although no-one bothered to let us know. Only upon asking Oroklini council where had my September ...
Not arresting criminals inflicts damage on the ICC prosecutions
By Catherine Gegout
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader, Mohammed Deif. The ...
The differences between sanctions screening and customer due diligence
By Nicolas Poumpourides
I was recently the trainer at an advanced six-hour training session for the staff members of the Cyprus Financial Services Supervisory Authority (CySEC). In the course of ...
Airport queues ruined a perfect holiday
We recently returned from a holiday in Paphos, not having been in the previous five years due to Covid etc.
I was pleased to read that tourism has increased, but ...
Amazing story but not true
How can Cyprus be an energy hub since no financially viable gas has been discovered? The government managed to spend a lot of money on Vasiliko with nothing to show.
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Cyprus government and banks selfishly hoard wealth
In the immediate years after the Cyprus financial crisis of 2012/2013 there was a compelling need to stabilise government finances with austerity and banks with credit restraint, however, such policies have ...
Loss of a lovely fish tavern
How sad to see the closure of the fish tavern Ayios Georgios in Peyia with its world class view.
It seems that it is to be taken over by the ...
Was Jesus Palestinian or Jewish?
By Philip Almond
Netflix’s upcoming biblical biopic, Mary, has been attacked on social media because the title character and her husband Joseph are being played by Israeli actors.
The ...
Biden had no democratic mandate to escalate the war in Ukraine
Donald Trump’s refusal to engage in a smooth transfer of power during the interregnum in 2020-21 pales into insignificance compared with President Joe Biden’s sabotage of Trump’s ...
Our View: Will Cyprus ever have its own political maverick?
Donald Trump’s return to the top of US politics may be a triumph or a disaster, depending on who you ask. One thing’s for sure, though: such an ...
Shrinking classical music programme a great loss
For several years I have enjoyed tuning in at mid-day of weekdays to hear a CyBC radio programme of classical music presented in English by Saskia Constantinou. This programme which ...
The EU and Turkey: A relationship adrift
By Luigi Scazzieri
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has revived EU enlargement. European leaders often talk about enlargement as a ‘geopolitical necessity’. However, the rhetoric on enlargement never extends ...
A 50-year battle for truth: the Birmingham pub bombings and the price of injustice
By Sam Poyser
When bombs tore through two crowded pubs in central Birmingham on the evening of November 21 1974, they claimed the lives of 21 people and injured 220 more. They also led ...
Our View: Domestic workers a band-aid not a solution to eldercare
MP Rita Superman and a representative of the Third Age Observatory on Wednesday spoke about how Cyprus was failing its aging population – and the thousands of domestic workers who take ...
COP29 – Final deal on a knife-edge
Intense negotiations continued until late on Thursday, but to no avail. All parties appear to be determined to hold onto their positions until the very last moment, with overtime beyond ...