Opinion

Walking through the old town of Larnaca, with its narrow streets, bustling seafront and echoes of centuries of trade, it is easy to forget that this city once produced one ...

We have been asking the president to take a clear position on GSI. He took it. He confirmed the government’s full support at his meeting with Greece’s prime ...

If you are anything like me, the name of the person who won this year’s Nobel peace prize will not come automatically in your head. And no, it is ...

Gesy recently launched a campaign to annoy the pants off even the most tolerant of us. This advert doesn’t just appear as a TV spot or on your social ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a key driver of economic growth, technological advancement, productivity increase and international competitiveness. For small countries like Cyprus, it offers essential capital, specialised knowledge and ...

There are compelling reasons why the property sector in Cyprus should be subject to greater taxation and, moreover, should be a key part of the forthcoming tax reform. Firstly, in ...

Abandoning a criminal prosecution is as controversial in England as it has been in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) where there is a proposal to transfer the prosecutorial function of ...

TWO WEEKS ago the audited accounts of the Independent Agency of Social Support for 2023 and 2024 were released, advertising the ability of the first lady, Philippa Karsera Christodoulidou (PKC) to use ...

We do not believe attorney-general George Savvides wants to curtail free speech, the most fundamental principle of a democracy, but the idea he put forward on Tuesday about legislation restricting ...

By Seda Saluk Pregnant women crossing borders to get an abortion. People who miscarry facing jail time or dying from infection. Doctors who won’t perform lifesaving procedures on a ...

Government politicians are terrified of strikes in the broader public sector. This is most probably because public sector unions represent large numbers of voters which no politician ever wants to ...

Three construction companies secured 41 percent of public projects in the 10-year period up to 2024, said the Audit Office in a report released on Tuesday. The report also pointed out that ...

Well into the new school year, the education ministry is still nowhere near to introducing the new evaluation system for teachers. The relevant bill had been submitted to the legislature ...

In Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, under crime and punishment, I find ‘The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked.’ And, ‘Let he who would lash the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to present himself and his government as influential players in regional affairs and Gaza in particular lead to rather embarrassing situations. On Sunday, speaking about ...

“The thing that comforts me,” said Jeff Boudier at Hugging Face, the leading open platform for AI builders, “is that the internet was built on the ashes of the over-investment ...

President Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed peacemaker who has campaigned for a Nobel Prize, finally got a camera-ready diplomatic victory on Monday as world leaders flew to Egypt for the signing ...

For too long, the Republic’s defence spending was rather random. This was partly because only a few countries would sell arms to Cyprus, mainly Russia and France, and partly ...

Let me begin by offering my apologies for today’s somewhat technical column. However, recently there has been increasing urgency in European circles about the need to utilise the Russian ...

By Euripides L Evriviades On August 17, 1945, in a London scarred by war, Eric Arthur Blair – better known by his pseudonym George Orwell – published Animal Farm. Eighty years on, it reads ...

By Professor Kerim Munir The September 30 Cyprus Mail article by Rebekah Gregoriades, “Cyprus issue movement ‘positive’ says [Greek House president Nikitas] Kaklamanis,” offers yet another round of declaratory statements: full ...

The Turkish Cypriot community will go to the polls to elect a new leader on October 19. This is a hotly contested race between the current energetic centre-right leader, Ersin Tatar, ...

Katie Clerides who died last week was a rare bird. Her father was the Greek Cypriot president of the Republic of Cyprus 1993-2003 and her mother was from India which ...

YOU ALMOST felt sorry (I exaggerate for literary effect) for Odysseas after his acolyte and chief dirt-thrower Andreas Hasapopoulos publicly turned against him, accusing his former hero of having some ...