Opinion

Like an old dog barks now and again to remind himself he is a dog, an old Cypriot scribbler feels the need to write about the Cyprus problem now and ...

ETHNARCH Junior is going through a rather difficult period as he is having difficulty controlling some of his top dogs who want the party to announce its support for Nik ...

Welcoming the President of Israeli Isaac Herzog to the presidential palace on Thursday morning, President Nikos Christodoulides said the two would discuss “how we can work together on regional developments ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar A society reveals its moral temperature through the order it imposes when the guilty are placed behind bars. Justice doesn’t rise from the ashes of neglected ...

Since 1963, Cyprus has been in an anomalous political situation, while since 1974, one-third of the island has been under the occupation of neighbouring Turkey. Greek Cypriot politicians whine and indulge in ...

The Transparency Commissioner, Haris Poyiadjis, who heads the anti-corruption authority, told the House institutions committee on Wednesday that an announcement about the ‘black van’ spying case would be issued on ...

There is a version of the last four years that Cypriot officials tell with justified satisfaction. The American arms embargo, in place since 1987, was lifted in 2022. The CYCLOPS training centre, ...

Justice and Public Order Minister Costas Fitiris should be congratulated for taking it upon himself to rationalise the issue of security details. The absurd practice of providing former presidents and ...

The biggest doubts about the viability and importance of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) have always been expressed by the Christodoulides government, which is bizarre considering it is a project ...

The election triumph of the German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday sent shockwaves across Europe. The party took almost 44 per ...

“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, ...

The number of educational psychologists needed for public school students seems to increase every year. The education ministry is currently in dispute with the finance ministry over how many new ...

The debate over Cyprus’ high electricity prices has increasingly focused on renewable energy producers and, in particular, whether commercial solar parks are earning excessive returns. This is a legitimate question ...

Last week I wrote about the possibility of a financial crisis in the United States. Given that the three indicators I identified were grounded in fact rather than speculation, I ...

Traditionally, economics and political science were regarded as distinct disciplines. Economic analysis was grounded primarily in the benefits of free competition and countries’ comparative advantages in determining patterns of trade, ...

Five days into our climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, shortly after midnight on June 15, 2026, under a sky ablaze with stars and thinning air, Karim Tabet, my fellow climber from Lebanon, our ...

The collapse of the 2017 Crans-Montana conference remains the defining strategic blunder of modern Greek Cypriot statecraft, illustrating the fatal flaw of relying on legalistic paper promises in an era of ...

The social security “reform”, proposed by the Christodoulides government is inadequate, unfair and unsustainable. This is mainly because the scope for bringing many vulnerable persons out of the risk of ...

There were two tragedies at sea in Cyprus last week. August is a most dangerous month in the sea around Cyprus, known in Greek as kakavgusties when the sea is ...

WHO would have thought that the Prez of our tiny Republic would be driven around in an armoured limousine that cost a whopping €595,000?   This is a big step-up from the ...

Two weeks ago, just after the government had presented its superficial proposals for pension reform, which focused exclusively on the higher payments, we warned that this was far too serious ...

I have books on Celtic archaeology sent to me by a dear friend that I read through and kept till I had leisure time to enjoy studying them. It never ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s initiative to reduce electricity prices by 20 per cent has sparked intense public debate. The government, professional bodies, and market stakeholders quickly disputed his calculations, particularly regarding ...

It was difficult not to laugh at reports about deputies and officials discussing how they could stop recipients of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from going to casinos! According to ...