Opinion

With shocks following shocks of an unprecedented scale and gravity, and with the European Commission (EC) withdrawing its support for the LNG import project at Vasilikos and asking for its ...

When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed. “By August, if ...

By Theo Theophanous On July 21, 2024, Melbourne’s Federation Square was filled with more than 2,000 Greeks and Greek Cypriots and their supporters. The event was to commemorate the beginning of the ...

By Peter Greste The photo of returning prisoners in an American plane, all grinning from ear to ear, says it all: the joy, the relief and the success of an ...

Theodosis Pipis’ article ‘After series of blunders, Fidias Phenomenon is rapidly turning sour’, (Sunday Mail, July 28) made me angry. For someone working at the European parliament his perspective was somewhat ...

I bought a property in Cyprus in 2007, but I am still not in possession of the title deeds as they are with my solicitor. I signed the contract of sale ...

As Larnaca residents we have received via email various instructions on how to save or economise on water usage.  Larnaca water is, I believe by nature, very soft and for ...

During my visit to a Protaras hotel, I was very surprised when I paid for a pint, and I received a transparent plastic glass of 400 ml. When I told the ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not often go along with the geopolitical concerns of the US and Europe. He belongs to the generation of Turkish politicians whose outlook is ...

NIK THE FIRST, the self-proclaimed, incorruptible and truthful former president of the Kyproulla republic, has been keeping an unusually low profile in the last couple of weeks during which the ...

If there is one issue that encapsulates the inadequacy of politicians, the failure of state services to draft medium- and long-term plans for the benefit of the country and the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides A common thread runs through many of the elections taking place around the world this year: a rise in populism and nationalism, a move towards protectionism and ...

While the government’s initial stance about the migrants stranded in the buffer zone was justifiable, as time goes by it is becoming more difficult to defend. It is leading ...

Many people, understandably, have been complaining about the high prices they are paying for fruit and vegetables. Prices have remained consistently high in the last couple of months, with the ...

By Hassan Vally Every few weeks or months, the media reports on a new study that tantalisingly dangles the possibility of a new drug to give us longer, healthier lives. ...

President Christodoulides, for the last couple of weeks, has been forecasting “some development in the Cyprus issue,” which could materialise in August or early September. He repeated this prediction again ...

When my politically opposed friends Dub a proxy Democrat and let’s call her Sally, a Trumpite, get together it’s akin to tectonic plates grinding off one another. Maria ...

In a country in which we have union rule, it is inevitable that a small organised group has become a key player in public health, often dictating policy. Osak, a ...

The Deloitte Triton Paphos Marina Consortium has signed an agreement to provide consultancy services for the competitive tenders’ procedure for the Paphos marina project. The consortium will put together all ...

By Stefanos Stefanou, Akel general secretary In your editorial ‘Akel’s approach threatens ruin of public hospitals’ (Cyprus Mail, July 12), you commented on the positions I expressed in a press ...

In recent years, the Indian economy has been growing rapidly, while also gaining ground amid rising tensions between China and the US, as well as the EU. The underlying circumstances ...

By Christina Anagnostopoulos Misinformation about Vice President – and now presidential candidate – Kamala Harris that first spread during the 2020 election has been resurfacing after she announced her 2024 bid for the Oval ...

By Amin Saikal The Middle East is on the brink of a possibly devastating regional war, with hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah reaching an extremely dangerous level. Washington has engaged ...

View from Brussels By Theodosis Pipis The “Fidias Phenomenon” has turned a number of heads here in Brussels. The moment I let someone know that I am from Cyprus the ...