Our View: Student parades serve no purpose in today’s society
Student parades were held in all towns on Monday to celebrate Oxi Day – the rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum to Greece on October 28, 1940 – which led to Greece’s victorious war ...
Trump unbound as US presidential race nears its end
By James Oliphant
With his third straight U.S. presidential campaign coming down to the wire, Donald Trump mused at a rally about hydrogen-powered cars exploding, lamented how difficult it ...
ExxonMobil is back in Cyprus
It has been over two-and-a-half years since ExxonMobil last drilled in Cyprus’ EEZ, but the company is about to come back.
In an interview earlier this month the minister of ...
Open letter to MPs: extraordinary taxation on bank profits
A meeting of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives on October 7, 2024 discussed the proposal of the general secretary of Akel, Stefanos Stefanou, for the levying of a temporary ...
Nato, Cyprus and the final leap
By Euripides Evriviades
There is Nato, known to all, with 32 members.
There is also the Nato Partnership for Peace, known to most, with 18 members.
There is also the Nato Partners, ...
Musk’s politics are, quite literally, out of this world
By Thomas Gift
Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently made history by catching a Starship rocket booster as it careened back to Earth, wants you to vote for Donald Trump ...
Chagos Islands: no happy ending
If you believe the British government (which you should never do), a new agreement will bring justice for the people of the Chagos Islands, who have lived in exile for ...
Phone ban in schools should be supported
I have been reading your articles about the phone banning in schools which is a great move by the ministry of education and has received the approval of the parliament. ...
Guterres working hard to unravel tangled Cyprob knot
Antonio Guterres is probably the best UN secretary-general since Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden who was killed in an air crash trying to bring peace to the Congo. Guterres’ attendance ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prezniktwo desperately hoping transparency will prove unconstitutional
IF THERE are any people who still believe Prezniktwo actually means what he says, they should get their personal doctor to book an appointment with a brain specialist to have ...
Our View: Both leaders playing the same game – preserving the status quo
If the Cyprus problem could be solved with platitudes, political gimmicks and the repetition of slogans, President Nikos Christodoulides would have finalised the settlement months ago. These are the tools ...
Israel, backed by the US, is shaking world order to its core
By Tristan Dunning, Martin Kear and Shannon Brincat
While the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could have provided an off-ramp for the conflict in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
A mere spectator? Europe and the imploding Middle East
By Luigi Scazzieri
A year after Hamas launched its October 7th attack on Israel, the Middle East is on the edge of a broader war. For a time, Europeans and ...
Our View: PV parks should be subject to a tender procedure
Residents of the Famagusta district village of Frenaros have been protesting about the plans of Bioland Energy to build huge photovoltaic parks in their area. They walked out of a ...
Our View: It’s anybody’s game in the health sector
Concerns were expressed at the House health committee about the purchase of a third private hospital by an investment fund as it could create an oligopoly in the provision of ...
The power of childhood and music
By Liz Giuffre
Former One Direction band member and solo artist Liam Payne was on Wednesday found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires. Payne was just 31 years old – a ...
Our View: Why should the taxpayer subsidise failing pension funds?
Although all the economic indicators for next year are positive and Cyprus was the third fastest-growing economy in the eurozone in 2024, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos did not try to hide ...
If I were a witch…
We all tell the odd white lie to avoid something or someone. No real harm done, like excuses to get out of a thing you don’t want to attend ...
Neither party wants US voters to look deeper
Donald Trump knows that he could lose the US election in two weeks’ time and he thinks that he knows why. “You have one issue, you have the issue of ...
Our View: Is president willing to sacrifice transparency for fund raising?
It came as something of a surprise that President Nikos Christodoulides refused to sign the amendment to the law governing the Social Support Agency and referred it to the Supreme ...
Our View: We shouldn’t be weeping any tears over affordable student housing
Not wanting to be left out of the efforts to tackle the so-called housing crisis, Disy presented a range of proposals for affordable housing on Monday. Speaking at the presentation, ...
Changing economic policy in China could have decisive global impact
At present, global interest appears to be focused on geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East and the evolution of interest rates in the US and eurozone, as well ...
Possible life-affirming mission to Europa
Elon Musk’s ‘Starship’ project did something spectacular this week. The 160-tonne booster landed safely in the arms (or rather, the ‘chopsticks’) of a rocket-catching device that will soon allow ...
Tatar-Christodoulides ‘chat’: the deal that could have been
Today, GwikiLeaks issued transcripts of hundreds of pages of extraordinary secret conversations between Sonic Christofoolides and Resin Tartar, leaders of the two Cypress communities. These reveal a surprising level of ...