Opinion

By Hui-Ying Kerr Standing at the entrance to London’s Somerset House, I noticed girls – and irrespective of age, they can only be described as girls – dressed head to toe ...

Since independence, Cypriots have put great value in university education. Parents would put all their savings into their children’s university education, often going without for this purpose, while youngsters ...

Have you ever taken a moment to consider the role courage plays in your life? It’s a fascinating concept, and one that we often associated with grandiose acts of ...

Annita Demetriou, the leader of Disy and President of the House, has the highest approval rating among politicians. She is the only politician that more than 50 per cent of the ...

Two opinion polls released last Wednesday indicate substantial disappointment with President Nikos Christodoulides after his first 11 months in office. The poll carried out for Red Wolf PR & Advertising found ...

By Antonia Frangou European democracy is currently facing a challenging period marked by a growing sense of disillusionment among citizens. The decline in voter turnout in EU general elections since 1979 ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In most developed societies, we observe the establishment of institutions that aim at the wider social benefit, through the technocratic assessment of fiscal policies. ...

IT did not end well for Karolina Shiino, the young woman who won the title of Miss Japan two weeks ago. She has just handed her crown back after a ...

English is the language used amongst bicommunal groups, Greek and Turkish Cypriot politicians and negotiators – is it a good thing? By Ioanna Achilleos Zavitsanaki While many Cypriots have come to ...

By Stefanos Sofroniou The new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 (FSR) is anticipated to have a major effect on large EU-related dealmaking such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), introducing ...

World leaders have this week shown their vulnerable side Poor King Charles. He was admitted to the London Clinic for a routine procedure to treat a benign prostate condition and ...

THE EXTRADITION of the Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kurshat turned into something of an anti-climax, the guy being released some 12 hours after arriving in Kyproulla. There can be little doubt ...

Nothing illustrates the poisonous influence of the political parties on the administration of the country more clearly than the vaunted reform of local government, which took years to finalise and ...

If a private business found out that an employee was being bribed by an outside company to sign off on taking deliveries of fewer products than were invoiced, it would ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Europeans have struggled to form a coherent response to the Israel-Hamas conflict that erupted after Hamas’ brutal attacks on October 7th. As the death toll has risen, ...

Cyprus’ farmers took to the streets on Thursday to protest, like the farmers in many European countries, against Brussels’ so-called climate-friendly policies they consider a big threat to their livelihoods. ...

By Chao Fang and Alastair Comery For the first time in human history, we have entered an era in which reaching old age is taken for granted. Unlike in ages ...

In the end the EAC clarified that the increase in electricity rates will not be 25 per cent as it had initially been reported, but 6 per cent. The claim for a 25 ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE ‘The politician man says do the best you can. And I will do my very best to help. Yes, please do sir, help yourself.’ So sang ...

There is no doubt that the tenders’ procedure for the Vasiliko LNG terminal was a catalogue of errors that violated every notion of rational decision-making. It suffices to say that ...

The government was not happy with the view of the British High Commissioner, Irfan Siddiq, who said the Turkish Cypriots needed to be given incentives to return to the negotiating ...

In the immediate aftermath of the massacre of 1,140 Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists last October, US President Joe Biden went to Israel and gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some ...

And perhaps she should encourage both sides to consider the two-state solution By Fahri Zihni The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin arrived in Cyprus last ...

Cypriots own a lot of property but that hides the true story Ultimately, economics is about people. In this connection the ECB Household Finance and Consumption Surveys (HFCS) provide valuable ...