Opinion

ARRIVING at the Ledra Palace hotel for the end of year reception given by the UNSG’s Special Representative Colin Stewart, at the same time as the Turkish Cypriot leader, ...

The audit office’s report into the long catalogue of illegalities surrounding the operation of a fish farm in Trimiklini, in the Limassol district hills, is a damning indictment of ...

By Ioannis Tirkides We are in treacherous waters. After a year and a half of relentless interest rate hikes by central banks in the developed world, and the remarkable resilience ...

It is difficult to understand why the European authorities have targeted journalists, media owners and their families as potential security threats which national governments would have the powers to spy ...

It has become something of a political tradition for opposition parties to call for a meeting of the national council whenever there is the slightest hint of possible movement on ...

By Bradley Smith and Mia Cobb For many of us, dogs are our best friends. But have you wondered what would happen to your dog if we suddenly disappeared? Can ...

After the latest extension given to Chevron to submit an ‘optimal development plan’ for the offshore Aphrodite gas field, people will rightly be wondering whether Cyprus will ever exploit its ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Self-help books advise on a range of things – grieving, diet, stopping smoking/drinking etc. This works for some people depending on their personality, how they think, ...

In a landmark deal the COP28 climate summit in Dubai adopted unanimously the Global Stocktake text Wednesday morning. For the first time, it calls on all countries to move away ...

In 1988 a law was approved that set out the benefits the president of the republic and president of the House of Representatives would enjoy when they retire. Apart from a ...

The appointment of the former foreign minister of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, as the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy to Cyprus was finalised on Sunday night, when Turkish Cypriot ...

By Stefanos Sofroniou An increasing number of employers are weighing the merits of introducing an occupation pension plan for their employees. Employer contributions towards employees’ pension pots are crucial for ...

NOBODY knows what our Prez did to the deity-general Odysseas to excuse the latter’s manic efforts to wreck poor old Nik II’s carefuly cultivated image as the guy ...

‘It is clear that we must act urgently, decisively and collectively’ The annual UN global climate summit COP28 is taking place in Dubai this year. It started on November 30 and ...

By Fahri Zihni Of course, all lives matter. All human rights, including the ultimate right to life itself apply to all humans irrespective of race, religion, or any other human ...

But who comes second matters By Thomas Gift Former president Donald Trump has pitched himself as the inevitable Republican nominee for the White House in 2024. So much so that he’...

By Dominic Broomfield-McHugh Eighty years ago this week, Judy Garland walked into an MGM studio and recorded Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas for the first time. It was written ...

Now he is dead it may be possible for more light to be shed on the true extent to which he manipulated events in Cyprus in 1974 Henry Kissinger died peacefully ...

President Tayyip Erdogan’s groundbreaking visit to Athens on Thursday was a strong indication of the two countries’ determination to put their relations on a sound footing. It was the ...

How to sum up the most important news of the year past? The obvious answer in 2023 is to use Artificial Intelligence. In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and ...

One newspaper claimed that the audit office’s report about the earnings of President Nikos Christodoulides, while he was serving as acting government spokesman, between 2014 and early 2018, had ‘detonated a ...

It should not have surprised anybody that in the ‘PISA 2022’ international evaluation of students Cyprus finished in the bottom quarter of the rankings – number 62 out of 81 countries. We could not ...

Is it ever a good thing? By Aaron Nicholas Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don’t really like the food choices on offer, ...

There is no end to the long-running foreclosures farce, which will be on centre stage at the House plenum on Friday, when the government bills, which are aimed at appeasing ...