Opinion

By Ioannis Tirkides We use summary indicators to conveniently measure the performance and health of the economy. But while these can be useful in some respects, they have their drawbacks ...

For the last 50 years, every September, the president of the Cyprus Republic addresses the UN General Assembly. In the years immediately after the 1974 Turkish invasion, some delegations stayed in the ...

It was inevitable that Akel would start protesting as soon as it became known that that government would not extend the duration of the measures that were implemented to help ...

By Marc Cheong and Wonsun Shin When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say. You can’t quite recall ...

Congratulations to Education Minister Athena Michaelidou for pursuing her decision to ban mobile phones from all public secondary schools. She had banned phones from primary schools and has now tabled ...

A bit behind the curve (it was first posted last April), I have stumbled across ‘The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness’. It is a brave attempt by a coalition ...

An Irish poet once told me ‘We’re storytellers by nature and that includes gossip. What begins as a short story one end of town is a full length novel ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) on Tuesday bowed to police pressure and banned away fans from a match scheduled for Sunday between Omonia 29 May and Apoel. Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou ...

Diko deputy Zacharias Koulias has never been a politician that could be taken seriously. His mouth has always worked faster than his brain, something that made him eminently quotable and ...

The discovery of the highly promising Aphrodite gas field in 2011 presented Cyprus with economic and political opportunities, while at the same time it risked a worsening of its already tense ...

The Labour party is gathering in Liverpool for its first annual conference in government for 15 years. The party faithful ought to make the most of the occasion. This will be ...

By Karen Raubenheimer It’s been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and fibres. It named the particles “microplastics”. The ...

By Julie Kissick The British royals have long been a fascination. The wealth, pomp and ceremony surrounding them have placed them apart from the majority. It is hard to imagine ...

Although Serbs have existed as a distinct ethnicity for centuries, contemporary Serbia is the result of the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia and subsequent wars. Yugoslavia was formed after the end ...

In Brussels, the talk of the town is a report on the future of European competitiveness, calling for fundamental economic reforms to avoid a “slow agony” for the European economy. ...

In a unanimous and trenchant judgment, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus sitting as a discrete Council in an application to dismiss the auditor-general for misconduct decided on Wednesday that ...

THE SLAUGHTER of the sacred cow by the Supreme Constitutional Court was bloodless, but it still left such a mess that it could take a long time to clear up. ...

We have always had a rather ambiguous approach to the rule of law, which was evident once again after the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to remove Odysseas Michaelides from ...

By Mike Brand, University of Connecticut World leaders will gather at the United Nations on September 22-23, 2024, where they are set to adopt the Pact for the Future – an ambitious ...

The University of Cyprus is looking for €91m to build new student housing that will provide rooms for 870 students. This surprised deputies who discussed the matter because there had been ...

The report on the state health services, Okypy, for 2022, issued by the audit office earlier this week, illustrates how doctors have been plundering public hospitals, which were supposed to have ...

By Dan Golding The masked and cloaked figure now casts perhaps the longest shadow of any film character on popular culture. When Vader first appeared on screen in 1977, audiences recognised ...

It was inevitable that the decision by the Supreme Constitutional Council to sack Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides for inappropriate conduct would be met with anger and suspicion by many people who ...

Provocative, elegant, and thrilling, The Perfect Couple, Netflix’s series starring Nicole Kidman, masterfully takes a jab at the glamorous façade of wealth. As the summer fades and the ...