Opinion

The number of educational psychologists needed for public school students seems to increase every year. The education ministry is currently in dispute with the finance ministry over how many new ...

The debate over Cyprus’ high electricity prices has increasingly focused on renewable energy producers and, in particular, whether commercial solar parks are earning excessive returns. This is a legitimate question ...

Last week I wrote about the possibility of a financial crisis in the United States. Given that the three indicators I identified were grounded in fact rather than speculation, I ...

Traditionally, economics and political science were regarded as distinct disciplines. Economic analysis was grounded primarily in the benefits of free competition and countries’ comparative advantages in determining patterns of trade, ...

Five days into our climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, shortly after midnight on June 15, 2026, under a sky ablaze with stars and thinning air, Karim Tabet, my fellow climber from Lebanon, our ...

The collapse of the 2017 Crans-Montana conference remains the defining strategic blunder of modern Greek Cypriot statecraft, illustrating the fatal flaw of relying on legalistic paper promises in an era of ...

The social security “reform”, proposed by the Christodoulides government is inadequate, unfair and unsustainable. This is mainly because the scope for bringing many vulnerable persons out of the risk of ...

There were two tragedies at sea in Cyprus last week. August is a most dangerous month in the sea around Cyprus, known in Greek as kakavgusties when the sea is ...

WHO would have thought that the Prez of our tiny Republic would be driven around in an armoured limousine that cost a whopping €595,000?   This is a big step-up from the ...

Two weeks ago, just after the government had presented its superficial proposals for pension reform, which focused exclusively on the higher payments, we warned that this was far too serious ...

I have books on Celtic archaeology sent to me by a dear friend that I read through and kept till I had leisure time to enjoy studying them. It never ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s initiative to reduce electricity prices by 20 per cent has sparked intense public debate. The government, professional bodies, and market stakeholders quickly disputed his calculations, particularly regarding ...

It was difficult not to laugh at reports about deputies and officials discussing how they could stop recipients of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from going to casinos! According to ...

We have been hearing about the need for reform of the legal system and the legal service for many years now. No matter how many times this is mentioned in ...

Dr Andreas Procopiou In Cyprus’ public debate on energy, the lack of well documented information is widespread. Here we always back our claims with official data, because energy literacy is ...

For decades, this newspaper has been writing about the public education system, which is exclusively designed to serve teachers, who were hired from a waiting listing without an interview and ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou made it very clear on a TV show on Tuesday that the party would have its own candidate in the 2028 presidential election. There was no way ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was perfectly entitled to boast about the economy’s performance at his meeting with the executive committee of the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV). The forecast growth ...

This summer, my wife and I attended Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in southern France. The performance began at 9.30pm in the sweltering ...

In late August 2026, former President Nicos Anastasiades delivered an address over the state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation that fundamentally unsettled the country’s political landscape. Ostensibly arranged as an elder statesman’...

Last Sunday night I woke up sweating at around 1am after a particularly bad nightmare. Usually, I cannot get back to sleep easily, but this time I was so deeply ...

By Maria Demertzis Six million people voted for their favourite euro design in the first week of the survey launched by the ECB in July. This is a whopping one ...

If apologies generated electricity, Cyprus would have had no difficulty keeping the lights on this summer. When power cuts spread across the island recently, people were trapped in lifts, businesses ...

Prince Harry and his family returned to UK from California last Wednesday after a six-year absence. Their arrival was welcomed by royalists and cavaliers and the king himself.  Rumour has ...