Opinion

Allegations about underage sex, corrupt judges, big pay-offs and a secret brotherhood of politicians operating in the shadows that were posted on X some 10 days ago have been dominating the ...

We don’t have to look very far to find a useful historical analogy for the current crisis in the Middle East. In 1967 Egypt closed the Strait of Tiran to ...

For several decades, anyone with a university degree was eligible to become a public school teacher, regardless of their abilities. All that was required was a bachelors degree from a ...

By Theodoros Zachariadis, professor at the Cyprus Institute Imagine that meat prices rise by 30 per cent, whether due to foot-and-mouth disease or energy costs. This creates serious inflationary pressures throughout ...

Cyprus EEZ came back into the limelight on the occasion of EGYPES, Egypt’s annual and foremost energy conference and exhibition that took place in Cairo this week. And in ...

A couple of weeks ago, we had the joy of our granddaughter staying over for a few days. That Friday night, worrying about the escalating war, I sat watching her ...

By Nikolas Xenofontos In Cyprus, we have learned to view the Cyprus problem through the lens of history, justice and international law. We speak of invasion, occupation and violations of ...

Advances in technology have enabled the rapid spread of information and knowledge, but, at the same time, they have amplified the phenomenon of misinformation and the circulation of false news. ...

The Republic of Cyprus is currently at a significant constitutional juncture. The legislative debate on amending Article 17 of the Constitution, which guarantees the secrecy of correspondence, for a new surveillance ...

What special relationship! David Dimbleby the veteran British broadcaster exclaimed rhetorically on being asked about the illusion of the special relationship between Britain and the USA. There never was a ...

WHAT could a poor weekly columnist write as click-bait when in the last few days, the news was dominated by sensational allegations about corrupt judges, child rape, illegitimate children, big ...

By Yiannis Misirlis In every housing cycle, markets search for a villain. Today, in Cyprus, the spotlight has turned toward foreign, particularly non-European, buyers. The policy response now under discussion, ...

With parliamentary elections less than two months away, the scare stories about the composition of the new House are becoming more frequent, especially as opinion polls suggest there could be ...

The shortage of nursing staff is in the region of 600 according to Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides, who has been trying to solve the problem caused by the public sector nursing ...

The growing rift between Unites States president Donald Trump and his Nato partners is a very worrying development for the West. Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk hit the nail ...

How predictable that the two hoteliers’ organisations, Pasyxe and Stek, are not satisfied with the support measures announced by the government last week and want more. Last Thursday, the president ...

The Greek armada that sailed to Troy, supposedly to bring back the wife of a cuckhold, was a deception, and deception is still in vogue. Someone must have whispered Sun ...

Despite the pomp that accompanied the meeting in Cairo between President Nikos Christodoulides and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday there was nothing new to report. The governments of Cyprus ...

The Iranians know they have won, but President Trump doesn’t get it yet. He’s still at the stage of counting up the US and Israeli air-strikes and assuming ...

In a meeting behind closed doors last week, the House legal affairs committee finalised a bill that would allow the secret service (KYP) to listen in on people’s telephone ...

On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Renee Good multiple times as she sat in her SUV in Minneapolis. One week earlier, an off-duty ICE agent killed Keith ...

War between Israel and Hezbollah is pushing Lebanon’s fragile state and society towards breaking point, straining sectarian and political faultlines as Shi’ite Muslims are displaced and enmity deepens ...

It begins as a typical morning. Sunlight warms the kitchen table while you finish your breakfast with a cup of coffee in your hand and look at the local newspaper. ...

A Trump apologist explained his tendency to threaten military action and then back off as a deal making tactic to frighten his enemy to accept his terms. If the threat ...