Opinion

Good luck to Larnaca in its pursuit of opening a crematorium.  After years of struggle and thousands of supportive signatures, there is a glimmer of hope that the Paphos crematorium ...

Accident report not taken seriouslyMy wife was involved in a car accident. Thankfully, neither she nor the other driver sustained any injuries. Our insurance agent arrived at the scene and ...

By Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades Cyprus is committed to reducing the number of fatal and serious injury car accidents. This is the primary objective of the Road Safety Council, which ...

Malta and the EU’s definitive ruling on golden passports In a trenchant judgement on April 29, 2025 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the ...

Trade is structural and its implications for policy and markets alike are pervasive, especially when deficits have been persistent and accumulating for a long time. Currencies and trade imbalances are ...

WHILE Preznikone was appearing before the investigative committee set up by Anti-Corruption Authority dismantling, in his words, fake news and slander, a foe from the past also put the boot ...

Last Monday the Athens newspaper Ta Nea reported that President Nicos Christodoulides proposed the opening of a Turkish port to ships under the Cyprus flag, in exchange for visas for ...

The government should be congratulated for formulating a ‘holistic’ plan for dealing with forest fires. This was finalised at a meeting on Friday under President Christodoulides, attended by several ministers ...

A review and the way forward By Andreas Theophanous When Cyprus joined the EU, there were high expectations in all aspects. First and foremost, there was the belief that the ...

The so-called Pancyprian Peace Council will stage a demonstration outside the presidential palace on Friday evening to protest against President Nikos Christodoulides’ scheduled visit to Israel on Sunday. In announcing ...

By Charalambos Charalambous In today’s fast-paced world, where stress is often a daily companion, healthy nutrition and regular exercise are not optional luxuries – they are essential pillars for a ...

The Federation of Employers and Industrialists (Oev) said the key challenges facing the Cyprus economy are the rationalisation of energy costs, containment of wages and ensuring the labour supply meets ...

Greek American David Sedaris is an inimitable raconteur, an irreverent and brilliant wit whose jokes can be blunt, but never tainted with coarseness or discrimination. He’s gay, happy in ...

Marinos Sizopoulos took everyone by surprise last week when he announced his plan to step down as leader of Edek at the party’s next conference in June. He explained ...

I read with interest, and eventual dismay, the Easter article of President Nikos Christodoulides in Kathimerini newspaper where he enthused about his recent visit to the US and the miracle ...

The UK’s decision to leave the EU was a seismic shock in Ireland. In the years following the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, the border between Northern Ireland and the ...

Films highlight the doctrinaire versus the avant-garde and the machinations behind becoming pope What was unique about Pope Francis who died last Monday was not that he was the first ...

THE ORGY of self-congratulation in which the government engaged because the United Arab Emirates kindly offered to send us some mobile desalination units to help us avoid the looming water ...

The government came to the country’s rescue this week, saving the day at the last minute like a Marvel superhero. This was how the arrangement for the delivery of 15 ...

By Thomas Gift, UCL A few days ago, in a move that attracted international attention, the White House threatened to strip Harvard University of US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in federal funding, ...

Writing an opinion piece makes you realise that actual change does not come about from well-meaning people analysing problems and coming up with good ideas. Change, rather, is usually the ...

Is there any country in the world apart from Cyprus in which employees do not allow their employer to assess their job performance? And is there any country in the ...

Cyprus has been riding a five-year wave of growth in startups, innovation, and tech. Everyone’s clapping. But scratch beneath the surface and the cracks are hard to ignore. Yes, ...

Αll anti-settlement parties issued announcements celebrating Thursday’s 21st anniversary of the Greek Cypriot ‘no’ vote in the Annan Plan referendum. Diko, whose leader, president Tassos Papadopoulos, urged people to ...