Opinion

The UN Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres paid a historic visit to Cyprus last week and promised to convene a 5+1 meeting. To achieve results he asked the parties to prepare adequately ...

CAN WE believe a word Prezniktwo ever says? In an interview, broadcasted by ANT1 on Monday night, he said that he would decide whether to seek re-election in 2027. And this ...

Ever since his election, President Nikos Christodoulides has followed an unchanging strategy on the Cyprus problem. It is a strategy that is all words and no action, a strategy that ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar There’s unity in what women feel but have been conditioned to dismiss as personal failure, namely the ongoing exhaustion, which is political, structural and by design. ...

Cyprus authorities were caught completely unaware about the deal that saw two thirds of the shareholding in the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), which was held by Greece’s state-owned Admie, ...

The debate over whether the names of the father and mother should be included on a person’s ID card was re-kindled last week after the interior ministry announced that ...

The long-awaited cabinet reshuffle, which had turned into something of a running joke in the last month, was finally announced on Tuesday evening by President Nikos Christodoulides. All the visits ...

An illustration of the might of unions is the fact that union leaders are well rewarded by their respective employers. And this was not the case exclusively in the public ...

It’s outrageous. You’re at your hobby farm in the country, just pottering around, so you stuff the $580,000 in your pocket under the sofa cushions temporarily just to get ...

Municipalities staged a three-hour strike on Monday morning. This was not a workers’ strike called by their unions for better pay, but a strike called by the Union of Municipalities ...

July marked two years since the implementation of Cyprus’ local government reform, one of the most significant institutional reforms undertaken by the Republic of Cyprus since its accession to the ...

By Dina Kapardis Following the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus, the police and gendarmerie structures of the early post-independence period were brought together to form the present Cyprus police ...

By Andreas D Symeou Confidence building is an essential ingredient for the resumption of talks to resolve the Cyprus problem, as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed in his statement ...

By Dr Kim Economides Last year I was granted Spanish citizenship under Spain’s Democratic Memory Law, not because I sought another passport or any material advantage, but because I ...

As the visit of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Cyprus came and went, I found myself reflecting on how bereft the world seems of genuine leadership. There was a time ...

Or was the problem that a bicommunal bizonal federation with political equality was a vote loser? UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been and gone. It was nice of him to ...

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, the two-day visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres produced no substantive results, beyond the possibility of a 5+1 conference in the near future if adequate ...

The original Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983) was based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The new Netflix adaptation pays closer attention to the realities of the period. ...

The education ministry is expected to roll out the integration of AI into teaching from September to “cultivate responsible use” of the technology. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou told Politis Radio ...

Huge development projects – both public and private – are being planned all across Cyprus. In the Polis area, the Cyprus Ports Authority is proposing the expansion of Latchi port, which environmental ...

In the end there were no great surprises from the visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Cyprus. He neither announced a date for a new 5+1 conference, nor anything to ...

At the start of every summer a lot of reassuring words are spoken about Cyprus’ preparedness for fire season. More staff, more equipment, more technology and more millions are poured ...

The decades-long effort to resolve the Cyprus problem has reached a definitive turning point. Years of frozen diplomacy and shifting Eastern Mediterranean geopolitical dynamics have transformed a historical stalemate into ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou has called for a ban on third countries from conducting election campaigns in Cyprus after a billboard promoting Israeli prime ministerial candidate and former IDF chief of ...