Opinion

FOR the last ten days or so, the media has been full of stories and reports about the goings-on at the Osiou Avakoum monastery and the two monks who are ...

By Mary Butler TD We realise that, in Ireland, we are fortunate to have a National Day that almost everyone knows. St. Patrick’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate ...

Although feeling duty-bound to pay lip service to the protection of the environment, Cyprus governments have traditionally shown scant regard for this. They routinely ignore the regulations and laws they ...

By Alison Cole Industrial. Mechanical. Brutal. These are the words acclaimed electro-acoustic composer Hans Zimmer uses to describe his music for Dune: Part Two. Dune: Part One (2021) showcased Zimmer’s ...

The humanitarian aid ship Open Arms finally left Larnaca on Tuesday, pulling a barge carrying 200 tonnes of food supplies and was expected to reach the Gaza coast by Wednesday night. ...

Reflecting on the Kim Kardashian Theory, I’ve recently watched on YouTube, I’ve come to understand a dimension of fame and feminism that challenges conventional narratives. Kim Kardashian, far ...

Speaking about her plans for the next school year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou set as a ministry priority “the transition to a modern, human-centred and inclusive school that will cultivate ...

Much has been said and written about the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed on an 82-year-old man for shooting and injuring a man who was attempting stealing electricity cable from his ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent decades, a number of factors have contributed to a containment in defence spending, including: (a) the end of the cold war which, ...

By Fahri Zihni It is now the 60th anniversary of the Turkish Cypriot community being subjected to social and economic embargoes. Yes, 60, not 50 years. These have been implemented through the ...

I am sure all who live in Cyprus are (sadly) aware of the deliberate act of feral cats “poisoning”. The slow death is horrific. Recently I personally witnessed and experienced, ...

The large magnitudes of tax evasion and tax avoidance are having a profound impact on the economy and citizens of Cyprus. Tax evasion is defined as the deliberate non or ...

There was a very amusing TV clip on BBC World Service last week in which its man in Beijing, Stephen McDonell asks delegates milling about at the Great Hall of ...

WHAT a shame that the hilarious goings-on in a start-up monastery none but the ultra-faithful had heard of, named Osiou Avakoum, in a village with a ludicrous name, Fterikoudi, overshadowed ...

There are some government decisions on which it is impossible to put a positive spin and maintain credibility. The Christodoulides government does not appear to have realised this yet, which ...

It defies belief that the Christodoulides government boycotted the reception held on Monday by Unficyp to mark the 60th anniversary of its arrival in Cyprus. No representative of the government ...

Many would have been aghast hearing about the proposed law that would allow the minister of commerce to set a maximum price on certain products. It seems the government has ...

By Alexander Carpenter In 2011, pop music scholar Simon Reynolds was already observing pop culture’s fascination with its own past, noting that “we live in a pop age gone loco ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, in the televised appraisal of his first year in office, said that the Cyprus problem was at the “epicentre of the priorities of the government”. He then ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Critical thinking doesn’t mean teaching children selected influences the teacher either approves or disapproves of. It means giving unbiased information and allowing a child to ...

There are enough people to go around: eight billion now, compared to two billion less than a hundred years ago. Fifty-one million in South Korea, compared to only twelve million ...

The authorities have not come out of the case involving the Ukrainian woman who brought large amounts of cash to Cyprus smelling of roses. Countless questions have been raised by ...

The president and his ministers no longer will be able to hire as advisors or associates people who do not possess a university degree recognised by the state. A law, ...

This is the month when we see great changes in the garden. There are swathes of bright yellow in the countryside, a foretaste of the sunny weather to come. Not ...