Opinion

Whilst being very quick to criticise, I like to think I display balance in my freedom to express opinion. This is an open letter of congratulations and thanks to the ...

My parents have come to visit and my wife took them to the beach today. They went down to the beach to the right-hand side of the Four Seasons in ...

India and the United States are the world’s two biggest democracies, and both of them seem to be in danger. In each of them populist federal governments are deliberately ...

Cyprus’ modern history is defined by missed diplomatic opportunities, ideological blindness and the cold calculations of regional powers. Since 1974, the events leading to the island’s partition have been clouded ...

With Andy Burnham about to take over as UK prime minister in a very British coup, Cyprus marked 52 years since the coup against President Makarios with sirens blaring at 8.20am ...

THE INHUMANITY the Paphos authorities have shown in the treatment of the British father, whose three-year-old son was killed, after falling out of a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos last ...

The number of inspectors at the labour and social insurance ministry, clamping down on illegal or undeclared work will be doubled, said Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas. There were currently eight ...

Language is one of humankind’s finest achievements. Its progression led to swifter understanding of the actions our species needed while hunting or escaping predators, for expressing emotions, understanding each ...

The Anti-Corruption Authority resorted to the oldest trick in the book in its announcement, responding to the previous week’s media reports about a possible conflict of interest in the ...

Cyprus is built on history, right? Construct a hotel, and you uncover an ancient amphitheatre. New roads unearth mosaics. Excavate anywhere from Polis to Pernera and you’ll likely hit ...

Only in Cyprus could the government decide to redesignate an industrial zone in the Dali-Yeri area into a ‘white zone’ which prevents the 50 factories that have been in the area, ...

For the last half-century, every year, on July 15 we hear and read the same narratives about the Greek Junta-inspired coup against President Makarios, which gave Turkey the pretext to invade ...

The way the government greeted the appointment of the European Commission envoy to the Cyprus problem gave the impression that the road to a solution had been opened. The reality, ...

The last time oil-tankers were being shot up in the Persian Gulf, back in the 1980s, it was Saddam Hussein’s brutal tyranny in Iraq versus Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary ...

The decision of the Paphos police to arrest the inconsolable and grief-stricken father of the three-year-old boy who fell to his death from a fourth-floor window in a Chlorakas hotel ...

For nearly a decade since Crans-Montana, Greek Cypriot leaders have operated under the illusion of a risk-free status quo. However, UN envoy María Angela Holguin has shattered this complacency, ...

The 2016 referendum on the UK’s departure from the EU is widely considered to be a milestone event. The purpose of this article is to assess its multi-level impact, considering ...

This week I had planned to write a carefully argued article on economics and the creation of money. After sending it to a couple of friends for comment, however, the ...

There is a version of the AI-in-finance story that is almost entirely reassuring. Algorithms that make markets more accessible. Platforms that give ordinary investors tools once reserved for institutions. Personalisation ...

The first two articles in this series concluded that the key question facing Cyprus is no longer whether natural gas is needed, but whether the current Vasiliko LNG import project ...

The international football federation (Fifa), the body responsible for the overall conduct and supervision of the 2026 World Cup, brought the beautiful game into disrepute earlier this week. In an unprecedented ...

A FEW weeks ago our establishment had mentioned that the Prez would be looking for job to give the deputy minister of European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, whose contract would expire ...

When President Nikos Christodoulides persuaded the European Union to make EU-Turkey relations dependent on progress on the Cyprus problem, this was presented as great achievement. The linking of the two ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar Spend enough time with content for people moving to Cyprus and a pattern begins to emerge. Alongside questions about residency permits, where to find the best **** (fill ...