Our View: Pulling buses from roads a total over-reaction
Public outrage, understandably, greeted the news that a school bus full of children had caught fire while in motion. Nobody was hurt, but the fire could not be dismissed as ...
COP28 and climate science: the more we learn, the more vulnerable Earth is
At the opening of the COP28 global climate summit, here are some thoughts about the state of climate science.
I have interviewed at least sixty leading climate scientists in a ...
Guidelines are crucial for secure AI system development
By Michael Ioannou
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution is only as good as the data that trains it. The more complete the data on which an AI is trained, the ...
Israeli economy suffers due to conflict
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
With a GDP exceeding $520 billion, despite its limited population and geographical size, the state of Israel is among the 30 richest countries on the planet. ...
Henry Kissinger was a global – and deeply flawed – foreign policy heavyweight
By Amelia Hadfield
Declarations of the end of an era are made only in exceptional circumstances. Henry Kissinger’s death is one of them.
Kissinger was born into a Jewish ...
Shane MacGowan: a timeless voice for Ireland’s diaspora in England
By Sean Campbell
During a concert in Dublin in 2022, Bob Dylan paused between songs to pay tribute to another singer-songwriter who was in attendance that night. “I want to say ...
Lord Elgin’s plunder at the Acropolis
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was undiplomatic and rude to cancel a scheduled meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Monday over a few anodyne remarks he made to ...
Our View: EU unanimity has become our only weapon
A few days ago, Disy president Annita Demetriou added her voice to the issue of EU unanimity, following a vote by the European Parliament to implement a number of reforms ...
Why I’m not concerned about the billions of central bank “losses”
By Maria Demertzis
How well are central banks doing? Right now, they are making losses but, unlike most large institutions, we should not assess their performance on annual profit and ...
Our View: More punishment for the taxpayer due to government failures
MPs were out beating their breasts on Thursday, in tears for the poor public who are faced with the new carbon tax slated for early next year plus having to ...
Pioneering Progress: Cyprus leads the way in tech talent attraction and citizenship reform
In a pivotal move toward innovation and solidifying its standing as a tech hub, Cyprus has recently enacted a pioneering amendment to the Civil Registry Law. This amendment, aimed at ...
Our View: Deafening silence on death of Henry Kissinger
While tributes poured into the US from around the world on Thursday after the death at 100 of controversial, American politician Henry Kissinger, the silence from Nicosia was deafening.
Neither the ...
Cary Grant’s complicated masculinity was key to his star power
By Alexander Sergeant
Like most of the enduring stars of golden age Hollywood, Cary Grant can be reduced rather effectively to a single image. Marilyn Monroe has her white dress. ...
Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dead at 100
Henry Kissinger, a diplomatic powerhouse whose roles as a national security adviser and secretary of state under two presidents left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy and earned ...
Our View: Tourism policy should be looking ahead
Is there anything duller than listening to the deputy tourism minister droning on about ‘sustainable tourism’ at the recent Malta conference at a time when the last pristine area of ...
Biden’ your time, Joe?
THE WAY THINGS ARE
America’s main reelection candidates are two ageing men with no one apparently able to differentitate between them. Rumours augur Michelle Obama as a future Democrat ...
Our View: ‘Begging bowl’ shouldn’t be necessary when it comes to healthcare
It was no surprise to read that in 2022, social protection and healthcare expenditure, which encompasses inpatient and outpatient care, medicines and sickness benefits, measured as a percentage of GDP, stood ...
Our View: Greens vote for path of least resistance
After a poor showing in the last parliamentary elections, and a massive rift recently, Giorgos Perdikis was re-elected as Green Party leader on Sunday with 204 votes to 92 for his rival ...
Let’s follow the French: ban SUVs
Listening to a French early morning broadcast the other day while stuck in a seemingly eternal traffic jam, I learned that Paris is considering banning SUVs.
Perhaps Nicosia could follow ...
Piles of rubbish coat Cyprus
An article in the Cyprus Mail (EU threatens legal action against Cyprus for environmental failures, November 17) makes clear that Cyprus really deserve some serious legal actions from EU and no ...
Noise pollution in Yermasoyia
I am a resident of Yermasoyia and I am writing to share a persistent issue that has been affecting the quality of life for myself and many others in the ...
Municipalities refuse to tackle unbearable noise pollution
The whole of Cyprus suffers from noise pollution from entertainment venues. To eradicate this the House of Representatives passed a revised law on the control of noise from entertainment venues ...
Few European leaders understood science during Covid
Chief medical officer: with hindsight UK went into lockdown a week late
By an uncanny coincidence, news emerged from northern China of a new type of unusual pneumonia last week ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Every president wants to meet the Pope
IF THE JOB of President of the Republic was ever advertised as a vacancy, one of the perks of the job listed, apart from having dictatorial powers and being worshipped ...