Opinion

Where there is no enforceable law, there exists no wrong. That is precisely what is happening at the very entrance of Latchi, Polis – one of the last unspoilt parts of ...

Twenty years of strict sanctions on Iran by both the United States and the United Nations did not bring down the regime of the ayatollahs. Half a dozen major waves ...

It has been business as usual with the preparation of the Cyprus government budgets for 2026 to 2028 with little attention being paid to addressing current and future policy challenges, including narrowing ...

The UK government’s new interior minister Shabana Mahmood was asked rhetorically whether she would be applying to join the anti-immigration populist party Reform UK as a backhanded compliment after ...

GREAT to see that most people have finally turned against the teaching unions which have shown Turkish-style intransigence in rejecting the evaluation system drafted by the education ministry with the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has completed more than half his term and if there is one thing we have seen in these 32 months it is that his is a government that ...

A fire late on Thursday near the East Africa pavilion at COP30 in Belem, Brazil forced mass evacuations from the climate summit, just as negotiations were reaching their end. A ‘...

Although the contents of the so-called peace plan for Ukraine, reportedly agreed by the United States and Russia, have not been officially revealed, from what has been reported one thing ...

Progress at the climate summit COP30, taking place at Belem in Brazil and being attended by more than 190 countries, has been slow and patchy. Agreements on most of the contentious ...

The election of Tufan Erhurman as leader of the Turkish Cypriots raised the mood around the Cyprus problem, after eight years of deadlock that was reconfirmed after every failed attempt ...

There is no doubt that under the Nikos Christodoulides presidency, Cyprus’ relations with the United States have drastically improved. The improvement in all fields has been so spectacular that the ...

The intervention of the government in the labour market will not end with the change in the calculation of the cost of living allowance (CoLA), which was finally agreed last ...

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions ...

The US has developed a comprehensive energy policy that includes southeast Europe and the Mediterranean. This was the subject at the two-day high level meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic ...

By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti From fuller lips to BBLs (Brazilian Butt Lifts), patients seek the perfect celebrity/influencer-inspired look. However, when reality falls short of expectations, the red-carpet ...

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, several European countries – Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain – faced high public debt, weak economic growth and fragile banking sectors. These vulnerabilities led to ...

My wife bought a house in Avgorou in 2011. It was paid for in full; she has the receipts. The contract was deposited with the Land Registry, and in 2016 she applied ...

I have spent thousands of hours sitting alongside video editors working on productions quite similar to the Panorama documentary that has landed the British Broadcasting Corporation with the threat of ...

I read with great interest the comprehensive article on how many vehicles were registered in Cyprus. The aspect I’d really be interested in how many vehicles were scrapped or ...

By Euripides L Evriviades When Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his emblematic work The Prince in 1513, he was dissecting the raw mechanics of realpolitik in an age of fragile states, restless rulers ...

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday that he will sue the BBC for between $1 and $5 billion for cheating and putting words in his mouth in a ...

PREZNIKONE appears to be on a mission to prove to the few remaining idiots that still think there is a hint of honesty in what he says are making a ...

The visit of Tufan Erhurman, the newly elected leader of the Turkish Cypriots, to Ankara on Thursday for his eagerly awaited meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan must have disappointed all ...

There was another twist to the saga of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) on Wednesday at the third intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece in Athens, which, apart from the ...