Opinion

Sir, There have been a number of reports from time to time over many years about the high cost of electricity in Cyprus. For example: On January 31, 2025 the energy minister, ...

Many of us here in Cyprus are often annoyed at the inconvenience we face when travelling from Larnaca to somewhere in Europe. Apart from the limited direct flights to European ...

‘We shall fight them on the keyboards and in cyberspace’ When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 and withdrew into its Russian shell, Nato countries benefited economically as the need to ...

THE DECISION to investigate the sacked auditor-general Odysseas for alleged contempt of court came as a major surprise, considering charges of contempt are very rare indeed. Although my memory is ...

The speed with which deputy minister of culture Vasiliki Kassianidou reacted to withdraw a book from the Cyprus stand at the 19th Architecture Biennale in Venice on Wednesday (and from ...

The European Commission sounded a warning about state expenditure for this year as it was forecasted to grow by more than the government stipulated it would. The government’s commitment ...

It appears the political parties have taken on the responsibility of deciding how the foreign-language courses at the two public universities would be introduced. The only snag is that there ...

When President Nikos Christodoulides first spoke about his government’s plans to develop Cyprus’ defence industry at the end of last year, many may have thought he was joking. He ...

By Jen Kostuchuk, Erik Steiner, and Sean Lyons “I wish adults knew that I really care about the environment and want to help, but I sometimes feel like my ideas ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (Cysec) has been spurred into action by the allegations, made last week by Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, about links between Cyprus-based foreign exchange firms ...

The Cyprus electricity market will open to independent producers in mid-September and from October 1, the trading in electricity will commence. The opening up of the market, which was meant have ...

This is focused on Cyprus, Egypt and Israel. All three countries have abundant renewable energy potential, especially solar. But so far success in harnessing it is mixed. Cyprus produced 24 per ...

We are six children from a mixed marriage, and we applied for citizenship 10 years ago. Every time we go to ask about it they gave us no answer and sometimes ...

Although recent global economic developments, including the imposition of trade tariffs and geopolitical uncertainties, are not expected to have significant immediate impact on the Cypriot economy, they nevertheless pose risks ...

As a descendent of Stass Paraskos I can categorically say I do not want use of the facilities promised to the Cyprus College of Art in Lempa. However, the legally ...

Many, many years ago, the government of the day decided to shoot all the many strays that were wandering around the streets. There were even reports of shooting dogs on ...

Straws in the wind: recently I ran across a post by the CEO of a nationwide professional association in Canada. People like him are used to hopping across the US ...

I am a full-time teacher, currently working in Saudi Arabia and also the founder of a small educational advocacy group called (Occupational Safety & Health) OSHliteracy.org, which advocates for ...

The recent downgrade by the rating agency Moody’s of America’s AAA rating has passed by largely unnoticed among the plethora of world and local events taking place. For ...

Three judges of the US Court of International Trade (USCIT) held that most of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump were unlawful and struck them down. Trump immediately appealed ...

ON COMPLETING a year in the European Parliament, MEP and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou appears to have gained promotion from the role of entertaining village idiot to that of tedious useful ...

The ludicrous ‘referendum’, held by the secondary teachers union Oelmek, overwhelmingly rejected the bill that would introduce a new system of evaluation of the work of each teacher. A total ...

While everyone claims to want corruption eliminated, nothing is done even when it is staring them in the face. The case of Cyprus-registered Blue Ocean, the company that was managing ...

By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,” wrote Shakespeare some 400 or so years ago in one of the most sombre love stories ...