Opinion

Cyprus is condemned by history and geopolitics to be a hub of one kind or another. It is a tightrope role that Cypriots negotiate pragmatically and with gusto. Nice to ...

There is genuine incomprehension in the Global South about why West cares so much about the invasion of Ukraine By Gwynne Dyer There is a deep and growing rift between ‘...

IN THE end, Prez Nik II bowed to public pressure and rather belatedly obeyed the law about the publication of contributors to election campaign. On Thursday, two weeks after the ...

Disy deputies may have been caught by surprise at the House institutions committee on being informed that their law proposal on election campaign funding was already covered by the existing ...

“There cannot be quality of life in a city without sidewalks that give uninterrupted access and safety to pedestrians, especially people with mobility issues such as people with disabilities, the ...

By Silvia Hurtado González A few years ago the dating website eHarmony concluded that profiles that included reading in their list of hobbies were more attractive to the opposite ...

“Obviously, this is not a nominal situation,” said John Insprucker, a senior engineer at Space-X, who was doing a webcast on Thursday’s launch attempt of Elon Musk’s gigantic ...

The farce surrounding the foreclosures law just refuses to go away. Our political parties, unable to find any other worthy cause to champion, have made it their mission to create ...

We need environmental education which includes people with disabilities By Maria-Christina Constantinou There is grave disparity in how climate change affects different groups of people. One would think that climate ...

Two government measures for helping people cope with inflation are in the pipeline – reduction of VAT on basic consumer goods and the creation of a shopping basket app that will ...

Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the first crossing between the north and south parts of the island. Newspapers were full of stories about people visiting their ...

Easter is a day of celebration, and in Cyprus the end of Lent is marked with a great feast that includes everything from the more classic avgolemono soup made with ...

By Pierre Jaillet Inflation has been elevated in 2021-22 in Europe and elsewhere, driven by higher energy and food prices, from exogenous influences, but also driven by mark ups on ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The prolonged period of rising inflation over the past year and a half has pushed major Central Banks to successive interest rate hikes. Specifically, ...

The current outdated swimming pool legislation is ridiculous, unaffordable, unenforceable and lifeguards aren’t exactly hanging off trees waiting to be selected (Swimming pool law damaging Cyprus property and tourism, ...

We all know so much more now, especially if we were a part of the Thatcher-enabled noughties tsunami of off-plan buyers of Cyprus property. Nearly, we estimate, 30 per cent of ...

Listening the other day to my favourite breakfast radio show, some listeners asked via text message when will “this farce with the refugee identity in Cyprus” finally end? In other ...

Methane producing and land gobbling cattle farming must go By Gwynne Dyer “When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant next to a giraffe next ...

In minds of successive governments, blame for the events of the past and ongoing impasse lies on the shoulders of others By Gavin Jones This latest article completes my trilogy ...

THE SANCTIONS, imposed by the Yanks and Brits during Holy Week on 23 Cypriots and 20 Cyprus-based companies, may have brought the honeymoon period of the new presidency to a premature end ...

Russians love to litigate in England and the legal profession in London loves Russian litigation as it is extremely lucrative By Alper Ali Riza After the Soviet Union collapsed an ...

The government may have earned some plaudits from the United States for its cooperation on the issue of sanctions, but this cooperation was evidently not enough. This was why on ...

Occasionally, and even more in recent months, we keep hearing about how elderly people are being treated within the health service. The latest spate of abuses came only days ago. ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos wrote to associations representing the banks and loan-purchasing companies asking them to absorb part of the cost from the rise in interest rates so that loan ...