Opinion

In the end, acting deputy government spokesman, Doxa Komodromou, helped President Nikos Christodoulides out of a tight spot by submitting her resignation and returning to the job at the University ...

First Prize: Two Fabulous Days in Beautiful Delhi! Second Prize: Four Days in Delhi! Having to wait an extra two days in Delhi after the G20 while the Canadian armed ...

By Christa van Raalte and Richard Wallis The presenter, comedian and actor Russell Brand is at the centre of a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 ...

The geopolitical tensions in recent years have taken a toll on the climate of cooperation, especially between major countries. The global economy is rather sluggish, financing conditions have worsened, while ...

Jack Straw’s comments in the article Former British foreign secretary calls for two-state solution to Cyprus problem (September 7, 2023) present an inaccurate narrative riddled with omissions. Straw singles out Cyprus ...

Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead By Tamsin Phillipa Paige Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...

Dear Nikos and Ersin, Hello. We are Doga and Liana: two Cypriot teenagers from both sides of the divide. In light of the general assembly in New York, we are ...

In England this happened in 1999 and in Cyprus this month so it was about time The administration of civil justice in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) has a brand new ...

THE ENGLISH translation of the first name of the deputy government spokesperson, Doxa Komodromou, is ‘glory,’ which is rather unfortunate considering she did not cover herself in glory with her ...

After a week of wall-to-wall Cyprob contacts on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, President Nikos Christodoulides is coming home with another pocket full of wishes ...

Well-known Cypriot tetraplegic mouth painter Kyriacos Kyriacou from has died aged 67 after being hospitalised for the past ten months at the Nicosia general hospital, his family announced on Saturday. “He ...

In the latest edition of the ‘Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index 2023’, Cyprus improved its ranking by six places to 31st worldwide in 2023, from 37th in 2022 and 35th in 2021 and 2020. ...

By Maria Demertzis At the heart of the EU’s legitimacy as an institution is its treaties. These agreements on what Europeans need to do together to achieve common goals ...

Sometimes when it comes to bright ideas, it seems as if politicians and government officials don’t think things through properly, or they ignore common sense until it’s pointed ...

The Russian Federation outlined its formula for a settlement of the Cyprus problem in a document that listed 81 positions on a range of issues. There was nothing that had not ...

By Katie Kapurch Ariel and Barbie have quite a bit in common: They’re both frozen in time, and they both yearn to live as humans do. The fantastic seascapes ...

The cabinet approved the proposal for the creation of a digital platform, known as the e-kalathi (e-basket), that would list prices of 300 consumer goods in different supermarkets in April. The ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE China’s one-party political system is not in tune with the West’s practice of democracy. Yet, as a major source of trading exchange for so ...

Guyana is not a ‘hellhole country’ of the sort Donald Trump complained about when he said he wanted immigrants to come to the US from white places like Norway instead, ...

A first division football match due to be played on Monday night was called off after a group of referees announced an indefinite strike because they are often the targets ...

A day rarely passes by without President Christodoulides talking publicly. Apart from the speeches he makes at events he attends almost daily, he also answers journalists’ questions, while arriving at ...

This has now become a top priority for Europe, but for Cyprus too. Kadri Simson, the European energy commissioner, raised the stakes early September in an op-ed in the FT. ...

By Gwynne Dyer This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: “...

Finance minister Makis Keravnos was disparaged and ridiculed for the measures he announced after Wednesday’s council of ministers meeting, one newspaper columnist referring to them as “targeted mockery.” He ...