Opinion

It is astonishing how fast the government and legislature work when it is necessary. In a few days this week, the government drafted a bill that would expand the business ...

Akel deputy Christos Christofides has written to the auditor-general asking him to examine the data of the Independent Social Support Agency, which is under the authority of the president’s ...

By Penny Tinkler Dressed in a mini skirt and passionate about boys, music, dance and fashion, the 1960s teenage girl is a pop culture icon, the seeming beneficiary of the ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin, left Cyprus after meeting the leaders on Monday, with nothing to show for her efforts. Monday’s meeting with Turkish Cypriot ...

By Iacovos Iacovou On May 9th, 1950, the foundations were laid for the creation of the greatest ever peace project in human history. It was back then that the French Foreign ...

Human Design 101: A personal exploration by SARA DOUEDARI As someone with a keen interest in astrology, I have always been fascinated by what the stars and planets suggest about our ...

The public servants union Pasydy issued an announcement on Tuesday expressing its “intense displeasure” over the legislature’s approval of regulations, which deprive its members and their families (as well ...

Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the ‘Middle East Problem’ might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out. Offer every Palestinian ...

After 19 years of investigations by police, forensic pathologists and lawyers, three death inquiries, applications to the Cyprus supreme court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a judge ruled ...

This is the second time this year I feel compelled to write about the development of – or lack of – the Aphrodite gas field. This is the fifth attempt made by ...

In the third article looking at the Cyprus problem from a diplomatic viewpoint, Andreas Pirishis examines the long-standing hostility towards the US and UK During the first years of its ...

By Sarah Marsh and Kate Abnett The black-clad attackers beat up Matthias Ecke so badly as he put up posters in Dresden that he needed surgery. In Nordhorn, a man ...

Supporting a global economic recovery and green development By Liu Yantao The “China collapse” and “China has peaked” rhetoric seems to be resurfacing recently in a part of the world. ...

“Just like this year, last year the heat wave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Thailand. This year it went further east, ...

Politics in the UK turned farcical last week when Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative member for Dover, defected to the Labour Party. In the jargon, she crossed the floor and sat ...

ONLY our political parties, in their infinite wisdom, could have engaged in a cost-cutting reform that will increase the cost to the taxpayer. The reform of local government, on which ...

The UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angel Holguin has still to find the common ground that would lead to new talks on the Cyprus problem. Her comments, after last ...

By Steve Holland US President Joe Biden spent months urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect Gaza civilians, but the US decision to pause some military aid to Israel ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Following successive interest rate hikes and the policy of gradual quantitative easing in the developed economies over the last two years, emerging macroeconomic conditions ...

The House plenum on Friday unanimously rejected the president’s referral of the law giving the power to the chief of police to appoint a person of his/her choice ...

Cyprus has many reasons to celebrate Europe Day and, most importantly, 20 years of membership of the European Union. There is no doubt that as a country we have grown up ...

It defies belief that more than two dozen police officers raided a hotel in Paphos to check for workers employed illegally. Such a large number of police officers would not ...

In an interview given of the occasion of May Day, Sotiroulla Charalambous, the general secretary of the Akel union federation Peo, felt duty-bound to talk about important Marxist ideas such ...

In his second article, looking at the Cyprus problem from the viewpoint of a career diplomat, Andreas Pirishis, challenges the popular claim that foreign governments were always working against the ...