Opinion

Decent wages for most workers have fallen victim to crony capitalism In a Cyprus Mail opinion piece of April 30, 2023 it was argued that the economic system of Cyprus characterised by ...

Today’s elections are a chance for mild-mannered, modest Kemal Kilicdaroglu to take over There is earthquake diplomacy and there is earthquake democracy. Earthquake diplomacy is when diplomatic relations between ...

I COULD not resist the temptation to engage in a little bit of cannibalism, having not had the opportunity to do so when everyone was at it last week, prompting ...

The issue of Israelis investing in the occupied north was raised by President Nikos Christodoulides at Wednesday’s meeting – his first – with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The information was ...

Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should ...

By Ozay Mehmet If Kemal Kilicdaroglu wins the Turkish general election, a win-win-win solution on Cyprus may be within reach. The name of the solution would be confederation. President Nicos ...

By Maha Nassar On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their ...

People that work in the public sector may be referred to as public servants, but this is a misnomer if ever there was one. Rather than serve the public, these ...

It is astonishing that the candidate of the six-party Nation Alliance, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, is only marginally ahead of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday’s elections in Turkey. The ...

Education Minister Dr Athina Michaelidou could not turn down an invitation to attend a concert to mark the 70th anniversary of the secondary teachers’ union Oelmek. Nor could she have ...

Customer centricity is the ability of employees within an organisation to fully understand their customers’ situations, perceptions, and expectations. Fostering a pleasant customer experience at every point of the customer ...

Here’s how to sound wise when writing a story about mass killings and gun control. Last week saw two such massacres in Serbia (eight deaths and nine deaths respectively) ...

Appointment fiascoes are becoming a habit for the current government. On Tuesday a teenage girl decided not to take up the post of advisor to the deputy minister of tourism ...

By John MT Balmer As a fashion statement or piece of art, crowns are distinguished by their beauty, containing rare jewels, precious metals and velvet in deep, rich colours. As ...

The result of the elections at Disy was seen by one political analyst as a victory of the ‘populist right.’ The new deputy leader Efthymios Diplaros prevailed comfortably over his ...

Many industries want to make full use of AI 1.0, but it costs a lot to collect and label data, and the processed data sets and models are isolated from each ...

The housing situation in Cyprus has become a matter of great concern, with rental prices soaring to unprecedented levels. While the reasons for this situation are multifaceted, it is evident ...

Any chance Cyprus might get its own version of University Challenge now there are so many universities and colleges on the island? Dr Michael Paraskos, Lemba, Paphos

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Humanity has made remarkable progress in dealing with the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. However, a lot remains to be done. ...

By Christos Panayiotides A lot of friends have asked me questions about the new Greek voting system, which they are struggling to understand. Here is my response in a nutshell, ...

By Michael Holden and Sarah Mills After years of being depicted as the most hated woman in Britain, Camilla, the second wife of King Charles, was crowned queen on Saturday, ...

Since 1976 I have been interested in Cyprus and travelled several times to this beautiful island since 1977, and recently also spent a few days in the north to get to know ...

By James Sunderland The death in custody on May 2 of Khader Adnan, the first Palestinian to die of a hunger strike for more than 30 years, sparked mass protests in Gaza ...

THE NEW general-secretary of Pasydy, the public parasites union, Stratis Mattheou seems a much nicer guy than his obnoxiously arrogant predecessor, Glafcos Hadjiklamouris, who believed he owned our Kyproulla and ...