Opinion

Sunday night’s victory speech by president-elect Nicos Christodoulides struck the right tone in every respect. He showed restraint and humility, avoided the posturing of the victor and delivered a ...

Nikos Christodoulides won Sunday’s run-off election to become the eighth president of the republic. He took 51.91 per cent of the vote, edging Andreas Mavroyiannis out by 15,000 votes. It was ...

Here are a few fairly safe predictions for what will happen in Israel in the next year. Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu will not go to jail. The independence of ...

ChatGPT will shake, not break, our lives says devotee Alix Norman, who shares how you can use this innovative new technology Remember when the World Wide Web took off? I ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Fiscal policy traditionally focuses on satisfying certain nominal targets, mainly regarding the fiscal deficit and public debt. An interesting discussion is currently taking place ...

By Jeff Evans It’s the middle of the night and you are fast asleep. Suddenly you have ceiling plaster smashing down on you, pictures are falling off the walls ...

This year keep it romantic and green! By Maria Savvidi Valentine’s Day is widely celebrated every year on February 14 as a day to express love and affection to significant ...

Many of the buildings that collapsed were poorly built to satisfy the greed of shyster developers The cluster of earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria last Monday were bound to ...

After an overlong election campaign, even by Cyprus standards, tonight we will have one of two former civil servants of the ministry of foreign affairs as the new president of ...

IN THE END Prez Niccolo’s Machiavellian scheming aimed at making his errand boy the heir to his throne, that our establishment wrote about weeks ago, did not go to ...

In announcing his backing for Nicos Christodoulides’ candidacy, on Thursday, former justice minister, Ionas Nicolaou, cited several reasons for his decision, some of which were shining examples of misinformation. Why ...

We may have a unique opportunity to achieve the political climate Cyprus so badly needs In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential elections, many political analysts provided ...

By Phivos Voscarides The Cyprus problem has been a persistent issue for far too long. With each passing year, the divide between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots grows more profound, ...

The devastating 7.8 earthquake in Turkey and Syria this week in which thousands of people tragically lost their lives should serve as another wake-up call to the possibility of a similar ...

By Irene Demetriou For the binge-watcher of House of Cards, the famous screen adaptation of Michael Dobbs’ political thriller novel, the Cyprus presidential election 2023, feels like a much-anticipated Season 7. When ...

By Naomi Braithwaite During Sotheby’s annual January Royal and Noble collection sale, US reality TV star Kim Kardashian bought the diamond and amethyst Attallah Cross necklace previously worn by ...

Everyone who wanted to speak was given a say at the meeting of the Disy political bureau that went on until the early hours of Wednesday, despite the fact that ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE My two islands have much in common. A reputation for hospitality and friendliness, a history of British occupation, civil strife, emigration, a brain and labour drain ...

In an article in the Monday issue of the Cyprus Mail, energy expert Charles Ellinas exposed the scandalous failure of successive governments, but particularly the current one, to take the ...

Everyone will be waiting for the decision of the Disy political bureau, which will meet on Tuesday evening, as this could have a big impact on the outcome of Sunday’...

Bankers failed to make use of idle cash and help create a healthy, equitable economy The activities and performance of Cyprus banks during the Anastasiades administration shows that they have ...

Accepting bothersome bureaucracy is a worldwide challenge not restricted to Cyprus, may I ask the above question and refer readers to the possibility that the ME3 “yellow slip” is less ...

By Christodoulos Pouroutidis When Siri was first implemented in iPhones in 2011, the service was lauded as the most capable and modern personal assistance anyone could have, and housed within a ...

The incumbent president of Cyprus was recently in London for a diaspora event which also celebrated 60 years of the establishment of the RoC. In his speech he said he feels ‘...