Opinion

Cyprus’ natural gas reserves, ever since the first discovery in the Aphrodite field in September 2011, have been politically, never commercially, exploited. Politicians never skipped an opportunity to tell us about ...

The latest U.S. intelligence leak illustrates a paradox of spycraft: keeping secrets means limiting their distribution but protecting against dangers like another Sept. 11, 2001, attack means sharing them. Balancing those ...

All the presidential candidates met the deadline for the submission of the accounts of their election campaigns to the elections registrar. The exercise is supposedly meant to serve transparency, but ...

By Serin Quinn A lot of Easter traditions – including lamb on Sunday – stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern ...

By Michael Ioannou Data breaches are an unfortunate reality of the modern digital landscape, and organisations can be categorized into three groups regarding their information security posture: those that have ...

A very worrying attitude has developed regarding the operation of the national health scheme Gesy – that funds are inexhaustible and that the medical services on offer must keep expanding. This ...

Greeting is a basic communication function. It allows us to interact with people on a more personal level, and it can foster a positive working atmosphere among colleagues. We exist ...

It might not have been an election promise designed to win votes, but President Nikos Christodoulides had made it clear he would set up a National Security Council (NSC), which ...

By Gwynne Dyer US President Joe Biden is visiting Ireland this week to celebrate an anniversary that almost didn’t happen. Monday was the 25th anniversary of the ‘Good Friday ...

Every year people in residential areas around the island have to put up with Easter bonfires and firecrackers at all times of the night, and every year police say they ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Discussions to resolve the Cyprus problem are currently at a standstill, while the work of technical groups on various aspects has been suspended. However, ...

Sir, I am very concerned that Beiging’s basement bloggers have not drafted a welcome for the new Cyprus President, to be published as if written by the current China ...

Last year US President Joe Biden called Pakistan “one of the most dangerous countries in the world,” presumably because of its potentially lethal cocktail of nuclear weapons and unstable politics. ...

The following exchange between Senator Bob Menendez and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 22, 2023, exemplifies the Foreign Relations Committee chairman’s uncompromising commitment to human rights and the rule ...

A bestie, not just anyone, a true friend, who loves music and adores cats, unintentionally passed on to me a lethal virus. Not Covid, something even more modern and without ...

It really is impossible to answer ‘who do we think we are?’ By Gavin Jones Before formulating my take on one of the most intractable and long-running disputes on the ...

Last week I was taken to task in the comments section for suggesting a referendum as a ladder for all parties to climb down in the political crisis in Israel ...

Despite the rhetoric about his determination to secure the resumption of talks for a Cyprus settlement as soon as possible, President Nikos Christodoulides’ official visit to Egypt – a little over ...

Staff seem to have sacrificed quality for quantity in their obsession with the cult of GDP growth The concluding statement of the IMF outlining its preliminary findings at the end ...

The latest youth unemployment figures released by the European Commission inspired a rather melodramatic announcement by Dipa, urging the government to make the tackling of the issue a priority. In ...

After hooligans went on a rampage outside the Tassos Papadopoulos-Eleftheria indoor stadium in Nicosia last month, setting fire to the bus company offices, politicians decided to address the matter. President ...

William G Pooley Since her death on March 9, celebrities and clients have been paying tribute to Margaret Ann Lake, better known by her stage name Mystic Meg. In a career ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has kept his election promise to make the bank employees who took voluntary early retirement eligible for unemployment benefit. The government has submitted a bill custom-made for ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE It was bound to happen. Some predicted severe water shortages in the region, particularly affecting lives and lands in Africa and the Middle East, would cause ...