Tales from the Coffeeshop: In memory of the man too smart to seek public approval
SO FAREWELL Archbishop Chrys II, poor boy from Tala who rose to the top of the Church thanks to his undoubted cunning and wits. Our...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Not just the outside world that no longer cares
WHO COULD have believed that there would come a day when only a pitiful 8 per cent of our population would consider the Cyprob the...
Tales from the coffeeshop: 62 years of facing down threats paraded before us
KYPROULLA celebrated its 62nd anniversary of independence on Saturday with the traditional military parade, held in the sweltering Nicosia heat, which proved no deterrent to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Will the kids take over? Radical, nonsensical ideas for education
EVERY few years someone decides it is time to make a fuss about the corruption and sleaze plaguing the government’s Service for the Administration of...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Gesy is a conquest of the doctors
UNIVERSAL outrage greeted the publication of the auditor-general’s report about the Gesy specialist doctors who were making big fortunes by submitting countless fictitious payment claims...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Trading fatherhood claims for Gesy
FATHER of Gesy and independent presidential candidate hopeful Giorgos Pamborides suffered a couple of blows below the belt on Thursday thrown by his ungrateful former...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Gesy lynch mob determined to protect sacred cow
MAYBE I have missed something or there is some ethical point I am not aware of but the Edek leader Dr Sizo’s campaign for changing...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Threat of UN words and free speech
DÉJÀ VU. We appeared to have engaged in some time travel in the last week and returned to the eighties when high anxiety gripped the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sick and tasteless days of Covid, elections
CONGRATULATIONS to Annita Demetriou for becoming not only the first woman to become president of the House but also the first Disy deputy. I do...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The lockdown that took everyone by surprise
EVERYONE has been wondering how and why the government decided to impose a lockdown for two weeks starting last Monday, despite giving assurances before the...
