‘Low cost housing’ not the answer to crisis
The cost of buying houses and apartments has become a huge issue in recent years as is well-known. There is certainly also a problem in the level of residential rents, ...
Egypt blackouts become symbol of malaise a decade after Sisi’s rise
For Egyptians grown used to a decade of reliable power supplies and boasts of vast investments in generation, a wave of rolling blackouts came as a shock – shaking faith in ...
Trash talk
Let’s talk about trash because the waste crisis is unfortunately thriving in Cyprus. With this in mind, City Friends Club is launching a new series of meetups dedicated to ...
Outgoing president says Lebanon at risk of ‘constitutional chaos’
Outgoing Lebanese President Michel Aoun told Reuters on Saturday his nation could be sliding into “constitutional chaos”, with no one in line to succeed him and a cabinet that is ...
Cyprus needs immediate action to combat the climate crisis
Every ton of emissions matters: It is so important even for countries as small as ours to do our bit
By Orestis Karghotis
The climate crisis is a global, human-caused, ...
North facing ‘humanitarian crisis’
By Esra Aygin
The crisis in the northern part of Cyprus has gone beyond an economic crisis and become a humanitarian one, according to one Turkish Cypriot economist.
Between January 1 ...