Here’s a solution to the property wrangling
By Loucas Charalambous I HAVE already expressed the fear that, in the end, the ongoing peace effort would probably result in failure because the tactic...
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Rejectionists are seeking the very state they once sought to destroy
Loucas Charalambous SPEAKING at the opening of the overseas Cypriots’ conference on Tuesday evening, President Anastasiades said many truths and lashed out against the populism...
The rejectionists have gone totally wild
By Loucas Charalambous THE BIZARRE behaviour of all those that do not want a settlement of the Cyprus problem should be made the subject of...
Time to probe the ‘crafty tricks’ of deputies
By Loucas Charalambous NOTHING makes much of an impression on me from all the stench given out every time that House committees meet, ostensibly to...
How is it possible for Greece to avoid bankruptcy?
By Loucas Charalambous HAVING celebrated his election triumph and formed a government, new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his finance minister began touring European countries...
Cyprus Airways was a Minotaur whose death was inevitable
By Loucas Charalambous SO OUR national Minotaur has passed away. And who is crying for his passing? His executioners, all those that led Cyprus Airways...
Peddling the same dangerous nonsense for 51 years
By Loucas Charalambous IT IS 51 years today since December 21, 1963. Half a century ago, just three years after its establishment, our state was...
On the misuse of funds, the Ancient Greeks had it right
By Loucas Charalambous “THE INSISTENCE of some to link their name with the construction of the Megaro Politismou (Culture Centre) will cost much more than...
A prisoner of his own rhetoric
By Loucas Charalambous WE HAVE found a new argument to justify our preference for partition. “We will not return to the talks if Turkey does...
A dead CA still being used to milk votes
By Loucas Charalambous OVER the years I have probably dealt with the national scourge of the semi-governmental organisations more than anyone else. Citing indisputable facts...
Never-ending story of demagoguery and fairytales
By Loucas Charalambous LAST TUESDAY the general manager of Noble Energy (Cyprus) John Tomich put an end to the fairytale about the construction of a...
Proposed counter-attack against Turkey is misguided and illegal
By Loucas Charalambous IF THERE IS anyone who has not yet understood why, as the Greek Cypriot community, we no longer have the support of...
Russia pushing Cyprus into the abyss again
By Demetris Papadopoulos TURKEY USED the occasion of ENI/Kogas starting its exploratory drilling to emphasise its opposition by sending warships nearby and reserving a sea...
We’d be very lucky if the Troika stayed forever
By Loucas Charalambous I HAVE always maintained that one Troika was not enough for Cyprus and that we needed more. I think all these crazy...
Memories of Spyros Kyprianou come flooding back
By Loucas Charalambous I HAVE WRITTEN it so many times that I am becoming tiresome, but I just cannot help repeating that that ours is...
Reaction to book shows Stalinism alive and well
By Loucas Charalambous WE HAD thought that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 meant the end of Stalinism. We had believed that its...
The Morphou charade set for a permanent run
By Loucas Charalambous THIS time every August, the mayor of occupied Morphou Andreas Pittas drafts a petition and, accompanied by a few others, visit the...
Why the man in the know was banned from econ probe
By Loucas Charalambous ALL THESE ridiculous goings-on surrounding the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into the collapse of the economy should surprise nobody. In this country,...
Demagogues lambast the very deal that could have saved us
By Loucas Charalambous THE UNRELENTING demagoguery about the hair-cut of deposits has become infuriating. On the occasion of one year being completed since the Eurogroup...
Politicians to blame for SGO militancy
By Loucas Charalambous IT WOULD be a big mistake to place the responsibility for the mob violence, bullying and other excesses committed last Monday outside...
