Pegasus delivers
Pegasus lived up to his name and delivered for ExxonMobil. It “gushed forth” gas from the depths of block 10. Pegasus’s name comes from the Greek word “pêgê,” meaning “...
Our judicial system is cracking under the weight of its own incompetence
Our judicial system cannot help keeping itself out of adverse publicity as, following last week’s Supreme Judicial Council decision not to confirm Doria Varoshiotou as a judge, we had ...
Growing yet vulnerable: the Turkish Cypriot economy
The availability of data regarding the performance of the Turkish Cypriot economy is limited. However, should efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem intensify, the economic dimension will prove to be ...
Proposed tax reform is blatantly unfair
President Nikos Christodoulides has stated repeatedly that the proposed tax reform will “aim at reducing the tax burden on families and working people, modernising the economy, and encouraging competitiveness”.
However, ...
Legal service answerable to Human Rights Court
In rape cases the central task, according to the court, is assessing the issue of non-consent
There is a public outcry in Cyprus following the finding by the European Court ...
Separating wheat from chaff
A government in a precarious world economy fights for its survival by implementing cuts, as the Cyprus government has done, seeking out welfare/benefit malingerers.
However, careful scrutiny should ensure ...
Erosion of civil liberties and freedom of speech in the UK
On Wednesday night, I watched Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on UK television, Channel 4. It was a harrowing experience.
The Guardian describes the documentary succinctly “We are shown doctors doing their ...
Today Tuvalu: tomorrow the world but escape hatches are closing
Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of ...
Energy transition amid geopolitical uncertainty
As Europe advances on a sustainable energy future, the challenge of building clean, reliable and affordable energy systems is both urgent and complex
Success in building a sustainable energy future ...
Israel, Iran and the strategic recomposition of the Middle East
The events which have been unfolding in the Middle East between Israel and Iran are not just another regional flare-up. They are not episodic. They are systemic. The Israeli-Iranian confrontation, ...
In times of trouble investors turn to reliable gold
Gold has taken centre stage in recent economic developments, as its value has risen steeply. Since the beginning of 2024, gold prices have increased by more than 60 per cent, reflecting the ...
The war that should never have happened
The world has long tried to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and rightly so.
US President Donald Trump never ceases to proclaim that had he been president in 2022, the ...
Challenging the Attorney-general is not unknown
In Cyprus, immunity from challenge is a hangover from colonial times
Thanasis Nicolaou, a newly conscripted soldier in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) national guard was found dead under Alassa ...
Why the Irish are so proud of Bloomsday
The Irish celebrated Bloomsday on June 16 honouring James Joyce’s unique publication Ulysses.
It’s a rare day dedicated to a work of art, now evolving into a week’s ...
The dividing line between fact and fiction
In the 1980s, there was a joke doing the rounds among IT people like myself.
The Cray supercomputer was asked the ultimate question: “Is there a god? Does it exist?” ...
Rerunning old movies: this could be Trump’s own ‘forever war’
I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again.
“They lied,” said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in ...
Launch of Cyprus’ competitive electricity market
It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1.
It took an inordinate length of time to ...
The unbearable predictability of Donald Trump
During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...
Bottom trawling: nightmare vision of mass death and destruction
At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’...
Various reasons for contempt of court
In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is ...
Redefining EU-UK relations after Brexit
The agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, effective from February 1, 2020, left a strong political and economic imprint on the EU and, an even deeper ...
Noise can kill you
I only heard parts of an interesting programme on the BBC, because phone calls prevented me getting the title or presenter who subjected himself to reacting to various noise tests. ...
Why Hahn’s Cyprus mission must not fail
By Euripides L Evriviades
It is time to bring the Cyprus question back to the centre of Europe’s conscience
The recent appointment of former European Commissioner Johannes Hahn as ...
Geoengineering or bust: we absolutely need to stop further warming and no one is talking about it
This is the second anniversary of the arrival of the Emergency but practically nobody is mentioning it. Instead people are choosing to worry about more familiar problems like global trade ...