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Cyprus has the resources and potential to generate most of its electricity from RES Cyprus has a new president. A new era is starting and that includes energy. Many serious ...

Disillusioned by the election results and the failure to act on suggestions to root out corruption and find a viable solution to the Cyprus problem Last Sunday, the Greek Cypriot ...

Every newly elected president is entitled to a fair wind without being pounced on by the fourth estate. So congratulations are in order and good luck to Nikos Christodoulides on ...

Here are a few fairly safe predictions for what will happen in Israel in the next year. Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu will not go to jail. The independence of ...

ChatGPT will shake, not break, our lives says devotee Alix Norman, who shares how you can use this innovative new technology Remember when the World Wide Web took off? I ...

Many of the buildings that collapsed were poorly built to satisfy the greed of shyster developers The cluster of earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria last Monday were bound to ...

We may have a unique opportunity to achieve the political climate Cyprus so badly needs In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential elections, many political analysts provided ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE My two islands have much in common. A reputation for hospitality and friendliness, a history of British occupation, civil strife, emigration, a brain and labour drain ...

Precise language and a sense of history would have prevented war in Ukraine In the second episode of the TV programme Putin Vs The West in which western leaders talk ...

By Charles Ellinas Following a joint-letter by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) and Transmission System Operator (TSO) on January 20 requesting suspension of licensing of new residential photovoltaic (PV) installations until ...

The two major parties must work together By Christos Panayiotides I confess that I am not a fan of electoral polls because they disorientate the election process by defocusing the ...

On Tuesday they reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. How did they know that Germany would agree to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday? Now we’re ...

With our vote we must send the right message to the Turkish Cypriots Çırak is a Turkish word and literally means an apprentice craftsman, a craftsman’s assistant. But, in ...

The Cyprus government under the leadership of President Nicos Anastasiades has done a poor job in managing the economy with respect to benefiting most of its citizens over the past 10 ...

Many are being left to guess Nikos Christodoulides’ stance on the Cyprus issue A friend of mine with an interest in the Cyprob asked what I thought of the three ...

The upcoming tourist season is expected to be much better than 2019 Cyprus’ popularity as a high-quality, low-price tourist destination highlights its competitiveness, attracting more and more holidaymakers. Reservations in hotels ...

We still lag terribly behind on the use of renewables and battery storage and there’s no firm date for the import of LNG at Vasiliko In a first, and ...

By Christos Panayiotides As you know, Constantinople was captured by the Turkish army on May 29, 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine empire, which lasted over a thousand years. In the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In 2022, the world economy exhibited subdued growth, accompanied by intense inflation pressures and energy security concerns. The continuing pandemic – particularly acute in China – the ...

Farewell to my friend George (Kokos) Demetriades By Alper Ali Riza George Demetriades formerly of Nicosia, latterly of East Finchley, north London, stalwart of the London Greek community, of Gray’...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Since the financial crisis of 2008, the main central banks have allocated more than $25 trillion to support the global economy. The European Central Bank (ECB) ...

According to the Eurobarometer survey of July 2022, 94 per cent of respondents were of the view that corruption was widespread in Cyprus and that political parties were seen as being particularly ...

The rejectionists favouring the partition of Cyprus play into the hands of Turkey Regrettably, the rejectionist parties of Cyprus as well as their leaders are playing into the hands of ...

UK government is wrong to argue health workers cannot go on strike There are many rights in employment and industrial relations law that are not fundamental human rights, but the ...