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Failure to address social and economic needs By Les Manison The budget is the main instrument of government policy for meeting the social and economic needs of its citizens. Indeed, ...

Rules that Scots do not have the right to self determination On November 22, 2022 the UK Supreme Court ruled that the people of Scotland did not have the right to self-determination ...

Equality means that when in Qatar we do as the Qataris do This World Cup 2022 is full of surprises not the least of them the choice of Qatar as the ...

The fact remains that the majority of Greek Cypriots continue to be in favour of reunification A recent nationwide telephone poll by CMRC, on a sample of 1,247 respondents, showed that 53 ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides During the period 2010-2020, the prices of conventional forms of energy (coal, oil, natural gas) remained at historically low levels, mainly reflecting the markets’ ...

A widespread feature in today’s labour market of most advanced economies are shortages, notwithstanding the slowdown of economic growth, due to the pandemic and the Ukraine war. The main ...

Without readiness by European utilities to commit to long-term gas deals, it is difficult for big oil companies to invest in long-term projects. Last week at the COP27 Conference in ...

Both two-states and a loose federation do not work if we wish to remain part of the EU A fundamental mistake committed by the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and ...

There was panic in Nato capitals last week caused by an irrational fear that a Nato country had been attacked by Russia triggering article 5 of the Nato treaty. Two Russian ...

The focus on property development and consumerism favour the elite at the expense of the environment and ordinary citizens The ongoing performance and policies of the government of the Republic ...

We are used to businesses whining in Cyprus. Sometimes it’s justified and sometimes it’s not, but overall, there is often a mentality that we should not ever sympathise ...

By Gwynne Dyer “We appear to be witnessing a dramatic and childlike scenario,” said Pope Francis in Bahrain on Friday. “In the garden of humanity, instead of cultivating our surroundings, ...

And that became clear with the eulogies for the late archbishop By Christos Panayiotides The opposite of hyperbole is objective assessment, which unfortunately is often an element missing from the ...

The death of Archbishop Chrysostomos II in context By Alper Ali Riza Never underestimate the importance to Greek Cypriots of the Church of Cyprus. The death of Archbishop Chrysostomos II ...

Elon Musk is that rarest of things, a benign sociopath, and therefore a person of considerable value to the world. He has just made a mistake that could ruin his ...

As the European Commission is finding out, interfering with markets creates unintended consequences and eventually backfires The oil and gas companies cannot get it right, can they? They have been ...

Uncontrollable immigration is closely linked to the lack of a solution “The knot has reached the comb” is a cry that it is often heard outside Kokkinotrimithia, near Nicosia, where ...

For Britain, the Ukraine war is one event that has scuppered Brexit Brexit, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a kamikaze mini budget have brought Britain to her knees. ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Sahel zone is located south of the Sahara desert and it stretches from the west coast of Africa to the east coast by ...

WHAT HAD been shaping up as an acrimonious divorce, with a custody battle and a legal row over the ownership of the house and furniture, rather disappointingly degenerated into a ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE The storm cracked across the sky like a brutal artillery barrage just as the Adventure Club group had decided to make camp by the lake. The ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have had major socio-economic repercussions reflected in slower eco-nomic growth and rampant inflation together with a related severe cost of living crisis in ...

Israeli voters are indefatigable. The election on November 1 will be the fifth in just three-and-a-half years, and yet the turnout is still likely to be around 70 per cent. That’s ...

But it’s great Britain has appointed an Indian as PM I laughed aloud when US President Joe Biden called Britain’s first Indian Prime Minister Rashid instead of Rishi ...