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By Richard Dickenson Some historical characters are famous, like Kilroy (who, once, really was here), Mickey Mouse, Robin the Hood, and Zorba the Clerk. Others remain inexplicably unrecognised. For example, ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE (AND WERE) Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Nicosia, July 1972: my husband kissed his family goodbye and left for an army training camp. After his service, he found a ...

The events of this past week call for the most radical of actions: the president should resign Last Tuesday, Turkey announced the long-anticipated, much-discussed opening of part of fenced-off Varosha. ...

The extreme weather events of recent weeks have become a further wake-up call ‘Zeitgeist’ is a slippery word. At best it’s just a fancy German way of saying ‘the ...

The importance of Cyprus to the Turks President Erdogan has been and gone. His visit was done to show the importance of Cyprus to the Turks, but that does not ...

Such a leader would have to tackle the Cyprus problem, the pandemic and corruption By George Koumoullis Is there such a thing as a ‘benevolent dictator’? For Cypriots, the associations ...

Implementing these policies and policing their application will be a logistical nightmare for the EU The European Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday its ‘Fit-for-55’ package, with 13 new policies designed to ...

The position taken by Takis Hadjidemetriou, as stated in his recent book The Republic of Cyprus 1959-1964: The State and the Parastate finds me in full agreement. In the preface, ...

Sirens are sounded in the Republic of Cyprus every year at the exact time President Makarios was overthrown on July 15, 1974. Makarios was receiving some Greek Egyptian children at the presidential ...

Gas has been politicised in the region, losing sight of its commercial value By Charles Ellinas This was the subject of an online event organised by the International Crisis Group (...

By Gwynne Dyer Five times in the past two weeks, government soldiers in Badakhshan and Takhar provinces in northern Afghanistan have fled across the border into Tajikistan after clashes with ...

Where lives are at risk the state has a legal obligation to take measures to protect the public By Alper Ali Riza The legal obligation to wear a mask in ...

By Christos P Panayiotides Mr President, I am one of the many Greek Cypriots, who are unreservedly against any form of ethnic or religious discrimination at the expense of any ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I don’t pry into the private affairs of friends or ask about political affiliations. During the coup in 1974, it was a revelation ...

We simply no longer live in normal ecological times and must act accordingly as fires are set to become more and more likely With the smoke barely gone from the ...

First the ‘heat dome’, with temperatures in the mid-to-high forties Celsius in many parts of western North America for up to a week (49.6°C in Lytton, BC). Then, when the ...

The future of Varosha is out of the government’s control The story of the fenced-off part of Famagusta highlights the enormous incompetence and lack of foresight by Greek Cypriot ...

The most blatant and revealing crisis of democracy plaguing our own country and its natives was unwittingly formulated by the UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who last week stepped ...

From Covid hypocrisy at the very top of government to a longed-for win over Germany Last week was an extraordinary week in England even in these extraordinary times. On Sunday ...

Every legislative act has four related but distinct dimensions Despite the visible risk of boring you, I beg you to allow me to revert on the subject of my last ...

Any new gas infrastructure runs the risk of becoming a stranded asset It is ironic that at a time when natural gas is under existential attack in Europe, high prices ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis central banks substantially lowered interest rates to support the recovery of their economies. In fact, the ECB by September 2015 had reduced its ...

At the recent G7 summit, US president Joe Biden promised to distribute 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines free to the poorer countries by the middle of next year. That’s ...