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In 2019, the average salary of a civil servant was €40,000, for a private sector employee it was €20,000 While the official estimate that real GDP contracted by just over 5 per cent in 2020 ...

Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, ...

Education is the perfect example of a sector that should fall under a central government I consider it necessary, by way of introduction, to explain the important difference that exists ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the global economy battling the second wave of the coronavirus, the focus inevitably turns to the short-term management of the biggest socio-economic crisis ...

So have your say on the Panayiotides-Syrimis-Pissarides White Paper to fight corruption The events which led to the resignation of the previous House of Representatives’ president and of another MP ...

Next week, on Wednesday February 24, I shall be flying the federal flag at the second panel webinar organised by the UK-based Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations. My take is very ...

But scars of the pandemic will hang over the world for many years to come By Charles Ellinas The Atlantic Council (AC) held its annual Global Energy Forum at Abu ...

Nobody is in favour of a formal partition of Cyprus but the risks are real By Christos P Panayiotides Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ brief visit to Cyprus has unquestionably ...

By Alper Ali Riza Good riddance to 2020, the year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac. Welcome to the year of the Ox and hopefully a universal pan corona vaccine. ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Dr Richard Dickenson wrote knowledgably last week about male and female testosterone levels. Males have more, yet some women are described as ‘ballsy’ ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The practice of granting government guarantees to secure bank loans for businesses is widely spread. In Cyprus, this practice has been pursued on a ...

Politically exposed persons must shed their clothes At last! The Georghadjis List has been published. It is a list of politically exposed persons indebted to the “institutional” banks operating in ...

NOT many people know that Chrysostomos is one of Mozart’s many names. His full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. The current Archbishop of Cyprus is also a ...

This week’s demolition of listed buildings in old Nicosia proves yet again that the Church reigns supreme THE ILLEGAL and arbitrary demolition of the listed buildings in Nicosia’s ...

Qatar and ‘Arab Quartet’ deal may prove too thin a piece of paper to cover major regional cracks After three-and-a-half years of hostility between Qatar and the ‘Arab Quartet’ – Egypt, ...

China’s Xinhua news agency tactfully described the Burmese army’s seizure of power on Monday as a ‘cabinet reshuffle’. This suggests a possible new approach for Donald Trump’s ...

By Richard Dickenson We generally seem to think of things like chlorine, phosgene, cyanide and neurotoxins such as novichok as the world’s dangerous chemicals. But I’d like to ...

By Baroness Warsi Britain and its allies in the West have always been stronger when exhibiting a common front in the face of internal disagreements. In the face of Brexit, ...

Developments show the vulnerability of Cyprus which continues to push projects for perceived political purpose Hydrocarbon exploration activities around Cyprus remain at a standstill, partly due to the continuing impact ...

The system of governance in Cyprus is based on the 1960 constitution and is meant to be a presidential (as opposed to a parliamentary) system. The system, originally introduced under the ...

They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of ...

A distinction without difference? Is there a difference between a two-state solution and ‘TRNC’ recognition? A webinar organised by the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations last week addressed this impossible ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou January swept in coquettishly pretending to be April, the warmth enticing roses to unfurl. Then, when the brute had us all fooled ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The 21st century has delivered unprecedented prosperity and peace to mankind, especially in the developed world. Despite the fact that regional and social inequalities ...