Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sustainability: coming for your BBQ
MOKAS, which is known in English as the ‘Unit for Combating Money Laundering,’ is one of those state organs that was set up for the sake of appearances, never really ...
Koupepia and chocolate spread: killing me softly
The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or actual events is purely coincidental!
Yes! I believe in the sentimental value of food and I am ...
Registration of nurses makes no sense
I agree with your editorial ‘Shortage of nurses not the problem; the system is’ (Cyprus Mail, March 22). From first-hand experience, another problem is that the Nursing Council registration system doesn’...
A year into Ukraine, spare a thought for less reported conflicts
Doing nothing never changes anything.
By David Alton
Russia’s assault on Ukraine has seized humanity’s attention, riveting us with a new-old story of avarice and aggression. As we ...
Boris Johnson too toxic to return to high office
He has apologised for misleading Parliament but claims that he did not do so intentionally or recklessly
Representative democracy requires a free press and a well-honed Parliament. A free press ...
Abuse at immigration restricts my movements, service at Gesy
Congratulations on your expose of the shady corrupt practices at the Civil Registry and Immigration Department (Government admits abuse in migration department, Sunday Mail March 19).
The blatant abuse of the ...
Consequences of persistent inflation and monetary policy
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
With the easing of the pandemic and the gradual reactivation of economies, rising inflation was initially perceived as a transitory phenomenon. The authorities’ underestimation ...
Pervolia has become something out of the Wild West
As a regular visitor to the beautiful island of Cyprus and having a partner who is Greek Cypriot, I always look forward, with anticipation, to staying at our flat in ...
Congratulations for exposing cemetery tax
Congratulations to Mr Andreas Gregoriades for at last exposing this cemetery tax which according to his lawyer is not a tax but a levy which Oroklini council has imposed to ...
UN Climate Report: clutching at straws
People aren’t yet suffering enough to give the issue their full attention
The final report of the United Nation’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...
Our View: Unlike his predecessors, Christodoulides did well to revive EU interest in the Cyprus problem
Towards the end of the Christofias presidency, with Cyprus excluded from the markets, state coffers almost empty and the banks on life support, there were attempts by the EU and ...
Our View: Suspects in house remand pose a threat
It is a great relief that deputies of the House legal affairs committee have decided to engage in further discussions before taking any decisions on the two law proposals that ...
Our View: CoLA should apply only to low earners
Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment of wages at 50 per cent ...
Gods in the machine?
By Neil McArthur
We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence ...
Palestine and Israel: From occupation to apartheid
By Abdallah H. Attari
The Palestinian cause and the daily brutalities of the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian West Bank and its blockade of Gaza have been deliberately deselected by ...
Our View: Shortage of nurses not the problem; the system is
For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring Okypy to hire more nurses ...
Flashers and ‘sporting’ cruelties
THE WAY THINGS ARE
On March 7, just before International Women’s Day, the BBC’s Today programme interviewed three young women who had been flashed. That shock intrusion frighteningly elicited ...
Our View: Regulating fake news a minefield that needs to be carefully monitored
When deputies from the House legal affairs committee meet today to pick up discussion on ‘fake news’ they will have their work cut out for them.
The discussion was shelved ...
Our View: Instead of sticking to auditing, auditor-general talks like a populist politician.
A COUPLE of weeks ago, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides appeared before the House oversight committee to discuss the audit office’s special report on the University of Cyprus (UCy) for the ...
Freddy and the ice: messages from the future
Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Hurricanes used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they’re starting ...
The gas needs of Cyprus
Cyprus is getting closer to obtaining its own gas supplies from a number of possible sources. But how much gas does it actually need and how can it ensure security ...
Become an employer of choice: How to opt out of the Great Resignation
By Anna Mylona and Linda Stokes
In 2022, as the world emerged from the constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic only to run into the shock of the war in Ukraine, a ...
Blocking internet horror stories through education
Struck by a hard déjà vu, as our neighbours’ tragedies hit home, my mind travelled back to 2004. Beslan, a three-day siege, more than 1,000 hostages, 333 dead, 186 children, in the most ...
Russia in danger of becoming laughing stock
Time was when Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, travelled to European capitals as and when he pleased and was received there as a serious and rational diplomat and, like ...