Opinion

Potato farmers are seeking a meeting with President Anastasiades to set out the problems they are facing as a result of the continuous increase in the prices of fuel and ...

The regulation actually goes beyond halting biodiversity loss to push for ecosystem restoration, for ‘bringing nature back’ At first sight the positive tone of this column may seem rather out ...

We often bemoan the slowness of the justice system in Cyprus but this can’t be said for the case of 26-year-old British tourist, who was jailed for 12 months last ...

The island could have played a major role in this had its own LNG project at Vasilikos been allowed to proceed The Memorandum of Understanding between the EU, Egypt and ...

Another 15 million people joined the Nato alliance on Tuesday. Finland and Sweden, formerly neutral countries but near to Russia, gave in to Turkish blackmail, and that cleared the way for ...

The president and his close associates, as a result of the way they handled the situation, have left Cyprus without any real alliances By Achilleas Demetriades, presidential candidate for the 2023 ...

Two main topics must be addressed by the three main candidates in election campaign Possibly for the first time in the contemporary history of Cyprus, the political scene seems to ...

By Stefan Wolff Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food ...

With so much going on – inflation, migration, Covid, the Cyprus problem, next year’s election – it’s easy to miss the issue of excess deaths in Cyprus. And of course ...

Unlike their leaders who love grandstanding on the world stage, most people are not prepared to pay any price in support of Ukraine Being the British prime minister has its ...

AS if on cue and in line with predictions for anyone with eyes to see, the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday admitted that the June 2024 target for public ...

A meeting will take place at the presidential palace today to examine ways of tackling high electricity prices where President Anastasiades expects to hear proposals on how cuts can be ...

The build-up to the next six-monthly UN report on the Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission and a second on the justifications for extending the Unficyp mandate from the end of ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou She had been on my mind, so I messaged my former boss at CyBC’s English language department, respected journalist and author ...

Every ton of emissions matters: It is so important even for countries as small as ours to do our bit By Orestis Karghotis The climate crisis is a global, human-caused, ...

Coronavirus measures seem to be slowly creeping back in. Although it was something to be expected by the autumn, it seems like no time at all has passed since the ...

We are just two weeks away from the 11th anniversary of the one of the biggest environmental and human tragedies to hit Cyprus since 1974 and the 2005 Helios air crash, and ...

There was a rare moment of grace in Israeli politics last Monday, as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced they would dissolve their extraordinary coalition and ...

Global workforce appears divided, while those lacking skills also lack clout in the workplace By PwC The ‘Great Resignation’ will continue apace in the year ahead as one in five ...

Should we not re-evaluate, calmly and unemotionally, the possibility of expressing an interest in admission? Undoubtedly, the prospect of Cyprus joining Nato is an emotionally charged issue for those who, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides During the last decade, important structural changes occurred in the labour markets of advanced economies. These were reinforced by ongoing developments during the prolonged ...

Given that consumer prices will continue to rise over the coming months with increases in incomes falling far behind, even lower middle-income households are likely to experience financial problems With ...

In all my years in the law, I have never come across such cock-and-bull reasoning as the one propounded by the majority in the US Supreme Court On Friday, the ...

A big proportion of the Cyprus Republic’s population does not have a positive picture of the European Union. According to the Spring survey of the Eurobarometer, only 42 per cent ...