Opinion

Every July we witness the same thing. On the last Thursday before the summer recess, the House plenum sits for hours and passes dozens of bills. Last Thursday, for example, ...

Pegasus lived up to his name and delivered for ExxonMobil. It “gushed forth” gas from the depths of block 10. Pegasus’s name comes from the Greek word “pêgê,” meaning “...

Our judicial system cannot help keeping itself out of adverse publicity as, following last week’s Supreme Judicial Council decision not to confirm Doria Varoshiotou as a judge, we had ...

The availability of data regarding the performance of the Turkish Cypriot economy is limited. However, should efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem intensify, the economic dimension will prove to be ...

By Euripides L Evriviades The recent visit of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to Cyprus was not merely a diplomatic courtesy call. It was laden with history, symbolism and strategic meaning, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has stated repeatedly that the proposed tax reform will “aim at reducing the tax burden on families and working people, modernising the economy, and encouraging competitiveness”. However, ...

By Nektarios Michail The recent geopolitical tensions that keep erupting around the world have underlined the fact that Europe and the US may likely be unprepared, and are definitely underperforming, ...

In rape cases the central task, according to the court, is assessing the issue of non-consent There is a public outcry in Cyprus following the finding by the European Court ...

ONLY members of the simpletons’ club would have thought there was a one-in-a-million chance that the deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides would have heeded calls for his resignation and stepped down ...

July has arrived and in three days the second, so-called ‘informal five plus one’ conference under the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be held in New York. The venue is ...

By James Sweeney The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a what it calls a “humanitarian city” ...

After months of meetings, discussions and haggling, the House voted through legislation that would supposedly rationalise the issue of multiple pensions which deputies had made several unsuccessful attempts to tackle ...

The release of the European Commission’s 2025 rule of law report could not have been timed better. It was published a few days after the ECtHR’s ruling about a ...

The Vassiliko gas terminal fiasco is not over by any stretch of the imagination. It is set to play and play as deputies were informed on Tuesday. A representative of ...

A government in a precarious world economy fights for its survival by implementing cuts, as the Cyprus government has done, seeking out welfare/benefit malingerers. However, careful scrutiny should ensure ...

Our politicians come up with many silly ideas and Marinos Sizopoulos’ bill that would allow members of the National Guard to stand for election to public posts falls in this ...

Last week’s damning decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the appalling handling by deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides of a rape complaint sparked renewed calls for ...

On Wednesday night, I watched Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on UK television, Channel 4. It was a harrowing experience.  The Guardian describes the documentary succinctly “We are shown doctors doing their ...

The reports and stories about the shortage of water boringly ramble on. Mavrokolympis reservoir was drained of some 1.3 million cubic metres of water back in January. Why was the water ...

I am reaching out to bring attention to a recent policy change by our local electricity authority that is causing concern among many residents and deserves public attention. As of ...

Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of ...

My wife and I have just opened a shop in Larnaca for hair branding. We opened exactly two weeks ago and are trying to make everything the way we are ...

How can the parents of Panayiotis Yiannios accept the ridiculous sentence of an officer being handed 18 months for the commando jump which killed their son? They entrusted their son to ...

I have often written in these pages about the importance of independent institutions as a way to promote good governance in a country and the key role they have played ...