Opinion

“The best is yet to come!” Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Trump adviser and then fiancée of Donald Trump Jr, blasted out at the 2020 Republican National Convention. The president looked bemused. ...

There needs to be a fundamental shift towards energy and water infrastructure, higher-productivity industries, fairer taxation and better incomes This opinion piece focuses on the challenges for the government in ...

We are all doomsday preppers now! Britain and Europe are sleepwalking into a war with Russia over Ukraine in a state of rigid groupthink from which not even the withdrawal ...

IN THE highly unlikely event that George Pamborides wins the Disy vote for the presidential candidacy next month it would be only the second time in its 50-year history that ...

Another ‘constructive’ meeting of the two leaders was held on Tuesday, according to an announcement issued by the UN. A week earlier, they had a ‘positive’ meeting, said the UN. ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar Late in the evening, even past midnight, Paphos picks up the rubbish and for a few enchanted hours, civilisation smells like it has its act together again. ...

Emily Yiolitis is absolutely right that it is time for Cyprus to embrace its own identity and adopt a truly Cypriot national anthem (Cyprus Mail, October 10). Relying on Greece’s ...

By Ileana Nicholson Every year, thousands of volunteers across Cyprus put on gloves, grab trash bags and head out to our beaches, forests, parks and neighborhoods. Collecting tons of waste ...

Sovereign debt distress across North America, Europe and Japan marks the terminal phase of a multi-decade debt cycle hitting an arithmetic wall. Compounding deficits – amplified by post-2008 quantitative easing, pandemic ...

The government never misses an opportunity about the healthy public finances which it invariably credits to its prudent economic policies. Are its economic policies prudent or has it been fortunate ...

Reading the comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan about the construction work for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), some might conclude that this opened the way for ...

Averof Neophytou, who has turned Disy upside down in the pursuit of his presidential ambition, announced on Wednesday that he would stand in Monday’s election for the party candidacy. ...

After years of high expectations about the gas finds in the Cyprus EEZ, everyone is starting to understand that no decision taken by the oil industry is straightforward. It was ...

According to the ‘70s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month (27 October), even ...

Nobody appears to have been surprised by the results scored by Cypriot students in the PISA 2025 exams conducted by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). PISA assesses 15-year-old ...

What happens when the state entrusts a local authority with the responsibility of protecting the environment, without providing it with the necessary powers, staff or financial resources to fulfil that ...

The renewed effort to complete the Vasiliko LNG import terminal is entering a critical phase. Eight companies have expressed interest in Etyfa’s (natural gas infrastructure company) tender, estimated at €180 ...

The critical September White House summit between the US and Chinese presidents yielded a complex mix of relative market stabilisation and unresolved geopolitical tensions. Despite intense competition, the two leaders ...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is technically not upper caste, but he does have a high opinion of himself. “When my mother was alive, I used to believe that ...

For more than three decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union, American foreign policy was defined by the doctrine of liberal hegemony – the conviction that the unchecked projection of ...

Perhaps the most difficult question one can ask a politician is also the simplest: “What exactly are you trying to achieve?” Not what principles are you defending, what historical injustices ...

On October 1, President Nikos Christodoulides marked the 66th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus by declaring that its birth was the culmination of the “purest” national liberation struggle: the 1955-59 ...

Christa Pike is the 50-year-old American woman who was executed in the state of Tennessee and lived to tell the tale after her execution did not result in her death ...

THE PUBLIC works department was always notorious for its legendary inefficiency. It was traditionally the employer of a special type of public parasite – the type that is less productive than ...