Opinion

It is quite astonishing that there has been a shortage of some 600 nurses at hospitals and clinics for some time now and nursing unions are preventing every government attempt to ...

Parakeets in London are as ubiquitous as seagulls in my hometown in Ireland. Invasive species have become common, sometimes depleting native species, causing problems for farmers, then the question of ...

By Nektarios Michail The first industrial revolution was the period between 1760 and 1840, which was defined by more efficient and stable manufacturing processes, at a large scale, aiming to reduce labour ...

New Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki, confirmed on Friday that the resumption of work on the construction of the Paphos-Polis highway, which stopped two years ago after the public works department ...

Having failed to reach agreement on any of the six or seven confidence-building measures discussed last July with the UN Secretary-General, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman ...

Good to hear someone in a position of authority standing up for economic reason and pointing out what should have been obvious to everyone with the most basic understanding of ...

By Stephania Constantinou Early this month, the S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent to a new high, taking its gain for the year to more than 14 percent. The main reason is ...

A long time ago I was interviewing a professor at the University of Michigan (whose name I cannot recall) on various topics of no great interest. I was about to ...

The energy ceasefire President Donald Trump claimed to have brokered between Russia and Ukraine does not seem to apply to Russia. On Monday, a day after the American president’s ...

By Paris Spanos Alper Ali Riza’s line of argument in his article ‘Turkish Cypriots of Nicosia have constitutional right to municipality’ (Cyprus Mail, October 4) is superficial and lacks a ...

Although there has been some public criticism of the government’s decision to allow the Israeli basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv to use the Spyros Kyprianou stadium in Limassol as ...

By Engin Kara For 50 years, property has sat at the centre of every negotiation on Cyprus, and every time it has been deferred to a “comprehensive settlement”. In a recent ...

There is something deeply troubling about the decision to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv to make Cyprus its home for its EuroLeague basketball matches this season. There is nothing inherently wrong ...

US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens was significant in both substance and symbolism. It was more than another high-level diplomatic visit. It ...

In an anarchic international system, small states bordering regional heavyweights operate on razor-thin margins of survival. Neither multilateral communiqués, commercial energy concessions, nor diplomatic choreography can overturn the distribution ...

By Stelios Georgakis, Head, Directorate General Payments, Central Bank of Cyprus  Cyprus has long stood at the crossroads of continents, cultures and trade routes. Throughout its history, our island has ...

The trial of the British father who pleaded guilty of causing the death of his three-year-old boy who fell from a hotel window in Paphos last July will learn his ...

YOU HAVE to admire Averof Neophytou’s suicide bomber tactics with which he cleared the way for his presidential candidacy. It has not been secured yet, as he will stand ...

The sloppy amateurishness with which the government has approached the much-trumpeted reform of the pension system is astounding. The overall impression is that Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas does not have ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar I don’t want to own a car, for many reasons. In most European cities, people can choose whether they want one. Cyprus should enhance its public ...

The world of football marvelled at Manchester City’s extraordinary decade. It was not only the gathering of numerous trophies. It was the level of football they played that made ...

Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...

In Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a judge used an unconventional method to decide who the true mother of a boy, whom two women claimed to be ...

The Limassol municipality has asked that it is given the ownership of the iconic Rialto theatre by the state. Although the finance ministry has agreed to the transfer, the council ...