Opinion

A few days ago the European Union’s Earth Observation programme, ‘Copernicus’, made a special announcement at the end of its monthly report on the state of the climate. It ...

There is little doubt that since the election of President Nikos Christodoulides relations with the United Arab Emirates have been significantly strengthened and taken on another level. There was cooperation ...

President Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025 is a brief policy statement about a hugely controversial shift in US foreign policy away from the EU and Nato in favour of sovereign ...

President Nikos Christodoulides never misses an opportunity to declare his readiness for a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF) with political equality. He repeats the familiar phrase that talks should resume “from ...

At a museum recently, I caught myself focusing rather intently on a very specific spot on a statue of Zeus and thinking, “That’s… it?!” But the longer I stood ...

A lot has happened in the past month I have been away, and I was struck by how, on at least three fronts, issues I have previously explored in this ...

The regulation of digital assets has become a global priority, as governments and supervisory authorities attempt to balance innovation in payments and blockchain applications with the need to safeguard financial ...

With 2025 coming to a close, announcements for new energy developments and projects in Cyprus and the East Med have been coming in thick and fast, with something new announced every ...

GREAT excitement and joy gripped the fast-contracting Cyprob mob after Thursday’s meeting of the true leader and the fake leader with the UNSG’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin ...

President Nikos Christodoulides came up with another proposal in an interview with Politico last week. He said that if Turkey agreed to the Cyprus Republic joining Partnership for Peace (PfP), ...

If any evidence of the government’s scandalously slapdash approach to the country’s water shortage problem was required, it was provided by reports that the ministries of interior and ...

Across Europe, children today are moving less, exercising less, and presenting lower levels of physical fitness than any generation before them. Cyprus mirrors this trend with troubling accuracy. As a ...

It is not the first time the Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture has issued a damning report about Nicosia central prison, expressing “grave concerns” about ...

Parties that were left out of Tuesday’s talks that Finance Minister Makis Keravnos had with members of Diko, Dipa and Disy about his tax reform proposal, understandably, went on ...

Two of my favourite actors Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford starred in The Fugitive. Ford’s character falsely accused of murdering his wife; Jones the lawman sent to catch ...

Another housing scheme was announced by the government at a special event at the presidential palace on Tuesday. The scheme envisages the construction of 500 housing units on state land in ...

“If you’re on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you’re an immediate threat to the United States,” said US Secretary ...

President Nikos Christodoulides caught everyone unaware with the cabinet reshuffle he announced on Friday afternoon, very soon after returning from his trip to Kyiv. It was a very well-managed reshuffle, ...

Elon Musk promised to build a spaceship that would put people and cargo into Earth orbit at one-hundredth of the current cost per kilo and even enable human beings to ...

By Mark Post If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate exactly. A Japanese designer marvelling at ...

I live in the countryside, in the Nicosia district, in the middle of a field. Nature, wildlife, fresh air and peace and quiet. Except during the hunting season. During that ...

Members of the House of Representatives should not rush to approve the questionable ‘tax reform’ proposed by the government. This is because its contents are largely not compatible with achieving ...

The UK justice minister, David Lammy, told parliament last Tuesday that the government is minded to remove the right to jury trial for all offences for which the sentence was ...

HOW BIZARRE that just a few hours after his return from Kyiv and the meeting with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Prezniktwo announced a cabinet reshuffle that completely overshadowed his ...