Our View: Bills on multiple pensions do not go far enough
News of a proposed bill, tabled to parliament by the finance ministry and intended to resolve the issue of multiple pensions, is very welcome – but the proposed solution is still ...
Syria’s mass graves: accounting for dead is crucial for the nation to heal
By Stefan Schmitt
Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas.
Grim as such discoveries are, they ...
Our View: Child predators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Kudos to Depa MP Michalis Yiakoumi who is advocating harsher sentences for child predators.
Although Cyprus’ criminal code enshrines life sentences as the maximum penalty for a number of sexual ...
Our View: Gesy’s ‘urgent’ fix faces the same old problems
The struggle to regulate Gesy goes on – but the health system is like a moving target, defying any attempt to control it.
The latest initiative is the ‘urgent referral’ system ...
Bold statement, or a product of misogyny?
By Harriette Richards
Despite the many musical achievements celebrated at this year’s Grammy Awards, it was Bianca Censori’s red carpet appearance that won the award for most headlines.
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Halloumi: what does it all boil down to?
The weather on Tuesday was not the only thing that rained on the goat and sheep herders’ parade.
Goat and sheep breeders marched on the presidential palace clad in waterproof ...
Lower than a snake’s belly
As Donald Trump’s vision of a Gazan Riviera landed like a fart bomb, Vladimir Putin must have been crying ‘Da! Da! Da! Trump has lost his marbles and I’...
Our View: Time to show some genuine goodwill over Cyprus talks
President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday claimed some credit for the preparations now underway by the UN for an informal five-party conference on the Cyprus issue that will reportedly take place ...
Our View: Autism strategy is stuck in endless delays
Three years and a few million euros later, Cyprus is still struggling to implement a national strategy for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the meantime, their problems are ...
INVESTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Investors return to new-look Middle East, but Trump causes some concern
A historic shake-up of the Middle East is starting to draw international investors, warming to the prospects of relative peace and economic recovery after so much turmoil.
President Donald Trump’...
Asil Nadir dead at 83
Controversial Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir died on Sunday night at the age of 83.
Nadir rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he transformed textile company Polly Peck into ...
On green issues, the government prefers to protect its own and president’s commitments are pointless
Our president presented his promises for the remainder of his presidency on January 29. Of course I should say he re-presented his promises, since many of them were presented in his 100...
The average global temperature anomaly is now +1.75°C
I’m very cross with myself. My last two articles were about Trump saying he might invade Greenland, and then about Trump declaring that he would annex Canada (but no ...
How populist leaders use ‘common sense’ as an ideological weapon to undermine facts
By Dannagal G Young
It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address.
And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion ...
An ‘earthquake swarm’ is shaking Santorini. It could persist for months
By Dee Ninis
Greece’s government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island multiple times a day and sometimes only ...
Which way will Brics go in changing world order?
Indonesia’s recent accession to the Brics coalition highlights the ongoing and ambitious efforts of its member countries to create a rival to the G7, the alliance of the world’...
Taking Trump seriously but not literally is the only way
Walking back statements the Trump makes as president is keeping the White House busy
How to judge US President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle the Palestinians of Gaza and ...
Our View: Cyprus has no good solutions for its water crisis
The news that yet another golf course, Limassol Greens, will be opening this summer isn’t shocking in itself, but the timing is unfortunate.
Golf courses are notorious water guzzlers – ...
Trump’s plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza won’t dampen Palestinian resistance
Maha Nassar
President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is ...
Our View: Hooliganism is symptomatic of something deeper
Football hooliganism is back in the headlines with the cabinet approving a new bill allowing the government to take “decisive” action, including banning away fans from football matches.
The recent ...
Our View: Passing the buck on airbags scandal not going to cut it
Hands up anyone who thinks there will be full accountability for the Takata airbags scandal that has resulted in the deaths of two young people that we know of and ...
Our View: Cyprus pushes solar power then wastes it
Cyprus is throwing away more and more renewable solar energy every year as production increases through the unprecedented proliferation of PV parks and government home schemes but with nowhere to ...
Trump’s Gaza stunner builds on his expansionist aims, from ‘America first’ to ‘America more’
President Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping statement that he would like the U.S. to take control of and redevelop the Gaza Strip might have sounded like it came from nowhere, ...
However foolish, Trump is real threat to Canada
US President Donald Trump’s imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian exports to the United States, which has been temporarily suspended, cannot be justified by the false claim ...