Lawyers need security screening too
I helped my mother, a 19-year permanent resident of Cyprus, attend the Larnaca court this morning to meet up with her lawyer and submit some legal paperwork.
It was interesting ...
Police need to move to plan B to save lives
Clearly the current visible, passive policing approach isn’t working. The recent spate of road deaths confirms this.
Merely driving around with blue lights flashing creates a “law abiding” environment ...
The International Criminal Court Is Another Casualty of October 7
By Oren Anolik
In 1998, at the time of the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, the head of Israel’s delegation, Judge Eli Nathan, expressed both hope ...
ICC fugitive Netanyahu to challenge war crimes arrest warrants
Arrest warrants were issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on November 21, 2024 against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes ...
Our View: Deputy mayor posts are a farce from start to finish
The ongoing saga of deputy mayors – part of the local government reform voted through in last June’s elections – has been farcical from beginning to end, and shows no signs ...
Australian social media ban started with call to act by politican’s wife
By Byron Kaye
Since Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media’s mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonised ...
UN climate change summits are ‘fundamentally flawed’
By Jack Marley
Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for negotiating ...
Our View: Can lifeless Makarios Avenue reclaim its former buzz?
A group called the Nicosia-Cyprus Capital initiative has launched a new push for a rethink on the way traffic is allowed on Makarios Avenue.
Anyone who has been down there ...
Our View: Akel needs to accept that the world has moved on
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand.
The president, ...
Our View: Public servants hold society hostage to get what they want
Disy leader Annita Demetriou was careful in her wording on Tuesday when she said her party was looking into a way around the decades-old contentious issue of strikes in essential ...
Blue health: How the sea benefits physical and mental wellbeing
By David Gallardo-Pujol, Jordi Renom Pinsach and Laura Viñals Vilà
Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in ...
Our View: Violence against women figures really are alarming
The latest figures on violence against women in Cyprus cited by Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Migs) on Monday should be more than a ...
Our View: Disconnects between the haves and the have-nots
Cyprus is currently beset by labour unrest from doctors to hotel employees to cement workers, predictable in that a number of collective agreements in different sectors are up for renewal ...
Dr Strangelove in Ukraine and the Middle East
By Euripides L Evriviades
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, brilliantly satirised Cold War paranoia and its catastrophic potential.
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No end in sight to airbag recall scandal
I was very concerned to read the recent article on the airbag recall and the idea that cars may be forced off the road because of it. I have a ...
Am I the only resident tearing my hair out over water-bill issues?
Water bills have been transferred from my local area (Oroklini) to the ‘Larnaca’ district although no-one bothered to let us know. Only upon asking Oroklini council where had my September ...
Not arresting criminals inflicts damage on the ICC prosecutions
By Catherine Gegout
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader, Mohammed Deif. The ...
The differences between sanctions screening and customer due diligence
By Nicolas Poumpourides
I was recently the trainer at an advanced six-hour training session for the staff members of the Cyprus Financial Services Supervisory Authority (CySEC). In the course of ...
Airport queues ruined a perfect holiday
We recently returned from a holiday in Paphos, not having been in the previous five years due to Covid etc.
I was pleased to read that tourism has increased, but ...
Amazing story but not true
How can Cyprus be an energy hub since no financially viable gas has been discovered? The government managed to spend a lot of money on Vasiliko with nothing to show.
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Cyprus government and banks selfishly hoard wealth
In the immediate years after the Cyprus financial crisis of 2012/2013 there was a compelling need to stabilise government finances with austerity and banks with credit restraint, however, such policies have ...
Loss of a lovely fish tavern
How sad to see the closure of the fish tavern Ayios Georgios in Peyia with its world class view.
It seems that it is to be taken over by the ...
Was Jesus Palestinian or Jewish?
By Philip Almond
Netflix’s upcoming biblical biopic, Mary, has been attacked on social media because the title character and her husband Joseph are being played by Israeli actors.
The ...
Biden had no democratic mandate to escalate the war in Ukraine
Donald Trump’s refusal to engage in a smooth transfer of power during the interregnum in 2020-21 pales into insignificance compared with President Joe Biden’s sabotage of Trump’s ...