Opinion

On March 24 a senior official from the finance ministry was arguing to MPs that the main thrust of a government bill to unfreeze public sector jobs was to simplify hiring ...

By Euripides L Evriviades Down the rabbit hole of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, we find ourselves in a curiouser and curiouser landscape, one that seems lifted from the pages ...

I was just idly looking at the casualty numbers the other day, and I noticed that there was something badly wrong with them. This will take a little time and ...

April to June are the months where students and parents alike go through the hellish exam period in schools and universities. This year, it is a no less testing period ...

The headscarf controversy in Turkish Cypriot schools after a regulation governing school dress was changed to authorise schoolgirls to cover their heads raises human rights issues the European Court of ...

Last week’s biggest news was the protest by thousands of Turkish Cypriots (around 13,000) against the re-legalisation of hijab in schools. If you live in the Republic, though, you’d ...

Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the ...

At an event to discuss the pay-as-you throw system on Wednesday night, Disy leader and House speaker Annita Demetriou highlighted how the lack of planning has stymied yet another green ...

It took the education ministry a couple of days to speak about the photo of a group of secondary-school pupils in the Famagusta area who gave a Nazi salute during ...

There are none so adept at gaming the system in Cyprus than public servants through the constant use of lawfare which they have honed to a fine art by making ...

I’m Irish, love my country and my culture. My father’s name is described as Normo-Celtic, my sister, older by 16 years, always told me I had a retrousse nose, ...

The debate on the placement of cameras in certain areas to cut down on crime versus the right to privacy seems almost moot in today’s digital age. The justice ...

Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has rightly demanded explanations regarding a child abuse case recently uncovered in Larnaca, where five children were reportedly subjected to ...

Even though energy commodities – oil, natural gas and refined products – were largely spared collateral fallout from US President Donald Trump’s new ‘Liberation Day’, the new tariffs have pushed oil ...

By Loukis Skaliotis The cat is finally out of the bag. April 2,2025, ‘Liberation Day’ as Trump called it will go down in history as the day America broke up with ...

The ongoing discussion on the unfreezing of first-time appointments in the public sector, including local authorities, is crucial, taking into account the size of the public payroll and its broader ...

Government policies in allocating resources implicitly promote consumerism, mass tourism and property development as the key drivers of economic growth President Nikos Christodoulides and the Finance Minister Makis Keravnos claim ...

I was very pleased to see that cemeteries will be restored. I was born in Engomi, Famagusta but emigrated to the UK with my parents (whole family) but sadly we ...

March 11, 2025, will forever be a day I’ll remember as the worst of my 3.5-year-old German shepherd’s life, and a deeply traumatic experience for both myself and my friend. ...

By Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol More integrated EU defence policy implies greater foreign-policy integration and a larger role for the European Parliament to provide accountability.  The current debates about bolstering the European ...

Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Rally (RN) candidate for president of France in 2027, was banned from holding public office for five years last week after she was found guilty ...

THE PICTURE of House president Annita Demetriou squatting in a saintly pose by the grave of an Eoka hero on April 1 and staring forlornly ahead was iconic political kitsch. It ...

The rowdy, often violent behaviour of youths in Limassol is becoming worryingly frequent. In the last 10 days there have been several incidents of violence by gangs of youths, requiring the ...

Great media coverage was given to the departure of an obscure member of Disy, Evgenios Hamboullas, who had served as a party deputy for Famagusta district from 2014 to 2016, taking a ...