Opinion

It is exactly 50 years today that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, was launched and within a few weeks – by August 16 – the offensive was completed, with the invasion force spreading eastwards ...

Hopefully, we witnessed the last episode of the farce regarding the submission of asset statements by elected officials on Tuesday. For 20 years, within the framework of the so-called ‘pothen esches’ ...

By Ashley Morgan As Angela Rayner arrived to take up her new role as Britain’s deputy prime minister, some online commentators went into meltdown – not because of her historic ...

When House president Annita Demetriou took over as leader of the deeply divided Disy, in the aftermath of the presidential elections, she was viewed as a temporary solution – a caretaker ...

‘In the burnt earth I lay weeping, I had lost all my humanity. In the scorched earth, like a wounded animal, wondering where was my life and the person I ...

Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s – a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Tuesday that the 12 per cent penalty imposed on pensions taken two years before the legal retirement age of 65 cannot be abolished. If it were, ...

In a special session of the House of Representatives on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of ‘twin crime’ of the coup and occupation attended by the president, the party ...

It really doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The world economy is currently performing better than expected. The recession, which many analysts had predicted as an inevitable result of the pandemic and ...

by Oya Kocak Barcin and Christoforos Dimitriou We, Oya and Christoforos know each other through our work. We live on opposite sides of the divide in Cyprus, have different backgrounds ...

I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...

Cyprus banks are failing in giving decent interest rates on customer deposits and in providing sufficient credit at reasonable interest rates to businesses and households to support balanced economic growth ...

Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...

THE NEXT personal envoy the UN Secretary General sends to find common ground will have to be a shrink, now that Maria Angela Holguin has established that the reasons there ...

On Monday Cyprus will mark the 50th anniversary of the coup against Archbishop Makarios and on Saturday the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion that followed it and led to ...

By Maria Demertzis  When the extreme right party National Rally won first place in the European elections earlier this June, President Emmanuel Macron felt that confidence in the governing coalition ...

A divorce settlement is being negotiated between Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) and the CPP-Metron Consortium (CMC) which had the contract for the creation of an LNG terminal in Vassiliko. ...

The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...

By Natalie Coulter Roblox is an online platform that allows users to create games and play those designed by others. A self-described “ultimate virtual universe,” it is hard to pinpoint ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades may be under the illusion that by speaking out in public he is protecting his legacy and the way his ten years in office would be ...

Practicing mindfulness with our screens in the digital age has become increasingly crucial. As someone who, like many, has felt the pang of anxiety upon leaving my phone behind, I ...

Open letter from Kyriacos Jacovides in response to United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin Your Excellency, I have read your open letter to the Cypriots and I am surprised by ...

The leaders of unions representing public employees – teachers, civil servants, national guard officers, police, hospital doctors, nurses – met on Tuesday to discuss a study about public sector payroll drafted by ...