Opinion

It should not have surprised anybody that in the ‘PISA 2022’ international evaluation of students Cyprus finished in the bottom quarter of the rankings – number 62 out of 81 countries. We could not ...

Is it ever a good thing? By Aaron Nicholas Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don’t really like the food choices on offer, ...

There is no end to the long-running foreclosures farce, which will be on centre stage at the House plenum on Friday, when the government bills, which are aimed at appeasing ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. While most of us are wondering how time seems to fly by and how the holiday season is upon us already, ...

“If you (Americans) were OK with us killing 5,000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in ...

Public outrage, understandably, greeted the news that a school bus full of children had caught fire while in motion. Nobody was hurt, but the fire could not be dismissed as ...

At the opening of the COP28 global climate summit, here are some thoughts about the state of climate science. I have interviewed at least sixty leading climate scientists in a ...

By Michael Ioannou An Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution is only as good as the data that trains it. The more complete the data on which an AI is trained, the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With a GDP exceeding $520 billion, despite its limited population and geographical size, the state of Israel is among the 30 richest countries on the planet. ...

By Amelia Hadfield Declarations of the end of an era are made only in exceptional circumstances. Henry Kissinger’s death is one of them. Kissinger was born into a Jewish ...

By Sean Campbell During a concert in Dublin in 2022, Bob Dylan paused between songs to pay tribute to another singer-songwriter who was in attendance that night. “I want to say ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was undiplomatic and rude to cancel a scheduled meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Monday over a few anodyne remarks he made to ...

A few days ago, Disy president Annita Demetriou added her voice to the issue of EU unanimity, following a vote by the European Parliament to implement a number of reforms ...

By Maria Demertzis How well are central banks doing? Right now, they are making losses but, unlike most large institutions, we should not assess their performance on annual profit and ...

MPs were out beating their breasts on Thursday, in tears for the poor public who are faced with the new carbon tax slated for early next year plus having to ...

In a pivotal move toward innovation and solidifying its standing as a tech hub, Cyprus has recently enacted a pioneering amendment to the Civil Registry Law. This amendment, aimed at ...

While tributes poured into the US from around the world on Thursday after the death at 100 of controversial, American politician Henry Kissinger, the silence from Nicosia was deafening. Neither the ...

By Alexander Sergeant Like most of the enduring stars of golden age Hollywood, Cary Grant can be reduced rather effectively to a single image. Marilyn Monroe has her white dress. ...

Henry Kissinger, a diplomatic powerhouse whose roles as a national security adviser and secretary of state under two presidents left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy and earned ...

Is there anything duller than listening to the deputy tourism minister droning on about ‘sustainable tourism’ at the recent Malta conference at a time when the last pristine area of ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE America’s main reelection candidates are two ageing men with no one apparently able to differentitate between them. Rumours augur Michelle Obama as a future Democrat ...

It was no surprise to read that in 2022, social protection and healthcare expenditure, which encompasses inpatient and outpatient care, medicines and sickness benefits, measured as a percentage of GDP, stood ...

After a poor showing in the last parliamentary elections, and a massive rift recently, Giorgos Perdikis was re-elected as Green Party leader on Sunday with 204 votes to 92 for his rival ...

Listening to a French early morning broadcast the other day while stuck in a seemingly eternal traffic jam, I learned that Paris is considering banning SUVs. Perhaps Nicosia could follow ...