Opinion

It came as something of a surprise that there had been no reaction from political parties and the media to President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision not to object to plans of ...

By Lucy Thompson One track stands out on the rereleased edition of Taylor Swift’s iconic album, 1989. In Slut!, Swift addresses her encounters with slut-shaming – behaviour that shames women who ...

After a big build-up, the first Cyprus Confidential reports were released on Tuesday evening and more followed on Wednesday. The reports were based on the so-called Cyprus Confidential files that ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE On a favourite site among the usual gems of advertised literature, I found horror stories especially written for children. Young adults enjoy scary thrills. I lied ...

Turkish Cypriots celebrate the 40th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) today, the move that set up the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,’ which has existed ever since ...

Former leader and driving force of the Green Party, Giorgos Perdikis, has decided to come out of retirement to stand in the leadership elections of his party later this month. ...

Rejecting Turkey’s energy proposals is not enough. Cyprus should also be ready with counter-proposals that could contribute to reviving and speeding-up the Cyprus talks By Dr Charles Ellinas and ...

The EAC is still run by a poorly qualified, ever-changing board and puzzling finances By Brian Lait Five whole years have whizzed by since I last wrote a report on ...

I’m sorry that I didn’t get my article on Artificial Intelligence last week during the ‘AI Safety Summit’ at Bletchley Park, the historic Second World War decoding centre ...

By Fahri Zihni I expressed some concerns about the “statement of common understanding” and how it is being managed by Unficyp in relation to the building of a road between ...

By Christos Panayiotides Takis Hadjidemetriou is one of the few Cypriot politicians I respect a great deal. He is a politician in the broader sense of the word, and, unlike ...

Decisions were made foolishly, chaotically and with a lot of expletives There is a judge-led inquiry going on in the UK about the central government’s response to the Covid 19 ...

WISDOM does not always feature prominently in the decisions taken by our judges. In fact, there are times when decisions could be described as completely lacking in wisdom – this is ...

Speaking at the 19th Economist summit in Nicosia, Colin Stewart, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative, said the understanding reached between the two sides on the issue of Pyla was ...

By Maria Demertzis On 20 October, S&P Global Ratings raised the Greek economy’s credit rating back to investment grade. That was seen by many, in Greece and beyond, ...

After a great deal of tampering by the political parties the laws that would reform local government were eventually passed by the legislature. But despite the self-congratulatory mood created by ...

Everyone will have been surprised by the Limassol district court’s decision in favour of a Laiki Bank depositor who had sought compensation from the authorities for the loss of ...

By Jane O’Connor Britney Spears’ new memoir, The Woman in Me, illustrates once again the potential lifelong damage that can be caused by being a child star. Like many ...

After the brawl at the Pournara migrant centre, which followed a football match between Nigerians and Syrians on Monday night, 33 men were arrested. Two of the men involved in brawl ...

At the end of last month, news of Matthew Perry’s death sparked an outpouring of grief on social media sites as the world bid farewell to the sarcastic soul ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari, concerned about the long waiting times for appointments with specialist doctors, met bosses of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) to discuss ways of reducing these. The ...

Minister of Labour Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday that he would exercise a mediating role in the dispute between bank workers’ union Etyk and Hellenic Bank. He was speaking just ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The favourable assessments from the European Commission and the IMF, as well as the global rating agencies, demonstrate the satisfactory course of the Cypriot ...

On September 10 the great breakthrough was underway. “The Ukrainians went forward again”, said breathless reports from the front lines. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces are moving west of Novoprokopovka, east of ...