Opinion

The government has gone ahead with the preparation of the constitutional reform it had proposed for the state legal service and the audit office, with Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis saying ...

Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis in an indirect way on Wednesday confirmed the government was behind the move by tour operator Tui to stop taking tourists on day trips to ...

The Green Party has filed a formal objection to a massive photovoltaic plant proposed for the Mathiatis-Analyontas-Lythrodontas triangle, in the Nicosia district.The party is calling on all ecologically-aware people ...

By Lisa Richwine and Jorge Garcia What the f—? The F-word, once seen as the most shocking expletive in the English language, has become commonplace in pop culture. Deadpool & ...

It is good to see that the government has drawn the right lessons from the Larnaca port and marina fiasco. It has abandoned the grandiose plans of making the development ...

The government was at pains to justify its approval of the EU invitation to Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan to attend the informal meeting of the General Affairs Council ...

By Joanna Plucinska and Jon Nazca Sun seekers are turning to package holidays in Europe as soaring hotel and flight prices revive demand for the all-inclusive deals that had fallen ...

As we get closer to critical decision-making deadlines, there is no end to debates about the viability and future of the Great Sea Interconnector. But sadly, often these are not ...

I was caught speeding by one of the new traffic cameras in Larnaca in May of this year. Yesterday, I received two letters containing speeding notices, one demanding a payment ...

By Savvakis C Savvides The sad truth is that politicians and government officers involved in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreements is that by circumventing what needs to be evaluated and assessed ...

Whilst trying to watch the annual Perseids meteor shower (originating from the Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle) this week, my view was interrupted and spoilt every night until the early hours of ...

By Kyriaki Stinga and Dorina Mastora There is an ongoing concern that AI might eventually take over human roles. However, as compliance officers in the legal field, we believe that ...

I refer to a letter in the Sunday Mail, August 11 titled, “Reform UK is not far right”. I must confess that I do not have a full understanding of the ...

Northern Epirus is a triangular Greek-speaking region that starts from the Greek-Albanian border and extends north-westerly to Vlorë (Avlonas) and north-easterly to Korçë (Korytsa) and the Small Lake of Prespa. ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...

IT STARTED out as a soundbite a few months ago, but our prez fell so in love with it that he has turned it into a national slogan, which he ...

The Cyprus economy recorded a rate of growth of 3.7 per cent in the second quarter of this year in comparison to the corresponding period of 2023, according to Eurostat. It was ...

Lessons on financial literacy will be introduced to public schools this year, the government following the EU-wide trend of giving youngsters a basic financial education that would help them understand ...

Sure, we’re biased about home products, Smuggling Hendrix was great, and everyone I’ve asked said Stelana Kliris’ Find Me Falling was captivating. Some foreign critics deemed it simple ...

The idea for a subsea energy cable that would connect the power grids of Cyprus, Israel and Greece (Crete to be more precise) was first presented in 2012 as a private ...

By Dr Dipesh Shah  The government of India implemented a major financial sector reform by establishing the country’s maiden International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in GIFT City, Gujarat. The ...

Akel gave full vent to its anti-West, anti-American prejudices last week after the American warship USS Wasp arrived in Limassol. The party issued several announcements, warning that the government was ...

By Ioannis Tirkides When the Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate from a range of zero to 0.1 per cent to 0.25 per cent, arguably to stem the yen’s ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Over the last 15 years, particularly after the financial crisis of 2008, the role of central banks (CBs) in developed economies has expanded and become even ...