Opinion

The housing situation in Cyprus has become a matter of great concern, with rental prices soaring to unprecedented levels. While the reasons for this situation are multifaceted, it is evident ...

Any chance Cyprus might get its own version of University Challenge now there are so many universities and colleges on the island? Dr Michael Paraskos, Lemba, Paphos

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Humanity has made remarkable progress in dealing with the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. However, a lot remains to be done. ...

By Christos Panayiotides A lot of friends have asked me questions about the new Greek voting system, which they are struggling to understand. Here is my response in a nutshell, ...

By Michael Holden and Sarah Mills After years of being depicted as the most hated woman in Britain, Camilla, the second wife of King Charles, was crowned queen on Saturday, ...

Since 1976 I have been interested in Cyprus and travelled several times to this beautiful island since 1977, and recently also spent a few days in the north to get to know ...

By James Sunderland The death in custody on May 2 of Khader Adnan, the first Palestinian to die of a hunger strike for more than 30 years, sparked mass protests in Gaza ...

THE NEW general-secretary of Pasydy, the public parasites union, Stratis Mattheou seems a much nicer guy than his obnoxiously arrogant predecessor, Glafcos Hadjiklamouris, who believed he owned our Kyproulla and ...

The theories advanced by some lawyers with regard to the sanctions imposed by the United States and Britain were laid to rest by the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, ...

The coronation of King Charles III on May 6, 2023 was a public celebration of his succession to the throne but it also symbolised the demise of the crown to the next ...

There is a fever raging in the ocean. Last month it was worst off the eastern coast of North America, where the sea surface temperature was as much as 13.8 degrees ...

The executive council of the Federation of Employers and Industrialists, Oev, on Thursday decided to accept the mediation proposal on CoLA submitted by the labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou, citing the ...

By Darren Ray Think back to September last year. What happened early that month? What news shook the world and reverberated for weeks, if not months? That’s a question ...

The VAT cuts on seven categories of products go into force today. This is a measure taken by the government, as a way of helping people cope with the surge ...

By Matthew Pittman Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts – even to ...

Columbia Sun welcomes the summer season offering visitors a unique and unforgettable seaside experience. Located on the dreamy beach of Lady’s Mile in Limassol, Columbia Sun consists of two, ...

Every few months a news story breaks about the fenced area of Varosha. This is given extensive coverage in the media, the politicians express concern about the matter and the ...

There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it ...

The usual platitudes about protecting workers’ rights, labour peace, the widening gap in incomes and ruthlessness of the markets were recycled by the political parties for their May 1 messages. It ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE For Cyprus, Ireland and Palestine, Easter and April carry ongoing significance, their history still a living thing because of unresolved political issues. Cypriots and Christian Palestinians ...

Turkey started natural gas production from its own massive Black Sea gasfield Sakarya on 20 April, less than three years after discovery. Sakarya is estimated to hold 710 billion cubic metres (bcm) ...

By Katerina Nicolaou I got him a stainless-steel egg poacher pan, Mrs Maria told me. You turn the boiling water down to a simmer, add eggs to the cups, steam ...

By Andrew MacAskill When King Charles III is crowned in a lavish ceremony on Saturday, Britain’s main anti-monarchist movement will gather along the procession route next to a statue ...

Failure of government to prosecute blatant cases of corruption and nepotism most striking example of crony capitalism on the island By Les Manison Capitalism, also called a free market economy, ...