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Stablecoins on the rise: Bridging crypto chaos and traditional finance

Stablecoin promises to bring together the best of both worlds: the efficiency of blockchain and the benefits of decentralized ...

Opinion

Cyprus is the Mediterranean’s rising star in global film and TV

From high-end series to blockbuster films and major reality shows, Cyprus is starting to shine on the radar of international ...

Opinion

The myth of equality meets the military

When it comes to pageantry, we’re always ahead of the curve. The Gender Equality Commissioner, Josie Christodoulou, joined ...

Onasagoras

Limassol mayhem, Lebanon cheers, and kids get a say

Fans of AEL and Apollon came to blows, leaving chaos just a few hundred meters from Limassol’s Central Police Station. Our ...

Onasagoras

''My lawyer’s statements do not represent me.'' Well isn't that just the essence of Cyprus?

A female inmate in the Central Prisons claims she was taken to a prison official’s apartment to provide sexual services ...

Opinion

Reforms are not done this way

Teachers, who are at the forefront of the reform, have voiced their disagreements, noting that the increased costs are not ...

Andreas Andreou

Makarios Avenue struggles to reclaim its glory despite makeover

No one doubts that Makarios Avenue in Nicosia is facing serious commercial challenges. This has been one of the city’s most ...

Paris Demetriades

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How much reform has the Local Government Reform actually brought to our lives? They ought to have some data, after all.

Opinion

Kevin Spacey in Cyprus: Who’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel?

Kevin Spacey, Oscar-winning icon of The Usual Suspects, L.A. Confidential, American Beauty, and Seven, has graced the sunny ...

Opinion

Sexism isn’t ''old news,'' it’s still alive in Cyprus, and the law says so

From workplace jabs to public remarks by officials, the everyday sexism we brush off carries real consequences, and it’s ...

Athanasios Ellis

The US and China's influence in Greece

In the coming weeks and months, we will witness a focused effort by the US to limit the role and influence of China in Greece. ...

Opinion

Price isn’t everything

Lately, I find myself talking more and more about my dining experiences. And, fortunately for me, I’m not the only one.

Opinion

When ''ATA for All'' becomes ATA for no one

And here we are. The government’s big promises and bold declarations over the Cost-of-Living Allowance (ATA) have officially ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

Rich young people under 41

We were glad to hear that the government will keep several housing schemes running in 2026. That’s good news, at least on ...

Opinion

The significance of the P-TEC Summit

The Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) is a U.S. initiative coordinated by the Department of Energy. ...

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

The animal police… are they on a break?

I know this isn’t ''hard news'' for some, no ministers, no scandals, no new roundabouts being announced. But bear with me. ...

Paris Demetriades

Progressive New York

Much has been written about the triumphant victory of 34-year-old Zoran Mamdani in New York, and rightly so.

Opinion

The politics of dialect

Lately, public debate over the Cypriot dialect, or is it a language, has grown intense. Respected academics and writers ...

Opinion

Acquitted, yet still held hostage

It is difficult to comprehend how, in 2025, European citizens can be declared ''not guilty'' in a courtroom and yet remain ...

Opinion

From “hub” to NATO base: Cyprus levels up

It’s hard to know how seriously to take an initiative. We might become, or at least aspire to become, ''a kind of NATO, ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

34 years for our museum

Here at home, in the country that prides itself on its culture, we’ve been talking about our own new museum for roughly ...

Opinion

When power cannot endure criticism

The word ''fantasy'', recently used by the President of the Republic to dismiss journalistic analyses, was no accident. ...

Onasagoras

Politics blog: Mistakes, passions, and the President’s people

Arrest the wrong suspect for murder? Check. Arrest a prison visitor by mistake? Check again, and this one is going straight ...

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

One small step for man…one giant waste of time for womankind

I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw the story pop up: Cyprus has unveiled its first female pedestrian crossing lights. ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

€2.4 million is not exactly pocket change

In the budget of the Deputy Ministry of Culture for the international cultural program of Cyprus’s Presidency of the Council ...

Opinion

When €9 sheftalies make you rethink dining in Cyprus

You know that moment when you’re asked to pay €9 for three tiny sheftalies? That’s when you start wondering if the bill ...

Opinion

The government’s two choices

This government has two choices, and it seems determined to take the easy one: the path of handouts, subsidies, and tax ...

Onasagoras

Two states, one federation… and a suitcase of lies

The president seems a little on edge after Erhurman’s election. He insists, as always, that everyone will be judged at the ...

Opinion

The skeleton in the suitcase

I’ll admit it: I can’t quite share the excitement over Tufan Erhürman’s rise to leadership among the Turkish Cypriots. Maybe ...

Onasagoras

AEK Larnaca makes history with London victory

We can’t not congratulate AEK Larnaca, who became the first Cypriot team to beat an English side on their own turf, in the ...

Onasagoras

Prison CEOs and billion-Euro blunders

We’re the only country where prisoners run legitimate business ventures, and we even pay guards to watch over them and give ...

Opinion

The war isn’t televised

If the goal of the October 7, 2023, attack, as I personally believe, was to prevent regional cooperation and achieve an ...

Paris Demetriades

Hollywood cheap, scary, and tasteless

From Panayiotou’s clownish party announcement to Trump’s Hollywood-style peace show in Sharm El-Sheikh, politics reached ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

We were there too...somewhere behind Erdogan

The participation of the Republic of Cyprus at Sharm El-Sheikh for the signing of the Gaza agreement is noteworthy.

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Same circus, new clown

When I was a kid, I read Böll’s The Clown’s Opinions. It stuck with me, but not nearly as much as yesterday’s proclamation ...

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