A woman’s story
Her name is Giselle, and she’s 72 years old. She doesn’t fit the profile of a dynamic feminist you might suspect would, at any point in her life, have fought to expose the suffering a woman can...
View ArticleVolunteers are wanted
Last week, the Council of Ministers finally decided to address the issue of multiple pensions and salaries. While citizens, after 40 years of contributions to the Social Insurance Fund, receive...
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A different kind of school
Can the architecture of a school influence education? Many believe that it can, and the Bloomingdale International School in India aims to demonstrate this from the early years of students’ lives....
View ArticleSoul warehouses for teens and elderly
There is a film starring Gérard Depardieu (Maison de retraite is its title) that tells the story of a nursing home where the residents are exploited by unscrupulous owners. When a caretaker discovers...
View ArticleThe earth is square
The debate between the two U.S. presidential candidates, Trump and Kamala Harris, became particularly controversial when Trump claimed that immigrants were stealing and eating locals’ pets. This...
View ArticleA death, no accountability, and long-standing systemic failures
A 43-year-old man, after experiencing severe chest pains, went to the A&E department at Limassol General Hospital early on a Saturday morning. He registered and, after moving to the waiting area,...
View ArticleThe police was searching for him, but detectives found him
Ayia Napa covers a relatively small area. How is it possible for someone to go missing in a public space within the community, and yet the authorities are unable to locate them? Sure, in the peak...
View ArticleThe excellent and the impotent
“Don’t judge based on emotion,” say the rationalists, “it’s a matter of law.” Yet, when reading the decision of the Supreme Constitutional Court, one cannot help but detect an abundance of emotion....
View ArticleWar without battlefields
It’s truly remarkable. It’s like it’s straight out of a James Bond movie. You interfere with someone’s communication devices—mobiles, pagers, walkie-talkies, or whatever they might be carrying—plant...
View ArticleFrom Banana Republic to Mexico
It has been years since, half-jokingly, Glafcos Clerides described Cyprus as a “Banana Republic.” This was not because the economy is based on banana production and export, but because the term is...
View ArticleAnd the winner of impressions is…
What we’re living through here isn’t something to be taken seriously, but at the same time, you can’t just ignore it. If you tried to describe it to someone outside Cyprus—someone who doesn’t know the...
View ArticleAre there any updates on Akamas and Trimiklini?
About a year ago, there was an uproar over construction works in Akamas. Even a minister was reshuffled because he had not noticed the destruction that was taking place, while the President of the...
View ArticleAren’t we all exceptional?
In a small, closed-off place where we have become accustomed to measuring ourselves only against our own shadows, rewarding each other, and grading ourselves as exceptional, what would happen if we...
View ArticleFrom the Chinese woman to the banner
In the face of what is raging just a few kilometres away from us, the significance of everything else fades. However, the battles of everyday life continue to rage on. Two citizens of the Republic of...
View ArticleTempi, a sad story of division
Although people, both religious and non-religious, have learned that two individuals (like Adam and Eve) are enough to cause division, what is currently happening in Greece between the relatives of...
View ArticleThe moral perpetrators of racism
A group of young people (15 in number, according to reports), many wearing hoods, attacked two young Indians without provocation, brutally beating them and taking all the money they had on them, as...
View ArticleHow do you bridge the gap of six years of absence?
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling in the case of Evangelia Zavridou, a mother who has been alienated from her children for six years due to the father’s refusal to comply with a court’s...
View ArticleSearching for the scapegoat
On September 27, a man passed away while hospitalised, following injuries sustained in a peculiar road accident that had occurred three days earlier. The man was laid to rest—may God rest his soul, as...
View ArticleThe dictatorship of mediocrity
We may not know exactly what the Mayor of Paphos meant when he remarked that “we are living under the dictatorship of mediocrity,” but he’s right when he says, “it’s not ordinary people who are...
View ArticleWhy should presidential intervention be needed?
When Nikos Christodoulides was elected president in February 2023, we saw him on a TV show intervening to resolve the housing issue of a man who was living in his car with his 10-year-old daughter. As...
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