The domestic worker’s revenge
Back in the boom days of 1998, a book titled “Yes madam, sorry madam” chronicled the relationship between Asian domestic workers and their Cypriot employers. This was around the time these women first...
View ArticleThe cosy affair between President and Prosecution
It hardly matters what the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General declare in their asset disclosures, since everyone declares whatever they want and certainly not where they got it from. What...
View ArticleAre the trees really to blame?
After hours of being battered by winds and watching trees fall, we now look up at the tall pines and other large trees in urban areas with dread. But are the trees really to blame? These trees were...
View ArticleIt happens to the best of families
News that shocks us typically comes from the third world or countries ruled by Islamic fundamentalists. But what’s happening in the progressive Western world? News from Denmark tells us the country...
View ArticleThere is no such thing as silent consent
When the Gisele Pelicot rape case became public, the first reaction was shock at what could be happening right next door, in a civilised country, inside our very homes. Then came admiration for this...
View ArticleWe are missing the real problem
When the Deputy Attorney General announced through an interview, laying the groundwork for seeking Odysseas Michaelides’ removal from his position as Auditor General on charges of misconduct, few...
View ArticleWith what kind of love, Christiana?
In Greece, when journalists seek statements from Mpeos, Kougias, and others like them, or invite them onto their shows, they do so knowing full well that something extreme will be said and controversy...
View ArticleThe assassination of a CEO
At this year’s Nicosia International Festival, the Municipal Theatre hosted a Portuguese production titled “Catarina And the Beauty Of Killing Fascists.” The playwright and director, Tiago Rodrigues,...
View ArticleArms dealers now, too
A few years ago, we thought we’d become the next Bollywood, if not Hollywood itself. The previous government had even prepared an incentive scheme for what we dubbed the cypriot ‘Olivewood’. The only...
View ArticleTwo women, two different worlds
Yesterday marked the legal conclusion of a horrific case in France, where a man was convicted of orchestrating the rape of his wife by multiple men whom he invited to their home after drugging her...
View ArticleThe story of a poet who was not a number
Last Saturday, we parked in the old town. Upon leaving, we found a paper on our car window which we initially thought was a parking ticket. Instead, it was a poem and the story of a man and his family...
View ArticleAre there homeless people in Cyprus?
A man died on Christmas Eve from burns sustained while trying to keep warm in an abandoned house where he had found refuge with two others. The news report was brief. It only mentioned his age: 52....
View ArticleMum’s Tupperware
Even if mum’s no longer around, and even though the plastic containers we use to store our homemade lunches for the office or keep leftovers in the fridge are bought from supermarkets, we’ll still...
View ArticlePolice Academy
Here’s the state of affairs… Two police officers were arrested yesterday: One for corruption, abuse of power, bribery of a public official and other charges (according to the announcement), and...
View ArticlePlaying both sides: With the killer and the victim
First, we set up Operation Amalthea to send aid to the victims (regardless of whether it ever reached them or prevented their deaths. Good intentions are what count, apparently). Then we rolled out...
View ArticleCaught in social media’s whirlwind
The game is now played through social media, which has proven to be the most powerful tool of influence. Elon Musk reigns supreme, extending his tentacles everywhere – sometimes directly (as with his...
View ArticleFrom Oxana to the Pakistani man
Oxana Rantseva was a 20-year-old girl who came to Cyprus in 2001 to work as a dancer, or so she thought. Twelve days after her arrival, she was found dead on the pavement of Gladstonos Street in...
View ArticleThat’s the story, for what it’s worth
The Police version might well be true. That they were patrolling the Potamia area when three cars appeared, one of which drove towards an officer, who then fired (perhaps not at the tyres) and one of...
View ArticleHow high is the bar, really?
“Never forget that power is temporary, meant to benefit the many rather than serve the few. Remember that we’re here to advance our nation, not to merely put out fires,” President Christodoulides...
View ArticleWeapons as an antidote to failures
Whenever things got tough, suddenly massive gas deposits would be “discovered” in our Exclusive Economic Zone’s seabed. Each new plot would prove to be a treasure, christened Glafkos, Aphrodite,...
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