Cyprus Gourmet Awards 2010: The Top 50 Wines

The cream of Cyprus winemakers were among an enthusiastic audience at the Londa Boutique Hotel a week ago, to mark the occasion of our first Cyprus Wine Awards. Fifty awards were made, to 23 wineries....

Cyprus: A Pandora’s Box of government economic proposals

By DR. JIM LEONTIADES CIIM, The Cyprus Business School A government has three ways to reduce a deficit:     1. Reduce spending;     2. Increase revenue;  ...

Women hold up half the sky, but not in Cyprus!

BY MARINA THEODOTOU A Chinese proverb says that “women hold up half the sky”, but apparently that is not the case in Cyprus. With Women’s International Day being celebrated every...

Turkish Cypriot “isolation”: fact or fiction?

BY ANTIGONI PAPADOPOULOU, MEP Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy has frequently made reference of the necessity to “lift the isolation of...

Cyprus Editorial: Consumers, gov’t should spend more… and fast!

The government has finally announced a set of measures to protect state finances from spiraling into a higher deficit and to safeguard the economy from a potential meltdown. However, these measures wi...