Tales from the Coffeeshop

IF THERE are any people who still believe Prezniktwo actually means what he says, they should get their personal doctor to book an appointment with a brain specialist to have ...

WHEN he was foreign minister, our current prez loved to use the economic term “added value” to describe his foreign policy initiatives and agreements he forged. They invariably “added value” ...

NEW auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been sworn in on Wednesday, but Odysseas has warned that he will be watching him. In an interview published on Saturday in his semi-official ...

THE PEOPLE-PLEASER Prez has lost his touch. He appears to be pissing off rather than pleasing most people while the media have also turned on him. Before the public uproar ...

THE SLAUGHTER of the sacred cow by the Supreme Constitutional Court was bloodless, but it still left such a mess that it could take a long time to clear up. ...

THE BIG DAY is nigh. On Wednesday the supreme constitutional court will announce its decision about the Odysseas-general. His future depends on the half a dozen judges who have probably ...

PREZNIKONE made a rare public appearance on Wednesday, attending the inauguration ceremony for the Paphos campus of the American University of Beirut (AUB Mediterraneo), although the guest of honour was ...

WHEN it comes to rewarding law breakers nobody does it as generously as our politicians, perhaps because they identify with them. They certainly have no time for the honest folk ...

GOOD to see the bickering kids have found a new toy (or should I say Tui) to fight over at a time when it was too hot to think or ...

IT STARTED out as a soundbite a few months ago, but our prez fell so in love with it that he has turned it into a national slogan, which he ...

THE PILLAR of regional stability, with its much-touted geostrategic significance growing substantially in the last months, is having difficulty managing the government narrative about its vital humanitarian role in the ...

NIK THE FIRST, the self-proclaimed, incorruptible and truthful former president of the Kyproulla republic, has been keeping an unusually low profile in the last couple of weeks during which the ...

THE NATIONAL Guard gave an exhibition of its operational capabilities on Thursday, watched by Prezniktwo, as part of the celebrations to mark 60 years since its establishment. It does not have ...

I HAVE to say, at the risk of being labelled unpatriotic, that all this fuss about the 50th anniversary of the coup and invasion has become quite boring. It is ...

THE NEXT personal envoy the UN Secretary General sends to find common ground will have to be a shrink, now that Maria Angela Holguin has established that the reasons there ...

IT TOOK seven years for former negotiator, presidential candidate and top diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis to muster the courage to break free from the hold Preznikone had on him and expose ...

THE SHOCK caused to the political and media establishment by Fidias Panayiotou in last Sunday’s elections for the European parliament was a joy to behold. The self-satisfied, self-regarding, self-aggrandising ...

THE BIGGEST news story over last few days has been that it was very hot. As if anyone in Kyproulla had not felt the scorching heat and had to be ...

THE SERVILITY so generously shown to the visiting Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hammad Al Thani by awe-struck Prezniktwo was truly impressive. It was, after all, the first ever ...

RETIREMENT has not been as easy as Preznikone had dreamed of. He seems to be spending most of his retirement time in non-stop efforts to prove that he was not ...

THE EAGERLY AWAITED opposition proceedings in the case brought against auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides by attorney-general George Savvides were filed by the former’s team of big-shot lawyers, whose fees he ...

ONLY our political parties, in their infinite wisdom, could have engaged in a cost-cutting reform that will increase the cost to the taxpayer. The reform of local government, on which ...

THE DISCIPLES of Odysseas, the first ever auditor-general in the world with a big cult following, were devastated by the news that the attorney-general filed a case at the supreme ...

OUR ESTABLISHMENT would like to mention that today is its 33rd birthday. The first ever Coffeeshop appeared in 1991 on April 21 (admittedly an unfortunate day as it coincided with the day ...