CM: Our View

President Nikos Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to present himself and his government as influential players in regional affairs and Gaza in particular lead to rather embarrassing situations. On Sunday, speaking about ...

For too long, the Republic’s defence spending was rather random. This was partly because only a few countries would sell arms to Cyprus, mainly Russia and France, and partly ...

It is still very early to say whether the ceasefire agreement signed by Israel and Hamas on Thursday will lead to the full implementation of US President Donald Trump’s 20...

Many will be wondering whether the Deputy Minister for Innovation, Research and Digitalisation Nicodemos Damianou was joking on Wednesday when he said the government would introduce AI into the public ...

Nobody could say with any degree of certainty that the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas on Wednesday will last longer than a week or two, but it was a ...

There is still some time to go until the parliamentary elections, but speculative reports based on opinion polls have already been appearing. According to the latest poll conducted by Prime ...

It beggars belief that political parties want to amend the law governing the staging of demonstrations and public protests, which the legislature approved just three months ago. On Monday they ...

The way President Nikos Christodoulides speaks in public, nobody would have guessed that he had once had a career as a diplomat, that he served for almost five years as ...

Attorney-general George Savvides has been one of the most maligned state officials in Cyprus. For years he has been the target of a campaign instigated by the former auditor-general who ...

The use of force by the police outside the foreign ministry, and across the road from the presidential palace, on Thursday night, to disperse a small crowd of demonstrators, protesting ...

The audit office should be commended for highlighting the long-term water policy failures, for which all the governments of the last 30 years have a share of responsibility. They have all ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his spokesmen made a big deal about the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ alleged assertion that negotiations should resume from where they stopped in Crans Montana in 2017. ...

In the last five years, there have been some 15,000 applications by third country nationals to purchase real estate in Cyprus, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. More than a third of ...

The good news President Nikos Christodoulides had arranged to announce on Thursday evening after the scheduled meeting in New York with the Vice President of ExxonMobil, John Ardill, was overshadowed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, will have nothing constructive to tell each other when they meet in the presence of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on ...

Attorney-general George Savvides decided not to charge former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with contempt of court, for public comments and social media posts, disputing the independence, impartiality and legitimacy of court ...

The sense of entitlement of today’s teenagers is a rather disturbing phenomenon, although not surprising. It has been cultivated by their parents and follows the bad example set by ...

The way in which the education ministry hierarchy protected one of their officials accused by two female subordinates of sexual harassment is scandalous. The first complaint was submitted in May 2023, ...

The noise Akel has made about the circular sent by the government to municipal councils asking for the “strengthening of actions for fighting anti-Semitism and the incitement of racial hatred ...

The government could not have made a bigger mess of the negotiations on the Cost-of-Living Allowance (CoLA) if it had planned it. It has managed to alienate the unions by ...

We are in no position to say whether our defence capability has been significantly strengthened by the arrival of the Israeli Barak MX air defence system. It may have marginally ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been appointed by President NiKos Christodoulides, but this did not stop him slamming the government’s proposals for the radical reform of the audit service. ...

One of the main criticisms of the tax reform, which the government wants to have in place from the start of next year, is that it has left wealth untouched. ...

Only the Cyprus problem could have produced the situation in which the two sides are discussing the opening of more crossing points while at the same time, through their actions ...