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Apart from complaints by farmers, little has been said in public about the acute water shortage facing the country. It is almost as if it is no problem for the ...

Pasydy, the public servants’ union, issued an announcement last Thursday “expressing satisfaction” for the agreement with the finance ministry for a 1.5 per cent pay rise in the civil service from ...

Now that we have marked the 50th anniversaries of the coup and Turkish invasion, we should heed the advice of the UNSG’s envoy Maria Angela Holguin, who said in ...

It is exactly 50 years today that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, was launched and within a few weeks – by August 16 – the offensive was completed, with the invasion force spreading eastwards ...

Hopefully, we witnessed the last episode of the farce regarding the submission of asset statements by elected officials on Tuesday. For 20 years, within the framework of the so-called ‘pothen esches’ ...

When House president Annita Demetriou took over as leader of the deeply divided Disy, in the aftermath of the presidential elections, she was viewed as a temporary solution – a caretaker ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Tuesday that the 12 per cent penalty imposed on pensions taken two years before the legal retirement age of 65 cannot be abolished. If it were, ...

In a special session of the House of Representatives on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of ‘twin crime’ of the coup and occupation attended by the president, the party ...

On Monday Cyprus will mark the 50th anniversary of the coup against Archbishop Makarios and on Saturday the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion that followed it and led to ...

A divorce settlement is being negotiated between Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) and the CPP-Metron Consortium (CMC) which had the contract for the creation of an LNG terminal in Vassiliko. ...

The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades may be under the illusion that by speaking out in public he is protecting his legacy and the way his ten years in office would be ...

The leaders of unions representing public employees – teachers, civil servants, national guard officers, police, hospital doctors, nurses – met on Tuesday to discuss a study about public sector payroll drafted by ...

The farewell letter by the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin did not deal with the specifics of her failed mission. These would probably be included in the ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou has presented a six-point action plan to tackle illegal garbage dumping, noting that the problem is out of control. The minister is right, of course – but ...

A group of deputies, led by the president of the House legal affairs committee, Nicos Tornaritis of Disy, have decided that making threats, propagating fake news, the writing of offensive ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ frustration with the two sides pervaded the report on his mission of good offices in Cyprus. Suggestions for confidence building measures and business cooperation were largely ...

There were murmurings of discontent at the AGM of the Cyprus Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe), with fears expressed that results for this year would be down on 2023. The president of Pasyxe, ...

Cyprus will be setting a world first if the government’s bill aimed at rewarding football clubs for systematically breaking the law is approved by the legislature. Some deputies expressed ...

People cannot have failed to notice recently that the screw caps have been tethered to some water, milk and juices bottles. This was a trial run that has prompted much ...

The 48-hour strike called by doctors at public hospitals for next Tuesday and Wednesday isn’t certain to go ahead. These disputes often tend to get settled at the last ...

Various issues relating to pensioners have been pushed to the fore recently, mainly due to the deaths of several elderly people from heatstroke. Leaving aside that according to the Lancet ...

The statement of the Child Commissioner to the House education committee during a debate on banning mobile phones in schools could not have failed to raise eyebrows among most parents ...

A couple of months ago this column congratulated parliament for axing the additional free health services to civil servants that were not covered by Gesy, but we warned that Pasydy ...