CM: Our View

From the moment the official visit of President Nikos Christodoulides to the White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden was announced, the president, his spokesmen and their media ...

Our political parties never cease to amaze us. On Thursday they voted through a bill proposal that would increase the number of penalty points needed for the suspension of someone’...

The Tax office announced on Wednesday that the next day’s deadline for submission of 2023 tax returns had been put back by a month to November 30. Press reports had suggested ...

There had been 18 instances of attacks on delivery drivers since the start of the year said Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis. Fifteen of these had taken place in Limassol – the latest ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will be the first president of Cyprus to pay an official visit to the White House in 28 years, when he meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday afternoon. ...

Student parades were held in all towns on Monday to celebrate Oxi Day – the rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum to Greece on October 28, 1940 – which led to Greece’s victorious war ...

If the Cyprus problem could be solved with platitudes, political gimmicks and the repetition of slogans, President Nikos Christodoulides would have finalised the settlement months ago. These are the tools ...

Residents of the Famagusta district village of Frenaros have been protesting about the plans of Bioland Energy to build huge photovoltaic parks in their area. They walked out of a ...

Concerns were expressed at the House health committee about the purchase of a third private hospital by an investment fund as it could create an oligopoly in the provision of ...

Although all the economic indicators for next year are positive and Cyprus was the third fastest-growing economy in the eurozone in 2024, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos did not try to hide ...

It came as something of a surprise that President Nikos Christodoulides refused to sign the amendment to the law governing the Social Support Agency and referred it to the Supreme ...

Not wanting to be left out of the efforts to tackle the so-called housing crisis, Disy presented a range of proposals for affordable housing on Monday. Speaking at the presentation, ...

Cyprus is the “champion in the housing crisis”, reported Akel mouthpiece Haravghi last Monday. The party has been very critical of the government’s housing policy because it has been ...

The mayor of Athienou in Larnaca has made a strong case for a crossing at nearby Pyroi following agreement by the two leaders in New York with the UN chief ...

The revelation that former President Nicos Anastasiades and former Disy leader Averof Neophytou held a meeting last week fired speculation about what they could be up to. It was certainly ...

The dinner in New York did not bridge the differences between the two sides, but it kept the process alive and confirmed the continued involvement of the UN. The UN ...

The behaviour of teachers and parents at Nicosia’s Pancyprian Gymnasium was, to put it mildly, disgraceful. This was a shameful exhibition of mob rule, with all its features – ignorance, ...

The two leaders will dine with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York, in what has been classed as an ‘informal’ meeting, which would suggest no decisions would be taken ...

The way the government is carrying out economic policy should worry everyone. Although it claims that fiscal discipline and prudent spending are its priorities its erratic decisions do not really ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou put the cat among the pigeons with his idea of taking the ownership and control of the electricity grid away from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that the Cyprus Republic had violated Article 3 of European Convention on Human Rights, prohibiting inhuman or degrading treatment, in its treatment of ...

The subservience of the political parties to the unions, which was demonstrated at the House finance committee meeting on Monday, is extremely worrying. Only two out of six parties represented ...

Two Indian delivery drivers were attacked by a mob of 15 thugs, in Kato Polemidia, Limassol, on Saturday, just before midnight. They were beaten up, one of them suffering a broken ...

The dinner date with the UN secretary-general has been set. President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will be having a trilateral dinner in New York with Antonio ...