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Discussing the 2022 budget for the ministry of education at the House education committee minister Prodromos Prodromou said the target was to submit the plan for the evaluation of teachers and ...

Apart from the new portal crashing, it was at least encouraging that it was due to strong interest in the government’s bicycle purchase subsidy scheme and not just down ...

Dire warnings have been coming from everywhere in recent weeks about inflation and the resulting hike in prices consumers will begin to really feel in the new year. We’re ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...

Indeed it was unprecedented that a court on Wednesday found three teenagers guilty in the bullying death of 16-year-old Panayiotis Stefani who died from alcohol poisoning after a house party ...

Following another recent demonstration by Dali residents over the delay in relocating two polluting asphalt plants in their area, MPs picked up the topic again on Wednesday at the House ...

The naturalisation plight of two children of a Greek Cypriot mother and a Turkish Cypriot father is a bit like being thrown back in time to 1980s Cyprus, and the ...

After around 13 years, Cyprus’ motorists will once more see traffic cameras on the roads as part of efforts to enhance safety and reduce fatalities. Monday saw the inauguration of the ...

The months of lockdowns, restrictions on movement, distance learning and work from home, made us all forget about the traffic chaos that was part of our daily lives before the ...

It should not have come as too much of a surprise that 500 traffic violations were recorded in only two hours during the rollout of the pilot scheme for traffic cameras, ...

It could be said that one of the reasons President Anastasiades has had an unjustifiably good press in his eight years in office, is that he is extremely skilful at ...

WHEN the government was drafting its plans for Gesy it decided that public hospitals should be taken out of the control of the health ministry and be placed under an ...

Nicosia welcomed Monday’s decision of the EU Foreign Affairs Council to draft a document with ways of dealing with Turkey’s failure to reverse its actions in the fenced ...

Billions of euros have been spent on defence over the years, but no party or individual politician has ever questioned this expenditure because security issues cannot be the subject of ...

Although inflationary pressures have been evident in the last couple of months, they were largely ignored. When the 38 per cent increase in the electricity rates hit the news, the government ...

Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect any efforts to find a ...

The members of the scientific team were of the view that a booster shot should be given to people above the age of 60, said Dr Maria Koliou. Only Professor Petros ...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the government has managed to get the general population to go along with lockdowns and other measures by throwing money at each problem as ...

Parliamentary spokesman of Akel Giorgos Loucaides wrote to the finance minister on Tuesday asking to know whether the government had any plans to submit a bill for regulating the issue ...

In the last few weeks, the Nicosia district court has issued injunctions suspending the holding of elections at two political parties. First, an injunction was issued against the holding of ...

One of the main fiscal dangers to the economy next year, according to the ministry of finance is posed by Gesy, the national health scheme, which could incur excessive costs ...

One of the policy objectives over the next four years, approved by the 29th congress of the Sek trade unions federation, which was completed on Thursday, was the “full restoration ...

Despite strikes and threat of strikes being very common in the public sector, they are unheard of at private schools. This was why Wednesday’s announcement of an indefinite strike ...

In the interview he gave to the CyBC on Monday night, President Anastasiades accused the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of being “a deft neutral” over the Cyprus issue. This was ...