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Today schools in Cyprus will be closed because it is Saint George’s day. April 23 was never a school holiday in the past but became one in 2023 when a Georgios ...

President Nikos Chritodoulides announced before Tuesday’s council of ministers meeting that he had asked the US government for the assistance of the FBI in the investigation into the ‘Sandy’ ...

The Christodoulides government has made a habit of pulling the plug on several public projects, regardless of the cost to the taxpayer. The most high profile termination was the Vassiliko ...

Almost three weeks have passed since journalist Makarios Drousiotis posted the allegations made by the woman dubbed ‘Sandy’. Much has happened since then, including the categorical public denials by the ...

The joke about the licensing of hotels and other tourist premises continued on Thursday when the legislature approved a government bill to extend the operation of these illegal establishments for ...

Calm appears to have returned to the buffer zone in the Pyla area, Unficyp having taken control of the situation. Much was made by the Cyprus government of the incursion ...

It seems that tragedy must strike before the authorities recognise the existence of a problem and decide that dealing with it cannot be put off any longer. In the latest ...

There are times when the decisions and actions of the law enforcement authorities do not stand up to rational scrutiny. The visit, in the early hours of Easter Saturday, by ...

The investigative committee, under former supreme court judge Andreas Paschalides, has discovered the creators of the 12-minute video which exposed the ‘money for access to the president’ methods. Black Cube, ...

The leader of Disy and House president Annita Demetriou is increasingly sounding like a spokesperson of the government, even though her party is theoretically in opposition. This stance is very ...

Mercifully, the whole civilisation did not die in the early hours of Wednesday as had been predicted by President Donald Trump. It will survive for at least another fortnight, the ...

Allegations about underage sex, corrupt judges, big pay-offs and a secret brotherhood of politicians operating in the shadows that were posted on X some 10 days ago have been dominating the ...

For several decades, anyone with a university degree was eligible to become a public school teacher, regardless of their abilities. All that was required was a bachelors degree from a ...

With parliamentary elections less than two months away, the scare stories about the composition of the new House are becoming more frequent, especially as opinion polls suggest there could be ...

The shortage of nursing staff is in the region of 600 according to Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides, who has been trying to solve the problem caused by the public sector nursing ...

The growing rift between Unites States president Donald Trump and his Nato partners is a very worrying development for the West. Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk hit the nail ...

How predictable that the two hoteliers’ organisations, Pasyxe and Stek, are not satisfied with the support measures announced by the government last week and want more. Last Thursday, the president ...

Despite the pomp that accompanied the meeting in Cairo between President Nikos Christodoulides and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday there was nothing new to report. The governments of Cyprus ...

In a meeting behind closed doors last week, the House legal affairs committee finalised a bill that would allow the secret service (KYP) to listen in on people’s telephone ...

Measures to “support society” by the state whenever there is a spike in prices appear to have become the norm in the last few years. The precedent was set during ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman could not suppress his anger at the comments made by President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday after the March 25 parade in Nicosia. In a post on ...

The government came under pressure to come up with support measures that will supposedly help people cope with the rising prices. President Nikos Christodoulides, in a video message, personally announced ...

If anything marked the meeting of the national council on Monday, it was its low-key nature. It proved a non-event, raising the question of why President Nikos Christodoulides called it ...

What is the point of investigations into the expenditure of candidates during an election campaign, given that everyone exceeds the limit set by the law? Most candidates show complete disregard ...