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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 ...

Former Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos, predictably, denied any wrongdoing and defiantly declared that he was “spotlessly clean,” after the release of the investigation into the allegations of corruption made against ...

The noise surrounding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) may have died down after the exchanges between the governments of Greece and Cyprus over the previous weeks, but the problem has ...

Some things never change in Cyprus. A couple of days ago, at a House committee meeting with all the representatives invited, complained about the obstacles faced by foreign investors. The ...

A major disagreement surfaced at the House on Wednesday when Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis, presented the provisions of the bills for the reform of the Legal Service. The reform would ...

The CoLA dispute, thanks to which there will be a national three-hour work stoppage on Thursday affecting airports, hospitals, schools, public transport and inconveniencing tens of thousands of people, does ...

Just when more and more businesses are recognising the disadvantages of ‘work from home’, the Cyprus government has decided to introduce it in the public service. In fact, in many ...

The government has displayed astonishing ineptitude and amateurishness in the way it has dealt with the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI). Even worse, President Nikos Christodoulides has shown a staggering lack ...

Only last month former president Nicos Anastasiades made public a letter he had sent Disy leader Annita Demetriou, complaining because the party failed to publicly defend the work of his ...

We do not know how our politicians came up with the idea that society has a moral duty to ensure that living conditions for students at public universities are as ...

Cyprus has been facing a nursing shortage for some time, but nothing was done by the authorities apart from mounting a campaign encouraging young people to study nursing. The campaign ...

The terms of three commissioners will end in the next five weeks, it was reported, and President Christodoulides will have to decide whether these will be renewed or new people ...

The decision by the main unions to stage a national, three-hour work stoppage to press for the full restoration of the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) came as no surprise. ...

Every once in a while a politician or party leader advocates the need for collective decision-making, usually in relation to economic matters. And to back this demand, the example of ...

Perhaps it was the heat or the tail end of the silly season that caused the massive meltdown the past week over an interview hosted by YouTube provocateur and MEP ...

The blame game was in full swing on Friday at the parliament during the second meeting on the devastating Limassol fire in July where tensions were high and there were ...

Every now and again Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has an outburst relating to some alleged scandal or other, that seems to fade from the headlines as quickly as it appears. ...

Reports emerged in the Turkish Cypriot press on Tuesday that only Turkish Cypriots holding Republic of Cyprus ID could cross to the south of the island as of August 25 causing ...

The nurses’ union Pasyno has officially submitted a request to offer retirement at 60 for nurses working night shifts, which is set to impose new pressures and upheaval on the health ...

It’s getting hard to keep track of the litany of “environmental crimes” taking place in Cyprus many of which were laid out by the Sunday Mail at the weekend. ...