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The row between municipalities and the central government about the funding of the former is a direct consequence of the half-baked and superficial reform of local authorities carried out by ...

Before last Sunday’s ‘presidential’ election in the occupied north there was much speculation about what would happen in the event of a win for CTP leader Tufan Erhurman, who, ...

The parties acted sensibly and responsibly in the way they handled the government’s bill for the reform of the Audit Office, which in its original form would have placed ...

Minister of Justice and Public Order, Marios Hartsiotis, made some astonishing statements about organised crime on Wednesday. Speaking to journalists after a meeting at the legislature, Hartsiotis said that “organised ...

Although it is the job of every government to reassure people it is in control and has answers for all the problems facing the country, it is often evident that ...

Answers given to deputies at Monday’s House defence committee meeting by Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas came as a breath of fresh air. His direct and honest responses were a ...

In the end, CTP leader Tufan Erhurman won the elections in the north with what could be described as a landslide victory. Although it was widely expected he would win, ...

We do not believe attorney-general George Savvides wants to curtail free speech, the most fundamental principle of a democracy, but the idea he put forward on Tuesday about legislation restricting ...

Government politicians are terrified of strikes in the broader public sector. This is most probably because public sector unions represent large numbers of voters which no politician ever wants to ...

Three construction companies secured 41 percent of public projects in the 10-year period up to 2024, said the Audit Office in a report released on Tuesday. The report also pointed out that ...

Well into the new school year, the education ministry is still nowhere near to introducing the new evaluation system for teachers. The relevant bill had been submitted to the legislature ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to present himself and his government as influential players in regional affairs and Gaza in particular lead to rather embarrassing situations. On Sunday, speaking about ...

For too long, the Republic’s defence spending was rather random. This was partly because only a few countries would sell arms to Cyprus, mainly Russia and France, and partly ...

It is still very early to say whether the ceasefire agreement signed by Israel and Hamas on Thursday will lead to the full implementation of US President Donald Trump’s 20...

Many will be wondering whether the Deputy Minister for Innovation, Research and Digitalisation Nicodemos Damianou was joking on Wednesday when he said the government would introduce AI into the public ...

Nobody could say with any degree of certainty that the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas on Wednesday will last longer than a week or two, but it was a ...

There is still some time to go until the parliamentary elections, but speculative reports based on opinion polls have already been appearing. According to the latest poll conducted by Prime ...

It beggars belief that political parties want to amend the law governing the staging of demonstrations and public protests, which the legislature approved just three months ago. On Monday they ...

The way President Nikos Christodoulides speaks in public, nobody would have guessed that he had once had a career as a diplomat, that he served for almost five years as ...

Attorney-general George Savvides has been one of the most maligned state officials in Cyprus. For years he has been the target of a campaign instigated by the former auditor-general who ...

The use of force by the police outside the foreign ministry, and across the road from the presidential palace, on Thursday night, to disperse a small crowd of demonstrators, protesting ...

The audit office should be commended for highlighting the long-term water policy failures, for which all the governments of the last 30 years have a share of responsibility. They have all ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his spokesmen made a big deal about the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ alleged assertion that negotiations should resume from where they stopped in Crans Montana in 2017. ...

In the last five years, there have been some 15,000 applications by third country nationals to purchase real estate in Cyprus, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. More than a third of ...