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For the last 50 years, every September, the president of the Cyprus Republic addresses the UN General Assembly. In the years immediately after the 1974 Turkish invasion, some delegations stayed in the ...

It was inevitable that Akel would start protesting as soon as it became known that that government would not extend the duration of the measures that were implemented to help ...

Congratulations to Education Minister Athena Michaelidou for pursuing her decision to ban mobile phones from all public secondary schools. She had banned phones from primary schools and has now tabled ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) on Tuesday bowed to police pressure and banned away fans from a match scheduled for Sunday between Omonia 29 May and Apoel. Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou ...

Diko deputy Zacharias Koulias has never been a politician that could be taken seriously. His mouth has always worked faster than his brain, something that made him eminently quotable and ...

We have always had a rather ambiguous approach to the rule of law, which was evident once again after the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to remove Odysseas Michaelides from ...

The University of Cyprus is looking for €91m to build new student housing that will provide rooms for 870 students. This surprised deputies who discussed the matter because there had been ...

The report on the state health services, Okypy, for 2022, issued by the audit office earlier this week, illustrates how doctors have been plundering public hospitals, which were supposed to have ...

It was inevitable that the decision by the Supreme Constitutional Council to sack Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides for inappropriate conduct would be met with anger and suspicion by many people who ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus’ (CBC) decision to publish the interest rates being charged by each bank for different types of loans and the rates paid on deposits is a ...

Hooligan violence, which led to three police officers being injured (one needed surgery), led to the calling off of the Apollonas-Ael evening match in Limassol on Sunday. This resulted in ...

If three years ago someone had predicted that in 2024 the Cyprus Republic would be signing a roadmap for bilateral defence cooperation with the United States they would have been dismissed ...

After the two-month summer respite, on Monday, with the opening of all the schools, early morning traffic jams returned to the roads, especially in Nicosia and Limassol; in the case ...

The pharmacies association last week threatened to tell its members not to open outside of regular working hours – night and public holidays – from next month, if the issue of opening ...

It was very reassuring to hear deputies and several parties at Monday’s House finance committee meeting strongly object to the scandalous bill prepared by the government that would increase ...

Many in the audience of the theatre on Sunday evening may have thought that President Nikos Christodoulides was joking when he said that from next year girls would be able ...

The big decision about the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is expected to be taken today when all the stakeholders meet at the presidential palace to discuss details and address the ...

Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report about the treatment of Syrian migrants and refugees by the Cyprus and Lebanese authorities. The New York-based NGO, which interviewed some of these ...

People were mistaken in thinking the saga of the golden passports was over. Earlier this week former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades, who served in the first Anastasiades government from 2014 to 2018, ...

The Audit Office has not given up its quest to have the money given to some political parties ahead of the 2021 parliamentary elections returned and re-allocated to parties that were ...

It seems the Turkish Cypriot leadership enjoys presenting itself as the wronged and unfairly treated side in Cyprus. This sentiment was fueled a couple of a weeks ago by the ...

Everyone was taken by surprise to hear on Tuesday morning news that there was agreement on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) and that the council of ministers was scheduled to ...

Some may have thought that the government had abandoned the ill-conceived plan to impose a maximum price on bottled water at sales outlets where there is no competition. It has ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou’s decision to write to the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera), asking it to end the country’s status of ‘emerging’ market was long overdue and ...