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In the end, the outcry over the demolition of an iconic and beautiful 1930s building in the centre of Nicosia last weekend wasn’t just a social-media outcry. The Cyprus ...

With UN Assistant Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo due to visit Cyprus within a week, it is not clear yet whether the two Cypriot leaders will have a second meeting beforehand on ...

There is no other country in the world in which parents’ associations of schools and teaching unions dictate the admissions policy and the courses of public universities. Union mentality is ...

The government’s failure to deny reports about the presence of Israeli security personnel at the perimeter of the Larnaca Airport fence and in the air traffic control-tower was not ...

There was an election character to President Nikos Christodoulides’ televised presentation of his government’s plans for 2025. He had invited ministers, state officials, senior civil servants and party representatives to ...

Under pressure to tackle the issue of high rents, the government took two bills to the legislature which it hopes would increase the supply of housing and push down prices. ‘...

It was very disappointing to see House president and Disy leader Annita Demetriou attend the memorial service for General Georgios Grivas in Limassol on Sunday and also take part in ...

The leaders of all the big unions met on Monday to decide their demands and plan of action for 2025. They decided that they would follow collective action in seeking the ...

When Finance Minister Makis Keravnos announced the scandalous plan by which the state would raise the betting tax and use the extra revenue to pay off the tax debts of ...

A few weeks before the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme was scheduled to come in to force, Akel issued a statement arguing that its introduction should be put on hold ...

The political system was overjoyed on Wednesday by the council of ministers’ decision to lower the voting age to 17. The decision inspired the familiar and tired rhetoric about broadening democratic ...

The cinema owners’ association has appealed to the government and the political parties to exclude cinemas from the venues at which a price cap on bottled water would be imposed. ...

If one thing was made clear by Monday’s meeting of the two leaders it was that neither possesses the political will, mettle or flexibility that would give the stagnant ...

The deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis was very proud of the fact that last year’s tourist arrivals exceeded four million for the first time. Koumis had expected arrivals ...

The Cyprus problem show is back. Nothing constructive or meaningful will be agreed, but that was never the objective. As has been made evident over the decades, the two sides ...

The audit office report about the state health services, Okypy, which was discussed at the House health committee on Thursday, must be seen as a red alert, an urgent warning ...

The unpaid tax debts of the football clubs are causing endless embarrassment to the government, which is paying for its inept handling of the matter. President Christodoulides, who made it ...

The arguments of the two sides – legislature and executive – regarding the law on disclosing the names of donors to the Agency for Social Support that is run by the first ...

Labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou never ceases to amaze with his economic thinking. On Tuesday morning, speaking on CyBC radio, he described the increases of about five per cent in the ...

It has become rather tiring listening to political parties calling for the resignation of the justice minister whenever the police commit a blunder in carrying out their duties. These calls ...

Not much was made of a comment by President Nikos Christodoulides while addressing a business conference in Limassol. He had told his audience that in September 2023 he had “a very ...

Newspapers reported earlier this week that the Tax Department was, at long last, preparing cases against four football clubs for unpaid tax debts. The reports, which named the four clubs, ...

Good relations between neighbouring countries are usually built through common strategic interests, business cooperation, trade, joint ventures and cultural exchanges. Governments may have to do some preparatory work, creating a ...

There were not many tributes in Cyprus for the former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 88, even though Greek Cypriots should be ...