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Unprecedented traffic jams and bottlenecks were caused in the already congested streets of central Nicosia during the morning rush hour on Wednesday. The reason was that the short stretch of ...

The subservience of the political parties to the unions, which was demonstrated at the House finance committee meeting on Monday, is extremely worrying. Only two out of six parties represented ...

Two Indian delivery drivers were attacked by a mob of 15 thugs, in Kato Polemidia, Limassol, on Saturday, just before midnight. They were beaten up, one of them suffering a broken ...

The dinner date with the UN secretary-general has been set. President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will be having a trilateral dinner in New York with Antonio ...

Everyone in Cyprus was aware of the Pentakomo waste treatment plant scandal, which now threatens to scupper the appointment of Costas Kadis as commissioner for oceans and fisheries. Kadis, who ...

The Union of Cyprus Pensioners (Ekysy) held its annual conference on Thursday morning before staging a demonstration outside the finance ministry to push their demand for more support from the ...

Iran carried out its largest-ever attack on Israel on Tuesday night launching a barrage of missiles, which it said were aimed at military installations. The aerial defences of Israel, supported ...

Appearance-wise, President Nikos Christodoulides acted decisively in sacking the chief of police, the deputy chief and acting head of the Nicosia Central Prison, as soon as he returned to Cyprus ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) started a new campaign on Thursday aimed at tackling abuses of Gesy, which “constitute one of the major problems threatening the viability of the system”. ...

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 ...