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The government has come under a lot of criticism from Larnaca municipality and a section of the media for the decisions it has taken about the development of the town’...

For months now, the House education committee has been debating two bills on higher education, tabled by the government, without reaching agreement. Wednesday’s behind-closed-doors meeting was cut short, because ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that the secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek declined the education minister’s invitation to attend talks on the formulation of a new evaluation ...

President of the Fiscal Council Michalis Persianis made a revelation at the House finance committee on Monday during the discussion of the 2025 state budget, that was largely ignored. He said ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou made a fool of himself at the weekend when he issued an official statement denying he had made comments attributed to him in a report by ...

The ongoing saga of deputy mayors – part of the local government reform voted through in last June’s elections – has been farcical from beginning to end, and shows no signs ...

A group called the Nicosia-Cyprus Capital initiative has launched a new push for a rethink on the way traffic is allowed on Makarios Avenue. Anyone who has been down there ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand. The president, ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou was careful in her wording on Tuesday when she said her party was looking into a way around the decades-old contentious issue of strikes in essential ...

The latest figures on violence against women in Cyprus cited by Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Migs) on Monday should be more than a ...

Cyprus is currently beset by labour unrest from doctors to hotel employees to cement workers, predictable in that a number of collective agreements in different sectors are up for renewal ...

Donald Trump’s return to the top of US politics may be a triumph or a disaster, depending on who you ask. One thing’s for sure, though: such an ...

MP Rita Superman and a representative of the Third Age Observatory on Wednesday spoke about how Cyprus was failing its aging population – and the thousands of domestic workers who take ...

It was rather amusing to hear the director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos responding to the scathing remark made by the former prime minister of Greece, Antonis ...

Audit office spokesman Marios Petrides was on a television show last week talking about public tenders and insisting the state’s policy should be to award a contract for public ...

Four young people perished on the roads after midnight on Saturday in two separate car crashes. In the first, on the Frenaros-Dherynia road, three young men, aged between 18 and 20, were ...

Odysseas Michaelides may have been removed from his post, but some of his work still haunts President Nikos Christodoulides. Last week, the report Michaelides had released at the end of 2023 ...

The letter from the Director of Circular Economy at the European Commission Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, about Cyprus’ failure to meet recycling targets and reduce landfilling, should have come as no surprise. ...

Secondary school students will be out on the streets today to stage their annual protest against the anniversary of the establishment of the pseudo-state. The Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash ...

After a brief meeting with representatives of the state health services, Okypy, the perennially angry leader of Pasyki (government doctors union), Sotiris Koumas walked out because his members would not ...

The Paphos-Polis highway is the fourth public project this government has terminated because of major disputes with the contractor. Last year it pulled the plug on the waste treatment plant ...

The average wage in Cyprus is lower than the EU average, according to Eurostat’s survey for 2023. The average full-time adjusted salary per employee in the EU is €37,863 whereas in ...

The election of Donald Trump caused a certain degree of unease in Nicosia, especially after the government’s unrelenting talking up of President Nikos Christodoulides’ ‘official’ meeting with the outgoing ...

House president Annita Demetriou and independent deputy Alexandra Attalides deserve praise for submitting two bills aimed at ending the benefits for life given to a president of the republic and ...