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The audit office’s report into the long catalogue of illegalities surrounding the operation of a fish farm in Trimiklini, in the Limassol district hills, is a damning indictment of ...

It is difficult to understand why the European authorities have targeted journalists, media owners and their families as potential security threats which national governments would have the powers to spy ...

It has become something of a political tradition for opposition parties to call for a meeting of the national council whenever there is the slightest hint of possible movement on ...

After the latest extension given to Chevron to submit an ‘optimal development plan’ for the offshore Aphrodite gas field, people will rightly be wondering whether Cyprus will ever exploit its ...

In 1988 a law was approved that set out the benefits the president of the republic and president of the House of Representatives would enjoy when they retire. Apart from a ...

The appointment of the former foreign minister of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, as the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy to Cyprus was finalised on Sunday night, when Turkish Cypriot ...

President Tayyip Erdogan’s groundbreaking visit to Athens on Thursday was a strong indication of the two countries’ determination to put their relations on a sound footing. It was the ...

One newspaper claimed that the audit office’s report about the earnings of President Nikos Christodoulides, while he was serving as acting government spokesman, between 2014 and early 2018, had ‘detonated a ...

It should not have surprised anybody that in the ‘PISA 2022’ international evaluation of students Cyprus finished in the bottom quarter of the rankings – number 62 out of 81 countries. We could not ...

There is no end to the long-running foreclosures farce, which will be on centre stage at the House plenum on Friday, when the government bills, which are aimed at appeasing ...

Public outrage, understandably, greeted the news that a school bus full of children had caught fire while in motion. Nobody was hurt, but the fire could not be dismissed as ...

A few days ago, Disy president Annita Demetriou added her voice to the issue of EU unanimity, following a vote by the European Parliament to implement a number of reforms ...

MPs were out beating their breasts on Thursday, in tears for the poor public who are faced with the new carbon tax slated for early next year plus having to ...

While tributes poured into the US from around the world on Thursday after the death at 100 of controversial, American politician Henry Kissinger, the silence from Nicosia was deafening. Neither the ...

Is there anything duller than listening to the deputy tourism minister droning on about ‘sustainable tourism’ at the recent Malta conference at a time when the last pristine area of ...

It was no surprise to read that in 2022, social protection and healthcare expenditure, which encompasses inpatient and outpatient care, medicines and sickness benefits, measured as a percentage of GDP, stood ...

At a meeting with ministers and other officials last Monday, President Christodoulides revealed that he had tried to secure the services of experts from abroad to help with investigations of ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades issued a statement on Friday, welcoming the decision of the Authority Against Corruption to investigate serious allegations of corruption made against him in a book by ...

What a complete mess the authorities have made with the road works in the Akamas. It appears that restrictions set out by the environment department, in line with the Akamas ...

Deputies at the House commerce committee criticised the government for the delay in appointing a Commissioner of the Development for Mountain Communities. The post had been vacant for more than ...

The saga of the Aphrodite gas field continues, although according to the latest information from Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou, there is a possibility it would reach its conclusion, in some ...

It has become rather tiring listening to Akel politicians constantly complaining about the difficult material circumstances of many people and demanding more state spending to support them, while never suggesting ...

After someone praised the government’s prompt and decisive response to the sanctions imposed on Cypriot nationals by the UK and US governments last April, in a conversation with a ...

The establishment of a committee has become the answer to every problem faced by the government in Cyprus. Nicos Anastasiades started this practice during his presidency, setting up a committee ...