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The sanctions imposed on Cypriot companies and individuals by the US and UK last week took the government by surprise. It was not expecting this and found itself in a ...

It only took a few hours for the appointment of Michalis Michael as member of the Public Service Commission to degenerate into farce. Within hours of his appointment, social media ...

Cyprus’ natural gas reserves, ever since the first discovery in the Aphrodite field in September 2011, have been politically, never commercially, exploited. Politicians never skipped an opportunity to tell us about ...

All the presidential candidates met the deadline for the submission of the accounts of their election campaigns to the elections registrar. The exercise is supposedly meant to serve transparency, but ...

A very worrying attitude has developed regarding the operation of the national health scheme Gesy – that funds are inexhaustible and that the medical services on offer must keep expanding. This ...

It might not have been an election promise designed to win votes, but President Nikos Christodoulides had made it clear he would set up a National Security Council (NSC), which ...

Every year people in residential areas around the island have to put up with Easter bonfires and firecrackers at all times of the night, and every year police say they ...

Despite the rhetoric about his determination to secure the resumption of talks for a Cyprus settlement as soon as possible, President Nikos Christodoulides’ official visit to Egypt – a little over ...

The latest youth unemployment figures released by the European Commission inspired a rather melodramatic announcement by Dipa, urging the government to make the tackling of the issue a priority. In ...

After hooligans went on a rampage outside the Tassos Papadopoulos-Eleftheria indoor stadium in Nicosia last month, setting fire to the bus company offices, politicians decided to address the matter. President ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has kept his election promise to make the bank employees who took voluntary early retirement eligible for unemployment benefit. The government has submitted a bill custom-made for ...

The auditor general’s habit of reporting the government to different international bodies whenever his missives are ignored has become something of a running joke. When his demands are not ...

The new Disy leader and president of the House of Representatives, Annita Demetriou, on Monday visited the Diko offices for a meeting with party chief Nicolas Papadpoulos. After the meeting, ...

The populists of the political parties have found a new, worthy cause in the last few weeks – to protect people from rising interest rates. They appear to have forgotten that ...

The first national council meeting under President Nikos Christodoulides was held on Thursday and, as per usual, it did not amount to very much. It was a ‘get to know ...

A UNHCR report on Monday aimed at identifying perceptions and attitudes towards refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants and comparing trends and shifts in public opinion since the last such survey in 2018. ...

If there was a strategic plan by politicians, parties, unions and parents associations to undermine public education and destroy its last remaining shreds of credibility it would not have gone ...

“Enough with this [fan rioting] issue. It has been discussed over and over, and every time following incidents there are meetings upon meetings,” President Nikos Christodoulides said after Sunday’s ...

The government was given a lesson on Sunday on how the media could cause unnecessary problems for it. Sunday’s front-page story in the weekly newspaper Simerini claimed that “a ...

Towards the end of the Christofias presidency, with Cyprus excluded from the markets, state coffers almost empty and the banks on life support, there were attempts by the EU and ...

It is a great relief that deputies of the House legal affairs committee have decided to engage in further discussions before taking any decisions on the two law proposals that ...

Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment of wages at 50 per cent ...

For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring Okypy to hire more nurses ...

When deputies from the House legal affairs committee meet today to pick up discussion on ‘fake news’ they will have their work cut out for them. The discussion was shelved ...