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During the pandemic restrictions, when everyone was locked up in the house for days, many people, desperate for fresh air and open space, seized any opportunity given by the authorities ...

In an announcement issued on Thursday, Edek lashed out against Akel and Disy for voting against the establishment of a special court to which borrowers could apply if they were ...

Akel, understandably, has been trying to make the most out of the issue of the surveillance software companies that are based in Cyprus. It has been attacking the government and ...

Once a year Cyprus police roll out their ‘human face’ during Police Week and talk about modernising the force and becoming ‘closer to the public’ with various social schemes. Polls ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who passed away on Monday morning, after a long battle with cancer, might not have been very interested in questions of the faith and spiritual matters, but ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that CoLA (the cost of living allowance), also known as the ‘automatic price-index readjustment of wages’, is back in vogue. Its return to ...

The Gesy law prohibits private doctors treating Gesy patients in hospitals that are contracted to the HIO (Health Insurance Organisation). This had always been the case, even though the HIO ...

A law, in place since 2009, allows public universities to offer excess places to students with internationally recognized qualifications of access, such as the IB and A-levels. In the 13 years this ...

AFTER weeks of build-up in the media, the visit by members of the European parliament’s Pega committee, which is gathering information regarding the use of the Pegasus and similar ...

It was certain there would be a strong reaction by unions after 156 workers employed by two ground staff companies at Larnaca airport were handed redundancy notices. An impromptu two-hour strike ...

There was violence at two matches at the weekend, exposing the ineffectiveness of the measures taken by the authorities to quash hooliganism and highlighting the need for new thinking. In ...

Last week’s meeting of the House interior affairs committee was dispiriting, with the permanent secretary of the interior ministry admitting that “We’re out of options” when it comes ...

THE issue of C-sections in Cyprus reared its head again recently during a discussion at the House and on every occasion, it seems the number of women opting for this ...

A lot has been written and said lately about the plight of the elderly in Cyprus. Perhaps it has something to do with presidential electioneering. After all, with a growing ...

It’s only been three months since there was a massive fuss when two balconies on separate buildings collapsed in Paphos in the space of 24 hours and then it all ...

It’s almost surreal to read about the serious attacks on employees of the company operating the new system of traffic cameras. Cyprus has waited decades for a system to ...

The spat over the renovation of the Cetinkaya stadium in the buffer zone that has been going on for a couple of weeks appears to be taking on bigger dimensions. ...

If opinion polls are anything to go by, Nikos Christodoulides has built an astonishing lead with presidential elections less than four months away. His lead may have been bigger at ...

Everybody would like to see modern, well-equipped public hospitals and medical centres which provide patients with a good standard of health care, without making them wait for a long time ...

While the finance minister’s statements that a planned green fuel tax would not be going ahead for now is welcome news for motorists, it is likely that is only ...

A day rarely goes by without Akel complaining about what it calls the ‘expensiveness’ people must cope with. The party either issues a written announcement, or one of its officials ...

The three-month suspension of two doctors at Makarios hospital, pending a police investigation into their involvement in a case of alleged medical negligence, appears not to have been thought through ...

In two of the television debates of presidential candidates, Disy candidate, Averof Neophytou said the US lifted the arms embargo on Cyprus only after the candidate of the so-called centre ...

Ioannis Kasoulides’ first experience of government came almost 30 years ago when he was appointed spokesman of the first Clerides administration in 1993, while he served as foreign minister in the second. ...