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A big proportion of the Cyprus Republic’s population does not have a positive picture of the European Union. According to the Spring survey of the Eurobarometer, only 42 per cent ...

The government has signed a deal to buy six assault helicopters from France at a total cost of €140 million and the expenditure was approved behind closed doors by the parties ...

There was a relatively positive outcome to Thursday’s mass meeting of stakeholders under the minister of health, that discussed the provision of healthcare at weekends. It would be nice ...

Sometimes it’s hard to know if the pollsters in Brussels actually believe the things they hear from the people they survey in member states from time to time, or ...

The allegations made by director of Nicosia Central Prison Anna Aristotelous against a senior-ranking police officer of the drug squad have completely dominated the news since the story broke last ...

The timing of Disy’s political-ideological conference seemed rather strange. If it were intended to give a boost to the candidacy of party leader Averof Neophytou it was done too ...

President Anastasiades has eight months left in office and from his recent behaviour we can deduce that he is already thinking about his legacy and how he will be remembered. ...

On the surface, the suggestion about selling natural gas to Turkey by presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis, seems like a good way of breaking the deadlock in the talks. With direct ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), the State Health Services (Okypy) and the minister of health were served a reminder of who is in charge of healthcare policy in Cyprus. The ...

Every few months the deputy ministry for tourism comes up with a new or recycled old idea. The latest, announced on Wednesday after the council of ministers, meeting was the ...

It’s hard to blame the residents of the nine communities in the Vasiliko area for going out to protest on Monday at the place where a mountain of tyres ...

WHEN the combination of politicians, unions and civil servants take the responsibility of managing a business operating in market conditions there can only be one result – financial disaster and eventually ...

The government’s refusal to release the Akamas Plan to the legislature was certain to raise suspicions among everyone interested in the protection of this area natural beauty. Many people, ...

The opening of the competitive electricity market has turned into an ongoing joke. The first deadline missed was in July 2014 and it was followed by one in July 2016, July 2019 and ...

Members of the House finance committee were quite right to stall the release of money needed to pave the way for international tenders that would allow private companies to create ...

President Tayyip Erdogan has been behaving like a man out of control, constantly on the lookout for imaginary enemies of Turkey to attack. The broadsides against Greece, which followed Prime ...

Despite being seriously ill, Archbishop Chrysostomos still enjoys grabbing attention by opening his mouth and talking about matters he should stay clear of, like the presidential elections. In an interview ...

The war in Ukraine entered its 100th day on Friday with President Zelenskiy saying that Russian troops had taken control of 20 per cent of the country. A few days earlier, ...

Understandably, everyone is complaining about the soaring fuel prices, which on Friday went up yet again, with unleaded 95 now at about €1.81 per litre and diesel at €1.88 per litre. The increase ...

On the face of it, the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has a point in criticising energy regulator Cera for its decision not to grant the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) any ...

Two people have received jail sentences in the past week for rape, one of them was aged 24 and the other 70. The pensioner got ten years in jail and the younger ...

It was about time the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), which runs the national health scheme Gesy, tried to address the weaknesses of the scheme that incur higher costs and also ...

Turkish Cypriot parties, unions, NGOs and media have openly slammed the financial aid protocol signed by the north’s regime and Turkey, which will restrict democratic rights and freedoms by ...

The targeted measures for helping ‘vulnerable’ families deal with soaring inflation, announced by finance minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday, should be seen more as a gesture of help rather an ...