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As long as authorities stay bogged down in the minutiae, traffic cams will see more delays Reading about the cascade of failures across the new traffic cams system is like ...

After receiving the go-ahead for ‘dynamic measures’ from the overwhelming majority of its membership, the bank employees’ union Etyk announced a 24-hour warning strike at Hellenic Bank. Etyk’s executive ...

‘A company that cooperates with the CIA based in Cyprus,’ read the headline of a report which appeared in a daily newspaper on Tuesday. The suggestion was that this was ...

Everyone is waiting to hear what the government plans to do about the rising prices that have hit living standards and do not look like falling any time soon. President ...

A video, showing a bulldozer clearing a stretch of the beach front in the fenced-off part Varosha while workers were placing sunbeds, sparked the inevitable uproar among Greek Cypriots, all ...

During the pandemic, the government would often defend the restrictions it was imposing by citing what was happening in other EU countries. This was used as emphatic proof that it ...

Political leaders of Cyprus praised the speech given by Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the joint session of US Congress. They were impressed by his references to the ...

On Wednesday morning the sheep and goat farmers arrived outside the presidential palace to protest about the government’s failure to ensure the PDO specs for halloumi were followed by ...

In a report about last year’s parliamentary elections, prepared by Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers, the public broadcaster was singled out for special mention. The ...

At the same time as the general population is benefitting from the lifting of most Covid restrictions, we read that elderly people continue to be virtual prisoners in care homes ...

It was no surprise that the political parties and the nationalist media completely ignored a warning by the Vice President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas about the possibility of ...

For months now, the labour minister, Zeta Emilianidou has been having meetings with union bosses and representatives of employers’ organisations about the introduction of a national minimum wage, which was ...

Foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides made a strong case for Cyprus with regard to the sixth package of sanctions against Russia planned by the European Commission. He was correct to point ...

WITH the UN warning last month of famine in around 80 countries worldwide due to pandemic fallout and the Ukraine war, and with impending shortages and rising prices looming in the ...

The command of the British Bases may have thought a charity concert at the Curium amphitheatre to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was a good idea especially ...

The bank employees’ union Etyk has invited all its members to district general assemblies next week to vote on strike measures. The union has been in a dispute over pay ...

President Anastasiades made a rousingly defiant speech at the 14th Congress of the New Democracy party in Athens, at which he was a guest speaker, to justify his handling of ...

The central committee of Akel meets this weekend to discuss the proposal prepared by the political bureau for the presidential elections. The political bureau will give the central committee a ...

It was good to see the House education committee starting a debate about public school opening hours and plans for all-day schools. This is an initiative of the committee chairman, ...

JUST over a year ago, the government was celebrating because the European Commission finally registered halloumi as a protected designation of origin (PDO). The registration had waited for years because ...

It is difficult not to view the anti-corruption authority, whose members were appointed by President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday, with a dose of cynicism. This has nothing to do with ...

Labour Day offered an opportunity to Akel to repeat the narrative about the government widening economic inequality and creating a bleak future for the workers. This narrative has been served ...

Russia’s ‘special military operation’ for the alleged de-Nazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine has entered its third month with no end in sight. On the contrary, there has been an ...

Another candidacy for the 2023 presidential elections was announced on Friday, bringing the total of number of candidates standing, so far, to six. If there are more than six, we apologise ...