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When Finance Minister Makis Keravnos announced the scandalous plan by which the state would raise the betting tax and use the extra revenue to pay off the tax debts of ...

A few weeks before the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme was scheduled to come in to force, Akel issued a statement arguing that its introduction should be put on hold ...

The political system was overjoyed on Wednesday by the council of ministers’ decision to lower the voting age to 17. The decision inspired the familiar and tired rhetoric about broadening democratic ...

The cinema owners’ association has appealed to the government and the political parties to exclude cinemas from the venues at which a price cap on bottled water would be imposed. ...

If one thing was made clear by Monday’s meeting of the two leaders it was that neither possesses the political will, mettle or flexibility that would give the stagnant ...

The deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis was very proud of the fact that last year’s tourist arrivals exceeded four million for the first time. Koumis had expected arrivals ...

The Cyprus problem show is back. Nothing constructive or meaningful will be agreed, but that was never the objective. As has been made evident over the decades, the two sides ...

The audit office report about the state health services, Okypy, which was discussed at the House health committee on Thursday, must be seen as a red alert, an urgent warning ...

The unpaid tax debts of the football clubs are causing endless embarrassment to the government, which is paying for its inept handling of the matter. President Christodoulides, who made it ...

The arguments of the two sides – legislature and executive – regarding the law on disclosing the names of donors to the Agency for Social Support that is run by the first ...

Labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou never ceases to amaze with his economic thinking. On Tuesday morning, speaking on CyBC radio, he described the increases of about five per cent in the ...

It has become rather tiring listening to political parties calling for the resignation of the justice minister whenever the police commit a blunder in carrying out their duties. These calls ...

Not much was made of a comment by President Nikos Christodoulides while addressing a business conference in Limassol. He had told his audience that in September 2023 he had “a very ...

Newspapers reported earlier this week that the Tax Department was, at long last, preparing cases against four football clubs for unpaid tax debts. The reports, which named the four clubs, ...

Good relations between neighbouring countries are usually built through common strategic interests, business cooperation, trade, joint ventures and cultural exchanges. Governments may have to do some preparatory work, creating a ...

There were not many tributes in Cyprus for the former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 88, even though Greek Cypriots should be ...

The UN Secretary-General has for 60 years been issuing reports about the situation in Cyprus and for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate. Until recently, these reports were issued twice a ...

The Cyprus problem was bound to feature in President Nikos Christodoulides’ New Year message in which he repeated that his “top priority” was the end of occupation, the liberation and ...

Apart from being in the top five producers of household waste per inhabitant in the EU, Cyprus has made a complete mess of treating this waste. Environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou ...

President Christodoulides offered a positive outlook for 2025 in his New Year message, which would be building on the government’s work of last year. He said 2024 was the year we ...

Back in the seventies, eighties and nineties, New Year’s Day editorials, like the messages of politicians and parties, expressed the hope that it would be the year of the ...

It is very reassuring hearing President Nikos Christodoulides speaking with such conviction about Cyprus’ strong relations with the United States, about Cyprus’ position in the West and his commitment to ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou went to Greece on Friday to discuss the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project with his Greek counterpart Theodoros Skylakakis. He told the Cyprus News Agency the ...

In his Christmas message, apart from explaining the importance of the birth of Jesus Christ, Archbishop Georgios also issued directives on how the government should deal with the Cyprus issue, ...