#Our View

It was rather amusing to hear the director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos responding to the scathing remark made by the former prime minister of Greece, Antonis ...

Odysseas Michaelides may have been removed from his post, but some of his work still haunts President Nikos Christodoulides. Last week, the report Michaelides had released at the end of 2023 ...

The Paphos-Polis highway is the fourth public project this government has terminated because of major disputes with the contractor. Last year it pulled the plug on the waste treatment plant ...

The average wage in Cyprus is lower than the EU average, according to Eurostat’s survey for 2023. The average full-time adjusted salary per employee in the EU is €37,863 whereas in ...

Sixty-four years after independence and 20 years as an EU member-state, the Cyprus Republic still remains in the clutches of the Church. This is a legacy of Archbishop Makarios that no ...

Presenting his ministry’s budget for 2025 at the House finance committee on Monday, Health Minister Michael Damianos said that an action plan would be prepared in the immediate future for ...

From the moment the official visit of President Nikos Christodoulides to the White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden was announced, the president, his spokesmen and their media ...

Our political parties never cease to amaze us. On Thursday they voted through a bill proposal that would increase the number of penalty points needed for the suspension of someone’...

The Tax office announced on Wednesday that the next day’s deadline for submission of 2023 tax returns had been put back by a month to November 30. Press reports had suggested ...

There had been 18 instances of attacks on delivery drivers since the start of the year said Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis. Fifteen of these had taken place in Limassol – the latest ...

Student parades were held in all towns on Monday to celebrate Oxi Day – the rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum to Greece on October 28, 1940 – which led to Greece’s victorious war ...

If the Cyprus problem could be solved with platitudes, political gimmicks and the repetition of slogans, President Nikos Christodoulides would have finalised the settlement months ago. These are the tools ...

Residents of the Famagusta district village of Frenaros have been protesting about the plans of Bioland Energy to build huge photovoltaic parks in their area. They walked out of a ...

Concerns were expressed at the House health committee about the purchase of a third private hospital by an investment fund as it could create an oligopoly in the provision of ...

Although all the economic indicators for next year are positive and Cyprus was the third fastest-growing economy in the eurozone in 2024, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos did not try to hide ...

The mayor of Athienou in Larnaca has made a strong case for a crossing at nearby Pyroi following agreement by the two leaders in New York with the UN chief ...

The revelation that former President Nicos Anastasiades and former Disy leader Averof Neophytou held a meeting last week fired speculation about what they could be up to. It was certainly ...

The two leaders will dine with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York, in what has been classed as an ‘informal’ meeting, which would suggest no decisions would be taken ...

The way the government is carrying out economic policy should worry everyone. Although it claims that fiscal discipline and prudent spending are its priorities its erratic decisions do not really ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou put the cat among the pigeons with his idea of taking the ownership and control of the electricity grid away from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (...

The Union of Cyprus Pensioners (Ekysy) held its annual conference on Thursday morning before staging a demonstration outside the finance ministry to push their demand for more support from the ...

Appearance-wise, President Nikos Christodoulides acted decisively in sacking the chief of police, the deputy chief and acting head of the Nicosia Central Prison, as soon as he returned to Cyprus ...

For the last 50 years, every September, the president of the Cyprus Republic addresses the UN General Assembly. In the years immediately after the 1974 Turkish invasion, some delegations stayed in the ...

It was inevitable that Akel would start protesting as soon as it became known that that government would not extend the duration of the measures that were implemented to help ...