Our View: Government volte face on Omicron state quarantine
Monday’s decision by the council of ministers about the Omicron cases did not last very long. What the minister of health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, said after...
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Our View: Let’s hope parties put interests of economy above right to avoid repaying loans
Presenting the 2022 State Budget to the House of Representatives on Thursday, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said the drawing of funds from European sources and...
Our View: If banks want to reduce costs they should act on it
The main challenges facing the banking sector were the high level on NPLs, ineffective foreclosure legislation, red tape and the “unsustainable cost-to-income ratio” said the...
Our View: There is no point in Guterres appointing a new envoy at present
The new UN Special Representative, Colin Stewart, took a tour of the buffer zone on Wednesday and on Friday will have separate meetings with the...
Our View: MP’s challenge to rule by decree a first but motives unclear
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, an MP has spoken out about the government’s unchallenged health decrees that we’ve been living...
Our View: Not up to MPs to set policy for increasing births
One of the problems facing Cyprus that does not get too much attention is the low birth-rate, which in 2020 was a disappointing 1.3 per...
Our View: Long fight ahead for gender equality in top positions
The House human rights committee on Monday discussed issues of gender equality and noted the under-representation of women in the leadership pyramid of political, business...
Our View: Very little Cyprus can do legally to stop migrant influx
Before Pope Francis had even arrived in Cyprus, it was announced that he would be taking 50 migrants back to the Vatican with him. Ten...
Our View: Minister’s ‘campaigning by stealth’ is hypocritical
The hypocrisy of Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides is astounding. He has been engaging in activities that could only be described as electoral campaigning, but wrote...
Our View: Anastasiades needs to get his priorities straight
As he approaches the final year of his second term, President Nicos Anastasiades seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time defending himself and...
Our View: Price differences across the divide causing new kinds of tensions
Under pressure from oil companies and petrol stations about Greek Cypriots going to the north to fill up their cars with cheap petrol, deputies of...
Our View: Parents shouldn’t waste time protesting over something as harmless as mask wearing
The public protests by scores of parents against mandatory mask wearing by students aged six and over and rapid tests at all schools are, to...
Our View: Gesy is simply unsustainable without reform
Perhaps now the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has sounded a warning about the finances of the national health scheme, Gesy, veering out of control, the political...
Our View: Constant ‘clarifications’ on measures confusing and totally inconsistent
Much confusion has been caused by the latest batch of Covid-19 measures announced by the government on Wednesday. In fact, the health ministry officials that...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Wanted – a Turk loving UN whipping boy
OUR ESTABLISHMENT will not claim any kudos for predicting the return of the police state as anyone with half a brain would have seen it...
Our View: Consensus has made a mockery of local government reform
Reform of local government has degenerated into farce. This was inevitable given that the government sought to achieve this through a misguided pursuit of consensus....
Our View: Cars allowed back on Makarios Ave a result of half baked municipal plans
In the end, Nicosia municipal council voted against banning private cars from the redesigned section of Makarios Avenue, which is set to be re-opened on...
Our View: New measure a lockdown of sorts for the unvaccinated
The government found a very smart way of presenting what is a type of lockdown for the unvaccinated. From December 15, only people over the...
Our View: Personal data protection stymies fight against crime
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides was perfectly justified in expressing his disappointment over last month’s Supreme Court decision that retaining customer data for six months by telecommunications...
Our View: President either an inept negotiator or he got what he wanted
Although the publication of the minutes of meetings held at Crans-Montana in July 2017 were seen as a vindication of President Anastasiades’ stance, they also...
