CM: Our View

Attending an event to celebrate the 95th anniversary of football club Olympiakos Nicosia, President Nikos Christodoulides donated €95,000 as a birthday gift. The only justification he offered for this indefensible squandering ...

It is deeply ironic that Cyprus’ state authorities are using a European regulation on media freedom, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), to restrict media freedom by exercising control over ...

Less than a fifth of students in secondary education attend vocational education and training programmes, said President Nikos Christodoulides, in an address to the opening ceremony of the ninth national ...

The coordinating committee of the Federation of Environmental Organisations of Cyprus (Opok) supported the residents of Mitsero who oppose the setting up of an asphalt production plant in an area ...

Playing host to the Famagusta municipal council at the presidential palace on Monday, President Nikos Christodoulides said that his proposal about the fenced area of Famagusta, was still on the ...

The discussion about regulating property purchases by third country nationals resumed at the House interior committee last week. The committee had embarked on the discussion of law proposals that would ...

Another ‘constructive’ meeting of the two leaders was held on Tuesday, according to an announcement issued by the UN. A week earlier, they had a ‘positive’ meeting, said the UN. ...

The government never misses an opportunity about the healthy public finances which it invariably credits to its prudent economic policies. Are its economic policies prudent or has it been fortunate ...

Reading the comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan about the construction work for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), some might conclude that this opened the way for ...

Averof Neophytou, who has turned Disy upside down in the pursuit of his presidential ambition, announced on Wednesday that he would stand in Monday’s election for the party candidacy. ...

After years of high expectations about the gas finds in the Cyprus EEZ, everyone is starting to understand that no decision taken by the oil industry is straightforward. It was ...

Nobody appears to have been surprised by the results scored by Cypriot students in the PISA 2025 exams conducted by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). PISA assesses 15-year-old ...

It is quite astonishing that there has been a shortage of some 600 nurses at hospitals and clinics for some time now and nursing unions are preventing every government attempt to ...

New Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki, confirmed on Friday that the resumption of work on the construction of the Paphos-Polis highway, which stopped two years ago after the public works department ...

Having failed to reach agreement on any of the six or seven confidence-building measures discussed last July with the UN Secretary-General, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman ...

Good to hear someone in a position of authority standing up for economic reason and pointing out what should have been obvious to everyone with the most basic understanding of ...

The energy ceasefire President Donald Trump claimed to have brokered between Russia and Ukraine does not seem to apply to Russia. On Monday, a day after the American president’s ...

Although there has been some public criticism of the government’s decision to allow the Israeli basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv to use the Spyros Kyprianou stadium in Limassol as ...

The sloppy amateurishness with which the government has approached the much-trumpeted reform of the pension system is astounding. The overall impression is that Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas does not have ...

Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...

In Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a judge used an unconventional method to decide who the true mother of a boy, whom two women claimed to be ...

The Limassol municipality has asked that it is given the ownership of the iconic Rialto theatre by the state. Although the finance ministry has agreed to the transfer, the council ...

Speaking about his intention to join the contest for the Disy presidential candidacy on Omega TV, former health minister Giorgos Pamborides said his plan was to appeal to voters beyond ...

World Teachers Day was marked on Monday just days ahead of planned industrial action by teachers in Cyprus and one day before the unions are to meet Education Minister Athena ...