CM: Our View

Attorney-general George Savvides has been one of the most maligned state officials in Cyprus. For years he has been the target of a campaign instigated by the former auditor-general who ...

The use of force by the police outside the foreign ministry, and across the road from the presidential palace, on Thursday night, to disperse a small crowd of demonstrators, protesting ...

The audit office should be commended for highlighting the long-term water policy failures, for which all the governments of the last 30 years have a share of responsibility. They have all ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his spokesmen made a big deal about the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ alleged assertion that negotiations should resume from where they stopped in Crans Montana in 2017. ...

In the last five years, there have been some 15,000 applications by third country nationals to purchase real estate in Cyprus, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. More than a third of ...

The good news President Nikos Christodoulides had arranged to announce on Thursday evening after the scheduled meeting in New York with the Vice President of ExxonMobil, John Ardill, was overshadowed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, will have nothing constructive to tell each other when they meet in the presence of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on ...

Attorney-general George Savvides decided not to charge former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with contempt of court, for public comments and social media posts, disputing the independence, impartiality and legitimacy of court ...

The sense of entitlement of today’s teenagers is a rather disturbing phenomenon, although not surprising. It has been cultivated by their parents and follows the bad example set by ...

The way in which the education ministry hierarchy protected one of their officials accused by two female subordinates of sexual harassment is scandalous. The first complaint was submitted in May 2023, ...

The noise Akel has made about the circular sent by the government to municipal councils asking for the “strengthening of actions for fighting anti-Semitism and the incitement of racial hatred ...

The government could not have made a bigger mess of the negotiations on the Cost-of-Living Allowance (CoLA) if it had planned it. It has managed to alienate the unions by ...

We are in no position to say whether our defence capability has been significantly strengthened by the arrival of the Israeli Barak MX air defence system. It may have marginally ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been appointed by President NiKos Christodoulides, but this did not stop him slamming the government’s proposals for the radical reform of the audit service. ...

One of the main criticisms of the tax reform, which the government wants to have in place from the start of next year, is that it has left wealth untouched. ...

Only the Cyprus problem could have produced the situation in which the two sides are discussing the opening of more crossing points while at the same time, through their actions ...

Former Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos, predictably, denied any wrongdoing and defiantly declared that he was “spotlessly clean,” after the release of the investigation into the allegations of corruption made against ...

The noise surrounding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) may have died down after the exchanges between the governments of Greece and Cyprus over the previous weeks, but the problem has ...

Some things never change in Cyprus. A couple of days ago, at a House committee meeting with all the representatives invited, complained about the obstacles faced by foreign investors. The ...

A major disagreement surfaced at the House on Wednesday when Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis, presented the provisions of the bills for the reform of the Legal Service. The reform would ...

The CoLA dispute, thanks to which there will be a national three-hour work stoppage on Thursday affecting airports, hospitals, schools, public transport and inconveniencing tens of thousands of people, does ...

Just when more and more businesses are recognising the disadvantages of ‘work from home’, the Cyprus government has decided to introduce it in the public service. In fact, in many ...

The government has displayed astonishing ineptitude and amateurishness in the way it has dealt with the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI). Even worse, President Nikos Christodoulides has shown a staggering lack ...

Only last month former president Nicos Anastasiades made public a letter he had sent Disy leader Annita Demetriou, complaining because the party failed to publicly defend the work of his ...