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For once there is welcome news that road traffic fatalities in the past 12 months have fallen but 37 lives lost still boils down to three people a month being killed on ...

Minister Yiannis Karousos is promising significant improvements in the public transport sphere in the coming year with more and better roads and smart technology, according to an interview published on ...

Cyprus was given another Christmas present this week, but alas it is a present it cannot unwrap and make use of any time soon. The news of another gas find ...

Private and public sector unions have united forces to push their unanimous demand for the full restoration of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA). After a meeting of their representatives on Thursday, ...

The decision of Attorney-General Giorgos Savvides not to prosecute the chief of the Drug Squad, Michalis Katsounotos, for corruption caused a public outcry sparking claims of a cover-up and blatant ...

Bank employees who left their jobs on the ultra-generous voluntary exit schemes have been complaining because the labour ministry has put their applications to collect unemployment benefit for six months ...

It was a good thing that all the people of the Orthodox faith on the electorate were entitled to vote in the archiepiscopal elections, as the poor turnout illustrated the ...

The public is by now familiar with what has become known as the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal involving members and staff of the European Parliament, including the arrest of Greek MEP ...

As the day of his exit approached, President Anastasiades seems determined to leave office with his personal popularity on a high. This is an unrealistic objective for anyone who has ...

The 22nd World Cup, the first played in an Arab country, comes to a close on Sunday evening in a box-office final between holders France and Argentina, top football forces, ...

During the state budget debate, the Green Party, once again, tried to block the spending item for former presidents of the republic and former presidents of the legislature, that cover ...

There was one positive thing to come out of the ludicrous decision of the ministry of education’s committee for the approval of shows to take a line from a ...

From today, households and businesses in the Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta districts were to be subjected to power cuts of 30 minutes to an hour in the evening because Electricity Authority ...

The outgoing government appears to be making a new push for the UN secretary-general to appoint a Cyprus envoy just over two months before a presidential election, which does not ...

Who could have thought that in 2022, almost 50 years after his passing, General Georgios Grivas would be dominating the news headlines and sparking angry exchanges between parties. Even more astonishing is ...

During the debate on the state budget on Thursday, a deputy had heard of the latest statement about Varosha by the Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and asked that ...

The pampered workers of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), having failed to impose their diktats on the government with work stoppages and day strikes have announced they would be ...

When in the previous week, it was announced that parents’ associations of two schools in Limassol were planning a protest about the sheer volume of the school curriculum, many would ...

It is very convenient for everyone to blame bad policing for the violence and vandalism by football hooligans, because then they can go on pretending that they have no responsibility ...

Aside from the issues of alleged unconstitutionality and probably pressure from the church about the new mandatory sex education law that were brought up on Friday at the House during ...

The second presidential debate broadcast simultaneously by the four private television channels was held on Thursday night. Like the first one, the guests were the three leading candidates, who had ...

Greece’s Eurobank has doubled its shareholding in Hellenic Bank it was announced on Thursday. It acquired 12.6 per cent of Hellenic in 2021 adding another 13.5 per cent of the shares this ...

The public protest has for years been a popular alternative to political discourse. If an interest group thinks its arguments are not being heard or have failed to convince the ...

EVERYONE who spoke at the AGM of the Union of Municipalities on Tuesday praised the reform of local government that was voted through last April by the legislature after years ...