CM: Our View

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 ...

It is very difficult to understand why Diko took such offence over the publication of a memo it had supposedly drafted in which it set the conditions for backing the ...

The statement by the attorney-general on the state of the Nicosia central prisons was quite shocking given that the goings on at the facility have always elicited a tight-lipped response ...

In a speech he made on Thursday, independent presidential candidate, Marios Eliades raised an important issue about the forthcoming elections that most candidates have been turning a blind eye to. ...

It was International Children’s Rights Day last Sunday and the child commissioner wasted no time in telling us that the children are very angry with adults because the world ...

Black Friday is a new arrival to Cyprus, where we did not know the meaning of the term until a few years ago. It is an American sales gimmick, held ...

Cyprus’ tourism, to its credit, has recovered at a faster rate than was expected following the complete shutdown of 2020 because of the pandemic restrictions. According to figures presented at the ...

Six out of the 12 serving bishops of the Cyprus Orthodox Church submitted candidacies on Tuesday for the post of archbishop. It is an excessive number of candidates but, presumably, this ...

It is reassuring to hear a senior politician talk honestly about the irresponsible political exploitation of the foreclosures law by the political parties. In an interview published in Monday’s ...

Although nobody acknowledges it, government in Cyprus, regardless of who is in charge, has had its hands tied by unions for decades. Its policies are regularly curtailed or distorted by ...

For the first time in its 92-year history, the football World Cup, which opens today in Qatar, will kick off in November. It will be the first time the tournament ...

Disy deputy Savia Orphanidou had a point when she said that every time elections approached the opposition parties tabled for discussion the collapse of the Co-op Bank, which she described ...

The eagerly anticipated reform of the justice system, which was to have been in place at the start of 2023 has been put back six months at request of the supreme ...

As is the practice every year on November 15 for the last 39 years, Greek Cypriots condemned the unilateral declaration of independence with the customary fiery statements and pledges to continue the ...

Although the candidates continued their meetings with groups of voters and their visits around the country, they have scaled down their campaigning last week as a mark of respect to ...

Six days before the Turkish Cypriots were due to mark the 39th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence, which paved the way for the establishment of the ‘Turkish Republic ...

During the pandemic restrictions, when everyone was locked up in the house for days, many people, desperate for fresh air and open space, seized any opportunity given by the authorities ...

In an announcement issued on Thursday, Edek lashed out against Akel and Disy for voting against the establishment of a special court to which borrowers could apply if they were ...

Akel, understandably, has been trying to make the most out of the issue of the surveillance software companies that are based in Cyprus. It has been attacking the government and ...

Once a year Cyprus police roll out their ‘human face’ during Police Week and talk about modernising the force and becoming ‘closer to the public’ with various social schemes. Polls ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who passed away on Monday morning, after a long battle with cancer, might not have been very interested in questions of the faith and spiritual matters, but ...