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Beginning around March 2020, the government managed to take some action on clearing the backlog in asylum applications with the help of the European Asylum Support Office by hiring more staff ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides highlighted a problem with his letter to the legislature about the way workers are hired on contracts in the public sector and eventually become permanent staff. That ...

For decades now, since the presidency of George Vassiliou, governments have been announcing plans for cutting the bureaucratic delays and arbitrary decisions that so often prevented businesses from moving to ...

On Thursday, the government extended the existing Covid measures until December 2. With winter approaching, the Delta+ variant having made an appearance in Cyprus, cases on the rise and infections in ...

About this time every year, government ministers go before the House finance committee to discuss their ministry’s respective budget for the following year. They are always at pains to ...

The Council of Ministers on Thursday decided to cut the VAT charged on the electricity bills of ‘vulnerable households’ from 19 to 5 per cent. It was a measure deemed necessary to ...

Our national health scheme, Gesy, has become untouchable. Any criticism of the way it operates – perfectly justified under the circumstances – is viewed as an attempt to alter its set-up and ...

Discussing the 2022 budget for the ministry of education at the House education committee minister Prodromos Prodromou said the target was to submit the plan for the evaluation of teachers and ...

Apart from the new portal crashing, it was at least encouraging that it was due to strong interest in the government’s bicycle purchase subsidy scheme and not just down ...

Dire warnings have been coming from everywhere in recent weeks about inflation and the resulting hike in prices consumers will begin to really feel in the new year. We’re ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...

Indeed it was unprecedented that a court on Wednesday found three teenagers guilty in the bullying death of 16-year-old Panayiotis Stefani who died from alcohol poisoning after a house party ...

Following another recent demonstration by Dali residents over the delay in relocating two polluting asphalt plants in their area, MPs picked up the topic again on Wednesday at the House ...

The naturalisation plight of two children of a Greek Cypriot mother and a Turkish Cypriot father is a bit like being thrown back in time to 1980s Cyprus, and the ...

After around 13 years, Cyprus’ motorists will once more see traffic cameras on the roads as part of efforts to enhance safety and reduce fatalities. Monday saw the inauguration of the ...

The months of lockdowns, restrictions on movement, distance learning and work from home, made us all forget about the traffic chaos that was part of our daily lives before the ...

It should not have come as too much of a surprise that 500 traffic violations were recorded in only two hours during the rollout of the pilot scheme for traffic cameras, ...

It could be said that one of the reasons President Anastasiades has had an unjustifiably good press in his eight years in office, is that he is extremely skilful at ...

WHEN the government was drafting its plans for Gesy it decided that public hospitals should be taken out of the control of the health ministry and be placed under an ...

Nicosia welcomed Monday’s decision of the EU Foreign Affairs Council to draft a document with ways of dealing with Turkey’s failure to reverse its actions in the fenced ...

Billions of euros have been spent on defence over the years, but no party or individual politician has ever questioned this expenditure because security issues cannot be the subject of ...

Although inflationary pressures have been evident in the last couple of months, they were largely ignored. When the 38 per cent increase in the electricity rates hit the news, the government ...

Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect any efforts to find a ...

The members of the scientific team were of the view that a booster shot should be given to people above the age of 60, said Dr Maria Koliou. Only Professor Petros ...