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The government sprung a big surprise on Monday when it presented its bill for state-guaranteed bank loans to the House finance committee. There are less than three months for the ...

Cyprus marked the 61st anniversary of the Cyprus Republic on Friday with the customary military parade and the familiar assertions about the Republic being the biggest safeguard for the survival ...

There is no hidden significance to halloumi acquiring Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status on the same day we mark the establishment of the Cyprus Republic. It is sheer coincidence, ...

After Monday’s meeting with Ersin Tatar and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President Anastasiades said he expected an announcement by the following day about the appointment of an envoy ...

The ease with which some public sector unions resort to strike action while showing utter disregard for the inconvenience they will cause is nothing new. Often the mere threat of ...

Last week the audit service published the findings of an audit of Paralimni Municipality, listing a litany of irregularities and failures, and, as the service’s spokesman said, possible criminal ...

The government’s support schemes that saw businesses through the last 18 months of lockdowns and restrictions of trade will be terminated at the end of October, it was announced last ...

After the golden passports exposé there was an outcry against corruption. Citizens held demonstrations, newspapers wrote fiery editorials against sleaze and opposition parties demanded a clean-up. Corruption became the main ...

The ‘creative’ meeting President Anastasiades had with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday and his rather strong-worded address to the UN General Assembly on Friday afternoon will now be followed ...

The government has made many lofty promises over the years to make the lives of its citizens easier, among them the e-government project, which seems to be a bit hit ...

It was very disappointing to hear that President Anastasiades cancelled his scheduled meeting with Archbishop Elpidoforos of America, citing a heavy work schedule as his excuse. This was not the ...

The Consumers Association felt duty-bound to embrace the fashionable cause of the last few weeks – protesting about high electricity rates and demanding the state subsidise household bills. The 10 per cent ...

Pasydy, the civil servants’ union, has seized an opportunity provided by the pandemic to make the easy working life of its members a little easier. It has written to the ...

Presenting the state budget for 2022 to the Council of Ministers last Wednesday, Minister of Finance Constantinos Petrides informed his colleagues that the public sector wage bill will rise by 3.2 per ...

The audacity of the Association of Supermarkets (Pasype), in complaining about the SafePass was quite astonishing. Supermarkets were among the very few businesses for whom the lockdowns were a boon, ...

When this government was discussing the organisation of the public hospitals in Gesy, it had originally come up with the idea that hospital workers such as nurses and doctors would ...

Finally someone saw sense. On Wednesday the cabinet decided to drop a disciplinary hearing against headteacher Giorgos Gavriel for his irreverent works that poke fun at Church and State after ...

From Monday all children were back at school and it took only 24 hours for one of our celebrity epidemiologists to step up the fear-mongering, which had been toned down in ...

The knives are out at the socialist party Edek with Dr Marinos Sizopoulos’ leadership being questioned by a large number of members, including the party’s former leader Yiannakis Omirou ...

The one thing a government in any open society should not do is destroy books because it does not approve of their content. This is a practice associated with repressive, ...

The new Minister of Health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, has not acted in a very responsible way in giving the state health services (Okypy) 10 days to tackle the long waiting times at ...

Allowing far-right Elam to head up an ad-hoc House committee on demographics was always going to be a bad idea because inevitably the party was going to push racist views. ...

It was truly shocking to hear that the ministry of education ordered teachers of English at lyceums to tear a page out of a text book before it was given ...

It is good that the House Ethics Committee has taken up the weakness of the authorities in combating human trafficking. The committee met on Monday to look at the failings ...