Kyriacos Iacovides

Unions and employers brace for fight over wage rises Unions and employers’ organisations are on a collision course over the cost of living allowance (CoLA), which they are set to ...

‘Petty politics’ has seen two ministers argue with the auditor general this week in a war of words that does not look like it is going anywhere The government is ...

The dispute between the couple and the asylum seeker dates back to April The elderly Briton, who was caught on video, beating an Iranian woman outside a house in Kato ...

Government rushes to pass bill to prevent takeover of systemic bank The government is faced with a race against time to ensure it has the legal power to prevent the ...

A new book on the island’s leaders says the first president was incapable of taking decisions that did not have general and universal acceptance Poor leadership, which takes decisions ...

Instead of protecting the national cheese through the PDO, the government could have destroyed Cyprus’ most important export The registering of halloumi as a PDO (protected designation of origin) was ...

‘Standing up to bank employees union will take guts’ Negotiations for the renewal of the collective agreement at Hellenic Bank, which were on hold for seven months, are set to ...

2000 law wrongly forced investment companies to plough funds into tanking stock exchange The state has been ordered to pay two investment firms compensation of €9,714,246 plus interest, after the Nicosia District ...

US pressure on Cyprus to offer the biggest confidence building measure of them all – energy cooperation with Turkey A settlement of the Cyprus issue might no longer be a prerequisite ...

The University of Cyprus has made scant progress in its struggle to introduce English taught undergrad courses Entry requirements and tuition fees remain the big stumbling blocks to introducing English ...

Speaker of the British House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle has told the Cyprus Mail that he hopes the Cyprus government would reconsider its decision to stop British residents from ...

Secondary school students will stage a two-hour boycott of classes on Friday morning on the instructions of the so-called secretariat of their self-styled union Psem. The boycott of the third ...

News on Wednesday of the charges being levied against Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, stemming from an article he wrote a year-and-a-half ago, drew widespread condemnation across the dividing line. ...

The fledgling social movement, Neo Kyma–The Other Cyprus, will contest the 2023 presidential elections with its own candidate, in collaboration with Volt Europa. Volt Europa is an integrationist, pan-European political ...

‘There is no turning back’ but no changes likely next year The carbon tax, increased taxation on fossil fuels and ‘green rates’ which the finance minister warned of when presenting ...

The European Commission is expected to legally define the ‘instrumentalisation of migrants’, next week, though this might not help Cyprus deal with the increasing inflow of migrants to the island. ...

European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on Monday that stopping flights to the EU from countries in the southern part of Africa was a necessary step in trying to deal ...

The government hopes the fast-track mechanism it has introduced to simplify processes for foreign businesses wanting to set up operations in Cyprus will finally end the long bureaucratic delays that ...

Push to move party away from focus on the Cyprus problem to big environmental issues The Green Party was to decide its future direction on Sunday when members were scheduled ...

For the first time ever those who PDO is aimed at protecting are taking the issue to court The halloumi PDO (protected designation of origin) comes into force on Friday, ...

The role of negative interest rates – becoming an ever more prevalent reality – in reviving hard hit economies Deposits in Cyprus banks recorded an increase for the fifth consecutive month in ...

Exodus of EU workers leave hotels, retail and restaurants struggling Acute labour shortages that ended when Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 have reappeared because of the pandemic and the uncertainty ...

After Akel’s dismal showing in last week’s elections, the consensus is that the party must adapt or die. But it’s by no means certain the party can ...

And the necessary reforms to tap funds could prove tricky By Kyriacos Iacovides The government’s multi-billion euro recovery and resilience plan, ‘Cyprus Tomorrow’ is not quite the done deal ...