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We have been hearing about the need for reform of the legal system and the legal service for many years now. No matter how many times this is mentioned in ...

For decades, this newspaper has been writing about the public education system, which is exclusively designed to serve teachers, who were hired from a waiting listing without an interview and ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou made it very clear on a TV show on Tuesday that the party would have its own candidate in the 2028 presidential election. There was no way ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was perfectly entitled to boast about the economy’s performance at his meeting with the executive committee of the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV). The forecast growth ...

The pollution of the sea off the Limassol coast became an issue of public debate in the last few days. An increasing number of people were complaining about the dirty ...

When the Anastasiades government prepared a bill that would put an end to the anti-educational ‘waiting list appointment system’ for public school teachers in 2015, the political parties, at the behest ...

A new dispute between local authorities and the government, over waste management, appears to be on the cards. Earlier this week, the president of the municipalities union and Larnaca mayor, ...

Newly elected Disy deputy Giorgos Pamborides, who served as health minister during Nicos Anastasiades’ first term, made some staggering revelations in an interview on a television show. He claimed that ...

It seems strange that the education ministry felt obliged to issue a missive about prayers and religious instruction at public schools. Greek Orthodox prayers and religious instruction have been part ...

It is very worrying that the law breaking on Lara beach by some individuals who decided to camp there has triggered a debate about setting up an ‘organised beach’. By ‘...

The triumphal way the government presented its proposals for pension reform on Wednesday should worry everyone. One of the most serious issues facing our society was treated as part of ...

A pressure group calling itself the Joint Platform for the Revitalisation of the Urban Commercial Core of Every City, has been demanding the re-opening of the lower part of Makarios ...

The finance ministry has not said very much about the rising inflation rate for July that was announced by Cystat on Wednesday. The finance ministry tends to issue announcements only ...

Ever since the establishment of the Immovable Properties Commission (IPC) in the Turkish-occupied north in 2005, by decision of the European Court of Human Rights, Greek Cypriots have been discouraged from ...

The shortage of lifeguards became a big issue after a 35-year-old mother drowned on Saturday while swimming with her two daughters. It was the fifth drowning in the last two ...

It is astonishing that the Cyprus authorities are all turning a blind eye to the systematic dumping of sewage in the sea off Moni. Even more astonishing is that the ...

It was ironic that when the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin, early in the year said that the UN would resume its peace initiative after the completion ...

A big public debate was sparked by the decision of Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou to ask the police to investigate the crowdfunding appeal announced on Monday by journalist Makarios Drousiotis. ...

Four candidates will be standing in the elections of the leadership of Edek on September 5. The elections were made necessary by the resignation of party leader Nicos Anastasiou, after the ...

The number of public sector workers increased by 300 (0.6 per cent) last month, compared to July 2025, taking the total number of people employed to 53,747, according to the latest figures released by ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has always traded in soundbites. Rational argument has not often featured in his public discourse, probably because he has realised that it is only soundbites that are ...

Ever since his election, President Nikos Christodoulides has followed an unchanging strategy on the Cyprus problem. It is a strategy that is all words and no action, a strategy that ...

Cyprus authorities were caught completely unaware about the deal that saw two thirds of the shareholding in the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), which was held by Greece’s state-owned Admie, ...

The debate over whether the names of the father and mother should be included on a person’s ID card was re-kindled last week after the interior ministry announced that ...