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The energy ceasefire President Donald Trump claimed to have brokered between Russia and Ukraine does not seem to apply to Russia. On Monday, a day after the American president’s ...

Although there has been some public criticism of the government’s decision to allow the Israeli basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv to use the Spyros Kyprianou stadium in Limassol as ...

The sloppy amateurishness with which the government has approached the much-trumpeted reform of the pension system is astounding. The overall impression is that Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas does not have ...

Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...

In Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a judge used an unconventional method to decide who the true mother of a boy, whom two women claimed to be ...

The Limassol municipality has asked that it is given the ownership of the iconic Rialto theatre by the state. Although the finance ministry has agreed to the transfer, the council ...

Speaking about his intention to join the contest for the Disy presidential candidacy on Omega TV, former health minister Giorgos Pamborides said his plan was to appeal to voters beyond ...

World Teachers Day was marked on Monday just days ahead of planned industrial action by teachers in Cyprus and one day before the unions are to meet Education Minister Athena ...

Matters of defence and military equipment “should not become the subject of pre-election exploitation”, defence minister Vasilis Palmas warned last week. Criticism is welcome, he added in comments to the ...

This week, AI entered the tourism conversation in a more prominent way than the more generic “use of technology” – never mind that some in the tech industry are warning that ...

Now and again there are news stories that cross a person’s desk that have no connection to each other but reveal an underlying mentality that speaks volumes. On Sunday, ...

The news that a 16-year-old scooter rider died from his injuries at the weekend after being hit by a drunk driver in early August, and police announcing they’d booked 34 ...

Developments on the Cyprus problem over the past week have been less of a “flurry of diplomatic activity” than a “flurry of negativity”. At home we’ve had the fiasco ...

Although there are still 16 months to go before the presidential election, it has already started dominating the news. One news website, that openly supports President Christodoulides has had a story ...

There are currently 170 personal doctors in Gesy with 2,500 registered patients each. In other words, 170 personal doctors are looking after a total of 425,000 patients. Is it possible for a single doctor ...

For senior citizens, who have followed politics over the years, President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the UN General Assembly was a trip down memory lane. It was the type of ...

High prices, understandably, have been the main public issue in the last eight months. People are not happy when their standard of living is steadily falling because their disposable income ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos may have laughed at the suggestion by the Diko leader that he should resign over his oft-expressed opposition to the Great Sea Interconnector project but Nicolas ...

Choosing a site for the new central prison is proving rather challenging for the government, which has made the matter more difficult by the slapdash decisions it has taken. The ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos presented the 2027 state budget to the council of ministers on Wednesday. Considering this is the state budget with which President Nikos Christodoulides will seek re-election, it ...

The two leaders held their final meeting on Thursday, before they head to New York, with nothing to show two months after the visit of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...

President Nikos Christodoulides appears to have acquired a new expertise – mediator in labour disputes. On Wednesday morning he called the representatives of unions representing government workers on hourly pay for ...

The new school year has only just begun, and schoolkids have already embarked on union activity. Psem, the ludicrous association supposedly representing the interests of secondary school children, called for ...

The parents of a three-year-old boy who fell to his death on Saturday evening from the sixth-floor apartment in which the family lived were remanded in custody for five days ...