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The sense of entitlement of some of our young is quite astonishing. This is not entirely their fault as this attitude has been cultivated over the years by the political ...

The Cyprus Consumers’ Association issued an announcement on Monday declaring that the e-kalathi app – created by the government to list the prices of a large range of goods in all ...

Director of the president’s office Charalambous Charalambous announced his resignation on Monday, bowing to calls to step down by almost all the political parties including those participating in government. ...

The government finally came up with a narrative to defend itself against the revelations made in the video posted on ‘X’ last Thursday. Deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou told CyBC ...

From the moment the eight-minute video about the suspect fundraising methods used by President Nikos Chrisodoulides’ entourage for the election campaign appeared on the ‘X’ platform the government has been ...

The invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the opening ceremony for Cyprus’ presidency of the EU Council was a welcome decision by President Nikos Christodoulides, who had also travelled to ...

The bosses of the three big unions on Monday sent President Nikos Christodoulides a memo listing four demands regarding the minimum wage, collective agreements, employment of third country nationals and ...

The economy was in rude good health in 2025 and all forecasts suggest that we will enjoy more of the same this year, all other things being equal. The general consensus ...

The UN had not, as of Friday at least, weighed on the December 30 buffer-zone incident near Mammari where a Greek Cypriot father and son were cultivating their land. This has ...

Today the Cyprus Republic takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with which the 18-month Poland-Denmark-Cyprus Trio presidency will be concluded. This is the second time ...

Cyprus seems to have escaped any major tragedy on the roads this holiday season thankfully but we’re not out of the woods yet. If today, tonight and tomorrow pass ...

The separation of Church and state is a fundamental pillar of liberal democracy and efforts have been made for many decades now to get organised Churches out of politics. This ...

The furore over photos of teenagers signalling Nazi salutes and their swastika handiwork around school property at Larnaca’s Vergina high school ten days ago died down over Christmas week ...

Every year hundreds of thousands of words are published in the run up to December 25 on Christmas vs everything. It’s too secularist and materialistic, Bing Crosby’s White Christmas ...

It is very easy to understand the outrage of Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos for having to pay an extortionate price for a beach cleaning machine, also known as a ‘beach ...

In the Fiscal Council’s 2025 report released a few days ago, there was a short but damning comment relating to the transport ministry’s 2026 budget and its planning up to 2028 ...

Unless something totally out of the ordinary happens on Monday the legislature will approve the government’s tax reform package, as the three parties supporting it have a majority. After ...

The Anti-Corruption Authority issued a damning report about the way state services completely disregarded the rules and lawful procedures in issuing permits to the Land of Dreams development in Trimiklini. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides tendency to make newsworthy public statements, almost on a daily basis, often result in sending mixed signals. So mixed they undermine his credibility. During his visit to ...

We will all be reminded, once again today, that public schools exist to serve the teachers and that teaching unions would not have it any other way. Thanks to weak ...

It was sad to see the hysterical reaction of the political parties to works by controversial artist Giorgos Gavriel, most of which lambasted his paintings. The art was dismissed as “...

There is little doubt that since the election of President Nikos Christodoulides relations with the United Arab Emirates have been significantly strengthened and taken on another level. There was cooperation ...

President Nikos Christodoulides came up with another proposal in an interview with Politico last week. He said that if Turkey agreed to the Cyprus Republic joining Partnership for Peace (PfP), ...

If any evidence of the government’s scandalously slapdash approach to the country’s water shortage problem was required, it was provided by reports that the ministries of interior and ...