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The pharmacies association last week threatened to tell its members not to open outside of regular working hours – night and public holidays – from next month, if the issue of opening ...

It was very reassuring to hear deputies and several parties at Monday’s House finance committee meeting strongly object to the scandalous bill prepared by the government that would increase ...

Many in the audience of the theatre on Sunday evening may have thought that President Nikos Christodoulides was joking when he said that from next year girls would be able ...

The big decision about the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is expected to be taken today when all the stakeholders meet at the presidential palace to discuss details and address the ...

Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report about the treatment of Syrian migrants and refugees by the Cyprus and Lebanese authorities. The New York-based NGO, which interviewed some of these ...

People were mistaken in thinking the saga of the golden passports was over. Earlier this week former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades, who served in the first Anastasiades government from 2014 to 2018, ...

The Audit Office has not given up its quest to have the money given to some political parties ahead of the 2021 parliamentary elections returned and re-allocated to parties that were ...

It seems the Turkish Cypriot leadership enjoys presenting itself as the wronged and unfairly treated side in Cyprus. This sentiment was fueled a couple of a weeks ago by the ...

Everyone was taken by surprise to hear on Tuesday morning news that there was agreement on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) and that the council of ministers was scheduled to ...

Some may have thought that the government had abandoned the ill-conceived plan to impose a maximum price on bottled water at sales outlets where there is no competition. It has ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou’s decision to write to the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera), asking it to end the country’s status of ‘emerging’ market was long overdue and ...

Cyprus was “left completely satisfied” with the stance taken by other EU member-states at the informal meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels, said Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos. After the meeting ...

Rule of law that is applied selectively is not rule of law. It is a form of authoritarianism in which the state decides who is allowed to break the law ...

“The exploitation of the natural gas deposits, the pipelines, the electricity interconnectors, the terminal stations and everything else we are discussing in the meeting, will remain, yet again in the ...

After months of prevarication backed by unconvincing arguments, the presidential palace decided to release the names of the people hired on contracts as advisors to the president, ministers and deputy ...

A few days after the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced that it would accept students who had sat international exams (GCEs, IB) to undergraduate courses at which there were available ...

It was not a surprise to hear Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar say that he had received a telephone call from the UN asking him to go to New York ...

The government has gone ahead with the preparation of the constitutional reform it had proposed for the state legal service and the audit office, with Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis saying ...

Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis in an indirect way on Wednesday confirmed the government was behind the move by tour operator Tui to stop taking tourists on day trips to ...

The Green Party has filed a formal objection to a massive photovoltaic plant proposed for the Mathiatis-Analyontas-Lythrodontas triangle, in the Nicosia district.The party is calling on all ecologically-aware people ...

It is good to see that the government has drawn the right lessons from the Larnaca port and marina fiasco. It has abandoned the grandiose plans of making the development ...

The government was at pains to justify its approval of the EU invitation to Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan to attend the informal meeting of the General Affairs Council ...

The Cyprus economy recorded a rate of growth of 3.7 per cent in the second quarter of this year in comparison to the corresponding period of 2023, according to Eurostat. It was ...

Lessons on financial literacy will be introduced to public schools this year, the government following the EU-wide trend of giving youngsters a basic financial education that would help them understand ...