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Our View: Anti-corruption laws will not stamp the practise out

CM: Our ViewSeptember 26, 2021September 26, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 26, 2021September 26, 20210950

After the golden passports exposé there was an outcry against corruption. Citizens held demonstrations, newspapers wrote fiery editorials against sleaze and opposition parties demanded a...

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Our View: Anastasiades sticking to finding common ground narrative

CM: Our ViewSeptember 25, 2021September 25, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 25, 2021September 25, 202101104

The ‘creative’ meeting President Anastasiades had with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday and his rather strong-worded address to the UN General Assembly on Friday...

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Our View: Not much room for optimism when it comes to e-government

CM: Our ViewSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 20210985

The government has made many lofty promises over the years to make the lives of its citizens easier, among them the e-government project, which seems...

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Our View: It is not the state’s responsibility to keep prices stable

CM: Our ViewSeptember 22, 2021September 22, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 22, 2021September 22, 20210800

The Consumers Association felt duty-bound to embrace the fashionable cause of the last few weeks – protesting about high electricity rates and demanding the state...

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Our View: Civil servants working from home long term a disastrous idea

CM: Our ViewSeptember 21, 2021September 21, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 21, 2021September 21, 202101175

Pasydy, the civil servants’ union, has seized an opportunity provided by the pandemic to make the easy working life of its members a little easier....

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Our View: Same old reluctance to control public spending is evident today

CM: Our ViewSeptember 19, 2021September 19, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 19, 2021September 19, 202101266

Presenting the state budget for 2022 to the Council of Ministers last Wednesday, Minister of Finance Constantinos Petrides informed his colleagues that the public sector...

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Our View: Supermarkets have no right to complain about unfair competition

CM: Our ViewSeptember 18, 2021September 18, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 18, 2021September 18, 202103058

The audacity of the Association of Supermarkets (Pasype), in complaining about the SafePass was quite astonishing. Supermarkets were among the very few businesses for whom...

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Our View: No one dares challenge the doctors who work civil-service hours

CM: Our ViewSeptember 17, 2021September 17, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 17, 2021September 17, 202101352

When this government was discussing the organisation of the public hospitals in Gesy, it had originally come up with the idea that hospital workers such...

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Our View: Gavriel controversy shows someone is always offended by something

CM: Our ViewSeptember 16, 2021September 16, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 16, 2021September 16, 20210929

Finally someone saw sense. On Wednesday the cabinet decided to drop a disciplinary hearing against headteacher Giorgos Gavriel for his irreverent works that poke fun...

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Our View: Why is a government advisor engaging in gratuitous alarmism?

CM: Our ViewSeptember 15, 2021September 15, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 15, 2021September 15, 202101603

From Monday all children were back at school and it took only 24 hours for one of our celebrity epidemiologists to step up the fear-mongering,...

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Our View: Edek has spectacularly failed to carve out a political identity

CM: Our ViewSeptember 14, 2021September 14, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 14, 2021September 14, 20210787

The knives are out at the socialist party Edek with Dr Marinos Sizopoulos’ leadership being questioned by a large number of members, including the party’s...

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Our View: There is no room for critical thought at public schools

CM: Our ViewSeptember 12, 2021September 13, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 12, 2021September 13, 202102032

The one thing a government in any open society should not do is destroy books because it does not approve of their content. This is...

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Our View: Health minister must make it clear Gesy does not have unlimited resources

CM: Our ViewSeptember 11, 2021September 11, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 11, 2021September 11, 202102095

The new Minister of Health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, has not acted in a very responsible way in giving the state health services (Okypy) 10 days to...

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Our View: Upping the birth rate not just about cash incentives

CM: Our ViewSeptember 10, 2021September 10, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 10, 2021September 10, 202101623

Allowing far-right Elam to head up an ad-hoc House committee on demographics was always going to be a bad idea because inevitably the party was...

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Our View: Why did education ministry act so illiberally?

CM: Our ViewSeptember 9, 2021September 9, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 9, 2021September 9, 202102187

It was truly shocking to hear that the ministry of education ordered teachers of English at lyceums to tear a page out of a text...

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Our View: Practical steps needed to see human trafficking cases brought to court, not new laws

CM: Our ViewSeptember 8, 2021September 8, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 8, 2021September 8, 20210591

It is good that the House Ethics Committee has taken up the weakness of the authorities in combating human trafficking. The committee met on Monday...

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Our View: Capital statement law has turned into running joke

CM: Our ViewSeptember 7, 2021September 7, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 7, 2021September 7, 202101009

After all the noise made about corruption, which was highlighted by the Al Jazeera investigation into golden passports, the government announced a series of plans...

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Our View: After 18 difficult months economic indicators are looking up

CM: Our ViewSeptember 5, 2021September 5, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 5, 2021September 5, 202101050

There was good economic news to report this week. Unemployment fell to the lowest level since June 2009. In July this year, according to Eurostat,...

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Our View: Stop the insanity of constantly renaming things after dead presidents

CM: Our ViewSeptember 4, 2021September 4, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 4, 2021September 4, 202101812

The committee in charge of naming streets of the Limassol municipality is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss proposals for renaming main thoroughfares in...

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Our View: Anastasiades keeps digging a deeper hole for himself

CM: Our ViewSeptember 3, 2021September 3, 2021

By CM: Our ViewSeptember 3, 2021September 3, 202103221

It is quite astonishing that a rash remark by President Anastasiades last week, during his public sparring with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar about the...