Our View: Giving data is a much better way of persuading people than scare-mongering
Health minister, Constantinos Ioannou may be on his way out, but he has not given up his crusade to have the whole population of Cyprus...
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Our View: For how long will the UN engage in pointless talks?
As was widely expected, the latest visit by the UN secretary-general’s envoy, Jane Holl Lute, came to nothing. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, did...
Our View: New cabinet reflects obsession with public image
One thing that has become obvious after eight years of the Anastasiades administration is that the president does not like changing his ministers or, as...
Our View: Public service farce has been going on for decades
One of the biggest achievements of the unions of the public sector, over the years, has been the championing of the mediocre, responsibility-fearing and unproductive...
Our View: No matter how odious, Elam had legitimate claim to committee chair
After Elam received the fourth highest number of votes in May’s parliamentary elections and secured four seats, there have been countless articles bemoaning the rise...
Our View: Criminal case against officers in serial killer affair could not be won
Anger at the decision of the attorney-general not to prosecute the 15 policemen over their apparent failure to investigate the disappearance of foreign women that...
Our View: No substance to auditor-general’s tirade against passport probe
At around the time of the 2004 referendum on the Annan Plan, Nicos Anastasiades, as Disy leader wrote to the European Commission to report then...
Our View: Anastasiades meetings might have failed but they did serve a purpose
In the end, President Anastasiades’ initiative to set up a government of broader acceptance proved a non-starter. With the exception of the Disy chief the...
Our View: A referendum on municipal reform would be a disaster
The bills for local government reform, through the merging of municipalities, were discussed in the House before the elections but were not approved because of...
Our View: Is government making further miscalculation over passports?
The government may have thought it could ride the storm caused by last year’s revelations about the citizenship scheme by announcing it would stop receiving...
Our View: Turkey’s meddling in TC election signals pointlessness of talks
The only surprise about the report, drafted by a small team of Turkish Cypriots, was the extent of Turkey’s interference in last year’s ‘presidential elections’...
Our View: Demetriou’s first task will be to restore the credibility of the House presidency
The House of Representatives elected its first ever female President on Thursday – Disy Vice President and Larnaca deputy Annita Demetriou. It is the first...
Our View: President should forget ‘broad acceptance’ notion and focus on competence
A ‘government of broad acceptance’ is the latest idea President Anastasiades has decided to embrace, presumably because it sounds good. He said the aim was...
Our View: Passports report shows there must be some culpability
The 780 pages of findings of the investigative committee set up to look into the citizenship scheme from 2007 to 2020 was given to the...
Our View: Nurses’ strike arbitrarily disrupted vaccination programme to defend union’s abuse of power
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou deserves congratulations for not bowing to the nurses who staged a 12-hour work stoppage on Monday to stop the disciplinary procedure...
Our View: Anastasiades’ CBMs proposal is just another ploy
NOW, if we are to believe the ever-changing ideas of President Anastasiades, the way forward on the Cyprus problem is discussion and agreement on confidence-building...
Our View: Tourist industry has fallen victim to decisions out of its control
The tourism industry was dealt a big blow by the UK government’s decision to keep Cyprus on the amber list. Deputy minister for tourism Savvas...
Our View: Union power over public hospitals needs to be reined in
Nursing union Pasyno has called a 12-hour strike on Monday by its members to report health minister Constantinos Ioannou for “interference in the right to...
Our View: Election result showed voters want action not knee-jerk rejection
What society demanded was the search for the greatest possible consensus through creative engagement so that policies were approved and the country moved forward, said...
Our View: Opening of crossings will be a welcome development
We know how the northern part of Nicosia has been affected by the closure of the Ledra Street checkpoint, but the southern part too has...