Our View: Our schools do not encourage the critical thinking needed for innovation
IT WAS fascinating to hear the explanation why Israel had come to be known as the ‘startup nation’ and ranks third in patents awarded, after...
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Our View: Pandemic has drastically changed conventional economic thinking
Almost everyone appears happy with the government’s new raft of measures aimed at assisting the restart of the economy after the two-month lockdown. The credit...
Our View: Unficyp mandate welcomed as renews status quo
Cyprus’ permanent representative to the UN Andreas Mavroyiannis told the CyBC on Tuesday that the deliberations for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate had begun....
Our View: Optimism over opening of airports short-lived
The optimism that greeted last week’s announcement about the opening of the airports on June 9 did not last very long, as people are realising...
Our View: Estia scheme has been a dismal failure
The House finance committee asked the government to extend the deadline for the submission of documentation and data for incomplete applications to the Estia Scheme...
Our View: We must seize the opportunities pandemic has created
A BIG crisis, it is often said, creates opportunities. Opportunity for change, for improvement, for a new beginning. A crisis that turns things upside down...
Our View: Gesy proposal is just robbing Peter to pay Paul
WHILE private hospitals and clinics are considering the HIO’s (Health Insurance Organisation) proposal for a 6 per cent cut in the prices agreed for offering...
Our View: Opposition parties have been childish over a bill that was vital to the economy
Everyone has had their say about the fiasco of the bill on state guaranteed bank loans that the government withdrew from the legislature on Tuesday,...
Our View: A welcome return to normality of sorts. We must ensure it remains
After two months of martial-law type lockdown, during which we were under night-time curfew, needed state permission to leave our home in the day –...
Our View: Political parties can’t act responsibly even in times of crisis
In the end, the government was left with no choice but to withdraw its bill on state guarantees on bank loans because it had been...
Our View: President is right to deny auditor-general a role on loans committee
Ii was high time President Anastasiades finally applied the brakes on the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides who has been constantly overstepping the bounds of his constitutional...
Our View: Better to delay phase 2 of Gesy than see system collapse
Less than two weeks are left before the introduction of the second phase of the national health scheme Gesy on June 1 but nothing is...
Our View: The two leaders need to consult on reopening the crossings
AS THE Cyprus problem has been removed from the island’s political agenda for several months now, and the two sides remain focused on dealing with...
Our View: Time for a compromise solution for the Paphos-Polis highway
Whenever the government takes a decision to build the Paphos-Polis highway something happens to prevent it. The initial decision was taken during the Clerides presidency,...
Our View: Jail sentence for man breaking curfew was harsh and excessive
On Tuesday a man was sentenced to 45 days in prison because he had violated the curfew on March 25. He was caught in Dherynia...
Our View: Teachers turning us into nation of moaning minnies
For union bosses to be considered good at their job they need well-developed moaning skills. It is not enough to moan, but they also have...
Our View: Bleak future for Turkish Cypriot economy
Much is being written and said about the dire straits in which the Turkish Cypriot economy finds itself. The closing of its airport as well...
Our View: School reopening row highlights economic divide
THE ROW sparked by the government’s decision to open all state schools on May 21, the day the on which lockdown ends and we regain...
Our View: The second phase of Gesy will exist only in theory
LESS than two weeks ago the board of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) met to discuss the possibility of delaying the start of second phase...
Our View: The scientific advisers seem to have misunderstood their role
How strange that the committee of scientific advisors – the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit – felt obliged to issue a statement on Thursday about the opening...
