Our View: Court should have given police benefit of the doubt on riot suspects
What started out as a peaceful protest march by youths against the measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 and 5G networks turned violent as...
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Our View: Government should not rush into another lockdown
It was reassuring to hear Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides say the government would try to avoid a new general lockdown. Another lockdown would be disastrous...
Our View: Misplaced optimism in tourism needs a reality check
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in March, tourism industry players, including minister Savvas Perdios, have been treating the pandemic as a temporary situation....
Our View: Auditor-general’s bullying behaviour has to stop
As if the Republic has not suffered enough embarrassment and as a result of the revelations of the citizenship by investment scheme, we now have...
Our View: In a time of upheaval, people want to see strong leadership
Our political system was shaken to its core by the release of the Al Jazeera video and it now appears to be falling apart, with...
Our View: the government learned a valuable lesson about discounting women
It only took 48 hours for the minister of education, Prodromos Prodromou to acknowledge his blunder in appointing a 16-member advisory committee for the deputy...
Our View: No rational reason for masks outdoors
The new measures for dealing with the spike in coronavirus infections that were announced by the health minister on Thursday do not stand up to...
Our View: Diko blackmail over passport probe is unconstitutional
In the quest for votes, parties sometimes forget we have a constitution and rule of law. Diko has been displaying this tendency – not for...
Our View: Investigations must probe if cost-cutting behind eye infections
Eight out of nine patients that underwent eye surgery at the Apollonion private hospital eight days ago suffered the same serious infection. Although the infection...
Our View: Anastasiades will now have to negotiate with the more inflexible Tatar
Ersin Tatar became the fifth ‘president’ of the occupied north on Sunday, spreading disappointment among the contracting number of Greek Cypriots that support a bizonal,...
Our View: Government must be ultra cautious over passports
President Anastasiades must have had the wind knocked out of his sails by the international embarrassment suffered by Cyprus this week as he arrived in...
Our View: Populists and their knack of turning politics into theatre
Super-populist deputy Giorgos Perdikis wrote to Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides asking whether any other measures were being explored by the government in relation to rents....
Our View: Syllouris should have resigned immediately after being exposed
Never before has there been such a public clamour for the resignation of a state official, as the one witnessed in the last few days....
Our View: We’re fair game for guilt by association now
On Wednesday the EUobserver website carried a story under the headline, ‘Lukashenko-linked firms active in EU member Cyprus,’ and reported that Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko...
Our View: Government left it too late to act over passports
A hastily called Council of Ministers meeting on Tuesday decided to scrap the citizenship by investment programme in its current form as of November 1....
Our View: Violent Dherynia protest sets a dangerous precedent
Sunday night’s protest in Dherynia by some 250 hooded youths, who stormed past the Greek Cypriot checkpoint armed with sticks, bats and flares, is not...
Our View: Signs that unprecedented Turkish meddling will backfire
TURKISH Cypriots vote for a new leader today, in an election that has seen Turkey’s government openly support one of the candidates, ‘prime minister’ Ersin...
Our View: No matter how odious, there is no evidence Elam has broken any laws
Several parties used the Greek court ruling, which found the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn to be a criminal organisation, to declare Cyprus’ far-right nationalist party,...
Our View: Government cornered by Varosha move
Why were Greek Cypriot politicians taken by surprise by the announcement that the Famagusta seafront would be opened to the public today? Had they not...
Our View: Radical overhaul needed of number employed in civil service
The finance ministry has told the legislature that the government would gradually stop hiring seasonal workers and staff on contracts for a finite period, which...
