Our View: Gesy is simply unsustainable without reform
Perhaps now the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has sounded a warning about the finances of the national health scheme, Gesy, veering out of control, the political...
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Our View: Constant ‘clarifications’ on measures confusing and totally inconsistent
Much confusion has been caused by the latest batch of Covid-19 measures announced by the government on Wednesday. In fact, the health ministry officials that...
Our View: Consensus has made a mockery of local government reform
Reform of local government has degenerated into farce. This was inevitable given that the government sought to achieve this through a misguided pursuit of consensus....
Our View: Cars allowed back on Makarios Ave a result of half baked municipal plans
In the end, Nicosia municipal council voted against banning private cars from the redesigned section of Makarios Avenue, which is set to be re-opened on...
Our View: New measure a lockdown of sorts for the unvaccinated
The government found a very smart way of presenting what is a type of lockdown for the unvaccinated. From December 15, only people over the...
Our View: Personal data protection stymies fight against crime
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides was perfectly justified in expressing his disappointment over last month’s Supreme Court decision that retaining customer data for six months by telecommunications...
Our View: President either an inept negotiator or he got what he wanted
Although the publication of the minutes of meetings held at Crans-Montana in July 2017 were seen as a vindication of President Anastasiades’ stance, they also...
Our View: EU rule changing exposes states to populist demands
There is no economy anywhere in the world in which populism has proved an effective tool to tackle inflation, even though, listening to some Cyprus...
Our View: Focus on ancient languages a wonderful idea, but is it practical?
Everyone will have welcomed the joint declaration by the education ministers of France, Greece, Italy and Cyprus when they undertook to strengthen their cooperation in...
Our View: Judges need to have a more constructive attitude towards judicial reform
The government appears to be on a mission to get the bills on the reform of the judicial system through the legislature. This is because...
Our View: Turkey’s Varosha actions violate international law, so why won’t the EU act?
Since the Turkish side began opening up Varosha last year, it has been predictably disappointing to see how the EU has been handling Cyprus’ pleas...
Our View: Crans Montana ruckus shows how desperate Anastasiades is
The collapse of talks at Crans Montana may have happened four-and-a-half years ago but it has suddenly become a major issue. It returned to public...
Our View: Government in a pickle over taxi petrol protests
THE Republic’s official, probably a customs officer, who asked to check the petrol tank of a taxi, before it crossed to the north on Saturday...
Our View: Foreign minister should be doing his job, not electioneering
Although the presidential election is still 15 months away and none of the opposition parties have started discussing alliances let alone possible candidates, Disy is...
Our View: There is no quick fix for inflation
Prices have been rising for several months now, sparking indignant comments in the media and calls by opposition parties for government intervention. Preventing these rises...
Our View: Migrant figures staggering but EU action against Turkey unlikely
Beginning around March 2020, the government managed to take some action on clearing the backlog in asylum applications with the help of the European Asylum...
Our View: Auditor-general missed the bigger picture focusing on presidential staff
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides highlighted a problem with his letter to the legislature about the way workers are hired on contracts in the public sector and...
Our View: Hopes that red tape stymying foreign business has been cut
For decades now, since the presidency of George Vassiliou, governments have been announcing plans for cutting the bureaucratic delays and arbitrary decisions that so often...
Our View: Hit-and-miss Covid information only leads to questions
On Thursday, the government extended the existing Covid measures until December 2. With winter approaching, the Delta+ variant having made an appearance in Cyprus, cases...
Our View: Education budget bigger every year but little of it goes towards learning
About this time every year, government ministers go before the House finance committee to discuss their ministry’s respective budget for the following year. They are...