Our View: Government must take clear stand on big issues
The government was given a lesson on Sunday on how the media could cause unnecessary problems for it. Sunday’s front-page story in the weekly newspaper...
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Our View: Unlike his predecessors, Christodoulides did well to revive EU interest in the Cyprus problem
Towards the end of the Christofias presidency, with Cyprus excluded from the markets, state coffers almost empty and the banks on life support, there were...
Our View: Suspects in house remand pose a threat
It is a great relief that deputies of the House legal affairs committee have decided to engage in further discussions before taking any decisions on...
Our View: CoLA should apply only to low earners
Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment...
Our View: Shortage of nurses not the problem; the system is
For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring...
Our View: Regulating fake news a minefield that needs to be carefully monitored
When deputies from the House legal affairs committee meet today to pick up discussion on ‘fake news’ they will have their work cut out for...
Our View: Instead of sticking to auditing, auditor-general talks like a populist politician.
A COUPLE of weeks ago, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides appeared before the House oversight committee to discuss the audit office’s special report on the University of...
Our view: State micromanagement of people’s behaviour won’t improve lives
Three years ago, Cyprus declared its first case of coronavirus, shuttered the island and locked down the population with the same mantra as every other...
Our View: Inflation must be brought under control despite the discomfort
The European Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates by 50 basis points was widely expected. Not even the turmoil in the banking sector could...
Our View: Government needs to act quietly on some occasions
President Nicos Christodoulides has made it the style of his presidency to take an interest in most things that are in the news. The way...
