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Rule of law that is applied selectively is not rule of law. It is a form of authoritarianism in which the state decides who is allowed to break the law ...

“The exploitation of the natural gas deposits, the pipelines, the electricity interconnectors, the terminal stations and everything else we are discussing in the meeting, will remain, yet again in the ...

After months of prevarication backed by unconvincing arguments, the presidential palace decided to release the names of the people hired on contracts as advisors to the president, ministers and deputy ...

A few days after the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced that it would accept students who had sat international exams (GCEs, IB) to undergraduate courses at which there were available ...

It was not a surprise to hear Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar say that he had received a telephone call from the UN asking him to go to New York ...

The government has gone ahead with the preparation of the constitutional reform it had proposed for the state legal service and the audit office, with Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis saying ...

Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis in an indirect way on Wednesday confirmed the government was behind the move by tour operator Tui to stop taking tourists on day trips to ...

The Green Party has filed a formal objection to a massive photovoltaic plant proposed for the Mathiatis-Analyontas-Lythrodontas triangle, in the Nicosia district.The party is calling on all ecologically-aware people ...

It is good to see that the government has drawn the right lessons from the Larnaca port and marina fiasco. It has abandoned the grandiose plans of making the development ...

The government was at pains to justify its approval of the EU invitation to Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan to attend the informal meeting of the General Affairs Council ...

The Cyprus economy recorded a rate of growth of 3.7 per cent in the second quarter of this year in comparison to the corresponding period of 2023, according to Eurostat. It was ...

Lessons on financial literacy will be introduced to public schools this year, the government following the EU-wide trend of giving youngsters a basic financial education that would help them understand ...

The idea for a subsea energy cable that would connect the power grids of Cyprus, Israel and Greece (Crete to be more precise) was first presented in 2012 as a private ...

Akel gave full vent to its anti-West, anti-American prejudices last week after the American warship USS Wasp arrived in Limassol. The party issued several announcements, warning that the government was ...

Any remaining illusions about President Nikos Christodoulides’ commitment to a settlement of the Cyprus issue were shattered last weekend when he announced to a gathering of Famagustans in Dherynia that ...

Out of the blue, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Tuesday that the government would be giving €9.5m in handouts to schoolchildren. The package, he said, was aimed at helping pre-primary, ...

Congratulations to Pavlos Kontides, Cyprus’ greatest ever sailor, who won the Olympics silver medal on Wednesday in the men’s Laser class. This was the second silver medal he won ...

The Justice Minister Marios Hatsiotis, and Cyprus Football Association (CFA) have been at odds after the decision of the latter to allow away fans to attend matches in the new ...

The greed of public hospital doctors seems to have no bounds. Although they are among the best-paid employees on the island – Okypy estimates their annual salaries are in the region ...

President Nikos Christodoulides caused a big stir by announcing on Saturday evening that he had been “sounded out” by the UN about attending a three-party meeting in New York with ...

If there is one issue that encapsulates the inadequacy of politicians, the failure of state services to draft medium- and long-term plans for the benefit of the country and the ...

While the government’s initial stance about the migrants stranded in the buffer zone was justifiable, as time goes by it is becoming more difficult to defend. It is leading ...

Many people, understandably, have been complaining about the high prices they are paying for fruit and vegetables. Prices have remained consistently high in the last couple of months, with the ...

President Christodoulides, for the last couple of weeks, has been forecasting “some development in the Cyprus issue,” which could materialise in August or early September. He repeated this prediction again ...