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The answer to the barrage of criticism by opposition parties over the government’s decision not to extend the tax discount on fuel beyond last month was provided by the ...

Leaving aside the series of setbacks to the installation of smart electricity meters involving tenders, courts and the potential loss of EU funding, news out of the UK recently presents ...

The formalising of cooperation on countering money laundering and sanctions violations between the governments of Cyprus and the United States, announced last week is of historic significance. Close, structured cooperation ...

The Audit Office, under Odysseas Michaelides, has done some very important work in exposing corruption and incompetence over the years. For this he has been justifiably praised by the parties, ...

For this government, an unpopular measure must be accompanied by something positive, at least communications-wise, because it wants to minimise the criticism by media and opposition parties, which would have ...

The police command has put in force an action plan, which is aimed at “prevention and elimination of serious and organised crime.” Details of the plan, which came into force ...

Nobody could doubt President Nikos Christodoulides’ commitment to cleaning up the bad name Cyprus has acquired over the years as a country that facilitated money laundering – what is also referred ...

Governments in Cyprus have tended to be led rather than lead, often shunning measures that are deemed unpopular until they are absolutely necessary. They have a tendency to be swayed ...

The former vice president of Disy, Marios Pelekanos, who resigned from his post a few weeks ago in a sulk because he had not been selected as a party candidate ...

The issue of the disclosure of the personal assets of politically exposed persons (PEP) has been going on for years. Not even the passing of two laws, stipulating the submission ...

If union bosses were asked to choose whomever they wanted as the Christodoulides government’s minister of labour, they would not have found anyone more prepared to champion their interests ...

The mending of relations between the government and the CPP-Metron Consortium Ltd (CMC), which has the contract for the construction and operation of the Vasiliko LNG terminal, is a positive ...

FOR the last ten days or so, the media has been full of stories and reports about the goings-on at the Osiou Avakoum monastery and the two monks who are ...

Although feeling duty-bound to pay lip service to the protection of the environment, Cyprus governments have traditionally shown scant regard for this. They routinely ignore the regulations and laws they ...

The humanitarian aid ship Open Arms finally left Larnaca on Tuesday, pulling a barge carrying 200 tonnes of food supplies and was expected to reach the Gaza coast by Wednesday night. ...

Speaking about her plans for the next school year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou set as a ministry priority “the transition to a modern, human-centred and inclusive school that will cultivate ...

Much has been said and written about the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed on an 82-year-old man for shooting and injuring a man who was attempting stealing electricity cable from his ...

There are some government decisions on which it is impossible to put a positive spin and maintain credibility. The Christodoulides government does not appear to have realised this yet, which ...

It defies belief that the Christodoulides government boycotted the reception held on Monday by Unficyp to mark the 60th anniversary of its arrival in Cyprus. No representative of the government ...

Many would have been aghast hearing about the proposed law that would allow the minister of commerce to set a maximum price on certain products. It seems the government has ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, in the televised appraisal of his first year in office, said that the Cyprus problem was at the “epicentre of the priorities of the government”. He then ...

The authorities have not come out of the case involving the Ukrainian woman who brought large amounts of cash to Cyprus smelling of roses. Countless questions have been raised by ...

The president and his ministers no longer will be able to hire as advisors or associates people who do not possess a university degree recognised by the state. A law, ...

Sixty years ago on Monday the UN Security Council hastily established Unficyp, for a period of three months, to deal with the inter-communal fighting that broke out just before Christmas 1963. ...