Our View: The second phase of Gesy will exist only in theory
LESS than two weeks ago the board of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) met to discuss the possibility of delaying the start of second phase...
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Our View: The scientific advisers seem to have misunderstood their role
How strange that the committee of scientific advisors – the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit – felt obliged to issue a statement on Thursday about the opening...
Our View: Government can ill afford state support for small businesses
In the end the government was obliged to satisfy the demand of Diko for direct state support to small businesses, in order to secure the...
Our View: Union bullying at the fore of debate over reopening schools
Nobody should be surprised if no students, apart from those in their final year, return to public school before September. Ever since they met President...
Our View: Public mood gloomy as economy restarts
After a seven-week lockdown, the economy restarted on Monday with retail shops re-opening, construction resuming and public servants returning to work. It was not a...
Our View: Parties show childish level of political analysis
MAY 1 marked the 16th anniversary of Cyprus’ accession to the EU, a landmark in the history of the Republic that was achieved through close...
Our View: Restrictive measures becoming increasingly convoluted
Thousands of work-hours must have been needed to draft the new rules, also known as the gradual lifting of the restrictions. It is ironic that...
Our View: No ready answers to resolving Gesy dilemma
Ii was inevitable the coronavirus crisis would throw plans for the introduction of the second phase of the national health scheme (Gesy) into disarray. The...
Our View: Misbehaviour of the few cannot keep us all locked up
President Anastasiades on Monday met the ministerial committee that prepared the plan for the gradual lifting of the restrictions while on Tuesday he heard the...
Our View: Akel should blame unions for failure of lockdown teaching
Having difficulty finding a public issue to criticise the government about, at a time completely dominated by the apparently successful fight against the spread of...
Our View: President must steer clear of ultra cautious approach of scientific advisors
THERE appear to be mixed signals from the government regarding the decision on lifting the restrictions. While the council of ministers had adopted a proposal...
Our View: Counting the ‘triumphs’ of rejecting the Annan plan
ALL the hardline parties marked the 16th anniversary of the resounding ‘no’ in the 2004 referendum, on Friday, repeating the well-worn platitudes about restoring the...
Our View: Perdios’ claim that tourism not totally lost this year is wishful thinking
Perhaps it is inexperience that led the deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios to declare that on no account was this year lost for the...
Our View: EU in crisis over coronavirus recovery funding
Anyone listening to the radio advertisement slogan of the European Commission representation in Cyprus would think that it was ironic. “Europe means solidarity; united we...
Our View: International law can be violated with impunity by countries like Turkey
The Turkish drillship Yavuz left port on Sunday heading for the Cypriot EEZ, where it will reportedly carry out more illegal drilling. Turkey had issued...
Our View: Who decides on lifting lockdown, the government or scientists?
On the same day that the cabinet approved a vague plan for the gradual lifting of restrictions, without any time-frames, the member of the health...
Our View: State services must come out of hibernation
At the meeting President Anastasiades had with the party leaders earlier in the week, the issue of declaring certain government departments essential services and bringing...
Our View: A silver lining – state able to introduce new services in just days
A significant number of the people that applied for the benefits offered by the government to counter the effects of the economy’s lockdown, will have...
Our View: Is government guilty of double standards over supermarket case?
All day Monday reports circulated that confirmed cases of coronavirus had been found among staff working at a large, unnamed Nicosia supermarket. The supermarket in...
Our View: Decision on public sector pay was morally correct
The government would have breathed a collective sigh of relief on hearing that the state’s appeal against the administrative court’s decision ruling that the pay...
