Our View: Nicosia needs to learn some planning lessons from Limassol
On the day that mayor Nicos Nicolaides announced that Limassol would be turned into a friendly, green, smart city for citizens and businesses, Nicosia municipality...
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Our View: President should leave state officials alone to solve problems
President Anastasiades has called a meeting at the presidential palace on Friday to discuss the allegations of corruption in Cyprus football, it was announced last...
Our View: Education minister must take a firm stand against the lunacy of students
The absurdity of having an organisation made up of teenage students, known by the acronym Psem, behaving like a militant union and calling for the...
Our View: Unficyp mandate shows change coming for status quo
How many times over the last 45 years has a Cyprus government expressed fears that the wording of a draft resolution of the UN Security...
Our View: Reports into jet use show president had no regard for ethics
It pleases nobody to read the two reports by Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, released on Friday, as they reveal a disregard for ethical behaviour by the...
Our View: Many hurdles ahead for ‘liberated’ Britain
The United Kingdom will leave the European Union at midnight central European time on Friday, although it will have to wait until the end of...
Our View: Trump’s Middle East peace plan an absolute sham
Like so much associated with the presidency of Donald Trump, his proposed peace plan for the Middle East can only be described as a sham....
Our View: Phone-tapping law amendments do not serve public good
The ease with which deputies amend government bills at the legislature never ceases to amaze. They never seem to think through the consequences of the...
Our View: It will take more than Omonia’s measures to stamp out corruption in football
Two-and-a-half weeks after the first allegations about corruption in Cyprus football were made public by Omonia, its chairman Stavros Papastavros called a news conference to...
Our View: Turkey destroys island’s energy policy narrative with latest incursion
The government’s energy plans were dealt a heavy blow last week when Turkey decided to send its Yavuz drillship into offshore block 8 of the...
Our View: Government right to set limit on third-country students
SETTING limits to the number of third-country nationals that private colleges can enrol was the correct move by the education ministry. It had been advised...
Our View: Akel’s criticism of foreign minister over Turkey is justified
Foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides is the latest state official who seems to believe he is above criticism. He follows the example set by the auditor-general...
Our View: Quantity over quality yet again in new tourism plan
Yet another national tourism strategy was unveiled on Tuesday by the deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios and this time it will be a 10-year...
Our View: New law could pave the way for improved government service
The government law that would cut the red tape and speed up the procedures for what are defined as ‘strategic investments’ is commendable, but whether...
Our View: Auditor-general looks childish in latest power struggle
The ongoing row between auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides and ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottidou has taken comical proportions. Both have dug in their heels, waiting for the other...
Our View: House president shows true colours over MPs’ bad loan list
IN HIS first public appearance after being elected House president in 2016, Demetris Syllouris announced that he would introduce measures to improve the standing of...
Our Views: Guarantees for private hospitals not the issue, the state sector is
THE COUNCIL of Ministers’ decision to offer €70 million in government guarantees to private hospitals and clinics that join the national health scheme Gesy was...
Our View: Very good reasons why the Libya summit is not about the EEZ
Cyprus’ political parties have suddenly become interested in the Libyan civil war. For years they had shown complete indifference to what was going on, but...
Our View: Interpretation of privacy laws is absurd
The commissioner for the protection of personal data has imposed hefty fines, totalling €82,000, on three companies, belonging to the same group, for trying to...
Our View: Archbishop’s plan for Nicosia mansion appallingly misguided
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos was furious about the organised opposition and social media reaction to his plans to turn the Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios mansion into a Byzantine museum...
