Our View: Cuts to electricity bills smack of populism
The Council of Ministers on Thursday decided to cut the VAT charged on the electricity bills of ‘vulnerable households’ from 19 to 5 per cent....
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Our View: Without improvements Gesy will collapse
Our national health scheme, Gesy, has become untouchable. Any criticism of the way it operates – perfectly justified under the circumstances – is viewed as...
Our View: Bike push a case of running before we can walk
Apart from the new portal crashing, it was at least encouraging that it was due to strong interest in the government’s bicycle purchase subsidy scheme...
Our View: Coming months will see a period of lifestyle adjustments for many
Dire warnings have been coming from everywhere in recent weeks about inflation and the resulting hike in prices consumers will begin to really feel in...
Our View: Citizens should not have to beg politicians just to secure their legal rights
The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled...
Our View: Troulli death decision step in right direction
Indeed it was unprecedented that a court on Wednesday found three teenagers guilty in the bullying death of 16-year-old Panayiotis Stefani who died from alcohol...
Our View: Unacceptable delays in moving Dali asphalt plants
Following another recent demonstration by Dali residents over the delay in relocating two polluting asphalt plants in their area, MPs picked up the topic again...
Our View: Question of ID for two children ludicrous
The naturalisation plight of two children of a Greek Cypriot mother and a Turkish Cypriot father is a bit like being thrown back in time...
Our view: Drivers in for a shock as cameras get into action
After around 13 years, Cyprus’ motorists will once more see traffic cameras on the roads as part of efforts to enhance safety and reduce fatalities....
Our View: The Herculean task of unclogging our roads
The months of lockdowns, restrictions on movement, distance learning and work from home, made us all forget about the traffic chaos that was part of...
Our View: Traffic cams a step closer but collection of fines still a shambles
It should not have come as too much of a surprise that 500 traffic violations were recorded in only two hours during the rollout of...
Our View: President is very skilful at passing the buck
It could be said that one of the reasons President Anastasiades has had an unjustifiably good press in his eight years in office, is that...
Our View: Government undermining those in charge of state hospitals
WHEN the government was drafting its plans for Gesy it decided that public hospitals should be taken out of the control of the health ministry...
Our View: EU policy of taking measures repeatedly fails to materialise
Nicosia welcomed Monday’s decision of the EU Foreign Affairs Council to draft a document with ways of dealing with Turkey’s failure to reverse its actions...
Our View: Reassuring that finance minister is aware of the looming dangers to public finances
Although inflationary pressures have been evident in the last couple of months, they were largely ignored. When the 38 per cent increase in the electricity...
Our View: Foreign minister seems to have lost touch with reality
Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect...
Our View: Admission that ministry has no Covid data analysis is astonishing
The members of the scientific team were of the view that a booster shot should be given to people above the age of 60, said...
Our View: Government should have been prepared for grain crisis
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the government has managed to get the general population to go along with lockdowns and other measures by throwing...
Our View: Public sector pensions need overhaul without delay
Parliamentary spokesman of Akel Giorgos Loucaides wrote to the finance minister on Tuesday asking to know whether the government had any plans to submit a...
Our View: Courts should stay clear of party squabbles
In the last few weeks, the Nicosia district court has issued injunctions suspending the holding of elections at two political parties. First, an injunction was...