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In the end, the education ministry surrendered to the teaching unions over the evaluation system, the bill for which it had submitted to the House for approval. As expected, the ...

The council of ministers on Wednesday approved another bill that would supposedly deal with the controversial issue of multiple pensions. What was approved by the cabinet, could still be changed ...

Defending the president’s diplomatic blunder about Iran’s alleged message, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos criticised the opposition parties for focusing on this while completely ignoring the Russian Federation’s ...

President Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to give the Cyprus Republic and himself a ‘role’ in international affairs backfired at the weekend, when the spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry issued a ...

The Christodoulides government has a tendency of treating everything as theatre. On Friday, after the news of Israel’s air strikes on Iran, the government spokesman posted on ‘X’ that “...

Although an Israeli attack on Iran was seen as a possibility it still seems to have taken most of the world by surprise when it happened in the early hours ...

Another decision was issued by the European Court of Human Rights, after an application by the owner of an apartment block in Varosha. It ordered Turkey to pay compensation of €18,000 ...

Disy deputy Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis was perfectly justified to censure President Nicos Christodoulides for his “highly unlawful” intervention in the setting of the electricity authority’s new tariff. The tariff increase ...

Ever since its independence, Cyprus has enjoyed relations with India. There was probably solidarity as both had been British colonies that fought for their freedom, and both suffered the consequences ...

The speed with which deputy minister of culture Vasiliki Kassianidou reacted to withdraw a book from the Cyprus stand at the 19th Architecture Biennale in Venice on Wednesday (and from ...

The European Commission sounded a warning about state expenditure for this year as it was forecasted to grow by more than the government stipulated it would. The government’s commitment ...

It appears the political parties have taken on the responsibility of deciding how the foreign-language courses at the two public universities would be introduced. The only snag is that there ...

When President Nikos Christodoulides first spoke about his government’s plans to develop Cyprus’ defence industry at the end of last year, many may have thought he was joking. He ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (Cysec) has been spurred into action by the allegations, made last week by Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, about links between Cyprus-based foreign exchange firms ...

The Cyprus electricity market will open to independent producers in mid-September and from October 1, the trading in electricity will commence. The opening up of the market, which was meant have ...

The ludicrous ‘referendum’, held by the secondary teachers union Oelmek, overwhelmingly rejected the bill that would introduce a new system of evaluation of the work of each teacher. A total ...

While everyone claims to want corruption eliminated, nothing is done even when it is staring them in the face. The case of Cyprus-registered Blue Ocean, the company that was managing ...

President Christodoulides’ ‘Minds in Cyprus’ initiative, which was launched at London’s Guildhall last week, appears to have been a resounding success considering the interest that was shown. The presentation ...

It was no surprise to hear that the council of ministers decided on Wednesday to cover the deficits of Okypy, which runs the state hospitals until the end of 2026. Speaking ...

Two months before the meeting in multi-party meeting under the UN Secretary-General in Geneva, the process has ground to a halt, in spite of the arrival of the UNSG’s ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear the latest twist in the saga of the football clubs, which had the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) certifying that all of them satisfied ...

The government came under considerable criticism for the stance it adopted at the EU foreign ministers meeting which discussed the proposal for a review of the bloc’s trade and ...

In principle, it’s hard to disagree with the slew of green taxes coming our way, at least in theory. After all it would be difficult for anyone to defend ...

MPs this week lambasted banks for the lack of ATMs, particularly in mountainous and remote areas, giving them a one-month deadline to come back with a plan for more extensive ...