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Cyprus today marks 49 years since the coup that overthrew Archbishop Makarios and paved the way for Turkish invasion. Referred to as the ‘black anniversary,’ sirens will sound in all towns ...

Foreign minister Constantinos Kombos described his meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday night as “particularly constructive,” saying that he stressed “our strong will to return to the negotiations ...

A few months ago, there was public outrage after it transpired that President Nicos Christodoulides had appointed as member of the public service commission a man who had a university ...

The taxpayer will have to provide another €60m that was not budgeted this year to pay for the increase in CoLA (from 50 to 67.7 per cent of the rise in the ...

The Customs Department has always been notorious for its heavy-handedness in dealing with people. Customs officials always interpret complex bureaucratic rules in any way they please, relying on people’s ...

Nothing illustrates the populist values of our politicians better than their recklessly slapdash handling of the foreclosures law, which they approved some nine years ago and ever since have been ...

The rate of inflation was down to 1.9 per cent in June, according to the latest figures released by the statistical service. In May it was 3 per cent, which suggests the ...

Nothing contained in the European Commission’s latest report on Rule of Law, regarding Cyprus came as a surprise. It was more of the same with some faint praise for ...

The two draft reports of the UN Secretary-General, about his good offices mission and Unficyp clearly state the UN’s position about a new initiative. Antonio Guterres sets his own ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou has announced that he would initiate a dialogue with stakeholders about shop opening hours. This transpired after a meeting he had with Povek, the association that ...

In its Green Line Regulation report for 2022 the European Commission recorded 144 per cent increase in trade between the two sides compared to the previous year. In percentage terms this could ...

After three months of much-publicised efforts to secure a more active and leading role by the EU in the resumption of the Cyprus talks, all that President Christodoulides achieved, apart ...

After years of steady decline in its support, the left-wing party Akel has decided it needs to broaden its appeal. Its traditional support-base which was force-fed the Soviet communist ideal ...

It was encouraging to hear Finance Minister Makis Keravnos defending the government’s decision to end the subsidy of all electricity bills and the reduction of the consumer tax on ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides’ decision to take no more action in the case of the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou sparked a rather hostile reaction, which was understandable, in the ...

Petrol station owners blocked Nicosia roads with tankers on Tuesday to protest the loss of business from those smuggling fuel from the north. They seem to have adjusted their rhetoric. ...

Brussels has been largely mute on President Nikos Christodoulides’ proposal for the EU to become more involved in the Cyprus issue, which he has been pushing since his election almost ...

The current fuss over a proposed new luxury hotel complex in Yeroskipou seems almost too familiar, the only twist being that in this case it’s the municipality that’s ...

It’s 2023, the height of the digital revolution and here in Cyprus we’re still debating the issue of police body cams, something that was implemented in the UK as ...

The culture of self-interest in Cyprus is evident almost on a daily basis but the past week has been exceptional. Firstly, we had the disgraced Bishop of Kiti who refuses ...

Now that President Nikos Christodoulides has completed his first 100 days, perhaps he should take a day off. Since being sworn-in, there has not been a day when he did not ...

Farmers were on the streets again on Monday, making a nuisance of themselves, some might say, over EU regulations designed to cut pesticides, a very worthy endeavour it must be ...

In Cyprus we like to think that we ‘think big’. We certainly talk big a lot of the time. We were going to be an energy hub, an education hub, ...

A few weeks ago, everyone marked the four years of the national health scheme Gesy, the only public institution that is afforded a birthday celebration every year. We very much ...