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Is there any country in the world apart from Cyprus in which employees do not allow their employer to assess their job performance? And is there any country in the ...

Αll anti-settlement parties issued announcements celebrating Thursday’s 21st anniversary of the Greek Cypriot ‘no’ vote in the Annan Plan referendum. Diko, whose leader, president Tassos Papadopoulos, urged people to ...

Tourist arrivals will continue last year’s upward path in 2025. Cystat reported that arrivals for the first quarter of this year were up 7.5 per cent, compared to 2024, reaching 446,596. The growth ...

The lambradjia lunacy produced a fatality on Saturday. A 22-year-old man was killed when a big wooden pole that youths were trying to place on a lambradjia hit him on ...

Four lives were lost on the roads over 48 hours in the last week. Three of them were hit by other vehicles, while the fourth – a 23-year-old man – had reportedly lost ...

‘A step towards the mountain’ was the title chosen by the UNSG’s Special Representative Colin Stewart for a speech he gave on Wednesday night at CVAR in Nicosia about ...

Since the Cold War era, the communist party Akel has viewed certain international organisations as centres of sinister, capitalist plotting. Nato, CIA, EEC (as the EU was known) have always ...

The disappointing results of the gas drilling at the Elektra-1 well in Block 5 of the Cypriot EEZ may have caused some surprise, bearing in mind ExxonMobil’s earlier assessment of ...

On March 24 a senior official from the finance ministry was arguing to MPs that the main thrust of a government bill to unfreeze public sector jobs was to simplify hiring ...

Last week’s biggest news was the protest by thousands of Turkish Cypriots (around 13,000) against the re-legalisation of hijab in schools. If you live in the Republic, though, you’d ...

At an event to discuss the pay-as-you throw system on Wednesday night, Disy leader and House speaker Annita Demetriou highlighted how the lack of planning has stymied yet another green ...

It took the education ministry a couple of days to speak about the photo of a group of secondary-school pupils in the Famagusta area who gave a Nazi salute during ...

There are none so adept at gaming the system in Cyprus than public servants through the constant use of lawfare which they have honed to a fine art by making ...

The debate on the placement of cameras in certain areas to cut down on crime versus the right to privacy seems almost moot in today’s digital age. The justice ...

Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has rightly demanded explanations regarding a child abuse case recently uncovered in Larnaca, where five children were reportedly subjected to ...

The rowdy, often violent behaviour of youths in Limassol is becoming worryingly frequent. In the last 10 days there have been several incidents of violence by gangs of youths, requiring the ...

Great media coverage was given to the departure of an obscure member of Disy, Evgenios Hamboullas, who had served as a party deputy for Famagusta district from 2014 to 2016, taking a ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the tariffs that would be imposed on the United States’ trading partners, in what he described as ‘liberation day’ for America. Many in the ...

The head of Sek union federation Andreas Matsas joined forces with his Pasydy counterpart Stratis Mattheou to have a dig at the IMF, which had warned against any “fiscal loosening.” ...

Police bowed to political pressure and announced on Monday a month’s extension to the deadline for the payment of traffic camera fines. The payment period for pending traffic fines ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spends an awful lot of his time abroad, attending councils, conferences, exhibitions. Last week he was in Geneva, before flying to Brussels for a European Council, while ...

European leaders made the right decision in Paris on Thursday. More than two dozen heads of state and government unanimously agreed that sanctions on Moscow should remain until “peace has ...

“Shock at education committee: even rumours about human trafficking between students,” read a click-bait headline on a news website on Thursday. A newspaper was even clearer with the headline about ...

A bill to unfreeze 977 positions in the civil service this year was discussed at the House finance committee on Monday. Several thousand positions had been frozen during the economic crisis ...