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Every year people in residential areas around the island have to put up with Easter bonfires and firecrackers at all times of the night, and every year police say they ...

Despite the rhetoric about his determination to secure the resumption of talks for a Cyprus settlement as soon as possible, President Nikos Christodoulides’ official visit to Egypt – a little over ...

The latest youth unemployment figures released by the European Commission inspired a rather melodramatic announcement by Dipa, urging the government to make the tackling of the issue a priority. In ...

After hooligans went on a rampage outside the Tassos Papadopoulos-Eleftheria indoor stadium in Nicosia last month, setting fire to the bus company offices, politicians decided to address the matter. President ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has kept his election promise to make the bank employees who took voluntary early retirement eligible for unemployment benefit. The government has submitted a bill custom-made for ...

The auditor general’s habit of reporting the government to different international bodies whenever his missives are ignored has become something of a running joke. When his demands are not ...

The new Disy leader and president of the House of Representatives, Annita Demetriou, on Monday visited the Diko offices for a meeting with party chief Nicolas Papadpoulos. After the meeting, ...

The populists of the political parties have found a new, worthy cause in the last few weeks – to protect people from rising interest rates. They appear to have forgotten that ...

The first national council meeting under President Nikos Christodoulides was held on Thursday and, as per usual, it did not amount to very much. It was a ‘get to know ...

A UNHCR report on Monday aimed at identifying perceptions and attitudes towards refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants and comparing trends and shifts in public opinion since the last such survey in 2018. ...

If there was a strategic plan by politicians, parties, unions and parents associations to undermine public education and destroy its last remaining shreds of credibility it would not have gone ...

“Enough with this [fan rioting] issue. It has been discussed over and over, and every time following incidents there are meetings upon meetings,” President Nikos Christodoulides said after Sunday’s ...

The government was given a lesson on Sunday on how the media could cause unnecessary problems for it. Sunday’s front-page story in the weekly newspaper Simerini claimed that “a ...

Towards the end of the Christofias presidency, with Cyprus excluded from the markets, state coffers almost empty and the banks on life support, there were attempts by the EU and ...

It is a great relief that deputies of the House legal affairs committee have decided to engage in further discussions before taking any decisions on the two law proposals that ...

Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment of wages at 50 per cent ...

For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring Okypy to hire more nurses ...

When deputies from the House legal affairs committee meet today to pick up discussion on ‘fake news’ they will have their work cut out for them. The discussion was shelved ...

A COUPLE of weeks ago, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides appeared before the House oversight committee to discuss the audit office’s special report on the University of Cyprus (UCy) for the ...

Three years ago, Cyprus declared its first case of coronavirus, shuttered the island and locked down the population with the same mantra as every other government – three weeks to flatten ...

The European Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates by 50 basis points was widely expected. Not even the turmoil in the banking sector could dissuade the ECB council from ...

President Nicos Christodoulides has made it the style of his presidency to take an interest in most things that are in the news. The way this interest is shown is ...

Nobody expected anything from the visit of the UN Under Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, who arrived here with no agenda but just to offer a little reassurance that the UN had ...

A new body that would facilitate coordination of actions between Greece and Cyprus was announced during President Nikos Christodoulides’ visit to Athens, his first as head of state. The supreme ...