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Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has opted for open confrontation with Nicosia municipality over the construction of a 10-storey building in Kinyras Street, which is opposed by councillors, citizens of the ...

The European Commission is turning the screw on the Cyprus Republic over its failure to amend the law governing reduced VAT for the purchase of first homes. Brussels’ patience is ...

The Church has always had a prominent and very influential role in Cyprus. This role was evident in most aspects of life, from education to politics, and was largely determined ...

The marathon presidential election campaign, which started a little under a year ago, entered the final straight on Friday with the official submission of candidacies. A record 14 candidates will be ...

In the last few weeks we were given yet another depressing demonstration of how the teaching unions use the subservient deputies and political parties to prevent the government implementing its ...

There is almost nothing positive in the UN Secretary-General’s latest draft reports on his Good Offices Mission and on Unficyp that are due for release this week. Irrespective of ...

Over the last five or six weeks, President Anastasiades has toured the island inaugurating projects, inspecting works in progress, announcing projects that have been approved and listing the amount of ...

The Commissioner for Transparency and head of the Anti-Corruption Authority, Haris Poyiadjis, announced that the newly established authority was ready to start work. The legislature approved the regulations for its ...

Time seems to be passing so quickly that it’s almost hard to believe that three years have gone by since the world was plunged into panic over a pandemic ...

Without getting into the pros and cons of electric vehicles (EV) at this early point in this revolutionary concept that is set to remake the future of transport, the government’...

It’s a sad indictment of our politicians that out of almost 72,000 eligible but unregistered voters, only around 10,000 at best signed up for the upcoming presidential elections by Tuesday’s ...

For once there is welcome news that road traffic fatalities in the past 12 months have fallen but 37 lives lost still boils down to three people a month being killed on ...

Minister Yiannis Karousos is promising significant improvements in the public transport sphere in the coming year with more and better roads and smart technology, according to an interview published on ...

Cyprus was given another Christmas present this week, but alas it is a present it cannot unwrap and make use of any time soon. The news of another gas find ...

Private and public sector unions have united forces to push their unanimous demand for the full restoration of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA). After a meeting of their representatives on Thursday, ...

The decision of Attorney-General Giorgos Savvides not to prosecute the chief of the Drug Squad, Michalis Katsounotos, for corruption caused a public outcry sparking claims of a cover-up and blatant ...

Bank employees who left their jobs on the ultra-generous voluntary exit schemes have been complaining because the labour ministry has put their applications to collect unemployment benefit for six months ...

It was a good thing that all the people of the Orthodox faith on the electorate were entitled to vote in the archiepiscopal elections, as the poor turnout illustrated the ...

The public is by now familiar with what has become known as the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal involving members and staff of the European Parliament, including the arrest of Greek MEP ...

As the day of his exit approached, President Anastasiades seems determined to leave office with his personal popularity on a high. This is an unrealistic objective for anyone who has ...

The 22nd World Cup, the first played in an Arab country, comes to a close on Sunday evening in a box-office final between holders France and Argentina, top football forces, ...

During the state budget debate, the Green Party, once again, tried to block the spending item for former presidents of the republic and former presidents of the legislature, that cover ...

There was one positive thing to come out of the ludicrous decision of the ministry of education’s committee for the approval of shows to take a line from a ...

From today, households and businesses in the Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta districts were to be subjected to power cuts of 30 minutes to an hour in the evening because Electricity Authority ...