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Monday’s decision by the council of ministers about the Omicron cases did not last very long. What the minister of health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, said after the meeting was changed ...

Presenting the 2022 State Budget to the House of Representatives on Thursday, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said the drawing of funds from European sources and programmes was a government priority. Cyprus ...

The main challenges facing the banking sector were the high level on NPLs, ineffective foreclosure legislation, red tape and the “unsustainable cost-to-income ratio” said the CEO of Hellenic Bank Oliver ...

The new UN Special Representative, Colin Stewart, took a tour of the buffer zone on Wednesday and on Friday will have separate meetings with the two leaders. Anastasiades and Tatar ...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, an MP has spoken out about the government’s unchallenged health decrees that we’ve been living under for the ...

One of the problems facing Cyprus that does not get too much attention is the low birth-rate, which in 2020 was a disappointing 1.3 per cent, well below the replacement level. The ...

The House human rights committee on Monday discussed issues of gender equality and noted the under-representation of women in the leadership pyramid of political, business and social life. Did we ...

Before Pope Francis had even arrived in Cyprus, it was announced that he would be taking 50 migrants back to the Vatican with him. Ten of the 50 were released from prison ...

As he approaches the final year of his second term, President Nicos Anastasiades seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time defending himself and dealing with his critics. On ...

Under pressure from oil companies and petrol stations about Greek Cypriots going to the north to fill up their cars with cheap petrol, deputies of the House commerce committee discussed ...

The public protests by scores of parents against mandatory mask wearing by students aged six and over and rapid tests at all schools are, to say the least, way over ...

Perhaps now the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has sounded a warning about the finances of the national health scheme, Gesy, veering out of control, the political parties and media, which do ...

Much confusion has been caused by the latest batch of Covid-19 measures announced by the government on Wednesday. In fact, the health ministry officials that produced them appeared to have ...

Reform of local government has degenerated into farce. This was inevitable given that the government sought to achieve this through a misguided pursuit of consensus. While this was understandable, given ...

In the end, Nicosia municipal council voted against banning private cars from the redesigned section of Makarios Avenue, which is set to be re-opened on December 7. Much speculation preceded this ...

The government found a very smart way of presenting what is a type of lockdown for the unvaccinated. From December 15, only people over the age of 12, with at least one ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides was perfectly justified in expressing his disappointment over last month’s Supreme Court decision that retaining customer data for six months by telecommunications providers was illegal. “It ...

Although the publication of the minutes of meetings held at Crans-Montana in July 2017 were seen as a vindication of President Anastasiades’ stance, they also raised a big question about his ...

There is no economy anywhere in the world in which populism has proved an effective tool to tackle inflation, even though, listening to some Cyprus parties you would think it ...

Everyone will have welcomed the joint declaration by the education ministers of France, Greece, Italy and Cyprus when they undertook to strengthen their cooperation in promoting the teaching of Latin ...

The government appears to be on a mission to get the bills on the reform of the judicial system through the legislature. This is because the passing of these bills ...

Since the Turkish side began opening up Varosha last year, it has been predictably disappointing to see how the EU has been handling Cyprus’ pleas to take action against Ankara. ...

The collapse of talks at Crans Montana may have happened four-and-a-half years ago but it has suddenly become a major issue. It returned to public debate a few days ago ...

THE Republic’s official, probably a customs officer, who asked to check the petrol tank of a taxi, before it crossed to the north on Saturday to ensure the taxi ...