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There were no surprises in the Turkish Cypriot ‘parliamentary’ elections, not even the unprecedented abstention percentage of 43 per cent, which to a large extent had been expected as there had ...

In the early hours of Tuesday, the president of the UN Security Council, Odd-Inge Kvalheim made a couple of brief informal statements to journalists in New York following three hours ...

The health minister Michalis Hadjipantelas will return to the House health committee in a couple of weeks with amendments and changes made to the bill on Dangerous and Infectious Diseases. ...

As expected, rising prices have sparked a new bout of calls by unions for the full restoration of the Cost of Living Allowance, by which wages are automatically adjusted every ...

Former European Commissioner, Androulla Vassiliou, became a target of scathing attacks on social media after her inappropriate comments about a rape case in Thessaloniki. After a 24-year-old woman reported to ...

President Anastasiades expressed the hope that the UN Security Council resolution for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate would include the things that were missing from the report of the ...

The brawl among young Syrian refugees living in Chlorakas a couple of weeks ago was a spark for unrest and protests by locals, who have been demanding the relocation of ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou has come up with another idea for persuading foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides come clean about his intentions regarding next year’s presidential elections. Neophytou announced on ...

The euro marked its 20th birthday on January 1. On the first day of 2002 nine EU member-states gave up their national currency and adopted the euro. Proof of the euro’s ...

We enter another year of uncertainty and unpredictability today. After two years shaped by the sole government objective of controlling the spread of Covid-19 in its mutating forms, only a ...

The despair of Turkish Cypriots, over the state of the north’s economy is understandable. They are suffering the devastating effects of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies that ...

Banks have come under pressure from different groups over their plans to increase charges in the new year. The Consumers’ Association, the bank borrowers’ protection group Syprodat, trade unions and ...

There may still be 14 months to go until the presidential elections, but we already have two confirmed candidates, one who is subject to his party’s endorsement early next year, ...

The measures announced by the health minister on Tuesday, hopefully, will see us through the holidays and into the new year, without the need for additional restrictions. While more restrictions ...

Following the death in Paphos of a terminally ill woman aged 75, allegedly, perpetrated by her 74-year-old husband, and his own attempted suicide, it was reported the House human rights committee ...

Although the 2022 state budget was approved, without the drama we witnessed last year, one of the 46 amendments approved by the legislature has caused a little tension between opposition parties and ...

Another pretext has been found by the Confederation of Parents’ Associations to stop the holding of twice-yearly exams for graduates. The new council of the confederation issued a statement on ...

The 10 defendants implicated in a loans scandal at the Strovolos Cooperative Bank were cleared of all charges by the Nicosia criminal court on Thursday. There was a total of 48 charges ...

After last year’s shenanigans over the state budget, which became the subject of political horse-trading before it was eventually approved in January, it was good to return to business ...

The agreement between unions of the two sides to arrange the employment of Turkish Cypriots in the Republic, which is faced by acute labour shortages was a commendable initiative. The ...

A statement yesterday from the interior ministry on migration read more like an angry rant from a very frustrated person than a measured government announcement on a sensitive issue. That ...

Despite expectations cultivated by the government, nobody was surprised that any EU decision of punitive measures against Turkey and Turkish Cypriots regarding the opening of the fenced area of Varosha ...

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 ...