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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 ...

Although the presidential election is still 15 months away and none of the opposition parties have started discussing alliances let alone possible candidates, Disy is already in a bit of tangle ...

Prices have been rising for several months now, sparking indignant comments in the media and calls by opposition parties for government intervention. Preventing these rises has become the latest populist ...

Beginning around March 2020, the government managed to take some action on clearing the backlog in asylum applications with the help of the European Asylum Support Office by hiring more staff ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides highlighted a problem with his letter to the legislature about the way workers are hired on contracts in the public sector and eventually become permanent staff. That ...

For decades now, since the presidency of George Vassiliou, governments have been announcing plans for cutting the bureaucratic delays and arbitrary decisions that so often prevented businesses from moving to ...

On Thursday, the government extended the existing Covid measures until December 2. With winter approaching, the Delta+ variant having made an appearance in Cyprus, cases on the rise and infections in ...

About this time every year, government ministers go before the House finance committee to discuss their ministry’s respective budget for the following year. They are always at pains to ...

The Council of Ministers on Thursday decided to cut the VAT charged on the electricity bills of ‘vulnerable households’ from 19 to 5 per cent. It was a measure deemed necessary to ...

Our national health scheme, Gesy, has become untouchable. Any criticism of the way it operates – perfectly justified under the circumstances – is viewed as an attempt to alter its set-up and ...

Apart from the new portal crashing, it was at least encouraging that it was due to strong interest in the government’s bicycle purchase subsidy scheme and not just down ...

Dire warnings have been coming from everywhere in recent weeks about inflation and the resulting hike in prices consumers will begin to really feel in the new year. We’re ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...