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One of the recurring issues of the election campaign is the need to protect small businesses and the self-employed. All the opposition parties have embraced this cause, demanding that the ...

In a presidential system, parliament is not directly involved in government as it is in a parliamentary democracy, but it can make life very difficult for the executive by blocking ...

Striking part-time teachers, who work in the state tuition centres afternoons and evenings, marched to the presidential palace on Friday as part of their ongoing protests about their work terms. ...

When asked for an opinion poll which party could best handle the Cyprus problem negotiations the biggest number of respondents (29 per cent) said none. In the poll, conducted for Antenna ...

It is preposterous that we still have to wear a face mask outdoors. There is no public health reason to rationally justify this, but the decree making it mandatory remains ...

Timing often plays bad tricks on politicians. President Anastasiades wasn’t to know that his scheduled visit to Larnaca Airport on Tuesday would have coincided with an announcement by the ...

Presenting the government’s plan ‘Cyprus – tomorrow’ on Monday, President Anastasiades described it as “ambitious and pragmatic”. Not only was the EU-funded plan geared towards helping the recovery of the ...

We have the parliamentary elections in a fortnight’s time to thank for the lifting of more pandemic-related restrictions from Monday. The decision came out of the blue – like the ...

The most entertaining story produced by the parliamentary elections, so far, has been the dispute about the Akel name that will be printed on the ballot paper. It will no ...

With elections approaching, the government decided it was a good time to advertise its commitment to fighting corruption. An event, addressed by Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis at the presidential palace ...

A record number of people submitted their candidacies on Wednesday for the parliamentary elections. There will be nearly 660 candidates, 150 more than had stood for election in 2016, and an unprecedented 15 parties/...

For 15 months this government has had no qualms about releasing information on a daily basis about people who died from coronavirus, without using any names, but only now seems to ...

It was interesting to read a release issued by Diko about the “social mission of the state.” Written by Anastasia Papadopoulou, the coordinator of the Diko election programme for the ...

After the fiasco of Geneva, which officially confirmed no common ground existed between the two sides, we have been witnessing obligatory exchange of accusations and insults aimed at the respective ...

Recognising that the voters may have tired of listening to their daily tirades about the golden passports, opposition parties found a new angle of attack on the government – the vaccination ...

There seems to be no end to the erosion of our personal liberties by the government in the name of public health protection. While the house arrest that we have ...

It was astonishing that Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides felt obliged to issue a 3,000-word announcement on Tuesday to comment on the interim report by the Investigative Committee looking into granting of ...

A few weeks ago, the ministry of health decided that it would not mention in its daily communique whether the people that died from Covid-19 had underlying health conditions, as ...

In four weeks, parliamentary elections will be held but apart from some party advertisements there has been very little campaigning. In fact, if it were not for the billboards featuring ...

A little over a year ago, President Anastasiades had defended the strict lockdown over Easter, by telling us it was the way to ensure we could celebrate Easter properly in 2021. ...

As expected, the informal five-plus-one- conference was a monumental failure. The Turkish Cypriot side, with Ankara’s full support, stuck to its position on two states and sovereign equality, while ...

The interim report of the investigative committee looking into the citizenship by investment programme was a catalogue of irregularities, possible illegalities, fraud, misinformation and conflict of interest stretching over more ...

The Pedieos linear path is one of the greatest achievements of local government in the Nicosia district – a nature sanctuary that stretches for miles through the urban concrete. Its traffic ...

The slapdash way in which the government has dealt with the latest lockdown that came into force on Monday has undermined the whole exercise including its arguments for justifying the ...