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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 ...

Perhaps the new lockdown, which kicks in on Monday, is necessary given the consistently high number of cases and the failure of the government to make any contingency plans for ...

The health ministry introduced a new method of reporting the number of Covid-19 deaths this week. It no longer states whether the deceased had underlying health conditions as had been ...

The government did the right thing to withdraw the bill amending the law on the courts which had been changed beyond recognition by the political parties. The aim of the ...

A week before the informal five-party conference in Geneva President Nicos Anastasiades has quite unexpectedly decided to talk about the minutes of his meeting in Crans-Montana with Turkey’s Foreign ...

Being in opposition and having nothing tangible to offer voters ahead of the parliamentary elections, Akel decided to campaign for what could have appeal across party lines – the lowering of ...

It was rather amusing watching the members of the council of ministers arriving at the state fair vaccination centre on Thursday, like a group of tourists on sightseeing visit, so ...

It was extremely disappointing to read that the ministry of education and culture is now pursuing disciplinary action against the secondary school head teacher Giorgos Gavriel, after its investigation into ...

In the end, the fear of being blamed by businesses and the self-employed of depriving them of much-needed cash liquidity persuaded the opposition parties to end the silly games about ...

The government finds itself in a quandary over what to do about Easter Saturday. The problem is that this year May Day, on which all shops stay closed by law, ...

The announcement that the bicommunal committee on health had been instructed to create a roadmap to reopen the crossing points was welcome news on Tuesday but people on both sides ...

The government has every right to defend itself against criticism by parties about its handling of the Cyprus problem, even though it may be engaging in this a little too ...

Promotions and appointments in the broader public sector have become something of a tradition ahead of elections, ever since the late president Spyros Kyprianou introduced the practice in the early ...

The EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, reportedly told a teleconference of health ministers, discussing the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine on Wednesday that “it is essential to follow a coordinated European approach.” ...

The Tuesday edition of a daily paper reported that tourists would not be subject to the SMS tyranny for their movements. It said the deputy ministry for tourism had given ...

The eagerly-awaited list of politically exposed persons (PEP) with bad debts at the former co-op bank was made public on Monday afternoon. It did not cause the public anger that ...

Akel’s latest pre-election populist cause is so transparently irrational that for them to even utter it out loud is nothing short of shameless. The same party that in 2012 introduced ...

Almost every time the council of ministers takes decisions on Covid measures it also sanctions more state spending on support measures, perhaps as a way of sugaring the pill of ...

Hospital workers will meet on Tuesday to decide what action to take in protest against Okypy plans to carry out staff evaluations. The public employees’ union Pasydy, with which the ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis submitted the bills to overhaul the dysfunctional justice system to the House legal affairs committee in the hope that these would be voted through before the ...

Although all children will be back at school and more people will allowed into gyms and private tuition centres the most unnecessary restriction of all – state authorisation for going anywhere – ...