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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 – ...

The EU approval of the registration of halloumi as a protected designation of origin (PDO) on Monday has given our beleaguered government something to cheer about. It was “a milestone ...

The auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides appears to have decided that the government should abandon its policy to attract film production companies to Cyprus. It is another case of the auditor-general behaving ...

In the late seventies, eighties and nineties one of the main objectives of Cyprus’ foreign policy was to secure the ‘right’ wording in UN Security Council resolutions or reports by ...

Cynicism is high among the public if the latest opinion poll conducted for the CyBC is anything to go by. According to the poll conducted by IMR and the University ...

The revelation that 50 per cent of nursing staff at state hospitals had not been vaccinated for Covid-19 came as a big surprise. This posed a risk to patients entering a ...

It was to be expected that the government would focus on the positives of the report on the EU’s relations with Turkey, especially as the discussion of sanctions has ...

Some have speculated, more in jest than seriously, that President Anastasiades and Disy chief Averof Neophytou are engaging in a ‘good cop – bad cop’ act with regard to the Cyprus ...

Apart from the loss of lives, the pandemic has also caused a loss of reason among those that govern us. Covid-19 has had a disastrous effect on rational thinking, not ...

The establishment of the Deputy Ministry of Culture has been set in motion. Last week the council of ministers approved the relevant bill and it was submitted to the legislature ...

Who would have thought that the Cyprus political party system would have produced an expert on Covid-19 vaccines? Edek seems to think it is qualified to issue verdicts on the ...

Ever since the Makarios presidency, the construction of roads has always been considered a big vote-winner. We cannot say whether it is as effective today as it was in the ‘70...

The complaints made by the representatives of the restaurant and café owners about the health protocols that have to be followed were understandable, to an extent, although they should not ...

It would have surprised nobody that Akel has submitted a proposal for the suspension of foreclosures until the end of July. There are parliamentary elections in less than three months ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou broke with a long political tradition on Tuesday when he spoke in glowing terms about the positive effects a Cyprus settlement would have on economic growth. “...