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There was a great amount of unwarranted – some might say – fanfare on Friday because parliament had finally passed the law establishing an anti-corruption authority. It only came more than 60 years ...

The Cyprus Consumers’ Association (CCA) appears to have misunderstood its role. It is not a price monitoring service that decides whether price increases are acceptable or not, as the association ...

British permanent residents of Cyprus, understandably, were angered by the Cyprus government’s decision to take away their voting rights after Britain left the EU. Those whose names were on ...

The Cyprus Consumers’ Association (CCA) appears to have misunderstood its role. It is not a price monitoring service that decides whether price increases are acceptable or not, as the association ...

A few weeks ago, the legislature approved law that will protect whistleblowers. Under the law, private and public organisations as well as public authorities have a legal obligation to safeguard ...

When the legislature approved by overwhelming majority, the reduced VAT for the purchase of primary residences in 2016, deputies claimed they were assisting the less-off and young families buy a home. ...

It was triumphantly hailed by the government as the biggest and most important energy project ever undertaken by the Cyprus Republic, when the contract for the LNG import and regasification ...

The health ministry on Thursday gave a breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid patients in hospitals. A little more than half of those in hospital (55 per cent) were unvaccinated, ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer who had gone into the buffer zone to tend his crops said he had been approached by armed Turkish soldiers, who threatened to kill him if ...

It hasn’t been a great month so far for the reputation of the health scheme Gesy, but whatever operational weaknesses the system might have, they pale in comparison to ...

Hearing the announcement of the government’s housing policy plans for this year, people could have been mistaken into thinking that President Anastasiades would be seeking a third term. It ...

On the day primary school teachers held a one-hour work stoppage because they were not satisfied with the government’s response to their demand for full-time replacement staff, nursing unions ...

The relaxation of the Covid measures we expected this week did not materialise, the higher number of cases, compared to the previous week, and relatively high positivity rate making the ...

President Anastasiades has a habit of acting as a mediator or facilitator, getting involved in matters that are best left to his ministers and in some cases better left to ...

Surprise was expressed in some quarters about how soon after assuming his post as foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides was invited to Washington for talks with the Secretary of State Antony ...

Seven or eight years ago in or around the time of the financial crisis, the Cyprus Mail photographer took a picture of a frail elderly woman digging through a wheelie ...

The bills reforming local government and reducing the number of municipalities will be finalised by the House interior committee next week and sent for approval to the plenum before the ...

Many will have welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the appeal against the conviction of the young British woman, whom the Famagusta district court found guilty of ...

Turkey’s president Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that Israeli president Isaac Herzog will pay an official visit to Ankara next month. While Herzog’s spokesman declined to comment, The ...

Most people know that the Cybc, like all public organisations, is a badly-run drain on state funds. We were reminded of this again by the report prepared by the auditor-general, ...

Τhe planned 16 per cent increase in charges by the companies running Limassol port has caused uproar among political parties and business associations, all of whom fear that such a steep ...

It’s been 27 days since the official rollout of the new system of traffic cameras and apparently as it turns out, no fines have yet been issued due to administrative ...

The ‘test to stay’ scheme introduced in schools on Monday with several caveats is expected to be introduced in hospitals, the police force and fire service. The proposal is set ...

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 ...