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The report about the authorities’ disregard for environmental protection, published in Wednesday’s Environment pages of the Cyprus Mail, should sound the alarm to everyone who cares and values Cyprus’ ...

To fight the flow of immigrants from the north, the interior ministry decided to install barbed wire along the buffer zone, along an 11km stretch from Astromeritis to Nicosia airport. ...

After President Anastasiades walked out of the talks in Crans-Montana in July 2017, he focused on his re-election, avoiding a settlement and on the forging of alliances with neighbouring countries, in ...

In the sixties and seventies bicycle use was widespread. All boys, from a young age until they joined the army would get around on a bicycle. They would go to ...

While the ‘Me Too’ movement in Cyprus is gaining greater traction within the justice system as more women speak up, there are children on this island with equally terrible things ...

There appears to be no end in sight to the saga of local government reform that has been dragging on for years. In the latest twist, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris ...

The last few days have exposed the government’s erratic approach to dealing with the pandemic, an approach that fails to inspire any confidence or reassure people that it knows ...

A date and venue have finally been set for the informal five-party conference by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The five parties will meet in Geneva from April 27 to 29 in ...

After the public outcry over the police’s heavy-handed treatment of youngsters at a protest gathering two weeks ago, the attorney-general ordered an investigation. We suspect the main reason for ...

Nobody has done more than health minister Constantinos Ioannou to cultivate a gloomy sentiment and promote project fear. His dour announcements on Covid-19 measures are testament to scaremongering and exaggerating ...

The scientific team met on Tuesday evening to discuss the epidemiological picture and prepared its advice regarding the easing of the restrictions. On Wednesday morning they discussed the situation with ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou appears to have taken on the thankless and lonely task of publicly arguing the case for a Cyprus settlement at a time when even the government ...

Saturday’s eagerly awaited protest march in Nicosia turned out to be a non-event incident-wise in comparison to what took place seven days earlier, even if close to 10 times more ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos declare on Friday that “we cannot accept arbitration, nor asphyxiating time-frames.” We had not heard this slogan for a ...

Big question marks hang over the two demonstrations that will be held in Nicosia and Limassol today, after what happened last weekend. Will there be as big a police presence, ...

Have the political parties run out of issues to feed their populist rhetoric and at the same time attack the government and so decided to bring back the collapse of ...

Education minister, Prodromos Prodromou, said after a meeting with the teaching unions that he hoped talks on evaluating the performance of public-school teachers would begin soon. How soon he could ...

The main news to emerge from President Anastasiades’ one-day visit to Israel on Sunday was that vaccinated Israelis would be free to travel to Cyprus without a PCR test and ...

Every time the police use some force against rioters or football hooligans, they are accused of using ‘excessive force’. Most of the time this accusation is unjustified, but on Saturday ...

It may be too much to say with any certainty that the tragedy that unfolded in Ergates village last Thursday would have been avoided if the state services had performed ...

Almost half a century after the Turkish invasion, the political parties decided that the people who benefited through the big increase in the value of properties in the free areas ...

A couple of days ago, President Anastasiades met with the members of the internal audit council, which comprises of three ministers, the state treasurer, a certified accountant and the commissioner ...

The restrictions on free movement that were imposed for three weeks from January 10 were not scrapped on February 1 but were left in place without explanation, and on Wednesday were extended ...

Akel, as the champions of state ownership, immediately seized the figures about Limassol port presented by the Cyprus Ports Authority to the House finance committee for its ongoing propaganda campaign ...