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We often wonder what is the point of town planning rules and so-called zoning? Do they exist so that they can be ignored by the authorities when a developer comes ...

The Deputy Minister of Tourism Costas Koumis has made a habit of producing numbers and percentages as proof of the good work he has been doing. While this is a ...

IN THE end the government’s attempt to settle the issue of the tax debts of the football clubs, through an absurd repayment scheme that would be covered by the ...

The media and political reaction to the signing of the latest energy agreements with Egypt was understandably muted, despite the presidential palace’s enthusiastic efforts to talk up their significance. ...

Much was made in the press about the decision of the Disy constitutional congress to strike off members of the party that are serving in the government of President Nikos ...

News of a proposed bill, tabled to parliament by the finance ministry and intended to resolve the issue of multiple pensions, is very welcome – but the proposed solution is still ...

Kudos to Depa MP Michalis Yiakoumi who is advocating harsher sentences for child predators. Although Cyprus’ criminal code enshrines life sentences as the maximum penalty for a number of sexual ...

The struggle to regulate Gesy goes on – but the health system is like a moving target, defying any attempt to control it. The latest initiative is the ‘urgent referral’ system ...

The weather on Tuesday was not the only thing that rained on the goat and sheep herders’ parade. Goat and sheep breeders marched on the presidential palace clad in waterproof ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday claimed some credit for the preparations now underway by the UN for an informal five-party conference on the Cyprus issue that will reportedly take place ...

Three years and a few million euros later, Cyprus is still struggling to implement a national strategy for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the meantime, their problems are ...

The news that yet another golf course, Limassol Greens, will be opening this summer isn’t shocking in itself, but the timing is unfortunate. Golf courses are notorious water guzzlers – ...

Football hooliganism is back in the headlines with the cabinet approving a new bill allowing the government to take “decisive” action, including banning away fans from football matches. The recent ...

Hands up anyone who thinks there will be full accountability for the Takata airbags scandal that has resulted in the deaths of two young people that we know of and ...

Cyprus is throwing away more and more renewable solar energy every year as production increases through the unprecedented proliferation of PV parks and government home schemes but with nowhere to ...

In the end, the outcry over the demolition of an iconic and beautiful 1930s building in the centre of Nicosia last weekend wasn’t just a social-media outcry. The Cyprus ...

With UN Assistant Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo due to visit Cyprus within a week, it is not clear yet whether the two Cypriot leaders will have a second meeting beforehand on ...

There is no other country in the world in which parents’ associations of schools and teaching unions dictate the admissions policy and the courses of public universities. Union mentality is ...

The government’s failure to deny reports about the presence of Israeli security personnel at the perimeter of the Larnaca Airport fence and in the air traffic control-tower was not ...

There was an election character to President Nikos Christodoulides’ televised presentation of his government’s plans for 2025. He had invited ministers, state officials, senior civil servants and party representatives to ...

Under pressure to tackle the issue of high rents, the government took two bills to the legislature which it hopes would increase the supply of housing and push down prices. ‘...

It was very disappointing to see House president and Disy leader Annita Demetriou attend the memorial service for General Georgios Grivas in Limassol on Sunday and also take part in ...

The leaders of all the big unions met on Monday to decide their demands and plan of action for 2025. They decided that they would follow collective action in seeking the ...

When Finance Minister Makis Keravnos announced the scandalous plan by which the state would raise the betting tax and use the extra revenue to pay off the tax debts of ...