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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 ...

A few weeks before the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme was scheduled to come in to force, Akel issued a statement arguing that its introduction should be put on hold ...

The political system was overjoyed on Wednesday by the council of ministers’ decision to lower the voting age to 17. The decision inspired the familiar and tired rhetoric about broadening democratic ...

The cinema owners’ association has appealed to the government and the political parties to exclude cinemas from the venues at which a price cap on bottled water would be imposed. ...

If one thing was made clear by Monday’s meeting of the two leaders it was that neither possesses the political will, mettle or flexibility that would give the stagnant ...

The deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis was very proud of the fact that last year’s tourist arrivals exceeded four million for the first time. Koumis had expected arrivals ...