#Our View

The period of zero VAT on certain basic consumer goods – baby milk, nappies, female hygiene products and frozen fruit and veg – that was due to expire at the end of ...

The attempt by the government to introduce a more honest staff evaluation system in the civil service did not last very long. There was an outcry when it was first ...

The row between municipalities and the central government about the funding of the former is a direct consequence of the half-baked and superficial reform of local authorities carried out by ...

The parties acted sensibly and responsibly in the way they handled the government’s bill for the reform of the Audit Office, which in its original form would have placed ...

In the end, CTP leader Tufan Erhurman won the elections in the north with what could be described as a landslide victory. Although it was widely expected he would win, ...

We do not believe attorney-general George Savvides wants to curtail free speech, the most fundamental principle of a democracy, but the idea he put forward on Tuesday about legislation restricting ...

Government politicians are terrified of strikes in the broader public sector. This is most probably because public sector unions represent large numbers of voters which no politician ever wants to ...

Three construction companies secured 41 percent of public projects in the 10-year period up to 2024, said the Audit Office in a report released on Tuesday. The report also pointed out that ...

For too long, the Republic’s defence spending was rather random. This was partly because only a few countries would sell arms to Cyprus, mainly Russia and France, and partly ...

Many will be wondering whether the Deputy Minister for Innovation, Research and Digitalisation Nicodemos Damianou was joking on Wednesday when he said the government would introduce AI into the public ...

There is still some time to go until the parliamentary elections, but speculative reports based on opinion polls have already been appearing. According to the latest poll conducted by Prime ...

The way President Nikos Christodoulides speaks in public, nobody would have guessed that he had once had a career as a diplomat, that he served for almost five years as ...

Attorney-general George Savvides has been one of the most maligned state officials in Cyprus. For years he has been the target of a campaign instigated by the former auditor-general who ...

The use of force by the police outside the foreign ministry, and across the road from the presidential palace, on Thursday night, to disperse a small crowd of demonstrators, protesting ...

The audit office should be commended for highlighting the long-term water policy failures, for which all the governments of the last 30 years have a share of responsibility. They have all ...

In the last five years, there have been some 15,000 applications by third country nationals to purchase real estate in Cyprus, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. More than a third of ...

The good news President Nikos Christodoulides had arranged to announce on Thursday evening after the scheduled meeting in New York with the Vice President of ExxonMobil, John Ardill, was overshadowed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, will have nothing constructive to tell each other when they meet in the presence of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on ...

Attorney-general George Savvides decided not to charge former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with contempt of court, for public comments and social media posts, disputing the independence, impartiality and legitimacy of court ...

The noise Akel has made about the circular sent by the government to municipal councils asking for the “strengthening of actions for fighting anti-Semitism and the incitement of racial hatred ...

The government could not have made a bigger mess of the negotiations on the Cost-of-Living Allowance (CoLA) if it had planned it. It has managed to alienate the unions by ...

We are in no position to say whether our defence capability has been significantly strengthened by the arrival of the Israeli Barak MX air defence system. It may have marginally ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been appointed by President NiKos Christodoulides, but this did not stop him slamming the government’s proposals for the radical reform of the audit service. ...

Former Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos, predictably, denied any wrongdoing and defiantly declared that he was “spotlessly clean,” after the release of the investigation into the allegations of corruption made against ...