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Newspapers reported earlier this week that the Tax Department was, at long last, preparing cases against four football clubs for unpaid tax debts. The reports, which named the four clubs, ...

The Cyprus problem was bound to feature in President Nikos Christodoulides’ New Year message in which he repeated that his “top priority” was the end of occupation, the liberation and ...

President Christodoulides offered a positive outlook for 2025 in his New Year message, which would be building on the government’s work of last year. He said 2024 was the year we ...

The agreement for the expansion of Larnaca and Paphos airports was signed on Monday at the presidential palace. Under the agreement, Hermes Airport will commence work by March next year ...

Oelmek, the secondary school teachers’ union, is one of the main reasons public education has been in decline for years. For years, this union has been instrumental in falling education ...

The 2025 state budget was approved by a sizeable majority on Wednesday evening, only Akel and the Greens plus two independent deputies voting against it. Main opposition party Disy voted in ...

The way in which the government spends the taxpayer’s money is very difficult to understand. It is rather haphazard, without any economic or social rationale, just spending it for ...

The hastily prepared bill for the recall of cars with faulty components, which was chopped and changed throughout Thursday by the House transport committee, will be put to the vote ...

The angry reaction to the sexist comments made by former footballer Costas Malekkos during a television interview on Sunday night was understandable. We have not heard such backward ideas on ...

Keir Starmer became only the second British prime minister to visit Cyprus since independence, when he arrived at the presidential palace on Tuesday for a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. ...

The government has come under a lot of criticism from Larnaca municipality and a section of the media for the decisions it has taken about the development of the town’...

For months now, the House education committee has been debating two bills on higher education, tabled by the government, without reaching agreement. Wednesday’s behind-closed-doors meeting was cut short, because ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that the secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek declined the education minister’s invitation to attend talks on the formulation of a new evaluation ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou made a fool of himself at the weekend when he issued an official statement denying he had made comments attributed to him in a report by ...

A group called the Nicosia-Cyprus Capital initiative has launched a new push for a rethink on the way traffic is allowed on Makarios Avenue. Anyone who has been down there ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand. The president, ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou was careful in her wording on Tuesday when she said her party was looking into a way around the decades-old contentious issue of strikes in essential ...

Donald Trump’s return to the top of US politics may be a triumph or a disaster, depending on who you ask. One thing’s for sure, though: such an ...

MP Rita Superman and a representative of the Third Age Observatory on Wednesday spoke about how Cyprus was failing its aging population – and the thousands of domestic workers who take ...

The debate over installing CCTV cameras in public spaces was discussed at the House legal committee on Wednesday, highlighting the always-tricky balance between security and privacy. At the House, proponents ...

It was rather amusing to hear the director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos responding to the scathing remark made by the former prime minister of Greece, Antonis ...

Odysseas Michaelides may have been removed from his post, but some of his work still haunts President Nikos Christodoulides. Last week, the report Michaelides had released at the end of 2023 ...

The Paphos-Polis highway is the fourth public project this government has terminated because of major disputes with the contractor. Last year it pulled the plug on the waste treatment plant ...

The average wage in Cyprus is lower than the EU average, according to Eurostat’s survey for 2023. The average full-time adjusted salary per employee in the EU is €37,863 whereas in ...