Our View: Opposition parties have no place in setting foreign policy
SOMETIMES, it is difficult to know whether the country’s foreign policy is the responsibility of the opposition parties rather than of the government. On Monday,...
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Our View: Cyprus keeps shooting itself in the foot
THE actions of the authorities in Cyprus, who seem to think they are still living in the middle of the last century, never cease to...
Our View: Two leaders entering 2020 with same worn-out rhetoric
Both Cyprus leaders in their New Year messages spoke of their desire for a political solution as the island ended 45 years of fruitless negotiations...
Our View: Turkey’s pact with Libya ups the ante in the region
THE pretence that the gas finds off Cyprus could be a catalyst for a solution is well and truly dead, and we are it seems,...
Our View: Police must get to grips with road deaths in 2020
With road deaths for 2019 at their highest level in two years, authorities need to sit down again and try to figure out why Cyprus,...
Our View: Cyprus’ flawed nomination for a flawed process
A story popped up from the cabinet meeting last week that at first glance appeared to be a joke. But since April 1 is more...
Our View: Archbishop was right to censure bishops siding with Moscow
ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos has a tendency of saying more than he should when speaking in public, but he was right to censure the three bishops of...
Our View: After more deaths, workplace safety must be addressed
The two fatal work accidents in the space of 24 hours this week should sound the alarm to everyone – unions, employers’ organisations, and the...
Our View: It will be interesting to see how Boris plans to unite a country still deeply divided
THE BRITISH people gave Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party a very clear mandate to “get Brexit done.” The Conservatives will now have...
Our View: Changing the public service mentality at hospitals an uphill battle
THE ATTACK on a nurse at the A&E department of the Limassol General Hospital by the angry son of an elderly patient who had been...
Our View: Opposition parties need to look in the mirror on corruption
MOST OF the political parties issued strongly-worded announcements on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day on Monday. They all cited the most recent World Bank...
Our View: A system designed to serve teachers, not students
THE RELEASE of the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study coincided with the appointment of a new education minister, Prodoromos Prodromou who said...
Our View: Endless objections to tenders a farce
IT WOULD BE very interesting to find out whether public tenders in other countries turn into farce as frequently as they do in Cyprus. There...
Our View: Mitsotakis took the prudent approach to Turkey-Libya deal
Greece’s Prime Minister did the right thing in accepting the invitation from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for a meeting on the sidelines of the...
Public must see that social workers are not above the law
THE REACTION by social welfare workers to the findings of the Ombudswoman’s investigation into the circumstances of the suicide of a 15-year-old boy last September...
Is Guterres playing his final card with Berlin meeting?
ANOTHER so-called crucial meeting on the Cyprus problem will take place on Monday at the Adlon Kempinski Hotel in Berlin. Early in the evening Nicos...
Our View: Only way for real reform is by taking down union-party system
SPEAKING at a public event organised by the ‘New Wave: the other Cyprus’ movement Cypriot Nobel prize winner, Christophoros Pissarides, said that the way forward...
Our View: Plan for affordable housing has been long overdue
NOWHERE in his presentation on the government’s housing scheme on Wednesday did Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides mention the citizenship-through-investment as a factor in the present...
Our View: No quick fix to stemming migrant flow from north
INTERIOR Minister Constantinos Petrides this week again referred to amending the Green Line Regulation to help stop the flow of irregular migration. It is not...
Our View: Why is there such a disregard for renewables’ technology?
THE latest hurdle to Cyprus’ efforts to import LNG for the Electricity Authority’s power plants was overcome on Wednesday when the Tenders Review Authority turned...
