Our View: President’s need to solve everyone’s problems makes things worse
President Anastasiades’ practice of inviting people with a grievance or a demand to his office for discussions is as old as the presidency. All presidents...
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Our View: Auditor-general still hasn’t learnt the limits of his authority
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has expanded his powers to take in press freedom as well. On Thursday, discussing the audit service’s report on the Press and...
Our View: The taxpayer will pick up the bill for conscript deferrals
In the end, the government gave in to pressure from a few hundred parents who were protesting because army service would have meant their sons...
Our View: There should be no negotiation on matters of road safety
It may have taken a while for the government to find the resolve to go ahead with the building of a traffic island on Despina...
Our View: Drastic action needed to halt Gesy abuses
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou took some time off dealing with Covid-19 on Thursday to discuss some Gesy-related issues with Health Insurance Organisation (HIO). One of...
Our View: The school mask debate has pros and cons
THE government decree making face masks mandatory for all schoolchildren above 6 years old was bound to spark a reaction And it is perfectly understandable...
Our View: Motorbike restrictions are illiberal and illogical
The police decree banning motorbikes from certain roads, during specific hours at the weekend in August was an object lesson in resoundingly irrational decision-making. No...
Our View: Moving the asphalt plant from one community to another isn’t a solution
Having given in to the pressure by the residents of the surrounding areas, the government decided to move an asphalt plant from Tseri and Dhali...
Our View: Remote teaching must be a last resort
Although under normal circumstances, public schools would normally open in little over two weeks, nobody knows what shape the new school year will take. Education...
Our View: Nicosia municipality needs more state help with migrant housing
THERE is little doubt that Nicosia municipality, that has the old town under its authority, has been bearing the brunt of the immigration problem. Large...
Our View: Cyprus-Russia compromise tax deal a better option than seeing it scrapped
The finance ministry, understandably, would have been greatly relieved that an agreement was reached on the first day of talks with the Russian government and...
Our View: Finance ministry was right to issue decree on bank charges
When the Bank of Cyprus sent a circular to all its customers, in the last quarter of 2019 about the introduction/increase of charges – including...
Our View: It is irrational to expect UK universities to make a mass exception
The anger of parents of National Guard conscripts who would have to pay the higher tuition fees at UK universities because army service will prevent...
Our View: Greece chooses dialogue, Cyprus will have to do the same
Most people would have been greatly relieved to have heard that Greece and Turkey had agreed a moratorium on sea explorations for at least a...
Our View: Promoting universities needs more than just fine words
The initiative to promote Cyprus’ universities at home and abroad is commendable, but we hope it does not suffer the fate of similar undertakings of...
Our View: Hopes raised for moves towards UK arrivals but there are no guarantees
Flights could finally start from the UK in August after the government signalled it could move Britain from category C to B, meaning Britons would...
Our View: Do MPs need 155 pages of rules to tell them how to behave?
As lawmakers were discussing a proposed code of conduct for MPs on Wednesday, deputies elsewhere were discussing non-performing loans (NPL) held by politically-exposed persons (PEP),...
Our View: AG should step down on date stipulated by the constitution
The pettiness with which outgoing Attorney-general Costas Clerides has behaved about his retirement date defies belief. He could not have chosen a more undignified way...
Our View: Govt doctors act like we live in a socialist state
IN LIMASSOL, specialist doctors that had joined Gesy while the clinics in which they worked had not, are unable to practise. There had been a...
Our View: public transport debacle highlights everything that is wrong with tenders’ procedures
WHY do almost all tenders for state contracts end in a mess plagued by litigation and big delays in implementation? After all these years, have...
