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It should not have come as too much of a surprise that 500 traffic violations were recorded in only two hours during the rollout of...

Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect...

The members of the scientific team were of the view that a booster shot should be given to people above the age of 60, said...

One of the main fiscal dangers to the economy next year, according to the ministry of finance is posed by Gesy, the national health scheme,...

One of the policy objectives over the next four years, approved by the 29th congress of the Sek trade unions federation, which was completed on...

Despite strikes and threat of strikes being very common in the public sector, they are unheard of at private schools. This was why Wednesday’s announcement...

The audacity of the Association of Supermarkets (Pasype), in complaining about the SafePass was quite astonishing. Supermarkets were among the very few businesses for whom...

When this government was discussing the organisation of the public hospitals in Gesy, it had originally come up with the idea that hospital workers such...

The new Minister of Health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, has not acted in a very responsible way in giving the state health services (Okypy) 10 days to...

Allowing far-right Elam to head up an ad-hoc House committee on demographics was always going to be a bad idea because inevitably the party was...

There was good economic news to report this week. Unemployment fell to the lowest level since June 2009. In July this year, according to Eurostat,...

The committee in charge of naming streets of the Limassol municipality is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss proposals for renaming main thoroughfares in...

It is quite astonishing that a rash remark by President Anastasiades last week, during his public sparring with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar about the...

Whenever the electricity rates go up, the parties and politicians complain that consumers are being burdened with a higher cost of living and urge the...

The horse-trading on the reform of local government has resumed, after a brief respite. Interior minister Nicos Nouris started a round of contacts with the...

One of the things the government has been justifiably criticised for recently is its lack of transparency and consistency in the publication of figures related...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was not exactly saying anything we did not know when he warned, in an interview he gave to Yeni...

The country needed the good news given by finance minister Constantinos Petrides on Tuesday about the higher than forecasted growth of the economy. Provisional forecasts...

Cyprus has spent some 15 years trying to put in place a system of traffic cameras without success due to technical and legal hurdles that...