Our View: No logic to closing supermarkets on Sundays
WHEN the latest restrictive measures were announced by the government, we pointed out the decision to close supermarkets on Sundays made no sense. It was...
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Our View: Parents should be fined for letting their teens roam free during a lockdown
WE WOULD have hoped that this tradition with the bonfires would have been suspended now that the country is on lockdown. The weekend before the...
Our View: Despicable govt workers’ unions devoid of sense of duty
Public employees’ unions have sunk to new depths of disrepute with their despicably selfish behaviour. Teaching unions and Pasydy, shamelessly demanded special treatment from the...
Our View: Coronavirus will leave no sector of the economy untouched
ALL COUNTRIES are now bracing themselves for the negative economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. A slowdown of the global economy is a certainty, the...
Our View: Anastasiades wants to show that he’s the one calling the shots
PRESIDENT Anastasiades may have tolerated the criticism of the party leaders at Thursday’s national council meeting about his arbitrary decision to close four crossing points...
Our View: Greece needs to remain steadfast in its position
Things appeared to be escalating on the Greek-Turkish border yesterday as riot police from both sides fired tear gas during a new attempt by hundreds...
Our View: Is there a plan to deal with economic fallout of corona virus?
While the government, understandably, has focused its attention on dealing with possible cases of the coronavirus on the island and has taken a series of...
Our View: Highly unlikely sanctions imposed on TPAO officials will stop Turkey’s drilling
THE government has delivered on its promise for ‘targeted measures’ against individuals involved in Turkey’s illegal drilling in the Cypriot EEZ. The EU’s official journal...
Our View: Public sector privilege makes a mockery of equal rights for all
THE SENSE of entitlement of our country’s public employees knows no bounds, as the current dispute of their unions with the ministry of finance over...
Our View: Anastasiades conveniently omits Russia when he talks about reining in Turkey
President Anastasiades made an interesting, if rather simplistic remark in an interview he gave to Bloomberg. “Turkey feels unrestrained given US efforts to keep the...
Our View: Edek should have gone to police, not had an in-house ‘trial’
IN THE END Attorney-general Costas Clerides had to order an investigation into the allegations of misuse of EU funds made against Edek MEP Demetris Papadakis...
Our View: More positives than negatives in Moneyval report
Inevitably, there were two readings of the Moneyval report that was released on Wednesday. The government saw it as approval of the work it had...
Our View: Frequent denials do not help Anastasiades’ credibility
IN AN ATTEMPT to close the matter of President Anastasiades’ use of the Saudi Arab investor’s private jet, government spokesman Kyriakos Kousios issued a long...
Our View: Nicosia needs to learn some planning lessons from Limassol
On the day that mayor Nicos Nicolaides announced that Limassol would be turned into a friendly, green, smart city for citizens and businesses, Nicosia municipality...
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,...
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...
