Our View: Our deputies are not interested in a fairer society
Some nine years ago, when public finances were heading in the wrong direction, the scandal of multiple state pensions received by officials came to light...
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Our View: EU not likely to allow Pentakomo fiasco to go on much longer
In the last issue of the Sunday Mail there was a report about the catalogue of errors committed by technocrats and government in planning and...
Our View: Our main economic woes predated the pandemic
Cyprus received €250 million through the European Commission’s SURE programme on Tuesday and is set to receive another €229 million early next year. SURE, which...
Our View: Everyone knows the reason EAC bills are so high
Cyprus households on average pay 9.6 per cent of their annual income on electricity bills found a survey conducted by the energy switching site Save...
Our View: Is the furore over Treasurer’s conflict of interest case misplaced?
A big issue has been made in the press about the conflict of interest involving the Treasurer, Rea Georgiou who, as president of the Authority...
Our View: Cyprus’ democracy not at risk when it comes to mob control
Speaking on the CyBC morning radio show on Monday, the minister of justice, Emily Yiolitis, repeatedly referred to the people taking part in Saturday’s demonstration...
Our View: Bishops’ support in church spat underlines Russia’s power
The influence wielded by the Russian Federation on our political system is well-documented and remains as deep as it was at the time of the...
Our View: Economic optimism could be a case of wishful thinking
The support schemes announced by the labour minister Zeta Emilianidou on Thursday will amount to €150 million and will cover some 60,000 workers as well...
Our View: Limited lockdown is not too drastic
There was only a limited lockdown announced by the health minister on Wednesday night, but it is not the type that would shut down the...
Our View: How will people respect the law when MPs don’t?
Last Friday, President Anastasiades sent back the law which extends the suspension of eviction proceedings against tenants until the end of this year. The law,...
Our View: Time to whittle down the number of public holidays
On Wednesday, 28 October there was another public holiday, this time to mark the anniversary of Greece’s Ochi Day, the day when the country rejected...
Our View: Court should have given police benefit of the doubt on riot suspects
What started out as a peaceful protest march by youths against the measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 and 5G networks turned violent as...
Our View: Auditor-general’s bullying behaviour has to stop
As if the Republic has not suffered enough embarrassment and as a result of the revelations of the citizenship by investment scheme, we now have...
Our View: In a time of upheaval, people want to see strong leadership
Our political system was shaken to its core by the release of the Al Jazeera video and it now appears to be falling apart, with...
Our View: the government learned a valuable lesson about discounting women
It only took 48 hours for the minister of education, Prodromos Prodromou to acknowledge his blunder in appointing a 16-member advisory committee for the deputy...
Our View: Anastasiades will now have to negotiate with the more inflexible Tatar
Ersin Tatar became the fifth ‘president’ of the occupied north on Sunday, spreading disappointment among the contracting number of Greek Cypriots that support a bizonal,...
Our View: Populists and their knack of turning politics into theatre
Super-populist deputy Giorgos Perdikis wrote to Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides asking whether any other measures were being explored by the government in relation to rents....
Our View: Syllouris should have resigned immediately after being exposed
Never before has there been such a public clamour for the resignation of a state official, as the one witnessed in the last few days....
Our View: Paphos’ TC properties not a simple black and white issue
Every year or two the issue of Turkish Cypriot properties springs up, with allegations that they are being utilised by people that are ineligible, non-refugees,...
Our View: No matter how odious, there is no evidence Elam has broken any laws
Several parties used the Greek court ruling, which found the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn to be a criminal organisation, to declare Cyprus’ far-right nationalist party,...
