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...
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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...
Our View: The price of protecting mortgage defaulters could prove very costly
THE FORECLOSURES saga that has been going for more than six years now took another twist on Wednesday when the Supreme Court ruled that two...
Our View: Time to go back to the drawing board on status of public hospitals
THE SECOND phase of the national health scheme Gesy is set to begin, as scheduled, on June 1, health minister Constantinou Ioannou’s calculation that the...
Our View: Our schools do not encourage the critical thinking needed for innovation
IT WAS fascinating to hear the explanation why Israel had come to be known as the ‘startup nation’ and ranks third in patents awarded, after...
Our View: Estia scheme has been a dismal failure
The House finance committee asked the government to extend the deadline for the submission of documentation and data for incomplete applications to the Estia Scheme...
Our View: Gesy proposal is just robbing Peter to pay Paul
WHILE private hospitals and clinics are considering the HIO’s (Health Insurance Organisation) proposal for a 6 per cent cut in the prices agreed for offering...
Our View: The two leaders need to consult on reopening the crossings
AS THE Cyprus problem has been removed from the island’s political agenda for several months now, and the two sides remain focused on dealing with...
Our View: Time for a compromise solution for the Paphos-Polis highway
Whenever the government takes a decision to build the Paphos-Polis highway something happens to prevent it. The initial decision was taken during the Clerides presidency,...
Our View: The second phase of Gesy will exist only in theory
LESS than two weeks ago the board of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) met to discuss the possibility of delaying the start of second phase...
Our View: The scientific advisers seem to have misunderstood their role
How strange that the committee of scientific advisors – the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit – felt obliged to issue a statement on Thursday about the opening...
Our View: Parties show childish level of political analysis
MAY 1 marked the 16th anniversary of Cyprus’ accession to the EU, a landmark in the history of the Republic that was achieved through close...
Our View: No ready answers to resolving Gesy dilemma
Ii was inevitable the coronavirus crisis would throw plans for the introduction of the second phase of the national health scheme (Gesy) into disarray. The...
Our View: Counting the ‘triumphs’ of rejecting the Annan plan
ALL the hardline parties marked the 16th anniversary of the resounding ‘no’ in the 2004 referendum, on Friday, repeating the well-worn platitudes about restoring the...
Our View: Perdios’ claim that tourism not totally lost this year is wishful thinking
Perhaps it is inexperience that led the deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios to declare that on no account was this year lost for the...
Our View: Another eurozone crisis could be on the cards
ANOTHER eurozone crisis could be on the cards after finance ministers failed to reach an agreement on the joint debt, also known as corona bonds,...
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...
