#Our View

President Nikos Christodoulides told a group of secondary school students he met on Friday that the government would soon hold non-binding referenda, because it “sincerely believed in participatory democracy” and ...

The public works department has reportedly prepared a study proposing the reduction of the speed limit in certain urban areas from 50km/h to 30km/h. This is aimed at ...

Will there ever be an end to the halloumi PDO (protected designation of origin) saga or will the irrationality of the last few years continue? It seems set to run ...

It defies belief that the law which would make it mandatory for police to record the questioning and taking of statements from suspects and witnesses in criminal cases, has been ...

Minister of Education Athena Michaelidou defended the screening of a homophobic video in a lyceum classroom, claiming it was in the framework of a pluralist approach to the subject. Teachers ...

Since independence, Cypriots have put great value in university education. Parents would put all their savings into their children’s university education, often going without for this purpose, while youngsters ...

If a private business found out that an employee was being bribed by an outside company to sign off on taking deliveries of fewer products than were invoiced, it would ...

Cyprus’ farmers took to the streets on Thursday to protest, like the farmers in many European countries, against Brussels’ so-called climate-friendly policies they consider a big threat to their livelihoods. ...

In the end the EAC clarified that the increase in electricity rates will not be 25 per cent as it had initially been reported, but 6 per cent. The claim for a 25 ...

The honeymoon period between the government and the unions appears to be over. It lasted 11 months during which the main union demands about increasing CoLA and raising of the minimum ...

Every president of the Republic, once he has left office goes home and keeps a relatively low profile. Nicos Anastasiades is proving the grand exception to this convention, as he ...

Maria Angela Holguin, the UN Secretary-General’s recently appointed envoy for the Cyprus problem arrives on the island on Monday and will have her first meetings on Tuesday. Greek Cypriots ...

Well done House speaker Annita Demetriou for publicly backing the bill that would end the lifetime benefits granted by the state to former presidents and House speakers. She is a ...

The consultative council that was supposed to eliminate nepotism and make the process for appointments to the boards of semi-governmental organisations (SGOs) fairer and more open, while restricting the influence ...

Two years after the first rollout of traffic cameras following almost two decades of problems getting there, Paphos on Monday received its first 16 fixed cameras, having had a number of ...

The audacity of the Electricity Authority’s unions knows no bounds. After years of saying absolutely nothing about the high electricity rates Cyprus households and businesses had been paying, they ...

Under pressure from the media, some parties and the auditor-general, the government has decided to rationalise the law surrounding multiple pensions. Permanent secretary at the finance ministry Giorgos Panteli said ...

The flagrant illegalities surrounding the operation of a fish farm in Trimiklini and an adjacent leisure centre, to which state authorities turned a blind eye for over 10 years, shocked deputies ...

It took the foreign ministry a week to respond to the draft report of the UN Secretary-General about the renewal of the Unficyp mandate. The time it took to issue ...

It was a surprise to hear education minister Athena Michaelidou would consider the introduction of English language undergraduate courses at the public universities. Although some postgraduate courses are being offered ...

Interior minister Constantinos Ioannou stepped up his efforts to persuade Brussels to reassess the status of Syria as a war zone during the visit of EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, ...

There was no disagreement among party leaders at Monday’s meeting of the National Council, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The president had listened to the suggestions of the parties, ...

One of the arguments used by the Cyta unions during Wednesday’s two-hour work stoppage was that they would “stand firm against any effort that may undermine the public character ...

The scientific committee monitoring Covid-19 was back in action on Wednesday. Its members met Health Minister Dr Popi Kanari to discuss the increase of Covid infections recorded in the last ...