#Our View

Comments about the stance of the Greek Cypriot side, attributed to the UN Special Representative Colin Stewart during a meeting in New York, by Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeni Duzen, did ...

Disy candidate, Averof Neophytou, on Friday, came up with the rather bizarre idea, calling on his fellow candidates for “an open dialogue with citizens.” He described this as “a debate ...

Only in Cyprus could there have been a general work stoppage to push the demand for the most privileged, best paid workers of our society to receive a hefty pay ...

Ever since his appointment, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has been acting as if his position gave him the constitutional right to interfere in all the executives’ decisions – often before they were ...

Everyone is scrambling to blame someone for Sunday’s fracas between Nicosia’s Apoel and Limassol’s Apollon fans at a Grivas memorial service in Limassol during which six police ...

Another issue regarding citizenship for Turkish Cypriots was by the response of the EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders to a question on the matter by Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek. ...

The mass outrage that followed the leaking of the Modern Greek exam topics was difficult to comprehend. Had classified information been made public, putting at risk national security, the outrage ...

The diplomatic efforts being made by the Republic to change the text of the UN Secretary-General’s draft report, which the government did not approve of, failed dismally. The draft ...

The Church has always had a prominent and very influential role in Cyprus. This role was evident in most aspects of life, from education to politics, and was largely determined ...

The marathon presidential election campaign, which started a little under a year ago, entered the final straight on Friday with the official submission of candidacies. A record 14 candidates will be ...

In the last few weeks we were given yet another depressing demonstration of how the teaching unions use the subservient deputies and political parties to prevent the government implementing its ...

Time seems to be passing so quickly that it’s almost hard to believe that three years have gone by since the world was plunged into panic over a pandemic ...

Bank employees who left their jobs on the ultra-generous voluntary exit schemes have been complaining because the labour ministry has put their applications to collect unemployment benefit for six months ...

The public is by now familiar with what has become known as the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal involving members and staff of the European Parliament, including the arrest of Greek MEP ...

During the debate on the state budget on Thursday, a deputy had heard of the latest statement about Varosha by the Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and asked that ...

The pampered workers of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), having failed to impose their diktats on the government with work stoppages and day strikes have announced they would be ...

Greece’s Eurobank has doubled its shareholding in Hellenic Bank it was announced on Thursday. It acquired 12.6 per cent of Hellenic in 2021 adding another 13.5 per cent of the shares this ...

In a speech he made on Thursday, independent presidential candidate, Marios Eliades raised an important issue about the forthcoming elections that most candidates have been turning a blind eye to. ...

Black Friday is a new arrival to Cyprus, where we did not know the meaning of the term until a few years ago. It is an American sales gimmick, held ...

Disy deputy Savia Orphanidou had a point when she said that every time elections approached the opposition parties tabled for discussion the collapse of the Co-op Bank, which she described ...

In an announcement issued on Thursday, Edek lashed out against Akel and Disy for voting against the establishment of a special court to which borrowers could apply if they were ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that CoLA (the cost of living allowance), also known as the ‘automatic price-index readjustment of wages’, is back in vogue. Its return to ...

The Gesy law prohibits private doctors treating Gesy patients in hospitals that are contracted to the HIO (Health Insurance Organisation). This had always been the case, even though the HIO ...

A lot has been written and said lately about the plight of the elderly in Cyprus. Perhaps it has something to do with presidential electioneering. After all, with a growing ...