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Allowing far-right Elam to head up an ad-hoc House committee on demographics was always going to be a bad idea because inevitably the party was...

There was good economic news to report this week. Unemployment fell to the lowest level since June 2009. In July this year, according to Eurostat,...

The committee in charge of naming streets of the Limassol municipality is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss proposals for renaming main thoroughfares in...

It is quite astonishing that a rash remark by President Anastasiades last week, during his public sparring with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar about the...

Whenever the electricity rates go up, the parties and politicians complain that consumers are being burdened with a higher cost of living and urge the...

The horse-trading on the reform of local government has resumed, after a brief respite. Interior minister Nicos Nouris started a round of contacts with the...

One of the things the government has been justifiably criticised for recently is its lack of transparency and consistency in the publication of figures related...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was not exactly saying anything we did not know when he warned, in an interview he gave to Yeni...

The country needed the good news given by finance minister Constantinos Petrides on Tuesday about the higher than forecasted growth of the economy. Provisional forecasts...

Cyprus has spent some 15 years trying to put in place a system of traffic cameras without success due to technical and legal hurdles that...

The Paphos district, the main industry of which is tourism, had been dealt an irreparable blow, said the director of the Paphos chamber of commerce...

Tragedy had to strike for the authorities to come round to thinking that permits issued for the possession of a shotgun by hunters, must be...

It seems that more cases are emerging about doctors selling or providing fake vaccine cards to their patients as a means to get around the...

Nobody should be surprised about the shenanigans surrounding the state funding of the political parties. It was all the doing of the parties, with the...

The Estia debt relief scheme, in the end, did not turn out the success it had been hoped. The finance ministry announced that only 802...

President Anastasiades, having lost control of the Cyprus problem process through his erratic decisions, has now resorted to the time-tested and reliable tactic of blaming...

According to the latest European surveys and the European Commission’s data, “it appears the Cyprus public is lacking with regard to the participation in cultural...

In the latest instalment of the ongoing dispute between contract teachers and the ministry of education, the House education committee has decided to write to...

It didn’t take long for the new parliament to fall back into regurgitating old agendas. Top of the list for opposition MPs yet again this...