#Our View

Until a few months ago, most people were unaware that there was a commissioner for the supervision of Gesy. Those that follow the news, would have found out about his ...

Although the Akamas local plan has still not been finalised, the villagers of Ineia have been protesting because they claim, it would not allow them to develop their land. Last ...

Nobody cultivates the idea of state dependency and the sense of entitlement as much as Akel. It is an integral part of its socialist mindset and what’s worse, it ...

The criticism of presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides by his rivals, for his refusal to take part in any of the televised debates scheduled to be held on the CyBC next ...

It was very difficult to comprehend the thinking behind the supreme court’s decision to hand out a suspended 15-month jail sentence to a public employee found guilty of bribery ...

The hysteria surrounding Gesy that is gripping the country has moved from last week’s target, the president of the Cyprus Medical Association Petros Agathangelou, to the head of the ...

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few weeks about Cape Greco and people diving from the beauty spot near the sea caves and how this could ...

Arguably, the most interesting part of the television debate of the presidential candidates was the row about the choices made at the Cyprus talks in Mont Pelerin and later in ...

The government in May of this year announced a new tax incentive scheme designed to attract foreign companies and workers to Cyprus. The scheme also seeks to repatriate Cypriot professionals ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave his routine, six-monthly report on Unficyp to the members of the Security Council on Tuesday and it was just more of the same. He highlighted ...

With so much going on – inflation, migration, Covid, the Cyprus problem, next year’s election – it’s easy to miss the issue of excess deaths in Cyprus. And of course ...

A meeting will take place at the presidential palace today to examine ways of tackling high electricity prices where President Anastasiades expects to hear proposals on how cuts can be ...

We are just two weeks away from the 11th anniversary of the one of the biggest environmental and human tragedies to hit Cyprus since 1974 and the 2005 Helios air crash, and ...

The government has signed a deal to buy six assault helicopters from France at a total cost of €140 million and the expenditure was approved behind closed doors by the parties ...

There was a relatively positive outcome to Thursday’s mass meeting of stakeholders under the minister of health, that discussed the provision of healthcare at weekends. It would be nice ...

President Anastasiades has eight months left in office and from his recent behaviour we can deduce that he is already thinking about his legacy and how he will be remembered. ...

On the surface, the suggestion about selling natural gas to Turkey by presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis, seems like a good way of breaking the deadlock in the talks. With direct ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), the State Health Services (Okypy) and the minister of health were served a reminder of who is in charge of healthcare policy in Cyprus. The ...

Every few months the deputy ministry for tourism comes up with a new or recycled old idea. The latest, announced on Wednesday after the council of ministers, meeting was the ...

WHEN the combination of politicians, unions and civil servants take the responsibility of managing a business operating in market conditions there can only be one result – financial disaster and eventually ...

The government’s refusal to release the Akamas Plan to the legislature was certain to raise suspicions among everyone interested in the protection of this area natural beauty. Many people, ...

The opening of the competitive electricity market has turned into an ongoing joke. The first deadline missed was in July 2014 and it was followed by one in July 2016, July 2019 and ...

The war in Ukraine entered its 100th day on Friday with President Zelenskiy saying that Russian troops had taken control of 20 per cent of the country. A few days earlier, ...

Understandably, everyone is complaining about the soaring fuel prices, which on Friday went up yet again, with unleaded 95 now at about €1.81 per litre and diesel at €1.88 per litre. The increase ...