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There seems to be no end to the farcical saga of local authority reform. The only thing that everyone agreed on so far, was the postponement until 2024 of municipal elections, ...

Prices have been rising for several months now, sparking indignant comments in the media and calls by opposition parties for government intervention. Preventing these rises has become the latest populist ...

About this time every year, government ministers go before the House finance committee to discuss their ministry’s respective budget for the following year. They are always at pains to ...

The Council of Ministers on Thursday decided to cut the VAT charged on the electricity bills of ‘vulnerable households’ from 19 to 5 per cent. It was a measure deemed necessary to ...

Dire warnings have been coming from everywhere in recent weeks about inflation and the resulting hike in prices consumers will begin to really feel in the new year. We’re ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...

It should not have come as too much of a surprise that 500 traffic violations were recorded in only two hours during the rollout of the pilot scheme for traffic cameras, ...

Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect any efforts to find a ...

The members of the scientific team were of the view that a booster shot should be given to people above the age of 60, said Dr Maria Koliou. Only Professor Petros ...

One of the main fiscal dangers to the economy next year, according to the ministry of finance is posed by Gesy, the national health scheme, which could incur excessive costs ...

One of the policy objectives over the next four years, approved by the 29th congress of the Sek trade unions federation, which was completed on Thursday, was the “full restoration ...

Despite strikes and threat of strikes being very common in the public sector, they are unheard of at private schools. This was why Wednesday’s announcement of an indefinite strike ...

The audacity of the Association of Supermarkets (Pasype), in complaining about the SafePass was quite astonishing. Supermarkets were among the very few businesses for whom the lockdowns were a boon, ...

When this government was discussing the organisation of the public hospitals in Gesy, it had originally come up with the idea that hospital workers such as nurses and doctors would ...

The one thing a government in any open society should not do is destroy books because it does not approve of their content. This is a practice associated with repressive, ...

The new Minister of Health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, has not acted in a very responsible way in giving the state health services (Okypy) 10 days to tackle the long waiting times at ...

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 going to push racist views. ...

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, it stood at 5.2 per cent compared ...

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 the town. The new names ...

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 revocation of 14 passports, has dominated ...

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 government to intervene and reduce ...

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 political parties in the hope ...

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 to the pandemic, often using ...

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 Duzen newspaper, that the process ...