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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 ...

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 by the state statistical service ...

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 saw various options shelved and taken ...

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 and industry, Marinos Stylianou. Although ...

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 reviewed from time to time. ...

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 SafePass requirements. There could be ...

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 government condoning their decision to ...

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 applications of the 6,393 submitted, were approved; ...

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 the foreigners for what is ...

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 activities including their relationship ...

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 President Anastasiades, presumably to intervene. ...