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The meeting called by President Anastasiades on Friday decided the setting up of two ministerial committees that would monitor the effects of the situation in Ukraine. After the meeting, the ...

On Wednesday, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) that operates the national health system, finally announced the measures it would take to put an end to Gesy abuses. The HIO, which ...

It was triumphantly hailed by the government as the biggest and most important energy project ever undertaken by the Cyprus Republic, when the contract for the LNG import and regasification ...

The health ministry on Thursday gave a breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid patients in hospitals. A little more than half of those in hospital (55 per cent) were unvaccinated, ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer who had gone into the buffer zone to tend his crops said he had been approached by armed Turkish soldiers, who threatened to kill him if ...

President Anastasiades has a habit of acting as a mediator or facilitator, getting involved in matters that are best left to his ministers and in some cases better left to ...

Most people know that the Cybc, like all public organisations, is a badly-run drain on state funds. We were reminded of this again by the report prepared by the auditor-general, ...

Τhe planned 16 per cent increase in charges by the companies running Limassol port has caused uproar among political parties and business associations, all of whom fear that such a steep ...

We enter another year of uncertainty and unpredictability today. After two years shaped by the sole government objective of controlling the spread of Covid-19 in its mutating forms, only a ...

The despair of Turkish Cypriots, over the state of the north’s economy is understandable. They are suffering the devastating effects of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies that ...

There may still be 14 months to go until the presidential elections, but we already have two confirmed candidates, one who is subject to his party’s endorsement early next year, ...

The measures announced by the health minister on Tuesday, hopefully, will see us through the holidays and into the new year, without the need for additional restrictions. While more restrictions ...

Following the death in Paphos of a terminally ill woman aged 75, allegedly, perpetrated by her 74-year-old husband, and his own attempted suicide, it was reported the House human rights committee ...

The agreement between unions of the two sides to arrange the employment of Turkish Cypriots in the Republic, which is faced by acute labour shortages was a commendable initiative. The ...

The main challenges facing the banking sector were the high level on NPLs, ineffective foreclosure legislation, red tape and the “unsustainable cost-to-income ratio” said the CEO of Hellenic Bank Oliver ...

The new UN Special Representative, Colin Stewart, took a tour of the buffer zone on Wednesday and on Friday will have separate meetings with the two leaders. Anastasiades and Tatar ...

Before Pope Francis had even arrived in Cyprus, it was announced that he would be taking 50 migrants back to the Vatican with him. Ten of the 50 were released from prison ...

As he approaches the final year of his second term, President Nicos Anastasiades seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time defending himself and dealing with his critics. On ...

Under pressure from oil companies and petrol stations about Greek Cypriots going to the north to fill up their cars with cheap petrol, deputies of the House commerce committee discussed ...

The government appears to be on a mission to get the bills on the reform of the judicial system through the legislature. This is because the passing of these bills ...

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 ...