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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. ...

The new measures decided by the government to try and curb the high number of positive cases, have left businesses holding the baby. Some months ago when the SafePass was ...

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 week is a further ...

Any time a story about the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia is published, it rarely anything positive. To start with, how many times have we read that staff were being ...

It will surprise no one, we suspect, that Cyprus has missed yet another deadline for enforcing an EU directive. From Saturday, July 3, Cyprus is supposed to be a single use ...

President Anastasiades was satisfied with the statement on Turkey that was unanimously approved by the 27 member-states of the European Council, said government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos in a written announcement. The ...

One of the biggest achievements of the unions of the public sector, over the years, has been the championing of the mediocre, responsibility-fearing and unproductive workers. They have done this ...

After Elam received the fourth highest number of votes in May’s parliamentary elections and secured four seats, there have been countless articles bemoaning the rise of the extreme right ...

The only surprise about the report, drafted by a small team of Turkish Cypriots, was the extent of Turkey’s interference in last year’s ‘presidential elections’ in the north. ...

The House of Representatives elected its first ever female President on Thursday – Disy Vice President and Larnaca deputy Annita Demetriou. It is the first time a woman will occupy the ...

The tourism industry was dealt a big blow by the UK government’s decision to keep Cyprus on the amber list. Deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios was in the ...

Nursing union Pasyno has called a 12-hour strike on Monday by its members to report health minister Constantinos Ioannou for “interference in the right to union action, for a hostile ...

Anyone who followed the last couple of weeks of the campaign could have been mistaken in thinking we would be electing a new president today. President Anastasiades completely dominated the ...

Nobody could disagree with health minister Constantinos Ioannou’s positive evaluation of Gesy, two years after it was introduced. In an article he penned on the occasion of its second ...

Although the government took away our liberties in a big rush, supposedly to protect public health, it is restoring these in instalments for no apparent reason. Is it afraid people ...