Hands up anyone who thinks there will be full accountability for the Takata airbags scandal that has resulted in the deaths of two young people that we know of and ...
Cyprus is throwing away more and more renewable solar energy every year as production increases through the unprecedented proliferation of PV parks and government home schemes but with nowhere to ...
The government’s failure to deny reports about the presence of Israeli security personnel at the perimeter of the Larnaca Airport fence and in the air traffic control-tower was not ...
There was an election character to President Nikos Christodoulides’ televised presentation of his government’s plans for 2025. He had invited ministers, state officials, senior civil servants and party representatives to ...
The leaders of all the big unions met on Monday to decide their demands and plan of action for 2025. They decided that they would follow collective action in seeking the ...
A few weeks before the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme was scheduled to come in to force, Akel issued a statement arguing that its introduction should be put on hold ...
The political system was overjoyed on Wednesday by the council of ministers’ decision to lower the voting age to 17. The decision inspired the familiar and tired rhetoric about broadening democratic ...
The cinema owners’ association has appealed to the government and the political parties to exclude cinemas from the venues at which a price cap on bottled water would be imposed. ...
The Cyprus problem show is back. Nothing constructive or meaningful will be agreed, but that was never the objective. As has been made evident over the decades, the two sides ...
The audit office report about the state health services, Okypy, which was discussed at the House health committee on Thursday, must be seen as a red alert, an urgent warning ...
The unpaid tax debts of the football clubs are causing endless embarrassment to the government, which is paying for its inept handling of the matter. President Christodoulides, who made it ...
Labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou never ceases to amaze with his economic thinking. On Tuesday morning, speaking on CyBC radio, he described the increases of about five per cent in the ...
Newspapers reported earlier this week that the Tax Department was, at long last, preparing cases against four football clubs for unpaid tax debts. The reports, which named the four clubs, ...
The Cyprus problem was bound to feature in President Nikos Christodoulides’ New Year message in which he repeated that his “top priority” was the end of occupation, the liberation and ...
President Christodoulides offered a positive outlook for 2025 in his New Year message, which would be building on the government’s work of last year. He said 2024 was the year we ...
The agreement for the expansion of Larnaca and Paphos airports was signed on Monday at the presidential palace. Under the agreement, Hermes Airport will commence work by March next year ...
Oelmek, the secondary school teachers’ union, is one of the main reasons public education has been in decline for years. For years, this union has been instrumental in falling education ...
The 2025 state budget was approved by a sizeable majority on Wednesday evening, only Akel and the Greens plus two independent deputies voting against it. Main opposition party Disy voted in ...
The way in which the government spends the taxpayer’s money is very difficult to understand. It is rather haphazard, without any economic or social rationale, just spending it for ...
The hastily prepared bill for the recall of cars with faulty components, which was chopped and changed throughout Thursday by the House transport committee, will be put to the vote ...
The angry reaction to the sexist comments made by former footballer Costas Malekkos during a television interview on Sunday night was understandable. We have not heard such backward ideas on ...
Keir Starmer became only the second British prime minister to visit Cyprus since independence, when he arrived at the presidential palace on Tuesday for a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. ...
The government has come under a lot of criticism from Larnaca municipality and a section of the media for the decisions it has taken about the development of the town’...
For months now, the House education committee has been debating two bills on higher education, tabled by the government, without reaching agreement. Wednesday’s behind-closed-doors meeting was cut short, because ...