#Our View

The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou has presented a six-point action plan to tackle illegal garbage dumping, noting that the problem is out of control. The minister is right, of course – but ...

A group of deputies, led by the president of the House legal affairs committee, Nicos Tornaritis of Disy, have decided that making threats, propagating fake news, the writing of offensive ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ frustration with the two sides pervaded the report on his mission of good offices in Cyprus. Suggestions for confidence building measures and business cooperation were largely ...

There were murmurings of discontent at the AGM of the Cyprus Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe), with fears expressed that results for this year would be down on 2023. The president of Pasyxe, ...

Various issues relating to pensioners have been pushed to the fore recently, mainly due to the deaths of several elderly people from heatstroke. Leaving aside that according to the Lancet ...

The statement of the Child Commissioner to the House education committee during a debate on banning mobile phones in schools could not have failed to raise eyebrows among most parents ...

It appears to be widely accepted now that the fire that devasted the Polemi area last week most probably originated in an illegal landfill. On Friday a fire between Alassa ...

The government, even though it has issued a measured and calm response, cannot fail to have been rattled by the threat from Hassan Nasrallah to make Cyprus “part of the ...

Although the subsidy of electricity bills, after its last extension, would have finally expired at the end of June, the government has now extended it to for another four months – ...

If there had been any lingering doubts about President Nikos Christodoulides’ commitment to strengthening Cyprus’ relations with the United States, they completely disappeared on Monday when the two countries signed ...

The pressure on the government to allow the 26 migrants, stranded in the buffer zone – some since May 15 – to access asylum procedures is increasing. After Unficyp, the UNHCR and the European ...

In the end the teaching unions were vindicated – the biggest problem facing public education is not falling standards, low literacy, poor teaching, anti-social behaviour, but the lack of air-conditioning units ...

Every year we face the same problem when big fires break out in the countryside. We do not have anywhere near enough firefighting aircraft and have to rely on the ...

The revelation on Tuesday that government doctors are on annual salaries of about €150,000 did not go down very well with their union Pasyki, which immediately went on the offensive. Its ...

The biggest losers of Sunday’s elections for the European parliament were the parties of the so-called ‘centre’ – Diko, Edek and Dipa – which saw their total support almost halved since 2019, ...

The European Central Bank (ECB), as had been widely expected, reduced interest rates in the euro zone. It was a small reduction of 25 basis points, bringing the ECB’s key ...

Pressure on the government to take in the 27 migrants trapped in the buffer zone for close to a week is being stepped up by Unficyp and the UNHCR. On Wednesday, ...

The International Monetary Fund praised Cyprus for its strong economic performance in its latest report. It commended the substantial primary surpluses, the ongoing efforts to reduce the public debt and ...

Irrespective of the outcome of the case brought against the auditor-general for inappropriate conduct, the government and the political parties should seriously consider ending the permanence of appointments to certain ...

How elitist does it sound when a deputy suggests scooters must be banned if no active measures are taken to ensure their safe circulation? This view was expressed by Dipa ...

It is rather amusing how the extreme right nationalist party Elam has become the centre of attention in the election campaign. With opinion polls indicating that Elam could finish third ...

Presidents of the Republic have always tended to act as a mediator/facilitator in disputes – the man who will knock heads together, make people act sensibly and make them compromise ...

It is astonishing how fast the government and legislature work when it is necessary. In a few days this week, the government drafted a bill that would expand the business ...