Nicos Anastasiades’ reshuffle is a clear indication that, halfway into his second term, the president is keen to embark on ribbon-cutting exercises than leave a legacy of peacemaker and economic saviour. The
News of the anticipated departure of Energy Minister George Lakkotrypis did not come as a shock, considering one of the longest-serving members of the Anastasiades administration had expressed his willingness to step
Cyprus state officials need to brush up on their restoring public confidence skills, as people are tired of them sweeping everything under the carpet or blaming ‘the system’ for everything from corruption
Every so often, we reach an intensified level of activity to ward off Turkey’s gunboat diplomacy with trilateral and multilateral summits making declarations, all of which Ankara continues to ignore and follow
Decades ago, an editorial columnist in the Cyprus Weekly used to write incessantly, “Let’s not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs”, referring primarily to tourism and, in a fortune-telling way,
The Auditor-General, the watchdog keeping public finances in check, was the main stumbling block in getting the government’s private sector aid package through parliament, which the finance minister rescinded for fear of
Economists, more so politicians, seem to be upset over the ‘unfavourable’ and negative publicity Cyprus is once again exposed to in the foreign media over the haphazard way passports have been dished
What Cyprus needed all this time was for someone, anyone, to take the initiative and lead the country in efforts to close the digital divide. Random initiatives remained uncoordinated with no one
The gradual lifting of lockdown measures, at a time when new coronavirus cases keep cropping up daily, albeit in single-digit rates, suggests that the government’s medical advisors succumbed to political pressure. Instead
Faced with the grim reality that state coffers will be depleted if the economy does not restart soon, the government is desperately trying to portray itself as the best kid on the
