In today’s episode, cabinet on Wednesday decided to postpone implementing the Akamas local development plan for another six months.

The cabinet decision also entails a four-month window allowing for objections to the plan for the environmentally sensitive area and one of the few undeveloped coastal regions in Cyprus.

Elsewhere, after years of delays and shifting timetables, work has begun in Vasiliko for the construction of a jetty to facilitate a floating LNG storage and regasification unit but the completion date has been kicked down the road again, and at an extra cost of €25m.

Meanwhile, the percentage of foreign workers a company is allowed to employ and include into collective agreements has been raised from 30 to 50 per cent.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.