In today’s episode, the proposed state budget for 2024 focuses on fiscal stability and achieving greater strides towards the ‘green transition’ and digital transformation, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday.

Meanwhile, a seven-year-old girl is in very serious condition at the Makarios children’s hospital after suffering a brain hematoma in an apparent freak accident on the highway.
The police announced that the girl was struck in the head by a rock which appears to have fallen loose from a truck.

Elsewhere, Cypriot Aristotelis Valaoritis will take a place in the book of Guinness World Records after breaking the record for the most wine glasses balanced on the head. He did this by balancing 319 glasses stacked on nine trays last week.

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