Archive 2023

Three minors were charged in writing on Wednesday for attempted property destruction in a chapel in Paphos. Police arrested the youths, aged aged 14, 15 and 16, on Tuesday, following interrogation, for setting ...

PwC Cyprus on Tuesday released the results of the firm’s global business survey, which revealed that family businesses experienced their highest growth in 15 years during their most recent fiscal ...

The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor’s care for an “...

Russia has successfully redirected all its crude oil exports affected by Western sanctions over Ukraine to “friendly” countries, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said on Tuesday, while still a decline in ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Wednesday for strong to gale force winds from 9 am to 5 pm. The western and south-western regions of the island are the most ...

The Republic of Cyprus is looking for investors to issue a sustainable bond, the Financial Director of the Public Debt Management Office, Phaidonas Kalozois, said this week. Kalozois had been ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Wednesday for strong winds from 9 am to 5 pm. The weather will be mainly cloudy and rains are expected at intervals. Light snowfall ...

Investor confidence in the banking sector remained fragile on Tuesday, with the European Central Bank (ECB) saying recent volatility highlighted the need for greater regulatory scrutiny. European bank stocks (.SX7...

Cypriots are lacking in civic consciousness and awareness By Demetra Kallitsi Of all European citizens, Cypriots are the least likely to be active in public processes. In a 2015 EU survey, ...

“Enough with this [fan rioting] issue. It has been discussed over and over, and every time following incidents there are meetings upon meetings,” President Nikos Christodoulides said after Sunday’s ...

Scotland’s Scott McTominay grabbed another brace of goals as they stunned a much-changed Spain side to earn a deserved 2-0 victory in their Euro 2024 qualifier at Hampden Park on ...

President Nicos Christodoulides conceded that Cyprus has a way to go to achieve true equality between the sexes, stating that it is a political issue. “Despite the important steps we ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed a bill that would make it harder for electricity consumers to switch suppliers if they have not first settled all their dues with their current supplier. ...

Italy’s government on Tuesday approved a bill banning the use of laboratory-produced food and animal feed as it aims to safeguard the country’s agri-food heritage, its agriculture minister ...

A new hotline for any inquiries related to welfare benefits should go live sometime within the next few days, Deputy Minister for Welfare Marilena Evangelou said on Tuesday. She made ...

The European Commission said on Tuesday it had awarded the first PDO certificate for halloumi (or hellim in Turkish) to a Turkish Cypriot producer. The Commission said the first control ...

Cyprus is the most water impoverished nation in the EU with the island’s needs vastly outstripped by its only source of natural supply: rainfall, the agriculture ministry said on ...

Despite tensions between them, President Joe Biden has so far avoided an acrimonious public confrontation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while trying to make clear he opposes a judicial ...

Αnimafest Cyprus and the World Festival of First Animations PRIMANIMA with the support of the deputy ministry of culture in Cyprus and the Budaors city municipality will hold a series ...

Allowances given to civil servants doing shift work have been cut for a decade since the 2013 financial crisis, unions said on Tuesday calling for the immediate restoration of these funds ...

MPs on Tuesday called on authorities to create schemes that will help refugees and large families save energy, install photovoltaics and fund electric vehicles. During a joint House committee on ...

MPs on Tuesday urged the government to do something about rising interest rates, particularly to shield vulnerable borrowers and prevent bad loans from proliferating – although none had a clear idea ...

Sports presenter Gary Lineker won his appeal against Britain’s tax authority (HMRC) on Tuesday over a bill that totalled 4.9 million pounds. Lineker, who presents BBC’s ‘Match of the ...

A 55-year-old Ukrainian woman was on Tuesday sentenced to six months in prison after she brandished a knife last August at a pro-Russia gathering. Larnaca district court handed down the ...