Archive 2024

EU antitrust regulators launched proceedings this week to ensure that Apple (AAPL.O) complies with landmark rules requiring it to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals or risk a ...

British supermarket group Asda said its chairman, veteran retailer Stuart Rose, would assume the executive responsibilities of co-owner Mohsin Issa, who is stepping back from his leadership role. The UK’...

Strengthening energy cooperation between the Med9 countries and promoting green energy will be the focus of next week’s ministerial meeting in Larnaca, which was expected to promote peace and ...

The University of Cyprus is looking for €91m to build new student housing that will provide rooms for 870 students. This surprised deputies who discussed the matter because there had been ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is closely monitoring developments over the Vasiliko liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, which is currently under investigation for misappropriation of EU funds and corruption. EIB ...

The UBP, the largest political party in the north, will decide who its leader will be at its party conference on Saturday. The party’s 21,000 members will be able to ...

A 16-year-old boy died in a motorcycle crash in the Limassol district village of Pano Polemidia on Friday afternoon. The boy, named as Charalambos Pissarides, was riding the motorcycle through ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Friday issued a warning to those decrying the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to fire the now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides. Speaking to television channel Alpha, ...

The government has €454 million of funding available for Cyprus’ farmers through the European Union’s common agricultural policy, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Friday. Speaking at the opening of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday telephoned Panathinaikos basketball coach Ergin Ataman. The call came days after Ataman had reacted with upset to a banner reading ‘50 years of illegal ...

Cabinet on Friday approved the state budget for 2025 and the government’s medium-term fiscal framework for the three years between 2025 and 2027. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, Finance Minister ...

The Poetry Moves International Festival, which was successfully held for the first time last year in Nicosia, is about to make its 2024 return. A multidisciplinary arts festival with poetry at ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and the island’s football clubs on Friday insisted they are on the right track with regards to the policies they have undertaken to ensure ...

The Paphos district government on Friday announced that it would begin to remove billboards from the district’s main roads. It said it had taken the decision to “immediately remove ...

Cyprus’ electricity regulatory authority (Cera) on Friday approved cabinet’s decision over the future of the Great Sea Interconnector project, adopting the requests of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (...

No significant progress is expected in the case against the monks involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery in the coming days, it emerged on Friday. The church court case is ...

The Republic of Cyprus and the north both expressed overall satisfaction with the Council of Europe’s committee of ministers’ decisions regarding developments related to the use of and compensation ...

Loans reaching a total of €125 million for Tepak facilities in Limassol and Paphos were signed on Friday between the finance ministry, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Tepak. One loan ...

Volunteers gathered on Friday to clean Kastela beach in Larnaca in anticipation of World Coastal Cleanup Day, celebrated on September 21. The initiative saw participation from volunteers from the Larnaca municipality ...

British retail sales rose by a stronger-than-expected 1 per cent in August and growth in July was revised up, official figures showed on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a ...

VPNs, which stands for Virtual Private Networks, are a program that are used for online privacy and security. In certain cases VPNs are mainly used for their ability to create ...

Trade union Oiyk-Sek on Friday hailed the “immediate results” of the government’s decision to promote nursing and midwifery as a career both in Cyprus’ education sector and in the ...

Continuing its tradition of promoting and strengthening a healthy lifestyle, Lidl Cyprus welcomed more than 250 participants of all ages to this year’s Lidl Wellness Camp. The fifth two-day health ...

The education ministry and Disy have assured they are on the same page, following a week of public disagreements over preparations for the new academic year. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou ...