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The government is understandably concerned about Cyprus’ birth rate, which has been falling every year since the 1983 peak of 2.41 per woman. According to UN data on World Population Prospects, this ...

In the end the Bank of Cyprus met its target of reducing its workforce, by between 500 and 600 employees, through a ‘voluntary retirement scheme’. The target had not been met by ...

The nine Vasiliko communities called off the dynamic measures they started on Wednesday, after receiving assurances that they would have a meeting with President Anastasiades, but they are being very ...

The CyBC broadcast the first televised debate of presidential candidates on Thursday night. The guests were Disy leader Averof Neophytou, independent candidate backed by Akel, Andreas Mavroyiannis, and independent candidate ...

The Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by the President of the Republic against the House of Representatives, which had made additions to the law with which the State Budget ...

We marked yet another anniversary of the Turkish invasion on Wednesday, the 48th, honouring those who gave up their lives defending their country and acknowledging the plight of all those ...

Russia’s embassy in Cyprus issued a document titled ‘Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the violation of the rights of Russian citizens and ...

The mass hysteria sparked by President Anastasiades’ decision to appoint the president of the Cyprus Medical Association (CMA), Dr Petros Agathangelou, to the board of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), ...

Politicians and media commentators often warn about the growing disillusionment of people with politics, citing the declining turn out for elections and the thousands of youngsters not registering on the ...

After much dilly-dallying, the government seems to have finally decided that it would implement the halloumi PDO in Cyprus. On Friday the agriculture ministry, which has been presiding over this ...

It took a year and the danger of losing EU funding worth €85 million for the legislature to finally approve the two bills establishing a framework for the operation of companies ...

Finance minister Constantinos Petrides ruled out the idea of providing political parties with additional state funds for their presidential election campaigns. This was out of the question, he said, mentioning ...

Abortion legislation may have been modernised in 2018 but if what was said at the House human rights committee on Monday is anything to go by, the new provisions have largely ...

The blame game over the collapse of balconies on two buildings in Paphos in the space of 24 hours is well underway, as passing the buck in the event of a ...

The government in May of this year announced a new tax incentive scheme designed to attract foreign companies and workers to Cyprus. The scheme also seeks to repatriate Cypriot professionals ...

The government has very ambitious and radical plans for managing the traffic on the roads of the capital. Two studies are currently underway for the plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave his routine, six-monthly report on Unficyp to the members of the Security Council on Tuesday and it was just more of the same. He highlighted ...

What had been expected to be a routine meeting at the presidential palace on Tuesday to announce a final decision on the minimum wage ended in a major disagreement between ...

Potato farmers are seeking a meeting with President Anastasiades to set out the problems they are facing as a result of the continuous increase in the prices of fuel and ...

We often bemoan the slowness of the justice system in Cyprus but this can’t be said for the case of 26-year-old British tourist, who was jailed for 12 months last ...

With so much going on – inflation, migration, Covid, the Cyprus problem, next year’s election – it’s easy to miss the issue of excess deaths in Cyprus. And of course ...

AS if on cue and in line with predictions for anyone with eyes to see, the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday admitted that the June 2024 target for public ...

A meeting will take place at the presidential palace today to examine ways of tackling high electricity prices where President Anastasiades expects to hear proposals on how cuts can be ...

The build-up to the next six-monthly UN report on the Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission and a second on the justifications for extending the Unficyp mandate from the end of ...