A new bill on foster care is being sent to parliament for a vote, Deputy Social Welfare Minster Anastasia Anthousi said on Wednesday following a cabinet meeting.
Anthousi said: “The ...
Next month, 6×6 Centre for Photography will host the award-winning photographer Myrto Papadopoulos from Greece for a three-day workshop on documentary photography titled Visual Narratives and Storytelling. And what’s more, ...
Diko is to hold leadership elections by June, in which current leader Nicolas Papadopoulos will again run, it was announced on Wednesday.
The party, which gave influential backing to president-elect ...
First Lady Andri Anastasiades on Wednesday expressed her gratitude to all contributors of the Independent Agency for Social Support she helped create in Cyprus in 2015.
The purpose of the Independent ...
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 (FSRU), but the ...
The state health services organisation (Okypy) is lying about the incident involving an elderly woman pictured laying naked in a hospital bed, the doctor Marios Kyriazis said on Wednesday.
In ...
The percentage of foreigners a company is allowed to employ and include into collective agreements has been raised from 30 to 50 per cent, Labour Minister Kyriakos Koushos announced on Wednesday.
Speaking ...
Environment Commissioner Clelia Vassiliou on Wednesday said her last act in office will be the planting of 100 trees in Aronas, near Aglandjia in honour of the over 3,800 cases of domestic ...
Although thousands have done it PAUL LAMBIS meets a man who has turned it into the basis for a comedy routine
Basile Katsikis’ distinct blend of material, improvisation, and characters ...
House president Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday it was grossly offensive that some quarters were suggesting that as a leader she would be guided from ‘behind the scenes’.
“There cannot ...
Police in Paralimni said the fire that destroyed the car of a 54-year-old resident at midnight on Tuesday was set maliciously.
Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday, Paralimni ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will put forward a proposal during his meeting with President-elect Nikos Christodoulides for bicommunal cooperation on earthquake response in Cyprus.
The pair are due to ...
The Finance Ministry on Wednesday announced that the Cabinet has approved a bill amending the Income Tax Law, allowing for an additional tax exemption, in the form of a capital ...
The ongoing trial at the Nicosia court over the ‘golden passports’ took a new turn on Wednesday that led to another postponement until March 8, this time over the composition of ...
Paphos quarry workers said on Wednesday that there is a “glimmer of hope” after the government announced a six-month delay and four-month objection period to the freshly publicised Akamas plan.
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Cabinet on Wednesday decided to postpone implementing the Akamas local development plan for another six months, as part of efforts to find ways of fulfilling all the goals it sets ...
Subsidies for electricity bills have been extended for another two months in a bid to tackle inflationary pressures, the Cabinet decided on Wednesday.
The budget amounts to €30 million for the ...
Republican Turkish Party (CTP) leader Tufan Erhurman said the election of Nikos Christodoulides as president gives new hope for the resumption of the Cyprus talks.
In a letter sent to ...
A 26-year-old was caught under the influence of drugs and with 1.3 g of cannabis, police in Paphos said on Wednesday.
According to police, the individual was stopped by an officer ...
Famagusta district court has sentenced a 41-year-old man to seven months in jail after he was found guilty of assault, which he committed on January 8 in Ormidia.
The man was ...
Lighting fires is strictly forbidden outside of designated barbecue areas, the forestry department warned on Wednesday ahead of Green Monday celebrations.
With people expected to head to the mountains and ...
In a citizen journalist broadcasting controversial political views on Ukraine from the streets of Cyprus, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man who misses the right to disagree, keen on stressing the ...
Police in Larnaca are attempting to locate a 23-year-old man who escaped from custody on Tuesday night.
The man, a Syrian national, was arrested earlier in the day as a ...
“For those who can’t be in Rio… Rio is coming to them, at Ayia Napa Marina,” say organisers of a party this weekend. On Saturday afternoon Ayia Napa Marina ...