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Vibrant Limassol event plays host to business and technology stakeholders from Cyprus and abroad By Kyriacos Nicolaou Startup founders, entrepreneurs, media personalities, technology sector stakeholders and creatives all got together ...

The Nicosia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Evel) this week announced that it successfully held an event on branding and businesses and professionals can create value for enterprises, industries and ...

A wide-ranging bill tabled to parliament has set out to totally overhaul regulations for owning a dog, it emerged on Friday. A €300 fine for not picking up dog poop in ...

The health ministry on Friday announced that it has widened the eligibility window for breast cancer screenings to 74. Based on a cabinet decision, as part of the ministry’s policy ...

The new energy measures adopted by the EU take into account the peculiarities of individual member states like Cyprus, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Friday after participating alongside her ...

Performances continue for the Kypria International Festival and arriving next is a theatrical production for children. A Midsummer Night’s Dream for children will take over theatres in Limassol, Paphos ...

The government must increase and prioritise funding for schools, according to the House Education Committee chairman, Pavlos Mylonas on Friday. In a statement following visits to schools in the Famagusta ...

The finance ministry will do what is necessary in consultation with the president, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday in relation to the government dropping consultations with Hermes airports ...

A team of archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be the remnants of a Bronze Age workshop complex in the village of Erimi in Limassol. The team of experts, led ...

More than 1,000 trees, shrubs and aromatic plants will be offered to the public free of charge by Hermes Airports’ ‘Green Lemonade’ environment protection initiative. “Hermes Airports is organising an original ...

The British Bases are continuing investigations as to whether a large-scale fire in the Akrotiri area, a protected wetland, was an arson attack they said on Friday. The fire broke ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday announced that the state budget for 2023 has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, noting that it is the most growth-oriented and green budget ...

Cyprus will seek judgement from international bodies over Turkish provocations, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Friday, a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara would station more ...

Prison guard members of the Isotita union held protests over their pay grades for the 12th consecutive day on Friday, upping pressure on the government as they gathered outside the ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou has drafted a proposal to end the practice of making gymnasium pupils repeat a year based on performance assessment. According to Philenews the proposal has already ...

October arrives with a packed agenda. Annual festivals, pop-up experiences, film screenings, new art exhibitions and shows fill the month’s calendar and culture buffs have lots to look forward ...

A fire on Friday at a scrapyard in Ayia Varvara, Paphos has been extinguished, the fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said, after it damaged a building and forty scrap cars. ...

Larnaca is modernising and overcoming many chronic problems that it has faced, the city’s mayor Andreas Vyras said on Friday. Despite the problems due to the economic crisis and ...

In today’s episode, we hear that the UN Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart has warned that the scenario of a mutually agreed solution to the Cyprus problem is ...

The twelfth edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus is preparing to welcome the cinephile public with a rich and varied programme of screenings from October 8 to 14. Alongside ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has asked for the help of Unficyp in dealing with increased migration flows to the government-controlled areas through the UN-controlled buffer zone. Nouris, who is on ...

Turkey is preparing to take the Cyprus issue to the UN General Assembly in order to remove the obstacles to recognition of the breakaway state in the north, Turkish newspaper ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

There were two Covid deaths recorded during the past week, the health ministry announced on Friday. The deaths concerned a man aged 63 who died on September 21 and another man aged 79 ...