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Municipalities are indebted to the tune of some €220 million – money which the central government has undertaken to repay. According to the state treasury’s fiscal report for 2021, at the end ...

Cypriot businesses recorded increases above the EU average in sales and services provided via the web in 2020, according to a new report by Eurostat. Eurostat found that Cypriot businesses in 2020 ...

The Citizen’s Commissioner Panayiotis Senontas has thanked the Cyprus Red Cross for its contribution to two major humanitarian aid missions in Ukraine. Speaking on Monday at the Red Cross ...

Primary school children are to learn more about Cyprus’ curious critters such as its snakes, owls and hedgehogs as the government launches an educational book on the island’s wildlife. ...

European Investment Bank (EIB) president Werner Hoyer during his visit to Cyprus on Monday confirmed that projects in Cyprus absorbed €303 million during the previous year, with both the private and ...

Direct flights between Larnaca and Helsinki, Finland, will take place twice a week, offering greater connectivity to 100 destinations – including Asia and the US. Finnair, Finland’s national and largest airliner, ...

The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises (Stek) urged authorities to repair the seafront walkway in Limassol’s Ayios Tychonas, which has been in disuse for two years due to heavy ...

A 27-year-old man accused of consistently supplying two sisters, aged 15 and 13, and two other underaged girls with crystal meth and heroin was remanded for seven days by the Limassol court ...

The lovely haiku, just 17 syllables, is pure poetry. ALIX NORMAN finds out more about a project bringing this ancient Japanese literary form to the streets of Nicosia Erato Ioannou Poetry ...

The scientific and technical chamber (Etek) on Monday called for the immediate designation of the old Paphos carob mills complex as listed buildings to safeguard the architectural heritage and the ‘...

After extreme lows and highs in temperature, this week will see more usual conditions, weather reports said on Monday. Summer conditions seen at the weekend – with a maximum of 28C ...

Modernisation, efficiency, and meritocracy were identified by the president as the key successes in the civil service in an address on Monday to the general meeting of Pasydy, their main ...

Apatow films to stream instead of The Bubble My late father used to say that if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all. It’s a lovely ...

Hellenic Bank on Monday announced that it has entered into an agreement for both the sale of a non-performing exposures portfolio, as well as the bank’s servicing platform APS ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday said he would not hear suggestions from those who want to create difficulties within the national health scheme Gesy. “There will not be any changes ...

The ministry of health will operate 31 free rapid testing sites for eligible groups on Tuesday, it said on Monday. Those who are eligible include minors, the fully vaccinated and those ...

The new-born baby boy found at Solomou Square in Nicosia on Sunday was not born alive state pathologists have confirmed. The two officials who carried out the autopsy on Monday ...

Among the 160,746 pensioners in Cyprus as of 2020, there are wide variations in the amount people receive, some getting up to €2,487 while others were granted €710. With a total cost to the ...

A concert to mark the Queen’s jubilee and the friendship between Britain and Cyprus will be organised by the British bases at Curium on June 2, it was announced on ...

The health ministry announced that it will increase efforts to provide Turkish Cypriots with EUDCC Covid-19 certificates, but reiterated that they must first fill out an application. It said that ...

Werner Hoyer, the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), will meet with members of the Cypriot Government on Monday in Nicosia. According to a statement issued by the EIB, ...

Jordan has been upgraded from the red to green Covid-19 travel category, while the overall country categorisation programme will be scrapped on April 18. An announcement last week detailed stated that ...

Police arrested a 46-year-old man in Paphos on Sunday for illegal possession of drugs and property after he was seen throwing something suspicious out of his car. Members of the ...

In today’s episode, as of Monday a raft of relaxations from Covid-19 restrictions come into force following a Cabinet decision last Thursday. Elsewhere, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Sunday ...