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By George M. Georgiou According to Eurostat’s data browser, Cyprus’ real per capita GDP in 2020 was €23.050, which is about 87 per cent of the EU-27 average. One could be forgiven ...

A 30-year-old man was remanded on Saturday after he was arrested based on a European arrest warrant while trying to cross to the north. The wanted man was identified during ...

Two people, 27 and 38, were remanded for two days on Saturday in Limassol on suspicion of importing and dealing drugs. The arrests came after police received information that two women, aged 25 ...

Police issued 22 fines for breaches of coronavirus measures after 3,468 checks in the last 24 hours in the government-controlled areas. The checks were carried out between 6am on Friday and 6am on ...

Aspiring unicorn ventures, meaning startup companies reaching a valuation of $1 billion, took centre stage on the second day of the Reflect Festival in Limassol. The startup event was a Cyprus ...

Bank of Cyprus’ Director of Compliance Division Marios Skandalis said that the coronavirus pandemic has given businesses an opportunity to reshape their long-term strategies to ensure their viability. “A business ...

People only understand harsh punishments and strict fines and that’s what it will take to stop people buying petrol in the north, the head of the association of petrol ...

Greek Cypriot director Panikos Chrysanthou and Turkish Cypriot poet Nese Yasin on Friday received the European Citizen’s Prize 2021 for their cooperation which led to documentaries ‘Our Wall’’ and ‘My ...

Officials are putting the final touches to a draft bill on gender identity – a revamp of a previous version that was drafted in 2019, Law Commissioner Louisa Christodoulides Zannettou told a ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will report to the UN and the that land has been granted to the Turkish military in the area of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsula on ...

No new deaths from Covid-19 were announced on Friday, while testing came up with 142 new positives. Hospitals were treating 56 patients, of whom 24 are in a serious condition; and of these, 10 ...

Paphos criminal court handed down five-year prison sentences to three men aged 34, 30 and 29 charged with robbing and kidnapping a 36-year-old man last September. The police report said that in the ...

Xylofagou’s Big Potato has achieved its goal of bringing attention to both the village and its trademark product, but this is only the beginning, community leader George Tasou said ...

A total of 53 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Saturday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

A workshop complex at the Middle Bronze Age settlement at Laonin tou Porakou on a high plateau on the eastern Kouris riverbank held a pivotal role and a peculiar ideological ...

The government on Friday presented its new strategy for attracting businesses to Cyprus with emphasis, among others, on high technology, shipping, innovation, and research and development, in a bid to ...

A fire near the village of Tala, in Paphos, burned around eight hectares of dry grass, wild vegetation, and trees, the fire service said on Friday. The fire broke out ...

Eight traffic cameras — four fixed and four mobile — will go into operation by the end of October for the pilot phase of a long-awaited traffic camera system authorities hope will ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday urged vulnerable consumers to make use of existing incentives that offer up to a 20 per cent discount on their electricity bills, as he took stock ...

The cabinet has decided to rescind the Cypriot citizenship granted to 45 foreign nationals as part of the island’s controversial citizenship by investment programme that was terminated late last year ...

The cabinet on Friday approved a bill extending maternity leave period for second and third children. The bill provides for four additional weeks for a second child, including adoption or ...

The call centre handling Covid-19 issues (1474) is back in operation, after a technical problem led it to suspend operation for a couple of hours earlier on Friday. The deputy ministry ...

The cabinet announced Friday a two-year €570,000 subsidy scheme to promote bicycle use, as part of the €4m national scheme Energy and Climate and sustainable mobility. The scheme provides for subsidies ...

One in five of the 1,345 coronavirus cases detected in the last 14 days were imported, the health ministry’s epidemiological report showed on Friday. The report, covering the time period from ...