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A bill to establish minimum wages is set to be forwarded to the House by the end of the year, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Sunday. In response to ...

An additional 17,000 families stand to get child benefit, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, announcing an increase in both the amount of the benefit and the income limits. “The maximum ...

The proposal to purchase an armoured presidential limousine was based on technocratic criteria, after assessing the needs and condition of existing official vehicles, government sources said late on Saturday. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with European Council President Antonio Costa on Friday, followed by his call for a political decision on Cyprus’ Schengen bid “as soon as possible”, has placed ...

A strong police presence was out over Saturday night across the island with the aim of preventing serious crime and maintaining public order, the force said on Sunday. A total ...

The day will be mostly sunny on Sunday although clouds are likely to develop in the afternoon with temperatures showing a slight rise. Wind will also pick up in the ...

More than 25 years after the stadium closed and 15 years after plans were drawn up for its redevelopment, the broad concrete terraces and stark steelwork of the old GSP stand like ...

Sofia Christodoulou Makri has been elected the new president of Edek, securing 53.5 per cent of the vote in the party’s leadership election on Saturday. According to the official results ...

A single person remains in hospital six days after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Sunday, confirming that 131 of ...

US ambassador-designate John Breslow has arrived in Cyprus to take up his post, becoming the first non-career political appointee to serve as Washington’s ambassador to the island. In a ...

UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin has cancelled her planned visit to the island on September 10 for health reasons, according to reports on Saturday. Sources told ...

A 61-year-old man in Paphos has lost more than €77,600 after falling victim to two linked cryptocurrency scams, police said on Saturday. According to a complaint filed with Paphos CID, the ...

Miriam Erne is in what might be called a transitional phase. At 36, “I have lived through some stuff,” she says – vivid stuff and sometimes terrible stuff, images she’ll carry ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday denied all knowledge of plans to purchase a new armoured limousine, costing €595,000, for his use, accusing someone in parliament of deliberately leaking the information ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday expressed hope that a document setting out existing convergences on the Cyprus problem will be ready ahead of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s next ...

Projects worth €3.5 billion are expected to be carried out across Cyprus during the EU’s next seven-year funding period, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday, calling on local authorities to ...

A new sailing initiative launched in cooperation with the Nautical Club of Limassol is aiming to build on Cyprus’ Olympic sailing tradition by developing a competitive racing fleet, regular regattas ...

Two University of Cyprus researchers have secured European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants worth around €1.5 million each to carry out five-year cancer research projects, the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) ...

A thirteenth body has been recovered from the wreck of a passenger ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last week, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on ...

Five more people have been arrested in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot in Cyprus, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to eight, police said on Saturday. ...

Ten people were arrested during coordinated police operations across Cyprus overnight for offences including vehicle theft, handling stolen property, theft and traffic violations, police said. As part of the operations, ...

A 79-year-old man is in critical condition following a car accident in Nicosia early on Saturday. According to police, the crash occurred at around 12.30am on Niki Avenue when, under ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Saturday welcomed Morningstar DBRS’ decision to revise Cyprus’ credit outlook from stable to positive while affirming the Republic’s long-term rating at ‘A’, describing it ...

On September 12, the Nicosia International Festival raises the curtain and for 50 days, it brings theatre, dance, music and performances from Cyprus and abroad. Twenty two productions will soon land in ...