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Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart met on Tuesday with Nicosia’s mayors from both sides of the divide. This was the first meeting between Nicosia ...

Three bills aimed at tackling undeclared work are expected to head to plenum in the first half of October, chairman of the House labour committee Andreas Kafkalias said on Tuesday. ...

Revenue generated from gambling in 2023 exceeded €1 billion, marking a 79 per cent jump compared to 2020 the National Betting Authority said on Tuesday. Presenting an overview of the industry between 2020 and 2023, the ...

A pro-Palestine protest is set to take place on Wednesday outside a Doing Business with Israel summit, it was announced on Tuesday. “In three weeks, one full year of genocide ...

The banner unfurled at the basketball match between Greek club Panathinaikos and Israeli outfit Maccabi Tel Aviv in Nicosia reading 50 years of illegal occupation, no one forgets “reflects a sad ...

A one-off payment of €350,000 was granted to beekeepers on Tuesday to help them weather ongoing difficult economic circumstances. The decision was taken during a meeting of the cabinet. “Due to ...

MPs of the House ad hoc committee on demographics on Tuesday lashed out at the National Agency for Demographic and Family Policy (Evdop), saying it has no concrete plans for ...

The 20th Pink Figures March will be held on October 5, the breast cancer association Europa Donna Cyprus announced on Tuesday. The march is being held under the auspices of EU ...

Cyprus’ new three-year strategy for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding was adopted on Tuesday by the cabinet to create a society with a friendly disposition towards infants and ...

A public discussion will be inevitable after the Supreme Constitutional Court issues its decision on Wednesday over Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides’ future in his role, lawyer Achilles Emilianides said on ...

The House refugee committee on Tuesday called on the labour ministry to investigate claims people are receiving a POW allowance in Cyprus without being eligible. Committee chair Nikos Kettiros said ...

A Greek doctor who lives in Cyprus was arrested in his native country, accused of playing a “leading role” in a prescription forgery ring. The man had been assigned to ...

The government on Tuesday green-lit Cyprus’ participation in the Great Sea Interconnector – the commercial name for the mooted subsea electricity cable linking the island to Crete. The decision was announced ...

Human capital is and will remain the steam engine of a business. Even when technology promises to do everything, perhaps replacing people with robots, business organisations know that the human ...

Final year students at the Laniteio lyceum staged a protest on Tuesday, boycotting the first two lessons of the day to express their dissatisfaction with the classroom conditions due to ...

A hearing against a German woman, 49, accused of usurping Greek Cypriot properties in the north was postponed on Tuesday for a week, so the defence can prepare their case. According ...

President Nikos Christodoulides flies to Athens on Wednesday for a tete-a-tete with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. On Wednesday morning, Christodoulides will deliver an address at a memorial event for ...

The British bases’ environmental experts recorded a total of 382 sea turtles on their beaches this year. They said the high number of turtles on the beaches is a result of ...

From a little girl that wants to fly to a boy’s dream to dance ballet, Maria Christodoulou perfectly captures glimpses of society and funnels their messages through her pages. ...

Things at Pentakomo waste management plant are getting worse by the day because the environment ministry and the involved departments are “refusing to take responsibility for their actions or inactions,” ...

The decomposed body found in Ayia Napa on September 5 has been identified as 27-year-old Alexandar Gligorijevic from Serbia, who had been reported missing since July 27. The cause of death has ...

The 40-year-old driver of a vehicle which collided with a car driven by a Greek Cypriot man in the north and killed him appeared in court in Morphou on Tuesday. ...

Attorney-general George Savvides and deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides,along with Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotison Tuesday met the deputy attorney-general of the People’s Republic of China Chen Guoqing to exchange ...