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In his election campaign President Nikos Christodoulides promised a state policy for Turkish Cypriots. But how well has he been received asks Esra Aygin At a time of no tangible ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Sunday that Nicosia is not bound in any way by Greece’s decision to support the Turkish candidacy for the General Secretariat of the ...

Banks have been criticised for being slow in responding to the recent ECB interest rates hike Cyprus’ main banks are set to increase interest rates on deposits this year after ...

Towards the end of the Christofias presidency, with Cyprus excluded from the markets, state coffers almost empty and the banks on life support, there were attempts by the EU and ...

Citizen activist and former MP Kate Clerides has been involved in the island’s politics for years. In her new book, she takes readers along on her personal journey Having ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday said it was time for diplomacy in order to break the stalemate on the Cyprus issue. Christodoulides, who on Friday presented a plan to EU ...

Nicosia has been treated unfairly in terms of tourism for years, according to Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis, who stressed the need to better promote the capital, despite the task “...

It is a great relief that deputies of the House legal affairs committee have decided to engage in further discussions before taking any decisions on the two law proposals that ...

Even EU member states that have historically maintained excellent relations with Turkey have responded positively to President Nikos Christodoulides’ suggestions to have an institutionalised role for an EU representative in ...

The government will submit a proposal over the cost of living allowance (CoLA) once the conditions for it allow, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday. After a period of ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Friday filed an appeal in connection with a sentence imposed for a triple fatal road traffic accident in May 2017 in Pano Polemidia. Last month, the Limassol ...

The 31-year-old partner of 28-year-old Lesya Bykova who was found dead near Aphrodite’s Rock earlier this month was on Friday released from custody as a second autopsy showed no ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday briefed the 27 leaders of EU member states on his approach to the Cyprus problem at the start of the second day of their Summit. He ...

The lawyer of prison director Anna Aristotelous and her deputy said that they may now file a case to the ECHR after the attorney general quashed a private criminal lawsuit. ...

Another 1,047 new Covid-19 infections were traced in the last week, the health ministry said on Friday, also recording four people dying from the virus in just five days. The deaths ...

The work of bicommunal technical committees is an important confidence-building measure and powerful tool for reconciliation, European Commission Structural Reform Support chief Mario Nava said on Thursday. He was speaking ...

Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment of wages at 50 per cent ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he hoped to ‘break the deadlock’ in the Cyprus peace process, also pitching to the United Nations Secretary-General his proposal for a more active ...

One in ten Greek Cypriots travel to Turkey or to the north to receive dental care, the House health committee heard on Thursday. Antonis Antoniou, head of the dentists’ association, ...

A more institutionalised role for the EU on the Cyprus problem could prove to be a catalyst for the talks, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Thursday. Speaking to the ...

Cyprus has limited choices when it comes to contraception, which restricts women’s sexual and reproductive rights while also hindering progress in policymaking and information, the family planning association said ...

Larnaca and Limassol have recorded the highest methamphetamine use in Cyprus, according to a European wastewater analysis report on drug use that included over 100 cities. Limassol also recorded an increase ...

For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring Okypy to hire more nurses ...

The US State Department’s annual human rights report on Cyprus emphasised the challenges faced by asylum seekers while it also singled out overcrowding at the prisons. The lengthy and ...