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‘Soundbites are the name of the game’ With just under a month to go to the presidential elections, the campaign teams are revving up their engines, pouring money into advertising ...

With demand up and supplies lower, oil prices are expected to rise If 2022 was a difficult year for energy, 2023 is expected to be even harder as the Russia-Ukraine war continues ...

Archbishop Georgios was enthroned as the 76th head of the church on Sunday afternoon, in a ceremony at the Apostolos Varnavas Cathedral in Nicosia. Church bells tolled as he arrived ...

A new hospice is due to open in Paphos, but it came too late to help terminally ill Janice Hunter Just over a year ago, Paphos resident David Hunter, killed ...

‘The ruling coalition has offended Turkish Cypriot voters’ Local elections in the northern part of Cyprus, branded as a competition between the “pro-Turkey and the pro-Europe,” and “pro-sovereignty and the ...

Cyprus is one of only two EU states still without a university hospital Expectations that the start of 2023 would finally see the long-awaited creation of university hospitals in Cyprus were ...

The marathon presidential election campaign, which started a little under a year ago, entered the final straight on Friday with the official submission of candidacies. A record 14 candidates will be ...

I WAS tempted to wish our customers a happy new year, but in the end I decided against it as I do not think 2023 has the potential to be happy ...

Archbishop Georgios III will be officially enthroned as head of the Cyprus Church on Sunday, as representatives from other Christian churches gathered on the island to attend the ceremony. Speaking ...

Cyprus ranks fifth among EU member states as regards absorption from the EU cohesion funds, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday. He added that the “challenge” now is to ...

The Total-Eni consortium wants to move more quickly in exploiting block 6 of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Saturday. According to Pilides, the consortium has ...

Education, the economy and health are the trifecta the government should invest more in, according to a survey of 1000 citizens in Cyprus. Carried out as part of the state’s ...

Bishop of Morphou Neophytos announced on Friday he would not be attending Sunday’s enthronement for the newly-elected archbishop, Giorgios of Paphos but he conveyed his best wishes to the ...

The transport ministry will in the coming days launch a tender process to secure 125 smart traffic lights that will be deployed at key spots in Nicosia and Limassol to ease ...

Four more deaths have been attributed to Covid-19 in the past week, with hospitalisations slightly up and new infections stable but with a high positivity rate, the health ministry said ...

A surge in the cost of most food commodities last year, as the disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raised concerns of shortages, sent the U.N. food ...

Top researchers warned that Cyprus is faced with dire human health impact as it is among the countries situated at the climate change “hot spot”. A study by an international ...

In the last few weeks we were given yet another depressing demonstration of how the teaching unions use the subservient deputies and political parties to prevent the government implementing its ...

Trade unions on Thursday fired a warning shot across the bow, saying they would sanction industrial action if by next week the government does not definitively commit to a full ...

The Democratic Rally (Disy) on Thursday struck off the party register Nikos Christodoulides, on the same day that the latter formally filed his candidacy for the presidential elections. The Cyprus ...

A total of 9.2 million passengers travelled in and out of Cyprus’ airports in 2022, which corresponded to 82 per cent of passenger traffic in 2019, Senior Director of Aviation Development, Marketing & Communication ...

Parties on the domestic front have expressed their concern over the UN Secretary-General’s reports on the Cyprus problem, saying it was gravely worrying though each for a different bag ...

Average temperatures recorded in December were unusually high, both as far as maximum and minimum in comparison to previous years, according to the meteorological service. The average daily maximum temperature ...

Cyclists will be required to wear a protective helmet as of next month or will be fined, the government has announced. The specifications of the type of protective helmet have ...