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The Bank of Cyprus on Monday announced that it has approved around 550 of its employees for the bank’s voluntary retirement scheme. The total cost of the implementation of the ...

A 20 per cent hike in the price of halloumi cheese is expected in the coming days, president of the cheese makers association Giorgos Petrou said on Monday. Petrou told CyBC ...

State benefits to cover nursery school children’s tuition and food are expected to help tackle the island’s dropping birth rates, Social Welfare Deputy Minister Anastasia Anthousi said on ...

Two Kamov-32 firefighting helicopters are set to arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday and expected to operate in the coming weekend following a choppy procurement process and the signing of the ...

Cyprus is prepared for the “new pandemic”, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said after a wide-range meeting on monkeypox, as cases in European Union recorded a 30 per cent increase in the ...

Members of the English School staff union (ESSA) held another in a series of ongoing protests on Monday morning outside the Presidential Palace. The private school’s association on Sunday ...

Gaps between private and public workers as well as between generations grow ever wider By Les Manison Labour, particularly private sector employees, and the young generation have suffered badly under ...

Greek firefighters battled wildfires on the island of Lesbos for a second day on Sunday as well as new fires in the western Peloponnese and in northern Greece, evacuating nearby ...

COULD it have been a brave disregard for their personal safety that made the two so-called independent candidates turn down the proposal of the police command to provide them with ...

Turkish Cypriot parents complain of them promoting Islamic agenda By Esra Aygin The Turkish Cypriot community was once again bewildered earlier this week by revelations that children, who were taken ...

Shocking lack of access to and information about abortion and contraception In late June, millions of American women saw their constitutional right to abortion removed overnight after the Supreme Court ...

Greek and Turkish Cypriots join forces to issue a settlement plan focusing on day-to-day issues for citizens A group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots have just released what they call ...

The nine Vasiliko communities called off the dynamic measures they started on Wednesday, after receiving assurances that they would have a meeting with President Anastasiades, but they are being very ...

The Cyprus Federation of Environmental Organisations (Opok) has released a statement, outlining its position regarding the Department of Environment’s new assessment of the revised regional plan for Akamas, which ...

The sixth wave of the pandemic, that recorded the island’s highest positivity rate, is now on the decline, experts said on Saturday. In the next two or three weeks ...

Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa on Saturday, the Ukrainian military said, threatening a deal signed just the day before to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ...

Long traffic jams built up on Saturday outside the Port of Dover, Britain’s main gateway to Europe, and officials said the disruption could be worse than the logjam seen ...

A Cyprus Scops owl has made herself comfortable in an artificial nest, one of about 1,000 owl nesting boxes that have been put up in various locations across the island as ...

The CyBC broadcast the first televised debate of presidential candidates on Thursday night. The guests were Disy leader Averof Neophytou, independent candidate backed by Akel, Andreas Mavroyiannis, and independent candidate ...

Marathon talks on the introduction of a minimum wage ended without success on Friday, with social partners set to hold fresh meetings next week. Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos, who held ...

Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion ...

A tourist of Chinese origin who visited Ayia Napa last year claims to have been racially targeted and abused by local police, causing him mental health issues. But Famagusta police ...

President Nicos Anastasiades’ two closest advisors in the Cyprus problem negotiations, Andreas Mavroyiannis and Nicos Christodoulides, turned on each other during the first televised debate of presidential candidates broadcast by ...

The health ministry’s weekly coronavirus report on Friday showed a slightly improved epidemiological picture, recording 13 deaths and 10,152 new infections between July 15 and 21. The deaths concerned an 83-year-old woman who ...